1 * Tue Jul 13 2010 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.95
2 The autonomous robot submarine total world domination release!
3 Rationalize clearing and generation of DOPs, this makes epx/epy much
4 more generally available. Fixed the test productions for the udev
5 magic and added a troubleshooting note in INSTALL. cgps now displays
6 epx/epy rather than eph. Speed is now always reported if our last
7 two fixes were good, even if the GPS didn't compute it. Reading
8 packets from UDP datagrams by specifying a listening address and
9 port is now supported, and the regression-test driver cam now be
10 told to force this with -u; this enables regression testing in
11 chroot jails where access to ptys is locked out. AIS code now
12 interprets message type 6 and 8 application IDs correctly as a
13 Designated Area Code and Functional ID pair. gpspipe has a new -T
14 option for setting the timestamp format. xgpsspeed is completely
15 rewritten in Python, eliminating some dependencies on ancient X
16 libraries. We now ship a Qt binding for the client library. Note
17 a GCC 4.2.1 optimizer bug. gpsdcode now uses | as a field separator
18 in -c mode, as string fields can contain commas. Corrected error
19 or reporting of AIS rate-of-turn fields.
21 * Tue Apr 20 2010 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.94
22 Error-checking in the 50bps subframe code has been greatly improved.
23 The Garmin GPS driver can now use libusb, if it is present, to do
24 device discovery. The libgps library has been split apart; the
25 service functions used by the daemon now live in libgpsd. This
26 will shave some code volume from GPSD client applications. A packaging
27 error that resulted in xgps not being shipped in 2.93 has been
28 corrected. We now have stronger checking for valid ephemeris before
29 extracting the leap-second offset; they should prevent many cases
30 where gpsd might previously have used an invalid leap-second offset.
32 * Fri Apr 16 2010 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.93
33 Support for JSON dumping and parsing of AIS message types 25 and 26,
34 not yet observed in the wild on AISHub. Fix Debian bug #569703. by
35 removing non-streaming mode from the Python exerciser. Fix Debian
36 bug #572900 by unsetting the appropriate in-use flag in the device
37 array. Change the libgps default from old protocol to JSON. Add a
38 close() method to the C++ binding. Try to recover better from
39 sporadic cases of false matches to Trimble packet format from a SiRF
40 binary datastream. gps_poll() now returns -1 with errno not set when
41 the gpsd socket closes. TPV now refrains from reporting fields the
42 fix quality won't support. gpsmon option for listing device types is
43 now -L to -l can be used to enable logging (to stay consistent with
44 the l command). There is new FAQ material on improving fix and time
45 reference accuracy. New sections have been added to NMEA.txt on
46 error status indications and satellite IDs. New POLL command brings
47 back polling-mode operation. A Client-HOWTO has been added to the
48 documentation. gpsd no longer eats CPU when a device is unexpectedly
49 unplugged. Support for the TNT revolution is back (run mode only).
50 There is now a gpsdfake diagnostic tool that fakes being gpsd shipping
51 arbitrary specified data to clients.
53 * Wed Mar 3 2010 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.92
54 Fix a packaging error. The new Python library module was
55 inadvertently omitted from the 2.91 tarball. Also, improve the json
58 * Mon Mar 1 2010 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.91
59 We have support for NMEA GLONASS sentences, and a regression test.
60 Clients now get a DEVICE notification on every driver switch. It is
61 possible to specify a TCP/IP AIS feed such as AISHub as a data
62 source. Serious bitrot in the NTRIP support has been fixed - it was
63 probably nonfunctional for several releases before this. Fixed
64 buggy display of satellite-used flags in cgps. xgps is replaced by
65 a rewrite in Python that uses pygtk, eliminating a dependency on
66 Motif; also, it now displays AIS information. Uniform treatment of
67 display-unit defaulting and -u in xgps, cgps, and lcdgps. Support
68 for AIS message types 25 and 26. Support for IPv6. A numeric
69 instability in the earth_distance() function affecting track error
70 modeling has been fixed. Old protocol has been removed from the
71 daemon; the library still speaks it.
