gpsd.spec.in

gpsd, a popular GPS daemon.

  offset. cgpxlogger introduced.  Upgrade gpxlogger to DBUS 0.60
  conformance.  Jason von Nieda's patch may fix the chronic TSIP
  driver problems.

* Wed Sep 14 2005 Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> - 2.30-1
- Prevent core dump on -d option.  The .log extension is no longer required for
  test loads.  cgps and xgps now have configurable latitude/longitude formats 
  via the -l option.  Introduced new 'g' command that allows clients to
  specify whether they want GPS or RTCM104 information.

* Fri Aug 19 2005 Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> - 2.29-1
- Added Sony CXD2951 support, untested.  All error estimates are
  now nailed to 95% confidence interval.  Added rtcmdecode and its
  documentation; also, gpsd can now monitor serial devices emitting 
  RTCM104 and display differential-GPS data in a readable format.  
  Added dangerous alpha version of gpsflash.  Work around a nasty bug 
  in SiRFStar III firmware version < 3.1.1.  Added support for True 
  North Technologies Revolution 2X Digital compass.  Added the 
  gpxlogger client for systems with DBUS support and the gpspipe 
  and cgps clients for general use.

* Wed Jul  6 2005 Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> - 2.28-1
- The 2.27 source tarball somehow got truncated on upload.
  Due to procedural mechanics at berlios.de, shipping a new release
  seems to be the least painful way to recover.  This release is
  identical to 2.27 except the roadmap stuff has been added to TODO.

* Wed Jul 06 2005 Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> - 2.27
- Arrange for the daemon to remove its pid file on exit.  Fix some
  buffering problems with the Python side of the hotplug interface.
  gpsfake can now run sessions under a monitor like Valgrind.  Most
  of the gpsfake logic now lives in a module that can be used to write
  other test loads; its progress baton is now optional.  Fixed
  some minor bugs found by valgrind audit, including (1) a slow
  memory leak, (2) a possible but unconfirmed file-descriptor leak, 
  and (3) a subtle error in the channel-assignment logic that only
  showed up with multiple sessions active.  In fact, the daemon code
  no longer uses dynamic-memory allocation at all.  Also, the code
  no longer relies on FIONREAD working.  The track error field in the
  O response is now computed.  The project website has some new eye candy.
  Client connections now time out when the mode is neither raw nor watcher.
  Fixed a core-dump that could happen if C, B or I commands were issued
  at odd times.

* Wed Jun 22 2005 Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> - 2.26
- Time DOP and total DOP are now passed on from GPSes that report 
  them.  Ensure longitude has a leading zero when <100, for
  compatibility with gpsdrive.  Synchronous and thread hooks are now
  separate in the client library.  Packet-sniffing on a new device no
  longer holds up incoming data on already-connected ones.  There is
  now a super-raw mode (R=2) that dumps a hex-encoding of every binary
  packet received to the client; sirfmon uses it to operate through
  the daemon if one is running.  Support for Trimble TSIP GPSes
  merged. gpsfake now works with SiRF and Zodiac logs.  Python library
  supports thread callbacks.  New -p option of gpsfake supports
  regression testing of the daemon, and there is a test suite included
  with the distribution.  PPS support is turned off, as there is some
  pthreads problem that sometimes kills the daemon on pthreads exit.
  Correct off-by-one error in GPZDA processing.  The code has been
  audited and cleaned with splint (www.splint.org).

* Sat May 21 2005 Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> - 2.25-1
- Various signedness and scaling fixes and an OpenBSD port patch for the 
  Zodiac driver. Command-line arguments to gpsd are now treated as a default 
  device list; -f is still supported but deprecated.  sirfmon now tries not
  changing the line speed first, so it syncs up much faster.  Prevent a 
  potential buffer overrun in the client library.  PPS-thread support is now
  on by default.  Lots of documentation improvements. D-BUS broadcast support 
  by Amaury Jacquot.  Added Alfredo Pironti's thread-callback and C++
  support.  gpsd no longer uses the system clock for anything, so it
  can be used to set that clock.

