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YAT - Yet Another Terminal.
Engineering, testing and debugging of serial communications. Supports RS-
232/422/423/485...
...as well as TCP/IP Client/Server/AutoSocket, UDP/IP Client/Server/PairSocket
and USB Ser/HID.

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Visit YAT at https://sourceforge.net/projects/y-a-terminal/.
Contact YAT by mailto:y-a-terminal@users.sourceforge.net.

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Copyright © 2003-2021 Matthias Kläy.
All rights reserved.

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YAT is licensed under the GNU LGPL.
See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html for license details.
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Contents
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1. Installation
2. Execution
3. History of changes in YAT
4. History of changes in XTerm232
5. Roadmap
6. Legal

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1. Installation
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YAT uses .NET 4.8. The YAT installer ensures that .NET 4.8 is available on the
target computer.
The installer also ensures that Windows Installer 4.5 is available on the target
computer.

First, chose the most appropriate package:

> For up-to-date systems, use the compact package "...(32-bit).zip" or "...(64-
bit).zip".
(Windows Installer and .NET are already installed on up-to-date systems.)
> For outdated systems or offline installation, use a full package
"..._with_.NET...zip".
(Windows Installer and .NET are included for installation.)
> Alternatively, use a binary distribution, but don't forget to manually install
the monospaced
'DejaVu' font used by YAT as well as assign the .yat/.yaw file extensions to
"YAT.exe".

It is recommended to unzip this package to a temporary location before starting the

installation.

Run the ".msi" if Windows Installer is installed, otherwise "setup.exe".

1. Installer will check prerequisites and install what is missing.
2. Installer will install YAT. Older versions of YAT are automatically replaced.

For installation of a binary distribution, refer to the instructions inside that

package.

You can also download .NET and/or Windows Installer from

<https://www.microsoft.com/download>
or by googling for "Download Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8" and/or "Windows
Installer 4.5".
Installing .NET and/or Windows Installer requires administrator permissions.

x86 (32-bit) -vs- x64 (64-bit)

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YAT can be installed as x86 or x64 application. x86 works on either 32-bit or 64-
bit systems whereas
x64 can only be installed on 64-bit systems. By default, x86 is installed to
"\Program Files (x86)"
whereas x64 is installed to "\Program Files".

It is not possible to install both distributions for the same user. When changing
from x86 to x64 of
the same version of YAT, or vice versa, the installed distribution must first be
uninstalled before
the other distribution can be installed. If this limitation is not acceptable for
somebody, create a
new feature request ticket and describe the impacts/rationale/use case as detailed
as possible.

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2. Execution
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Run YAT by selecting "Start > Programs > YAT > YAT".

Use "C:\<Program Files>\YAT\YAT.exe" to run YAT normally.

Use "C:\<Program Files>\YAT\YATConsole.exe" to run YAT from console.

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3. History of Changes in YAT
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YAT 2.4.0 :: 2021-01-29

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New:
- USB Ser/HID now takes the HID usage page and ID into account, allowing working
with devices that
implement multiple usages (e.g. a standard interface and a firmware upgrade
interface) (bug #480).
- Support for concurrent sending, i.e. multiple commands can be active
simultaneously (feat. #387).
Useful e.g. for sending a text command while a repeating text command is already
ongoing.
Can be enabled at [Terminal > Settings... > Advanced... > Send > Allow concurrent
sending].
- Text terminals: Option to glue characters of a line together, enabled by default,
resulting in
fewer line breaks when sending and receiving in full-duplex (related to feat. #19
and bug #176).
- Text terminals: Option to wait for response, resulting in request and response
being displayed
adjacently. Useful for sending multi-line commands and files with ping-pong-style
command sets
(feature request #19 and bug #176).
Note for serial COM ports: In order to only limit the send rate, YAT offers other
settings, e.g.
[Terminal > Settings... > Advanced... > Send > Buffer not more than baud rate
permits] which
limits the send rate and lets an active hardware or software flow control do its
job even for
small buffers and large amount of data.
- Content separator can now be configured. Useful for e.g. displaying or logging
hex data without
separating spaces, e.g. "414243", using [None]. Separator format can now also be
configured.
- Additional keyword \!(TimeStamp) allowing injection of current date/time (feature
request #400).
Format according to [View > Format Settings... > Options > Time Stamp].
Useful for e.g. sending "AT+DATE=20 01 01 12 00 00".
- Additional keyword \!(Port()) allowing to change the serial COM port on-the-fly
(feat. req. #403).
Especially useful as predefined command e.g. "\!(Port(10))\!(NoEOL())" to change
port by shortcut.
- Additional keywords \!(RtsOn|Off|Toggle) and \!(DtrOn|Off|Toggle) allowing to
change serial COM
port signals on-the-fly (feature request #408). Also work with predefined
commands and shortcuts.
- Additional option to disable warnings like "XOff state, retaining data..." on
sending.
- Automatic actions and responses now support multiple triggers within a line or
chunk.
- Automatic actions and responses now support text triggers, optionally incl.
regular expression.
- Automatic actions and responses now list recent used trigger and response texts.
- Automatic responses now support injection of trigger captures, given regular
expression is used.
- New automatic actions [Plot Byte Count/Rate] and [Plot Line Count/Rate].
- New automatic actions [Line Chart], [Scatter Plot] and [Histogram].

Important changes:
- High FTDI and Prolific baud rates added to list of standard baud rates (feature
request #398).
- Using term "I/O" instead of "Port" for terminal, settings,... for reducing mix-up
of term in YAT
with TCP and UDP "Port" terminology, where a "Port" only is a part of the overall
"I/O" subsystem.
- Text terminals: Now by default using UTF-8 instead of .NET's [Encoding.Default]
that is limited to
an ANSI code page, e.g. Windows-1252 in Western Europe (related to former bugs
#427, #428, #429).
- Sending refactored (precondition for feature requests #19, #333, #387 and fix of
bug #176).
- Text terminals: Line content and EOL is no longer sent in two separate chunks
(feature req. #333).
- Element and line processing refactored (precondition for feature requests #19,
#366, #367 and fix
of bugs #176, #371, #477, #478 as well as preparing upcoming feature request
#74).
- Unidirectional Tx and Rx panels now use a separate line detection mechanism and
no longer break
lines at the same location as the bidirectional panel (bugs #371 and #477).
- [Monitor Context Menu > Clear] no longer clears all panels (Tx/Bidir/Rx), just
the selected. Use
[Main Menu > Terminal > Clear [All]] or [Ctrl+L] to clear all panels (related to
change above).
[Main Menu > Terminal > All Terminals Clear] or [Ctrl+E] to clear all terminals
(feat. req. #392).
- User saved workspace file name is indicated in title bar (feature request #416).
- Binary terminals: Lines are no longer broken each 16 bytes by default, they now
by default are
broken on every chunk (related to bug #477).
- Consequently, chunk line break settings are now located in the text/binary
specific dialog.
- Comma and semicolon added to list of predefined EOL sequences (feature request
#409).
- Option to hide undefined predefined commands (feature request #410).
- Option to [Copy Text / File Path to Clipboard] (bug #493).
- Possibility to clear lists of recent files and [Send Text|File] commands.
- Adaptive monitor update rate further improved.
- Calculation of byte/line rates improved.
- For Bin/Oct/Dec/Hex/Unicode radix:
> Performance significantly improved (feature request #406).
> ASCII control characters are no longer converted to mnemonics.
- Option to not send XOn when opening a serial COM port or USB Ser/HID terminal
(feat. req. #393).
- TCP/IP connection state management improved in terms of stress resilience.
- TCP/IP segment payload size limited to the safe maximum of 516 (IPv4) or 1220
octets (IPv6).
- UDP/IP datagram payload size limited to the safe maximum of 508 (IPv4) or 1212
octets (IPv6).
- IPv6 support enabled for UDP/IP terminals (feature request #372).
- Changes on-the-fly by keywords like \!(Port()), \!(PortSettings()), \!
(Baud()),... are now
reflected in the terminal settings, i.e. also indicated by '*' (related to reqs.
#71 and #403).
- [Terminal > Settings... > Advanced...] dialog rearranged for better fitting
screen.
- Upgrade to .NET Runtime 4 and .NET Framework 4.8 (part of feature request #229,
precondition for
new automatic actions [Chart/Plot/Histogram] and upcoming feature request #74
[Scripting]).
Consequently, x64 distributions no longer need to be 'AnyCPU' builds (former
limitation).
- Improved error message in case the required version of .NET is missing.
- Additional command line option [--version]. Better command line message box
(feature req. #383).
- Project/Assembly structure slightly refined (preparing upcoming feature request
#74).
- Test coverage of sending and processing significantly increased (related to
refactorings above).

Fixed bugs:
- Predefined command description gets updated when multi-line command gets changed
(bug #481) and
default description no longer gets saved in settings file.
- Predefined command description is kept when filled-in before command (bugs #472,
#476, #499).
- Issue with not shown predefined commands when defining more than 12 predefined
commands fixed.
- Layout of predefined commands can now also be changed on a new terminal that
doesn't contain
commands yet (related to previous feature requests #28, #257, #365).
- Import/Paste of a .yacp command page file that contains more predefined commands
than currently
configured now behaves correctly (bug #479, related to previous feature requests
#28, #257, #365).
- Explicit default radix is no longer reset to [String] when multiple predefined
command pages are
being defined (bug #492).
- Recent TCP/IP and UDP/IP ports, remote hosts and local filters are remembered
again (related to
former feature request #273).
- TCP/IP client terminals now also try to automatically reconnect within configured
timeout even in
case the server resets an initial SYN and times out a subsequent SYN request (bug
#487).
- Automatic actions and responses now work chunk independently (feature request
#366).
- Automatic actions [Filter] and [Suppress] now also work for continuous data (bug
#478) and on
refresh (feature request #367).
- The time information of a line is no longer defined by hidden bytes like e.g. an
initial XOn.
- Line break detection and processing continues even when exceeding the configured
maximum number
of characters/bytes per line (related to refactoring of element and line
processing).
- Sending of very long lines now also works for TCP/IP based terminals (bug #340).
- Sending of very long lines in other terminal types (in case of e.g. serial COM
ports longer than
the software buffer, typically 2048 bytes) works again (bug #417).
- Handling of [Preferences... > ...take serial number/string into account] fixed
(rel. to bug #480).
- Consequence of .NET upgrade (former limitations of .NET Runtime 2 and .NET
Framework 3.5):
> System display scaling other than 100% (96 DPI) no longer result in minor
distortions on Win 7
(bugs #85, #235, #375) nor some blurring on Win 8 and above (feature request
#310).
> Use of serial COM ports on disconnect, undock or hibernate without closing the
port should
no longer result in an 'ObjectDisposedException' or
'UnauthorizedAccessException' (bugs #224,
#254, #293, #316, #317, #345, #382, #385, #387, #401, #442) and should neither
result in
deadlocks anymore, though not all potential causes for this issue in the .NET
'SerialPort'
class could be verified.
> Running YAT for a long period, or creating many terminals, no longer results
in memory leaks,
previously resulting in gradual increase of memory consumption (RAM) (bugs
#243, #263, #336).

Limitations and known issues:

- General limitations of .NET Framework:
> Unicode is limited to the basic multilingual plane (U+0000..U+FFFF) (feature
request #329).
- General limitations of .NET Windows.Forms:
> System errors are output in local language, even though YAT is all-English
(bug #66).
> Main window status bar tooltips may flicker in case window is maximized (bug
#488).
> Tool strip combo box slightly flickers when updating item list, e.g. [Find
Pattern] (bug #402).
> Combo box cannot restore some corner-case cursor positions (bug #403).
> Combo box text is compared case insensitively against item list, e.g. "aa" is
changed to "AA"
if that is contained in the item list, e.g. the recent [Send Text] or [Find]
items (bug #347).
> When [Send Text] or [Send File] is hidden, resizing the panel doesn't properly
work (bug #412).
> Automatic completion for e.g. [Send Text] is not feasible to implement
(feature request #227).
> Automatic horizontal scrolling of monitors is not feasible to implement
(feature request #163).
> Vertical scrolling of monitors while a lot of data is being transmitted and
while items are
selected may lead to a severe drop of the overall performance (related to bug
#383).
> Link label text rendering issues after plotting (bug #485).
- MDI limitations of .NET Windows.Forms:
> Issues with frame (bugs #29 and #30).
> Issue with window list (bug #31).
> Issue with layouting when closing an MDI child (bug #399).
- Serial COM port limitations of .NET Framework:
> Support for ports named other than "COM..." isn't supported by .NET (feature
request #101).
> Use of serial COM ports on disconnect, undock or hibernate without closing the
port may result
in the port no longer being usable. It happens due to a bug in the .NET
'SerialPort' class for
which Microsoft only has vague plans fixing. To prevent the issue, refrain
from disconnecting a
 device or undocking or hibernating while a port is open. In case the issue
occurs, exiting YAT
should be sufficient to force the .NET Runtime to terminate the buggy piece of
code. If not,
disconnecting the device or rebooting the computer should fix the issue.
- The \!(PortSettings()) keyword is yet limited to serial COM ports (feature
request #71).
- USB Ser/HID only runs on Windows; use of 'LibUsb'/'LibUsbDotNet' and significant
migration work of
implementation and test environment would be needed to run it on unixoids
(feature request #119).
- Direct send text mode does not yet support special formats and commands (feature
request #10).
- Automatic actions [Filter] and [Suppress] as well as automatic actions and
responses based on a
text trigger are constrained to handle complete lines. Thus, individual
characters incl. control
characters like <XOn> as well as incomplete lines will not be displayed until
line is complete.
- Switching log off may take several seconds, during which YAT is unresponsive (bug
#459).

