In early March, the Nerves Project published its v0.5.0 release, marking another big step forward in usability and completeness of the platform. In this post, I’d like to describe the major changes to be aware of as you upgrade existing projects or create new ones using Nerves 0.5.

Refreshed Docs and Examples

If you’re new to Nerves or you’ve been using it for a long time and just never got around to it, you may want to check out the Getting Started guides and documentation available on Hexdocs and the example projects available on GitHub. These have all been reviewed and updated to match what’s available in Nerves 0.5, so it’s a great way to quickly see how everything works. In particular, the nerves-examples projects can be used as a reference if you get stuck trying to start a new project or feature, or when upgrading an existing project.