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Version 0.3.8
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Released: 2021-10-06

New Features:
 - Add g_usb_device_get_string_descriptor_bytes_full (Ricardo Cañuelo)

Bugfixes:
 - Add the GUsbEndpoint methods to the docs (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix hotplug handling and signal emission during enumerate (Benjamin Berg)

Version 0.3.7
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2021-05-24

New Features:
 - Add a FreeBSD CI target (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Do not depend on libusb_get_parent() to fix FreeBSD compile (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not depend on libusb_get_port_number() to fix DragonFlyBSD compile (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not double-reference USB devices (Marco Trevisan)
 - Do not run the tests on FreeBSD (Richard Hughes)
 - Require *any* python3 to fix FreeBSD build (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.3.6
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2021-03-12

New Features:
 - Add g_usb_device_get_string_descriptor_bytes() (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Properly set dylib versions on darwin (Caleb Xu)
 - Fix cancellation if cancellable is already cancelled (Benjamin Berg)

Version 0.3.5
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2020-07-30

Notes:

New Features:
 - Add a way to get iConfiguration (Benson Leung)

Bugfixes:
 - Allow building GtkDoc when building as a subproject (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix version script to be more portable (Laurent Bigonville, Ting-Wei Lan)
 - Include methods on plain structs in the version script (Simon McVittie)

Version 0.3.4
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2020-02-20

Notes:
 - This fixes the symbol version for g_usb_version_string() to be in the right
   place, so update this library alongside with external programs if you've
   already started using this symbol for example in fwupd. We've put a mechanism
   in place so this kind of thing can't happen again. Sorry!

New Features:
 - Validate the exported symbol list during check (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Include the USB bus in the generated platform_id (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.3.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2020-01-30

New Features:
 - Add a thin glib wrapper around libusb_endpoint_descriptor (Emmanuel Pacaud)

Bugfixes:
 - Fix high number of wakeups when checking the GUsbContext (Richard Hughes)
 - Use '#pragma once' to reduce boilerplate (Richard Hughes)
 - Wrap the upstream libusb_strerror() (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.3.2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2020-01-06

Bugfixes:
 - Do not use deprecated libusb API (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix compilation on macOS (Richard Hughes)
 - Use a 1ms timeout in the Windows event thread (Richard Hughes)
 - Use has_link_argument() to detect linker flags (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.3.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2019-11-16

New Features:
 - Add g_usb_device_get_spec() (Richard Hughes)
 - Add g_usb_version_string() for fwupd (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Add -Wswitch-enum (Benjamin Berg)
 - Fix GI length introspection annotations (grindhold)
 - Make gir generation optional (maxice8)

Version 0.3.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2018-02-14

New Features:
 - Add Travis integration (Richard Hughes)
 - Allow changing the path to usb.ids file (Ting-Wei Lan)
 - Port to the Meson build system (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Replace libusb-1.0/libusb.h with libusb.h (Ting-Wei Lan)

Version 0.2.11
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-07-24

New Features:
 - Add g_usb_context_set_flags() (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Fix the actual required GLib version (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.2.10
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-04-10

Bugfixes:
 - Correctly detect removed devices when rescanning (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix a memory leak when using control transfers (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix gtk-doc build when builddir != srcdir (Ting-Wei Lan)
 - Fix symbol version table up to version 0.2.9 (Dominique Leuenberger)

Version 0.2.9
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-03-21

New Features:
 - Add g_usb_context_wait_for_replug() (Richard Hughes)
 - Install gusbcmd as a debugging aid (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.2.8
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-12-01

New Features:
 - Add a PERMISSION_DENIED error enum (Richard Hughes)
 - Add a thin glib wrapper around a libusb_interface_descriptor (Richard Hughes)
 - Add g_usb_device_get_interfaces() (Richard Hughes)
 - Add g_usb_device_get_release() (Richard Hughes)
 - Add g_usb_device_set_interface_alt() (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Ignore the not-found error when resetting a device (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.2.7
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-09-15

New Features:
 - Support g_autoptr() for all gusb object types (Kalev Lember)

