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New in 1.8.0:

API Changes:

  • Restore nfc_modulation_type enum order to keep compatibility with libnfc 1.7.1
  • Bump library version to 6.0.0

New in 1.7.2:

Drivers:

  • New driver for pn71xx NXP's NFC Controllers through Linux Libnfc-nci (untested)
  • New driver for contactless PC/SC readers (only as initiator)

API Changes:

  • nfc_device_get_supported_baud_rate() now takes also "mode" as argument
  • New nfc_device_get_supported_baud_rate_target_mode()
  • New NFC modulation type NMT_BARCODE and nfc_barcode_info struct to support Thinfilm NFC Barcode protocol
  • New NFC modulation type NMT_ISO14443BICLASS and NMT_ISO14443BICLASS struct to support HID iClass (Picopass)
  • pn53x_transceive() is now part of public API

New in 1.7.1:

API Changes:

  • nfc_initiator_select_passive_target() provides defaults if pbtInitData=NULL
  • nfc_initiator_target_is_present() allow NULL pointer to tag

New in 1.7.0:

Drivers:

  • New PN532 over I2C driver, see contrib/libnfc/pn532_i2c_on_rpi.conf.sample

API Changes:

  • New function iso14443b_crc_append()

New in 1.7.0-rc7:

Drivers:

  • New PN532 over SPI driver, see contrib/libnfc/pn532_spi_on_rpi.conf.sample

API Changes:

  • Functions
    • nfc_initiator_target_is_present() & str_nfc_target(): now take a pointer to nfc_target as argument
    • nfc_init(): upon malloc error, doesn't force exit() anymore so now you should test if context != NULL after nfc_init() call

New in 1.7.0-rc5:

API Changes:

  • Functions
    • New nfc_register_driver() function allowing to hook custom drivers.

New in 1.7.0-rc3:

API Changes:

  • Functions
    • Add timeout param to nfc_emulate_target()

New in 1.7.0-rc2:

Configuration: libnfc can now use a configuration file for special setups, or features activation. This file (/etc/nfc/libnfc.conf under GNU/Linux systems) supports already some keywords: - "allow_autoscan" to enable/disable device auto-detection feature; - "allow_intrusive_scan" to enable/disable intrusive auto-detection (ie. serial port probing); - "log_level" to select library verbosity; - "device.name" and "device.connstring" to define a user device, this is the recommended method if user has a not easily detectable device (ie. a serial one). It is also possible to define devices using dedicated configuration files and put them into device search directory (/etc/nfc/devices.d under GNU/Linux). Example for the OpenPCD2: create /etc/nfc/devices.d/openpcd2.conf with: name = "OpenPCD2" connstring = "pn532_uart:/dev/ttyACM0" optional = true The keyword "optional" does not mandate the device to be present always (it detects if the reader is indeed present before using it)

API Changes:

  • Types

    • New NFC_ESOFT error to handle software errors (allocations, pipe creation, etc.)

  • Functions

    • Remove nfc_get_default_device() function: the default device is now the first in nfc_list_devices() or could be open using NULL connstring with nfc_open() function.
    • New enum-to-string converter functions str_nfc_modulation_type() and str_nfc_baud_rate()
    • New str_nfc_target() to convert nfc_target struct into allocated string
    • New nfc_device_get_information_about() function to retreive some device's information
    • No more in/out function parameter: nfc_initiator_transceive_*() now take a constant size for Rx buffer
    • New nfc_initiator_target_is_present() to test is the previously selected target is available in the field
    • nfc_initiator_transceive_bytes() returns NFC_EMFCAUTHFAIL when AUTH command failed on a Mifare Classic
    • New nfc_initiator_init_secure_element() to initiate a connection with secure element (Only supported with a PN532 with SAM equipped)

New in 1.6.0-rc1:

API Changes:

