This file lists the most important changes to

the previous released version. For a full list of changes

please refer to the ChangeLog file.

New for version 2.7.1:

 - CVE-2017-7467: Fix an out of bounds data access that

   can lead to remote code execution. This issue was found

   by Solar Designer of Openwall during a security audit of

   the Virtuozzo 7 product, which contains derived downstream

   code in its prl-vzvncserver component. The corresponding

   Virtuozzo 7 fix is: https://src.openvz.org/projects/OVZ/repos/prl-vzvncserver/commits/6d95404e75b98f36b1cc85ee23df99dcf06ca13f

   Openwall would like to thank the Virtuozzo company for

   funding the effort.

New for version 2.7:

 - Configurable status line via -F option, see manpage for a listing

   of format specifier.

 - Improve display of device name in status line.

 - Script: Binary transmission feature via "!<"

 - Fixes.

New for version 2.6.2:

 - Alternative hex output (to be improved)

 - Print creation date of serial device file (if < 20 hrs), useful for

   identifying just plugged in USB-Serial adapters 

 - Support ':' (colon) in device path names. Note, that this changes old

   behaviour which used ':' as a device path delimiter.

 - Several language updates.

New for version 2.6:

 - Add possibility to add delay after every character transmission.

 - Fix build issues on Mac OS X.

 - Stop providing default modem init and reset strings (still available when

   editing).

 - Added possibility for timestamps in output, added by minicom

 - Added lockdev support.

 - Added new dialdir format that is supposed to be interoperable between 32

   and 64 bits archs.

New for version 2.5:

 - Handle device reconnected more smoothly (USB-serial dongles)

 - Translation updates: Danish

 - Several fixes (see ChangeLog)

New for version 2.4:

 - Add -D and -b options to specify device and baud rate on the command

   line.

 - Do character conversion between local and remote side (-R option)

 - Added indonesian translation

 - Compatibility fixes for recent build environments

 - Remove code that handled very old systems

New for version 2.3:

 - Fix build on Mac OS X

 - New version of the dial format to be little and big endian as well as

   32/64 bit safe

 - Support more baud rates

 - Handle device disappearances (e.g. serial-USB device unplug)

 - Various build and other fixes

New for version 2.2:

 - Vietnamese translation added

 - Norwegian translation added

 - Traditional chinese translation added

 - Swedish translation added

 - Romanian translation added

 - default to 8bit mode if LANG or LC_ALL are set

 - default baud rate set to 115200

 - Various code cleanups and fixes

New for version 2.1:

 - applied some pending patches (see ChangeLog for a complete list)

 - added support for socket connections

 - fixed compiling issues on Solaris

 - new maintainer: Adam Lackorzynski

 - new homepage: http://minicom.alioth.debian.org/

 - new mailinglists (-devel and -announce):

      http://alioth.debian.org/mail/?group_id=31