SRA Lab Open Source Code

6Feb/120

Fork me, I’m famous!

The modbus library finds its way into the official repositories Fedora (packaged by Stéphane Raimbault), Debian and Ubuntu (packaged by Ivo De Decker).

https://community.dev.fedoraproject.org/packages/libmodbus
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libmodbus
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libmodbus

Of course, we'll happy to support other distributions!

To improve the communication and ease the subscription process, the libmodbus project as moved from Launchpad list to Google Groups libmodbus@googlegroups.com.

Update: Julien Boibessot integrated libmodbus into Buildroot.

6Feb/120

libmodbus v3.0.2

Yet another stable release with minor fixes.

libmodbus 3.0.2 (2012-01-16)

  • Update Debian package.
  • Documentation fixes and additions.
  • Add missing C++ macros in public headers. Thanks to Bernhard Agthe.
  • Protects modbus_mapping_free against NULL argument. Thanks to Andrea Mattia.
  • Fix check on file doc/libmodbus.7 in acinclude.m4 (closes #28)
  • Close file descriptor when the settings don't apply in RTU. Original patch provided by Thomas Stalder.
  • unit-test.h is now generated to avoid config.h dependency.
  • Request for Windows Sockets specification version 2.2 instead of 2.0. Thanks to Pavel Mazniker for the report.