The TinyOS 1.1.3 December 2003 CVS Snapshot is online. 

The December 2003 snapshot features:

- BMAC: a configurable MAC layer which includes CSMA with collision
avoidance, gain control, and channel filtering for channelclear decisions.
B-MAC raises max theoretical bandwidth from 42 packets/sec to 53
packets/sec, and outperforms the 1.1 MAC layer by over 100% with respect to
packet throughput while achieving 85% channel utilization

For a list of changes see
http://webs.cs.berkeley.edu/tos/dist-1.1.0/snapshot-1.1.3Dec2003cvs/doc/chan
ges-1.1.3.html

See http://webs.cs.berkeley.edu/tos/download.html for download and
installation info. 

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The intention behind these monthly snapshots is to get the latest code to
the community without requiring developers to maintain an up-to-date CVS
tree. A CVS snapshot release is very nearly that: a snapshot of the CVS tree
in a convenient-to-install package. If you'd like the bleeding edge code and
don't mind the inherent risks, upgrade to the snapshot releases as they
become available.  If stability is important to you, you might want to stay
with the fully-tested releases or at least fully-test your apps before
migrating wholesale to a snapshot release. 

In the upcoming February 2004 snapshot:

- Tython: a new TOSSIM scripting environment that uses a Java implementation
of the Python programming language. Tython allows users to write scripts to
dynamically move motes, inject packets, and inspect the internal state of
the simulation. Tython allows full access to the existing Java TinyOS
toolchain, so users can write TinyOS messaging code, generate a
corresponding Java packet object using mig, and then use Tython to inject
those packets into a running simulation.

Tython is compatible with the TinyViz environment; for example, if a script
makes a mote move, a user can see the movement in the TinyViz visualization
and its radio connectivity will be updated as expected. (TinyViz and Tython
can also be run separately.)

- Support for the Telos mote: the Telos mote is our latest mote design. It
has an 250kbps 2.4GHz IEEE 802.15.4 Chipcon radio, 20MHz Motorola HCS08 chip
w/4K RAM, integrated long-range onboard antenna, and uses USB for I/O
(programming, debugging & data collection).

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As always, please use the SourceForge bug tracking system to report
problems. It is at:
   http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=28656
For TASK bugs, please use:
   http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=551233


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