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0.3.0 (2014-05-06)
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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:
- ChronoVu LA16
- Sysclk LWLA1034
- Oscilloscopes:
- Agilent DSO1000 series (various models)
- Hameg HMO compact series (various models)
- Rigol DS2000 series (various models)
- Rigol VS5000 series (various models)
- Multimeters:
- BBC Goerz Metrawatt M2110
- Brymen BM869
- Fluke 189
- Gossen Metrawatt MetraHIT 1x/2x series (various models)
- Tenma 72-7745 (rebadged UNI-T UT60E)
- Tenma 72-7750 (rebadged UNI-T UT60G)
- UNI-T UT60G
- UNI-T UT61B
- UNI-T UT61C
- V&A VA40B
- Voltcraft M-3650CR
- Voltcraft ME-42
- Thermometers:
- APPA 55II
- Programmable power supplies:
- Atten PPS3000 series (various models, tested on PPS3203T-3S).
- Conrad DIGI 35 CPU
* Add support for channel groups.
* Add generic SCPI backend code which can be used via various transports:
- Serial ports
- USBTMC
- TCP/RAW
- TCP/Rigol (Rigol-VS5000 series specific)
- VXI
- librevisa
* udev rules file: Add entries for newly supported hardware.
* New config keys:
- SR_CONF_DEMODULATOR
- SR_CONF_CENTER_FREQUENCY
- SR_CONF_NUM_LOGIC_CHANNELS
- SR_CONF_NUM_ANALOG_CHANNELS
- SR_CONF_CLOCK_EDGE
- SR_CONF_POWER_SUPPLY
- SR_CONF_OUTPUT_VOLTAGE
- SR_CONF_OUTPUT_VOLTAGE_MAX
- SR_CONF_OUTPUT_CURRENT
- SR_CONF_OUTPUT_CURRENT_MAX
- SR_CONF_OUTPUT_ENABLED
- SR_CONF_OUTPUT_CHANNEL
- SR_CONF_OVER_VOLTAGE_PROTECTION
- SR_CONF_OVER_CURRENT_PROTECTION
- SR_CONF_DEVICE_MODE
- SR_CONF_TEST_MODE
* New config info types:
- SR_T_INT32
* New measurement quantity keys:
- SR_MQ_TIME
* New measurement quantity flags:
- SR_MQFLAG_DURATION
- SR_MQFLAG_AVG
* New device instance types:
- SR_INST_SCPI
* New error codes:
- SR_ERR_CHANNEL_GROUP
The SR_T_CHAR config type has been renamed to SR_T_STRING.
* New build dependencies:
- libserialport >= 0.1.0 (optional).
- All drivers that talk to serial ports now require libserialport.
- If libserialport is not found, those drivers will not be built.
- librevisa >= 0.0.20130812 (optional, only used by some drivers).
* Dropped build dependecies:
- libasound2 is no longer required (only the removed alsa driver used it).
- libudev is no longer required (only the removed link-mso19 driver used it).
* Serial port handling code:
- Add support for 5/6 data bits and non-standard baud rates.
- Fix an issue related to nonblocking reads (bug #188).
- Fix an 'invalid arguments' condition causing problems (bug #192).
* alsa: This driver was removed (also fixes bugs #28, #61, #96, #114).
* asix-sigma:
- Publish SR_CONF_CAPTURE_RATIO correctly (bugs #287, #291).
- Don't set invalid config options (bug #86).
- Various other bugfixes.
* cem-dt-885x: Fix a code portability issue (bug #267).
* chronovu-la:
- Rename the 'chronovu-la8' driver to 'chronovu-la'.
- Add support for the ChronoVu LA16.
- Fix a segfault when doing multiple acquisitions on an LA8 (bug #247).
- Document that streaming is not possible for LA8/LA16 (bug #261).
* demo:
- Add support for analog channels (bug #11).
- Make the number of channels user-configurable.
- Add per-channel-group options.
- Implement analog sample patterns: sine, triangle, sawtooth.
- Fix a samplerate related issue with rates >= 50kHz (bugs #294, #295).
- Fix an issue causing data glitches every 40ms (bug #297).
- Fix an issue related to channel group handling (bug #262).
* digitek-dt4000zc: Fix driver on NetBSD due to missing DTR=1 (bug #189).
* fx2lafw:
- Fix incorrect unitsize when a trigger fires (bug #182).
