ANN: libmbim 1.12.0 released

[Aleksander Morgado]

Hey,

New libmbim stable release available.

Overview of changes in libmbim 1.12
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* New `--enable-mbim-username' option during configure, which allows
specifying which will be the user owning the /dev/cdc-wdm character
devices of all MBIM modems (udev rules are installed to change file
ownership). If this option is used, the mbim-proxy will only allow
connections from processes running by the specified user or by the root
user.

* Function error messages can now be returned by the MbimDevice as
responses to `Command', `Open' or `Close' messages. Users of the library
should not assume the type of message returned to the previous actions.

* The MbimProxy will monitor for 'NotOpened' errors, and when one
detected it will directly close the internal MbimDevice. Any subsequent
request sent by clients to that specific device will be aborted with a
proxy-generated 'NotOpened' error. Clients will need to explicitly
reopen the ports in that case.

* The API now has a new mbim_message_response_get_result() method which
allows getting a GError from a message which may be of a specific type
(e.g. a `Command Done' message in response to a `Command' request) or
instead the generic `Function Error' message type. Users of the library
can use this new method to avoid assuming the type of message returned.

  E.g. the following check:
      mbim_message_command_done_get_result (response, &error);
  Can be updated as:
      mbim_message_response_get_result (response,
                                        MBIM_MESSAGE_TYPE_COMMAND_DONE,
                                        &error);
  And the same logic can be applied to `Open' and `Close' messages.

* Other bugfixes and minor improvements:
  ** Attach timeout and idle events to the thread-default context.
  ** Fix bashisms in the mbim-network script.

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About libmbim:
    http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libmbim

Download here:
    http://www.freedesktop.org/software/libmbim/libmbim-1.12.0.tar.xz

API here:
    http://www.freedesktop.org/software/libmbim/libmbim-glib/1.12.0/

Please report bugs either to:
    libmbim-devel at lists.freedesktop.org

Or to bugzilla:
    https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?product=libmbim

Cheers!

-- 
Aleksander
https://aleksander.es