• 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) • Various improvements to CBUS handling, including the EEPROM (Robin Haberkorn) • cbus python example code (Rodney Sinclair) • ftdi_stream: fix timeout setting (Ларионов Даниил).

* Using a single multi-platform API, provides access to USB devices on various operating system. * User-mode: No special privilege is required. * Supports all versions of the USB protocol, from 1.0 to 3.0.