+0.4.0 (2016-01-29)
+------------------
+
+Note: This release DOES change the libsigrok API. That means it is NOT
+ backwards-compatible and frontends will need updates.
+
+ * New supported hardware:
+ - Logic analyzers:
+ - AKIP-9101
+ - BeagleLogic
+ - LeCroy LogicStudio
+ - mcupro Logic16 clone
+ - Pipistrello OLS
+ - SysClk LWLA1016
+ - Oscilloscopes:
+ - Rigol/Agilent DS1000Z series
+ - Yokogawa DLM2000 series
+ - Yokogawa DL9000 series
+ - Hung-Chang DSO-2100
+ - GW Instek GDS-800
+ - Multimeters:
+ - Agilent U1241A/B
+ - Agilent U1242A/B
+ - Brymen BM25x series
+ - MASTECH MS8250B
+ - Metrahit 16T/16U/KMM2002
+ - PeakTech 3415
+ - Tenma 72-7730
+ - Tenma 72-7732
+ - Tenma 72-9380A
+ - Testo 435-4
+ - UNI-T UT372
+ - UNI-T UT71x series (UT71A/B/C/D/E)
+ - Velleman DVM4100
+ - Voltcraft VC-870
+ - Voltcraft VC-920
+ - Voltcraft VC-940
+ - Voltcraft VC-960
+ - Programmable power supplies:
+ - Fluke/Philips PM2800 series
+ - HP 663xx series
+ - Manson HCS-3xxx series
+ - Motech LPS-30x series
+ - Rigol DP800 series
+ - Korad KAxxxxP series (a.k.a Velleman LABPS3005D and others)
+ - AC/DC sources:
+ - Agilent N5700A series (DC sources)
+ - Chroma 61600 series (AC sources)
+ - Chroma 62000 series (DC sources)
+ - Electronic loads:
+ - Maynuo M97 (and compatibles)
+ - LCR meters:
+ - DER EE DE-5000
+ - Scales:
+ - KERN EW 6200-2NM
+ - BeagleBone Black capes:
+ - BayLibre ACME (revA and revB)
+ * New input modules:
+ - raw_analog: Raw analog signals in various formats
+ - trace32_ad: Lauterbach Trace32 logic analyzer data
+ * New output modules:
+ - wav: Waveform audio file format
+ - srzip: Native ZIP-based sigrok file format
+ * Add libsigrok language bindings based on SWIG + doxygen:
+ - C++ language bindings
+ - Python language bindings
+ - Ruby language bindings
+ - Java language bindings
+ * Add a Modbus framework in order to be able to support Modbus based devices.
+ - Add a Modbus RTU backend.
+ * Add a new, more flexible trigger framework.
+ * Add a generic software-trigger framework usable by any driver, currently
+ used by fx2lafw and saleae-logic16.
+ * Add a (Linux-only) GPIB SCPI backend using linux-gpib and libgpib.
+ * Add a generic scpi-pps driver which supports various power supplies.
+ * Add an experimental framework for "transforms" which can perform operations
+ on libsigrok session packets. This will be changed and improved upon in
+ later releases. Currently implemented tranforms:
+ - nop: Do nothing, pass on packets unmodified.
+ - scale: Scale all analog values by a specified factor.
+ - invert: Invert all the data values.
+ - An analog value of x becomes 1/x.
+ - A digital value of 0 becomes 1 (and vice versa).
+ * input:
+ - Introduce a new input module API.
+ - Rename "input format" to "input module" everywhere.
+ - Add a preferred file extension field (bug #541).
+ * output:
+ - Fix output option enumeration.
+ - Fix a double-free issue.
+ - Add a preferred file extension field (bug #541).
+ * input/csv:
+ - Avoid a segfault related to the obsolete mimetype format match (bug #681).
+ * input/vcd:
+ - Chunk up samples in 1MB blocks for better performance (bug #551).
+ - Allow optional index items (bug #322).
+ - Add support for 1 bit vectors (bug #723).
+ * input/wav:
+ - Fix an offset calculation error.
+ - Properly initialize the channel list early enough (bug #387).
+ * output/analog:
+ - Fix channel deinterleaving.
+ * output/csv:
+ - Match format based on .csv extention in the filename.
+ - Add support for analog data/packets.
