[sane-devel] Noteworthy changes in genesys backend (was Re: Code freeze and release preparations for 1.0.28)

[Povilas Kanapickas]

Hi Olaf,

On 7/29/19 4:05 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> Hi Povilas,
> 
> Olaf Meeuwissen writes:
> 
>> Hi again all,
>>
>> Still following the release schedule on our [1.0.28 milestone][1], our
>> master branch is now (2019-07-24 12:00UTC) in code freeze.  Please do
>> *not* push/merge to master unless it fixes
>>
>>  - hardware destroying bugs (no reports at present),
>>  - compile failures (our CI is clean so we're looking good),
>>  - completely unusable backends, or
>>  - documentation
> 
> On the documentation front
> 
> I've been going through the commit messages and diff since 1.0.27,
> collecting the noteworthy changes for our NEWS file.  However, the
> changes to the genesys backend are so extensive I'm a bit at a loss
> there.
> 
> Can you provide a list of the changes relevant to a user of the compiled
> backend as well as to maintainer of binary packages?  I've got the C++
> bit covered already ;-)  Just a simple mail message will do.

Surprisingly, there was not many user-visible changes. The release notes
could be:

- implemented initial support for Canon CanoScan 8600F

- fixed a number of memory management bugs

- significant internal changes to make easier to add new scanners

Regards,
Povilas