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Gammu 1.30.90

Gammu 1.30.90 has been just released. After three months of slow development, here is new Gammu testing release. There are no new features, just fixed dozen of bugs found and reported by users.

Full list of changes:

Various documentation improvements.
Detect Alcatel style reply on CPIN response (bug #1502).
Fix build on some Win32 systems (bug #1496).
Make jadmaker handle names with spaces (Raphaël Droz).
Display 8-bit messages in hex (Nicolas Pitre).
Do not use AT+CUSD=2 on some phones (bug #1508).
Fixed gammu-monitor with Windows service (bug #1515).
Cleanup of contrib directory.
Better support for Samsung AT phones (bug #1513).
Fixed handling of MMS notification SMSes (bug #1530).
Fixed CPIN reply handling (bug #1532).
SMSD checks for PIN status just after connect (bug #1532).
Fixed various MSVC compilation issues.

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

Support this program by donations http://wammu.eu/donate/.

Published on Nov. 7, 2011 by Michal Čihař

Wammu 0.36

Wammu 0.36 has been just released. Bugfix release after long time of silence.

Full list of changes:

Fixed re-enabling task bar icon (bug #1369).
Improve searching for installed images (bug #1393).
Translations update (Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil),...).
Compatibility with 3.0 Linux kernel.

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

Support this program by donations http://wammu.eu/donate/.

Published on Sept. 15, 2011 by Michal Čihař

Kalkun 0.4RC1

The release candidate of Kalkun for version 0.4 is just released, you can test
it and give us some feedback.

What's new:

Keyboard shortcut
Spam filter
PostgreSQL support, you must use gammu >= 1.30.0
Public phonebook (contact and group)
Multiple modem (Round Robin strategy)
Send to multiple groups
Hook-based Plugin system
Handle GSM special character like ^ { } [ ] ~ | € which count as 2 character
"Remember me" on login
Message Recover
Wider layout
Counter for incoming sms
Send WAP link
Plugin Blacklist Number

Bugfix:

User delete bug
Kalkun API
Various bugfix on search
Various bugfix on notification
Various bugfix on pagination

Translation added:

Turkish
Spanish

Published on Sept. 13, 2011 by Michal Čihař

Gammu 1.30.0 has been just released. New stable release of Gammu is finally here. Introducing features long available in testing releases as S60 support, screnshot support for DCT4, improved Samsung support or ODBC support in SMSD. Check full changelog for more details.

Full list of changes:

Improved SMSD logging of configuration settings.
Fix possible crash in fbus2 driver.
Fix possible crash of ODBC driver on Windows (bug #1482).
Fixed usage of dbi plugins from Python module.
Properly initialize atobex driver with Sony-Ericsson phones.
Updated list of country and network codes.
Escape fields in SQL queries (bug#1415).
Escape fields in PostgreSQL SQL script (bug#1415).
Default to GSM encoding for text messages in SQL backend for SMSD.
Add option to override which SQL dialect to use in SMSD (bug #1427).
Improved m-obex protocol support, thanks to Vladimir Serbinenko.
Various fixes for Samsung B2100, thanks to Vladimir Serbinenko.
Fix check for AT+CPROT support (bug #1438).
Fix memory leak in s60 protocol driver (bug #1441).
Reverted change to SignalStrength because of SQL escaping we have now (bug #1380).
Improved vCard parser to handle vCards from Gmail.
Fixed LDIF parser to cope with multiple LDIF in single file.
Documentation improvements and fixes.
Saner error handling in Windows serial driver.
Cleanup in SMSD internals.
Added ODBC driver to SMSD.
Added screenshot function for Sony-Ericssonn phones (Márton Németh).
Fixed parsing of some Nokia SMSes (bug #1402).
Properly report error on deleting non deletable entries (bug #1396).
Slower switch from m-obex to AT (bug #1382).
Faster initialization for AT phones without enabled echo.
Fix detection of MySQL libraries (bug #1370).
Changed default connection settings to at and ttyACM0 (bug #1078).
Add new API call to abort existing operation (bug #1155).
Change database structure to avoid using reserved word Signal (bug #1380).
Possibility to limit time of day for SMS in SMSD (bug #1203).
Enforce limits on SMS payload length.
Made GSM_SMSCounter public (bug #1356).
Support for S60 phones using Series60 applet (bug #423).
Do not fail on 0x7b field in Nokia 3600s phonebook (bug #1385).
Disabled two stage probing for most protocols.
Fixed saving of SMS backups (bug #1392).
Screenshot functionality for DCT4 phones (bug #1390).

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

Support this program by donations http://wammu.eu/donate/.

Published on July 19, 2011 by Michal Čihař

Gammu 1.29.93

Gammu 1.29.93 has been just released. I've finally found time to make another release of Gammu. It collects numerous bug fixes, again changes SQL schema and hopefully does not break anything.

Full list of changes:

Properly initialize atobex driver with Sony-Ericsson phones.
Updated list of country and network codes.
Escape fields in SQL queries (bug#1415).
Escape fields in PostgreSQL SQL script (bug#1415).
Default to GSM encoding for text messages in SQL backend for SMSD.
Add option to override which SQL dialect to use in SMSD (bug #1427).
Improved m-obex protocol support, thanks to Vladimir Serbinenko.
Various fixes for Samsung B2100, thanks to Vladimir Serbinenko.
Fix check for AT+CPROT support (bug #1438).
Fix memory leak in s60 protocol driver (bug #1441).
Reverted change to SignalStrength because of SQL escaping we have now (bug #1380).
Improved vCard parser to handle vCards from Gmail.
Fixed LDIF parser to cope with multiple LDIF in single file.

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

Support this program by donations http://wammu.eu/donate/.

Published on June 7, 2011 by Michal Čihař