* Tue May 17 2005 Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> - 2.24-1
- Crazy-speed bug is finally fixed. Autobauding now starts with the
  current speed of the device, not the stored gpsd speed; this means
  hunting only takes place when device and GPS speed aren't matched.  
  xgpsspeed unit-conversion bug introduced in 2.22 is fixed.  Satellite
  display now really shows 12 channels, not just 11. Major improvements 
  in ntp notifications.

* Wed May  4 2005 Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> - 2.23-1
- For better security, the daemon now drops root privileges after startup.
  gpsd-clients is now a separate RPM; this is helpful on lean systems
  that don't run X.  The O command now reports speeds in meters per second 
  rather than knots, client code has been adjusted so there is no user-visible
  change.  We now compute the missing components of DOP when using SiRF chips.
  /dev/gps is no longer special; there is no default GPS device unless you
  specify one.  The intermittent processor-hogging problem introduced by the
  control-channel change in 2.21 has been solved.

* Mon Apr 25 2005 Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> - 2.22-1
- SiRF-binary driver can now get leap-second corrections from subframe data.
  Device add/delete commands now send back OK or ERROR.  Error-modeling
  corrections from the SiRF folks.  Higher precision in position reports.

* Tue Apr 12 2005 Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> - 2.21-1
- Add tag and timestamp to Y response.  Use computed geoid separation as 
  SiRF packet 42 is flaky.  Security fix: hotplug scripts now do device
  add/removes through a separate local control channel.  True multi-device
  support is in place.  When in watcher mode, device switches are announced.

* Thu Mar 31 2005 Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> - 2.20-1
- Rob Janssen's patches to fix timezone issues and improve cooperation
  with NTP.  License changed to BSD so linking to libgps won't make people 
  nervous.  gpsprobe and gpsd.py are obsolete and have been removed, the 
  autoprobe and profiling capabilities in the daemon more than replace 
  them.  gpsprof now ships self-contained GNUPLOT scripts to stdout,
  so they can be saved and redisplayed.  Zodiac sort of works again, but 
  occasionally spins madly during autobauding.

* Sat Mar 26 2005 Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> - 2.19-1
- Fix brown-paper-bag bug with NMEA parsing. Set SiRF GPSes to use
  SBAS.  sirfmon now displays SBAS parameters, and is included in the
  installed programs.  Add to FAQ a fix for spurious high speeds reported
  in XTrac mode.  We now interpret GPZDA.  We no longer fudge a missing 
  ddmmyy in NMEA timestamps from the system clock, so replay will work better.

* Wed Mar 23 2005 Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> - 2.18-1
- First cut at cooperating with NTP.  Major library restructuring; 
  a fix is now a data structure of its own, and per-field timestamps 
  are gone. Use new 'o' command for watcher mode.  Compute some estimated 
  error bounds.

* Wed Mar 16 2005 Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> - 2.17
- Fix packet-engine problem that made disconnect/reconnect unreliable
  (important!).  Fix bonehead error in interpretation of PGRME.  We 
  don't use O_SYNC (it turned out not to be reliable) so remove it to make 
  life easier under Mac OS X.  Allow gpsfake to accept subsecond cycle times.
  Add a FAQ to the HTML documentation.  gps_poll() now handles multi-line
  responses.  Add N command for switching driver modes.

* Fri Mar 11 2005 Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> - 2.16-1
- New F command allows changing the GPS device after startup time.
  Hotplug scripts to go with it are now installed by the RPM.  The
  Garmin probe is working.  The -T and -s options are gone.  We have 
  achieved zero configuration!

