Sunday, February 23, 2014

libusb-1.0.18 release and the merge of libusb/libusbx project

Announcement on 26-Jan-2014:
http://marc.info/?l=libusb-devel&m=138923388110948&w=2

This is the first libusb release after the merger of libusb and libusbx project.

Download:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/libusb/files/libusb-1.0/libusb-1.0.18/

Website:
http://libusb.info

Git repo:
https://github.com/libusb/libusb

Take note that Peter Stuge is opposed to the libusbx fork and the merger of libusb/libusbx. He is no longer the maintainer of libusb project. But he still wants to maintain the rival libusb.org website.

libftdi1-1.1 released and Windows binaries

libftdi1-1.1 has been released on 06-Feb-2014

Main highlights
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* Fix FT232H eeprom suspend pulldown setting (Davide Michelizza)
* Fix FT232H eeprom user area size (Davide Michelizza)
* Improved mingw build (Paul Fertser and Michel Zou)
* C++ wrapper: Get/set functions for USB timeouts (Jochen Sprickerhof)
* Partial support for FT230X (Nathael Pajani)
* New API function: ftdi_eeprom_set_strings() (Nathael Pajani)
* Prevent possible segfault in ftdi_eeprom_decode() (Nathael Pajani)
* Save device release number in eeprom (Jarkko Sonninen)
* Fix "self powered" eeprom flag (Jarkko Sonninen)
* Improved python wrapper (Michel Zou)
* Many buildsystem improvements (Michel Zou and Mike Frysinger)
* See the git history for more changes and fixes


Download:
http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/download/libftdi1-1.1.tar.bz2

GPG signature:
http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/download/libftdi1-1.1.tar.bz2.sig

Full changelog:
http://developer.intra2net.com/git/?p=libftdi;a=blob;f=ChangeLog;hb=HEAD

I provided the Windows development kit download here. This time I have provided both the MinGW.org based 32bit development kit and MinGW-w64 based 32bit/64bit development kit. libusb-1.0.18 is used as the base for the libftdi1-1.1.