Michal Čihař - Archive for 3/2009

It looks like I'm definitely losing Monday release schedule, but it does not matter that much, new release is here anyway. I wanted to push some bigger changes into first testing release after 1.23, but instead of that I did bunch of bug fixes, documentation and test improvements.

Full list of changes follows:

• Fixed decoding of Samsung memory entries.
• Properly handle corrupted messages from Nokia phones (bug #811).
• Fix parsing of calls from Alcatel C701 (bug #831).
• Fixed handling of error states with -len and -autolen parameters.
• Fixed possible crash in DBI engine.
• PostgreSQL engine properly uses sequences instead of reinventing.
• MySQL engine properly uses auto increments instead of reinventing.
• Fix escaping of field name in PostgreSQL engine.
• Better SMSD files logging.
• Added testing of SMSD files engine.
• Increase timeout for AT settings SIM card SMS storage.
• Fixed date formatting in PostgreSQL SMSD service.
• Add option to install without documentation.
• Add -textutf8 option for TEXT sms.
• Fix crash when some lines in config are too long.
• Make smsdrc example better looking by removing obsolete docs.
• Make dku2 connection types work on Linux (alias to fbususb).
• Better calculation of signal percent.
• Fixed getting of memory status for some Nokias (bug #836).

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

Debian users will find packages in experimental soon, SUSE, Fedora and Mandriva users can check experimental repository in OpenSuse Build Service.

After some thinking I've just filled in application for Gammu in Google Summer of Code 2009. I feel the project is recently getting some boost and it would be great if some students would help us with new ideas.

On the other side I'm afraid that chances to get accepted for such a small project is quite limited, but if you have some great ideas which could be implemented as a summer project, feel free to add them to our wiki, maybe they will attract somebody :-).

Ideas page: http://www.gammu.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gammu:GSoC2009

Unfortunately Wammu 0.30 was not running on some Windows versions, so here comes fixed one. There is no need to update if you did not use Windows binaries. Full list of changes:

• Fixed Windows build.
• Fixed typo in desktop file.
• Fixed spec file.

I just released version 0.30 of Wammu. This release fixes various problems found by users. Full list of changes:

• Do not fail if group ID can not be converted to name.
• Updated to work with current python-gammu.
• Translation updates.
• Support for displaying picture on contacts.
• Properly handle paths with special chars (bug #816).
• Make build time dependency checks optional.
• Drop wxPython 2.4 compatibility code.

This release also comes with binary for Windows with embedded Gammu 1.23.1.

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After quite successful debut in Google Summer of Code last year (even not directly, but though MySQL project), where both projects ended quite successfully and brought great addition to our code base, it's time to try to get again on the track. Hopefully we will manage to be direct participants this year.

If you have some great ideas which are missing in phpMyAdmin, feel free to fill them either in feature tracker or directly into our ideas page.

After recently introduced tradition, I again come with bugfix update for 1.23.0 called 1.23.1. This time there is no critical fix as in 1.22.1, but few fixes, which might annoy users, for example forgotten installation of gammu-smsd-monitor tool.

Full list of changes:

• Documentation clarification.
• Translations update.
• Actually install gammu-smsd-monitor.
• Fix recording received messages count for MySQL.
• Fix SMS location handling for Huawei E160 (bug #825).
• Do not probe for MPBR support all the time.

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

Debian users will find packages in unstable soon, SUSE, Fedora and Mandriva users can check repository in OpenSuse Build Service and Ubuntu in my PPA.