3.0.0-rc.1

Added

• Add reset strategies (#487)
• Read esp-println generated defmt messages (#466)
• Add --target-app-partition argument to flash command (#461)
• Add --confirm-port argument to flash command (#455)
• Add --chip argument for flash and write-bin commands (#514)
• Add --partition-table-offset argument for specifying the partition table offset (#516)
• Add Serialize and Deserialize to FlashFrequency, FlashMode and FlashSize (#528)
• Add checksum-md5 command (#536)
• Add verify and skipping of unchanged flash regions - add --no-verify and --no-skip (#538)
• Add --min-chip-rev argument to specify minimum chip revision (#525)
• Add serialport feature (#535)
• Add support for 26 MHz bootloader for ESP32 and ESP32-C2 (#553)
• Add CI check to verify that CHANGELOG is updated (#560)
• Add --before and --after reset arguments (#561)
• Add read-flash command (#558)

Fixed

• Fix printing panic backtraces when using esp-println and defmt (#496)
• Fix defmt parsing when data is read in parts (#503)
• Use partition table instead of hard-coded values for the location of partitions (#516)
• Fix a missed flush call that may be causing communication errors (#521)
• Fix "SHA-256 comparison failed: [...] attempting to boot anyway..." (#567)
• Windows: Update RST/DTR order to avoid issues (#562)
• Tolerate non-utf8 data in boot detection (#573)
• Fix flash/monitoring of 26MHz targets (#584)

Changed

• Create FlashData, FlashDataBuilder and FlashSettings structs to reduce number of input arguments in some functions (#512, #566)
• espflash will now exit with an error if defmt is selected but not usable (#524)
• Unify configuration methods (#551)
• Improved symbol resolving (#581)
• Update ESP32-C2 stub (#584)
• MSRV bumped to 1.74.0 (#586)

Removed

• Remove support for the ESP8266 (#576)
• Remove the direct boot image format (#577)
• Remove support for Raspberry Pi's internal UART peripherals (#585)