Bump version to 3.1.9

NEWS

@@ -1,5 +1,33 @@
-libmodbus 3.1.8 (2022-08-17)
-============================
+# NEWS
+
+## libmodbus 3.1.9 (2022-12-03)
+
+- Remove Travis CI
+- Move content about migration to libmodbus.org
+- Avoid negative value in FD_SET call
+- Test socket against positive value instead of -1
+- Improvements to autotools by @ndim
+- Fix doc links by @jordanjohnson56
+- Test the protocol id for 0 by @metapsychologe
+- Fix double negative in tests
+- New quirks handler (closes #38 #533)
+- Fix bitwise OR in documentation
+- Improve doc about slave ID in RTU
+- Add .clang-format and format code (closes #394)
+- Remove constraints on baud rate values
+- Accept IP or device in arg of unit test progs
+- Avoid compilation issue with VS2022 with strdup
+- Display created files in configure.js
+- Use strcpy_s under Windows
+- Replace inet_addr by inet_pton calls
+- Replace inet_ntoa by inet_ptop
+- Update configure.ac/config.h.win32 for new inet functions
+- Instructions to build libmodbus in a VS project
+- Fix connection check for Windows RTU (closes #660, #662)
+- Add CIFuzz Github action
+- Convert a few int to unsigned int (#402)
+
+## libmodbus 3.1.8 (2022-08-17)
 
 - Major rewrite of documentation with Material for mkdocs
 - Reduce memory use of TCP PI backend (closes #621)
@@ -13,8 +41,7 @@ libmodbus 3.1.8 (2022-08-17)
 - Fix network library detection on Haiku
 - Fix typos (closes #620)
 
-libmodbus 3.1.7 (2022-01-09)
-============================
+## libmodbus 3.1.7 (2022-01-09)
 
 - modbus_reply: fix copy & paste error in sanity check (fixes #614)
 - Add SECURITY.md (closes #613)
@@ -30,23 +57,21 @@ libmodbus 3.1.7 (2022-01-09)
 - Install the NEWS and AUTHORS files
 - Update README.md
 - docs: fix simple typo, reponse -> response
-- Add modbus_[get|set]_indication_timeout to doc build
+- Add modbus\_[get|set]\_indication_timeout to doc build
 - Fix warning issues
 - Move malloc before starting unit tests
-- Fixed MODBUS_GET_* macros in case of negative values
+- Fixed MODBUS*GET*\* macros in case of negative values
 - SPDX: change LGPL-2.1+ to LGPL-2.1-or-later
 
 Thank you to @yegorich, @i-ky, @jobol, @timgates42, @anton-bondarev,
 @richardash1981, @stefannilsson, @Zugschlus, @qqq89513 and @mhei.
 
-libmodbus 3.1.6 (2019-07-31)
-============================
+## libmodbus 3.1.6 (2019-07-31)
 
 - Fix awful typo in fix for VD-1301 vulnerability.
-  Thank you @karlp.
+    Thank you @karlp.
 
-libmodbus 3.1.5 (2019-07-29)
-============================
+## libmodbus 3.1.5 (2019-07-29)
 
 - Fix URL
 - Add appveyor.com config
@@ -80,11 +105,10 @@ libmodbus 3.1.5 (2019-07-29)
 - Fix LIBMODBUS_VERSION_HEX encoding (closes #345)
 - tcp_modbus_accept mustn't close socket on error (closes #333)
 
-libmodbus 3.1.4 (2016-05-28)
-============================
+## libmodbus 3.1.4 (2016-05-28)
 
 - C_PROG_RANLIB is rendered obsolete by LT_INIT
-- Improve ifdef around bswap_16 for __CYGWIN__
+- Improve ifdef around bswap_16 for **CYGWIN**
 - Improve Cygwin support. Thanks to StalderT.
 - Another round of DRY in modbus_reply()
 - Rename raw_rep to raw_rsp in unit-test-client
@@ -102,34 +126,33 @@ libmodbus 3.1.4 (2016-05-28)
 - Add unit-tests.sh to tarball
 - Add ./configure.scan to .gitignore
 - Move setting of option inside the relevant conditional group
-- Add links to new modbus_*_float_* functions in index
+- Add links to new modbus*\*\_float*\* functions in index
 - Slight change to modbus_report_slave_id doc.
 
-libmodbus 3.1.3 (2016-05-11)
-============================
+## libmodbus 3.1.3 (2016-05-11)
 
 - New bswap macros for Max OSX by Jakob Bysewski.
 - Fix "wildcard address" in TCP IPv6 by Shoichi Sakane.
 - Introduce offsets in modbus mappings with modbus_mapping_new_start_address.
-  Thanks to Michael Heimpold and Stéphane Raimbault.
+    Thanks to Michael Heimpold and Stéphane Raimbault.
 - Fix address range in random-test-client.
-  Thanks to Martin Galvan.
+    Thanks to Martin Galvan.
 - Add an option to disable tests compilation by Yegor Yefremov.
 - Define MSG_DONTWAIT to MSG_NONBLOCK on AIX (#294).
-  Thanks to Fabrice Cantos.
+    Thanks to Fabrice Cantos.
 - Fix building when byteswap.h is not defined by Tomasz Mon.
 - Add some more macros for data manipulation and documentation.
 - Remove duplicate install of modbus.h (closes #290).
-  Thanks to Daniel Sutcliffe.
+    Thanks to Daniel Sutcliffe.
 - Move MIGRATION and README.md to dist_doc_DATA target.
 - Change order of few functions in modbus RTU code.
-- Add entries for modbus_rtu_[get|set]_delay in documentation index.
+- Add entries for modbus*rtu*[get|set]\_delay in documentation index.
 - Implemented runtime configurable RTS delay by Jimmy Bergström.
 - Add an entry in libmodbus index page for modbus_rtu_set_custom_rts.
 - Add support for user defined RTS toggle function by Jimmy
-  Bergström.
+    Bergström.
 - Added ILLEGAL_DATA_ADDRESS tests for modbus_write_register[|s].
-  Thanks to Andrey Skvortsov.
+    Thanks to Andrey Skvortsov.
 - Update documentation of modbus_rtu_set_rts
 - Fix rts signal switch time by Hiromasa Ihara.
 - Improve new_rtu and set_slave documentation (related to #276).
@@ -143,15 +166,14 @@ libmodbus 3.1.3 (2016-05-11)
 - Do not reply on broadcast requests (fixes #153). Thanks to Michael.
 - Add Travis support.
 - Run unit tests with standard: make check (closes #205, closes #238).
-  This patch has been developed by Andrey Skvortsov, Michael Heimpold
-  and Stéphane Raimbault.
+    This patch has been developed by Andrey Skvortsov, Michael Heimpold
+    and Stéphane Raimbault.
 - modbus_send_raw_request: limit request length (fixes #207).
-  Thanks to Hanno Neuer for spotting this security flaw.
+    Thanks to Hanno Neuer for spotting this security flaw.
 - Add new contributors to AUTHORS
 - Introduce SPDX license identifiers. Thanks to Michael Heimpold.
 
-libmodbus 3.1.2 (2015-02-13)
-============================
+## libmodbus 3.1.2 (2015-02-13)
 
 If you still want to listen any addresses in your TCP IPv4 server, you must now
 set the IP address to NULL in modbus_new_tcp before listening. Now,
@@ -166,45 +188,44 @@ modbus_set_response_timeout to ease writing of language bindings.
 - Fix timeouts in unit tests
 - Don't flush on illegal address errors in single write functions
 - Fix compilation on compilers not supporting c99 mode.
-  Thanks to Michael Heimpold.
+    Thanks to Michael Heimpold.
 - Update license for the tests in Debian packaging (#221)
 - Move check of device earlier to avoid a free call
 - Unit test for baud rate check and error message.
 - Fix crash modbus_new_rtu when baud is 0.
-  Thank you to Daniel Schürmann.
+    Thank you to Daniel Schürmann.
 - Removed function prototype without implementation
-  Thank you Andrej Skvortzov.
+    Thank you Andrej Skvortzov.
 - Switch test programs to a BSD license
 - Fix remote buffer overflow vulnerability on write requests
 - Avoid twice connect() in source code (closes #194)
 - Fix compilation with MinGW (GCC 4.8.1) under Win7 (closes #163)
-  Thank you MarjanTomas and SwissKnife.
+    Thank you MarjanTomas and SwissKnife.
 - Fix TCP IPv4 modbus_connect() on win32 (closes #100 and #165)
-  Thank you Petr Gladkiy and Marjan Tomas.
+    Thank you Petr Gladkiy and Marjan Tomas.
 - Fix 24a05ebd3c0 - win32: init of modbus_tcp_pi_listen (#187)
-- INADDR_* macros are defined in host byte order
+- INADDR\_\* macros are defined in host byte order
 - Filter of IP addresses in IPv4 server (closes #190)
 - Allow to listen any hosts in IPv6 (closes #32)
 - Define and public export of MODBUS_MAX_PDU_LENGTH (closes #167)
 - Truncate data from response in report_slave_id to new max arg (closes #167)
 - Fix response timeout modification on connect (closes #80)
 - New API to set/get response and byte timeouts.
-  New unit tests and updated documentation.
+    New unit tests and updated documentation.
 - Export Modbus function codes supported by libmodbus
 - Fix bandwidth-server-one (closes #152)
 - Check debug flag in RTU code
 - Remove warnings caused by shadowed 'index' variable.
-  Thanks to Åke Forslund.
+    Thanks to Åke Forslund.
 - Use accept4 in TCP PI if available
-- Add documentation for tcp[_pi]_accept (closes #31)
+- Add documentation for tcp[_pi]\_accept (closes #31)
 - Fix mistake in modbus_tcp_listen documentation
 - Add documentation for modbus_tcp_pi_listen
 - Fix for MinGW and Windows (#144, #169, #175, #180, #181, #187)
-  Thanks to Marjan Tomas.
+    Thanks to Marjan Tomas.
 - Many other fixes (#134, #157, #158, #183, #184) and improvements.
 
-libmodbus 3.1.1 (2013-10-06)
-============================
+## libmodbus 3.1.1 (2013-10-06)
 
 More robust to exploits, more compliant and better handling of connect/close
 sequences. Windows support still broken.
@@ -213,9 +234,9 @@ sequences. Windows support still broken.
 - Fix remote buffer overflow vulnerability (closes #25, #105)
 - Explain how to define response timeouts when many RTU slaves
 - Fix receiving of incorrect queries in write_single and mask_write_register
-  Thanks to James Nutaro.
+    Thanks to James Nutaro.
 - Check return value of autoreconf.
-  Thanks to Lauri Nurmi
+    Thanks to Lauri Nurmi
 - Constant for broacast and test ordering
 - Fix the fix of device string check
 - Various changes to try to improve *broken* Windows support
@@ -226,7 +247,7 @@ sequences. Windows support still broken.
 - Returns -1 on invalid mode in modbus_rtu_set_rts
 - Protect all public functions against invalid context
 - Sleep for delay of response timeout before reconnect (closes #77).
-  Thanks to Karl Palsson.
+    Thanks to Karl Palsson.
 - Baud rate until 4,000,000 (POSIX), 1,000,000 (Windows) (closes #93)
 - New modbus_get|set_float_dcba to get|set float in inversed byte order
 - Remove unsupported -Wtype-limits for GCC < 4.3.5 (closes #109)
@@ -235,20 +256,20 @@ sequences. Windows support still broken.
 - Improvement to Debian package. Thanks to Alexander Klauer.
 - Improve support of VS 2005. Thanks to Petr Gladkiy.
 - Add documentation for modbus_mask_write_register (closes #91).
-  Thanks to Martijn de Gouw.
+    Thanks to Martijn de Gouw.
 - Avoid C99 declaration in win32 section code (closes #92).
-  Thanks to oldfaber and endrelovas.
+    Thanks to oldfaber and endrelovas.
 - Add a windows scripting host configure file.
-  Thanks to oldfaber and Stéphane Raimbault.
+    Thanks to oldfaber and Stéphane Raimbault.
 - Fix typo in modbus_strerror documentation. Thanks to Mirko Rajkovaca.
 - Rename reserved C++ keywords of modbus_mask_write_register.
-  Thanks Tobias Doerffel.
+    Thanks Tobias Doerffel.
 - Another quick workaround for deficient OS (closes #63)
 - Add support for Mask Write Register
 - Fix missing close on socket in random-test-server.
-  Thanks to Damian Zieliński.
+    Thanks to Damian Zieliński.
 - Use nonblocking sockets on Win32 and OS X/iOS too.
-  Thanks to Julian Raschke.
+    Thanks to Julian Raschke.
 - Fix all compilations warnings spotted by new compilation flags
 - Major update of build system
 - Calculate RTS activation time by send length
@@ -259,17 +280,16 @@ sequences. Windows support still broken.
 - Fix wrong constant names to create version number
 - More compilation fixes for Windows by oldfaber.
 - Fix wrong constant names to create version number.
-  Thanks to Denis Davydov.
+    Thanks to Denis Davydov.
 
-libmodbus 3.1.0 (2012-06-22)
-============================
+## libmodbus 3.1.0 (2012-06-22)
 
 Major changes to handle many slaves in RTU mode, non blocking connections and
 RTS flow control.
 
 - Fixes for Microsoft Visual C++ compiler
 - Fixes for Windows. Thanks to oldfaber
-- Return value of _modbus_tcp_pi_connect() on failure (closes #61)
+- Return value of \_modbus_tcp_pi_connect() on failure (closes #61)
 - Avoid ioctl call on non-RS485 ports. Thanks to Michael Haberler
 - Display node and service in PI and port in IPv4 at connection
 - Return -1 on getaddrinfo error and print error in debug mode
@@ -285,159 +305,146 @@ RTS flow control.
 - Provides a way to disable the byte timeout (Alex Stapleton)
 - Added slave ID check for response messages (Alex Stapleton)
 - RTS flow control with modbus_rtu_set_rts and modbus_rtu_get_rts
-  functions by Torello Querci <tquerci@gmail.com> and Stéphane Raimbault.
+    functions by Torello Querci <tquerci@gmail.com> and Stéphane Raimbault.
 
-libmodbus 3.0.8 (2019-07-31)
-============================
+## libmodbus 3.0.8 (2019-07-31)
 
 - Fix awful typo in fix for VD-1301 vulnerability.
-  Thank you @karlp.
+    Thank you @karlp.
 
-libmodbus 3.0.7 (2019-07-29)
-============================
+## libmodbus 3.0.7 (2019-07-29)
 
 - Backport fixes for VD-1301 and VD-1302 vulnerabilities
 - Move WINVER definition before other includes (closes #350)
 - Replace signed int by unsigned
 
-libmodbus 3.0.6 (2014-02-21)
-============================
+## libmodbus 3.0.6 (2014-02-21)
 
 - Backport fix remote buffer overflow vulnerability on write requests
 - Replace deprecated INCLUDES by AM_CPPFLAGS
 
-libmodbus 3.0.5 (2013-10-06)
-============================
+## libmodbus 3.0.5 (2013-10-06)
 
 - Fix remote buffer overflow vulnerability
 - Fix receiving of incorrect queries in write_single
 
-libmodbus 3.0.4 (2012-05-08)
-============================
+## libmodbus 3.0.4 (2012-05-08)
 
 - autogen.sh creates symlinks instead of copies
 - Add missing m4 directory (closes #103)
 - Fix alignment problem on ARMv5 platform
-  Thanks to Alexander Dahl
+    Thanks to Alexander Dahl
 - Remove useless test on error_recovery argument
-  Thanks to Carlos Tangerino
+    Thanks to Carlos Tangerino
 
-libmodbus 3.0.3 (2012-05-25)
-============================
+## libmodbus 3.0.3 (2012-05-25)
 
 - Fix another Visual C++ 2008/2010 deficiency (closes #53)
 - Add -lsocket to compile on QNX
 - Fix TCP PI init under Windows.
-  Thanks to oldfaber.
+    Thanks to oldfaber.
 - Fix a missing free in random-test-client
-  Thanks again to Stefan Finzel.
+    Thanks again to Stefan Finzel.
 - Fix OMG bug in modbus_mapping_free not freeing memory.
-  Thanks to Stefan Finzel for the bug report.
+    Thanks to Stefan Finzel for the bug report.
 - Fix semicolon typo and unistd.h include under Windows.
-  Thanks to Andrew Kravchuk.
+    Thanks to Andrew Kravchuk.
 
-libmodbus 3.0.2 (2012-01-16)
-============================
+## libmodbus 3.0.2 (2012-01-16)
 
 - Update Debian package
 - Documentation fixes and additions
 - Add missing C++ macros in public headers.
-  Thanks to Bernhard Agthe.
+    Thanks to Bernhard Agthe.
 - Protects modbus_mapping_free against NULL argument.
-  Thanks to Andrea Mattia
+    Thanks to Andrea Mattia
 - Fix check on file doc/libmodbus.7 in acinclude.m4 (closes #28)
 - Close file descriptor when the settings don't apply in RTU.
-  Original patch provided by Thomas Stalder.
+    Original patch provided by Thomas Stalder.
 - unit-test.h is now generated to avoid config.h dependency.
 - Request for Windows Sockets specification version 2.2 instead of 2.0
-  Thanks to Pavel Mazniker for the report.
+    Thanks to Pavel Mazniker for the report.
 
