Announcement: libgphoto2 and gphoto2 2.5.28 released

Marcus Meissner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.gphoto.user,gmane.comp.multimedia.gphoto.devel
Message-ID <YdLhB/DNClI+7j6U@jet>
Hi folks,

After nearly a year where I was a bit busy...

I have just released libgphoto2 and gphoto2 2.5.28.

Quite some bugfixes all across the place, some code cleanups and
improvements.

- ptp2 cameras during --wait-event now report their config changes in a verbose form.
- Also Sigma FP support added (but the camera is not widely used I think).

more see below.

Thanks to all contributors!

Ciao, Marcus
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
libgphoto2 2.5.28 release

general:
* OS/2 support removed (broken and unused since at least 2006)
* remove built-in rpm packaging (use distro packaging instead)
* remove linux-hotplug rule creation (removed from distros around 2006)
* remaining text which was iso-8859 is UTF-8 now (except one po file)
* To override docdir and htmldir, use configure arguments --docdir=
  and --htmldir= instead of --with-doc-dir= and --with-html-dir=
* some code cleanups, especially handling of include files and i18n handling

ptp2:
* wait event
  * property changes now reported with "'name' to 'value'" added
  * object info changes now reported as FILE_CHANGED events (e.g. if you change protection flags)
* Nikon J1: capture fixed
* Olympus: fixed that wait time was twice as long as required if no events arrived
* Sigma Fp: added basic beta support for capture, live view and config.
* Sony:
  * mark all widgets as read-write again, read-only logic was not 100% correct
  * speed-ups and fixes to the stepping based config setting
* Canon EOS
  * handle newer EOS R series reporting of configs (ISO, Aperture, Shutterspeed)
  * track UI lock state to avoid device busy reports
  * fixed "zoom" range settings (for lenses with powered zoom, also for today Powershot)
* Fuji:
  * ptpip improvements
  * bug fixes
  * some Fuji cameras have now liveview only for webcam (need new firmware)
* various small fixes and code cleanups
* New ids:
  * Sony Alpha-RX1R II, ILCE-7C, ZV-E10, A6600, DSC HX-80, ILCE-7RM3A, ILCE-7RM4A, DSC-A7S III
  * Nikon Coolpix B500, Zfc
  * Canon EOS M50m2, Digital IXUS 132
  * Fuji X-Pro3, GFX 100S, X100V

canon:
* fixed wait event crashes
* correctly mark read only config widgets as read-only

pentax:
* fix PEF raw files for non-K100D

translations:
* updated german, french, polish, ukrainian

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
gphoto2 2.5.28 release

* show-preview: fixed to be a moving picture by using explicit memory based file
* --parsable: new option for listing files in parsable form
* --filenumber FILENUMBER: new option to allow --filename %n start at another number than 1.
* wait-event: sending SIGUSR1 signal to gphoto2 during a running --wait-event / --capture-tethered will trigger image capture
* ctrl-c also now cancels multi-file actions
* translations: updated german
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.