(Versions 2.2 and 2.3 have been skipped to emphasize the update to .NET 4.x while
still keeping the
option for releasing the 2.4+ features (except plotting) also on .NET Runtime 2.0 /
Framework 3.5.)

YAT 2.1.0 :: 2019-10-04

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New:
- Predefined commands can now be reordered (feature requests #376 and #379),
cut/copy/pasted via
clipboard, exported/imported to a single page .yacp or complete set of pages
.yacps file (feature
reqs. #28, #257, #365), and even linked to one or multiple single page .yacp
file(s) (feat. #29).
- Option to show more predefined commands (24, 36, 48, 72, 108) (feature requests
#256, #344).
- Additional keyword \!(PortSettings()) that allows re-configuring the port
settings before or after
sending data; and dedicated keywords \!(Baud()), \!(DataBits()), \!(Parity()), \!
(StopBits()) and
\!(FlowControl()) to change a dedicated port setting on-the-fly (feature request
#71, partly
related to former request #321 implemented since YAT 1.99.80). Useful for e.g.
sending commands
that let a connected device change its baud rate. See [Help > Contents...] for
example usage.
- Additional automatic actions [Filter] and [Suppress] added (feature requests #347
and #382).
Useful to exclusively display a pattern in the monitor, or suppress a pattern.
- Additional automatic action [Clear Monitor on Subsequent Receiving] added
(feature request #357).
Useful for screen/page synchronization on terminal-emulation-like behavior.
- Additional option [View > Show Duration (Line)] (feature request #348).
- Additional terminal option [Include Port Control Events] (feature request #350).
- Additional log channel [Log Port Control] (related to feature request #350).
- Text terminals: Additional options to configure line break:
> Length line break (feature request #224).
Useful to limit the number of characters displayed per line, i.e. "word wrap".
Useful to communicate with devices that do use text messages but no EOL
sequence.
> Timed line break (feature request #340).
Also useful to communicate with devices that do use text messages but no EOL
sequence.
- Text terminals: Additional option to let bell (0x07) beep (related to feature
request #308).
- Text terminals: Backspaces (0x08) are treated as backspaces by default (feature
request #308).
Note that tabs have already been treated as tabs by default since
YAT 1.99.22.

Important changes:
- UDP/IP now supports sending to and receiving from broadcast addresses (feature
request #370).
- Serial COM port again uses the term RTS (Ready To Send) as that is still most
commonly used.
In addition, notes/hints on terms RTR (Ready To Receive) as well as RFR (Ready
For Receiving).
- Serial COM port and USB Ser/HID terminals by default hide XOn/XOff flow control
characters for
'Software' and 'Combined' (related to earlier feature request #190, #206, #226
and bug #319).
Note that 'Manual Software' and 'Manual Combined' still show the XOn/XOff
characters by default
but can optionally be hidden (earlier feature request #190).
- USB Ser/HID device list no longer potentially shows weird manufacturer, product
or serial strings;
neither does it show duplicated devices anymore.
- Errors are now indicated in square "[...]" instead of angle "<...>" brackets
(rel. to feat. #350).
- Prevention of potential handling error when copying data to clipboard (feature
request #345).
- Unicode/Non-Unicode multi-byte encoding test coverage improved (related to bugs
#427, #428, #429).
- No longer using [Ctrl+Alt+<CharOrDigit>] shortcuts to avoid conflicts with [Alt
Gr] modifier as
[Ctrl+Alt] results in [Alt Gr] on Windows (feature request #359). As a
consequence:
> Shortcuts to activate predefined command page changed from [Ctrl+Alt+1..9] to
[Ctrl+1..9].
> Shortcuts to change window layout changed from [Ctrl+Alt+...] to
[Alt+Shift+...].
> Shortcuts to [Find Next] changed from [Ctrl+Alt+F] to [Alt+Shift+N].
and [Find Previous] changed from [Alt+Shift+F] to [Alt+Shift+P].
- Shortcuts to select panels no longer conflict with those to select menus (feature
request #355).
> Shortcut of [Send Text] changed to [Alt+E] to distinguish from shortcut of
[Terminal] menu.
> Shortcut of [Send File] changed to [Alt+I] to distinguish from shortcut of
[File] menu.
> Shortcut to [Monitor] added as [Alt+M].
- Text terminals: Refactoring and refinement of EOL handling (related to feature
requests #224,
 #340 and #347). Any sequence and mix of received and sent characters (even quite
exotic ones)
should now be correctly handled and displayed. Corresponding test coverage
enlarged.
- Text terminals: Option to show length as number of characters (related to feature
request #224).

Fixed bugs:
- Non-Unicode multi-byte encodings (e.g. GBK, GB18030, Shift-JIS,...) fixed (bugs
#427, #428, #429).
- 'OverflowException' in case of missing closing parentheses in [Send Text] fixed
(bug #426).
- Exception when trying to open terminal on non-standard port (e.g. "COM", "ABC")
fixed (bug #416).
- Handling of potential 'ObjectDisposedException' when disconnecting USB/RS-232
converters (USB CDC)
without closing the serial COM port now also handles potential
'UnauthorizedAccessException'
(bug #442, related to former bugs #224, #254, #293, #316, #317, #345, #382, #385,
#387, #401).
- [Remote Host] and [Local Filter] selection again show the common items (rel. to
feat. req. #370)).
- [Send > Skip Empty Line on [Send File]] no longer accidentally restricts [Send
Text].
- Problem with escape sequences in automatic action/response fixed (bug #424).
- Tool bar items no more flicker on automatic action/response trigger (related to
bug #424).
- 'ArgumentOutOfRangeException' when deleting a sole predefined command page fixed
(bug #440).
- 'SplitterDistance' value related 'ArgumentException' fixed (bugs #414, #418,
#419, #420, #421,
#422, #423, #432, #434, #435, #441, #443, #444, #450, #452, #453, #456, #461,
#467, #468, #474,
#475) which further refines the fix to former bugs #408 and #409.
- Attempted to fix rare 'TargetInvocationException' caused by
'IndexOutOfRangeException' (bug #446).
- [View > Show Time Span] is no longer reset when changing terminal settings (bug
#436).
- [View > Show Time Span/Delta] are no longer swapped (bugs #431, #449, #458).
- [Advanced Settings > Disable escapes on [Send Text]] no longer leads to an
'ArgumentException'
in some cases (bug #454).
- Shortcuts [Ctrl+Shift+F1..F12] 'Copy to Send Text' fixed.
- Option to set default radix for predefined commands fixed.
- Command line option [TransmitText] again allows keywords (related to bug #454).
- Optional user name of terminal is again taken into account (bug #415).
- [Help > Release Notes] fixed for YATConsole.exe (bug #413).
- Binary terminals: Synchronization on timed line break added (related to feature
request #340).

Limitations and known issues:

- x64 distributions are 'AnyCPU' builds due to limitations of VS2015 on .NET 3.5
SP1 (feat. #229).
- General limitations of .NET Framework:
> Unicode is limited to the basic multilingual plane (U+0000..U+FFFF) (feature
request #329).
- General limitations of .NET Windows.Forms:
> System display scaling other than 100% (96 DPI) results in minor distortions
on Win 7 and
 before (bugs #85, #235, #375) and some blurring on Win 8 and above (feature
request #310).
The latter will be fixed with upgrading to .NET 4.7+ (feature request #229).
> System errors are output in local language, even though YAT is all-English
(bug #66).
> Tool strip combo box slightly flickers when updating item list, e.g. [Find
Pattern] (bug #402).
> Combo box cannot restore some corner-case cursor positions (bug #403).
> Combo box text is compared case insensitively against item list, e.g. "aa" is
changed to "AA"
if that is contained in the item list, e.g. the recent [Send Text] or [Find]
items (bug #347).
> When [Send Text] or [Send File] is hidden, resizing the panel doesn't properly
work (bug #412).
> Automatic completion for e.g. [Send Text] is not feasible to implement
(feature request #227).
> Automatic horizontal scrolling of monitors is not feasible to implement
(feature request #163).
> Vertical scrolling of monitors while a lot of data is being transmitted and
while items are
selected may lead to a severe drop of the overall performance (related to bug
#383).
- MDI limitations of .NET Windows.Forms:
> Issues with frame (bugs #29 and #30).
> Issue with window list (bug #31).
> Issue with layouting when closing an MDI child (bug #399).
- Serial COM port limitations of .NET Framework:
> Support for ports named other than "COM..." isn't supported by .NET (feature
request #101).
> Use of serial COM ports on disconnect, undock or hibernate without closing the
port may lead
to a deadlock or 'ObjectDisposedException' or 'UnauthorizedAccessException'.
It happens due to
a bug in the .NET 'SerialPort' class for which Microsoft only has vague plans
fixing. YAT is
applying several patches to try working around the issue (bugs #224, #254,
#293, #316, #317,
#345, #382, #385, #387, #401, #442). To prevent this issue, refrain from
disconnecting a
device while its port is open. Or, manually close the port after the device
got disconnected.
- The \!(PortSettings()) keyword is yet limited to serial COM ports (feature
request #71).
- USB Ser/HID only runs on Windows; use of 'LibUsb'/'LibUsbDotNet' and significant
migration work of
implementation and test environment would be needed to run it on unixoids
(feature request #119).
- Line content and EOL may be sent in two separate chunks, because the parts are
handled slightly
after each other. Delay could be eliminated but requires some refactoring
(feature request #333).
- Automatic responses and actions work fine as long as the received chunks do not
contain more than
one trigger and do not spread across multiple lines. Limitation could be
eliminated but requires
some refactoring (feature request #366).
- Automatic actions [Filter] and [Suppress] do not get reapplied on refresh
(feature request #367).
- Wait for response line (text terminals) not yet implemented (feature request #19
and bug #176).
- Direct send text mode does not yet support special formats and commands (feature
request #10).
- Switching log off may take several seconds, during which YAT is unresponsive (bug
#459).
- Running YAT for a long period, or creating many terminals, results in memory
leaks, which result
in a gradual increase of the memory consumption (RAM) (bugs #243, #263 and #336,
root cause yet
unknown, could even be a limitation of the memory management of the .NET
Runtime).

YAT 2.0 Final Version 2.0.0 :: 2018-04-13

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New:
- Option to break lines on each sent or received chunk (feature request 335).
Useful for message- rather than stream-oriented communication, e.g. most use
cases of UDP/IP.

Important changes:
- UDP/IP terminals by default now use "[None]" as EOL sequence (related to feature
request #335).
- UDP/IP related settings 'break lines on each sent or received chunk' and 'EOL
sequence' are
automatically changed when the port type gets changed. This automatism is only
applied if the
settings are at their defaults, i.e. have not been changed by the user;
otherwise, the user is
asked whether the settings shall be changed (related to feature request #335).
- Simple find/search function now allows to explicitly enable/disable the regex
option (feature
request #332, related to feature requests #11 and #79 implemented in previous
release).
- Option to enable/disable <...> and \... escape sequences has been separated for
[Send Text] and
[Send File]. By default, escapes are enabled for [Send Text] and disabled for
[Send File].
- [Send File] now also sends (formatted) text files for binary terminals, including
support for
[Explicit Default Radix] and other send file related settings (bug #411).
- Location of some send related settings has changed (related to bug #411).
- The "DynamicIndex"/"DynamicTerminalIndex" command line option has been changed to
"DynamicId"/
"DynamicTerminalId" to emphasize that the value is a 1 (and not 0) based ID,
incl. the option
to use value 0 to select the currently active terminal.
- Binary distributions now contain DejaVu fonts for manual installation (feature
request #331).

