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diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b033de4 --- /dev/null +++ b/CHANGES.rst @@ -0,0 +1,825 @@ +======================== + pySerial Release Notes +======================== + +Version 1.0 13 Feb 2002 +--------------------------- +- First public release. +- Split from the pybsl application (see http://mspgcc.sourceforge.net) + +New Features: + +- Added Jython support + + +Version 1.1 14 Feb 2002 +--------------------------- +Bugfixes: + +- Win32, when not specifying a timeout +- Typos in the Docs + +New Features: + +- added ``serialutil`` which provides a base class for the ``Serial`` + objects. + +- ``readline``, ``readlines``, ``writelines`` and ``flush`` are now supported + see README.txt for deatils. + + +Version 1.11 14 Feb 2002 +--------------------------- +Same as 1.1 but added missing files. + + +Version 1.12 18 Feb 2002 +--------------------------- +Removed unneded constants to fix RH7.x problems. + + +Version 1.13 09 Apr 2002 +--------------------------- +Added alternate way for enabling rtscts (CNEW_RTSCTS is tried too) +If port opening fails, a ``SerialException`` is raised on all platforms + + +Version 1.14 29 May 2002 +--------------------------- +Added examples to archive +Added non-blocking mode for ``timeout=0`` (tnx Mat Martineau) + +Bugfixes: + +- win32 does now return the remaining characters on timeout + + +Version 1.15 04 Jun 2002 +--------------------------- +Bugfixes (win32): + +- removed debug messages +- compatibility to win9x improved + + +Version 1.16 02 Jul 2002 +--------------------------- +Added implementation of RI and corrected RTS/CTS on Win32 + + +Version 1.17 03 Jul 2002 +--------------------------- +Silly mix of two versions in win32 code corrected + + +Version 1.18 06 Dec 2002 +--------------------------- +Bugfixes (general): + +- remove the mapping of flush to the destructive flushOutput as + this is not the expected behaviour. +- readline: EOL character for lines can be chosen idea by + John Florian. + +Bugfixes (posix): + +- cygwin port numbering fixed +- test each and every constant for it's existence in termios module, + use default if not existent (fix for Bug item #640214) +- wrong exception on nonexistent ports with /dev file. bug report + by Louis Cordier + +Bugfixes (win32): + +- RTS/CTS handling as suggested in Bug #635072 +- bugfix of timeouts brought up by Markus Hoffrogge + + +Version 1.19 19 Mar 2003 +--------------------------- +Bugfixes (posix): + +- removed ``dgux`` entry which actually had a wrong comment and is + probably not in use anywhere. + +Bugfixes (win32): + +- added ``int()`` conversion, [Bug 702120] +- remove code to set control lines in close method of win32 + version. [Bug 669625] + + +Version 1.20 28 Aug 2003 +--------------------------- +- Added ``serial.device()`` for all platforms + +Bugfixes (win32): + +- don't recreate overlapped structures and events on each + read/write. +- don't set unneeded event masks. +- don't use DOS device names for ports > 9. +- remove send timeout (it's not used in the linux impl. anyway). + + +Version 1.21 30 Sep 2003 +--------------------------- +Bugfixes (win32): + +- name for COM10 was not built correctly, found by Norm Davis. + +Bugfixes (examples): + +- small change in ``miniterm.py`` that should mage it run on cygwin, + [Bug 809904] submitted by Rolf Campbell. + + +Version 2.0b1 1 Oct 2003 +--------------------------- +Transition to the Python 2.0 series: + +- New implementation only supports Python 2.2+, backwards compatibility + should be maintained almost everywhere. + The OS handles (like the ``hComPort`` or ``fd`` attribute) were prefixed + with an underscore. The different names stay, as anyone that uses one of + these has to write platform specific code anyway. +- Common base class ``serialutil.SerialBase`` for all implementations. +- ``PARITY_NONE``, ``PARITY_EVEN``, ``PARITY_ODD`` constants changed and all + these constants moved to ``serialutil.py`` (still available as + ``serial.PARITY_NONE`` etc. and they should be used that way) +- Added ``serial.PARITY_NAMES`` (implemented in ``serialutil.PARITY_NAMES``). + This dictionary can be used to convert parity constants to meaningful + strings. +- Each Serial class and instance has a list of supported values: + ``BAUDRATES``, ``BYTESIZES``, ``PARITIES``, ``STOPBITS``Ggg + (i.e. ``serial.Serial.BAUDRATES or s = serial.Serial; s.BAUDRATES``) + these values can be used to fill in value sin GUI dialogs etc. +- Creating a ``Serial()`` object without port spec returns an unconfigured, + closed port. Useful if a GUI dialog should take a port and configure + it. +- New methods for ``serial.Serial`` instances: ``open()``, ``isOpen()`` +- A port can be opened and closed as many times as desired. +- Instances of ``serial.Serial`` have ``baudrate``, ``bytesize``, ``timeout`` + etc. attributes implemented as properties, all can be set while the port is + opened. It will then be reconfigured. +- Improved ``__doc__``'s. +- New ``test_advanced.py`` for the property setting/getting testing. +- Small bugfix on posix with get* methods (return value should be true a + boolean). +- added a ``__repr__`` that returns a meaningful string will all the serial + setting, easy for debugging. +- The serialposix module does not throw an exception on unsupported + platforms, the message is still printed. The idea that it may still + work even if the platform itself s not known, it simply tries to do + the posix stuff anyway (It's likely that opening ports by number + fails, but by name it should work). + + +Version 2.0b2 4 Oct 2003 +--------------------------- +- Added serial port configuration dialog for wxPython to the examples. +- Added terminal application for wxPython with wxGlade design file + to the examples. +- Jython support is currently broken as Jython does not have a Python 2.2 + compatible release out yet + + +Version 2.0 6 Nov 2003 +--------------------------- +- Fixes ``setup.py`` for older distutils + + +Version 2.1 28 Jul 2004 +--------------------------- +Bugfixes: + +- Fix XON/XOFF values [Bug 975250] + +Bugfixes (posix): + +- ``fd == 0`` fix from Vsevolod Lobko +- netbsd fixes from Erik Lindgren +- Dynamically lookup baudrates and some cleanups + +Bugfixes (examples): + +- CRLF handling of ``miniterm.py`` should be more consistent on Win32 + and others. Added LF only command line option +- Multithreading fixes to ``wxTerminal.py`` (helps with wxGTK) +- Small change for wxPython 2.5 in ``wxSerialConfigDialog.py`` [Bug 994856] + +New Features: + +- Implement write timeouts (``writeTimeout`` parameter) + + +Version 2.2 31 Jul 2005 +--------------------------- +Bugfixes: + +- [Bug 1014227]: property <del> broken +- [Bug 1105687]: ``serial_tcp_example.py``: ``--localport`` option +- [Bug 1106313]: device (port) strings cannot be unicode + +Bugfixes (posix): + +- [Patch 1043436] Fix for [Bug 1043420] (OSError: EAGAIN) +- [Patch 1102700] ``fileno()`` added +- ensure disabled PARMRK + +Bugfixes (win32): + +- [Patch 983106]: keep RTS/CTS state on port setting changes + +New Features: + +- ``dsrdtr`` setting to enable/disable DSR/DTR flow control independently + from the ``rtscts`` setting. (Currently Win32 only, ignored on other + platforms) + + +Version 2.3 19 Jun 2008 +--------------------------- +New Features: + +- iterator interface. ``for line in Serial(...): ...`` is now possible + Suggested by Bernhard Bender +- ``sendBreak()`` accepts a ``duration`` argument. Default duration increased. +- win32 handles \\.\COMx format automatically for com ports of higher number + (COM10 is internally translated to \\.\COM10 etc.) +- miniterm.py has a new feature to send a file (upload) and configurable + special characters for exit and upload. Refactored internals to class based + structure (upload and class refactoring by Colin D Bennett) + +Bugfixes: + +- [Bug 1451535] TCP/serial redirect example "--help" +- update VERSION variable +- update wxSerialConfigDialog.py and wxTerminal.py compatibility with + wxPython 2.8 (Peleg) +- Check for string in write function. Using unicode causes errors, this + helps catching errors early (Tom Lynn) + +Bugfixes (posix): + +- [Bug 1554183] setRTS/setDTR reference to non existing local "on" +- [Bug 1513653] file descriptor not closed when exception is thrown +- FreeBSD now uses cuadX instead of cuaaX (Patrick Phalen) + +Bugfixes (win32): + +- [Bug 1520357] Handle leak +- [Bug 1679013] Ignore exception raised by SetCommTimeout() in close(). +- [Bug 1938118] process hang forever under XP + + +Version 2.4 6 Jul 2008 +--------------------------- +New Features: + +- [Patch 1616790] pyserial: Add inter-character timeout feature +- [Patch 1924805] add a setBreak function +- Add mark/space parity +- Add .NET/Mono backend (IronPython) + +Bugfixes (posix): + +- [Bug 1783159] Arbitrary baud rates (Linux/Posix) + +Bugfixes (win32): + +- [Patch 1561423] Add mark/space parity, Win32 +- [Bug 2000771] serial port CANNOT be specified by number on windows +- examples/scanwin32.py does no longer return \\.\ names +- fix \\.\ handling for some cases + +Bugfixes (jython): + + - The Jython backend tries javax.comm and gnu.io (Seo Sanghyeon) + + +Version 2.5-rc1 2009-07-30 +--------------------------- +New Features: + +- Python 3.x support (through 2to3) +- compatible with Python io library (Python 2.6+) +- Support for Win32 is now written on the top of ctypes (bundled with + Python 2.5+) instead of pywin32 (patch by Giovanni Bajo). +- 1.5 stop bits (STOPBITS_ONE_POINT_FIVE, implemented on all platforms) +- miniterm application extended (CTRL+T -> menu) +- miniterm.py is now installed as "script" +- add scanlinux.py example +- add port_publisher example +- experimental RFC-2217 server support (examples/rfc2217_server.py) +- add ``getSettingsDict`` and ``applySettingsDict`` serial object methods +- use a ``poll`` based implementation on Posix, instead of a ``select`` based, + provides better error handling [removed again in later releases]. + +Bugfixes: + +- Improve and fix tcp_serial_redirector example. +- [Bug 2603052] 5-bit mode (needs 1.5 stop bits in some cases) + +Bugfixes (posix): + +- [Bug 2810169] Propagate exceptions raised in serialposix _reconfigure +- [Bug 2562610] setting non standard baud rates on Darwin (Emmanuel Blot) + +Bugfixes (win32): + +- [Bug 2469098] parity PARITY_MARK, PARITY_SPACE isn't supported on win32 +- [SF 2446218] outWaiting implemented +- [Bug 2392892] scanwin32.py better exception handling +- [Bug 2505422] scanwin32.py Vista 64bit compatibility + + +Version 2.5-rc2 2010-01-02 +--------------------------- +New Features: + +- Documentation update, now written with Sphinx/ReST +- Updated miniterm.py example +- experimental RFC-2217 client support (serial.rfc2217.Serial, see docs) +- add ``loop://`` device for testing. +- add ``serial.serial_for_url`` factory function (support for native ports and + ``rfc2217``, ``socket`` and ``loop`` URLs) +- add new example: ``rfc2217_server.py`` +- tests live in their own directory now (no longer in examples) + +Bugfixes: + +- [Bug 2915810] Fix for suboption parsing in rfc2217 +- Packaging bug (missed some files) + +Bugfixes (posix): + +- improve write timeout behavior +- [Bug 2836297] move Linux specific constants to not break other platforms +- ``poll`` based implementation for ``read`` is in a separate class + ``PosixPollSerial``, as it is not supported well on all platforms (the + default ``Serial`` class uses select). +- changed error handling in ``read`` so that disconnected devices are + detected. + + +Bugfixes (win32): + +- [Bug 2886763] hComPort doesn't get initialized for Serial(port=None) + + +Version 2.5 2010-07-22 +--------------------------- +New Features: + +- [Bug 2976262] dsrdtr should default to False + ``dsrdtr`` parameter default value changed from ``None`` (follow ``rtscts`` + setting) to ``False``. This means ``rtscts=True`` enables hardware flow + control on RTS/CTS but no longer also on DTR/DSR. This change mostly + affects Win32 as on other platforms, that setting was ignored anyway. +- Improved xreadlines, it is now a generator function that yields lines as they + are received (previously it called readlines which would only return all + lines read after a read-timeout). However xreadlines is deprecated and not + available when the io module is used. Use ``for line in