* Tue Jul 13 2010 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.95
The autonomous robot submarine total world domination release!
Rationalize clearing and generation of DOPs, this makes epx/epy much
more generally available. Fixed the test productions for the udev
magic and added a troubleshooting note in INSTALL. cgps now displays
epx/epy rather than eph. Speed is now always reported if our last
two fixes were good, even if the GPS didn't compute it. Reading
packets from UDP datagrams by specifying a listening address and
port is now supported, and the regression-test driver cam now be
told to force this with -u; this enables regression testing in
chroot jails where access to ptys is locked out. AIS code now
interprets message type 6 and 8 application IDs correctly as a
Designated Area Code and Functional ID pair. gpspipe has a new -T
option for setting the timestamp format. xgpsspeed is completely
rewritten in Python, eliminating some dependencies on ancient X
libraries. We now ship a Qt binding for the client library. Note
a GCC 4.2.1 optimizer bug. gpsdcode now uses | as a field separator
in -c mode, as string fields can contain commas. Corrected error
or reporting of AIS rate-of-turn fields.
* Fri Dec 4 2009 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.90
GPSD-NG, the new JSON-based command protocol, is now deployed; as a
consequence, AIS is now fully supported in both daemon and client.
Detection of end of a fix-reporting cycle is now reliable;
accordingly data is accumulated from cycle start and the "J"
(nojitter) opoption on both server and client side is gone. We have
abandoned the gpsflash subproject since it has become apparent that
we can't do it without more vendor cooperation than we're likely to
get. Increase major version of shared library due to significant API
change. Added new driver for Motorola Oncore receivers, with help
from Håkan Johansson. gpsfake can now accept multiple logfiles,
interleaving test sentences from each. gpsd now accepts error
estimates from the NMEA $GPGBS sentence.
localhost) were merged upstream.
* Tue Feb 10 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.38
Regression test load for RoyalTek RGM3800 and Blumax GPS-009 added.
Scaling on E error-estimate fields fixed to match O. Listen on
localhost only by default to avoid security problems; this can be
overridden with the -G command-line option. The packet-state machine
can now recognize RTCM3 packets, though support is not yet complete.
Added support for ublox5 and mkt-3301 devices. Add a wrapper around
gpsd_hexdump to save CPU. Lots of little fixes to various packet
parsers. Always keep the device open: "-n" is not optional any more.
xgpsspeed no longer depends on Motif. gpsctl can now ship arbitrary
payloads to a device. It's possible to send binary through the
control channel with the new "&" command. Experimental new driver
for Novatel SuperStarII. The 'g' mode switch command now requires,
and returns, 'rtcm104v2' rather than 'rtcm104'; this is design forward
for when RTCM104v2 is fully working.
position is only provided on on-machine clients. Previously, gpsd
listened on INADDR_ANY, providing position of the computer to any host
that asked. (The fix is in upstream bugzilla, with link in
patches/patch-ac.)
- Integrated Garmin Simple Text Protocol driver from Peter Slansky.
Minor fixes in error modeling and a better NaN guard stabilize the
Trimble regression tests. Remove the wired-in NTP time offset from the
NMEA driver, this could only have worked by accident and should be
set in ntpd.conf. Integrated Ashtech driver from Chris Kuethe.
- Navcom driver merged. Removed -d -f and -p options of gpsd; these
have been undocumented for a while. Make gpsd play well with pkgconfig.
Incorrect computation of VDOP when GPSes didn't supply it has been fixed.
The xgps code has been revamped and now has a much nicer interface.
Add -b (no-configuration) option as a sadly clumsy workaround for some
problems with Bluetooth receivers. Added tests for Haicom-305N and Pharos
360; separated out the tests for the unstable Trimble drivers.
32-vs-64-bit problems in the regression tests have been solved.
- Fix for byte-swapping of Zodiac control messages on big-endian hardware.
Disable iTalk by default and note that it needs to be tested. Command line
arguments can now be DGPSIP or NTRIP URLs; -d is deprecated. Added udev
rules. Address excessive processor and memory utilization on SBCs; it's
now possible to configure compile-time limits on the number of devices
and client sessions. Eliminate use of fuser(1) in gpsfake. Get gpsd
working with EarthMates again, this had been broken since 2.15. Massive
string safety audit and OpenBSD port by Chris Kuethe. J command added.
The gpsctl and gpscat tools and the gpsd.phps script were added. Switched
to lesstif from openmotif. Better autodetection of DLE-led packet
protocols (notably TSIP and Garmin binary) and of SiRFStar I and III
devices. Fixed buggy parsing and generation of PGRME.
this is a major upgrade (from 1.07), please check the homepage for
details
(I've played with 2.30 for a while and it worked well.)
closes PR pkg/32872 by Evan Hall; thanks for the ncurses hint, wouldn't
have found it myself