* Wed Mar 02 2005 Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> - 2.15-1
- A new packet engine autobauds much more quickly, and now iterates
  over both 1 and 2 stopbits. Explicit support for FV18 (the -T f
  option) is gone; instead, gpsd syncs with any 7N2 device and always
  ships a suitable init string.  New E command, supporting the Garmin
  position-error sentence or computing these numbers from DOP and an
  error model. New U command reports climb/sink from GPSes that report
  vertical velocity.  There is a prototype driver for SiRF-binary GPses,
  invoked automatically when SiRF packets present themselves on the
  wire after device open.

* Fri Feb 25 2005 Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> - 2.14-1
- Pass zero magnetic variation in generated NMEA from binary GPSes
  correctly.  Use O_SYNC rather than timeouts to guarantee that 
  baud-rate change strings get to the GPS before changing the line
  parameters.  Introduced I command.  Spatial scattergram plotting
  moved from gpsprobe to gpsprof.

* Mon Feb 21 2005 Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> - 2.13-1
- Correct a bug in binary-protocol dumping (applies to Zodiac and
  Garmin only).  Gary Miller's patch to deal gracefully with GPSes
  like the Magellan EC10X that send only GPRMC and never GPGGA or
  GPGSA, and thus never set mode or status fields.  Fixed buggy
  handling of units options in xgps and xgpsspeed.  Bumped library
  major version, since seen_sentences is now exposed and drivers have
  more capabilities.  Stricter NMEA buffer validation.  Withdrew the
  change that always passed up a timestamp; on SiRF receivers, the year
  part is garbage when the PVT fields are garbage.  Can now recognize
  SiRF GPSes.  Experimental baud-switching support for Zodiac.

* Tue Feb 15 2005 Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> - 2.12-1
- Fixed core-dump bug in processing of the GLL variant that does not
  include an FAA Mode Indicator. When using the NMEA driver, gpsd now
  hunts for a baud rate rather than requiring a fixed one to be set.
  A new 'B' command returns the RS232 parameters, and a new 'C'
  command returns the update cycle time.  Added gpsfake test harness.
  Alpha driver for Garmin binary protocol added, requires Linux
  garmin_usb kernel driver.  The daemon now always passes up a
  timestamp for every sentence that has one, even if the PVT fields
  aren't valid.

* Thu Feb 10 2005 Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> - 2.11-1
- Added gpsprof and the capability to generate GPS latency profiles.
  gpsprobe now hunts through plausible baud rates when looking for NMEA
  data from a GPS. The -b (baudrate) option fixes a speed, disabling
  the baud-matching logic.  Also, gpsprobe can now recognize SiRF 
  protocol, though not speak it.  Fixed a math domain error in 
  gps.EarthDistance due to numeric blowup on points very close together,
  and another in gps.MeterOffset() that was screwing up gpsprobe plots.

* Tue Feb  1 2005 Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> - 2.10
- Add -N option to explicitly foreground the daemon.  Fixed a bug
  that was causing gpsd to keep reopening the GPS device after
  leaving raw or watcher mode.  Fixed Gary Miller's core-dump bug.

* Thu Jan 27 2005 Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> - 2.9-1
- Python files restored to RPM.

* Thu Jan 27 2005 Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> - 2.8-1
- Embarrassing typo fix in gps.py. Avoid buffer overrun in xgps.c.
  Plug Debian security bug 292347, CVE number CAN-2004-1388.  
  This version issued on an emergency basis without Python libraries, 
  which have packaging problems due to the 2.3/2.4 transition.

* Fri Jan  14 2005 Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> - 2.7-1
- More compiler-warning cleanups.  gps client name changed to xgps.
  Added --speedunits option to xgpsspeed, --speedunits and --altunits
  options to xgps.  Improved GPGSV parsing so it copes gracefully if
  we start in the middle of a sequence.  Merged Petter Reinholdtsen's
  fix for GPGSA lists with holes.  In xgps, satellites used in the
  last fix are now dotted in the middle.  New -P option to create
  pidfile.  Audited for potential buffer overruns, found and fixed
  two.