Gammu

New Gammu testing version is out. This is mostly bug fixing release, but you should be able to do addnew with 6510 driver now. Full list of changes: Fixed some mistakes in API documentation. Fixed compilation under MS Visual C Express. Various ... [More] small fixes if AT driver. Add simple shell script to generate JAD file from JAR. Added support for adding memory entries to 6510. You can download from usual place: http://cihar.com/gammu/. [Less]

One year ago, I took over Gammu maintenance. I think it time to summarize a bit what happened during that year. There were definitely good and bad releases in that time (especially strictness introduced to SMS parser in 1.13.0 took quite a lot of ... [More] releases to fix various bugs), but generally I things Gammu is moving in a good way. What I would definitely call positive: Added build time testing. This helps a lot to catch regressions. However more tests could be done. I cleaned up lot of code parts so that Gammu is now more resistant to bad data and should not crash in these cases. Added lot of API documentation, most API functions are now fully documented. More often testing releases - I try to release every week. Sometimes changes are huge, sometimes just few bugfixes. This makes Gammu occur among most vital projects on freshmeat.net. Quite complete IrMC implementation together with AT/OBEX switching gives support for quite a big range of phones today. SMSD got PostgreSQL support. AT CMGL support for reading messages gives us support for many phones which were not supported in the past. I started to use OpenSuse Build Service and Ubuntu PPA to provide up to date binaries for many distributions. There are also some bad things: Nobody cares about build under MSVC. It is broken sometimes and I try to fix issues, but no constant testing of this causes problems. Almost no new features for Nokia phones. I simply lack time to do anything more than bug fixing here. Still bad support for Symbian phones. Some developer interested in this area is definitely needed. But probably OpenSync with SyncML is enough for most people. The changes I made to the SMS parser broke too much things, I should have payed more attention to this change. But now things seem to be worked out. Some statistics of last year (based on Ohloh): ValueDec 2006Dec 2007Difference Code Lines90,540101,687 12% Comment Lines9,20415,336 67% Comment Ratio9.2%13.0% 30% All these changes were made in approximate 1200 commits. I hope next year will not be worse :-). [Less]

New Gammu testing version is out. Besides fixing there is important feature for people finding proper flags for not supported phones - you can do it now without recompiling Gammu! Full list of changes: Phone features now can be defined in ... [More] configuration, so there is no need to modify common/gsmphones.c for testing different settings. Config file loading behaves more consistent in lookup. In some cases it can now find different configuration file. You can download from usual place: http://cihar.com/gammu/. [Less]

New Gammu testing version is out. This time there are no exciting new features, I still continue in bug fixing mode and cleaning up things. Full list of changes: Fixed crash when there are too many messages (bug #466). Fixed crash when printing ... [More] messages on Windows (bug #476). Do not ask phone for IMEI so often (bug #480). No need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH for tests. Properly wait for SMSD child processes (bug #486). You can download from usual place: http://cihar.com/gammu/. [Less]

New Gammu testing version is out. This time there are no exciting new features, I still continue in bug fixing mode and cleaning up things. Full list of changes: Fixed crash when there are too many messages (bug #466). Fixed crash when printing ... [More] messages on Windows (bug #476). Do not ask phone for IMEI so often (bug #480). No need to set LDLIBRARYPATH for tests. Properly wait for SMSD child processes (bug #486). You can download from usual place: http://cihar.com/gammu/. [Less]

I wanted to make 1.16.0 last release this year, but unfortunately one bug preventing reading of all SMS messages from some AT phones sneaked in, so I decided to make another quick release. Changelog is really short: Fixed reading of messages from ... [More] AT phones using CMGL. Other change is that I started to produce additional binary build for Windows - it does not use any external libraries (so no MySQL, PostgreSQL or Gettext support) and links statically. So you can just copy single binary and it should work anywhere. You can download from usual place: http://cihar.com/gammu/ [Less]

After half day of playing with Wine, MinGW and friends, I managed to be able to automatically build Windows versions of both python-gammu and Wammu. However I do not have environment to actually test these versions (except for Wine), so I would ... [More] really welcome if some Windows users could do some testing. I expect some strange crashes at beginning, but hopefully we will be able fix it to produce working Wammu version for Windows in future. You can get the installer here: http://tmp.cihar.com/wammu-0.26-setup.exe It's NOT final or stable version, but as the only changes which happened since last release were either minor or related to cross compilation, it should be equal to combination of Gammu 1.16.0, python-gammu 0.24 and Wammu 0.25, so don't be confused by versions. PS: Okay, when application works in Wine, it does not mean it will work in Windows, see bug report for details. [Less]

I just released version 0.25 of Wammu. This release brings new icon set thatnks to David Corrales and fixes various crashes. Full list of changes: Fall back to Add methods if Set is not supported. Fixed phone number validation. Fixed crash when ... [More] org.freedesktop.Notifications service is not provided. Correctly report why guided wizard can not connect to phone. New navigation icons, thanks to David Corrales. There is still no binary for Windows. I don't have time and environment for maintaining them. Volunteers are welcome! [Less]

Continuing in Christmas release series, the next in a row is python-gammu. It only brings usual bunch of upgrades to be in sync with Gammu and improved MinGW support: Compatibility with current gammu. Improved MinGW crosscompilation instructions. Download from usual place: http://cihar.com/gammu/python/

Last Gammu release in this year is out. There are no major changes compared to 1.15.91, but it brings lot of bug fixes to stable series. Full list of changes since 1.15.0: Added identification of some Sony-Ericsson and Sharp phones. Increased ... [More] maximal number of entries per contact. Fixed various compile time warnings. Improved MinGW crosscompilation. Localizations update. Fixed detection of first free memory location if memory is empty (bug #434). Fixed mysql.h include path (bug #441). Fixed decoding of one char SMS (bug #442). Detect Nokia 3109c (thanks to David Meier). Automatically find MinGW compiler and allow overrides (bug #438). Fixed parsing of some memory entries (bug #450). Fixed decoding of some corner case SMS (bug #447). Phones capable of switching to OBEX mode from AT have it now automatically enabled. Please report problems with this. You can download from usual place: http://cihar.com/gammu/ [Less]