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| Name: minicom | Distribution: SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 |
| Version: 2.11.1 | Vendor: openSUSE |
| Release: bp161.1.1 | Build date: Sat May 30 07:05:26 2026 |
| Group: Hardware/Modem | Build host: reproducible |
| Size: 482137 | Source RPM: minicom-2.11.1-bp161.1.1.src.rpm |
| Packager: https://bugs.opensuse.org | |
| Url: https://salsa.debian.org/minicom-team/minicom | |
| Summary: A Terminal Program | |
A terminal program similar to Telix(tm) (a program for calling other computers via modem) under MS-DOS. If you want to access your modem with minicom, you have to be a member of the uucp group.
GPL-2.0-or-later
* Sat May 30 2026 Andy Alt <arch_stanton5995@proton.me>
- Add 0002-dial-Fix-use-of-check_io_frontend.patch
- Add 0003-window-Consider-that-wcwidth-can-return-1-on-invalid.patch
* Fri Mar 13 2026 Martin Hauke <mardnh@gmx.de>
- Update to version 2.11.1
* Fix build error due to use of BOTHER flag, thus make it
optional.
- Update to version 2.11
* Fix baudrate setting on Linux when compiled against glibc >= 2.42
* Support multi-column character for window drawing
* Add 1843200 to the baud rate list
* Allow any baud rate to be set
* Updates translations: ka, fr, ro, pl, ko, de, ja, sv
- Drop not longer needed patch:
* minicom-2.10-src-sysdep.h-remove-cfset-i-o-speed-macros-for-glibc.patch
* Wed Dec 17 2025 Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
- add
minicom-2.10-src-sysdep.h-remove-cfset-i-o-speed-macros-for-glibc.patch:
* baudrate setting broken on Linux when compiling against glibc >= 2.42
* Thu Nov 20 2025 Martin Hauke <mardnh@gmx.de>
- Update to version 2.10
* Add third locking method if file-based lock does not work.
* Make colors enabled the default.
* ESC-] (OSC) sequences are recognized and discarded.
* Code cleanups.
* Updates translations: nb
* Mon Nov 04 2024 Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
- drop bogus 03norzsz.diff.
* it calls wprintf() instead of proper mc_wprintf() (good that it
fails to build with gcc14 now)
* it was fixed upstream already by:
d632dbc35f2c Also handle script exec failure
* Sat Oct 21 2023 Simon Lees <sflees@suse.de>
- Update to 2.9
* Change Hardware Flow Control Default to No.
* Timestamping mode is now saved and restored.
* Split "Screen and Keyboard" menu into two menus.
* Update to gettext-0.21.
* Change return values of --help and --version to success.
* Support higher baud rates on MacOS
* Save character send delay to config file
* Save newline send delay to config file
* Update translations: Romanian, German, French, Norwegian/Bookmal, Polish,
Serbian, Swedish
* New translation: Georgian, Korean
* Remove minicom-2.5-serial_device_path_length.patch fixed upstream
* Rebased openSUSE-defaults.patch Flow Control Changed upstream
* Rebased minicom-2.8-replace-sigrelse.patch
* Rebased 03norzsz.diff
* Mon Jul 10 2023 Ludwig Nussel <lnussel@suse.com>
- drop lockdev support (boo#1212801)
* Tue May 24 2022 Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
- Do not recommend lang package: the lang package has smarter
supplements in place (working with zypper locales).
* Mon May 23 2022 Ferdinand Thiessen <rpm@fthiessen.de>
- Replace dead URL with current upstream
- Update to version 2.8
* New timestamp mode: Delta to previous line.
* Add HPA ESC sequence
* Add alternative window support (ti/te)
* Fix file name of non-global configuration settings.
* Update translations: Indonesian, French, Swedish, Spanish,
German, Brazilian Portuguese, Vietnamese, Polish, Danish,
Norwegian, and Serbian
* New translation: Serbian, Simplified chinese
* Fix F10 macro key used in current setups
* Add F11 and F12 for macro use
* Fixed DTR for recent systems
* Add support for RS485.
* Add --capturefile-buffer-mode option
* Bug fixes
- Drop upstream resolved patches
* fix-upstream-gcc10-build2.patch
* fix-upstream-gcc10-build3.patch
* fix-upstream-gcc10-build1.patch
- Drop minicom-2.3-no-build-date.patch, GCC now uses SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
- Rebased minicom-2.2-defaults.diff as openSUSE-defaults.patch
- Rebased minicom-2.4-norootsetup.diff as openSUSE-no-root-setup.patch
- Add patch from upstream minicom-2.8-replace-sigrelse.patch,
replace deprecated sigrelse
- Add patch to fix undefined reference to external symbols
minicom-2.8-fix-undefined-reference.patch
* Tue Jun 09 2020 Simon Lees <sflees@suse.de>
- Fix some unneccesary global defenitions to fix build failures with
gcc10.