  • Types

    • '_t' suffix removed from all types (e.g. nfc_device_t is now nfc_device)
    • All errors removed in flavour of NFC_EIO, NFC_EINVARG, NFC_EDEVNOTSUPP, NFC_ENOTSUCHDEV, NFC_EOVFLOW, NFC_ETIMEOUT, NFC_EOPABORTED, NFC_ENOTIMPL, NFC_ETGRELEASED, NFC_ERFTRANS, NFC_ECHIP and NFC_SUCCESS
    • nfc_device_desc_t replaced by nfc_connstring: libnfc now uses connection strings to describe a device
    • byte_t typedef removed, libnfc now uses uint8_t from C99
    • nfc_device is now an opaque type
    • nfc_properties replaces nfc_options

  • Functions

    • New nfc_get_default_device() function that allows to grab the connstring stored in LIBNFC_DEFAULT_DEVICE environnement variable or returns the first available device if not set
    • New nfc_device_get_connstring() accessor function to know the device connstring
    • New nfc_device_set_property_bool() function that replace nfc_configure()
    • New nfc_device_set_property_int() function to set integer property
    • nfc_device_name() renamed to nfc_device_get_name() for the sake of consistency
    • New nfc_device_get_last_error() function, an accessor to last error occured
    • Whole libnfc's functions now return 0 (NFC_SUCCESS) or positive value if appropriated on success and libnfc's error code on failure
    • nfc_connect(), nfc_disconnect() renamed to nfc_open(), nfc_close() respectively
    • Add 2 new functions: initialization and deinitialization functions: nfc_init() and nfc_exit()
    • New nfc_device_get_supported_modulation() and nfc_device_get_supported_baud_rate() functions

  • Dependencies

    • log4c is not anymore used for debugging facility. It was a bad choice, sorry for inconvenience.

New in 1.5.1:

API Changes

  • Types

    • Communication-level errors DEIO and DETIMEOUT are now know as ECOMIO, ECOMTIMEOUT respectively
    • Common device-level errors DEINVAL and DEABORT are now know as EINVALARG, EOPABORT respectively
    • New errors: EFRAACKMISMATCH, EFRAISERRFRAME, EDEVNOTSUP and ENOTIMPL

  • Functions

    • nfc_abort_command() returns a boolean
    • timeout (struct timeval) pointer added to nfc_initiator_transceive_bytes(), nfc_target_send_bytes() and nfc_target_receive_bytes()
    • timed functions nfc_initiator_transceive_bytes_timed() and nfc_initiator_transceive_bits_timed() now takes uint32_t as cycles pointer
    • nfc_initiator_poll_targets() renamed to nfc_initiator_poll_target() and only return one target

New in 1.5.0:

Installed files

  • nfc-message.h have been removed, internal macros are not part of API.
  • New nfc-emulation.h file offers a middle level API to handle emulation (see nfc-emulate-forum-tag4 example)

API Changes

  • Types

    • New error: DEABORT raised when operation is aborted by user (using nfc_abort_command())
    • nfc_chip_t type removed from public API (have been renamed to pn53x_type in chips/pn53x)
    • nfc_device_spec_t removed, each driver can use his own way to keep a connection pointer

  • Structures

    • nfc_device_t now have a nfc_driver_t struct pointer (named .driver) and void pointer (.driver_data) to handle device specific wrapping
    • nfc_device_t now have a void pointer (.chip_data) to keep some chip specific data
    • nfc_device_t now have an file descriptor array to manage to abort request
    • nfc_device_t does have .nc member (nfc_chip_t) anymore (different chips handling in now in chip level)
    • nfc_device_t does have .nds member (nfc_device_spec_t) anymore, each driver handle its communication using driver_data pointer
    • nfc_device_t does have .bActive member (bool) anymore, this variable was almost not used and was not efficient
    • nfc_device_t does have chip's register caches anymore, this is handle in chip level (using chip_data pointer)
    • driver_callbacks structure have been removed from public API
    • New nfc_emulator structure used by the new emulation API (see nfc_emulate_target())
    • New nfc_emulation_state_machine structure used by the new emulation API, it handles an I/O function and data pointer to create a software based state-machine.

