libnfc - ChangeLog

Fixes

• libnfc: fgets instead of getline, bring MacOSX / BSD without glibc alive
• libnfc: add missing CMake files to generated tarball needed by windows users (Thanks to Glenn)
• drivers/pn532_uart: fix pn532 wakeup response handling
• buses/uart: prevent from retrieving more than buffer length (potential buffer overflow)
• buses/uart: intent to speed up interface
• nfc-emulate-uid: use a correct UID
• nfc-mfclassic: fixes a segfault when using only 1 argument

Improvements

• libnfc: silent some compilation warnings
• drivers/pn533_usb: support new device: ASK / LoGO. (Thanks to ASK for sending one sample)
• chips/pn53x: set register directly if mask cover whole value.
• pn53x-tamashell: accepts script as arg, this makes shebang possible
• pn53x-tamashell: add pause command & doc
• documentation: add a README-Windows.txt file
• documentation: add more pcsc-lite related instruction in README

Note: There is an experimental Windows platform support (Thanks to Glenn Ergeerts)

Fixes

• libnfc: fix missing pn53x-tamashell-scripts in generated tarball. (Thanks to usermeister)
• buses/uart: improved UART communication on POSIX systems: slower devices can be detected and high speed devices works better
• buses/uart: serial autoprobe now skips invalid devices but checks all ports in the list
• drivers/pn53x_usb: prevent from stack corruption when using PN533-based device and add errors handling for ReadRegister and WriteRegister
• drivers/arygon: fix polling on ARYGON devices
• examples/nfc-emulate-tag: switch off easy framing when we are not emulating a ISO14443-4 target
• examples/nfc-mfclassic: fix crash when file cannot be opened for writing
• examples/nfc-mfultralight: fix 7 bytes UID display

Improvements

• libnfc: add a “troubleshooting” section in README to document ACR122 problems with pcsclite
• libnfc: inform user if target UID can not be emulated
• examples/nfc-mfultralight: handle lock page writing
• examples/nfc-emulate-tag: handle HALT & READ
• tests: add register access test

Note: There is an experimental Windows platform support (Thanks to Glenn Ergeerts)

Fixes

• libnfc: fix Felica listing
• libnfc: fix storage of ISO14443B targets data
• libnfc: fix MacOS build
• libnfc: fix some errors string (ie. well-known “Invalid Parameter”)
• libnfc: fix memory leak while using *_pick()
• drivers/pn53x_usb: fix ZLP USB issue
• drivers/pn53x_usb: workaround for PN532 toggle bit USB bug
• drivers/pn53x_usb: fix timeout problem in emulation mode
• drivers/pn53x_usb,pn532_uart,arygon: more robust recovery from unstable states such as interrupted emulation modes
• drivers/acr122: fix escape ioctl under Linux
• buses/uart: fix UART default serial ports under Linux.
• examples/nfc-anticol: fix bug preventing to run nfc-anticol after some other programs
• examples/nfc-anticol: fix display of UID
• … and many other minor fixes

Improvements

• libnfc: major emulation improvements: libnfc can now be used to emulate ISO/IEC 14443 type A tag (MIFARE, ISO14443-4), FeliCa and D.E.P. target
• libnfc: documentation improvements
• libnfc: decode select/initialization datas for almost all supported target types (ISO14443 A/B, Jewel/Topaz, FeliCa)
• libnfc: add ISO/IEC 14443B baud rates: 212, 424 and 847 kbps
• libnfc: cache some chip registers for faster communication
• libnfc: greatly improved D.E.P. support
• buses/uart: adjust UART's timeouts from baud rate: faster communication at high speed and more reliable at low speed (affect pn532_uart and arygon drivers)
• drivers/arygon: retrieve ARYGON µC firmware version
• examples/nfc-anticol: adds support for CL3
• examples/nfc-anticol: cascade based on SAK rather than CT, better for educational purpose
• examples/nfc-anticol: Computes CRC rather than hardcoded one.
• examples/nfc-utils: print_iso14443b_info() now displays many decoded information in verbose mode
• examples/nfc-utils: print_iso14443a_info() now displays many decoded information and shows attempt to determine tag name in verbose mode
• examples/nfc-list: new option -v for verbose mode
• examples/nfc-list: now support for Jewel/Topaz too
• examples/nfc-poll: now poll using all supported modulations
• examples/nfc-dep-target: add hack to allow to use two devices on the same machine (for tests/debug purpose)
• examples/pn53x-tamashell: New PN53x TAMA communication demonstration shell (support scripting)
• examples/nfc-relay-picc: New tool to relay ISO14443-4 communications (even over network… Enjoy!)
• examples/nfc-emulate-forum-tag4: New example to emulate a NFC Forum tag type 4
• examples/nfc-emulate-tag: New example to emulate tags
• examples: add missing man pages
• … and many other minor improvements

