[Release] pilot-link v0.11.8 "Asphyxia"

["David A. Desrosiers" <hacker gnu-designs com>]

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	Thanks to the steady work of jpr, myself and other contributors on
irc and through the mailing lists, bugtracker, and email, we've released
pilot-link 0.11.8.

	Below is a brief synopsis of what you can find in this new release.
Our goal is to make a 0.11.9 release by the end of this week, Friday July
4th, if all goes well.

	Why Asphyxia? Because with this next set of releases, as we begin to
add new features, we're going to be taking all the "oxygen" out of the code,
which means more of the old or redundant code will be rewritten, removed or
replaced by smaller, faster code.

	You can download this release from the pilot-link.org homepage.

	http://pilot-link.org/

	Also, for those who would like to contribute to the FAQ, code, ToDo
list, or any of the other outstanding bits and bobs in the project (manpages
and documentation writers welcome =), please visit the pilot-link Wiki at:

	http://wiki.pilot-link.org/

	Thanks to everyone for your continued use and support!

	Here's the latest NEWS for 0.11.8:

__RELEASE__
More code cleanups in this release, minor typos fixed here and there, and
more reduction of the codebase in general. Things are going to get smaller,
faster, and more functional with each of these new releases.

Major Features:
        * New timing loop so you don't have to hit HotSync on the Palm
          first, before launching your desktop conduits. This also works
          gnome-pilot and J-Pilot as well.
        * pilot-foto conduit to fetch/convert photos taken with a Palm
          Zire71 camera device
        * Completely new Java bindings, rewritten from the ground-up by John
          Mitchell (thanks John!)

Other Features:
        * A few new manpages

Bug Fixes:
        * Fixed a small leak in the socket code (serial.c/socket.c) (Robert
          L Krawitz)
        * Removed CoPilot ROM support from pi-getrom/pi-getram. POSE
          supercedes it, and should be used instead.
        * Solaris libpng fix (Simon Burr)
        * Fixed the pilot-addresses segfault problem on some platforms
        * BSD gnugetopt cleanup to counter unsetting $LIBS accidentally (Joe
          Marcus Clarke)
        * Perl5 errors when building under a debug build of Perl (Johathan
          Mark)

Known Problems:
        * install-datebook needs proper parsing for spurious arguments
        * Resources which exceed the Palm recommendation of 64k will cause
          odd behavior in pilot-link. This can be easily fixed by increasing
          DLP_BUF_SIZE, but this isn't really good to do.
        * sync-plan has some issues with events, need testers to verify.
        * Syncronizing on FreeBSD with USB Palm devices is still flaky, but
          we believe the issue to be inside the BSD USB stack, and not
          within pilot-link itself. Can anyone concur/refute this assertion
          and help us test it further?
        * If you are doing a Network HotSync backup, and communication is
          interrupted, your local copy of the last database accessed will be
          truncated. One proposal to working around this has been floated,
          but not implemented or tested yet.

What's Coming Soon:
        * VFS support was implemented with 29 of the VFS functions needed to
          read, write, and query external storage cards on Palm handhelds,
          but it was not deployed in this release. It should arrive in 0.12
          of pilot-link, only a few releases away.
        * Conduit compression/rewrites. Many of the conduits will be
          collapsed into singular conduits, and others will be rolled into
          static versions using Perl for code reduction and portability
          reasons.
        * iCal and LDIF support for Calendar and AddressBook input and
          output

The goal of the next few releases of pilot-link is to reduce the number of
lines of actual code used, and compress the redundancy into singular
entities. This means that similar or like code will be repurposed as much as
possible across all of the libraries and conduits, reducing the cruft and
maintenance required to update it for new features.
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