  • Functions

    • New nfc_abort_command() function to abort current running command.
    • New nfc_initiator_transceive_bits_timed() and nfc_initiator_transceive_bytes_timed() to transceive bits/bytes and measure the time to have a reply
    • New nfc_emulate_target() function to start a target emulation using an nfc_emulator structure (it contains a custom state-machine (nfc_emulation_state_machine struct) and a custom target (nfc_target_t) (see nfc-emulate-forum-tag4 to have a look on how-to use it)

New in 1.4.1:

API Changes

  • Types
    • New error: ETGUIDNOTSUP raised when UID is not 4 bytes long or does not start with 0x08 (Security restriction present in the NXP PN53x chips)

New in 1.4.0:

API Changes

  • Types

    • New nfc_device_option value (enum): NDO_FORCE_ISO14443_A to force the chip to switch in ISO14443-A
    • New nfc_dep_mode_t (enum) for DEP mode: NDM_UNDEFINED, NDM_PASSIVE, NDM_ACTIVE
    • New nfc_modulation_type_t (enum) that lists modulation types: NMT_ISO14443A, NMT_ISO14443B, NMT_FELICA, NMT_JEWEL, NMT_DEP
    • New nfc_baud_rate_t (enum): list of baud rates: NBR_UNDEFINED, NBR_106, NBR_212, NBR_424, NBR_847
    • nfc_target_type_t have been removed from API (use nfc_modulation_t instead)

  • Structures

    • nfc_device_t now have a boolean bAutoIso14443_4 to keep the locally the state of NDO_AUTO_ISO14443_4 (should not be directly set, use nfc_configure() with NDO_AUTO_ISO14443_4)
    • nfc_device_t now have an uint8_t ui8Parameters to cache PN53x parameters
    • nfc_device_t now have a byte_t btSupportByte to cache supported modulations
    • nfc_dep_info_t have completely changed, please see API documentation
    • nfc_iso14443b_info_t have completely changed, please see API documentation
    • nfc_modulation_t have completely changed: it now contains a nfc_modulation_type_t and nfc_baud_rate_t couple. Initialization example: nfc_modulation_t nm = { .nmt = NMT_ISO14443A, .nbr = NBR_106, };
    • nfc_target_t now contains new nfc_modulation_t instead of nfc_target_type_t. Initialization example: nfc_target_t nt = { .nm.nmt = NMT_ISO14443A, .nm.nbr = NBR_UNDEFINED, .nti.nai.abtAtqa = { 0x03, 0x44 }, .nti.nai.abtUid = { 0x08, 0xab, 0xcd, 0xef }, .nti.nai.btSak = 0x20, .nti.nai.szUidLen = 4, .nti.nai.abtAts = { 0x75, 0x77, 0x81, 0x02, 0x80 }, .nti.nai.szAtsLen = 5, };

  • Functions

    • nfc_initiator_select_passive_target() now use new nfc_modulation_t and nfc_target_t instead of nfc_target_info_t
    • nfc_initiator_list_passive_targets() now use new nfc_modulation_t and nfc_target_t instead of nfc_target_info_t
    • nfc_initiator_poll_targets() use new nfc_modulation_t instead of nfc_target_type_t
    • nfc_initiator_select_dep_target() completely changed, use now nfc_dep_mode_t, nfc_baudrate_t, nfc_dep_info_t and nfc_target_t, please see API documentation
    • nfc_target_init() have an additional argument: nfc_target_t to describe the wanted target
    • append_iso14443a_crc() was renamed to iso14443a_crc_append()
    • New iso14443a_locate_historical_bytes() to locate historical bytes in ATS

New in 1.3.9 (since 1.3.4):

Installed files

  • mifaretag.h and mifareultag.h are removed, Mifare features are not a part of libnfc API anymore (these features are always available in examples/)

API Changes

  • Types

    • New nfc_device_option_t value (enum): NDO_AUTO_14443_4, an option to enable/disable auto-switching to ISO/IEC 14443-4 if device is compliliant
    • New nfc_device_option_t value (enum): NDO_EASY_FRAMING, an option to enable/disable automatic frames encapsulation and chaining
    • New nfc_target_type_t (enum), with values like NTT_MIFARE, NTT_ISO14443B_106, NTT_DEP_ACTIVE_424, etc.
    • Mifare related types have been removed from API: mifare_cmd, mifare_param_auth, mifare_param_data, mifare_param_value, mifare_param