Fixed bugs:
- 'SplitterDistance' value related 'InvalidOperationException' on startup fixed
(bug #409).
- 'SplitterDistance' value related 'ArgumentOutOfRangeException' on startup fixed
(bug #408).
- 'NullReferenceException' under certain conditions when .yat file got deleted
fixed (bug #407).
Limitations and known issues:
- x64 distributions are 'AnyCPU' builds due to limitations of VS2015 on .NET 3.5
SP1 (feat. #229).
- General limitations of .NET Framework:
> Unicode is limited to the basic multilingual plane (U+0000..U+FFFF) (feature
request #329).
- General limitations of .NET Windows.Forms:
> System display scaling other than 100% (96 DPI) results in minor distortions
on Win 7 and
before (bugs #85, #235, #375) and some blurring on Win 8 and above (feature
request #310).
The latter will be fixed with upgrading to .NET 4.7+ (feature request #229).
> System errors are output in local language, even though YAT is all-English
(bug #66).
> Tool strip combo box slightly flickers when updating item list, e.g. [Find
Pattern] (bug #402).
> Combo box cannot restore some corner-case cursor positions (bug #403).
> Combo box text is compared case insensitively against item list, e.g. "aa" is
changed to "AA"
if that is contained in the item list, e.g. the recent [Send Text] or [Find]
items (bug #347).
> When [Send Text] or [Send File] is hidden, resizing the panel doesn't properly
work (bug #412).
> Automatic completion for e.g. [Send Text] is not feasible to implement
(feature request #227).
> Automatic horizontal scrolling of monitors is not feasible to implement
(feature request #163).
> Vertical scrolling of monitors while a lot of data is being transmitted and
while items are
selected may lead to a severe drop of the overall performance (related to bug
#383).
- MDI limitations of .NET Windows.Forms:
> Issues with frame (bugs #29 and #30).
> Issue with window list (bug #31).
> Issue with layouting when closing an MDI child (bug #399).
- Serial COM port limitations of .NET Framework:
> Support for ports named other than "COM..." isn't supported by .NET (feature
request #101).
> Use of serial COM ports on disconnect, undock or hibernate without closing the
port may lead
to a deadlock or 'ObjectDisposedException' or 'UnauthorizedAccessException'.
It happens due to
a bug in the .NET 'SerialPort' class for which Microsoft only has vague plans
fixing. YAT is
applying several patches to try working around the issue (bugs #224, #254,
#293, #316, #317,
#345, #382, #385, #387, #401). To prevent this issue, refrain from
disconnecting a device
while its port is open. Or, manually close the port after the device got
disconnected.
- USB Ser/HID only runs on Windows; use of 'LibUsb'/'LibUsbDotNet' and significant
migration work of
implementation and test environment would be needed to run it on unixoids
(feature request #119).
- Line content and EOL may be sent in two separate chunks, because the parts are
handled slightly
after each other. Delay could be eliminated but requires some refactoring
(feature request #333).
- Wait for response line (text terminals) not yet implemented (feature request #19
and bug #176).
- Direct send text mode does not yet support special formats and commands (feature
request #10).
- Running YAT for a long period, or creating many terminals, results in memory
leaks, which result
in a gradual increase of the memory consumption (RAM) (bugs #243, #263 and #336,
root cause yet
unknown, could even be a limitation of the memory management of the .NET
Runtime).

YAT 2.0 Epsilon Version 1.99.90 :: 2018-01-12

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------

New:
- Simple find/search function for monitor contents added (feature requests #11 and
#79).
- Recent TCP/IP and UDP/IP ports, remote hosts and local filters are remembered
(feat. req. #273).
- Option to show a copy of the active monitor line in an additional text box,
allowing to select
and copy/paste characters and words (feature request #313).
- Automatic action feature, YAT can automatically invoke an action when receiving a
configurable
trigger sequence (feature requests #11, #314, #320, #325).
- Local time can optionally be shown in the main status bar (feature request #328).

Important changes:
- Cursor behavior of [Send Text] improved:
> Cursor position and text selection is remembered (related to bugs #391 and
#395).
> Cursor no longer jumps to the end of the input box when sending the text (bug
#395).
> Cursor no longer jumps to the beginning of the input box after edit of recent
(rel. bug #391).
- Shortcut of [Clear] changed from [Shift+Delete] to [Ctrl+L] (related to change
stated above).
- Shortcut of [Save to File] changed from [Ctrl+F] to [Ctrl+T] (consequence of
feat. #11 and #79).
- Automatic response trigger is highlighted, same as automatic action trigger (rel.
to feat. #320).
- Automatic response extended by selection to respond the received trigger (related
to feature
requests #176, #252 implemented in version 1.99.50).
This option combined with setting the trigger to "[Any Line]" makes YAT an echo
server.
- Switching among automatic/manual vertical scrolling in monitor further improved,
especially while
continuous data is being received (related to bug #394 and feature request #323
implemented in
previous release).
- Location of a few settings refined (workspace -vs- local user -vs- roaming user).
- Additional option to inhibit warning if a port/interface/device is no longer
available (bug #392).
- Additional command line options 'KeepTerminalClosed/Stopped' and 'KeepLogOff'
(bug #392).
- Additional command line option alias 'StartTerminal' for 'OpenTerminal' (related
to bug #392).

Fixed bugs:
- Monitors no longer scroll to top as soon as display buffer has been filled (bugs
#394 and #398 as
well as feature request #326; related to feature request #323 implemented in
previous release).
- Focus no longer moves away from [Send Text] when switching applications (bug
#391).
- Standard word selection shortcuts [Ctrl+Shift+Left|Right] also work when commands
are predefined.
- Shortcuts to navigate command pages changed from [Ctrl+Shift+Left|Right] to
[Ctrl+Alt+Left|Right]
and [Ctrl+Shift+F1..F12] to [Ctrl+Alt+1..9] as well as shortcuts to 'Copy to Send
Text' changed
from [Alt+Shift+F1..F12] to [Ctrl+Shift+F1..F12] (consequence of change above).
- Endianness of multi-byte encoded characters fixed, UTF-8 no longer results in
spurious warning
messages (bug #400, regression of bug #343 fixed for version 1.99.70).
- Superfluous spaces for multi-byte LE encodings fixed (related to bug #400 and
feat. request #271).
- Code page of UTF-32 LE/BE encodings fixed (related to bug #400).
- 'UnauthorizedAccessException' on no longer valid log file path fixed (bug #404).
- 'ArgumentOutOfRangeException' when command line arguments refer to an empty
workspace fixed.

Limitations and known issues:

- x64 distributions are 'AnyCPU' builds due to limitations of VS2015 on .NET 3.5
SP1 (feat. #229).
- General limitations of .NET Framework:
> Unicode is limited to the basic multilingual plane (U+0000..U+FFFF) (feature
request #329).
- General limitations of .NET Windows.Forms:
> System display scaling other than 100% (96 DPI) results in minor distortions
on Win 7 and
before (bugs #85, #235, #375) and some blurring on Win 8 and above (feature
request #310).
The latter will be fixed with upgrading to .NET 4.7+ (feature request #229).
> System errors are output in local language, even though YAT is all-English
(bug #66).
> Tool strip combo box slightly flickers when updating item list, e.g. [Find
Pattern] (bug #402).
> Combo box cannot restore some corner-case cursor positions (bug #403).
> Combo box text is compared case insensitively against item list, e.g. "aa" is
changed to "AA"
if that is contained in the item list, e.g. the recent [Send Text] or [Find]
items (bug #347).
> Automatic completion for e.g. [Send Text] is not feasible to implement
(feature request #227).
> Automatic horizontal scrolling of monitors is not feasible to implement
(feature request #163).
> Vertical scrolling of monitors while a lot of data is being transmitted and
while items are
selected may lead to a severe drop of the overall performance (related to bug
#383).
- MDI limitations of .NET Windows.Forms:
> Issues with frame (bugs #29 and #30).
> Issue with window list (bug #31).
> Issue with layouting when closing an MDI child (bug #399).
- Serial COM port limitations of .NET Framework:
> Support for ports named other than "COM..." isn't supported by .NET (feature
request #101).
> Use of serial COM ports on disconnect, undock or hibernate without closing the
port may lead
to a deadlock or 'ObjectDisposedException' or 'UnauthorizedAccessException'.
It happens due to
a bug in the .NET 'SerialPort' class for which Microsoft only has vague plans
fixing. YAT is
applying several patches to try working around the issue (bugs #224, #254,
#293, #316, #317,
#345, #382, #385, #387, #401). To prevent this issue, refrain from
disconnecting a device
while its port is open. Or, manually close the port after the device got
disconnected.
- USB Ser/HID only runs on Windows; use of 'LibUsb'/'LibUsbDotNet' and significant
migration work of
implementation and test environment would be needed to run it on unixoids
(feature request #119).
- Wait for response line (text terminals) not yet implemented (feature request #19
and bug #176).
- Direct send text mode does not yet support special formats and commands (feature
request #10).
- Running YAT for a long period, or creating many terminals, results in memory
leaks, which result
in a gradual increase of the memory consumption (RAM) (bugs #243, #263 and #336,
root cause yet
unknown, could even be a limitation of the memory management of the .NET
Runtime).

YAT 2.0 Delta Version 1.99.80 :: 2017-10-15

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------

New:
- Additional setting and keywords \!(FramingErrorsOn|Off|Restore) that allows
configuring the serial
COM port behavior on framing errors. Useful when e.g. changing baud rates
(feature request #321).

Important changes:
- Additional workaround applied to prevent potential 'ObjectDisposedException' or
'UnauthorizedAccessException' when disconnecting USB/RS-232 converters (USB CDC)
without closing
the serial COM port (bug #382).
Workaround also applies when undocking or hibernating a computer running YAT
without closing the
serial COM port, and when restarting devices that implement a virtual serial COM
port (USB CDC).
- Option to disable user interaction question when a serial COM port, a local
network interface or
a USB Ser/HID device is no longer available; terminal will silently stay closed
(feat. req. #316).
- Improved speed on sending and receiving, preventing application freeze on fast
data (bug #383).
- Improved responsiveness to send requests while receiving a lot of fast data, as
well as
responsiveness to receive data while sending a lot of fast data (rel. to bugs
#305, #380, #383).
- Automatic vertical scrolling of monitor is not only suspended if one or more
lines are selected
but also, if the scroll bar is moved away from the bottom of the monitor (feature
request #323).
- Break [Ctrl+B] can now also be used to break sending a file (bug #305 and feature
request #295).
- Auto-reconnect of TCP/IP client terminals enabled by default.
- Text input now supports the [Ctrl+Backspace] shortcut and multi-line text input
also the [Ctrl+A]
shortcut (feature request #317 as workaround to limitation of .NET
Windows.Forms).
- Warning on invalid multi-byte encoded byte sequences for string, character and
Unicode radix.
- Option to display the date has been merged with option to display the time, but
it is now possible
to configure the format (feature requests #31, #291, #319 and related to former
feature req. #14).
In addition, options to display the time span as well as the time delta have been
added.
- 'Comments' exclusion on sending has been migrated to 'Text' exclusion that is now
supporting
regex patterns instead of plain strings (feature request #307). The change adds
the possibility
to omit empty lines. Attention, former 'Comment indicators' settings will have to
be reapplied.

Fixed bugs:
- Serial COM port switching again properly works (bug #376).
- Serial COM port sending at very low baud rates again properly works (bug #379).
- Issue with UDP/IP server after connection reset fixed, automatically receiving
again (bug #381).
- Monitor can again be cleared when terminal is closed (bug #380).
- Calculation of buffer line numbers fixed (related to bug #380).
- Calculation of length of multi-byte encoded EOL sequences fixed.
- Erroneous error message when changing log file separator fixed (bug #378).
- 'InvalidOperationException' when defining user defined log file separator or
monitor format
enclosure or separator fixed (partly related to bug #378).
- Minor issues with predefined and send commands fixed (parts of bug #308).
- Description of predefined commands can be changed again (bugs #377 and #386).
- Context menu shortcuts are no longer executed when a dialog is open (bug #300).
- Predefined command page navigation shortcuts fixed (related to bug #300).
- Predefined command panel width change issue in case Tx or Rx panel is shown fixed
(bug #384).
- Saving and restoring the location in case of manual terminal layout fixed (bug
#252).
- System display scaling other than 100% mostly fixed for Win 7 and before (bugs
#85, #235, #375).