Serial(...):`` + instead. + +Bugfixes: + +- [Bug 2925854] test.py produces exception with python 3.1 +- [Bug 3029812] 2.5rc2 readline(s) doesn't work + +Bugfixes (posix): + +- [BUG 3006606] Nonblocking error - Unix platform + +Bugfixes (win32): + +- [Bug 2998169] Memory corruption at faster transmission speeds. + (bug introduced in 2.5-rc1) + + +Version 2.6 2011-11-02 +--------------------------- +New Features: + +- Moved some of the examples to serial.tools so that they can be used + with ``python -m`` +- serial port enumeration now included as ``serial.tools.list_ports`` +- URL handlers for ``serial_for_url`` are now imported dynamically. This allows + to add protocols w/o editing files. The list + ``serial.protocol_handler_packages`` can be used to add or remove user + packages with protocol handlers (see docs for details). +- new URL type: hwgrep://<regexp> uses list_ports module to search for ports + by their description +- several internal changes to improve Python 3.x compatibility (setup.py, + use of absolute imports and more) + +Bugfixes: + +- [Bug 3093882] calling open() on an already open port now raises an exception +- [Bug 3245627] connection-lost let rfc2217 hangs in closed loop +- [Patch 3147043] readlines() to support multi-character eol + +Bugfixes (posix): + +- [Patch 3316943] Avoid unneeded termios.tcsetattr calls in serialposix.py +- [Patch 2912349] Serial Scan as a Module with Mac Support + +Bugfixes (win32): + +- [Bug 3057499] writeTimeoutError when write Timeout is 0 +- [Bug 3414327] Character out of range in list_ports_windows +- [Patch 3036175] Windows 98 Support fix +- [Patch 3054352] RTS automatic toggle, for RS485 functionality. +- Fix type definitions for 64 bit Windows compatibility + + +Version 2.7 2013-10-17 +--------------------------- +- Win32: setRTS and setDTR can be called before the port is opened and it will + set the initial state on port open. +- Posix: add platform specific method: outWaiting (already present for Win32) +- Posix: rename flowControl to setXON to match name on Win32, add + flowControlOut function +- rfc2217: zero polls value (baudrate, data size, stop bits, parity) (Erik + Lundh) +- Posix: [Patch pyserial:28] Accept any speed on Linux [update] +- Posix: [Patch pyserial:29] PosixSerial.read() should "ignore" errno.EINTR +- OSX: [Patch pyserial:27] Scan by VendorID/Product ID for USB Serial devices +- Ensure working with bytes in write() calls + +Bugfixes: + +- [Bug 3540332] SerialException not returned +- [Bug pyserial:145] Error in socket_connection.py +- [Bug pyserial:135] reading from socket with timeout=None causes TypeError +- [Bug pyserial:130] setup.py should not append py3k to package name +- [Bug pyserial:117] no error on lost conn w/socket:// + +Bugfixes (posix): + +- [Patch 3462364] Fix: NameError: global name 'base' is not defined +- list_ports and device() for BSD updated (Anders Langworthy) +- [Bug 3518380] python3.2 -m serial.tools.list_ports error +- [Bug pyserial:137] Patch to add non-standard baudrates to Cygwin +- [Bug pyserial:141] open: Pass errno from IOError to SerialException +- [Bug pyserial:125] Undefined 'base' on list_ports_posix.py, function usb_lsusb +- [Bug pyserial:151] Serial.write() without a timeout uses 100% CPU on POSIX +- [Patch pyserial:30] [PATCH 1/1] serial.Serial() should not raise IOError. + +Bugfixes (win32): + +- [Bug 3444941] ctypes.WinError() unicode error +- [Bug 3550043] on Windows in tools global name 'GetLastError' is not defined +- [Bug pyserial:146] flush() does nothing in windows (despite docs) +- [Bug pyserial:144] com0com ports ignored due to missing "friendly name" +- [Bug pyserial:152] Cannot configure port, some setting was wrong. Can leave + port handle open but port not accessible + + +Version 3.0a0 2015-09-22 +-------------------------- +- Starting from this release, only Python 2.7 and 3.2 (or newer) are supported. + The source code is compatible to the 2.x and 3.x series without any changes. + The support for earlier Python versions than 2.7 is removed, please refer to + the pyserial-legacy (V2.x) series if older Python versions are a + requirement). +- Development moved to github, update links in docs. +- API changes: properties for ``rts``, ``dtr``, ``cts``, ``dsr``, ``cd``, ``ri``, + ``in_waiting`` (instead of get/set functions) +- remove file ``FileLike`` class, add ``read_until`` and ``iread_until`` to + ``SerialBase`` +- RS485 support changed (``rts_toggle`` removed, added ``serial.rs485`` module + and ``rs485_mode`` property) +- ``socket://`` and ``rfc2217://`` handlers use the IPv6 compatible + ``socket.create_connection`` +- New URL handler: ``spy:://``. +- URL handlers now require the proper format (``?