NEWS

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serial 3.1.1 (2026-06-04)

• update maintainers address
• bug fix with listPorts() on Windows systems never attached to a serial port.
• fix S3 object class issues

serial 3.0 (2020-05-14)

• bug fix with connection names on MacOS
• introduce print()- and summary()-function
• if read() produces a zero length object it now returns empty string ” in ASCII mode and NA in binary mode

serial 2.1

• bug fix with connection names on Linux

serial 2.0 (2018-12-05)

• enable binary mode
• introduce flush()-function
• introduce nBytes()-function

serial 1.0

• initial release
• ASCII-based communication