Limitations and known issues:

- x64 distributions are 'AnyCPU' builds due to limitations of VS2015 on .NET 3.5
SP1 (feat. #229).
- General limitations of .NET Windows.Forms:
> System display scaling other than 100% (96 DPI) results in minor distortions
on Win 7 and
before (bugs #85, #235, #375) and some blurring on Win 8 and above (feature
request #310).
The latter will be fixed with upgrading to .NET 4.7+ (feature request #229).
 > System errors are output in local language, even though YAT is all-English
(bug #66).
> Combo box text is compared case insensitively against item list, e.g. "aa" is
changed to "AA"
if that is contained in the item list, e.g. the recent [Send Text] items (bug
#347).
> Automatic completion for e.g. [Send Text] is not feasible to implement
(feature request #227).
> Automatic horizontal scrolling of monitors is not feasible to implement
(feature request #163).
> Vertical scrolling of monitors while a lot of data is being transmitted and
while items are
selected may lead to a severe drop of the overall performance (related to bug
#383).
- MDI limitations of .NET Windows.Forms:
> Issues with frame (bugs #29 and #30).
> Issue with window list (bug #31).
- Serial COM port limitations of .NET Framework:
> Support for ports named other than "COM..." isn't supported by .NET (feature
request #101).
> Use of serial COM ports on disconnect, undock or hibernate without closing the
port may lead
to a deadlock or 'ObjectDisposedException' or 'UnauthorizedAccessException'.
It happens due to
a bug in the .NET 'SerialPort' class for which Microsoft only has vague plans
fixing. YAT is
applying several patches to try working around the issue (bugs #224, #254,
#293, #316, #317,
#345, #382, #385, #387). To prevent this issue, refrain from disconnecting a
device while
its port is open. Or, manually close the port after the device got
disconnected.
- USB Ser/HID only runs on Windows; use of 'LibUsb'/'LibUsbDotNet' and significant
migration work of
implementation and test environment would be needed to run it on unixoids
(feature request #119).
- Wait for response line (text terminals) not yet implemented (feature request #19
and bug #176).
- Direct send text mode does not yet support special formats and commands (feature
request #10).
- Running YAT for a long period, or creating many terminals, results in memory
leaks, which result
in a gradual increase of the memory consumption (RAM) (bugs #243, #263 and #336,
root cause yet
unknown, could even be a limitation of the memory management of the .NET
Runtime).

YAT 2.0 Gamma 3 Version 1.99.70 :: 2017-07-04

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------

New:
- [Send Text] without EOL by [Ctrl+Enter] or [Ctrl+F3] (feature requests #281,
#283, #285).
- Option to send data in Unicode notation as "\U+...." or C-style "\u...." or YAT-
style "\U(....)
as well as option to show data in Unicode notation "U+...." added (feature
request #271).
- Option to disable BOM (Unicode encoding preamble) when logging in UTF-8 added
(bug #363).
- Option to disable formatting; useful when highest data throughput slows down the
view (feat. #39).
- Keywords with arguments \!(Delay(<ms>)), \!(LineDelay(<ms>)), \!
(LineInterval(<ms>)) and
\!(LineRepeat(<n>)) added (feature requests #13, #139).
- Additional keyword \!(ReportID(<ID>)) allows changing the USB Ser/HID report ID
while sending and
thus, allows to sequentially write to and read from multiple report IDs (feature
request #296).
- Additional USB Ser/HID preset 'Signal 11 HID API' and changed presets 'Plain' and
'Common' to
cover more use cases related to raw binary data (feature request #297 and bug
#367).

Important changes:
- Option to display non-payload USB Ser/HID data (related to feature req. #296,
#297 and bug #367).
- Option to skip empty lines when sending a text file (feature request #298).
- No longer showing empty lines that had only contained a previous line's hidden
EOL (feat. #299).
- No longer showing a potentially annoying message box if no serial COM ports or no
local network
interfaces or no HID capable USB devices are currently available.
- Serial COM port that are in use are no longer simply labelled "(in use)" but
rather "(in use by
this terminal)", "(... terminal<ID>)" or "(... other application)" (feature
requests #201, #207).
- Notes and links regarding non-intrusive RS-232 monitor/sniffer/spy cables and
devices added to
'About' dialog (related to feature requests #152, #198, #288).
- Option to disable all \!(...) keywords (former feature request #183) has been
migrated to an
option to disable *all* escape sequences, i.e. all "<...>" and "\..." sequences
(feat. #302).
- When nothing has changed in a terminal, its file (.yat) is no longer auto-saved
(bug #365).
- When evaluating relative paths of workspace/terminal/send/log files, the current
directory is
always taken into account (feature request #292).
- Default file location has been refined from "<User>\Documents" to
"<User>\Documents\YAT"
(related to feature request #292).
- Warning in case of yet incomplete RTF or XML log files (bug #356).
- Automatically generated backup files are now placed into standard temporary
folder (feat. #275).
- Internal event handling refined, resulting in increased stability on
stopping/closing/exiting
(related to feature request #173 and bugs #310, #339).
- SourceForge file structure simplified, split into 'Current' and 'Previous'
(feature request #278).
- Binary distribution added because installer is no longer compatible with Win XP
(bugs #318, #369).
- Started to migrate test environment from NUnit V2 to V3, but reverted to 2.6.4
again (feat. #293).
- NUnit tests migrated from classic to constraint model (related to feature request
#293).
- NUnit framework assemblies placed into solution structure instead of referring to
installation.

Fixed bugs:
- UDP/IP PairSocket enabled to communicate with a remote computer (bug #368).
- TCP/IP sockets no longer block when exiting too quickly (bug #341).
- Potential application freeze when clearing monitors/repositories fixed (bug
#361).
- Potential 'NullReferenceException' in binary terminal settings fixed (bug #362).
- Option to change endianness of multi-byte encoded characters fixed (bug #343).
- Presets of serial COM port settings work again (bug #372).
- Wrong active/inactive state of log menu items fixed (bug #366).
- Catch-all of unhandled synchronous exceptions fixed (bug #310) as well as
catch-all of unhandled asynchronous exceptions improved (feature request #173).

Limitations and known issues:

- x64 distributions are 'AnyCPU' builds due to limitations of VS2015 on .NET 3.5
SP1 (feat. #229).
- General limitations of .NET Windows.Forms:
> System display scaling other than 100% results in partly clipped controls
(bugs #85 and #235).
> System errors are output in local language, even though YAT is all-English
(bug #66).
> Combo box text is compared case insensitively against item list, e.g. "aa" is
changed to "AA"
if that is contained in the item list, e.g. the recent [Send Text] items (bug
#347).
> Automatic completion for e.g. [Send Text] is not feasible to implement
(feature request #227).
> Automatic horizontal scrolling of monitors is not feasible to implement
(feature request #163).
- MDI limitations of .NET Windows.Forms:
> Issues with frame (bugs #29 and #30).
> Issue with window list (bug #31).
- Serial COM port limitations of .NET Framework:
> Support for ports named other than "COM..." isn't supported by .NET (feature
request #101).
> Use of USB/RS-232 converters (USB CDC) on disconnect, undock or hibernate
without closing
the serial COM port may require to reset the converters, i.e. disconnect and
reconnect them,
or restart the computer. In addition, it may be required to disconnect or
reset any device
sending continuous data. Otherwise, the related serial COM ports may no longer
be opened by
an application. Issue is being reported by many users of .NET, but Microsoft
seems to have
no plans fixing it. If an 'ObjectDisposedException' or
'UnauthorizedAccessException' still
occurs, the serial COM port connection monitoring has to be disabled in the
terminal settings.
- USB Ser/HID only runs on Windows; use of 'LibUsb'/'LibUsbDotNet' and significant
migration work of
implementation and test environment would be needed to run it on unixoids
(feature request #119).
- Wait for response line (text terminals) not yet implemented (feature request #19
and bug #176).
- Breaking while sending files not possible yet (bug #305 and feature request
#295).
- Direct send text mode does not yet support special formats and commands (feature
request #10).
- Running YAT for a long period, or creating many terminals, results in memory
leaks, which result
in a gradual increase of the memory consumption (RAM) (bugs #243, #263 and #336,
root cause yet
unknown, could even be a limitation of the memory management of the .NET
Runtime).

YAT 2.0 Gamma 2'' Version 1.99.52 :: 2016-09-30

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------

Important changes:
- Preset of 256000 baud added to serial COM port settings (feature request #276).
- Binary terminals: Length line break enabled by default.

Fixed bugs:
- Binary terminals: Logging in 'Neat' format fixed (bug #359).
- Binary terminals: 'ObjectDisposedException' when changing length line break
settings (bug #358).

YAT 2.0 Gamma 2' Version 1.99.51 :: 2016-09-17

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------

Important changes:
- Distribution without .NET Runtime restored to .zip due to limitation of Internet
Explorer with
.msi downloads (even though .msi has been created with a Microsoft tool...) (bugs
#318 and #323).

Fixed bugs:
- Binary terminals: Radix 'String' and 'Char' fixed (bug #357).

YAT 2.0 Gamma 2 Version 1.99.50 :: 2016-09-16

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------

New:
- UDP/IP functionality improved:
> Possibility to receive from multiple sources when using 'UDP/IP Server'
(feature request #248).
> Dedicated settings for server, client and socket (related to feature request
#248).
- USB Ser/HID can be configured to XOn/XOff flow control (feature request #226).
- USB Ser/HID discovery improved, serial string may optionally be ignored (feature
request #261).
- Automatic response feature, YAT can automatically respond to a request (feature
reqs. #176, #252).
- Keyword \!(LineInterval) implemented in addition to the existing \!(LineDelay);
useful together
with \!(LineRepeat), line will be sent in more or less accurate interval (feature
request #255).
- Binary terminals: Break lines before a sequence is also supported (feat. reqs.
#76, #140, #180).
- Selectable default parse radix, e.g. useful when sending binary data (feat. reqs.
#238, #270).
- Options to define the enclosure and spacing of display elements added (related to
bug #292).
- Option to display the port as e.g. "COM1" or "127.0.0.1:10000" (feature request
#14).
- Option to display the direction as "<<" (Tx) and ">>" (Rx) (feature request #14).
- Option to display the date in addition to the time (related to feature request
#14).
- Options to hide 0x00 and/or 0xFF (feature req. #243).
- Option to encode neat logs in terminal encoding instead of UTF-8 (related to
feature request #69).
- Logging in RTF format implemented (feature request #233). Note that the log
file's RTF structure
is incomplete while logging is ongoing. The file can only be opened by an RTF
reader (e.g. Word)
after logging has finished, i.e. logging has been switched off or the terminal is
closed.
- Logging in XML format implemented (feature requests #26 and #27). Note that the
log file's XML
structure is incomplete while logging is ongoing. The file can only be opened by
an XML reader
after logging has finished, i.e. logging has been switched off or the terminal is
closed.
- Line numbers may indicate the total number of transmitted lines (feature request
#265).
- Selectable background color added to format settings (feature request #250).
- Window can be configured to always stay on top (feature request #241).

Important changes:
- 'Send Command' renamed to [Send Text] (related to feature request #252).
- Active terminal is highlighted/emphasized (feature request #247).
- Automatic terminal layout added. Use [Window > ...] for dedicated layout (feature
request #247).
- If YAT is not the active app, a single click is now sufficient to execute an
action (bug #210).
- Icons migrated from glyfx to FatCow (much larger variety) as preparation for the
items below.
- Additional log menu items and toolbar icons added, including indication whether
logging is
switched on or off, as well as opening/viewing of log file (feature requests #69,
#103, #245).
- XML schema on [Monitor > Save To File...] aligned with XML schema of logging in
XML. Schema
is saved in additional .xsd file (related to feature requests #26 and #27).
- Several other menu items and toolbar icons added (includes feature request #222).
- Parser is now capable to handle contiguous values such as \h(01020304) (related
to bug #326).
- Parser error message improved in terms of accuracy of the error location (bug
#268).
- File handling as well as error messages improved and unified (bugs #320 and
#338).
- Lookup of serial COM ports improved (also fixes bug #23).
- New option to limit the serial COM port output to the selected baud rate - 25%.
- Handling of serial COM port RFR and DTR state improved (feature request #236 and
bugs #203, #294).
- Handling of serial COM port XOff state fixed and improved (feature req. #216 and
bugs #255, #295).
- Serial COM port software flow control options to send XOn more frequently added
(feature #206).
- Superfluous control pin events of e.g. internal COM ports is now being handled
(bugs #271, #277).
- Settings related to XOn/XOff and ASCII control character replacement improved
(bug #319).
- Synchronization among outgoing and incoming data improved, preventing data mix-
ups and exceptions
(related to feat. reqs. #14, #252 as well as bugs #132, #275, #292, #321, #331,
#333, #334, #346).
- Performance in terms of CPU and RAM usage improved (bugs #189, #243, #263, #302,
#336).
- Adaptive monitor update rate significantly improved, it is now dependent on the
CPU load.
- Number of bytes per line limited, in order to keep performance even in case of
enormous lines.
- Implementation of keyword \!(Clear) improved, it now shortly waits before
clearing (bug #251).
- Additional hints (tool tips) added to the settings dialogs (feature request
#189).
- Help window is now sizeable to display more/all content (feature request #237).
- Command line options fixed, extended and slightly changed (bug #335 and feature
request #260).
- DejaVu fonts updated to 2.37
- Visual Studio upgraded to 2015 Community Edition, including installer (VSI).
- Distribution without .NET Runtime simplified to .msi only (bugs #318 and #323).
- Test board (serial COM ports, USB devices,...) created and test cases adapted
accordingly.

