From 2f54d8ac10c76d036e17e4d7fbfd693d669591ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bartosz Golaszewski Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 12:11:01 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: updates for v1.5 Add release notes for libgpiod v1.5. Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski --- NEWS | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 70 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f9fbcd5..843ba41 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,73 @@ +libgpiod v1.5 +============= + +New features: +- switched to using the GLib testing framework for core library tests and BATS + (Bash Automated Testing System) for command-line tools +- used Catch2 C++ testing framework to implement a proper test-suite for C++ + bindings while also reusing the API provided by libgpiomockup +- used Python's unittest package to implement a proper test suite for Python + bindings and reused libgpiockup again +- provided line::update() and Line.update() routines for C++ and Python + bindings respectively allowing to update the line info from bindings as well +- added support for bias flags which are a new functionality first available in + linux v5.5; subsequently the library now requires v5.5 kernel headers to + build; the new flags are supported in the core library, C++ and Python + bindings as well as the command-line tools +- added support for the new SET_CONFIG ioctl(): this too is a new functionality + added in linux v5.5; both features have been implemented in the library by + Kent Gibson +- added routines for reading multiple line events at once to the core library, + C++ and Python bindings + +Improvements: +- constified function arguments where applicable in libgpiomockup +- fixed the name of the test exeucutable displayed at build time +- improved the function pointer casting in Python bindings to avoid warnings + emitted by GCC8 +- switched to using the KERNEL_VERSION() macro in tests instead of handcoded + version parsing +- improved the setup ordering in tests (setup libgpiomockup before checking + the kernel version +- add 'extern "c"' to the libgpiomockup header to make it usable from C++ +- add chip index validation to libgpiomockup functions +- check if the debugfs directory used by libgpiomockup is writable before + using it to set the pull of dummy lines +- add several new test cases +- improved Python example programs (made gpiomon's output similar to the + original tool, make gpioset wait for an ENTER pres by default) +- fixed the major:minor number comparison between the device and sysfs +- deprecated the gpiod_line_needs_update() function and removed the logic + behind it from the library +- shrank the Python bindings a bit by directly returning the value from + PyErr_SetFromErrno() +- dropped noexcept from methods which can throw in C++ bindings +- switched to initializing the bitset with integers instead of strings in C++ + bindings +- allowed gpiod_line_set_value_bulk() to accept null pointers +- when building Python bindings: check for the existence of python-config +- improved the readability of help text messages for command-line tools +- reworked the .gitignore file: added libtool scripts generated during + cross-compilation and split the main .gitignore into several fine-grained + files +- fixed several misspellings +- other minor tweaks and improvements + +Bug fixes: +- fixed memory leaks in libgpiomockup +- fixed memory leaks in the testing framework +- fixed a segfault in error path in tests +- make gpioinfo show lines claimed by the kernel as used even if they have no + named consumer +- fixed the test cases validating the '--active-low' switch in gpiomon and + the GPIOHANDLE_REQUEST_ACTIVE_LOW flag in the core library after a fix + for incorrect behavior was merged in linux v5.2.7 +- stopped failing at init-time of libgpiomockup if gpio-mockup is already + loaded +- added a missing throw keyword in error path in C++ bindings +- fixed a segfault in Python bindings when calling Line.request() without + the consumer argument + libgpiod v1.4 ============= -- 2.30.2