+ * New or updated build dependencies:
+ - New build dependencies (libsigrok C library):
+ - libgpib (optional)
+ - libieee1284 (optional)
+ - Updated build dependencies (libsigrok C library):
+ - libserialport >= 0.1.1 (optional)
+ - librevisa >= 0.0.20130412 (optional)
+ - libftdi >= 0.16 or libftdi1 >= 1.0 (optional)
+ - New build dependencies (libsigrokcxx C++ library):
+ - libsigrok >= 0.4.0 (the libsigrok C library, see above)
+ - A C++ compiler with C++11 support (g++ >= 4.7 or clang++ >= 3.1)
+ - doxygen (required for building the C++ library!)
+ - graphviz (optional, only needed for C++ API docs)
+ - Python (2 or 3) executable (development files are not needed)
+ - glibmm-2.4 (>= 2.32.0)
+ - New build dependencies (libsigrok Python bindings):
+ - libsigrokcxx >= 0.4.0 (the libsigrok C++ bindings, see above)
+ - Python >= 2.7 or Python >= 3 (including development files!)
+ - Python setuptools (for Python 2 or 3)
+ - pygobject >= 3.0.0 (for Python 2 or 3), a.k.a python-gi
+ - numpy (for Python 2 or 3)
+ - SWIG >= 2.0.0
+ - doxygen (optional, only needed for the Python API docs)
+ - graphviz (optional, only needed for the Python API docs)
+ - doxypy (optional, only needed for the Python API docs)
+ - New build dependencies (libsigrok Ruby bindings):
+ - libsigrokcxx >= 0.4.0 (the libsigrok C++ bindings, see above)
+ - Ruby >= 1.9.3 (including development files!)
+ - SWIG >= 3.0.8
+ - YARD (optional, only needed for the Ruby API docs)
+ - New build dependencies (libsigrok Java bindings):
+ - libsigrokcxx >= 0.4.0 (the libsigrok C++ bindings, see above)
+ - SWIG >= 2.0.0
+ - Java JDK (for JNI includes and the javac/jar binaries)
+ - doxygen (optional, only needed for the Java API docs)
+ - graphviz (optional, only needed for the Java API docs)
+ * Build system:
+ - Modernize the whole autotools setup.
+ - Add --with-libserialport, --with-libftdi, --with-libusb,
+ --with-librevisa, --with-libgpib, --with-libieee1284.
+ - Add --enable-bindings, --enable-cxx, --enable-python, --enable-ruby,
+ and --enable-java.
+ - Support both libftdi >= 0.16 and libftdi1 >= 1.0.
+ - configure: Show SCPI backends that'll be compiled.
+ - Unconditionally build src/lcr/es51919.c (bug #545).
+ - Compile with -std=c99 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112L by default.
+ - Only link the 'check' library against the unit tests.
+ - Fix various out-of-tree build issues (e.g. bug #473).
+ - Don't set CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, etc. in configure.ac or Makefile.am (bug #578).
+ - Check for the numpy Python module (bug #533).
+ - Check for zip_discard(), provide alternative if not available (bug #674).
+ * Portability:
+ - Android: Add fallbacks for missing stoi()/stod().
+ - FreeBSD: Fix a libusb related compiler error.
+ - FreeBSD: Fix an issue with libusb_get_port_numbers().
+ - FreeBSD: Fix an issue with BSD Make (bug #556).
+ - FreeBSD: Fix an issue with SWIG detection (bug #557).
+ - FreeBSD: Fix a build issue related to isascii() (bug #649).
+ - Mac OS X: Fix 'sed' invocation in autogen.sh (bug #516).
+ - Mac OS X: Fix a usb_get_port_path() related issue (bug #673).
+ - Windows: Fix some thread-related issues causing hangs (bugs #343, #328).
+ - Windows: Fix a USB/thread related issue (bug #343).
+ - Windows: Fix shared (non-static) build.
+ - Windows: Fix various warnings related to a missing LIBUSB_CALL item.
+ - Windows: Add a missing WSAStartup() call to fix scpi/tcp (bug #692).
+ - Fix an issue with non-GNU Make (bug #628).
+ - Avoid std::map::emplace() for GCC 4.7 compatibility (bug #720).
+ - Avoid g_close() to not unnecessarily require glib >= 2.36 (bug #724).
