Re: [ANNOUNCE] libgpiod v1.6 released

[Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 3:20 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm announcing the release of libgpiod v1.6. This is the last release
> in the v1.x series. New, improved version of the GPIO uAPI is now in
> linux-next queued for v5.10.

Good news!

> It introduces many new features which we
> won't be able to support with the current library API (and we also
> have several reworks defined in TODO that'll also require breaking
> compatibility) so my plans going forward are as follows:
>
> 1. Switch the major version of libgpiod API to 2 and start working on
> the new API (preferably starting out by simply porting the current
> library to v2 uAPI).
> 2. Indefinitely support v1.6.x branch with bug fixes.
> 3. Consider v1.4.x as an LTS supported for as long as yocto uses v5.4
> kernel as their LTS (this is because v1.4 is the last version to not
> require v5.5 kernel headers to build).
> 4. (maybe) Create a compatibility layer between v1.x and v2.x once
> v2.0 is out that will ease the switch to the new release.

I'm wondering if you are planning to develop v2.x with possibility to
coexist with v1 on the same machine (like gtk2 / gtk3 and other
examples).

> There are no big new features in this release, mostly improvements and
> bug-fixes. The details are in NEWS.
>
> Grab tarballs from:
>     https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/libs/libgpiod/
>
> Grab source from:
>     git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libgpiod/libgpiod.git



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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko