Gammu releases http://blog.cihar.com/archives/gammu_releases/ Random thoughts about everything… en-us Michal Čihař 2008-10-03T15:56:07+02:00 http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2008/10/03/gammu_stable_version_1_21_0/ Gammu stable version 1.21.0 2008-10-03T15:54:54+02:00 Michal Čihař Gammu releases, Gammu Good news everyone, after long time of inactivity and huge development over past month, new stable Gammu release is out. Since 1.20.94, there are only minor fixes in handling some corner cases in AT parser, but full list of changes since last stable 1.20.0 is quite long:

  • Handle properly empty SMSC (bug #722).
  • Disable AT/OBEX for Motorola K1v (bug #721).
  • Automatically switch to nodtr connection if DTR/RTS setting fails.
  • More verbose debug messages in API.
  • Free phone data after testing model to avoid memory leaks.
  • Properly handle if IMEI is too long (bug #709).
  • Try to handle situation when CMGL does not list all messages.
  • Fix typo in MySQL file (bug #716).
  • Better parsing of USSD replies (bug #718).
  • Properly restore caller groups on Nokia 2630 (bug #706).
  • Fix listing of used calendar locations on Nokia (bug #710).
  • Properly encode class and coding to SMS (bug #714).
  • SMSD for MySQL no longer fails when sending message (bug #715).
  • SMSD stores signal and battery state in PostgreSQL.
  • Properly handle multiline firmware information.
  • Fix crash when decoding EMS pictures (bug #549).
  • Motorola phones sometimes reply in UCS2 instead of HEX (bug #712).
  • Use native functions sleep/usleep if available.
  • Improve FBUS initialization sequence.
  • Fixed reading for ringtones from Nokia 5510 (bug #529).
  • Do not crash if ringtone name is too long (bug #529).
  • Fix possible crash while reading of messages using AT.
  • Increase timeout when writing SMS message (bug #596).
  • Cleaned up issues with reading from Bluez (bug #670).
  • Fixed Windows binary (define properly MSVCRT to use) (bug #683).
  • Fixed compilation with CURL on Windows.
  • Windows binary now has only MySQL and CURL support (bug #683).
  • Fill in timezone information (bug #696).
  • Detect reserver message type (bug #691).
  • Increase timeout for switching to OBEX (bug #690).
  • Disable postal address for Nokia 2600 (bug #659).
  • Encode phone number only with phones which need it (bug #654).
  • Increase timeout for writing memory entry (bug #654).
  • Handle properly when phoned does not tell SMSC (bug #616).
  • Initial support for waiting calls in AT engine (bug #551).
  • Fixed dialing on some AT phones (bug #471).
  • Support for skipping location when reading (bug #467).
  • Improved detection of serial port Bluetooth channel.
  • SMSD reconnects to MySQL (thanks to Wouter D'Haeseleer).
  • SMSD stores signal and battery state in MySQL (thanks to Wouter D'Haeseleer).
  • Initial support for reading messages in simple text mode.
  • Report if monitor failed because of an error.
  • Handle not found errors on OBEX connect (bug #705).
  • Report more verbosely that some feature has been disabled on compile time.
  • Add ID for Nokia 5200 (thanks to Andreas Metzler).
  • Add two IDs for Nokia 2600 (bug #659).
  • Add ID for lot's of Sony Ericsson phones.
  • Use AT parser for AT+CPBS? reply.
  • Use all possible ways to get memory status (bug #687).
  • Detect more error codes from Nokia phones (bug #659).
  • Fix decoding of text using iconv (bug #687).
  • Fix linker flags check, caused failures on MacOS X.
  • Add second ID for Nokia 2610 (thanks to Nicolas Forget).
  • Add ID for Nokia 6060.
  • Try to use OPP and PBAP Bluetooth profiles also (not tested!).
  • DumpMessage is not printing last char (bug #692).
  • Support for favorite messaging number (bug #693).
  • Add ID for Nokia 2630 (bug #693).
  • First attempt for Bluetooth support on OS X.
  • Do not open debug file for second time when using global debug.
  • Fix DC memory name printing (bug #698).
  • Add API function GSM_MemoryTypeToString.
  • Report correct size of DC/RC/MC memory on DCT4 phones (bug #699).
  • Store favorite messaging as phone number, not only as ID (bug #693).
  • Avoid empty line at beginning of vCard backup (bug #701).
  • Add ID for Nokia 2760.
  • Catch not acceptable errors in OBEX (bug #702).
  • Operation not allowed is not an unknown problem (bug #678).
  • Add ID for Nokia 5000 (bug #677).
  • Increase limit of files for DCT4 and check array size (bug #676).
  • Allow to enter PIN code from stdin (bug #633).
  • Handle HEX reply instead of UCS-2 from Motorola (bug #697).
  • Avoid decoding of @ in email address (bug #697).
  • ABI change, because of increasing some limits.
  • Config file option rsslevel no longer works, superseded by 'gammu checkversion'.
  • Dropped GSM_ReadHTTPFile from API, gammu now uses CURL instead.
  • Support for longer notes on Nokia phones (bug #607).
  • Add deleteallmemory command.
  • Ignore trailing spaces in AT commands.
  • Fix crash on long lines in vCards.
  • Compatibility with broken iWOW responses (bug #650).
  • Do not use hard delete flag for updating entries (bug #634).
  • Identify Nokia 1200 (bug #649).
  • Fix parsing of date/time reply on Sony Ericsson G900 (bug #647).
  • Increased limit for folder name (bug #646).
  • Fix parsing of empty date (bug #643).
  • Recognize general number on Nokia 6230i (bug #655).
  • Fix writing of phone number using HEX charset (bug #512).
  • Recognize more CME errors, thanks to Paolo oopla@users.sf.net.

