0.10.0rc1 is available

Greetings,


We have a new release 0.10.0 under way, the first rc version is 
available at [1]

This release contains brand new python binding as a pypi package. Here 
is also major fixes to the device enumeration. Feedback from the Debian 
build chain, MacOS packaging as well as cross-compiling users has led to 
build fixes and enhancements. Plus the usual sleeve of bug fixes and 
enhancements.

Note that the docs on htt://lirc.org are outdated and should not be 
used, see the README.md at [1].

Source packages are available at [1]. Fedora, Ubuntu and Debian packages 
will be available later (to be announced).

Fixed bugs: https://sourceforge.net/p/lirc/tickets/milestone/0.10/

Thanks to:
Aron Thompson, Baruch Siach, Bengt Martensson, Christoph Bartelmus,
Craig Andrews, Felix Schmidt, Helen Foster, Jarkko Sonninen,
John Penfold, Jon Bergli Heier, lotan_rm, Maciej S. Szmigiero,
Matthias Reichl, Nicolas, Nigel Kettlewell, pylover, Samuel Thibault,
Thomas Petazzoni, Vahid, William Manley.

Special thanks to Warped for his work on #278, a new lirc record of five 
pages!

 From NEWS:

  * lircd: the deprecated --uinput option is dropped. Use
    the lircd-uinput(8) daemon instead.
  * lircd: The --release option is deprecated.
  * lircd: Adding a --immediate-init option which initiates
    the hardware directly on start and exits on errors.
  * lircd, lircd-uinput: Change default release suffix due to linux
    kernel changes (#263).
  * The slinke (a. k. a. slink-e) driver is dropped.
  * plugins: Add support for irdroid in the irtoy driver.
  * plugins: Enhanced device enumeration, mode2 --list-devices
    works for most drivers.
  * New, shiny (i. e., unstable) python API. See the API docs,
    module "python bindings". The API is also available as a pypi
    package, typically at /usr/share/lirc/python-pkg
  * lircd-uinput: Multiple config file parsing errors (#284).
  * The configs/*conf files no more supports  enumerating devices
    using shell scripts.
  * Added enumeration support and server version level check to
    driver API.
  * irrecord: Add --driver-options for lircd symmetry (#277).
  * lircd: Fix devices not connected at first attempt (#279).
  * lib: Fix failure when parsing absolute paths config files (#281).
  * lircd/irsend: Fix bug when sending/receiving concurrently for
    some remotes (#278, 5 pages!)
  * lircd:Fix missing systemd support due to upstream changes (#274).
  * Build: Added new configure --enable-devinput option (#264).
  * Build: Added new configure --enable-uinput option, ditched
    HAVE_UINPUT 0.9.4c cludge.
  * Build: More quiet, enhanced V=0/V=1 support.
  * ftdi driver: Fix off-by-2 timings (#275).
  * devinput driver: Fix bad codelength (#263).
  * OSX patches(#273)



Cheers!

--alec

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/lirc/files/LIRC/0.10.0rc1/

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