1 2This file lists the most important changes to 3the previous released version. For a full list of changes 4please refer to the ChangeLog file. 5 6New for version 2.7.1: 7 - CVE-2017-7467: Fix an out of bounds data access that 8 can lead to remote code execution. This issue was found 9 by Solar Designer of Openwall during a security audit of 10 the Virtuozzo 7 product, which contains derived downstream 11 code in its prl-vzvncserver component. The corresponding 12 Virtuozzo 7 fix is: https://src.openvz.org/projects/OVZ/repos/prl-vzvncserver/commits/6d95404e75b98f36b1cc85ee23df99dcf06ca13f 13 14 Openwall would like to thank the Virtuozzo company for 15 funding the effort. 16 17New for version 2.7: 18 - Configurable status line via -F option, see manpage for a listing 19 of format specifier. 20 - Improve display of device name in status line. 21 - Script: Binary transmission feature via "!<" 22 - Fixes. 23 24New for version 2.6.2: 25 - Alternative hex output (to be improved) 26 - Print creation date of serial device file (if < 20 hrs), useful for 27 identifying just plugged in USB-Serial adapters 28 - Support ':' (colon) in device path names. Note, that this changes old 29 behaviour which used ':' as a device path delimiter. 30 - Several language updates. 31 32New for version 2.6: 33 - Add possibility to add delay after every character transmission. 34 - Fix build issues on Mac OS X. 35 - Stop providing default modem init and reset strings (still available when 36 editing). 37 - Added possibility for timestamps in output, added by minicom 38 - Added lockdev support. 39 - Added new dialdir format that is supposed to be interoperable between 32 40 and 64 bits archs. 41 42New for version 2.5: 43 - Handle device reconnected more smoothly (USB-serial dongles) 44 - Translation updates: Danish 45 - Several fixes (see ChangeLog) 46 47New for version 2.4: 48 - Add -D and -b options to specify device and baud rate on the command 49 line. 50 - Do character conversion between local and remote side (-R option) 51 - Added indonesian translation 52 - Compatibility fixes for recent build environments 53 - Remove code that handled very old systems 54 55New for version 2.3: 56 - Fix build on Mac OS X 57 - New version of the dial format to be little and big endian as well as 58 32/64 bit safe 59 - Support more baud rates 60 - Handle device disappearances (e.g. serial-USB device unplug) 61 - Various build and other fixes 62 63New for version 2.2: 64 - Vietnamese translation added 65 - Norwegian translation added 66 - Traditional chinese translation added 67 - Swedish translation added 68 - Romanian translation added 69 - default to 8bit mode if LANG or LC_ALL are set 70 - default baud rate set to 115200 71 - Various code cleanups and fixes 72 73New for version 2.1: 74 - applied some pending patches (see ChangeLog for a complete list) 75 - added support for socket connections 76 - fixed compiling issues on Solaris 77 - new maintainer: Adam Lackorzynski 78 - new homepage: http://minicom.alioth.debian.org/ 79 - new mailinglists (-devel and -announce): 80 http://alioth.debian.org/mail/?group_id=31 81 82