4 Major changes for each release are described here. Detailed changes between
5 two versions can be retrieved from Git.
10 * Translation updates (Indonesian, Spanish, ...).
15 * Fixed re-enabling task bar icon (bug #1369).
16 * Improve searching for installed images (bug #1393).
17 * Translations update (Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil),...).
18 * Compatibility with 3.0 Linux kernel.
23 * New Turkish translation.
24 * Updated Dutch translation.
25 * Handle security error when getting phone info (bug #1264).
26 * Read all messages on phones not supporting status but support GetNext (bug #1261).
31 * Fixed handling error when SMSC is not configured in phone (bug #1244).
32 * Drop dependency of RPM on python-xml, it's not needed anymore (bug #1248).
33 * Better error messages on non existing devices or on wrong privileges.
34 * Support for storing call entry as new contact (bug #1283).
35 * More user friendly errors from talkback dialog.
36 * Lot of translations were updated.
41 * Fixed displaying of an animation in SMS (bug #1091).
42 * Can Add and Delete multiple selections when Edit Recipient's numbers.
43 * Better log messages when scanning for phones (bug #1182).
48 * Fix manually updating Gammu settings (bdo #565165).
49 * Disable phone search while connected to phone (bug #460).
50 * Properly handle errors when submitting to phonedb (bug #1102).
51 * Make talkback dialog modal (bug #487).
52 * Wammu asks for PIN code on connection if required (bug #305).
53 * Command wammu -i now also shows security status.
54 * Do not try bluetooth connections on cable (bdo #565122).
59 * Fix crash when searching for phone (bug #1073).
60 * Avoid extra space at the end of SMS (bug #869).
61 * Respect message folder when importing backup (bug #1079).
62 * Fixed handling of boolean config values (bug #1090).
63 * Translation improvements (especially Dutch).
68 * Include forgotten Czech man pages.
69 * Fixed compatibility with Python 2.4.
74 * Better formatting of message (bug #869).
75 * Allow to export only new messages to IMAP (thanks to Tilmann Bitterberg).
76 * Do not emit warnings in Python 2.6 (bug #966).
77 * Properly escape XML in XML export (bug #914).
78 * Improve some English texts (bug #859).
79 * Better configuration of IMAP export (thanks to Tilmann Bitterberg).
80 * Sleep before reading newly created fields (bug #895).
81 * Do not use transparent icons (bug #833).
86 * Fixed Windows build.
87 * Fixed typo in desktop file.
93 * Do not fail if group ID can not be converted to name.
94 * Updated to work with current python-gammu.
95 * Translation updates.
96 * Support for displaying picture on contacts.
97 * Properly handle paths with special chars (bug #816).
98 * Make build time dependency checks optional.
99 * Drop wxPython 2.4 compatibility code.
104 * Fixed handling of call entries with multiple dates.
105 * Handle phones where writing entry to SIM card takes long (bug #682).
106 * Properly skip corrupted entries (bug #467).
107 * Added export of messages to XML (thanks to Florent Kaisser).
108 * Properly report failures when importing backup (bug #303).
109 * Add --info command line option to show connection info (bug #426).
110 * Add --debug switch to enable debug output to stderr (bug #426).
111 * Sign Windows binaries.
116 * Fixed freeze while searching for Bluetooth devices.
117 * Fixed guided configuration of Bluetooth devices (no more complains
118 about not existing device).
119 * Fixed saving of backups to folder with non ASCII names.
120 * Validation is less strict and allows hopefully all number.
121 * Add some keyboard shortcuts (eg. Ctrl+Q for exit).
126 * Do not fail if phone does not support call notifications.
127 * Improved handling of empty config file.
128 * Lot of translation updates.
129 * Fix compatibility with some IMAP servers.
134 * Various attempts to make Windows version back to usable state, but it
135 is not ready yet as there are quite random crashes in python-gammu on
136 Windows. Anybody with knowledge of python modules on Windows who is
137 willing to help is welcome.
138 * Dropped GNOME Bluetooth (btctl) support, it crashes too often.
139 * Fix icons size to be all 16x16.
140 * Fixed crash when D-Bus can not launch notification service.
145 * Fall back to Add methods if Set is not supported.
146 * Fixed phone number validation.
147 * Fixed crash when org.freedesktop.Notifications service is not
149 * Correctly report why guided wizard can not connect to phone.
150 * New navigation icons, thanks to David Corrales.
155 * Notifies user about incoming calls using D-Bus.
156 * Remember default type of created entry (eg. phone/SIM memory).
157 * Newly created entries contain some reasonable fields by default.
158 * Fixed validation of editor fields.
159 * Improvements in guided wizard to make it easier to use.
160 * Clever searching over Bluetooth based on manufacturer.
161 * Searching can be really limited to some connection types.
166 * Fixed phone number prefix settings.
167 * Customizable format for displaying name.
