The state of 0.10.1

Hi out there!


0.10.0 has been out for a few days. We have official debian packages in 
sid [1], an official fedora package in updates-testing[2] and updated 
mageia/epel packages in COPR [3]

At this point, here are two problems:

   - A FTBS when compiling external drivers. This is a lirc issue,
     fixed in the release-0.10 branch and in the fedora/debian
     packages [6].

   - The 4.12 kernel breaks the devinput driver. This is a kernel issue.
     discussed in this mailing list [4] which also describes how to
     work-around by patching an re-compiling the kernel driver.

The original release message did not contain the NEWS excerpt below. 
Complete NEWS file is at [5]

Cheers!

--alec

0.10.0rc1 28/5/17
  * ftdi driver: Fix off-by-2 timings (#275). This is a breaking
    change, see ftdi driver docs or source at doc/plugins/ftdi.html.
  * doc: The lirc.hwdb parsable driver list is deprecated - use
    the python database or the configs/*.yaml files instead.
  * 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).
  * lircmd: Fix bogus, excessive logging using --uinput (#295).
  * plugins: 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.
  * plugins: devinput driver: Fix bad codelength (#263).
  * 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).
  * lib: 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).
  * mode2: Fix config file parsing [292].
  * 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).
  * The configs/*conf files no more supports  enumerating devices
    using shell scripts.
  * tests: portability fixes.
  * Build: Added new configure --enable-devinput option (#264).
  * Build: Added new configure --enable-uinput option, ditched
    the HAVE_UINPUT 0.9.4c kludge.
  * Build: various kfreebsd, hurd, macOS and müsl fixes.

[1] https://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/lirc
[2] https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-99919dc4cf
[3] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/leamas/lirc-0.10-preview
[4] https://sourceforge.net/p/lirc/mailman/message/35926194/
[5] https://sourceforge.net/p/lirc/git/ci/release/tree/NEWS
[6] https://sourceforge.net/p/lirc/tickets/300

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