73 * Fri Dec 4 2009 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.90
74 GPSD-NG, the new JSON-based command protocol, is now deployed; as a
75 consequence, AIS is now fully supported in both daemon and client.
76 Detection of end of a fix-reporting cycle is now reliable;
77 accordingly data is accumulated from cycle start and the "J"
78 (nojitter) option on both server and client side is gone. We have
79 abandoned the gpsflash subproject since it has become apparent that
80 we can't do it without more vendor cooperation than we're likely to
81 get. Increase major version of shared library due to significant API
82 change. Added new driver for Motorola Oncore receivers, with help
83 from Håkan Johansson. gpsfake can now accept multiple logfiles,
84 interleaving test sentences from each. gpsd now accepts error
85 estimates from the NMEA $GPGBS sentence.
87 * Wed Mar 18 2009 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.39
88 Fixed potential core dump in C client handling of "K" responses.
89 Made device hotplugging work again; had been broken by changes in udev.
90 Introduced major and minor API version symbols into the public interfaces.
91 The sirfmon utility is gone, replaced by gpsmon which does the same
92 job for multiple GPS types. Fixed a two-year old error in NMEA parsing
93 that nobody noticed because its only effect was to trash VDOP values from
94 GSA sentences, and gpsd computes those with an internal error model
95 when they look wonky. cgpxlogger has been merged into gpxlogger.
96 Speed-setting commands now allow parity and stop-bit setting if the
97 GPS chipset and adaptor can support it. Specfile and other packaging
98 paraphenalia now live in a packaging subdirectory. rtcmdecode becomes
99 gpsdecode and can now de-armor and dump AIDVM packets. The client
100 library now works correctly in locales where the decimal separator is
103 * Tue Feb 10 2009 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.38
104 Regression test load for RoyalTek RGM3800 and Blumax GPS-009 added.
105 Scaling on E error-estimate fields fixed to match O. Listen on
106 localhost only by default to avoid security problems; this can be
107 overridden with the -G command-line option. The packet-state machine
108 can now recognize RTCM3 packets, though support is not yet complete.
109 Added support for ublox5 and mtk-3301 devices. Add a wrapper around
110 gpsd_hexdump to save CPU. Lots of little fixes to various packet
111 parsers. Always keep the device open: "-n" is not optional any more.
112 xgpsspeed no longer depends on Motif. gpsctl can now ship arbitrary
113 payloads to a device. It's possible to send binary through the
114 control channel with the new "&" command. Experimental new driver
115 for Novatel SuperStarII. The 'g' mode switch command now requires,
116 and returns, 'rtcm104v2' rather than 'rtcm104'; this is design forward
117 for when RTCM104v3 is fully working.
119 * Sun Feb 17 2008 Chris Kuethe <ckuethe@mail.berlios.de> - 2.37
120 The C++ bindings, Garmin USB support, and multiple instances of ntp
121 pps thread starting were fixed. Handling of odd PPS signals was
122 improved. The eye candy in the PHP visualizers was fixed.
124 * Tue Jan 1 2008 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.36
125 Urgent fix to leap-day calculation affecting dates from today to
126 28 Feb on generic NMEA GPSes, Zodiacs, and SirFs emitting message 0x62.
127 Integrated Garmin Simple Text Protocol driver from Peter Slansky.
128 Minor fixes in error modeling and a better NaN guard stabilize the
129 Trimble regression tests. Remove the wired-in NTP time offset from the
130 NMEA driver, this could only have worked by accident and should be
131 set in ntpd.conf. Integrated Ashtech driver from Chris Kuethe.
133 * Mon Dec 10 2007 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.35-1
134 Navcom driver merged. Removed -d -f and -p options of gpsd; these
135 have been undocumented for a while. Make gpsd play well with pkgconfig.
136 Incorrect computation of VDOP when GPSes didn't supply it has been fixed.
137 The xgps code has been revamped and now has a much nicer interface.
138 Add -b (no-configuration) option as a sadly clumsy workaround for some
139 problems with Bluetooth receivers. Added tests for Haicom-305N and Pharos
140 360; separated out the tests for the unstable Trimble drivers.
141 32-vs-64-bit problems in the regression tests have been solved.
143 * Thu Dec 14 2006 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.34-1
144 Fix for byte-swapping of Zodiac control messages on big-endian hardware.
145 Disable iTalk by default and note that it needs to be tested. Command line
146 arguments can now be DGPSIP or NTRIP URLs; -d is deprecated. Added udev
147 rules. Address excessive processor and memory utilization on SBCs; it's
148 now possible to configure compile-time limits on the number of devices
149 and client sessions. Eliminate use of fuser(1) in gpsfake. Get gpsd
150 working with EarthMates again, this had been broken since 2.15. Massive
151 string safety audit and OpenBSD port by Chris Kuethe. J command added.
152 The gpsctl and gpscat tools and the gpsd.phps script were added. Switched
153 to lesstif from openmotif. Better autodetection of DLE-led packet
154 protocols (notably TSIP and Garmin binary) and of SiRFStar I and III
155 devices. Fixed buggy parsing and generation of PGRME.
157 * Fri Jun 9 2006 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.33-1
158 Fix bad unit conversion in V output. Clean up some man-page messes.
159 Fixed buggy libgps parsing of multiple responses. It's now possible
160 to lock gpsd to a fixed speed at compile time for embedded use. Added
161 NTRIP support, thanks to Ville Nuorvala. O command now ships an
164 * Sun Mar 12 2006 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.32-1
165 Cleanup of the xgps layout, and minor memory-leak fixes for xgps. Fix
166 to cope with Antares uBlox by Andreas Stricker. Minor fix to libgps
167 cgpxlogger. Merge cgpxlogger and gpxlogger documentation onto
168 the xgps(1) manual page and rename it gps(1).
170 * Fri Feb 17 2006 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.31-1
171 Now builds and runs under Cygwin. Correct the speed units in
172 synthetic NMEA. Slightly better time handling under NMEA. Daemon
173 now builds with all but NMEA disabled. Update the leap-second
174 offset. cgpxlogger introduced. Upgrade gpxlogger to DBUS 0.60
175 conformance. Jason von Nieda's patch may fix the chronic TSIP
178 * Wed Sep 14 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.30-1
179 Prevent core dump on -d option. The .log extension is no longer required for
180 test loads. cgps and xgps now have configurable latitude/longitude formats
181 via the -l option. Introduced new 'g' command that allows clients to
182 specify whether they want GPS or RTCM104 information.
184 * Fri Aug 19 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.29-1
185 Added Sony CXD2951 support, untested. All error estimates are
186 now nailed to 95% confidence interval. Added rtcmdecode and its
187 documentation; also, gpsd can now monitor serial devices emitting
188 RTCM104 and display differential-GPS data in a readable format.
189 Added dangerous alpha version of gpsflash. Work around a nasty bug
190 in SiRFStar III firmware version < 3.1.1. Added support for True
191 North Technologies Revolution 2X Digital compass. Added the
192 gpxlogger client for systems with DBUS support and the gpspipe
193 and cgps clients for general use.
195 * Wed Jul 6 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.28-1
196 The 2.27 source tarball somehow got truncated on upload.
197 Due to procedural mechanics at berlios.de, shipping a new release
198 seems to be the least painful way to recover. This release is
199 identical to 2.27 except the roadmap stuff has been added to TODO.
201 * Wed Jul 06 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.27
202 Arrange for the daemon to remove its pid file on exit. Fix some
203 buffering problems with the Python side of the hotplug interface.
