UDK2018 key features and changes

• Industry Standards & Public Specifications
  • UEFI 2.7
    • Deprecate SMM Communication ACPI Table
    • Update Reset Notification Protocol
    • Add HII Popup Protocol
    • Add UEFI UFS DEVICECONFIG Protocol
    • Add Partition Information Protocol
    • Simplify Secure Boot Revocation & usage of VerifySignature
    • Add DNS device path
    • Add EFI HTTP Boot Callback Protocol
    • Add new data type to EFI Supplicant Protocol
    • Allow SetData to clear configuration in Ip4Config2/Ip6Config
  • UEFI PI 1.6 & PI 1.5
    • Allow SEC to pass HOBs into PEI
    • Handle PEI PPI descriptor notifications from SEC
    • Add Pre-permanent memory page allocation
    • Add FV Extended Header entry containing used FV size
    • Add additional alignment in FFS file
    • Support standalone MM module generation
  • ACPI 6.2
    • Add ACPI IO Remapping Table (IORT) definition
• IOMMU-based DMA Protection (in IntelSiliconPkg )
• Support Stack Guard, Heap Guard and NULL Pointer Detection
• Update OpenSSL version to the new 1.1.0g.
• Support CPU PPIN, LMCE and PROC_TRACE feature.
• Add OpalPassword solution without SMM device code.
• Update performance infrastructure to save perf entry in ACPI FPDT table.
• Remove TrEE libraries and drivers.
• Support Structure PCD as Centralized Configuration Management.
• Add Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 tool chain in BaseTools tools_def.template.
• Support hash-based build to improve the incremental build performance
• Build time improvement using multi-threading in GenFds to generate FFS files
• Support XCODE5 tool chain build and boot functionality.

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Note: This page describes the package notes and the differences based on previous UEFI Development Kit (UDK) UDK2017 Release.

• For a detailed list of Changes and updates, See wiki page UDK2018 Release

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