- Implement config_get() for SR_CONF_LIMIT_SAMPLES.
- Don't send more samples than requested to the session bus.
* gmc-mh-1x-2x:
- Add new (sub)driver 'gmc-mh-2x-bd232'.
- Add support for the SI232-II interface.
* hameg-hmo:
- Fix a build issue on Mac OS X (bug #216).
- Various fixes related to frame limit, samplerate, options, etc.
* link-mso19: Drop unfinished driver for now (until it starts working).
* openbench-logic-sniffer:
- Fix a serial port related issue/hang, seen on (e.g.) NetBSD.
- Fix an SR_CONF_PATTERN_MODE related problem (bugs #184, #190).
- Fix a serial (non)blocking mode issue (bug #231).
- Temporarily disable the driver on Windows (needs portability fixes).
- Fix an endianness issue in the protocol handling (bug #135).
- Fix a sampling issue when (samples % 4) != 0 (bug #200).
- Fix an issue occuring when all channels were disabled (bugs #316, #347).
- Add an option to turn test patterns off again (bug #293).
* rigol-ds:
- Rename the 'rigol-ds1xx2' driver to 'rigol-ds'.
- Add support for more models and unify the driver code (bug #212).
- Add support for RS232 connectivity (previously only USBTMC worked).
- Enable the driver on non-Linux platforms since all transports the driver
uses are provided by cross-platform code/libs now (e.g. serial, USBTMC).
- Add support for 4 channels (required by some models).
- Add support for channel groups.
- Advertise SR_CONF_LIMIT_FRAMES support.
- Fix an issue with SR_DF_END sending.
- Enable/disable LA pod when (de)selecting digital channels.
- Disable key lock when closing device.
- Work around issues due to DS1000 specific protocol changes (bug #283).
- Fix incorrect digital channel numbers on some models (bug #269).
- Fix an issue with partial data reads (bugs #220, #209, #207).
* saleae-logic16:
- Fix an issue related to USB device claiming (bug #159).
- Don't send more samples than requested to the session bus (bug #350).
- Use unitsize 1 (not 2) if none of channels 8-15 are used.
* serial-dmm: Fix some parse issues by increasing a timeout.
* sysclk-lwla: Fix a sampling issue related to a glib API call (bug #270).
* uni-t-ut32x: Fix typo which prevented usage with multiple devices.
* victor-dmm: Fix MIN/MAX always being reported (bug #228).
* zeroplus-logic-cube:
- Add support for 32-channel models and additional memory sizes.
- Fix a frontend issue due to missing SR_CONF_CAPTURE_RATIO.
- Fix an issue causing pre-trigger garbage data to be sent (bug #222).
- Add initial voltage threshold support.
* Various drivers:
- Expose missing SR_CONF_TRIGGER_TYPE.
- Report max. possible number of samples (bugs #197, #258, #263).
* Output modules:
- Skip analog channels in logic-only output formats.
- Remove the obolete output module API, add wrapper calls for the new one.
- Stop using the obsolete output API (bugs #288, #47, #48).
- Properly receive and handle samplerate metadata (bug #46).
* input/vcd: Abort with an error upon > 64 channels (bug #194).
* output/vcd:
- Fix output for more than 8 channels.
- Output timestamp only once per change.
- Minor whitespace changes of output files to make them more readable.
- Remove bogus $dumpvars and $dumpoff commands.
- Various bugfixes and portability fixes.
* output/csv:
- Remove a 64-channel limit (bug #193).
- Fix an issue resulting in incorrect trailing commas (bug #230).
- Fix an issue where all timestamps would be zero (bug #35).
* Rename 'probe' to 'channel' in all places, since libsigrok supports a lot
of gear where 'channel' fits better (bug #259).
* Change TRIGGER_SLOPE from SR_T_UINT64 to SR_T_STRING.
* Windows support improvements:
- Use libserialport (+other backend code) to fix serial devices (bug #91).
- Add serial source addition/removal backend code (bug #206).
- Add backend code for properly supporting USB based devices.
* Fix various memory leaks in the backend code.
* Fix some incorrect parsing of floating point numbers in the strutil code.
* Fix various endianness issues in backend code and drivers (bug #266).
* Fix a few issues related to incorrect parsing with non-ANSI-C locales
(bugs #271, #272, #273, #274).
