[sane-announce] [ANNOUNCE] Code freeze for sane-backends 1.0.17

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi everyone,

Code freeze for sane-backends 1.0.17 is now active.  After code freeze
only fixes of grave bugs that render a backend completely unusable or
break compilation and documentation updates are accepted.

Time table:
2005-12-18 Release

Current snapshots are available here:

http://www.sane-project.org/snapshots/

The current NEWS file is appended.

Bye,
  Henning


New with 1.0.17, released 2005-12-18:

* New backends: hp4200 (HP ScanJet 4200), lexmark (Lexmark X1100 series),
  mustek_usb2 (Mustek BearPaw 2448 TA Pro)
* Updated backends: artec_eplus48u, avision, canon, epson, fujitsu, genesys,
  gt68xx, microtek2, mustek_pp, plustek, plustek_pp, sm3600, snapscan,
  umax_pp.
* Hotplug/udev updates.
* scanimage fixes.
* sane-find-scanner finds more chipsets.
* Build system fixes/updates. make now calls makedepend.
* Several fixes in SANE internal functions (sanei).
* Portability fixes (especially for MacOSX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OS/2).
* Updated translations.
* Documentation updates.
* Bugfixes.