[sane-devel] NEWS files for sane-backends and sane-frontends 1.0.7

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning@meier-geinitz.de
Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:23:22 +0100


Hi,

These are the NEWS files for backends and frontends. Please check if I
missed anything or noted a wrong version for a backend.

Bye,
  Henning

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SANE_BACKENDS:
New with 1.0.7, released 2002-02-04:

* New backend: umax1220u (for UMAX Astra 1220U and 2000U scanners).
* Updated backends: avision (v 1.0.15), dc240 (v 0.0), dc25 (v 1.2),
  dll (v 1.0.5), epson (v 1.0.219), gphoto2 (v 0.0), microtek2 (v 0.95),
  mustek (1.0.118), mustek_usb (v 1.0.10), plustek (v 0.41), pnm (v 1.0.4),
  sharp (v 0.32), snapscan (v 1.4.7), st400 (v 1.6), umax (v 1.0-32), 
  umax_pp (v 1.0.6).
* Added support for translating backend options.
* Added support for USB control messages and lm983x and pv6830 chipsets.
* Better documentation of internal functions (sanei).
* Fixed several security issues with temporary files.
* Fixed several issues in the networking code.
* Portability fixes (especially for OS/2, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD).
* Scanimage fixes concerning TIFF output and signal handling.
* Documentation updates.
* Bugfixes.

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SANE-FRONTENDS:

New with 1.0.7, released 2002-02-04:

* New frontend: scanadf (command line frontend focussing on scanners with
  automatic document feeders).
* Updated frontends: xscanimage
* Documentation updates.
* Build fixes.
* Bugfixes.