We are pleased to announce the formal release of Trusted Firmware-A version 2.12 bundle of project deliverables.

This includes Trusted Firmware-A, Trusted Firmware-A Tests, Hafnium, RMM, Trusted Services, and TF-A OpenCI scripts/jobs components.

These went live on Nov, 21st 2024.

Please find references to tags and change logs at the end of this email.

Many thanks to the trustedfirmware.org community for the active engagement in delivering this release!

Notable features of the release version 2.12 are as follows:

• New CPUs support: Cortex-A320 (Arcadia), Cortex-A720AE.
• Arch extensions: : FEAT_THE, FEAT_LS64_ACCDATA, FEAT_Debugv8p9, FEAT_SCTLR2, FEAT_FGT2 ; Arm 9.4 : FEAT_D128 support.
• Context management: Asymmetric CPU features, EL3 execution context, SVE S/R support.
• RME: GPT contiguous descriptor (or GPT large mappings support).
• Arm CCA: added attestation generic library, el3 attestation token signing support.

• Tools:
• Introduced the Transfer List Compiler (TLC) Host Tool supporting the FW hand-off specification.
• Introduced CoT Device Tree to C File (DT2C) tool.
• mbedTLS Improvements:
• Resolved random authentication failures with ECDSA.
• Enhanced mbedTLS configuration selection.
• Maximize usage of mbedTLS library APIs in TF-A.
• Upgraded to mbedTLS v3.6.1.
• Feature addition/support:
• Support for the ECDSA P-384 curve with the PSA Crypto implementation.
• Documentation:
•  Added the DPE Design and Threat Model document to TF-A readthedocs.

• Cortex-A720, Cortex-A520, Cortex-X4 errata​.

• New platforms added: TC4, RD-1 AE, RK3566/RK3568.
• Platform fixes: FPGA, FVP, Neoverse-RD, TC, Corstone-1000, Allwinner, AST2700, Poplar, Agilex, A3K, MT8188, iMX8M, S32G274A, qemu, Rpi3, Rockchip, STM32MP1, STM32MP2, Versal, ZynqMP.

• FF-A features additions
• FF-A v1.2 FFA_MSG_WAIT RX buffer ownership flag.
• FF-A v1.2 FFA_VERSION endpoint restriction.
• FF-A v1.1 VM availability messages.
• Architectural support
• vCPU IPI signaling.
• Arch timer virtualization.
• RME: GPF support and memcpy hardening.
• Secure Interrupt Handling for UP S-EL1 partitions.

• REL0 RMM 1.0 support.
• Support for alternative attestation token signing via EL3.
• Various improvements and bugfixes as listed in the change log.

• Arm arch. extensions: AMU, FEAT_FGT2, LS64_ACCDATA, FEAT_Debugv8p9, LS64 64-byte load/store.
• Asymmetric feature testing (FEAT_SPE, FEAT_TRBE, FEAT_TCR2).
• EL1 and EL2 context switch tests.
• FF-A: v1.2 support, S-EL2 arch timer virtualization, S-EL2+RME hardening, EL3 SPMC TFTF test suite, EL3 SVE test coverage.
• RME: RMM v1.0 testing support, PCIe DOE support, RMI support for FEAT_LPA2, SIMD, PAuth.
• Platforms: AMD Versal Gen 2 added, Neoverse-RD refactoring, FVP PCIe support.

Release tags across repositories:

https://git.trustedfirmware.org/plugins/gitiles/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a/+/refs/tags/v2.12.0

Regards,

Olivier.