* Fix an issue related to data being sent to the libsigrok session which
was not a multiple of the unit/sample size (bugs, #289, #290).
* Drop the es51922 DMM parser (replaced by the generic es519xx parser).
* libsigrok session files:
- The libsigrok session file format (for *.sr files) has changed, and the
file format 'version' field is bumped to 2. Older libsigrok versions will
not be able to handle version 2 files, but new libsigrok versions can
handle both version 1 and version 2 files. New libsigrok versions will
always write/output version 2 files.
- Fix an issue resulting in left-over temporary files (bug #276).
- Fix an issue with analog probes (unsupported) in *.sr files (bug #277).
- Fix an issue with missing samplerate from session files (bug #275).
* Improved API documentation.
* Major API changes (overview):
- Change various function/macro names related to the probe->channel rename.
- Change various functions due to the new channel group feature.
- All enums in the public API now have names (e.g. 'enum sr_mqflag').
- The lib no longer defineѕ names with _t suffix (POSIX reserved).
- New API calls:
- sr_session_dev_list()
- sr_session_save_init()
- sr_session_append()
- sr_config_commit()
- sr_output_new()
- sr_output_send()
- sr_output_free()
- Obsoleted and removed API calls:
- sr_filter_channels()
- 'struct sr_session' is now opaque (contents shouldn't be used directly).
- Please see the Doxygen API documentation for further details.
* Build system:
- Switch to a non-recursive automake setup (fewer files, faster builds).
- configure: Clearly mark required and optional libs.
0.2.2 (2013-11-04)
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Note: This release does NOT change the libsigrok API. While new config keys,
config info types, and unit codes have been added (additional enum
entries / numbers), no existing interfaces were added/changed/removed.
Frontends should continue to work fine without recompiling or relinking.
* New supported hardware:
- Logic analyzers:
- Saleae Logic16
- Thermometers:
- Center 309
- UNI-T UT325
- Voltcraft K204
- Multimeters:
- ISOTECH IDM103N
- Metex M-4650CR
- Norma DM950
- Voltcraft M-4650CR
- Energy meters:
- EDF Teleinfo
* New config keys:
- SR_CONF_VOLTAGE_THRESHOLD
- SR_CONF_EXTERNAL_CLOCK
- SR_CONF_SWAP
- SR_CONF_ENERGYMETER
* New config info types:
- SR_T_DOUBLE_RANGE
* New units:
- SR_UNIT_REVOLUTIONS_PER_MINUTE
- SR_UNIT_VOLT_AMPERE
- SR_UNIT_WATT
- SR_UNIT_WATT_HOUR
* New input modules:
- csv (comma-separated values)
* Bump required libzip version to >= 0.10.
* uni-t-dmm: This driver now requires the specification of the USB VID/PID
of the cable that is used. Example for sigrok-cli:
- Old: sigrok-cli --driver voltcraft-vc820 ...
- New: sigrok-cli --driver voltcraft-vc820:conn=1a86.e008 ...
* openbench-logic-sniffer:
- Initial test pattern support (SR_CONF_PATTERN_MODE).
- Initial external clock support (SR_CONF_EXTERNAL_CLOCK).
- Initial channel swap support (SR_CONF_SWAP).
- Various minor fixes and improvements.
* When a frontend adds a device instance to a running session, start
acquisition on it. This helps with the collectd use-case where devices
can be removed and added dynamically while a session is running.
* rigol-ds1xx2: Support newer Linux kernels with USBTMC in /sys/class/usbmisc.
* rigol-ds1xx2: Also detect the Rigol DS1152E/DS1152D.
* agilent-dmm: Fix a segfault happening in certain cases.
* output/analog: Support all currently known MQFLAGs.
* Fix a minor compile issue due to an incorrect #include.
* Fix two compile issues on FreeBSD (bug #185).
* es519xx: New generic parser for various Cyrustek DMM ICs.
* es51922/fs9721/fs9922/metex14: Use diode MQFLAG (bug #141).
* voltcraft-vc830: Fix diode mode handling (bug #142).
* Add the missing HACKING file to the tarball.
* README.devices: Updates/notes for newly added devices.
0.2.1 (2013-08-07)
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Note: This release does NOT change the libsigrok API. While new config keys,
config info types, and error codes have been added (additional enum
entries / numbers), no existing interfaces were added/changed/removed.