Fixed bugs:
- Use of USB/RS-232 converters (USB CDC) on disconnect, undock or hibernate without
closing the
serial COM port no longer leads to an 'ObjectDisposedException' or
'UnauthorizedAccessException'
in most cases (bugs #224, #254, #293, #316, #317, #345). However, it may still be
needed to reset
the converter, i.e. disconnect and reconnect it, or restart the computer. In
addition, it may be
required to disconnect or reset any device sending continuous data. Otherwise,
related serial COM
ports may no longer be opened. Issue is being reported by many users of .NET, but
Microsoft seems
to have no plans fixing it. If an 'ObjectDisposedException' or
'UnauthorizedAccessException' still
occurs, the serial COM port connection monitoring has to be disabled in the
terminal settings.
- TCP/IP local interface setting fixed:
> Setting is now properly applied to all TCP/IP sockets (bug #322).
> Setting extended to interface description/address pair (bugs #328 and #355).
- UDP/IP functionality fixed:
> Can now properly receive from a remote host (bug #327).
> Dedicated settings for server, client and socket (related to bug #248).
- Subsequent log files are now properly named according to the configured settings.
File names that
include the time stamp now properly use the time stamp of the open operation
(related to feature
requests #69, #103, #233, #245).
- Long monitor content is now displayed properly even when horizontally scrolling
(bug #125).
- 'ExternalException' "A generic error occurred in GDI+" while drawing has been
fixed by reverting
 from GDI+ to GDI (bugs #191, #266, #284, #286 and #325).
- .NET Windows.Forms MDI issues with window list worked-around (bugs #119, #180 and
#213).

Limitations and known issues:

- x64 distributions are 'AnyCPU' builds due to limitations of VS2015 on .NET 3.5
SP1 (feat. #229).
- General limitations of .NET Windows.Forms:
> System display scaling other than 100% results in partly clipped controls
(bugs #85 and #235).
> System errors are output in local language, even though YAT is all-English
(bug #66).
> Combo box text is compared case insensitively against item list, e.g. "aa" is
changed to "AA"
if that is contained in the item list, e.g. the recent [Send Text] items (bug
#347).
> Automatic completion for e.g. [Send Text] is not feasible to implement
(feature request #227).
> Automatic horizontal scrolling of monitors is not feasible to implement
(feature request #163).
- MDI limitations of .NET Windows.Forms:
> Issues with frame (bugs #29 and #30).
> Issue with window list (bug #31).
- Serial COM port limitations of .NET Framework:
> Support for ports named other than "COM..." isn't supported by .NET (feature
request #101).
> Use of USB/RS-232 converters (USB CDC) on disconnect, undock or hibernate
without closing
the serial COM port may require to reset the converters, i.e. disconnect and
reconnect them,
or restart the computer. In addition, it may be required to disconnect or
reset any device
sending continuous data. Otherwise, the related serial COM ports may no longer
be opened by
an application. Issue is being reported by many users of .NET, but Microsoft
seems to have
no plans fixing it. If an 'ObjectDisposedException' or
'UnauthorizedAccessException' still
occurs, the serial COM port connection monitoring has to be disabled in the
terminal settings.
- USB Ser/HID only runs on Windows; use of 'LibUsb'/'LibUsbDotNet' and significant
migration work of
implementation and test environment would be needed to run it on unixoids
(feature request #119).
- Keyword \!(Delay(<TimeSpan>)) not yet implemented (feature request #139).
- Keyword \!(Repeat(<Item>, <Repetitions>, <Delay>)) not yet implemented (feature
request #13).
- Wait for response line (text terminals) not yet implemented (feature request #19
and bug #176).
- Breaking while sending files not possible yet (bug #305).
- Direct send text mode does not yet support special formats and commands (feature
request #10).
- Running YAT for a long period, or creating many terminals, results in memory
leaks, which result
in a gradual increase of the memory consumption (RAM) (bugs #243, #263 and #336,
root cause yet
unknown, could even be a limitation of the memory management of the .NET
Runtime).
YAT 2.0 Gamma 1'' Version 1.99.34 :: 2015-06-13
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------

New:
- Serial COM ports can better be configured in terms of sending (feature request
#235)
> Output buffer size can be limited; useful when using hardware and/or software
flow control
> Send rate can be limited; useful if a device cannot process more than a
certain amount of data

Important changes:
- Serial COM port send chunk size can no longer be configured (related to feature
request #235)

Fixed bugs:
- 'SocketException' when resolving URL of a not yet available remote host fixed
(bug #312)
- Invalid handling of remote host IP address fixed (bugs #313, #314 and #315)
- Local user settings (previous workspace/terminals, recent files, window location,
preferences) are
again loaded from the latest previous version (bug #311)

YAT 2.0 Gamma 1' Version 1.99.33 :: 2015-06-07

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------

Fixed bugs:
- 'FormatException' when opening the terminal settings of a terminal that is based
on an existing
.yat file fixed, additional test cases added to regression testing (bugs #306 and
#307)
- Issues with [Send File] fixed, handling of recent commands and shortcuts improved
(bug #304)

YAT 2.0 Gamma 1 Version 1.99.32 :: 2015-06-01

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------

New:
- Keyword \!(LineRepeat) added, count can be configured in advanced settings (feat.
#13 and #162)
- Support for variants of USB Ser/HID (e.g TI MSP430 HID API) added, report format
can be specified
in the USB Ser/HID settings (feature requests #193 and #209)
- Write protected .yat files are marked '#' and are not attempted to be written
automatically,
write protected .yaw files are not attempted to be written either (feature
request #194)
- Predefined commands can now be copied to 'Send Command' using shortcuts
Alt+Shift+Fx (feat. #218)
- Tool tips added to command buttons (feature request #205, also related to feature
request #220)
- Terminal window setting (manual/cascade/tile) is now stored in the workspace and
re-applied when
 starting YAT or re-sizing the main form (feature requests #40, #141 and #170)

Important changes:
- \!(...) keywords can optionally be disabled (feature request #183)
- Retrieving serial COM port captions from the system can optionally be disabled in
'Preferences'
Disabling can be useful on computers where discovery of serial COM ports takes
too long
- Binary terminals: No longer by default replace control characters (feature
request #204)
- Serial COM port XOn/XOff flow control chars can optionally be hidden for 'Manual
Software' and
'Manual Combined' (feature request #190)
- Serial COM port XOn/XOff flow control state and count is only indicated for
'Manual Software' and
'Manual Combined', this is due to a limitation of the .NET/Win32 serial port
driver (bug #214)
- Serial COM port modem baud rates 28.8 and 33.6 added to defaults (related to
feature request #193)
- USB Ser/HID serial string comparison is no longer case-sensitive (Windows
behavior) (bug #279)
- Time stamps are now output in milliseconds to improve readability (feature
request #196)
- Format exceptions while sending are now reported as error messages within the
terminal (bug #270)
- Error handling in case of deleted .yaw and .yat files improved (related to
feature request #194)
- Command line arguments can also be used to preset the settings of the initial
'New Terminal'
dialog to fixed values, independent on the values that were selected before
(related to bug #262)
- Command line console output is now channeled to stdout or stderr depending on
whether it is normal
or error information (feature request #192)
- More information on virtual serial port tools added to [Help > About] (feature
request #198)
- DejaVu fonts updated to 2.34
- Visual Studio upgraded to 2013 Community Edition, incl. installer (VSI) (feature
request #221)
- Installer split into separate packages for x86 and x64 (feature requests #175 and
#191)
- Installer improved, now using YAT specific banner and texts (related to requests
#175 and #191)
- NUnit updated to 2.6.4, other development tools (GhostDoc, StyleCop, FxCop)
updated too

Fixed bugs:
- Duplicated and/or split display representation fixed (bugs #258, #264 and #265)
- Manually entered serial COM port, remote TCP/IP host or USB Ser/HID device is now
properly
restored when opening the terminal settings dialog (bug #259)
- Manually entered non-standard baud rate is properly restored in settings dialog
again (bug #283)
- Shortcuts are now always routed to the correct terminal window (i.e. MDI child)
(bug #152)
- Handling of recent commands in 'Send Command' improved, arrows up/down properly
work again
- Representation of description of multi-line commands in 'Send Command' improved
- Issues with 'Send Command' fixed, additional test cases added (bugs #276, #282
and #291)
- Issues with line break fixed (bugs #269 and #281)
- Issue with escape sequences following a C-style escape fixed (bug #290)
- Exception while reading stream in YAT.Domain.Parser.Parser.TryParse() fixed (bug
#261)
- Exception while changing settings of a UDP/IP terminal fixed (bugs #289 and #301)
- Exceptions and issues while closing terminal or application fixed (bugs #72,
#267, #287, #288)
- Memory leak when subsequently creating and closing terminals fixed (bug #263)
- Excessive memory occupation after standby fixed (bug #243)
- 'MissingMethodException' of 'Boolean System.Threading.WaitHandle.WaitOne(Int32)'
fixed by adding
.NET 3.5 SP1 as prerequisite to setup/installer (bug #273)
- Start from command line no longer always generates a terminal (bug #262)
- 'InvalidOperationException' when starting YAT with /r command line option fixed
(bug #260)
- 'NullReferenceException' when starting YAT with /tf command line option fixed
(bug #280)
- 'ThreadException' upon copy of exception data to clipboard fixed (bug #245)

Limitations and known issues:

- x64 distributions are 'AnyCPU' builds due to limitations of VS2013 on .NET 3.5
SP1 (feat. #229)
- General limitations of .NET Windows.Forms
> If YAT is not the active application, two clicks are required to execute an
action. Reason:
In .NET Windows.Forms the first click only activates the application but
doesn't execute
anything (bug #210)
> System errors are output in local language, even though YAT is all-English
(bug #66)
> Automatic horizontal scrolling of monitors is not feasible to implement
(feature request #163)
- MDI limitations of .NET Windows.Forms
> Issues with frame (bugs #29 and #30)
> Issues with window list (bugs #31, #119, #180 and #213)
- Long monitor content is not displayed properly when horizontally scrolling (bug
#125)
- Serial COM port limitations of .NET
> Support for ports named other than "COM..." isn't supported by .NET (feature
request #101)
- Serial COM port limitations of certain hardware, e.g. certain USB/RS-232
converters (USB CDC)
> RFR/CTS flow control 'Hardware' and 'Hardware Combined' may not be supported
(bug #203)
> Manual RFR/CTS flow control 'Manual Hardware' and 'Manual Hardware Combined'
may not be
supported on Win7/64 (bug #254)
> Handling of serial COM port break states may not be supported (feature request
#109)
- Use of USB/RS-232 converters (USB CDC) while hibernate or undock without closing
the serial COM
port leads to 'ObjectDisposedException' in the system internal infrastructure
(bugs #293 and #316)
- Use of internal serial COM port may lead to slowdown of the application on
certain computers; due
to superfluous events triggered by the control pins (bugs #271 and #277); root
cause yet unknown
- USB Ser/HID only runs on Windows; use of 'LibUsb'/'LibUsbDotNet' and significant
migration work of
implementation and test environment would be needed to run it on unixoids
(feature request #119)
- Keyword \!(Delay(<TimeSpan>)) not yet implemented (feature request #139)
- Keyword \!(Repeat(<Item>, <Repetitions>, <Delay>)) not yet implemented (feature
request #13)
- Wait for answer line (text terminals) not yet implemented (feature request #19
and bug #176)
- Breaking while sending files not possible yet (bug #305)
- Direct send text mode does not yet support special formats and commands (feature
request #10)
- Logging is limited to text, RTF format not yet implemented (feature requests
#233)
- XML logging not yet implemented, definition of schema pending (feature requests
#26 and #27)

