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This file lists the most important changes to
the previous released version. For a full list of changes
please refer to the ChangeLog file.
New for version 2.6.2:
- Alternative hex output (to be improved)
- Print creation date of serial device file (if < 20 hrs), useful for
identifying just plugged in USB-Serial adapters
- Support ':' (colon) in device path names. Note, that this changes old
behaviour which used ':' as a device path delimiter.
- Several language updates.
New for version 2.6:
- Add possibility to add delay after every character transmission.
- Fix build issues on Mac OS X.
- Stop providing default modem init and reset strings (still available when
editing).
- Added possibility for timestamps in output, added by minicom
- Added lockdev support.
- Added new dialdir format that is supposed to be interoperable between 32
and 64 bits archs.
New for version 2.5:
- Handle device reconnected more smoothly (USB-serial dongles)
- Translation updates: Danish
- Several fixes (see ChangeLog)
New for version 2.4:
- Add -D and -b options to specify device and baud rate on the command
line.
- Do character conversion between local and remote side (-R option)
- Added indonesian translation
- Compatibility fixes for recent build environments
- Remove code that handled very old systems
New for version 2.3:
- Fix build on Mac OS X
- New version of the dial format to be little and big endian as well as
32/64 bit safe
- Support more baud rates
- Handle device disappearances (e.g. serial-USB device unplug)
- Various build and other fixes
New for version 2.2:
- Vietnamese translation added
- Norwegian translation added
- Traditional chinese translation added
- Swedish translation added
- Romanian translation added
- default to 8bit mode if LANG or LC_ALL are set
- default baud rate set to 115200
- Various code cleanups and fixes
New for version 2.1:
- applied some pending patches (see ChangeLog for a complete list)
- added support for socket connections
- fixed compiling issues on Solaris
- new maintainer: Adam Lackorzynski
- new homepage: http://minicom.alioth.debian.org/
- new mailinglists (-devel and -announce):
http://alioth.debian.org/mail/?group_id=31