[Lcdproc] LCDproc 0.52 due to come in April

[Peter Marschall]

Hi list,

lots of fixes and extensions have gone into LCDproc sicne the release
of LCDproc 0.5.1 last October.

Here's the list with the most important ones:
* fix switching on/off the Load screen in lcdproc client using the menu
* refactor adv_bignum: support height > 4, loadable chars with offset
* ged rid of global variables buffer & tmp in lcdproc client
+ add init-script templates for LSB 3.x conforming systems
* fix cellwidth in iMon driver
+ graphics character support in iMon driver (John Saunders)
* try harder to find a shell in lcdexec
+ big number support in CwLnx driver via bignum library
* do not copy more bytes than reserved in get_fs() in lcdproc's machine_*.c
* update lcdproc's About screen with credits
* fixes to ula200 build environment and documentation (B. Walle)
* update g15 driver to be compatible with g15daemon > 1.2 (Anthony J. 
Mirabella)
* allow compiling with LDFLAG "--as-needed" (Robert Buchholz)
* optimize MtxOrb flush()
* make MtxOrb use Brightness and OffBrightness like CFontzPacket
* make Brightness & OffBrightness run-time configurable in CFontz & MtxOrb
* add support for Iface and ProcSize screens for OS X / Darwin (Eric Pooch)
* update & fix serialVFD driver (Stefan Herdler)
+ Hitachi SP14Q002 support & ConnectionType setting for sed1330 (Benjamin 
Wiedmann)
* replace obsolete index() by strchr() (Guillaume LECERF)
* fixes for CwLinux driver (Gideon Tsang)
+ new ConnectionType vdr-wakeup in hd44780 driver (originally Frank Jepsen)
* fixes for the hd44780-serial drivers (Matteo Pillon)
+ new options for the hd44780 driver (Frank Jepsen)
+ new driver for text based serial Point of Sale displays (Eric Pooch)
+ new 2-line bignum mode using 6 user defined characters (Robin Gilks)
* fix custom characters [with NewFirmware=yes] & backlight in CFontz
+ ea65 - driver for VFD in AOpen XC Cube AV EA65 barebones (Karsten Festag)
+ picolcd - driver for Mini-box.com USB LCD picoLCD (Gatewood Green)
+ new ConnectionType pertelian in hd44780 driver (Matteo Pillon)
+ new ConnectionType lcd2usb in hd44780 driver

I am planning to release a new version of LCDproc by the mid to end of
April. 
So, please test the current CVS, and if you find bugs, please send in patches.

Peter

PS: This is no April fool's joke.


-- 
Peter Marschall
peter@adpm.de