Frontends should continue to work fine without recompiling or relinking.
* New supported hardware:
- Logic analyzers:
- IKALOGIC Scanalogic-2
- IKALOGIC ScanaPLUS
- Sound level meters:
- CEM DT-8852
- Kecheng KC-330B
- Multimeters:
- UNI-T UT60A
- UNI-T UT60E
- Voltcraft M-3650D
- Voltcraft VC-830
* Drop the Tecpel DMM-8060 (doesn't have PC connectivity).
* New config keys:
- SR_CONF_SPL_WEIGHT_FREQ
- SR_CONF_SPL_WEIGHT_TIME
- SR_CONF_SPL_MEASUREMENT_RANGE
- SR_CONF_HOLD_MIN
- SR_CONF_HOLD_MAX
- SR_CONF_POWER_OFF
- SR_CONF_DATA_SOURCE
* New config info types:
- SR_T_UINT64_RANGE
* New error codes:
- SR_ERR_TIMEOUT
* Always link against libm, the math library (bug #115).
* Fix a bug in sr_si_string_u64() at al (bug #73).
* output/csv: Fix incorrect probe order.
* alsa: Fix a double-free issue (bug #129).
* zeroplus-logic-cube: Fix a bug in the driver cleanup code.
* ikalogic-scanalogic2: Use GET_REPORT (bug #130).
* uni-t-dmm: Fix a bug breaking the UNI-T UT61E (bug #136).
* Various internal consistency fixes and code cleanups.
* Improved Doxygen documentation.
* Fixed various memory leaks.
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0.2.0 (2013-05-04)
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2013-05-04 13:17:50 +00:00
Note: This release DOES change the libsigrok API. That means it is NOT
backwards-compatible and frontends will need updates.
* Support for analog sources (oscilloscopes, DMMs, data loggers) was added.
* New supported hardware:
- Logic analyzers:
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- CWAV USBee DX
- ZEROPLUS LAP-16128U
- Oscilloscopes:
- Hantek DSO-2090 (USB scope)
- Rigol DS1052D
- Rigol DS1052E
- Rigol DS1102D
- Rigol DS1102E
- Multimeters:
- Agilent U1231A
- Agilent U1232A
- Agilent U1233A
- Brymen BM857
- Digitek DT4000ZC
- Fluke 187
- Fluke 189
- Fluke 287
- Fluke 289
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- Fluke ScopeMeter 199B
- MASTECH MAS345
- Metex ME-31
- Metex M-3640D
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- PCE PCE-DM32
- PeakTech 3410
- PeakTech 4370
- RadioShack 22-168
- RadioShack 22-805
- RadioShack 22-812
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- Tecpel DMM-8060
- Tecpel DMM-8061
- TekPower TP4000ZC
- UNI-T UT61D
- UNI-T UT61E
- V&A VA18B
- Victor 70C
- Victor 86C
- Voltcraft VC-820
- Voltcraft VC-840
- Sound level meters:
- Colead SL-5868P
- Tondaj SL-814
- Temperature/humidity/CO loggers:
- Lascar EL-USB and EL-USB CO series (various models)
- MIC 98581
- MIC 98583
* The limitation of max. 64 digital probes has been removed in many places.
* Added generic DMM protocol parsers usable for various DMMs, over various
cables and/or transports (e.g. same protocol over serial or USB/HID):
- Cyrustek ES51922 binary protocol.
- Fortune Semiconductor FS9721_LP3/FS9721B binary protocol.
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- Fortune Semiconductor FS9922-DMM3/DMM4 binary protocol.
- Metex 14-byte ASCII protocol.
- RadioShack 22-812 binary protocol.
* zeroplus-logic-cube driver:
- Fix acquisition at some specific samplerates. Only report valid ones.
- Default to a samplerate of 1MHz.
- Fix trigger code.
- Add pre-trigger (capture ratio) setting.
- Add support for the ZEROPLUS LAP-16128U.
* fx2lafw driver:
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- Add support for the CWAV USBee DX. This requires the latest version of
the fx2lafw firmware files.
- Add support for wide sampling (i.e. 16 probes instead of just 8).
- Fix multi-stage (software) triggers.
- Fix various memory leaks, firmware upload timeout bugs, and other issues.
- Various performance and memory usage improvements in the driver.
* chronovu-la8 driver:
- Add support for newer LA8 versions with USB VID/PID 0403:8867.