204 gpsfake can now run sessions under a monitor like Valgrind. Most
205 of the gpsfake logic now lives in a module that can be used to write
206 other test loads; its progress baton is now optional. Fixed
207 some minor bugs found by valgrind audit, including (1) a slow
208 memory leak, (2) a possible but unconfirmed file-descriptor leak,
209 and (3) a subtle error in the channel-assignment logic that only
210 showed up with multiple sessions active. In fact, the daemon code
211 no longer uses dynamic-memory allocation at all. Also, the code
212 no longer relies on FIONREAD working. The track error field in the
213 O response is now computed. The project website has some new eye candy.
214 Client connections now time out when the mode is neither raw nor watcher.
215 Fixed a core-dump that could happen if C, B or I commands were issued
218 * Wed Jun 22 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.26
219 Time DOP and total DOP are now passed on from GPSes that report
220 them. Ensure longitude has a leading zero when <100, for
221 compatibility with gpsdrive. Synchronous and thread hooks are now
222 separate in the client library. Packet-sniffing on a new device no
223 longer holds up incoming data on already-connected ones. There is
224 now a super-raw mode (R=2) that dumps a hex-encoding of every binary
225 packet received to the client; sirfmon uses it to operate through
226 the daemon if one is running. Support for Trimble TSIP GPSes
227 merged. gpsfake now works with SiRF and Zodiac logs. Python library
228 supports thread callbacks. New -p option of gpsfake supports
229 regression testing of the daemon, and there is a test suite included
230 with the distribution. PPS support is turned off, as there is some
231 pthreads problem that sometimes kills the daemon on pthreads exit.
232 Correct off-by-one error in GPZDA processing. The code has been
233 audited and cleaned with splint (www.splint.org).
235 * Sat May 21 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.25-1
236 Various signedness and scaling fixes and an OpenBSD port patch for the
237 Zodiac driver. Command-line arguments to gpsd are now treated as a default
238 device list; -f is still supported but deprecated. sirfmon now tries not
239 changing the line speed first, so it syncs up much faster. Prevent a
240 potential buffer overrun in the client library. PPS-thread support is now
241 on by default. Lots of documentation improvements. D-BUS broadcast support
242 by Amaury Jacquot. Added Alfredo Pironti's thread-callback and C++
243 support. gpsd no longer uses the system clock for anything, so it
244 can be used to set that clock.
246 * Tue May 17 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.24-1
247 Crazy-speed bug is finally fixed. Autobauding now starts with the
248 current speed of the device, not the stored gpsd speed; this means
249 hunting only takes place when device and GPS speed aren't matched.
250 xgpsspeed unit-conversion bug introduced in 2.22 is fixed. Satellite
251 display now really shows 12 channels, not just 11. Major improvements
252 in ntp notifications.
254 * Wed May 4 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.23-1
255 For better security, the daemon now drops root privileges after startup.
256 gpsd-clients is now a separate RPM; this is helpful on lean systems
257 that don't run X. The O command now reports speeds in meters per second
258 rather than knots, client code has been adjusted so there is no user-visible
259 change. We now compute the missing components of DOP when using SiRF chips.
260 /dev/gps is no longer special; there is no default GPS device unless you
261 specify one. The intermittent processor-hogging problem introduced by the
262 control-channel change in 2.21 has been solved.
264 * Mon Apr 25 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.22-1
265 SiRF-binary driver can now get leap-second corrections from subframe data.
266 Device add/delete commands now send back OK or ERROR. Error-modeling
267 corrections from the SiRF folks. Higher precision in position reports.
269 * Tue Apr 12 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.21-1
270 Add tag and timestamp to Y response. Use computed geoid separation as
271 SiRF packet 42 is flaky. Security fix: hotplug scripts now do device
272 add/removes through a separate local control channel. True multi-device
273 support is in place. When in watcher mode, device switches are announced.
275 * Thu Mar 31 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.20-1
276 Rob Janssen's patches to fix timezone issues and improve cooperation
277 with NTP. License changed to BSD so linking to libgps won't make people
278 nervous. gpsprobe and gpsd.py are obsolete and have been removed, the
279 autoprobe and profiling capabilities in the daemon more than replace
280 them. gpsprof now ships self-contained GNUPLOT scripts to stdout,
281 so they can be saved and redisplayed. Zodiac sort of works again, but
282 occasionally spins madly during autobauding.
