beep NEWS

The big and user visible changes.

1.4.12

• Document how to override and disable packaged udev rules.
• Changed the build system to be closer to the GNU makefile conventions, i.e. only one compiler/toolchain per build, default installation is prefix=/usr/local instead of prefix=/usr, use GNU style docdir= instead of RPM spec file style pkgdocdir=, etc. Still not using a configure script, though, as that is complex. The user writing a local.mk with some definitions covers everyone wanting to use the same settings across make invocations, though.

1.4.11

• Install the contrib/morse/* scripts just like the failure-beeps.

1.4.10

• Rename CREDITS to CREDITS.md and CHANGELOG to NEWS.md and reformatted them to markdown.
• Fix some __VA_ARGS__ problems with some C language compiler options.
• contrib/morse/: Add both perl and tr+sed script options to have beep produce morse code by converting the output of the morse utility from the BSD Games package to a beep command line.
• If built without any drivers, running beep will now complain and abort instead of silently (pun intended) just not beeping.
• Stop using Travis CI. Use GitHub Actions workflows for CI instead.
• Skip test cases using PC speaker hardware if absent (e.g. on a VM)
• Improved documentation (e.g. alsamixer requirement, loading pcspkr)

1.4.9

• Mention default values in beep(1) man page and beep --help output.

1.4.8

• At build time, avoid error messages related to maybe building without git installed, or from a tarball instead of a git source tree.
• Improve issue-6-benchmark report to help people with solving issue #6 (evdev open/close is slooow).

1.4.7

• Install contrib scripts for both successfully and failing sounding beep note sequences.
• Install man page uncompressed, so packagers can use their favoured compression format.

1.4.6

• Let user define CFLAGS_* at make time while internal appends still work

1.4.5

• Use va_copy() macro in function with va_list parameter to avoid possible bug
• Use BEEP_LOG_LEVEL environment variable for default log level

1.4.4

• Remove udev/rules.d/ and modprobe.d/ example files to force packagers to re-read PACKAGING.md and PERMISSIONS.md
• Rewritten PERMISSIONS.md and INSTALL.md, adapting README.md and PACKAGING.md and beep.1 for consistency
• Allow beep to run as non-root, even if SUDO_* env variables are present
• Fix newline escaping when generating beep-usage.c
• By default, use plain -g instead of -gstabs
• Ensure the gcc compiler used actually supports the default flags in CFLAGS_gcc

1.4.3

• Only use -fcf-protection CFLAGS_gcc if actually supported on this platform

1.4.2

• Improved beep(1) man page and --help output
• Cleaned signal handlers of all function calls
• Use beep driver infrastructure (console and evdev drivers)
• Abort on unhandled command line parameters
• Use nanosleep(2) instead of usleep(3)

1.4.1

• Safer signal handlers (safe_error_exit() without global variables).
• Reduce accepted range of input numbers. 5 minute beeps should still be long enough.

1.4.0

• Fix CVE-2018-1000532 External Control of File Name or Path vulnerability in --device option
• Fix CVE-2018-0492 race condition that allows local privilege escalation
• Make /dev/input/by-path/platform-pcspkr-event-spkr the default device to use as the system administrator can allow access to that without needing any privilege escalation risks via setuid or sudo.
• Adapt --help output, beep(1) man page, README.md, INSTALL.md to reflect the new device use.
• Add basic suite of tests.
• Constrained a few integers to avoid integer overflows.
• Only issue fallback \a type beeps if that \a actually goes to a tty device which can actually beep
• Stop promoting floating point frequencies which no Kernel API can even use

1.3

• 8 years have passed!
• Integrated a bunch of Gerfried Fuchs' changes maintained for the debian version for years and years
• Added him to the CREDITS, too.
• Support for devfs, and alternate console devices.
• Warnings about multiply-specified frequency
• Debug mode

1.2.2

• Man pages now gzip -9 for better compression
• Table of frequencies added to man page
• Fix for platforms with unsigned chars
• On ioctl() errors, beep will now do a printf("\a") so that, at very least, you get a beep. :)

1.2.1

• fixed segfault when handling long options

1.2.0

• added -n/--new support - so beep FINALLY handles multiple beeps on a single command line.
• -f now takes decimal frequencies, not just whole numbers.

1.0.2

• Added more common -V option, as companion to -v and --version
• README now addresses the question of multiple beeps, and composing music with beep.

1.0.1

• Fixed some outdated comments in the source, and a typo in the man page.

1.0.0

• added a SIGINT handler, so Ctrl-C no longer leaves the speaker wailing forever
• added -v/--version and -h/--help support
• updated man page
• this release is changed from 0.8 to 1.0.0, it's worthy of it. Feature complete and no outstanding bugs that I know of.

0.6.1

• changed man page to gzip format (instead of bzip2)
• updated man page and README to explain ioctl problems

0.6

• added -D option. Both -d and -D set inter-repetition delay, but -D instructs beep to delay even after the last beep, where -d delays only between beeps, and terminates immediately after last beep.
• incorporated Rick Franchuk's idea of stdin hooks - dear god -c is annoying.
• added a man page

0.5

• changed over from manually parsing command line parms to getopt()
• changed atoi() calls into sscanf() calls, to get more meaningful error handling

0.4

• first usable
• initial options supported: -f, -l, -d, -r