Here is the NEWS file for this release, which highlights most important changes:

This file includes highlights of the changes made in the
OpenOCD source archive release. See the
repository history for details about what changed, including
bugfixes and other issues not mentioned here.

JTAG Layer:
 New TI ICDI adapter support.
 Support Latest OSBDM firmware.
 Improved MIPS EJTAG Support.

Boundary Scan:

Target Layer:
 New ARMv7R and Cortex-R4 support.
 Added ChibiOS/RT support.

Flash Layer:
 New NXP LPC1850 support.
 New NXP LPC4300 support.
 New NXP SPIFI support.
 New Energy Micro EFM32 support.
 New ST STM32W support.
 New ST STM32f2 write protection and lock/unlock support.
 Ability to override STM32 flash bank size.

Board, Target, and Interface Configuration Scripts:
 Support Freescale i.MX6 series targets.

Documentation:
 New MIPS debugging info.

Build and Release:

For more details about what has changed since the last release,
see the git repository history. With gitweb, you can browse that
in various levels of detail.

For older NEWS, see the NEWS files associated with each release
(i.e. NEWS-<version>).

For more information about contributing test reports, bug fixes, or new
features and device support, please read the new Developer Manual (or
the BUGS and PATCHES.txt files in the source archive).

https://sourceforge.net/p/openocd/code/

original url is:
git://openocd.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/openocd/openocd
and this has changed to:
git://git.code.sf.net/p/openocd/code

So you will either need to re-clone or manually update your .git/config
git config remote.origin.url git://git.code.sf.net/p/openocd/code should do the trick

Hopefully nothing has broken in the update.

This release addresses serious regression in 0.6.0 and 0.6.0-rc2 releases which caused some functionalities to work correctly only on the first run – all following operations would fail until OpenOCD would be restarted. Some of affected modules:

• lpc2000 flash driver (for LPC2xxx and LPC17xx chips),
• mips_m4k fast data (for MIPS M4k chips),
• feroceon DCC,
• arm_io NAND flash driver,
• arm7_9 DCC.

Last unaffected release (of course excluding 0.6.1) is 0.6.0-rc1. All users of affected releases are encouraged to update their version of OpenOCD.

Additionally this release includes following fixes:

• fix of handling Hi-Z state in direct connections in new ftdi driver,
• fix of handling RCLK in new ftdi driver,
• improvements to config files using new ftdi driver,
• fix for sector erase for AT91SAM4S chips,
• fix of TAPID in STM32F3 config script,
• support for STM32F3 Rev 2 flash,
• support for STM32F3-DISCOVERY board.

As usual, Freddie Chopin has provided Window’s binaries on his site.

Full article here – http://hackaday.com/2012/09/27/beginners-look-at-on-chip-debugging/

Here is the NEWS file for this release, which highlights most important changes:

This file includes highlights of the changes made in the OpenOCD source archive release. See the repository history for details about what changed, including bugfixes and other issues not mentioned here.

JTAG Layer:
New STLINK V1/V2 JTAG/SWD adapter support.
New OSJTAG adapter support.
New Tincantools Flyswatter2 support.
Improved ULINK driver.
Improved RLINK driver.
Support for adapters based on FT232H chips.
New experimental driver for FTDI based adapters, using libusb-1.0 in asynchronous mode.

Boundary Scan:

Target Layer:
New Cortex-M0 support.
New Cortex-M4 support.
Improved Working area algorithm.
New RTOS support. Currently linux, FreeRTOS, ThreadX and eCos.
Connecting under reset to Cortex-Mx and MIPS chips.

Flash Layer:
New SST39WF1601 support.
New EN29LV800BB support.
New async algorithm support for selected targets, stm32, stellaris and pic32.
New Atmel SAM3S, SAM3N support.
New ST STM32L support.
New Microchip PIC32MX1xx/2xx support.
New Freescale Kinetis K40 support.

Board, Target, and Interface Configuration Scripts:
Support Dangerous Prototypes Bus Blaster.
Support ST SPEAr Family.
Support Gumstix Verdex boards.
Support TI Beaglebone.

Documentation:
Improved HACKING info for submitting patches.
Fixed numerous broken links.

Build and Release:

For more details about what has changed since the last release, see the git repository history. With gitweb, you can browse that in various levels of detail.

For older NEWS, see the NEWS files associated with each release (i.e. NEWS-<version>).

For more information about contributing test reports, bug fixes, or new features and device support, please read the new Developer Manual (or the BUGS and PATCHES.txt files in the source archive).

Final 0.6.0 is scheduled to be released on 6th of September 2012 – if no problems with -rc2 will be found. In case a need of extending this period appears, the final release would be possible after 23rd of September.

Happy debugging! Remember to post info on potential problems to mailing list!

If no problems occur (no regressions / bugs will be found), the rc1 phase may be short, say 2 weeks. In case of problems the rc1 phase may be extended, or further rc phases may be done.

So start testing and report back if you find any problems!

For info other OpenOCD mailing lists can be found here.

http://www.mattlmassey.com/2012/04/26/using-openocd-with-the-beaglebone/