Bugfixes:
 - Add missing element-type annotations (Robert Ancell)

Version 0.2.6
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-07-06

Bugfixes:
 - Do not unref the GMainContext after each request (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.2.5
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-05-28

New Features:
 - Add g_usb_device_get_custom_index() (Richard Hughes)
 - Allow setting the GMainContext when used for sync methods (Richard Hughes)
 - Include all the USB device class codes (Richard Hughes)
 - Use symbol versioning (Pass Automated Testing Suite)

Version 0.2.4
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-01-09

Notes:
 - Bump glib build requirement to 2.38 (Ignacio Casal Quinteiro)

New Features:
 - Add g_usb_context_find_by_platform_id() (Richard Hughes)
 - Add g_usb_device_get_children() (Richard Hughes)
 - Add g_usb_device_get_device_subclass and get_device_protocol methods (Ignacio Casal Quinteiro)
 - Add g_usb_device_get_parent() (Richard Hughes)
 - Add g_usb_device_get_port_number() (Richard Hughes)
 - Add g_usb_device_get_vid_as_str() (Richard Hughes)
 - Show more helpful output for 'gusb show' (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Don't filter out hub devices when getting the device list (Richard Hughes)
 - Make the platform ID persistent across re-plug (Richard Hughes)
 - Port to GTask (Ignacio Casal Quinteiro)
 - Use new Glib features for various code cleanups (Ignacio Casal Quinteiro)

Version 0.2.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2014-12-01

Bugfixes:
 - Correctly terminate the libusb event thread (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.2.2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2014-11-26

New Features:
 - Official Windows support!

Bugfixes:
 - No longer require G_USB_API_IS_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE (Richard Hughes)
 - Use a thread to process libusb1 events (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.2.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2014-11-24

Bugfixes:
 - Always set a device platform ID (Richard Hughes)
 - Ignore 'unsupported' as a return value for kernel drivers (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.2.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2014-11-20

Notes:
 - This release raises the GLib requirement to 2.32 and libusb to 1.0.19
 - No GUdev functionality is now required

New Features:
 - Add g_usb_device_get_device_class() (Richard Hughes)
 - Use the native hotplug support in libusb 1.0.19 (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Fix a crash where libusb_get_pollfds() is unavailable (Richard Hughes)
 - Manually coldplug devices and poll if hotplugging is not available (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.1.6
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2013-03-05

Bugfixes:
 - Do not use deprecated GLib functionality (Richard Hughes)
 - Remove duplicate gtk-doc check in configure (David King)
 - Unref the GMainloop after it has been run, not when just quit (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.1.5
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2013-02-05

Bugfixes:
 - Don't use the deprecated INCLUDES in Makefile.am (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix documentation build (Christopher James Halse Rogers)
 - Fix obvious typo in README (Hans Ulrich Niedermann)

Version 0.1.4
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2012-11-06

New Features:
 - Add GObject Introspection support (Evan Nemerson)
 - Add g_usb_device_reset() to reset a connected device (Richard Hughes)
 - Add Vala bindings (Evan Nemerson)

Bugfixes:
 - Assorted introspection annotation fixes (Evan Nemerson)
 - Rename inconsistently named gusb_* symbols to g_usb_* (Evan Nemerson)

Version 0.1.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2011-12-05

Bugfixes:
 - Do not build with -Werror by default (Richard Hughes)
 - Add a missing error enum value (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.1.2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2011-11-11

New Features:
 - Call g_usb_device_list_coldplug() automatically (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Ignore EBUSY when trying to detach a kernel driver (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix a build failure on Debian (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.1.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2011-11-01

Notes:
 - This release bumps soname to remove GUdevDevice from the public API.

New Features:
 - Add g_usb_device_get_platform_id (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Add usb-1.0 to the gusb.pc 'Requires' (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not leak the GUdev API into the public API of GUsb (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not try to set the currently running device configuration twice (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not use g_simple_async_result_is_valid() as it fails for sync methods (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.1.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2011-09-15

Notes:
 - This is the first public release of GUsb!
 - The library is not API or ABI stable -- you also have to define
   G_USB_API_IS_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE before including the header to
   acknowlegde this.
 - Quite a lot of functionality has been added by Richard, Debarshi and
   Hans for this release, and we're open to new API ideas, patches and
   bugreports.

