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NCS Bare Metal v2.0.0 is a major release that expands hardware support, adds maturity to key features, and introduces several new libraries, services, and samples.
It demonstrates a set of samples for the following development kits of the nRF54L Series:
- nRF54L15 DK - with build targets supporting three SoCs: nRF54L15, nRF54L10 (emulated on the nRF54L15 DK), and nRF54L05 (emulated on the nRF54L15 DK).
- nRF54LM20 DK, supporting the nRF54LM20A SoC.
- nRF54LS05 DK, supporting the nRF54LS05B SoC.
- nRF54LV10 DK, supporting the nRF54LV10A SoC.
See the software maturity documentation for feature maturity per SoC.
This release includes two versions of the SoftDevice - a Bluetooth® LE stack for use on the nRF54L Series DKs:
- S115 - Support for peripheral role only.
- S145 - Support for both peripheral and central role, as well as more connections.
Both SoftDevices have been updated to v10.0.0. Separate documentation and API references are provided for each SoC-specific variant of the S115 and S145 SoftDevices (nRF54L15, nRF54LM20, nRF54LS05, and nRF54LV10). See SoftDevice release notes and migration documents and API documentation for details.
Highlights
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Added support for three new SoCs with their dedicated development kits: the nRF54LM20A (nRF54LM20 DK), nRF54LS05B (nRF54LS05 DK), and nRF54LV10A (nRF54LV10 DK). For more details regarding the maturity of features on those SoCs, refer to Software maturity levels.
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Updated the SoftDevice to v10.0.0, a new major version that targets both the existing and newly added devices. See the SoftDevice release notes for details.
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Expanded the Bluetooth® LE Central role support through additional libraries and samples, including the Battery Service (BAS) Client and Nordic UART Service (NUS) Client services, and the Bluetooth: Nordic UART Service Central sample.
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Core libraries for Bluetooth LE Central role applications, Bluetooth: Scan library and Bluetooth: Database Discovery library, are now Supported.
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Improved the quality and maintainability through fixes and hardening across Bluetooth LE libraries, drivers, DFU, NFC integration, and documentation, including clearer SoftDevice documentation per SoC variant where applicable.
The release tag for the Bare Metal manifest repository is v2.0.0. Check the west.yml file for the corresponding tags in the project repositories.
To use this release, install it using nRF Connect for VS Code extension by following the instructions in Installing the nRF Connect SDK Bare Metal option.
Alternatively, check out the tag in the manifest repository, run west config manifest.path nrf-bm, and then west update.
This release of Bare Metal is based on nRF Connect SDK v3.3.0.
More details can be found on the Release Notes page for nRF Connect SDK Bare Metal option v2.0.0.