You can download from usual place: http://cihar.com/gammu/, Binary packages will be available soon.

]]> http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2008/09/26/gammu_test_version_1_20_94/ Gammu test version 1.20.94 2008-09-26T13:30:12+02:00 Michal Čihař Gammu releases, Gammu In few hours after releasing 1.20.93 it became obvious that I will need another testing release, because number of bug fixes grow too much. So here it comes. Schedule for 1.21.0 is Tuesday next week, so please report any problems you face with this testing version.

Full list of changes in 1.20.94:

  • Automatically switch to nodtr connection if DTR/RTS setting fails.
  • More verbose debug messages in API.
  • Free phone data after testing model to avoid memory leaks.
  • Properly handle if IMEI is too long (bug #709).
  • Try to handle situation when CMGL does not list all messages.
  • Fix typo in MySQL file (bug #716).
  • Better parsing of USSD replies (bug #718).
  • Properly restore caller groups on Nokia 2630 (bug #706).
  • Fix listing of used calendar locations on Nokia (bug #710).
  • Properly encode class and coding to SMS (bug #714).
  • SMSD for MySQL no longer fails when sending message (bug #715).
  • SMSD stores signal and battery state in PostgreSQL.
  • Properly handle multiline firmware information.

You can download from usual place: http://cihar.com/gammu/, Debian users will find packages in experimental soon.

]]> http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2008/09/23/gammu_test_version_1_20_93/ Gammu test version 1.20.93 2008-09-23T14:40:00+02:00 Michal Čihař Gammu releases, Gammu I finally managed to process all my mails and it's not time to push Gammu towards stable release. If everything goes without problems, the just born 1.20.93 will be followed by 1.21.0.

Version 1.20.93 fixes several crashes with parsing strange data from phones and changes a bit initialization of FBUS protocols. If you are using this connection type, please test this new code whether it behaves better or worse than older version.

Full list of changes:

  • Fix crash when decoding EMS pictures (bug #549).
  • Motorola phones sometimes reply in UCS2 instead of HEX (bug #712).
  • Use native functions sleep/usleep if available.
  • Improve FBUS initialization sequence.
  • Fixed reading for ringtones from Nokia 5510 (bug #529).
  • Do not crash if ringtone name is too long (bug #529).
  • Fix possible crash while reading of messages using AT.
  • Increase timeout when writing SMS message (bug #596).
  • Cleaned up issues with reading from Bluez (bug #670).

You can download from usual place: http://cihar.com/gammu/, Debian users will find packages in experimental soon.

]]> http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2008/09/15/gammu_test_version_1_20_92/ Gammu test version 1.20.92 2008-09-15T14:55:56+02:00 Michal Čihař Gammu releases, Gammu New testing version of Gammu was just born. It brings quite a lot of fixes. Also the Windows binary should be again a bit more stable.