168 * Fixed crash when reporting information to phone database.
173 * Fixed errors in locales and applied stricter checking.
174 * Fixed various crashes.
179 * Tell user if he needs to be member of some group while searching.
180 * Avoid blocking opening of a browser.
185 * Improve locales behavior (and require wxPython with Unicode).
186 * Show time in call listings.
187 * Fixed infinite loop in searching.
188 * Fixed displaying of messages with special chars.
189 * Fixed locale detection on system without configured locales.
190 * Use different approach for detecting home directory on Windows.
191 * Now requires PyWin32 on Windows.
196 * Improved SMS recipient list handling.
197 * Can save and load SMS recipient list.
198 * Fix crash on Windows when username contains non-ascii chars.
199 * Fix Windows binary crashes.
200 * Support for sending file to phone.
201 * Support for task bar icon (thanks to Rene Peters).
202 * Fixed debug log on Windows.
203 * Fixed error handler on Windows.
208 * Better setup.py to use more of distutils.
209 * .mo locales are generated on build and not included in VCS.
210 * Show only existing devices on Windows (this requires pywin32).
211 * Now requires wxPython at least 2.6.2.
212 * Support for reporting in Gammu Phone Database.
213 * Automatically asks user for feedback after month of usage.
214 * GUI more follows HIG on target platform (button placement).
215 * Add wildcard search possibility.
216 * Use gammu configuration for phone connection instead of own.
222 * Remember column sorting.
227 * Include platform in crash log.
228 * Fix SMS composer on Windows.
229 * Fix adding part to SMS after removing all.
230 * Fix editor on Windows.
231 * Now requires wxWidgets 2.6.
236 * Language selection for Windows (based on GTK+ 2 ISS code).
237 * Finnish translation from Rosetta.
238 * Searching can be done plain text and not only regexp.
239 * Phone number matching now works even for national numbers.
240 * Fixed usability with inversed themes.
245 * Automatically append backup extension.
246 * PyBluez is now default for Bluetooth devices lookup.
247 * Fixed mail export for non English locales.
248 * Fixed installation on Windows.
249 * Added support for py2exe for distributing Windows executable.
250 * Added script for creating Wammu installer on Windows (using Inno Setup).
255 * Possibility to export SMS to maildir, mailbox and IMAP account.
256 * More user friendly debug logging.
257 * Many new translations, thanks to Rosetta.
258 * Improved Bluetooth lookup - now uses either PyBluez or btctl (part of GNOME
264 * More user friendly reporting of some common errors.
272 * SMS backups and import support.
279 * Fixed wrong implementation of not synced items for SMS.
280 * Some minor display errors were fixed.
281 * Application icon is now used correctly.
288 * Searching in entries.
289 * Reading backups without phone connected, can work as backup viewer.
290 * New bug reporting dialog, added bugid to allow easily search for
292 * Support for searching Bluetooth devices using gnomebt python module.
293 * Better searching for Nokia phones.
297 * Fixed some issues with debug wxPython, probably still all not solved.
304 * New settings dialog.
305 * Better date editing control.
309 * Should work with both wxPython 2.5 and 2.4.
313 * Calendar editor does not work in wxPython 2.5/Gtk 2, you need to enter
314 values manually (this is wxWidgets issue and has been fixed there).
321 * Signal and battery state continuous monitoring.
322 * Support for sending messages to multiple recipients.
326 * Should work with wxPython 2.5.
333 * Can expand "compressed" SMSes - TextCOMPRESSIONlikeTHIS.
334 * Allow direct calls/send message for contacts.
338 * Lots of charset issues fixed.
343 * Fixed typo in Wammu/Utils.py.
350 * Searching for phone.
351 * Backup and import functionality.
352 * Deleting of multiple entries at once.
354 * Playback of ring tones using timidity.
355 * More decoded SMS parts are now recognized (especially Nokia ones were not
357 * Unexpected exceptions are handled and reported as bugs.
358 * Czech localization.
362 * HTML displayer now should display non ascii texts correctly.
363 * Reads really all SMS.
364 * Better handling of exceptions when reading data.
365 * Broken wxListCtrl.GetColumn on wxPython 2.4.1.2 is workarounded.
366 * Workaround charset conversion problems in wxPython.
367 * Fixed creating multiple roots in tree control.
372 * Improves compatibility with more phone modules, by not requiring all
373 functions to be implemented/supported. For now reading of all stuff should
374 work with all phones Gammu supports.
375 * Now doesn't require wxPython 2.4.2.4, but 2.4.1.2, which should be in all
376 recent distributions.
377 * Will work even if you didn't have Gammu configured before.
382 * First widely announced release.
384 * Full editing support.
385 * Full support for SMS es.
386 * Supports internal links.
391 * Memory delete/edit/new support.
392 * Initial todo support.
393 * Internationalization.
398 * Initial version with information and memory support.
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