284 * Sat Mar 26 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.19-1
285 Fix brown-paper-bag bug with NMEA parsing. Set SiRF GPSes to use
286 SBAS. sirfmon now displays SBAS parameters, and is included in the
287 installed programs. Add to FAQ a fix for spurious high speeds reported
288 in XTrac mode. We now interpret GPZDA. We no longer fudge a missing
289 ddmmyy in NMEA timestamps from the system clock, so replay will work better.
291 * Wed Mar 23 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.18-1
292 First cut at cooperating with NTP. Major library restructuring;
293 a fix is now a data structure of its own, and per-field timestamps
294 are gone. Use new 'o' command for watcher mode. Compute some estimated
297 * Wed Mar 16 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.17
298 Fix packet-engine problem that made disconnect/reconnect unreliable
299 (important!). Fix bonehead error in interpretation of PGRME. We
300 don't use O_SYNC (it turned out not to be reliable) so remove it to make
301 life easier under Mac OS X. Allow gpsfake to accept subsecond cycle times.
302 Add a FAQ to the HTML documentation. gps_poll() now handles multi-line
303 responses. Add N command for switching driver modes.
305 * Fri Mar 11 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.16-1
306 New F command allows changing the GPS device after startup time.
307 Hotplug scripts to go with it are now installed by the RPM. The
308 Garmin probe is working. The -T and -s options are gone. We have
309 achieved zero configuration!
311 * Wed Mar 02 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.15-1
312 A new packet engine autobauds much more quickly, and now iterates
313 over both 1 and 2 stopbits. Explicit support for FV18 (the -T f
314 option) is gone; instead, gpsd syncs with any 7N2 device and always
315 ships a suitable init string. New E command, supporting the Garmin
316 position-error sentence or computing these numbers from DOP and an
317 error model. New U command reports climb/sink from GPSes that report
318 vertical velocity. There is a prototype driver for SiRF-binary GPses,
319 invoked automatically when SiRF packets present themselves on the
320 wire after device open.
322 * Fri Feb 25 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.14-1
323 Pass zero magnetic variation in generated NMEA from binary GPSes
324 correctly. Use O_SYNC rather than timeouts to guarantee that
325 baud-rate change strings get to the GPS before changing the line
326 parameters. Introduced I command. Spatial scattergram plotting
327 moved from gpsprobe to gpsprof.
329 * Mon Feb 21 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.13-1
330 Correct a bug in binary-protocol dumping (applies to Zodiac and
331 Garmin only). Gary Miller's patch to deal gracefully with GPSes
332 like the Magellan EC10X that send only GPRMC and never GPGGA or
333 GPGSA, and thus never set mode or status fields. Fixed buggy
334 handling of units options in xgps and xgpsspeed. Bumped library
335 major version, since seen_sentences is now exposed and drivers have
336 more capabilities. Stricter NMEA buffer validation. Withdrew the
337 change that always passed up a timestamp; on SiRF receivers, the year
338 part is garbage when the PVT fields are garbage. Can now recognize
339 SiRF GPSes. Experimental baud-switching support for Zodiac.
341 * Tue Feb 15 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.12-1
342 Fixed core-dump bug in processing of the GLL variant that does not
343 include an FAA Mode Indicator. When using the NMEA driver, gpsd now
344 hunts for a baud rate rather than requiring a fixed one to be set.
345 A new 'B' command returns the RS232 parameters, and a new 'C'
346 command returns the update cycle time. Added gpsfake test harness.
347 Alpha driver for Garmin binary protocol added, requires Linux
348 garmin_usb kernel driver. The daemon now always passes up a
349 timestamp for every sentence that has one, even if the PVT fields
352 * Thu Feb 10 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.11-1
353 Added gpsprof and the capability to generate GPS latency profiles.
354 gpsprobe now hunts through plausible baud rates when looking for NMEA
355 data from a GPS. The -b (baudrate) option fixes a speed, disabling
356 the baud-matching logic. Also, gpsprobe can now recognize SiRF
357 protocol, though not speak it. Fixed a math domain error in
358 gps.EarthDistance due to numeric blowup on points very close together,
359 and another in gps.MeterOffset() that was screwing up gpsprobe plots.