* fix-upstream-gcc10-build1.patch
* fix-upstream-gcc10-build2.patch
* fix-upstream-gcc10-build3.patch
* Thu Apr 13 2017 sflees@suse.de
- Update to 2.7.1
* Contains 1 fix for CVE-2017-7467, bsc#1033783
* Invalid cursor coordinates and scroll regions could lead to code
execution
* Wed Oct 26 2016 kukuk@suse.de
- Add PreReq for group uucp
* Fri Mar 13 2015 tchvatal@suse.com
- Split language to subpackage
- Remove check phase, it is empty just saying there is nothing to be done
- Use name and version macros in Source path
* Tue Jan 14 2014 dmueller@suse.com
- fix Source url
* Thu Jan 02 2014 vcizek@suse.com
- update to 2.7
* Configurable status line via -F option, see manpage for a listing
of format specifier.
* Improve display of device name in status line.
* Script: Binary transmission feature via "!<"
* Fixes.
* Wed Dec 18 2013 mvyskocil@suse.com
- update to 2.6.2
* Alternative hex output (to be improved)
* Print creation date of serial device file (if < 20 hrs), useful for
identifying just plugged in USB-Serial adapters
* Support ':' (colon) in device path names. Note, that this changes old
behaviour which used ':' as a device path delimiter.
* Several language updates.
- refreshed/rebased patches
* minicom-2.3-no-build-date.patch
* minicom-2.4-norootsetup.diff
* minicom-2.5-serial_device_path_length.patch
* Fri Dec 28 2012 crrodriguez@opensuse.org
- configure wants "ckermit" present during build and at runtime.
- Prefer ncurses6w.
* Wed May 30 2012 sweet_f_a@gmx.de
- remove not needed minicom-2.3-ncurses.patch to get rid of
automake dependency
- update to 2.6.1
* src/main.c, src/minicom.c: iconv: Handle the case that iconv
did not convert anything. Reported by Mike Crowe, Debian #659351.
* src/main.c: ETIME -> ETIMEDOUT as ETIME is not available on BSDs
* src/main.c: Fix invalid memory used, reported by Larry Baker
* Tue May 29 2012 puzel@suse.com
- fix build with automake-1.12
- add: automake-1.12.patch
* Mon Jan 02 2012 vcizek@suse.cz
- update to 2.6
* Add possibility to add delay after every character transmission.
* Fix build issues on Mac OS X.
* Stop providing default modem init and reset strings (still available when
editing).
* Added possibility for timestamps in output, added by minicom
* Added lockdev support.
* Added new dialdir format that is supposed to be interoperable between 32
and 64 bits archs.
* Thu Dec 01 2011 coolo@suse.com
- add automake as buildrequire to avoid implicit dependency
* Tue Oct 18 2011 vcizek@suse.com
- a complete fix for (bnc#707860)
* Wed Aug 24 2011 lnussel@suse.de
- fix lockdev suppport (bnc#713330)
* Tue Jul 26 2011 vcizek@novell.com
- increased length of serial device (bnc#707860)
* Mon Jan 31 2011 vcizek@novell.com
- update to 2.5
* src/script.c: Make word handling more dynamic, and thus allowing
words > 89 chars. Reported via Debian BTS #610511.
* src/rwconf.c: Fix config file parsing bug, Thanks Jan Görig,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=669406
* src/updown.c: Check for error conditions on fd of running script.
for minicom bug-tracker #312517, by Chris Simmonds
* src/updown.c: Removed static buffers that limit multi-file
zmodem functionality. (Redhat #98654)
- removed two unneeded patches
* Tue Jan 11 2011 lnussel@suse.de
- enable and fix socket support (bnc#661749)
- change default device to /dev/modem as /dev/tty8 doesn't make sense
- save to home if running as non-root
* Tue Aug 31 2010 anicka@suse.cz
- update to 2.4
* Add options -b, -D and -R.
* Remove environment variable for the remote
charset and make it available via option -R.
* remove all code that deals with running as suid-root. Also
remove minicom.users as it's not needed anymore. Handle
permissions within the file-system.
* Consolidate lockfile handling into separate functions and use them,
also do lockfile handling before and after launching kermit.
* Add -b %b (Baudrate) to kermit command call.
