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+ModemManager 1.12.0
+-------------------------------------------
+This is a new stable release of ModemManager.
+
+The following notes are directed to package maintainers:
+
+ * This version requires:
+   ** libmbim >= 1.18.0 (for the optional MBIM support)
+   ** libqmi >= 1.24.0 (for the optional QMI support)
+
+ * The build allows to configure with '--with-at-command-via-dbus' in order to
+   unconditionally enable the Modem.Command() method to allow running AT
+   commands through ModemManager. This is not suggested for standard
+   distributions, though.
+
+The most important features and changes in this release are the following:
+
+ * Modem interface:
+   ** Updated logic to avoid assuming that setting bands or modes is immediate,
+      the daemon will now actively monitor for those updates to happen before
+      returning success.
+
+ * 3GPP interface:
+   ** libmm-glib: deprecated the mm_pco_list_free() helper method.
+
+ * Simple interface:
+   ** api,libmm-glib: deprecated the 'subscription state' property.
+
+ * Location interface:
+   ** Fixed 'unknown' lat/long/alt numeric values.
+   ** Added support for MSB A-GPS in addition to MSA A-GPS.
+
+ * Voice interface:
+   ** Improved voice call management with call id detection and tracking.
+   ** Improved detailed call state transitions on generic modems that support
+      call list polling.
+   ** Added support for GSM supplementary services, including call waiting,
+      call transfer, call deflection, multiparty calls...
+   ** Added emergency call support, allowing voice call to emergency numbers
+      even without SIM or with SIM-PIN locked.
+   ** Deprecated all properties except for 'number' in the CreateCall()
+      method.
+
+ * Messaging interface:
+   ** Updated to report SMS timestamps in correct ISO8601 format.
+
+ * Bearer:
+   ** Improved unused CID lookup to allow selecting non-sequential CIDs.
+   ** Disabled all AT protocol based context monitoring when PPP is used for
+      the connection, in order to properly sync with pppd, which should be the
+      one detecting the disconnections (already in 1.10.6).
+
+ * QMI:
+   ** Improved support to list stored firmware images in Sierra devices.
+   ** Added additional lock check retries on 'SIM not inserted' errors.
+   ** Updated explicit registration attempt to report success only when the
+      target requested network is registered.
+   ** Added MSB A-GPS support.
+   ** Implemented automatic carrier configuration selection using PDC service
+      (already in 1.10.2).
+
+ * mmcli:
+   ** New machine-readable JSON output with '--output-json'.
+   ** Updated to allow using the modem UID to specify SIM operations.
+
+ * udev:
+   ** New ID_MM_PORT_TYPE_AUDIO generic udev tag to identify ports that
+      should be used for in-band audio.
+   ** Removed support for the ID_MM_PLATFORM_DRIVER_PROBE udev tag, as it
+      is no longer required given that the more generic explicit whitelist
+      may be used to flag which devices should be probed.
+   ** Renamed ID_MM_DEVICE_MANUAL_SCAN_ONLY to ID_MM_TTY_MANUAL_SCAN_ONLY,
+      given that the tag only applies to TTYs.
+   ** ID_MM_DEVICE_IGNORE is no longer used internally in ModemManager, and
+      is instead targeted to users that want to explicitly ignore specific
+      devices regardless of what filter type is in use (already in 1.10.6).
+
+ * dbus:
+   ** Updated to always report the registered MM_CORE_ERROR_CANCELLED error
+      instead of the implicit G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED ones generated by GLib.
+
+ * GObject introspection:
+   ** Fixed setup to explicitly skip all non-API methods.
+
+ * Plugins:
+   ** tplink: new plugin.
+   ** dlink: new plugin.
+   ** xmm: added MSB A-GPS support.
+   ** dell,dw5821e: update to allow unmanaged GPS support on the TTY even
+      when raw/NMEA GPS is enabled via QMI/LOC.
+   ** quectel: updated to allow TTY-only devices.
+   ** telit: added GPS support.
+   ** telit: improved band management with #BND.
+   ** simtech: added improved voice call support.
+   ** simtech: added support for LTE devices.
+   ** simtech: improved signal quality reporting logic.
+   ** simtech: added GPS support for the SIM7000/SIM7600 family.
+   ** cinterion: added support for time updates.
+   ** cinterion: added improved voice call support.
+   ** ublox: added improved voice call support.
+   ** ublox: improved band management with UBANDSEL.
+
+All the features and fixes which were backported to 1.10.x releases are also
+present in ModemManager 1.12.0.
+
+
 ModemManager 1.10.0
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 This is a new stable release of ModemManager.