TL;DR

• NFC: MyKey, Umarsh card parsers; emulation improvements; faster plugins; various bug fixes and improvements
• Infrared: new TVs and ACs support in Universal Remotes
• GUI: partial Unicode support
• UART bridge: software DE/RE support
• System: various bug fixes and improvements
• Build system: various fixes and improvements

Last call: new serial API scheduled for next release https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/pull/3211 Upcoming JavaScript support discussion: https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/pull/3286

What's Changed

• [FL-3681] SubGhz: changed the name of the button when sending RAW to SubGhz by @Skorpionm in https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/pull/3275
• FuriHal: various GPIO improvements by @skotopes in https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/pull/3260
• RTC registers clean-up on factory reset by @skotopes in https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/pull/3288
• [FL-3706], [FL-3674] NFC NTAG and ISO14443-3b reading fix by @gornekich in https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/pull/3285
• [FL-3715] Update CLI MOTD by @skotopes in https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/pull/3292
• MyKey parser added by @augustozanellato in https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/pull/3262
• Umarsh transport cards parser added by @Leptopt1los in https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/pull/3277
• nfc_util: little endian bytes2num functions added by @Leptopt1los in https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/pull/3287
• [FL-3717] MFC emulation fix by @gornekich in https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/pull/3291
• [FL-3719] NFC Plugins loading rework by @gornekich in https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/pull/3295
• New ACs (Carrier 42QG5A580SC and AUX YKR-H/006E) added by @gusdleon in https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/pull/3284
• New TV (Philips OLED 934/12) added by @MarcelSchm in https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/pull/3293
• NfcDict refactoring by @v0lp3 in https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/pull/3271
• Added UTF-8 support to Flipper Zero canvas API by @bolknote in https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/pull/3297
• Keys Dict: PVS warnings fix by @gornekich in https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/pull/3299
• ufbt: changed toolchain environment invocation by @hedger in https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/pull/3300
• USART Bridge: added support for software control of DE/RE pins by @Skorpionm in https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/pull/3280

New Contributors

• @Leptopt1los made their first contribution in https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/pull/3277
• @gusdleon made their first contribution in https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/pull/3284
• @MarcelSchm made their first contribution in https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/pull/3293
• @v0lp3 made their first contribution in https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/pull/3271

Ongoing

• Nfc: new and old protocols support improvements, API finalization
• JS Scripting: VA modules
• UART refactoring, RPC over UART
• Furi & FuriHal improvements and preparation for release version 1.0.0
• Documentation

Full Changelog: https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/compare/0.96.1-rc...0.97.0-rc