* demo driver:
- Various bugfixes when setting time/sample limits.
* openbench-logic-sniffer driver:
- Don't try to scan all available serial ports for OLS devices. Instead,
the serial port to use now has to be specified by the user.
- Allow disabling RLE.
* udev rules file: Add many new entries for additional devices.
* New output formats:
- analog: Prints analog values and their unit (e.g. from scopes or DMMs).
* New input formats:
- vcd: Value Change Dump format
- wav: Waveform audio file format (for analog data)
* 'binary' input format: Add support for a 'samplerate' option.
* API related changes:
- There is generated Doxygen API documentation now.
- The header that frontends should include is: <libsigrok/libsigrok.h>.
There are other headers which are installed, but those are not meant to
be included directly by the frontends.
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- There were numerous API changes, additions and removals, too many to list
here. Please check the source code or Doxygen API documentation for the
current set of API functions.
* Serial port code:
- Various improvements and fixes related to multiple parameters such as
directions, baudrate, flow control, and others.
- Add support for more baudrates (e.g. very low ones such as 600/1200)
that are used in some devices.
- Add support for setting DTR/RTS.
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* gnuplot files: Add sample files for CWAV USBee DX (for 8/16 bit sampling).
* Documentation updates:
- Add a README.devices file which contains various notes for users of
libsigrok about device- and/or driver-specific issues.
- Update README, HACKING, and other documents.
- Updated build dependencies list.
- The following libs are needed in more recent versions now:
- glib (required): Now must be >= 2.32.0.
- libusb-1.0 (optional): Now must be >= 1.0.9.
- The following new libs were added as (optional) dependencies:
- libasound / alsa-lib (optional): >= 1.0
- check (optional, only needed for unit tests): >= 0.9.4
* Portability:
- Various compile fixes for Windows, FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD, and Mac OS X.
- Simplify/allow/fix cross-compilation of libsigrok.
- Various bugfixes for 32bit systems.
- Various endianness fixes.
* configure:
- Add a --disable-all-drivers option. This can be overridden by
additional --enable-<drivername> options to selectively enable only some.
- Improve autodetection of libraries, and only enable drivers for which
all required libraries were found.
* Add a test suite for libsigrok with a few unit tests (the list will grow).
0.1.1 (2012-05-30)
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Note: This release does NOT change the libsigrok API.
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* The 'saleae-logic' driver (which depends on the Saleae firmware), has
been replaced with the new 'fx2lafw' driver, which uses an open-source
firmware for Cypress FX2 chips which is also named 'fx2lafw'.
Details: http://sigrok.org/wiki/Fx2lafw
This new driver (+ firmware) currently supports the following devices:
- ARMFLY AX-Pro
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- Braintechnology USB-LPS
- EE Electronics ESLA100
- EE Electronics ESLA201A
- Robomotic MiniLogic
- Robomotic BugLogic 3
- Saleae Logic
- USBee AX
- USBee SX
- All Cypress FX2 eval boards with stock Cypress VID/PID, including:
- Lcsoft Mini Board
- Braintechnology USB Interface V2.x
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Only acquisition with 8 probes is supported so far. Support for 16 probes
and support for analog signal acquisition (on devices which have these
capabilities) will be added later.
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* ASIX SIGMA driver:
- Add support for the ASIX SIGMA2. This requires the latest version of
the SIGMA/SIGMA2 firmware files.
Details: http://sigrok.org/wiki/Firmware
- Various bugfixes.
* ZEROPLUS Logic Cube LAP-C (16032): Fix a segfault.
* udev file: Add entries for Robomotic BugLogic 3, Velleman PCSU1000,
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Ideofy LA-08, ARMFLY AX-Pro, and Braintechnology USB Interface V2.x.
* The zlib dependency has been removed (no longer needed).
* Fix compiling with "Homebrew" (Mac OS X).
* libsigrok now expects firmware files in $prefix/share/sigrok-firmware by
default (was $prefix/share/libsigrok/firmware before).
* Fix a Makefile.am bug which caused the generated ChangeLog files being
accidentally deleted upon 'make distclean'.
* ChronoVu LA8 input file format: Improve autodetection of the file format.
We now only accept files of the size 8388613 bytes (all LA8 files have
exactly this amount of bytes).
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0.1.0 (2012-04-17)
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* Initial release.