A new release of pySerial is available. There have been a lot of changes so that the major version was bumped up to 3.0.
Changes include (since V2.7): - Python 2.7 and Python 3.2+ from the same sources (lib2to3 is no longer used) - new API, more properties, the set functions are deprecated. (old API still supported for backward compatibility) - Updated miniterm (uses Unicode for console output, supports encodings on serial port, nicer port selection and more). - IPv6 support for rfc2217:// and socket:// - New spy:// handler to log traffic and control calls. - New alt:// handler to select implementations - URL parameters have changed - Experimental classes for easy threading support - Experimental asyncio support (posix) - A number of bugfixes. See https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial/blob/master/CHANGES.rst for more details. Changes in development: - SVN -> GIT - moved (from SF) to github: https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial Currently unsupported is the Jython platform (lack of testing). Download at: https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial/releases or via PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyserial Docs: http://pythonhosted.org/pyserial/ (stable) https://pyserial.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ (follows git) chris -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/