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-libftdi - A library (using libusb) to talk to FTDI's FT2232C,
-FT232BM and FT245BM type chips including the popular bitbang mode.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------
+libftdi version 0.16
+--------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-See the Changelog for news
+libftdi - A library (using libusb) to talk to FTDI's UART/FIFO chips
+including the popular bitbang mode.
+
+The following chips are supported:
+- FT4232H / FT2232H
+- FT232R  / FT245R
+- FT2232L / FT2232D / FT2232C
+- FT232BM / FT245BM (and the BL/BQ variants)
+- FT8U232AM / FT8U245AM
+
+The AUTHORS file contains a list of all the people
+that made libftdi possible what it is today.
+
+Many thanks to Marek Vavruša for providing
+the initial C++ wrapper implementation.
+
+Changes
+-------
+* C++ wrapper: Reopen the device after calling get_strings() in Context::open() (Marek Vavruša and Intra2net)
+* C++ wrapper: Fixed an inheritance problem (Marek Vavruša and Intra2net)
+* C++ wrapper: Relicensed under GPLv2 + linking exception (Marek Vavruša and Intra2net)
+* Support for FT2232H and FT4232H (David Challis, Alex Harford and Intra2net)
+* Support for mingw cross compile (Uwe Bonnes)
+* Python bindings and minor autoconf cleanup (Tarek Heiland)
+* Code cleanup in various places (Intra2net)
+* Fixed ftdi_read_chipid in some cases (Matthias Richter)
+* eeprom decode function and small cleanups (Marius Kintel)
+* cmake system improvements (Marius Kintel and Intra2net)
+* Fix compilation in -ansi -pedantic mode (Matthias Janke)
+
+You'll find the newest version of libftdi at:
+http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi
+
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+www.intra2net.com                             2003-2009 Intra2net AG
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