`` and ``&``) for arguments + instead of ``/`` (e.g. ``rfc2217://localhost:7000?ign_set_control&timeout=5.5``) +- Remove obsolete examples. +- Finish update to BSD license. +- Use setuptools if available, fall back to distutils if unavailable. +- miniterm: changed command line options +- miniterm: support encodings on serial port +- miniterm: new transformations, by default escape/convert all control characters +- list_ports: improved, added USB location (Linux, Win32) +- refactored code +- [FTR pyserial:37] Support fileno() function in the socket protocol +- Posix: [Patch pyserial:31] Mark/space parity on Linux +- Linux: [Patch pyserial:32] Module list_ports for linux should include the + product information as description. +- Java: fix 2 bugs (stop bits if/else and non-integer timeouts) (Torsten + Roemer) +- Update wxSerialConfigDialog.py to use serial.tools.list_ports. +- [Patch pyserial:34] Improvements to port_publisher.py example +- [Feature pyserial:39] Support BlueTooth serial port discovery on Linux + +Bugfixes: + +- [Bug pyserial:157] Implement inWaiting in protocol_socket +- [Bug pyserial:166] RFC2217 connections always fail +- [Bug pyserial:172] applySettingsDict() throws an error if the settings dictionary is not complete +- [Bug pyserial:185] SocketSerial.read() never returns data when timeout==0 + +Bugfixes (posix): + +- [Bug pyserial:156] PosixSerial.open raises OSError rather than + SerialException when port open fails +- [Bug pyserial:163] serial.tools.list_ports.grep() fails if it encounters None type +- fix setXON +- [Patch pyserial:36 / 38] Make USB information work in python 3.4 and 2.7 +- clear OCRNL/ONLCR flags (CR/LF translation settings) +- [Feature pyserial:38] RS485 Support +- [Bug pyserial:170] list_ports_posix not working properly for Cygwin +- [Bug pyserial:187] improve support for FreeBSD (list_ports_posix) + +Bugfixes (win32): + +- [Bug pyserial:169] missing "import time" in serialwin32.py + +Bugfixes (cli): + +- [Bug pyserial:159] write() in serialcli.py not working with IronPython 2.7.4 + + +Version 3.0b1 2015-10-19 +-------------------------- +- list_ports: add ``vid``, ``pid``, ``serial_number``, ``product``, + ``manufacturer`` and ``location`` attribute for USB devices. +- list_ports: update OSX implementation. +- list_ports: Raspberry Pi: internal port is found. +- serial_for_url: fix import (multiple packages in list) +- threaded: added new module implementing a reader thread +- tweak examples/wx* +- posix: add experimental implementation ``VTIMESerial`` +- new URL handler ``alt://`` to select alternative implementations + + +Version 3.0 2015-12-28 +------------------------ +- minor fixes to setup.py (file list), inter_byte_timeout (not stored when + passed to __init__), rfc2217 (behavior of close when open failed), + list_ports (__str__), loop://, renamed ReaderThread +- hwgrep:// added options to pick n'th port, skip busy ports +- miniterm: --ask option added + +Bugfixes (posix): + +- [#26/#30] always call tcsettattr on open +- [#42] fix disregard read timeout if there is more data +- [#45] check for write timeout, even if EAGAIN was raised + +Bugfixes (win32): + +- [#27] fix race condition in ``read()``, fix minimal timeout issue +- race condition in nonblocking case +- [#49] change exception type in case SetCommState fails +- [#50] fixed issue with 0 timeout on windows 10 + + +Version 3.0.1 2016-01-11 +-------------------------- +- special case for FDTIBUS in list_ports on win32 (#61) + +Bugfixes: + +- ``Serial`` keyword arguments, more on backward compatibility, fix #55 +- list_ports: return name if product is None, fix for #54 +- port_publisher: restore some sorting of ports + + +Version 3.1.0 2016-05-27 +-------------------------- +Improvements: + +- improve error handling in ``alt://`` handler +- ``socket://`` internally used select, improves timeout behavior +- initial state of RTS/DTR: ignore error when setting on open posix + (support connecting to pty's) +- code style updates +- posix: remove "number_to_device" which is not called anymore +- add cancel_read and cancel_write to win32 and posix implementations + +Bugfixes: + +- [#68] aio: catch errors and close connection +- [#87] hexlify: update codec for Python 2 +- [#100] setPort not implemented +- [#101] bug in serial.threaded.Packetizer with easy fix +- [#104] rfc2217 and socket: set timeout in create_connection +- [#107] miniterm.py fails to exit on failed serial port + +Bugfixes (posix): + +- [#59] fixes for RTS/DTR handling on open +- [#77] list_ports_osx: add missing import +- [#85] serialposix.py _set_rs485_mode() tries to read non-existing + rs485_settings.delay_rts_before_send +- [#96] patch: native RS485 is never enabled + +Bugfixes (win32): + +- fix bad super call and duplicate old-style __init__ call +- [#80] list_ports: Compatibility issue between Windows/Linux + + +Version 3.1.1 2016-06-12 +-------------------------- +Improvements: + +- deprecate ``nonblocking()`` method on posix, the port is already in this + mode. +- style: use .format() in various places instead of "%" formatting + +Bugfixes: + +- [#122] fix bug in FramedPacket +- [#127] The Serial class in the .NET/Mono (IronPython) backend does not + implement the _reconfigure_port method +- [#123, #128] Avoid Python 3 syntax in aio module + +Bugfixes (posix): + +- [#126] PATCH: Check delay_before_tx/rx for None in serialposix.py +- posix: retry if interrupted in Serial.read + +Bugfixes (win32): + +- win32: handle errors of GetOverlappedResult in read(), fixes #121 + + +Version 3.2.0 2016-10-14 +-------------------------- +See 3.2.1, this one missed a merge request related to removing aio. + + +Version 3.2.1 2016-10-14 +-------------------------- +Improvements: + +- remove ``serial.aio`` in favor of separate package, ``pyserial-asyncio`` +- add client mode to example ``tcp_serial_redirect.py`` +- use of monotonic clock for timeouts, when available (Python 3.3 and up) +- [#169] arbitrary baud rate support for BSD family +- improve tests, improve ``loop://`` + +Bugfixes: + +- [#137] Exception while cancel in miniterm (python3) +- [#143] Class Serial in protocol_loop.py references variable before assigning + to it +- [#149] Python 3 fix for threaded.FramedPacket + +Bugfixes (posix): + +- [#133] _update_dtr_state throws Inappropriate ioctl for virtual serial + port created by socat on OS X +- [#157] Broken handling of CMSPAR in serialposix.py + +Bugfixes (win32): + +- [#144] Use Unicode API for list_ports +- [#145] list_ports_windows: support devices with only VID +- [#162] Write in non-blocking mode returns incorrect value on windows + + +Version 3.3 2017-03-08 +------------------------ +Improvements: + +- [#206] Exclusive access on POSIX. ``exclusive`` flag added. +- [#172] list_ports_windows: list_ports with 'manufacturer' info property +- [#174] miniterm: change cancel impl. for console +- [#182] serialutil: add overall timeout for read_until +- socket: use non-blocking socket and new Timeout class +- socket: implement a functional a reset_input_buffer +- rfc2217: improve read timeout implementation +- win32: include error message from system in ClearCommError exception +- and a few minor changes, docs + +Bugfixes: + +- [#183] rfc2217: Fix broken calls to to_bytes on Python3. +- [#188] rfc2217: fix auto-open use case when port is given as parameter + +Bugfixes (posix): + +- [#178] in read, count length of converted data +- [#189] fix return value of write + +Bugfixes (win32): + +- [#194] spurious write fails with ERROR_SUCCESS + + +Version 3.4 2017-07-22 +------------------------ +Improvements: + +- miniterm: suspend function (temporarily release port, :kbd:`Ctrl-T s`) +- [#240] context manager automatically opens