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Associate II
February 26, 2026
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STM32CubeMX 6.17.0 breaks FreeRTOS

  • February 26, 2026
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I upgraded to 6.17 this morning an have already had to roll back due to a bug in how it now generates fiels for FreeRTOS.

Under the FreeRTOS (Include parameters) options I have this vTaskDelayUntil set to Enabled.  This now changes the define name in the user config file (Core/Inc/FreeRTOSConfig.h) to be 

#define INCLUDE_xTaskDelayUntil 1

which is correct for the updated freeRTOS version, but in the file (Middleware/Thrid Party/FreeRTOS/Source/CMSIS_RTOS_V2/freertos_os2.h) it has not been updated so it now it throws an error stopping my projects from building. There are other places where vTaskDelayUntil has also not been updated to xTaskDelayUntil. This needs to be fixed.

 

 

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Ghofrane GSOURI
Technical Moderator
February 26, 2026

Hello @Simon_63893 

First let me thank you for posting.

Could you please provide your IOC?

I will be waiting for your feedback.

Thx

Ghofrane 

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Associate II
February 26, 2026

Hi Ghofrane,

Please find attached IOC.

Ghofrane GSOURI
Technical Moderator
February 26, 2026

Hello @Simon_63893 

I am using STM32CubeMX 6.17.0.

After generating the code with your IOC configuration, I encountered the following error, which is currently under investigation:

In file included from ../Middlewares/Third_Party/LwIP/src/include/lwip/memp.h:58,
 from ../Middlewares/Third_Party/LwIP/src/include/lwip/stats.h:43,
 from ../Middlewares/Third_Party/LwIP/system/OS/sys_arch.c:38:
../Middlewares/Third_Party/LwIP/src/include/lwip/priv/memp_priv.h:89:5: error: expected expression before ')' token
 89 | ) ,
 | ^
arm-none-eabi-gcc "../Middlewares/Third_Party/LwIP/src/netif/ppp/chap-md5.c" -mcpu=cortex-m7 -std=gnu11 -g3 -DDEBUG -DUSE_PWR_DIRECT_SMPS_SUPPLY -DUSE_HAL_DRIVER -DSTM32H725xx -c -I../Core/Inc -I../LWIP/App -I../LWIP/Target -I../wolfTPM -I../Middlewares/Third_Party/LwIP/src/include -I../Middlewares/Third_Party/LwIP/system -I../Drivers/STM32H7xx_HAL_Driver/Inc -I../Drivers/STM32H7xx_HAL_Driver/Inc/Legacy -I../Middlewares/Third_Party/FreeRTOS/Source/include -I../Middlewares/Third_Party/FreeRTOS/Source/CMSIS_RTOS_V2 -I../Middlewares/Third_Party/FreeRTOS/Source/portable/GCC/ARM_CM4F -I../Drivers/CMSIS/RTOS2/Include -I../Drivers/BSP/Components/lan8742 -I../Middlewares/Third_Party/LwIP/src/include/netif/ppp -I../Drivers/CMSIS/Device/ST/STM32H7xx/Include -I../Middlewares/Third_Party/LwIP/src/include/lwip -I../Middlewares/Third_Party/LwIP/src/include/lwip/apps -I../Middlewares/Third_Party/LwIP/src/include/lwip/priv -I../Middlewares/Third_Party/LwIP/src/include/lwip/prot -I../Middlewares/Third_Party/LwIP/src/include/netif -I../Middlewares/Third_Party/LwIP/src/include/compat/posix -I../Middlewares/Third_Party/LwIP/src/include/compat/posix/arpa -I../Middlewares/Third_Party/LwIP/src/include/compat/posix/net -I../Middlewares/Third_Party/LwIP/src/include/compat/posix/sys -I../Middlewares/Third_Party/LwIP/src/include/compat/stdc -I../Middlewares/Third_Party/LwIP/system/arch -I../Drivers/CMSIS/Include -I../Middlewares/Third_Party/wolfSSL_wolfTPM_wolfTPM/wolftpm/ -I../wolfSSL -I../Middlewares/Third_Party/wolfSSL_wolfSSL_wolfSSL/wolfssl/ -O0 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -Wall -fstack-usage -fcyclomatic-complexity -MMD -MP -MF"Middlewares/Third_Party/LwIP/src/netif/ppp/chap-md5.d" -MT"Middlewares/Third_Party/LwIP/src/netif/ppp/chap-md5.o" --specs=nano.specs -mfpu=fpv5-d16 -mfloat-abi=hard -mthumb -o "Middlewares/Third_Party/LwIP/src/netif/ppp/chap-md5.o"
make: *** [Middlewares/Third_Party/LwIP/system/OS/subdir.mk:19: Middlewares/Third_Party/LwIP/system/OS/sys_arch.o] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
"make -j8 all" terminated with exit code 2. Build might be incomplete.

13:03:08 Build Failed. 3 errors, 0 warnings. (took 56s.577ms)

compilation error.png

I have no build errors related to FreeRTOS, so I’m not sure what I’m missing. Could you please share a screenshot of the issue you described, where Middleware/Third_Party/FreeRTOS/Source/CMSIS_RTOS_V2/freertos_os2.h is not updated and causes a build error?

THX

Ghofrane

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Associate II
March 4, 2026

So, I had to manually install a newer ARM.CMSIS pack 5.9.0 and then it built and the app mostly works, except now the ethernet functionality doesn't work. ARP packets are not getting through to the etharp_input function. I found a rather obscure breaking change mentioned in the release notes.

Screenshot 2026-03-04 135356.png

The suggested solution here is so simplistic that  it is not useful. How is this meant to be fixed in user application code?

 

Ghofrane GSOURI
Technical Moderator
March 5, 2026

Hello @Simon_63893 

I suggest that you raise your question in the Embedded Software forum:
https://community.st.com/t5/stm32-mcus-embedded-software/bd-p/mcu-embedded-software-forum

There you will receive more dedicated technical support from  ST experts.

THX

Ghofrane

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Super User
March 24, 2026
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