+ * Language bindings:
+ - Support new output API.
+ - Add Doxygen docs for all language bindings.
+ - C++: Fix a C++ bindings linking issue (bug #534).
+ - Python: Fix mapping of vector & map attributes to Python types (bug #382).
+ - Python: Implement equality checks for EnumValue derived classes (bug #443).
+ - Python: Handle import failures without crashing.
+ - Python: Fix an installation issue (bug #644).
+ - Python: Prevent a numpy deprecation warning (bug #417).
+ - Python: Fix a ConfigKey.parse_string() crash (bug #483).
+ - Python: Fix the build for Python 3 (bug #645).
+ - Python: Fix some string conversion issues for Python 3 (bug #478).
+ - Python: Fix a SWIG related memory leak (bug #479).
+ - Python: Make device.config_keys() act like a Python dict (bug #480).
+ - Python: Provide sensible __str__() and __repr__() for enums (bug #688).
+ - Java: Install files into DESTDIR (bug #537).
+ - Java: Fix some SWIG warnings due to %extend redefinitions (bug #417).
+ - Java: Fix an issue related to C/C++ style casts (bug #688).
+ - Java: Fix a reference leak (bug #690).
+ - Session::set_trigger(): Fix segfault conditions (bugs #491, #496).
+ * Various API changes, additions and removals (see API docs for details).
+ * Add various new config keys, config info types, measurement quantity keys,
+ measurement quantity flags, units, device instance types, and error codes.
+ * udev rules file: Add entries for newly supported hardware.
+ * Add/use a new resource access API, defaults to XDG data dirs.
+ * Switch to a new SR_DF_ANALOG format (bug #640).
+ * All drivers:
+ - Publish config key capabilities.
+ - Gather connection info and serial number, if any.
+ - Cleanups of serial port based drivers wrt (non-)blocking reads/writes.
+ * Various drivers:
+ - Use physical USB connection instead of sdi->index.
+ - Fix blocking serial write timeout (bugs #436, #437, #433, #428, #427,
+ #430, #432, #434, #438).
+ * agilent-dmm:
+ - Fix value parser to consider 0.0 to be a valid result.
+ - Correctly parse negative overload.
+ - Add RMS flag to AC voltage modes.
+ - Add provisional support for the U124xx.
+ - U124xx/U125xx: Support 5 more modes (resistance, capacitance, frequency,
+ continuity, and temperature).
+ - Add current loop sensor support.
+ - Fix frequency support.
+ * beaglelogic:
+ - Add SR_CONF_CAPTURE_RATIO support.
+ * brymen-bm86x:
+ - Add current loop sensor support.
+ * chronovu-la:
+ - Properly handle multiple ChronoVu devices being attached (bug #504).
+ * colead-slm:
+ - Properly check acquisition sample limit.
+ * demo:
+ - Add support for continuous acquisition.
+ - Fix a memory leak related to channel groups.
+ - Support changing the amplitude of analog channels.
+ - Adds a new channel group "Analog", which has all analog channels in it.
+ - Attach analog generator to channel, not channel group.
+ - Provide a separate property list for the analog group (bug #505).
+ - Fix an issue by always honoring sample limit changes (bug #314).
+ - Fix square pattern output being shorter than other patterns.
+ - Fix analog output at low samplerates.
+ - Fix SR_CONF_DEVICE_OPTIONS variant type.
+ - Fix an infinite loop when 0 channels of one type were used.
+ * fx2lafw:
+ - Fix continuous mode usage with output modules (bug #380).
+ - Check for a valid samplerate before trying to set it (bug #386).
+ - Fix wide (16bit) sampling case (bug #373).
+ - Add SR_CONF_CAPTURE_RATIO support.
+ - Set up the transfer first, then start the acquisition (bug #574).
+ - Avoid the need to run "rmmod usbtest" on Linux for devices
+ with the standard Cypress FX2 USB VID/PID of 04b4:8613 (bug #445).
+ - Add support for the official fx2lafw sigrok VID/PID pairs and firmware
+ (this requires sigrok-firmware-fx2lafw >= 0.1.3):
+ - 1D50:608C: fx2lafw-sigrok-fx2-8ch.fw
+ - 1D50:608D: fx2lafw-sigrok-fx2-16ch.fw
+ * gmc-mh-1x-2x:
+ - Add support for the Metrahit Metrahit 16T, 16U, and KMM2002.