New Features:
 - Add a debugging tool to exercise the API that is not installed (Richard Hughes)
 - Add a simple self test framework (Richard Hughes)
 - Build: AM_PROG_CC_C_O required (Javier Jardón)
 - Build: Honor aclocal flags (Javier Jardón)
 - Build: Use new libtool syntax only (Javier Jardón)
 - Build: xz tarballs generation (Javier Jardón)
 - Generate gtk-doc files and add some gtk-doc markup (Richard Hughes)
 - GUsbContext: Ensure that there is only one GUsbSource for each GUsbContext (Debarshi Ray)
 - GUsbContext: fix mapping of GLogLevelFlags to libusb debug level (Hans de Goede)
 - GUsbContext: Turn into a proper gobject derived class (Hans de Goede)
 - GUsbDevice: Add asynchronous bulk and control transfer (Debarshi Ray)
 - GUsbDevice: Add functionality to do sync bulk, control and interrupt transfers (Richard Hughes)
 - GUsbDevice: Add functions to get string descriptors (Hans de Goede)
 - GUsbDevice: Add get bus / address methods (Hans de Goede)
 - GUsbDevice: Add g_usb_device_interrupt_transfer_async() (Richard Hughes)
 - GUsbDevice: Add GUsbDeviceList (Hans de Goede)
 - GUsbDevice: Add g_usb_device_open() and g_usb_device_close() (Richard Hughes)
 - GUsbDevice: Add some helpers for reporting not open functionality (Hans de Goede)
 - GUsbDevice: Add some more detailed error codes (Richard Hughes)
 - GUsbDevice: Add the ability to get elements of the device descriptor (Richard Hughes)
 - GUsbDevice: Call g_usb_device_req_free only after we are done with the instance (Debarshi Ray)
 - GUsbDevice: Check several methods for unopened device (Debarshi Ray)
 - GUsbDevice: Ensure the new async methods return the correct exit codes on failure (Richard Hughes)
 - GUsbDevice: Ensure we have the device descriptor before getting the vendor and product ID's (Richard Hughes)
 - GUsbDevice: g_usb_device_bulk_transfer_finish: Use g_simple_async_result_is_valid (Debarshi Ray)
 - GUsbDevice: g_usb_device_*_transfer_async: Report if the submission failed (Debarshi Ray)
 - GUsbDeviceList: Add g_usb_device_list_find_by_vid_pid() as it's required in colord (Richard Hughes)
 - GUsbDeviceList: Add g_usb_device_list_get_devices() to get the complete device list (Richard Hughes)
 - GUsbDeviceList: Do not duplicate all devices if the user calls coldplug() twice (Richard Hughes)
 - GUsbDeviceList: Make g_usb_device_list_add_dev() return TRUE if the device was added (Richard Hughes)
 - GUsbDeviceList: Ref the device returned by g_usb_device_list_get_dev_by_bus_n_address() (Richard Hughes)
 - GUsbDevice: Make several methods cancellable (Debarshi Ray)
 - GUsbDevice: Move setting config / claiming of interface to their own methods (Hans de Goede)
 - GUsbDevice: Set the GUsbContext for install use in GUsbDevice (Richard Hughes)
 - GUsbDevice: Turn into a wrapper around libusb_device (Hans de Goede)
 - GUsbSource: Add a GError parameter to g_usb_source_new() (Richard Hughes)
 - GUsbSource: g_usb_source_new won't return NULL (Debarshi Ray)
 - GUsbSource: Make ref / unref the context it uses (Hans de Goede)
 - Provide our own gusb_strerror function (Hans de Goede)
 - Require users specify G_USB_API_IS_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE when using libusb (Richard Hughes)
 - Simplify the reference counting of the GSimpleAsyncResult instances (Debarshi Ray)
 - Use standard GLogLevelFlags when setting the debug flags (Richard Hughes)
 - Use the slice allocator for fixed size structs (Debarshi Ray)