Full list of changes:

  • Fixed Windows binary (define properly MSVCRT to use) (bug #683).
  • Fixed compilation with CURL on Windows.
  • Windows binary now has only MySQL and CURL support (bug #683).
  • Fill in timezone information (bug #696).
  • Detect reserver message type (bug #691).
  • Increase timeout for switching to OBEX (bug #690).
  • Disable postal address for Nokia 2600 (bug #659).
  • Encode phone number only with phones which need it (bug #654).
  • Increase timeout for writing memory entry (bug #654).
  • Handle properly when phoned does not tell SMSC (bug #616).
  • Initial support for waiting calls in AT engine (bug #551).
  • Fixed dialing on some AT phones (bug #471).
  • Support for skipping location when reading (bug #467).
  • Improved detection of serial port Bluetooth channel.
  • SMSD reconnects to MySQL (thanks to Wouter D'Haeseleer).
  • SMSD stores signal and battery state in MySQL (thanks to Wouter D'Haeseleer).
  • Initial support for reading messages in simple text mode.
  • Report if monitor failed because of an error.
  • Handle not found errors on OBEX connect (bug #705).

You can download from usual place: http://cihar.com/gammu/, Debian users will find packages in experimental soon.

PS: I still have about 50 unread mails about Gammu, so please be patient.

]]> http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2008/09/10/gammu_test_version_1_20_91/ Gammu test version 1.20.91 2008-09-10T22:21:07+02:00 Michal Čihař Gammu releases, Gammu New testing version of Gammu was just born. It brings quite a lot of fixes - I simply release it because changelog got too big :-).

Full list of changes:

  • Report more verbosely that some feature has been disabled on compile time.
  • Add ID for Nokia 5200 (thanks to Andreas Metzler).
  • Add two IDs for Nokia 2600 (bug #659).
  • Add ID for lot's of Sony Ericsson phones.
  • Use AT parser for AT+CPBS? reply.
  • Use all possible ways to get memory status (bug #687).
  • Detect more error codes from Nokia phones (bug #659).
  • Fix decoding of text using iconv (bug #687).
  • Fix linker flags check, caused failures on MacOS X.
  • Add second ID for Nokia 2610 (thanks to Nicolas Forget).
  • Add ID for Nokia 6060.
  • Try to use OPP and PBAP Bluetooth profiles also (not tested!).
  • DumpMessage is not printing last char (bug #692).
  • Support for favorite messaging number (bug #693).
  • Add ID for Nokia 2630 (bug #693).
  • First attempt for Bluetooth support on OS X.
  • Do not open debug file for second time when using global debug.
  • Fix DC memory name printing (bug #698).
  • Add API function GSM_MemoryTypeToString.
  • Report correct size of DC/RC/MC memory on DCT4 phones (bug #699).
  • Store favorite messaging as phone number, not only as ID (bug #693).
  • Avoid empty line at beginning of vCard backup (bug #701).
  • Add ID for Nokia 2760.
  • Catch not acceptable errors in OBEX (bug #702).
  • Operation not allowed is not an unknown problem (bug #678).
  • Add ID for Nokia 5000 (bug #677).
  • Increase limit of files for DCT4 and check array size (bug #676).
  • Allow to enter PIN code from stdin (bug #633).
  • Handle HEX reply instead of UCS-2 from Motorola (bug #697).
  • Avoid decoding of @ in email address (bug #697).

You can download from usual place: http://cihar.com/gammu/, Debian users will find packages in experimental soon.

PS: I still have about 50 unread mails about Gammu, so please be patient.

]]> http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2008/08/05/gammu_test_version_1_20_90/ Gammu test version 1.20.90 2008-08-05T12:46:00+02:00 Michal Čihař Gammu releases, Gammu New testing version of Gammu was just born. It brings quite a lot of fixes and changes API a bit (some things will also change in next testing release).

Full list of changes:

  • ABI change, because of increasing some limits.
  • Config file option rsslevel no longer works, superseded by gammu checkversion.
  • Dropped GSM_ReadHTTPFile from API, gammu now uses CURL instead.
  • Support for longer notes on Nokia phones (bug #607).
  • Add deleteallmemory command.
  • Ignore trailing spaces in AT commands.
  • Fix crash on long lines in vCards.
  • Compatibility with broken iWOW responses (bug #650).
  • Do not use hard delete flag for updating entries (bug #634).
  • Identify Nokia 1200 (bug #649).
  • Fix parsing of date/time reply on Sony Ericsson G900 (bug #647).
  • Increased limit for folder name (bug #646).
  • Fix parsing of empty date (bug #643).
  • Recognize general number on Nokia 6230i (bug #655).
  • Fix writing of phone number using HEX charset (bug #512).
  • Recognize more CME errors, thanks to Paolo oopla@users.sf.net.