361 * Tue Feb 1 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.10
362 Add -N option to explicitly foreground the daemon. Fixed a bug
363 that was causing gpsd to keep reopening the GPS device after
364 leaving raw or watcher mode. Fixed Gary Miller's core-dump bug.
366 * Thu Jan 27 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.9-1
367 Python files restored to RPM.
369 * Thu Jan 27 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.8-1
370 Embarrassing typo fix in gps.py. Avoid buffer overrun in xgps.c.
371 Plug Debian security bug 292347, CVE number CAN-2004-1388.
372 This version issued on an emergency basis without Python libraries,
373 which have packaging problems due to the 2.3/2.4 transition.
375 * Fri Jan 14 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.7-1
376 More compiler-warning cleanups. gps client name changed to xgps.
377 Added --speedunits option to xgpsspeed, --speedunits and --altunits
378 options to xgps. Improved GPGSV parsing so it copes gracefully if
379 we start in the middle of a sequence. Merged Petter Reinholdtsen's
380 fix for GPGSA lists with holes. In xgps, satellites used in the
381 last fix are now dotted in the middle. New -P option to create
382 pidfile. Audited for potential buffer overruns, found and fixed
385 * Sat Jan 01 2005 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.6-1
386 Petter Reinholdtsen's fix for gps.py buffering. Fix syntax errors
387 in udev scriptlets. Clean up after GCC warning messages. Drop use of
388 vsprintf, so we get a link-time error on systems that might produce
389 buffer overruns (all modern Unixes support vsnsprintf which is safe).
391 * Thu Dec 23 2004 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.5.1
392 Use gmtime instead of localtime when guessing the day or year of a date;
393 this avoids jitter in the day after 19:00 GMT. Added -v option to dump
394 version and exit. Commented out a crash-causing debug line in gps.py.
396 * Thu Dec 9 2004 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.4-1
397 Minor bugs in gpsd.py fixed. M now returns 0 status if GPGSA not yet
398 seen; this change also fixes a bug where gpsd claimed it was confused
399 if GPGSA had not been seen and status was set. RPM will now install
400 a udevd rule if the host system uses it. Don't set the online flag
401 on activate. HP port changes and -Wall cleanup. James Cameron's
402 fixes to clean up gps.c and use X timeouts rather than alarms.
404 * Mon Oct 25 2004 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.3-1
405 Documentation and comment fixes. Last two globals removed from
406 low-level interface; library should now be fully re-entrant. Mac OS X
407 port fixes. Q command fix from Robin L Darroch <robin@spade-men.com>.
409 * Mon Oct 18 2004 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.2-1
410 Documentation improvements. BSD port fixes. Bug fix: speed timestamp
411 wasn't initialized properly in libgps. Device is now an optional
412 command-line argument of gpsprobe, in line with the clients. gpsd.py
413 now should handle fvwm devices correctly. Values in gps data
414 panel are now labeled with units. Attempted fix for 2.1 bug of DTR
415 not being pulled low on exit.
417 * Thu Sep 30 2004 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.1-1
418 Various internal cleanups, including fossil removal in the
419 configuration machinery. FV-18, Tripmate, Earthmate and are now
420 enabled but can be disable with --disable-$NAME at configure time.
421 When you call configure with --disable-shared, libgps is linked
422 statically to the binaries (native libs are still linked
423 shared). Fixed buggy handling of -p option in gps.c and xgpsspeed.c;
424 it's now an optional command-line argument.
426 * Thu Sep 16 2004 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.0-1
427 Packaging fixes for 2.0 release.
429 * Wed Sep 8 2004 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 1.98-1
430 Only do one getdtablesize() call, otherwise we do several
431 getrlimits() each poll cycle. TripMate is working. gpsprobe now
432 deduces NMEA version. Zodiac Earthmate seems to work.
