Changes

v1.4

Released 6^th January 2019

• Fixed crash with checksumming enabled
• Various queue length changes
• Changed default input processing to "loose" for file interfaces
• Minor change to how default values for "strict" applied
• Fixed possible null pointer exception in serial interface argument processing
• Minor changes to persistent tcp behaviour
• Add support for B460800 and B230400 baud rates
• Make lowering file descriptor limits debug rather than warning
• Fix lack of null termination on interface names
• Make ~/.kplex.conf per-user conf file on OSX deprecating previous location
• Add -p option for pid file
• Add man page
• Fix errors in preamble parsing

v1.3.4

Released 26^th June 2016

• Fixed crash / unpredictable behaviour with "optional" interfaces
• Fixed port selection problem with udp interfaces

v1.3.3

Released 7^th May 2016

• Fixed filtering which was broken in 1.3.1
• Fixed crash when openvpn and similar interfaces configured on a system

v1.3.2

Released 21^st April 2016

• Added gpsd support
• Fixed various udp handling bugs
• Fixed various bugs on tcp reconnect
• Improve reconnection handling
• Added much more debugging
• Give interfaces default names

v1.3.1

Released 27^th September 2015

• Fixed various uninitialised pointer fixes
• Updated Makefile for OpenWRT and github builds
• Accept NULL as a sentence terminator with "strict=no"
• Fixed problem with non-truncation of output files
• Better guessing of UDP interface parameters
• Define ACCESSPERMS, remove redundant declarations, add header guards
• Fixed bug in source filtering
• Added option to re-enable nagle for TCP interfaces
• "-d" flag now documented with additional debugging
• Default queue sizes reduced and SNDBUF size reduced
• Added optional interface to filter rules

v1.3

Released 15^th April 2015

• Added udp interface type
• Added "strict" option and potential for looser parsing constraints
• Added "preamble" option to tcp interfaces
• Added AIS coalescing
• Fixed bugs in failover specification parsing
• Fixed file output to non-pre-existing files

v1.2

Released 6^th February 2015

• Added option for src TAGs to use input interface name
• Added options for owner, group and permissions to be specified for output files and pseudo terminals
• Fixed problem with reconnects when "tcp=fromstart" specified
• Fixed race condition in tcp reconnection
• Fixed bug opening regular files
• NetBSD portability
• Fixed bug in TAG checksumming

v1.1.1

Released 12^th November 2014

• Added "fromstart" to persist option
• Fixed timestamp bug
• Fixed problems with eol=rn option
• Fixed multicast interface selection bug
• Fixed serial ports previously not working with OS X
• Fixed bug in outbound TAG additions on serial lines

v1.1

Released 4^th June 2014

• Improved handling of TAG blocks
• TAG-based second and millisecond timestamping
• TAG-based source identification on outgoing packets
• Experimental "GoFree" support
• "loopback" option for feeding data back to the source it came from
• Greatly improved TCP persistence including configurable keepalives and send timeouts
• Greater range of baud rate options for serial/pty interfaces
• More consistent interface naming scheme
• Ability to mark interfaces "optional" which might not be available at startup
• Simplification of multithreading structure for improved compilation on embedded platforms
• Code changes to re-enable compilation on older versions of OS X (tested to 10.6)
• Fixed bug in default broadcast port handling

v1.0

Released 31^st August 2013

• Added multicast support
• Added "persist" and "retry" options for tcp client interfaces
• Added support for rate limiting
• Disable Nagle algorithm on tcp interfaces
• Fix bug in appending to non-existent files
• Fixed hang when configuration with no inputs specified
• Corrected multiple typos

v0.2.11

Released 25^th June 2013

• Fixed error with seatalk flag in serial.c
• Fixed makefile for bsd/macos
• Improved error reporting for broadcast interfaces
• Fix failure-to-exit bug when using tcp server
• Special handling of and improved support for FIFOs
• Ignore SIGPIPE to avoid crashes writing to FIFOs
• Added append mode for output files
• Enable use of redirected standard input and output in background mode
• Added persist flag for FIFOs
• Added eol option for \r\n line termination with file interfaces
• Make file output line buffered
• Reduce max sentence size to the 80 chars it was always meant to be
• Fixed tcp server filter inheritace bug
• Fixed bug resulting in qsize option being ignored for tcp and serial

v0.2.10

Released 31^st March 2013

• Fixed crash when interface error condition encountered on startup

v0.2.9

Released 4^th March 2013

• Fixed bug with input interfaces exiting before output startup
• Updated documentation to correctly describe use of "device" option
• Fixed segv in file error handling
• Fixed crash with input-only tcp servers
• Added "-V" flag for version identification

v0.2.8

Released 16^th January 2013

• Fixed bugs in shutdown of tcp server
• Minor changes to error handling and cosmetic source tweaks
• Source tidy for new Debian packaging
• Added example configuration file to source and debs

v0.2.7

Released 27^th December 2012

• Fixed crash and hang on exit with unidrectional tcp servers

v0.2.6

Released 18^th December 2012

• Fixed "port out of range" problem with non-standard broadcast UDP interfaces

v0.2.5

Released 10^th December 2012

• Fixed compatibility issues with IFNAMSIZ and PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE

v0.2.4

Released 30^th November 2012

• Added support for FreeBSD
• Explicit enabling of IPv6-mapped-IPv4 for platforms where this is disabled by default for AF_INET6 sockets

v0.2.3

Released 28^th November 2012

• Fixed multiple problems with broadcast interfaces
• Fixed bug in handling of unclosed quotes arround arguments

v0.2.2

Released 27^th November 2012

• Changed user config file to ~/Library/Preferences/kplex.ini on OS X
• Source tidy to silence compiler warnings on OS X

v0.2

Released 21^st November 2012

• Initial public test release