You can download from usual place: http://cihar.com/gammu/, Debian users will find packages in experimental as soon as it passes NEW queue.

PS: I still have about 100 unread mails about Gammu, so please be patient.

]]> http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2008/05/10/gammu_stable_version_1_20_0/ Gammu stable version 1.20.0 2008-05-10T23:56:27+02:00 Michal Čihař Gammu releases, Gammu Good news everyone, new stable Gammu release is out. Since 1.19.91 it brings only few small fixes in OBEX and EMS, but there is quite big list of changes compared to 1.19.0:

  • Do not crash on EMS messages with no text (bug #612).
  • Fixed reading of OBEX files (bug #614).
  • Fixed decoding of Nokia messages (bug #527).
  • Fix handling of UTF8 charset with some Motorola phones.
  • Identify Motorola V635.
  • Set again charset in Motorola phones after changing AT mode.
  • Automatically enable OBEX for Motorola phones.
  • Fix searching of correct Bluetooth channel.
  • Improved SMSD error messages.
  • Fix SMS listing when phone was in text mode (bug #584).
  • Fix compilation when WCONTINUED/WIFCONTINUED is not defined.
  • Fixed listing SMS messages from AT phones in text mode (bug #584).
  • Added smscgi daemon by "Kamanashis Roy Shuva" kamanashisroy@gmail.com.
  • Cache once read messages to avoid reading them again (bug #481).

You can download from usual place: http://cihar.com/gammu/.

]]> http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2008/05/05/gammu_test_version_1_19_91/ Gammu test version 1.19.91 2008-05-05T22:54:44+02:00 Michal Čihař Gammu releases, Gammu Next testing version of Gammu was just born. It brings only small amount of fixes, but most users of recent Nokia phones will be pleased that long outstanding bug with SMS decoding has been fixed. Full list of changes:

  • Fixed decoding of Nokia messages (bug #527).

You can download from usual place: http://cihar.com/gammu/, Debian users can get packages from experimental.

]]> http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2008/04/23/gammu_test_version_1_19_90/ Gammu test version 1.19.90 2008-04-23T21:26:28+02:00 Michal Čihař Gammu releases, Gammu New Gammu testing version is finally out. This time it took much longer than usual and it contains some important fixes for messages and AT driver. Full list of changes:

  • Fix handling of UTF8 charset with some Motorola phones.
  • Identify Motorola V635.
  • Set again charset in Motorola phones after changing AT mode.
  • Automatically enable OBEX for Motorola phones.
  • Fix searching of correct Bluetooth channel.
  • Improved SMSD error messages.
  • Fix SMS listing when phone was in text mode (bug #584).
  • Fix compilation when WCONTINUED/WIFCONTINUED is not defined.
  • Fixed listing SMS messages from AT phones in text mode (bug #584).
  • Added smscgi daemon by "Kamanashis Roy Shuva" kamanashisroy@gmail.com.
  • Cache once read messages to avoid reading them again (bug #481).

You can download from usual place: http://cihar.com/gammu/, Debian users can get packages from experimental.

]]> http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2008/03/05/gammu_stable_version_1_19_0/ Gammu stable version 1.19.0 2008-03-05T23:19:15+02:00 Michal Čihař Gammu releases, Gammu Good news everyone, new stable Gammu release is out. Since 1.18.92 it brings only few small fixes in build system, but there is quite big list of changes compared to 1.18.0:

  • Add option to disable compiled in protection.
  • Fixed detection of PostgreSQL.
  • Improve debug messages when connecting to phone (bug #508).
  • Fixed handling of some charsets in AT engine (bug #525).
  • Identify more Nokia phones (thanks to Iván Gabriel).
  • Fixed regression with DKU2 cables on Windows (bug #533).
  • Better compatibility with iCalendar files (bug #538).
  • Do not link with irprops.lib on Windows.
  • Various MSVC compilation fixes.
  • Improved AT model parsing and added tests.
  • Fixed possible crash in reading SMS from AT phones (bug #515).
  • Proper fall back to automatic model when user enters wrong one.
  • Added identification of several phones.
  • Fixed reading of messages from AT phones without ME memory.
  • Improve charset detection on Motorola phones (bug #522).

You can download from usual place: http://cihar.com/gammu/.

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