434 * Wed Sep 08 2004 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 1.97-1
435 Removed PRWIZCH support (it still passes through in raw mode).
436 Build Motif-dependent programs conditionally. Added gpsprobe.
437 Fixed a brown-paper-bag-bug in 1.96 RPM packaging.
439 * Tue Aug 31 2004 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 1.96-1
440 Implemented non-blocking writes to clients, so a stalled client
441 cannot stall gpsd. Fixed a nasty array-overrun bug. Timestamps
442 are now in ISO8601 format, with sub-second precision if the GPS
443 delivers that. First cuts at Python interfaces included. libgps.a
444 interface now bundles session fd into an allocated session block.
445 Automake-based build machinery from Jens Oberender; RPM now
446 installs shared libraries. FV18 driver added. Offline timer in GPS.
448 * Wed Aug 25 2004 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 1.95-1
449 Fixed broken 'make dist', missing display.c and Tachometer.c
452 * Tue Aug 24 2004 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 1.94-1
453 Fix embarrassing bug -- watcher mode did not work for more than one
454 client at a time. Y command now carries information about which
455 satellites were used in the last fix. New timeout mechanism, no
456 longer dependent on FIONREAD.
458 * Mon Aug 23 2004 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 1.93-1
459 Fourth prerelease. Daemon-side timeouts are gone, they complicated
460 the interface without adding anything. Command responses now
461 contain ? to tag invalid data. -D2 feature of 1.92 backed out.
463 * Sun Aug 22 2004 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 1.92-1
464 Third prerelease. Clients in watcher mode now get notified when
465 the GPS goes online or offline. Major name changes -- old libgps
466 is new libgpsd and vice-versa (so the high-level interface is more
467 prominent). Specfile now includes code to install gpsd so it will
468 be started at boot time. -D2 now causes command error messages
469 to be echoed to the client.
471 * Sat Aug 21 2004 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 1.91-1
472 Second pre-2.0 release. Features a linkable C library that hides the
473 details of communicating with the daemon. The daemon now recovers
474 gracefully from having the GPS unplugged and plugged in at any time;
475 one of the bits of status it can report is whether the GPS is online.
476 The gps and xgpsspeed clients now query the daemon; their code
477 for direct access to the serial port has been deliberately removed.
479 * Sun Aug 15 2004 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 1.90
480 Creation of specfile.
482 * Sun Mar 21 2004 Remco Treffkorn <remco@rvt.com> - ?
483 Without PRWIZCH sentence: sat. colors in gps according to ss, grey==lt20,
484 yellow==lt40 else green.
485 Added L Q and I to the protocol. Removed G and T.
486 Changed the timeout mechanism. Try to not return Lat/Lon/Alt if
487 validity is in doubt.
489 * Thu Jan 29 2004 Remco Treffkorn <remco@rvt.com> - ?
490 Make applications null-terminate their resource lists.
492 * Sat Dec 20 2003 Remco Treffkorn <remco@rvt.com> - ?
493 Removed <varargs.h> from netlib. Not needed, and new gcc does not support
496 * Wed Aug 20 2003 Remco Treffkorn <remco@rvt.com> - 1.10
497 Add install target. Fix clean target. Make GPS timeout configurable.
498 Make xgpsspeed build with Apple's X11.
499 Make sure that we don't segfault if the NMEA is badly formed.
501 * Mon Aug 18 2003 Remco Treffkorn <remco@rvt.com> - ?
502 Use cfset[io]speed() to set speed in serial.h. Glibc is quite insane
503 and I am tired to chase it, so I give up. Hope this works for BSD.
504 Set status and mode 0 after GPS timeout (5 sec) - Cougar <cougar@random.ee>
506 * Sun Feb 16 2003 Remco Treffkorn <remco@rvt.com> - 1.09
507 Include sys/time.h in gpsd.c for struct timeval.
509 * Sun Nov 03 2002 Remco Treffkorn <remco@rvt.com> - ?