+ - Complete energy measurement ranges (V, A, W) for Metrahit 29S.
+ * hameg-hmo:
+ - Implement SR_CONF_SCAN_OPTIONS.
+ - Make sure the enabled_channels list is empty before populating it.
+ - Fix reading of analog data from an HMO1024 (Firmware 04.527).
+ - Fix a double-free issue.
+ - Fix a floating point comparison issue (bug #731).
+ * hantek-dso:
+ - Properly zero out MQ flags.
+ - Fix driver/global/channel group config keys.
+ * ikalogic-scanalogic2:
+ - Fix a segfault condition (bug #440).
+ * ikalogic-scanaplus:
+ - Fix a memory leak and a memory allocation issue.
+ * kecheng-kc-330b:
+ - Fix missing time/frequency weighting.
+ * lascar-el-usb:
+ - Fix issues caused by copy-paste errors.
+ * ols:
+ - Fix a serial port related issue on FreeBSD (bug #414).
+ - Fix detection and acquisition on Windows (bug #562).
+ - Fix an event source related acquisition issue (bug #678).
+ - Fix a portability issue due to direct use of FDs (bug #205).
+ * rigol-ds:
+ - Fix duplicated vendor string for Agilent devices.
+ - Replace magic numbers by appropriate constant or variable (bug #406).
+ - Handle POSITIVE/NEGATIVE (instead of POS/NEG) correctly (bug #558).
+ - Add missing 20/50/100V vdiv entries.
+ - Fix an issue related to the search for the closest vdiv.
+ - Return the actual hardware num_vdiv and vdiv list.
+ - Fix the smallest supported vdiv for the DS2000 series.
+ - Fix a double-free issue.
+ - SR_CONF_DATA_SOURCE is a device option, not per channel group.
+ * saleae-logic16:
+ - Recognize the FPGA FIFO overflow status.
+ - Downgrade error during capture to a message (bug #466).
+ - Add SR_CONF_CAPTURE_RATIO support.
+ - Support new bitstream version 1.3 with renumbered registers.
+ - Publish samplerates according to selected channels (bug #646).
+ * serial-dmm:
+ - Fix RadioShack 22-812 DMM incorrect readings (bug #657).
+ - Implement request timeout feature (bug #345).
+ * sysclk-lwla:
+ - Do not create channels in reverse order.
+ - Fix an issue related to sdi->connection_id (bug #441).
+ - Various robustness improvements.
+ - Fix a compile issue (bug #714).
+ - Work around some vendor FX2 firmware issues.
+ * zeroplus-logic-cube:
+ - Fix an issue when trying to trigger on a channel being 0/low.
+ * README: Drop obsolete sigrok-commits mailing list.
+ * Fix a Doxyfile issue which caused build failures e.g. on buildroot.
+ * Fix a USB timeout related sr_session_iteration() issue (bug #571).
+ * Fix various gcc/clang compiler errors/warnings (e.g. bugs #637, #721).
+ * Fix an issue related to multiple sr_init()/sr_exit() calls (bug #565).
+ * Fix an issue with transform packet passing (bug #631).
+ * Rename sr_dev_driver.priv to .context (bug #442).
+ * serial: Re-implement sr_serial_find_usb() using new libserialport APIs.
+ * Unit tests: Add some checks for session handling.
+ * scpi and scpi/usbtmc:
+ - Accept *IDN responses with more than 4 tokens (some devices need this).
+ - Fix incomplete data issue for e.g. Hameg HMO1024.
+ - Support the RL1 feature.
+ - Implement Rigol DS1000 workaround on any firmware version (bug #354).
+ * Various session related changes and improvements.
+ * The code now uses the Glib main loop as backend.
+ * Logging: Add a timestamp (at DBG/SPEW loglevel) to all log messages.
+ * Fix a trigger related segfault (bug #550).
+ * Don't check the libusb_get_device_descriptor() return code (bug #658).
+ * Fix various memory leaks in the code (e.g. bugs #629, #630, #632).
+ * session_file: Enable only probes listed in metadata (bugs #410, #495).
+
0.3.0 (2014-05-06)
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