LIRC Changelog

What's new in LIRC 0.8.6

Sep 14, 2009
  • Support for iMON devices has been improved substantially and setup was simplified.
  • New support was added for IT8720 and ENE KB3926 (ENE0100) CIR ports.
  • Locations of configuration files, sockets, and PID files were moved to conform to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
  • lircmd now includes support for the Linux input layer.
  • lircd now supports decoding the XMP protocol.

New in LIRC 0.8.5 (May 22, 2009)

  • added support for Winbond 8769L CIR port (e.g. found on Acer Aspire 6530G) (Juan J. Garcia de Soria)
  • added support for FTDI FT232-based IR Receiver
  • Linux input event generation using uinput
  • standardised namespace following Linux input conventions
  • added support for Awox RF/IR Remote (Arif)
  • added support for new iMon LCD devices
  • added support for Antec-branded iMon LCD and VFD devices

New in LIRC 0.8.4 (Oct 13, 2008)

  • This is a maintenance release adding support for kernel versions up to 2.6.27.
  • A driver supporting ITE8709 CIR ports was added.
  • A new pronto2lirc converter allows you to convert Pronto files to lircd config files.
  • lircd.conf now supports including other config files using the include directive.