port on ``__enter__`` +- [#141] list_ports: add interface number to location string +- [#225] protocol_socket: Retry if ``BlockingIOError`` occurs in + ``reset_input_buffer``. + +Bugfixes: + +- [#153] list_ports: option to include symlinked devices +- [#237] list_ports: workaround for special characters in port names + +Bugfixes (posix): + +- allow calling cancel functions w/o error if port is closed +- [#220] protocol_socket: sync error handling with posix version +- [#227] posix: ignore more blocking errors and EINTR, timeout only + applies to blocking I/O +- [#228] fix: port_publisher typo + + +Version 3.5b0 2020-09-21 +------------------------ +New Features: + +- [#411] Add a backend for Silicon Labs CP2110/4 HID-to-UART bridge. + (depends on `hid` module) + +Improvements: + +- [#315] Use absolute import everywhere +- [#351] win32: miniterm Working CMD.exe terminal using Windows 10 ANSI support +- [#354] Make ListPortInfo hashable +- [#372] threaded: "write" returns byte count +- [#400] Add bytesize and stopbits argument parser to tcp_serial_redirect +- [#408] loop: add out_waiting +- [#495] list_ports_linux: Correct "interface" property on Linux hosts +- [#500] Remove Python 3.2 and 3.3 from test +- [#261, #285, #296, #320, #333, #342, #356, #358, #389, #397, #510] doc updates +- miniterm: add :kbd:`CTRL+T Q` as alternative to exit +- miniterm: suspend function key changed to :kbd:`CTRL-T Z` +- add command line tool entries ``pyserial-miniterm`` (replaces ``miniterm.py``) + and ``pyserial-ports`` (runs ``serial.tools.list_ports``). +- ``python -m serial`` opens miniterm (use w/o args and it will print port + list too) [experimental] + +Bugfixes: + +- [#371] Don't open port if self.port is not set while entering context manager +- [#437, #502] refactor: raise new instances for PortNotOpenError and SerialTimeoutException +- [#261, #263] list_ports: set default `name` attribute +- [#286] fix: compare only of the same type in list_ports_common.ListPortInfo +- rfc2217/close(): fix race-condition +- [#305] return b'' when connection closes on rfc2217 connection +- [#386] rfc2217/close(): fix race condition +- Fixed flush_input_buffer() for situations where the remote end has closed the socket. +- [#441] reset_input_buffer() can hang on sockets +- examples: port_publisher python 3 fixes +- [#324] miniterm: Fix miniterm constructor exit_character and menu_character +- [#326] miniterm: use exclusive access for native serial ports by default +- [#497] miniterm: fix double use of CTRL-T + s use z for suspend instead +- [#443, #444] examples: refactor wx example, use Bind to avoid deprecated + warnings, IsChecked, unichr + +Bugfixes (posix): + +- [#265] posix: fix PosixPollSerial with timeout=None and add cancel support +- [#290] option for low latency mode on linux +- [#335] Add support to xr-usb-serial ports +- [#494] posix: Don't catch the SerialException we just raised +- [#519] posix: Fix custom baud rate to not temporarily set 38400 baud rates on linux +- [#509 #518] list_ports: use hardcoded path to library on osx + +Bugfixes (win32): + +- [#481] win32: extend RS485 error messages +- [#303] win32: do not check for links in serial.tools.list_ports +- [#430] Add WaitCommEvent function to win32 +- [#314, #433] tools/list_ports_windows: Scan both 'Ports' and 'Modem' device classes +- [#414] Serial number support for composite USB devices +- Added recursive search for device USB serial number to support composite devices + +Bugfixes (MacOS): + +- [#364] MacOS: rework list_ports to support unicode product descriptors. +- [#367] Mac and bsd fix _update_break_state + + +Version 3.5 2020-11-23 +---------------------- +See above (3.5b0) for what's all new in this release + +Bugfixes: + +- spy: ensure bytes in write() + +Bugfixes (posix): + +- [#540] serialposix: Fix inconsistent state after exception in open() + +Bugfixes (win32): + +- [#530] win32: Fix exception for composite serial number search on Windows + +Bugfixes (MacOS): + +- [#542] list_ports_osx: kIOMasterPortDefault no longer exported on Big Sur +- [#545, #545] list_ports_osx: getting USB info on BigSur/AppleSilicon |