Changes

• API: Many changes, see NEWS file for more info how to migrate
• buses/uart: split UART implementations: one file for POSIX and another one for Windows
• examples: nfcip-* renamed to nfc-dep-*
• examples: nfc-sam renamed to pn53x-sam
• examples: nfc-emulate renamed to nfc-emulate-uid
• examples: change examples license for the sake of consistency: LGPL covers library, re-usable examples code is now under BSD license.

Fixes

• libnfc: fix ATS
• pn53x_usb: fix USB issues
• nfc-mfultralight: fix read and write counters

Improvements

• libnfc: rearrange source code
• libnfc: enhance documentation
• libnfc: add regression tests (not as much as expected but its here!)
• build: configure script now supports –with-drivers option instead of –disable-pcsclite and –disable-libusb (see –help)
• nfc-mfultralight: we now can write OTP bytes if user want to

Changes

• API: nfc_initiator_select_tag() is now nfc_initiator_select_passive_target()
• API: nfc_initiator_deselect_tag() is now nfc_initiator_deselect_target()
• API: new function nfc_initiator_list_passive_targets() to list available targets in field
• API: new nfc_perror(), nfc_strerror() and nfc_strerror_r() functions to handle errors
• API: new types: nfc_target_type_t and nfc_target_t
• API: new configuration option NDO_AUTO_ISO14443_4 to enable/disable auto iso14443-4 mode.
• API: new configuration option NDO_EASY_FRAMING to enable/disable auto frames encapsulation and chaining
• API: nfc_initiator_transceive_dep_bytes(), nfc_target_receive_dep_bytes() and nfc_target_send_dep_bytes() have been removed (unset NDO_EASY_FRAMING instead of these functions)
• API: (experimental) new nfc_initiator_poll_targets() which allow to use hardware polling function
• examples: add draft of a new example: nfc-sam. It tests the comunication with a connected SAM (Secure Access Module)
• examples: add new example to show how to use new polling function
• examples: add new example to diagnose basic elements (communication, rom and ram) of pn53x
• nfc-mfultralight: on write failure, continue if authenticate works.
• nfc-mfclassic: take care of 16-blocks-long sectors of Mifare Classic 4K in the nfc-mfclassic example's blocks counting routine.
• nfc-mfclassic: now fails ealier when something goes wrong (this allow to prevent from false-success).
• nfc-mfclassic: disable ISO14443-4 auto-switching in order to read devices that emulate Mifare Classic with ISO14443-4 compliance.(e.g. Nokia 6212 Classic)

Important note: This release will no more install extra headers (like mifare.h), programs that depends on should copy theses files into their sources.

Fixes

• Fix CT (Cascade Tag) byte when using 10 bytes long UID.
• Strip CT (Cascade Tag) from UIDs in nfc_initiator_select_tag().
• Fix CMake build (mainly on Windows related stuff)
• Minors fixes in documentation.
• Suppress almost all compilation warnings.

Changes

• API: Provide ISO14443A CRC function.
• Remove annoying info message when probing uart devices while serial autoprobing is disabled.
• Rename README-Windows.txt (compilation using CMake) into CMake-Windows.txt
• Add README for Windows compilation using win32/Makefile.

Note: Windows users could now take main tarball using CMake to build or Windows specific archive using MinGW GNU/Make.

Fixes:

• libnfc: Attempt to fix build on Windows using CMake;
• libnfc: Fix build on NetBSD;
• libnfc: Fix build on MacOS X;
• nfc-relay: fix usage of two devices using the same driver.

Fixes:

• libnfc: Fix compilation issue under FreeBSD (should now compile on FreeBSD 6, 7 and 8)

Note: Experimental CMake files are provided with this release, issues reports are welcome.