YAT 2.0 Beta 4 Candidate 2 Version 1.99.30 :: 2013-02-02

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------

New:
- Line numbers can optionally be displayed in monitors (feature request
#3442828>#167)
- Keywords \!(Delay) and \!(LineDelay) implemented, time span in milliseconds can
be configured in
advanced settings (related to feature requests #3105414>#138, #3105478>#139 and
#3538899>#179)
- Optional support for array options added to MKY.CommandLine (feature request
#3571456>#182)
- Additional executable 'YATConsole.exe' added to ensure proper command line
operation in case of
'cmd' as well as 'PowerShell' (bug #3482103>#222)

Important changes:
- Update to DejaVu fonts 2.33
- [File > Open] now also allows to select workspace files (feature request
#1917388>#41)
- Monitors automatically start vertical scrolling again if the last item gets
selected
- Massive refactoring of the send data/event path, implementation is now fully
asynchronous
> Fixes several display and performance issues (bugs #3072919>#157,
#3137968>#175, #3292415>#198)
> Received data is no longer displayed with delay when sending multi-line
commands or files
> Allows to implement asynchronuous send features such as keywords \!(Delay) and
\!(LineDelay)
and upcoming features #1808500>#13, #2455838>#71, #3105414>#138,
#3105478>#139, #3406521>#162,
#3488645>#176 and #3538899>#179
- Massive refactoring of the display data/event path, implementation is now fully
asynchronous
> Prevents race conditions while processing fast and large amounts of data
> Fixes several display and log issues with mixed up data, and improves
performance
> Fixes bugs #2005758>#83, #2455804>#93, #2868735>#126, #2981794>#148,
#3176813>#184,
#3284550>#194 and #3480565>#221
- Serial COM port, USB as well as TCP/IP and UDP/IP socket functionality of
MKY.IO.Serial has been
split into separate assemblies to allow dedicated use of one of the new
assemblies without
unnecessary dependencies to the other parts (feature request #3388950>#156)
- Serial COM port break counts added (feature request #187)
- Serial COM port flow control counts added in case of manual flow control (feature
request #187)
- Serial COM port uses the official term RFR (Ready For Receiving) instead of RTS
(Ready To Send)
- Additional help content on serial port errors added (feature requests
#2213647>#66, #3440986>#166)
- Error message in case a serial port cannot be opened has been improved (bug
#3565648>#239)
- Issue with predefined commands in case of concurrent YAT instances fixed (bug
#3464323>#218)
> Implemented by use of a named mutex as suggested in the respective comments
> Also fixes use of same setting file by concurrent YAT instances (bug
#3540438>#236)
- Proper handling if a .yaw or .yat was located on a storage that has been removed
> Fixes bugs #2455825>#96 and #3595185>#249
> Fixed including a refactoring of the save/close/exit procedure
- Schemas and defaults of all former settings filed and versioned, version of
settings added to all
three types of settings (related to bugs #3450553>#208 and #3535709>#231)
- .NET XML serialization infrastructure extended by schema for GUID items (bug
#3535709>#231)
- BoolEx renamed to BooleanEx for consistency with the .NET type Boolean (bug
#3533831>#229)
- The ALAZ socket library was considered to be replaced by a different library, but
then decided to
be kept and instead partially reverted to 2.0, see "\MKY\MKY.IO.Serial.Socket\!-
Doc" for details
- Code re-use of the USB Ser/HID infrastructure somewhat documented (feature
request #3577235>#185)
- All projects explicitly set to warning level 4, already used to be level 4 but
implicitly
- Code analysis and improvements using StyleCop finalized (feature request
#2970222>#115)
- Code analysis and improvements using FxCop mostly finalized (feature request
#2970221>#114)
- x86 and x64 configurations added to all projects to enable inheriting projects to
build dedicated
x86 and x64 binaries (also see \!-Doc.Developer\ProjectSetup.txt) (feature
request #3482248>#175)
- YAT on SourceForge has been upgraded to the new SourceForge 'Allura' platform
> All feature requests and bug reports have been renumbered

Fixed bugs:
- 4 data bits are invalid for serial COM ports, 4 has been removed from list (bug
#3454543>#212)
- Issues with USB Ser/HID reports that were exactly or larger than the maximum
report size fixed
(bugs #3463404>#216, #3464116>#217 and #3584852>#247)
- Empty lines are no longer skipped when not showing EOL (bug #2898163>#136)
- Edit shortcuts such as Ctrl-A and Ctrl-C reenabled in 'Send Command' box (bug
#3459888>#215)
- Recent 'Send Command' items are again properly loaded from saved settings (bug
#3450553>#208)
- Optional replacement of space by open box character again works (bug
#3451736>#209)
- Log file separator 'Underline' fixed
- Default EOL comment indicators can now also be removed (bug #3581368>#244)
> This fix required a change in the settings schema, custom indicators have to
be entered again
- Binary length line break fixed, again works correctly
- Missing tool tip on main window fixed, wrong tool tip on terminal window fixed
(bug #3471809>#219)
- Printer dialog also gets shown on 64-bit systems
- 'SaveAs' dialog no longer shows .yat.yat in case of already saved files (bug
#3532391>#227)
- Handling of 'FileNotFoundException' in YAT.Gui.Forms.WelcomeScreen (bug
#3576101>#241)
- Handling of 'UnauthorizedAccessException' in YAT.Model.Terminal/Workspace (bug
#3533201>#228)
- Handling of 'InvalidOperationException' in ALAZ.SystemEx.BaseSocketConHost (bug
#3528765>#226)
- 'NullReferenceException' in YAT.Log.Logs fixed (bug #3534799>#230)
- 'IndexOutOfRangeException' in YAT.Domain.RawRepository fixed (bug #3483085>#223)
- 'ArgumentException' and 'OverflowException' in MKY.Time.Rate fixed (bug
#3479634>#220)
- Cancel during port scan should no longer result in an exception (bug
#1804920>#23)
- Improvement of modal behavior in case of console and non-view execution (bug
#3516441>#225)
- Proper startup when YAT is started minimized or without view (bug #3542973>#237)

Limitations and known issues:

- General limitations of .NET Windows.Forms
> If YAT is not the active application, two clicks are required to execute an
action. Reason:
In .NET Windows.Forms the first click only activates the application but
doesn't execute
anything (bug #3454532>#210)
> System errors are output in local language, even though YAT is all-English
(bug #1927786>#66)
- MDI limitations of .NET Windows.Forms
> Issues with frame (bugs #1808492>#29 and #1808493>#30)
> Issues with window list (bugs #1808494>#31, #2846917>#119, #3160095>#180 and
#3454550>#213)
> Issue with re-routing shortcuts when activating a different MDI child (bug
#2996684>#152)
- Long monitor content is not displayed properly when horizontally scrolling (bug
#2865562>#125)
- Support for serial ports which are named other than "COM..." isn't supported
by .NET
(feature request #2848228>#101)
- Serial COM port RFR/CTS flow control 'Hardware' and 'Hardware Combined' may not
be supported
on certain hardware, e.g. certain USB/RS-232 converters (bug #3417097>#203)
- Serial COM port manual RFR/CTS flow control 'Manual Hardware' and 'Manual
Hardware Combined' may
not be supported on Win7/64 on certain hardware, e.g. certain USB/RS-232
converters (bug #254)
- Serial COM port XOn/XOff flow control state is properly indicated for 'Manual
Software' and
'Manual Combined' only, and always on for 'Software' and 'Combined' (bug
#3456205>#214)
- Handling of serial COM port break states (feature #2932691>#109) may not be
supported on certain
hardware, e.g. USB/RS-232 converters
- USB Ser/HID only runs on Windows; use of 'LibUsb'/'LibUsbDotNet' and significant
migration work of
implementation and test environment would be needed to run it on unixoids
(feature req. #2982052>#119)
- Keyword \!(Delay(<TimeSpan>)) not yet implemented (feature request #3105478>#139)
- Wait for answer line (text terminals) not yet implemented (feature request
#1808509>#19)
- Direct send text mode does not yet support special formats and commands (feature
request #1808496>#10)
- XML logging not yet implemented, definition of schema pending (bugs #1849227>#26
and #1849228>#27)

YAT 2.0 Beta 4 Candidate 1 Version 1.99.28 :: 2011-12-05

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------

New:
- Support for C-style escape sequences (feature request #3044830)
- Text terminals: Comments can be chosen to be ignored while sending (feature
request #2848298)
> Comment indicators can be configured in [Terminal > Settings > Text Settings]
> C/C++/C#/Java style "//" and Basic/BAT/DOS style "REM" comment indicators are
predefined
- 'Manual' flow control split into 'Manual Hardware', 'Manual Software' and 'Manual
Combined'
- Serial ports: XOn/XOff state is indicated (feature request #3066635)
> Applies to 'Software', 'Combined', 'Manual Software' and 'Manual Combined'
flow control
> XOn/XOff can be manually toggled in case of 'Manual Software' and 'Manual
Combined'
- Serial ports: Auto-reopen implemented (feature request #1960299)
> Workaround for .NET deadlock issue in System.IO.SerialPort applied, limitation
removed
> Also fixes exceptions in case of disconnect (bugs #2981793, #3093159 and
#3372435)
> Useful for USB Ser/CDC connections such as USB to serial converters or other
Ser/CDC devices
- Byte and line data rate per second added to monitors (feature requests #2846784
and #3274066)
- Handling of terminal indecies finalized (feature request #3091859)
> Fixed indecies are persistently saved and restored upon loading the workspace
> Dynamic indecies are automatically restored correctly
- Powerful command line argument handling implemented related to the feature
requests stated above
(feature request #2991946, also fixes feature request #2745211)
> Attribute based argument implementation including test environment and runtime
validation
> Based on the NUnit command line argument infrastructure
- All major terminal settings are now also available when creating a new terminal
as well as when
calling YAT from the command line (feature requests #3162725 and #3391925,
related to feature
request #2991946 listed above)

Important changes:
- The monitor update rate is now dependent on the data rate, i.e. when more data is
transmitted or
received, the update rate is reduced, results in better performance (feature
request #3274073)
- Monitor display status settings relocated from 'Display' to 'Status' to improve
speed on showing
the status labels, i.e. no monitor update is needed anymore (related to feature
request #3274073)
- Data sending in MKY.IO.Serial.SerialPort switched from synchronous to
asynchronous in order to
allow proper handling of XOn/XOff and RTS/CTS flow control
- Serial COM ports RTS and DTR states are no longer stored persistently in case of
manual flow
control (related to feature requests #2932691 and #3066635 and bug #3432512)
- Parity error replacement removed since parity errors are displayed as error text
inside terminal
- Break states are only indicated and modifiable if selected in 'AdvancedSettings'
- Shortcut for window layout added: [Ctrl+Alt+C/H/V] layouts
cascaded/horizontal/vertical
- Behavior of concurrent instances of YAT verified (feature request #2842713)
> Already seems to work fine, test case added and successfully passed,
limitation removed
- Exception handling refactored, now using 'Application.ThreadException' for
'Windows.Forms'
and 'AppDomain.UnhandledException' for all other threads (also fixes bug
#3292682)
- 'Unhandled Exception' now shows all information including inner exceptions (bug
#3290314)
- MKY.Data added
- MKY.Settings.Settings renamed to MKY.Settings.SettingsItem
- MKY.IO and MKY.IO.Net added to prepare refactoring of MKY.IO.Serial (feature
request #3388950)
- Update to NUnit 2.5.10
- "_<Base|Data|Doc|Test>" renamed to "!-<Base|Data|Doc|Test>"
- Product version added to header of each source code file (feature request
#3418320)

Fixed bugs:
- YAT no longer asks twice whether to save (bug #3121250)
> Only applies if [File > Preferences... > Save current workspace automatically]
is 'No'
- Serial COM ports now properly support XOn/XOff and RTS/CTS flow control (bug
#3432512)
- Multi-line commands are again kept in 'Send Command' (bug #3121249)
- Exception when selecting an undefined predefined command using 'Shift+Fx' fixed
(bug #3367649)
- Exception due to invalid panel layout (splitter distance) is now handled (bug
#3426400)
- Error message in case of an error when opening a port or socket improved (bug
#2213639)
- Exception in case of a computer without any devices (e.g. off-line notebook)
fixed (bug #3060623)
- 'NullReferenceException' in YAT.Log fixed (bug #3441961)

Limitations and known issues:

- General limitations of .NET Windows.Forms
> System errors are output in local language, even though YAT is all-English
(bug #1927786)
- MDI limitations of .NET
 > Issues with frame (bugs #1808492 and #1808493)
> Issues with window list (bugs #1808494, #2846917 and #3160095)
> Issue with re-routing shortcuts when activating a different MDI child (bug
#2996684)
- Long monitor content is not displayed properly when scrolling using scroll bar
(bug #2865562)
- Response of multi-line commands or files is delayed (bug #3072919)
- Support for serial ports which are named other than "COM..." isn't supported
by .NET
(feature request #2848228)
- Serial COM port RTS/CTS flow control 'Hardware' and 'Hardware Combined' may not
be supported
on certain hardware, e.g. certain USB/RS-232 converters (bug #3417097)
- Serial COM port XOn/XOff flow control state is properly indicated for 'Manual
Software' and
'Manual Combined' only, and always on for 'Software' and 'Combined' (bug
#3456205)
- Handling of serial COM port break states (feature #2932691) may not be supported
on certain
hardware, e.g. USB/RS-232 converters
- USB Ser/HID only runs on Windows; use of 'LibUsb'/'LibUsbDotNet' and significant
migration work of
implementation and test environment would be needed to run it on unixoids
(feature req. #2982052)
- Keyword \!(Delay(<TimeSpan>)) not yet implemented (feature request #3105478)
- Wait for answer line (text terminals) not yet implemented (feature request
#1808509)
- Direct send text mode does not yet support special formats and commands (feature
request #1808496)
- Logging in XML not yet implemented, definition of schema pending (bugs #1849227
and #1849228)

YAT 2.0 Beta 3 Candidate 4 Version 1.99.26 :: 2011-04-25

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------

Important changes:
- Update to DejaVu 2.32
- Handling of non-platform file system paths improved (related to feature request
#2982052)
- Shortcut to [Terminal > Select None] has changed to [Ctrl+Shift+N] (bug #3220852)
- Handling of unhandled exceptions improved (feature request #3176816)
> The user now has a choice on how to proceed
> There should no longer be undesired multiple exceptions
- Links to SourceForge trackers now contain filter and sort (feature request
#3160872)
- Application information and dialog and message texts unified
- Some Unicode UTF-8/16/32 testing added (bug #1931537)
- .yat/.yaw/.xml files are preambled with UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM) (feature
request #3144111)
- All source code and text files converted to UTF-8, including byte order mark
(BOM)
- HowTo on optional user test config and settings templates added (related to
#2838447/#2981764)
- Use of \todo, \fixme,... tags unified in source code
- Transmission test infrastructure improved such that it can deal with the \!
(Clear) command
Fixed bugs:
- Predefined commands are also put into list of recent commands (bug #3146622)
- Local interface again is properly set when switching from COM port to TCP/IP
socket (bug #3176815)
- Exception when switching terminal type to USB Ser/HID fixed (bug #3290317)
- TCP/IP client auto-reconnect fixed (bug #3285780)
- TCP/IP servers can be closed and reopened again (bugs #3137057 and #3137122)
- Exception when closing/reopening terminals quickly (e.g. out of a script) fixed
(bug #3137047)
- Exception on clearing monitors fixed by improving thread-safety on raw and
display repositories
- Exception on receiving fixed by improving thread-safety on raw and display
repositories
(bugs #3105773, #3156928, #3165821 and #3284519)
- Exception that only occurs in 'Release' probably fixed too (bugs #3176812 and
#3187520)
- Exception on send also fixed by improving thread-safety on send operations
(bugs #2872830 and #3177728)
- Handling of invalid Bluetooth ports on computer without other COM ports improved
(bug #3172124)
- Object reference issue with SerialPortId.FirstStandardPort fixed (bugs #3134313)

Limitations and known issues:

- MDI limitations of .NET
> Issues with frame (bugs #1808492 and #1808493)
> Issues with window list (bugs #1808494 and #2846917)
> Issue with re-routing shortcuts when activating a different MDI child (bug
#2996684)
- Long monitor content is not displayed properly when scrolling using scroll bar
(bug #2865562)
- Response of multi-line commands or files is delayed (bug #3072919)
- Serial port auto-reopen not yet implementable due to .NET deadlock issue in
System.IO.SerialPort
(feature request #1960299)
- Support for serial ports which are named other than "COM..." isn't supported
by .NET
(feature request #2848228)
- Handling of serial COM port break states (feature #2932691) may not be supported
on certain
hardware, e.g. USB/RS-232 converters
- USB Ser/HID only runs on Windows; use of 'LibUsb'/'LibUsbDotNet' and significant
migration work of
implementation and test environment would be needed to run it on unixoids
(feature req. #2982052)
- Keyword \!(Delay(<TimeSpan>)) not yet implemented (feature request #3105478)
- Wait for answer line (text terminals) not yet implemented (feature request
#1808509)
- Direct send text mode does not yet support special formats and commands (feature
request #1808496)
- Logging in XML not yet implemented, definition of schema pending (bugs #1849227
and #1849228)
- Concurrent instances of YAT are limited in the use of default workspaces and
terminals
(feature request #2842713)

YAT 2.0 Beta 3 Candidate 3 Version 1.99.25 :: 2010-11-28

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-----------------
New:
- USB Ser/HID device connect/disconnect detection

Important changes:
- Conceptual issue in YAT main in respect to unhandled exceptions fixed (bug
#3106928)
- Conceptual issue in YAT controller in respect to command line arguments fixed
(bug #3111525)
- String comparisons improved, more selective use of different means of comparison
- Use of Debug/Trace/Console standardized within NUnit tests (bug #3111522)
- Recent file handling test cases created in YAT.Model.Test (bug #3107531)
- More specific exception types used, e.g. ArgumentOutOfRange instead of
NotImplemented
- MKY.Types moved to the MKY namespace for consistency with the .NET System
namespace

Fixed bugs:
- User interface exception in case of more than 12 predefined command pages fixed
(bug #3112679)
- Exception on exit after reduction of the window size fixed (bug #2997101)
- Some minor user interface issues fixed (bug #3111508)
- Issue with saved USB Ser/HID device IDs fixed (bug #3116770)
- Open of recent terminal doesn't close workspace anymore (bug #3107531)
- Command line info and options are properly output again (bug #3111525)

Limitations and known issues:

- MDI limitations of .NET
> Issues with frame (bugs #1808492 and #1808493)
> Issues with window list (bugs #1808494 and #2846917)
> Issue with re-routing shortcuts when activating a different MDI child (bug
#2996684)
- Long monitor content is not displayed properly when scrolling using scroll bar
(bug #2865562)
- Response of multi-line commands or files is delayed (bug #3072919)
- Serial port auto-reopen not yet implementable due to .NET deadlock issue in
System.IO.SerialPort
(feature request #1960299)
- Support for serial ports which are named other than "COM..." isn't supported
by .NET
(feature request #2848228)
- Handling of serial COM port break states (feature #2932691) may not be supported
on certain
hardware, e.g. USB/RS-232 converters
- USB Ser/HID only runs on Windows; use of 'LibUsb'/'LibUsbDotNet' and significant
migration work of
implementation and test environment would be needed to run it on unixoids
(feature req. #2982052)
- UTF-16/32 testing pending (bug #1931537)
- Keyword \!(Delay(<TimeSpan>)) not yet implemented (feature request #3105478)
- Wait for answer line (text terminals) not yet implemented (feature request
#1808509)
- Direct send text mode does not yet support special formats and commands (feature
request #1808496)
- Logging in XML not yet implemented, definition of schema pending (bugs #1849227
and #1849228)
- Concurrent instances of YAT are limited in the use of default workspaces and
terminals
(feature request #2842713)
YAT 2.0 Beta 3 Candidate 2 Version 1.99.24 :: 2010-11-11
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------

New:
- Support for USB Ser/HID implemented (feature request #2825931)
- Handling of input and output break states added to serial COM ports (feature
request #2932691)
- Separate connect and total connect time, connect time is restarted on open (bug
#2869585)
- Optional simple terminal/direct mode added to [Send Command] (feature request
#1808496)
- Keyword \!(Clear) added (feature request #2998594)
- List of first 12 predefined command pages added to menu, with shortcuts (feature
request #2914892)
- Recent history added to [Send File] (feature request #2869575)
- Text terminals: Line send delay added (feature request #1808508, bug #1963002)
- ASCII table added to help (feature request #1923555)
- User defineable terminal name added (related to feature request #3091859)
- Different methods to retrieve terminal added to workspace (feature request
#3091859)
- Terminal IDs and indecies are shown in the main status bar (related to feature
request #3091859)
- Test config including optional user config added (feature request #2981764)
- Physical entities used for testing such as COM ports are configurable (feature
request #2838447)
- Test environment to ensure that TCP/IP works on multiple network interfaces added
(bug #2970215)
- TCP/IP endurance and stress tests added
- UDP/IP endurance tests added
- GUI stress test added
- Predefined NUnit test categories added

Important changes:
- Performance on startup improved (feature request #2968216)
- Serial COM port list gets refreshed when changing the I/O port type
- Serial COM port list shows additional dialog if retrieving of ports takes more
than 500 ms
- Selection and settings controls now clear contents when disabled
- Radix (string/hex) automatically changes when switching the terminal type
(text/binary)
- Coupling of Tx and Rx radix improved
- Output of system error messages improved (feature request #3103502)
- MKY.Utilities renamed to MKY for consistency with the .NET System namespace
- XArray, XByte,... renamed to ArrayEx, ByteEx
- Update to NUnit 2.5.7
- Use of parametrized NUnit test cases
- Use of FxCop (feature request #2970221)
- Use of StyleCop (feature request #2970222)
- Methods and properties marked 'virtual', unless there are reasons against
- Null reference safe and more efficient implementation of Equals()
- GetHashCode() implementation according the .NET guidelines
- CompareTo() implementation according the .NET guidelines
- Project references to system assemblies cleaned
- Using directives cleaned
- Test and demo projects also signed with a strong name key
- Version information moved to a single file, added links to that file to projects
- Website and contact information added to all source headers (feature request
#2998593)

Fixed bugs:
- TCP/IP open/close issues fixed (bugs #2684769, #2869622, #2966417)
- TCP/IP remote host and program freeze issue when opening from a file fixed (bug
#2684813)
- TCP/IP data send event now occurs (bug #2884756)
- UDP/IP implementation changed from ALAZ.SystemEx.NetEx to System.Net.Sockets
- UDP/IP default local port fixed
- UDP/IP connect issue fixed (bug #2120432)
- Monitor contents are displayed even if they exceed the visible width (bugs
#2865562 and #2981796)
- Binary terminals: 0x00 no more breaks line if sequence line break is disabled
(bug #3050551)
- Multi-line command issue fixed (bug #2831453)
- Layout/anchor issue of description text field in predefined dialog fixed (bug
#2987575)
- Tab order in predefined command dialog fixed (bug #2914863)
- Window startup position is adjusted if saved position is out of bounds, e.g. if
window was
saved on a secondary display that is not connected anymore (bugs #2856250 and
#2906622)
- Partial EOL sequences work again (bug #2847375)
- Inconsistency when reading EOL sequence fixed (bug #2869497)
- Exception with TCP/IP AutoSocket fixed (bug# 2869792)
- Exception when switching from COM port to TCP/IP AutoSocket fixed (bug #2981797)
- Exception in case of no COM ports fixed (bug #3041642)
- Exception when closing terminal using [File > Close] fixed (bugs #2684813,
#2854547, #2970241)
- Exception when changing settings fixed (bug #2869538)
- Rare exception while drawing fixed (bug #2981762)
- Unhandled exception on binary terminal fixed (bug #2891996)
- Unhandled exception dialog improved and fixed (feature request #2970243, bug
#2970245)

Limitations and known issues:

- MDI limitations of .NET
> Issues with frame (bugs #1808492 and #1808493)
> Issues with window list (bugs #1808494 and #2846917)
> Issue with re-routing shortcuts when activating a different MDI child (bug
#2996684)
- Long monitor content is not displayed properly when scrolling using scroll bar
(bug #2865562)
- Response of multi-line commands or files is delayed (bug #3072919)
- Serial port auto-reopen not yet implementable due to .NET deadlock issue in
System.IO.SerialPort
(feature request #1960299)
- Support for serial ports which are named other than "COM..." isn't supported
by .NET
(feature request #2848228)
- Handling of serial COM port break states (feature #2932691) may not be supported
on certain
hardware, e.g. USB/RS-232 converters
- USB Ser/HID only runs on Windows; use of 'LibUsb'/'LibUsbDotNet' and significant
migration work of
implementation and test environment would be needed to run it on unixoids
(feature req. #2982052)
- UTF-16/32 testing pending (bug #1931537)
- Keyword \!(Delay(<TimeSpan>)) not yet implemented (feature request #3105478)
- Wait for answer line (text terminals) not yet implemented (feature request
#1808509)
- Direct send text mode does not yet support special formats and commands (feature
request #1808496)
- Logging in XML not yet implemented, definition of schema pending (bugs #1849227
and #1849228)
- Concurrent instances of YAT are limited in the use of default workspaces and
terminals
(feature request #2842713)