  • Structures

    • nfc_device_t now have boolean bEasyFraming to enable/disable "easy framing" feature (should not be directly set, use nfc_configure() with NDO_EASY_FRAMING)
    • nfc_device_t now have integer iLastError to handle last error
    • New chip_callbacks to handle error lookup per chip
    • driver_callbacks now have a pointer to chip_callbacks
    • New nfc_target_t that contains nfc_target_info_t and nfc_target_type_t

  • Functions

    • nfc_initiator_select_tag() became nfc_initiator_select_passive_target()
    • New nfc_initiator_list_passive_targets() returns a list of detected target on desired modulation
    • (experimental) New nfc_initiator_poll_targets() returns targets that are detected during hardware polling (available only with PN532)
    • nfc_initiator_transceive_dep_bytes(), nfc_target_receive_dep_bytes() and nfc_target_send_dep_bytes() have been removed from API, use NDO_EASY_FRAMING option to switch from raw mode to "easy framing"
    • nfc_initiator_mifare_cmd() have been removed: no more Mifare related stuff in libnfc's API
    • New nfc_strerror(), nfc_strerror_r() and nfc_perror() to report errors
    • New append_iso14443a_crc() to append iso14443a_crc() to a string

New in 1.3.4 (since 1.2.1):

Installed files

  • Headers are now installed in include/nfc instead of include/libnfc
  • libnfc.h have been renamed to nfc.h
  • defines.h and types.h have been merge into nfc-types.h
  • bitutils.h is not installed anymore, some functions are now in examples/nfc-utils.c
  • devices.h, dev_acr122.h, dev_arygon.h, dev_pn531.h, dev_pn533.h and rs232.h are not installed anymore
  • New header mifareultag.h, like mifaretag.h for Mifare UltraLight
  • New header nfc-messages.h with messages macros (DBG, ERR, INFO)

API Changes

  • Types

    • uint32_t which was used as size now are size_t
    • chip_type became nfc_chip_t (enum)
    • init_modulation became nfc_modulation_t (enum), and now have NM_ACTIVE_DEP and NM_PASSIVE_DEP modulation values added

  • Structures

    • dev_info became nfc_device_t
    • dev_config_option became nfc_device_option_t
    • New nfc_device_desc_t to describe the way to access to a NFC device. Initialisation example: nfc_device_desc_t ndd = { ndd.pcDriver = "ARYGON"; ndd.pcPort = "/dev/ttyUSB0"; ndd.uiSpeed = 115200; };
    • dev_callbacks became driver_callbacks and now have two function pointers more: pick_device() and list_devices()
    • New nfc_dep_info_t to handle DEP targets info
    • tag_info_iso14443a became nfc_iso14443a_info_t
    • tag_info_iso14443b became nfc_iso14443b_info_t
    • tag_info_felica became nfc_felica_info_t
    • tag_info_jewel became nfc_jewel_info_t
    • tag_info became nfc_target_info_t, and now have extended union to nfc_dep_info_t

  • Functions

    • nfc_connect() now takes 1 nfc_devive_desc_t argument (can be NULL)
    • New nfc_list_devices(), it find available NFC devices using all know drivers
    • (experimental) New nfc_initiator_select_dep(), it looks for DEP targets
    • (experimental) New nfc_initiator_transceive_dep_bytes(), like nfc_initiator_transceive_bytes() for DEP targets
    • (experimental) New nfc_target_receive_dep_bytes() and nfc_target_send_dep_bytes(), to receive/send bytes to DEP target (configured as initiator) while local NFC device is configured as target
    • New nfc_device_name() returns the device's name
    • New iso14443a_crc() computes CRC as described in ISO/IEC 14443
    • New nfc_version() returns the actual version of libnfc (with SVN revision, if available)