Fixes:

• libnfc: Fix compilation issue under Windows
• uart bus: Fix possible invalid file descriptor in uart_close()
• uart bus: Serial autoprobing is now DISABLED to avoid UART disturbing. (Feature can be enabled using –enable-serial-autoprobe option while configure)

Fixes:

• build: Add workarounds for libusb when compiling using C99;
• build: Attempt to fix rpath issue on linux platform (it is already deprecated in main distributions. i.e. http://wiki.debian.org/RpathIssue);
• build: wrong paths in pkg-config file;
• libnfc: Remove warnings when compiling;
• libnfc: Various code fixes and cleanup;
• bus uart: Added support for recv/send of larger data chunks (>default_os_buffer);
• bus uart: Fix some some buffer synchronization problems under POSIX system;
• bus uart: Add configure option: –disable-serial-autoprobe to disable autoprobing;
• libnfc: Fix nfc_target_init doesn't correctly reset the parity during initalization;
• libnfc: added support for WUPA and 7,10 byte UID in nfc_initiator_select_tag();
• libnfc: Fix tag re-selection with UID length > 4 bytes (like DESFire or Ultralight);
• nfc-mfclassic: Fix authenticated only with KEYA;

Improvements:

• build: Build on FreeBSD;
• build: Add alternative build system (CMake);
• build: Add new files usefull for desktop GNU/Linux users: some rules for udev to allow non-root access to PN53x USB devices;
• build: Update msinttypes up to revision 26. (used when compiling under Windows);
• build: Add “make doc” directive: it will build API documentation using Doxygen. (–enable-doc flag is required at configure time);
• libnfc: Add C++ compatibility;
• libnfc: Add driver agnostic nfc_pick_device(), nfc_list_devices();
• libnfc: It is now possible to specify a wanted device using new struct “nfc_device_desc_t”;
• libnfc: Add device name to device descriptions (nfc_device_desc_t) to select a given PCSC device;
• libnfc: Finally removed all dirty globals, it 'should' be thread-safe now;
• libnfc: Less confusing message for bitstreams display;
• libnfc: chips level introduction with pn53x.h/c;
• drivers: Add PN532 UART driver;
• drivers pn533_usb and pn531_usb: Lets search continuing to find other USB readers if any in PN531 and PN533 USB drivers;
• drivers pn533_usb and pn531_usb: Support for the generic vendorid/productid of the NXP chip;
• drivers pn533_usb and pn531_usb: Consolidate duplicated code;
• examples: Add MIFARE Ultratag tool;
• examples: Add man page for nfc-mfultool;
• examples: MIFARE examples (mftool and mfultool) have now a better help message;
• examples: Add NFCIP (NDEP) as experimental feature;
• examples: add quiet mode to improve timing of emulate, relay and anticol commands;
• nfc-list: List all devices in nfc-list(1);
• nfc-list: Simply turns off the RF field upon exit;
• nfc-emulate: allow UID to be specified;
• nfc-relay: Initialize initiator device explicitly;
• nfc-relay: Capture ctrl-c for quitting cleanly the relay attack application;
• nfc-relay: exit properly if emulator initialization failed;
• nfc-mfclassic: Add default keys tries;

Changes:

• API: Rename tag_info to nfc_target_info_t;
• API: Rename init_modulation to nfc_modulation_t;
• API: Rename dev_config_option to nfc_device_option_t;
• API: Use NULL instead of INVALID_DEVICE_INFO to know if device is valid;
• API: Rename chip_type to nfc_chip_t;
• API: Rename dev_spec to nfc_device_spec_t;
• API: Rename dev_info struct to nfc_device_t;
• API: Variables have been renamed to match coding conventions;
• API: Changed length parmeters from uint32_t to size_t;
• Files: Remove defines.h public header;
• Files: Prefix messages.h and types.h headers by “nfc-”;
• Files: Revamp libnfc source tree;
• Files: Move examples into src/examples subdirectory;
• Examples: Rename nfc-mftool to nfc-mfclassic;
• Examples: Rename nfc-mfultool to nfc-mfultraligh

• Added support for Felica and ISO14443-B in list example
• Added support for PN533 NFC dongles
• Added ARYGON ADRA-USB/ADRB-USB readers
• Improved functionality to select and deselect passive tags
• Fixed ATQA byte-order representation
• License changed from GPLv3 to LGPLv3
• C99 standard
• Autotoolized for GNU/Linux, *BSD and MacOSX
• nfc tools (anticol, emulate, list, mftool, relay) are now prefixed by “nfc-”

• ACR122 firmware v2.x support
• NFC-Dongle devices support (SCL3710, Snapper, etc.)
• Cleaned up code and API for sending bit/byte frames
• Introduced framework for multiple reader support
• Optimized speed for low-level communication
• Rewrote MIFARE Classic dump/restore demonstration tool (mftool)
• Removed documentation, switched to online support

• Initial release