+New in 1.x - 2018-xx-xx
+-----------------------
+* Added ftdi_setflowctrl_xonxoff()
+
+New in 1.4 - 2017-08-07
+-----------------------
+* New ftdi_usb_open_bus_addr() open function
+* Use BM/R series baud rate computation for FT230X
+* ftdi_get_error_string() now returns const char*
+* C++ API: Ability to open devices with empty descriptor strings
+* C++ API: Fix enumerations for buffer purge and modem controls
+* small build fixes and improvements in the python examples
+* ftdi_eeprom / eeprom handling:
+ * New API function: ftdi_eeprom_get_strings()
+ * Fix USE_SERIAL handling for 230X type chips
+ * Make ftdi_read_eeprom_location() endianness independent
+ * Fix flashing of FT245R
+
+New in 1.3 - 2016-05-20
+-----------------------
+* Added ftdi_usb_get_strings2() to prevent automatic device close (Fahrzin Hemmati)
+* Added ftdi_transfer_data_cancel() for cancellation of a submitted transfer,
+ avoided resubmittion of a canceled transfer in the callbacks,
+ replaced calls to libusb_handle_events with
+ libusb_handle_events_timeout_completed (Eugene Hutorny)
+* ftdi_eeprom / eeprom handling:
+ * Add support for arbitrary user data (Salvador Eduardo Tropea)
+ * Add --build-eeprom support (Salvador Eduardo Tropea)
+ * Fix use_usb_version config file option (Thilo Schulz)
+ * Ability to include other config files in EEPROM config file (Thilo Schulz)
+ * Add external oscillator enable bit (Raphael Assenat)
+ * Support channel configuration (Stephan Linz)
+ * Added --device option to ftdi_eeprom to specify FTDI device (Robin Haberkorn)
+ * Fixed EEPROM user-area space checks for FT232R and FT245R chips (Robin Haberkorn)
+* Various improvements to CBUS handling, including the EEPROM (Robin Haberkorn)
+* swig wrapper: Fix handling of binary strings in ftdi_write_data()
+ for python 3 (xantares09)
+* cbus python example code (Rodney Sinclair)
+* ftdi_stream: fix timeout setting (Ларионов Даниил)
+* Fixed typo in CBUS defines: CBUSG_DRIVE1 -> CBUSH_DRIVE1
+
+New in 1.2 - 2014-11-21
+-----------------------
+* Support for FT230X devices (Uwe Bonnes)
+* ftdi_usb_get_strings(): Don't try to open an already open device (Denis Sirotkin)
+* Support for finding devices bricked by the Windows driver (Forest Crossman)
+* cmake build system: New LibFTDI1ConfigVersion.cmake file (xantares09)
+* Fix a typo in the MPSSE command CLK_BYTES_OR_LOW (Benjamin Vanheuverzwijn)
+* Minor fixes for MSVC++ (Andrei Errapart)
+* Various small code improvements (Florian Preinstorfer, Jochen Sprickerhof, xantares09)
+
+New in 1.1 - 2014-02-05
+-----------------------
+* Fix FT232H eeprom suspend pulldown setting (Davide Michelizza)
+* Fix FT232H eeprom user area size (Davide Michelizza)
+* Improved mingw build (Paul Fertser and Michel Zou)
+* C++ wrapper: Get/set functions for USB timeouts (Jochen Sprickerhof)
+* Partial support for FT230X (Nathael Pajani)
+* New API function: ftdi_eeprom_set_strings() (Nathael Pajani)
+* Prevent possible segfault in ftdi_eeprom_decode() (Nathael Pajani)
+* Save device release number in eeprom (Jarkko Sonninen)
+* Fix "self powered" eeprom flag (Jarkko Sonninen)
+* Improved python wrapper (Michel Zou)
+* Many buildsystem improvements (Michel Zou and Mike Frysinger)
+* See the git history for more changes and fixes
+
New in 1.0 - 2013-01-29
-----------------------
* Ported to libusb 1.x (initial work by Jie Zhang)
git://developer.intra2net.com / libftdi / blobdiff