510 G or g command returns six-digit Maidenhead grid square (like FN12fx)
512 * Thu Oct 03 2002 Remco Treffkorn <remco@rvt.com> - 1.08
513 Added sockopt SO_REUSEADDR to netlib.c passive_sock.
515 * Tue Feb 05 2002 Remco Treffkorn <remco@rvt.com> - 1.07
516 em.c uses <time.h> (as it should). Removed some <sys/time.h>
517 where they were not needed.
518 Russ Nelson: Improved Earthmate support: added state machine for
519 EARTHA recognizer, removed alignment problems seen on ARM architecture.
520 Added setsockopt to add SO_REUSEADDR, so that
521 gpsd can stop and immediately restart. Added support for bitrates
522 higher than 38400, needed for the SIRF chipset.
523 Derrick: my patch causes longitude when under 100 degrees to be printed
524 zero-padded as needed, the latitude same deal under 10, fixes the GGA
525 sentence to not erroneously print fix type (2/3) instead of fix quality,
526 and calculates fix type correctly.
528 * Fri Aug 11 2000 Remco Treffkorn <remco@rvt.com> - 1.06
529 Change from C++ (/) to C comments (/* */)for compatibility.
530 Added -n (need init) flag.
531 Don't init unless lat/lon specified.
532 Remove gps.mayko.com as the default hostname.
534 * Fri May 12 2000 Remco Treffkorn <remco@rvt.com> - 1.05
535 (even though version.h says 1.04)
536 Added some includes to xgpsspeed.c for portability.
537 Fix problem with flags being overwritten, and using the wrong port
538 variable also in xgpsspeed.c
539 Add a note about Y2K compatibility fix.
540 Pass latitude and longitude into em_init().
542 * Fri Mar 17 2000 Remco Treffkorn <remco@rvt.com> - 1.02
543 (even though version.h says 1.01)
545 * Sun Mar 05 2000 Remco Treffkorn <remco@rvt.com> - 1.01
546 Updated to IANA port.
547 Fixes to DGPS support.
549 * Sun Jan 02 2000 Remco Treffkorn <remco@rvt.com> - 1.0
550 Added DGPS fixes from Curt Mills. (See README for contact info.)
552 * Mon Dec 13 1999 Remco Treffkorn <remco@rvt.com> - 0.99dgps
553 Added minimal DGPS support by Derrick J Brashear
555 * Sat Jul 17 1999 Remco Treffkorn <remco@rvt.com> - 0.99
556 Rockwell binary is now translated to NMEA format, so that
557 clients like gps will work with an EarthMate.
558 Added speedometer application. Thanks to Derrick J Brashear
559 for his work (see README for contact info).
561 * Thu Mar 04 1999 Remco Treffkorn <remco@rvt.com> - 0.96
562 Changed EarthMate support. Rockwell binary is now almost properly
563 supported. Only the minimum required information is extracted.
565 * Sat Feb 06 1999 Remco Treffkorn <remco@rvt.com> - 0.95
566 Added support for EarthMate receivers. Since I do not have one, this is
568 If it works, it does the following: You start gpsd with a baudrate of 9600
569 and give it the -Te option. If gpsd gets the EartMate it will enable the
570 receiver and then attempt to switch it into NMEA mode. If the EarthMate id
571 is not received, but a binary data header is received, then we will try to
574 * Sun Jan 24 1999 Remco Treffkorn <remco@rvt.com> - 0.94
575 Y2K compliant ;-) (... is NOT. Look for "FIXME:" in nmea_parse.c)
577 * Tue Jan 27 1998 Remco Treffkorn <remco@rvt.com> - 0.93
578 using GNU autoconf now.
579 combined gpsd + gpsclient. No more init files, command line only.
581 * Tue May 13 1997 Remco Treffkorn <remco@rvt.com> - 0.9
582 some cleanups in the ini code. version 0.9 ...
584 * Fri Apr 25 1997 Remco Treffkorn <remco@rvt.com> - 0.8
585 version 0.8, some bug fixes. New MODE member, STATUS member changed.
587 * Mon Apr 21 1997 Remco Treffkorn <remco@rvt.com> - 0.7
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