* Sun Aug 29 2010 cristian.rodriguez@opensuse.org
- Do not hardcode build dates in binaries
* Mon Jun 28 2010 jengelh@medozas.de
- use %_smp_mflags
* Wed Apr 28 2010 lnussel@suse.de
- remove 01manual.diff as it's Debian specific
* Tue Mar 09 2010 lnussel@suse.de
- use lockdev (FATE#308360)
* Wed Dec 16 2009 crrodriguez@opensuse.org
- take over the package
- Import patches from Ubuntu
* Thu Aug 28 2008 ro@suse.de
- add ncurses include to cflags
* Tue Jul 22 2008 crrodriguez@suse.de
- fix build
* Mon Jun 09 2008 mmarek@suse.cz
- xminicom: display "minicom" in window title (bnc#398423)
* Fri Mar 28 2008 mmarek@suse.cz
- updated to 2.3
* New version of the dial format to be little and big endian as
well as 32/64 bit safe
* Support more baud rates
* Handle device disappearances (e.g. serial-USB device unplug)
* Various build and other fixes
- specfile cleanup
* Thu Mar 29 2007 ro@suse.de
- added ncurses-devel to buildreq
* Thu Oct 19 2006 mjancar@suse.cz
- update to 2.2
* Vietnamese translation added
* Norwegian translation added
* Traditional chinese translation added
* Swedish translation added
* Romanian translation added
* default to 8bit mode if LANG or LC_ALL are set
* default baud rate set to 115200
* Various code cleanups and fixes
* Thu Aug 24 2006 mkoenig@suse.de
- reverted last change (moving scripts from aux/)
- changed gettext issues to fix build
* Tue Aug 22 2006 mkoenig@suse.de
- fixed getline name collision
- moved autotools scripts out of aux/
* Mon Feb 27 2006 anicka@suse.cz
- fix subscript out of range (#151489)
* Wed Jan 25 2006 mls@suse.de
- converted neededforbuild to BuildRequires
* Mon Apr 18 2005 mcihar@suse.cz
- fix for current gcc
* Fri Feb 04 2005 mcihar@suse.cz
- fixed permissions (bug #50438)
* Mon Jan 12 2004 adrian@suse.de
- add missing %attr
* Sat Jan 10 2004 adrian@suse.de
- add %defattr
* Wed Jul 23 2003 coolo@suse.de
- use BuildRoot and %find_lang
- package xminicom man page
* Mon May 26 2003 stepan@suse.de
- update to 2.1
* Tue Dec 24 2002 mfabian@suse.de
- fix charset headers in Japanese .po files (messages in
ja_JP.UTF-8 were garbled because of this)
- remove backslashes in the SJIS encoded Japanese .po file which were
only needed as a workaround for deficiencies in older versions
of gettext. These extra backslashes cause trouble with newer
gettext versions.
* Fri Nov 29 2002 okir@suse.de
- add support for resmgr
* Mon Nov 18 2002 schwab@suse.de
- Add AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION.
* Tue Oct 01 2002 uli@suse.de
- turned off HW flow control in default setup (bug #20390)
* Tue Sep 17 2002 ro@suse.de
- removed bogus self-provides
* Thu Apr 04 2002 ro@suse.de
- build with current automake/autoconf/gettext
* Thu Dec 06 2001 uli@suse.de
- update -> 2.00.0 (fixes, mainly)
* Thu Apr 19 2001 mfabian@suse.de
- fix invalid multibyte characters in ko.po just to make it build
* Wed Feb 07 2001 uli@suse.de
- fixed for glibc 2.2.1
* Thu Dec 21 2000 uli@suse.de
- replaced call of "sx" with "sz -X"
* Thu Nov 30 2000 uli@suse.de
- fixed some links
* Wed Nov 29 2000 uli@suse.de
- update -> 1.83.1
* Wed May 24 2000 uli@suse.de
- moved docs to /usr/share
* Thu Mar 02 2000 kukuk@suse.de
- Use _mandir macro
* Mon Sep 13 1999 bs@suse.de
- ran old prepare_spec on spec file to switch to new prepare_spec.
* Thu May 06 1999 kukuk@suse.de
- Don't link against libintl.a
* Thu Jul 30 1998 bs@suse.de
- don't start rz with "-E" by default - our rz does not know it.
* Tue Jul 28 1998 bs@suse.de
- marked minicom.users as %config again.
* Mon Jul 27 1998 werner@suse.de
- new version 1.81.1
- applied red hat security patches
- DONT set sguid uucp (you can't be saver :) ). User have to be in
group uucp, if they want access to modem.
/usr/bin/ascii-xfr /usr/bin/minicom /usr/bin/runscript /usr/bin/xminicom /usr/share/doc/packages/minicom /usr/share/doc/packages/minicom/AUTHORS /usr/share/doc/packages/minicom/NEWS /usr/share/doc/packages/minicom/README /usr/share/doc/packages/minicom/minicom.FAQ /usr/share/licenses/minicom /usr/share/licenses/minicom/COPYING /usr/share/man/man1/ascii-xfr.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/minicom.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/runscript.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/xminicom.1.gz
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