[Spice-devel] Announcing usbredir-0.3.2

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 01/03/2012 04:36 PM, Alon Levy wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 04:29:21PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm happy to announce a new official release of usbredir, version 0.3.2
>>
>> Changes:
>> --------
>>
>> -Switched to automake/autoconf/libtool based make system (Christophe Fergeau)
>>
>> -usbredirparser:
>>   -limited multi-thread safeness, see README.multi-thread
>>   -extend the device_connect packet header with a device_version field
>>    This new field is only send / received if both sides have the (new)
>>    usb_redir_cap_connect_device_version capability.
>
> Not related to usbredir protocol specifically, but what is your intended
> usage for both the version and the caps? only bump the version in
> extreme cases (change of header, reuse of an existing message with a
> different meaning) ?

There is no version field! There is a free form version string used for logging
the version (and type ie usbredirserver versus spice-gtk) of the peer. There
is no machine checked version!

So the intention is to always stay compatible, only adding new caps when
necessary.

Regards,

Hans