Version 1.3.0#

New major features#

¹Arm Firmware Framework for M 1.1 Extensions
Support stateless RoT Service defined in FF-M 1.1 ¹ ¹Arm Firmware Framework for M 1.1 Extensions.

Support Second-Level Interrupt Handling (SLIH) defined in FF-M 1.1 [1].
²PSA Firmware Update API
Add Firmware Update (FWU) secure service, following Platform Security Architecture Firmware Update API ² ²PSA Firmware Update API.

Migrate to Mbed TLS v2.25.0.

Update MCUboot version to v1.7.2.
³TF-M generic threat model
Add a TF-M generic threat model ³ ³TF-M generic threat model .
⁴TF-M physical attack mitigation
Implement Fault Injection Handling library to mitigate physical attacks ⁴ ⁴TF-M physical attack mitigation.
⁵TF-M Profile Large design
Add Profile Large ⁵ ⁵TF-M Profile Large design.
⁶Code sharing between independently linked XIP binaries
Enable code sharing between boot loader and TF-M ⁶ ⁶Code sharing between independently linked XIP binaries.

Support Armv8.1-M Privileged Execute Never (PXN) attribute and Thread reentrancy disabled (TRD) feature.

New platforms added. See New platforms supported for details.
⁷Security Handling
Add a TF-M security landing page ⁷ ⁷Security Handling.

Enhance dual-cpu non-secure mailbox reference implementation.

New security advisories#

Invoking secure functions from non-secure handler mode#

Refer to Advisory TFMV-2 for more details. The mitigation is included in this release.

New platforms supported#

Cortex-M23 based system:

Nuvoton M2354.

Cortex-M55 based system:

FPGA image loaded on MPS3 board (AN547).

Secure Enclave system:

Musca-B1 Secure Enclave (deprecated after TF-M v1.6.0).

Deprecated platforms#

The following platforms have been removed from TF-M code base.

SSE-200_AWS

AN539

See Platform deprecation and removal for other platforms under deprecation process.

Tested platforms#

The following platforms are successfully tested in this release.

AN519
AN521
AN524
AN547
LPCXpresso55S69
MPS2 SSE300
Musca-B1
Musca-B1 Secure Enclave
Musca-S1
M2351
M2354
nrf5340dk
nrf9160dk
NUCLEO-L552ZE-Q
PSoC 64
STM32L562E-DK

Known issues#

Some open issues exist and will not be fixed in this release.

Descriptions	Issue links
PSA Arch Crypto test suite have several known failures.	See this link for detailed analysis of the failures.
Protected Storage Regression test 4001 is stuck on SSE-300 in isolation level 2 when PXN is enabled.	https://developer.trustedfirmware.org/T902
IPC Regression test fail when non-secure regression test is enabled and secure regression test is disabled.	https://developer.trustedfirmware.org/T903
Panic test in PSA Arch IPC test suite generates inconsistent results between Armclang and GNUARM.	https://developer.trustedfirmware.org/T909

Issues fixed since 1.2.0#

Issues fixed by TF-M since v1.2.0 are listed below.

Descriptions	Issue links
Dual-cpu NS mailbox initialization shall be executed after CMSIS-RTOS RTX kernel initialization	https://developer.trustedfirmware.org/T904

Issues closed since 1.2.0#

The following issues are closed since v1.2.0. These issues are related to platform hardware limitations or 3rd-party tools and therefore won’t be fixed by TF-M.

Descriptions	Issue links
`psa_verify_rsa()` fails when PSA Crypto processes RSASSA-PSS algorithm in CryptoCell-312. Mbed TLS implementation of `psa_verify_rsa()` always passes `MBEDTLS_MD_NONE` to `mbedtls_rsa_rsassa_pss_verify()`. However, CryptoCell-312 doesn’t support MD5 and uses other algorithms instead. Therefore, Mbed TLS implementation may fail when input algorithm doesn’t match other parameters.	ARMmbed/mbedtls#3990
Regression tests fail with GNU Arm Embedded toolchain version 10-2020-q4-major. The support for CMSE feature is broken in version 10-2020-q4-major. The fix will be available in future release version. A note is added in Install a toolchain.	https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99157

Version 1.3.0

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