YAT 2.0 Beta 3 Candidate 1 Version 1.99.23 :: 2009-09-10

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------

Fixed bugs:
- Installer prerequisites fixed to .NET 3.5 (bug #2855869)

YAT 2.0 Beta 3 Candidate 1 Version 1.99.22 :: 2009-09-08

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------

New:
- Select all/none items in monitor (feature request #2455810)
- Optionally hide radix, e.g. "80" instead of "80h" (feature request #2085990)
- Tabs are treated as tabs and not converted to <TAB> by default anymore (feature
request #2813232)
- Additional toolbar buttons to set radix added
- Additional toolbar buttons to clear/save/copy monitor contents added

Important changes:
- Flickering eliminated by implementing a speed optimized list box (bug #2813227)
- Empty command text is now grayed italics (feature request #2838453)
- Handling of local user settings on concurrent instances of YAT improved (feature
request #2842692)
- Update to .NET 3.5 SP1 (feature request #2813235)
- Update to ALAZ 2.0 (feature request #2813236)
- Update to DejaVu 2.29 (feature request #2813292)
- Update to NUnit 2.5.2 (feature request #2813296)
- Header and footer added to all source files (feature request #2136643)
- SVN tags added to all source files (feature request #2813228)

Fixed bugs:
- Workspaces (.yaw) now properly work on network paths (bug #2234443)
- Multi-line command issues fixed (bugs #2213644, #2816862 and #2831453)
- On open, serial ports immediately check whether there is already data pending
(bug #2848229)
- TCP/IP remote IP address selection issue fixed (bug #2690191)
- TCP/IP disconnect issue fixed (bug #2684769)
- TCP/IP state issue fixed (bug #2694592)
- TCP/IP AutoSocket connect/disconnect/reconnect issues fixed (bug #2767608)
- Thread synchronization issue when closing while receiving fixed (bug #1931923)
- Log into .dat can now properly be started (bug #2455807)
- Directly opened terminals don't automatically get saved anymore (bug #2821291)
- Relative paths are no more added to recent files

Limitations and known issues:

- Serial port auto-reopen not yet implementable due to .NET deadlock issue in
System.IO.SerialPort
(feature request #1960299)
- Support for serial ports which are named other than "COM..." isn't supported
by .NET
(feature request #2848228)
- UTF-16/32 testing pending (bug #1931537)
- More advanced text line send and receive options not yet implemented
(feature requests #1808508 and #1808509)
- Logging in XML not yet implemented, definition of schema pending (bugs #1849227
and #1849228)
- Concurrent instances of YAT are limited in the use of default workspaces and
terminals
(feature request #2842713)

YAT 2.0 Beta 2 Candidate 4 Version 1.99.20 :: 2008-07-18

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-----------------

Important changes:
- Treatment of serial port communication errors improved (feature request #1953199)
> On less critical errors, red error message is shown in monitor, no message box
is shown anymore
- XOn/XOff software flow control has thoroughly been tested, it correctly worked
before
- Support for COM ports above 256 has been tested with local virtual port loopbacks
- File handling of workspace and terminal files improved
> Automated workspace/terminal use case tests added
- Initialization and update of menu items improved
- Text: EOL processing improved
- Name of non-YAT assembly projects adapted to assembly name
- Separate non-YAT assembly encapsulating serial port and socket providers

Fixed bugs:
- RTS/CTS hardware flow control is fixed and thoroughly tested (bugs #1919399 and
#1944332)
- Thread synchronization issue when closing while receiving fixed (bug #1931923)
- Command validation fixed (bug #1983796) and improved
- Font can be changed in format settings dialog (bug #1937065)
- Shortcuts are immediately active, no need to open menu first anymore (bug
#1944023)
- [Send > File] now gets properly enabled (bug #1995796)
- Clearing monitors also clears incomplete lines (bug #1942335)
- Clearing predefined command description really clears it (bug #1945488)
- ShowEOL = false doesn't strip chars anymore (bug #1931582)
- Log now logs EOL according to settings (bug #1995797)
- Help, release notes and tracker instructions forms are shown center of parent
(bug #1938031)

Limitations and known issues:

- Serial port auto-reopen not yet implementable due to .NET deadlock issue in
System.IO.SerialPort
(feature request #1960299)
- UTF-16/32 testing pending (bug #1931537)
- More advanced text line send and receive options not yet implemented
(feature requests #1808508 and #1808509)
- Logging in XML not yet implemented, definition of schema pending (bugs #1849227
and #1849228)
YAT 2.0 Beta 2 Candidate 3 Version 1.99.19 :: 2008-04-01
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------

New:
- Serial COM ports are now labelled, e.g. "COM2 - Serial On USB Port"
- Monitors have two new features
> Connect time can be displayed
> Direction icon changes color depending on I/O state
- Advanced setting [Copy Predefined Command] added
> By default, predefined commands are not copied to [Send Command] text box
after send
> If [Copy Predefined Command] is enabled, command is copied after send
- Copy options to/from predefined to send command/file added
- Predefined commands can now be deleted/cleared

Important changes:
- Number of display lines can now be changed
- Displaying bug for UTF-8 encoding fixed
- Parser bug on "\\" fixed
- Copy and save don't add extra line anymore
- Format settings bug fixed
- Displaying performance improved

Limitations and known issues:

- Thorough testing of RTS/CTS hardware flow control pending
- Thorough testing of XOn/XOff software flow control pending
- UTF-16/32 testing pending
- More advanced text line send and receive options not yet implemented
- Logging in XML not yet implemented, definition of schema pending

YAT 2.0 Beta 2 Candidate 2 Version 1.99.18 :: 2008-03-17

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-----------------

New:
- 'DejaVu Sans Mono' as default font
> [View > Format > Font] to select 'DejaVu Sans Mono' on existing files
- Advanced setting [Keep Command] added
> By default, command is kept in [Send Command] text box after send
> If [Keep Command] is disabled, command is cleared after send
- Radix for Tx and Rx can now optionally be set separately
- Optional space replacement by open box character U+2423
- Menu entries to request support, features and submit bugs added
- Automated NUnit loop-back test for model (Main/Workspace/Terminal) added

Important changes:
- Mix-up of lines when receiving multiple lines fixed
- Duplications when sending multi-line commands fixed
- Line/byte counters fixed
- Measuring and calculation of spacing improved for monitors
- XOn/XOff improved

Limitations and known issues:

- Thorough testing of XOn/XOff software flow control pending
- More advanced text line send and receive options not yet implemented
YAT 2.0 Beta 2 Candidate 1 Version 1.99.17 :: 2008-02-11
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------

New:
- General settings in [File > Preferences]
- Automatic testing using NUnit added

Important changes:
- Relation between workspace (.yaw) and terminals (.yat) massively improved
> Workspace references terminals using relative file paths
> By default, workspace and terminals are automatically managed
> When explicitly saved, workspace and terminals are treated in MDI manner
- Settings saved in old terminal and workspace files can now always be retrieved
correctly
- Complete refactoring into proper MVC (model-view-controller) architecture
- Terminal status improved
- Little-endian/big-endian support for \h \d \o \b added

Limitations and known issues:

- Thorough testing of XOn/XOff software flow control pending
- More advanced text line send and receive options not yet implemented

YAT 2.0 Beta 2 Preliminary Version 1.99.13 :: 2007-08-30

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-----------------

New:
- Workspace can be stored as ".yaw" file
- Support for non-standard baud rates added
- Little-endian/big-endian support added
- Binary: Binary sequence line break implemented

Important changes:
- Layout and menu structure improved
- Release notes moved to menu

Limitations and known issues:

- ".yat" files of older versions cannot be handled yet
- Workspace references terminal files with absolute paths
- 2 parallel terminals sometimes crash

YAT 2.0 Beta 1 Version 1.99.12 :: 2007-04-15

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-----------------

New:
- TCP/IP (Client/Server/AutoSocket) and UDP/IP support added
- Baud rates above 115k added
- Serial COM ports that are in use are marked "(in use)"

Important changes:
- Text: EOL sequence is disabled by default

Limitations and known issues:

- Text: [Wait for Response] is prepared but not yet implemented
- Text: [Send Line Delay] is prepared but not yet implemented
- Binary: [Binary Sequence Line Break] is prepared but not yet implemented
- Procedure command "\!(Delay(500ms))" is prepared but not yet implemented
- Direct Mode (as in traditional terminals) not yet implemented, requires serious
refactorings...
- YAT Workspace (.yaw) not yet implemented

YAT 2.0 Alpha 3 Version 1.99.8 :: 2007-02-25

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-----------------

New:
- [Ctrl+C] copies selected monitor contents onto clipboard
- Save and send from YAT XML files
- Procedure commands "\!(NoEOL)" and "\!(EOL)" added
- Chronometer added to status bar

Important changes:
- 12 instead of 8 predefined commands per page
- Predefined command dialog bugs fixed
- Text: "EOL = None" fixed

Limitations and known issues:

- So far, only serial ports are supported, TCP/IP and UDP/IP are yet to be
implemented
- Already open serial COM ports are not marked as such
- Text: EOL sequence is always shown
- Procedure command "\!(Delay(500ms))" is prepared but not yet implemented
- Direct Mode (as in traditional terminals) not yet implemented, requires serious
refactorings...

YAT 2.0 Alpha 2 Version 1.99.3 :: 2007-02-07

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------

New:
- Text: Unicode and other encoding support added (approx 150 encodings)
- Byte/line counter added to monitors

Limitations and known issues:

- So far, only serial ports are supported, TCP/IP and UDP/IP are yet to be
implemented
- Already open serial COM ports are not marked as such
- Text: EOL sequence is always shown

YAT 2.0 Alpha 1 Version 1.99.0 :: 2007-01-23

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------

New:
- Unlimited number of predefined commands
- Support for multi-line commands added
- RS-485 support added
- Manual flowcontrol added
Important changes:
- Renamed to YAT
- Upgrade to .NET 2.0
- Use of serial port component of .NET 2.0
> Serial port component 'Charon.Communcations' removed
- Application settings shifted from registry to local user directory
- Terminal settings (.yat) refined
- Visual appearance modernized
- Displaying performance improved
- Nuvola based icons
- About dialog: Link labels instead of normal labels

Limitations and known issues:

- So far, only serial ports are supported, TCP/IP and UDP/IP are yet to be
implemented
- Text: EOL sequence is always shown

===================================================================================
=================
4. History of Changes in XTerm232
===================================================================================
=================

XTerm232 1.0.2 :: 2003-10-31

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-----------------
- NewTerminal.Connect registry entry can be empty

XTerm232 1.0.1 :: 2003-10-30

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-----------------
- Log Root: CheckPathExists = false / CheckFileExists = false
- Readme: More precise information on .NET download
- BufferSettings change to DisplaySettings
- Click on PortStatus opens connection settings
- PortStatus update
- ConnectionSettings recreation
- Owner drawn ListBoxes
- Auto ListBox scroll
- Log file creation/clear bugs fixed
- FontSettings
- Connect CheckBox on NewTerminal
- WindowLayoutUpdateControl

XTerm232 1.0.0 :: 2003-10-14

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-----------------
- Initial release
- Bin/Oct/Dec/Hex/Char/String
- COM 1..256
- 75...115000 Baud
- Predefined Commands/Direct Commands
- Text/Binary
- Log Raw/Neat
- Send files
- RichTextBoxes
===================================================================================
=================
5. Roadmap
===================================================================================
=================

YAT 2
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------
YAT 2 is in maintenance mode now, i.e. focus on bug fixes and minor changes, while
work for YAT 4
is already ongoing.

(Version 3 will be skipped to prevent naming conflict with yat3 of Dieter Fauth
that became
public around the same time as YAT. And, 4.0 buzzes more anyway (industry 4.0 and
the like ;-))
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-----------------

YAT 4 with Scripting :: Expected in late 2021 or 2022

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-----------------
YAT 4.0 will feature the integration of a scripting environment, based on the
CSScript engine.
Scripting will allow you to script YAT and automate repetitive tasks, use it for
test automation,
implement protocol layers,... whatever you can think of. Examples and templates
will be included.

It is also planned to demonstrate how to use YAT from a PowerShell script and along
with NUnit.
All these features aim for providing a versatile automatic testing tool for serial
communications.

===================================================================================
=================
6. Legal
===================================================================================
=================

Copyright © 2003-2004 HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil.

Copyright © 2003-2021 Matthias Kläy.
All rights reserved.

YAT is licensed under the GNU LGPL.

See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html for license details.

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