Michal Čihař - Archive for 12/2014

For quite some time I used to produce Windows builds for both Wammu and Gammu using cross compiling on Linux. But this has proven to produce some errors and needed my time to maintain the cross compilation environment. I've decided to stop producing Windows binaries and I don't expect to get back to that anytime soon.

This is actually no news for Wammu, where I've removed Windows builds some about two years ago as they proven to be too broken for normal usage, but for Gammu it's new as previous release had Windows builds. I've lost the cross compilation environment due to hard drive failure and restoring it is simply too much of work and still will not allow me to build complete release (I've not managed to build Python modules properly).

So if anybody is interested in Windows binaries, he needs to produce them on Windows. I can help with fixing code or existing setup scripts (they probably need adjustments as they were tweaked for cross compiling), but somebody has to setup the environment with all dependencies and test the build on Windows.

Gammu 1.34.0 has been just released. It has been more than year from last Gammu release and it's time to release all new features and bugfixes.

Full list of changes:

• Add phone power ON/OFF function.
• Removed deprecated Python modules gammu.Data and gammu.Worker.
• Store network name and code in SMSD tables.
• Fixed build with recent clang compiler.
• Fixed several possible issues found by Coverity scan.
• Fixed possible crash on SMSD startup.
• Fixed decoding unicode SMS messages.
• Added identification for several Nokia phones.
• Fixed compilation issues on various platforms.
• SMSD now honors loglevel for all logging targets.
• SMSD can automatically hangup incoming calls.
• Correctly detect Network errors.

You can download it from http://wammu.eu/download/.

I will not make any promises for future releases (if there will be any) as the tool is not really in active development.

It seems that the 0.37 release was not that good as I hoped for, so here comes another bugfix release. So here comes Wammu 0.38.

The list of changes is not really huge:

• Compatibility with latest wxPython releases.
• Fixed corrupted appdata metadata.
• Fixed broken desktop file due to Chinese translation.
• Translation updates.

I will not make any promises for future releases (if there will be any) as the tool is not really in active development.

Weblate 2.1 has been released today. It comes with native Mercurial support, user interface cleanup and various other fixes.

Full list of changes for 2.1:

• Added support for Mercurial repositories.
• Replaced Glyphicon font by Awesome.
• Added icons for social authentication services.
• Better consistency of button colors and icons.
• Documentation improvements.
• Various bugfixes.
• Automatic hiding of columns in translation listing for small screens.
• Changed configuration of filesystem paths.
• Improved SSH keys handling and storage.
• Improved repository locking.
• Customizable quality checks per source string.

You can find more information about Weblate on http://weblate.org, the code is hosted on Github. If you are curious how it looks, you can try it out on demo server. You can login there with demo account using demo password or register your own user. Ready to run appliances will be soon available in SUSE Studio Gallery.

Weblate is also being used https://hosted.weblate.org/ as official translating service for phpMyAdmin, Gammu, Weblate itself and others.

If you are free software project which would like to use Weblate, I'm happy to help you with set up or even host Weblate for you.

Further development of Weblate would not be possible without people providing donations, thanks to everybody who have helped so far!