-libmodbus 3.0.1 (2011-07-18)
-============================
+## libmodbus 3.0.1 (2011-07-18)
 
 - Avoid useless serial_mode integer when TIOCSRS485 isn't supported
 - Fix compilation failure on Windows (RS485 support) by Tobias Doerffel
-  <tobias.doerffel@gmail.com>
+    <tobias.doerffel@gmail.com>
 - Properly check TIOCSRS485 define by Matthijs Kool
 - Rename package to libmodbus5 to fix lintian warning
 
-libmodbus 3.0.0 (2011-07-11)
-============================
+## libmodbus 3.0.0 (2011-07-11)
 
 - Revert libmodbus licence from LGPLv3 to LGPLv2.1 to avoid
-  incompatibility with GPLv2 program. This change has been approved
-  by Tobias Doerffel, Florian octo Forster and Hannu Vuolasaho.
+    incompatibility with GPLv2 program. This change has been approved
+    by Tobias Doerffel, Florian octo Forster and Hannu Vuolasaho.
 - Enable RS485 support only when available
 - Export modbus_set/get_serial_mode functions on all platforms
 - API change for read/write multiple registers function:
-    * modbus_read_and_write_registers -> modbus_write_and_read_registers
-  The function name was confusing because the write operation is performed
-  before the read. Take care to swap the arguments in the migration process.
-- Documentation of modbus_write_and_read_registers, modbus_mapping_new/free,
-  report_slave_id. modbus_get_byte_from_bits, modbus_set_bits_from_byte(s),
-  modbus_[gs]et_float, modbus_reply and modbus_reply_exception.
+  - modbus_read_and_write_registers -> modbus_write_and_read_registers
+        The function name was confusing because the write operation is performed
+        before the read. Take care to swap the arguments in the migration process.
+- Documentation of modbus*write_and_read_registers, modbus_mapping_new/free,
+    report_slave_id. modbus_get_byte_from_bits, modbus_set_bits_from_byte(s),
+    modbus*[gs]et_float, modbus_reply and modbus_reply_exception.
 - Enhanced report slave ID
 - New RPM spec file to package documentation and development files
 
-libmodbus 2.9.4 (2011-06-05)
-============================
+## libmodbus 2.9.4 (2011-06-05)
 
 - IPv6 support
-  Make the TCP implementation "protocol independent" by Florian Forster
-  and Stéphane Raimbault.
+    Make the TCP implementation "protocol independent" by Florian Forster
+    and Stéphane Raimbault.
 - Fix compilation on Windows 7 (x64) with MinGW/MSYS and GCC 4.5
-  Reported by Patsy Kaye.
+    Reported by Patsy Kaye.
 - Documentation of libmodbus functions with AsciiDoc (man and HTML) by Stéphane
-  Raimbault
+    Raimbault
 - Avoid an iteration in flush function
 - New functions to send and receive raw requests (modbus_send_raw_request,
-  modbus_receive_confirmation)
+    modbus_receive_confirmation)
 - Fix flush function of TCP backend on Windows
 - API changes for server/slave:
-    * modbus_receive doesn't take socket/fd argument anymore
-    * new function modbus_set_socket to set socket/fd
+  - modbus_receive doesn't take socket/fd argument anymore
+  - new function modbus_set_socket to set socket/fd
 - API changes for timeout functions:
-    * modbus_get_timeout_begin -> modbus_get_response_timeout
-    * modbus_set_timeout_begin -> modbus_set_response_timeout
-    * modbus_get_timeout_end -> modbus_get_byte_timeout
-    * modbus_set_timeout_end -> modbus_set_byte_timeout
+  - modbus_get_timeout_begin -> modbus_get_response_timeout
+  - modbus_set_timeout_begin -> modbus_set_response_timeout
+  - modbus_get_timeout_end -> modbus_get_byte_timeout
+  - modbus_set_timeout_end -> modbus_set_byte_timeout
 - Fix longstanding limitation of server to wait forever
 - New functions modbus_set/get_serial_mode by Manfred Gruber and Stéphane
-  Raimbault for RS485 communications
+    Raimbault for RS485 communications
 - Improved recovery mode (see modbus_set_error_recovery documentation) for
-  data link and protocol errors.
+    data link and protocol errors.
 - Fix compilation issue with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.
-  Reported by Allan Cornet.
+    Reported by Allan Cornet.
 
-libmodbus 2.9.3 (2011-01-14)
-============================
+## libmodbus 2.9.3 (2011-01-14)
 
 - Major rewriting of the message reading (no more timeouts on exception)
-  by Stéphane Raimbault
+    by Stéphane Raimbault
 - New function to reply to an indication with an exception message
-  modbus_reply_exception()
-- New function modbus_get_header_length(modbus_t *ctx)
+    modbus_reply_exception()
+- New function modbus_get_header_length(modbus_t \*ctx)
 - New functions to manipulate data:
-    * MODBUS_GET_INT32_FROM_INT16
-    * MODBUS_GET_INT16_FROM_INT8
-    * MODBUS_SET_INT16_TO_INT8
-- Fix GH-2. Read/write were swapped in _FC_READ_AND_WRITE_REGISTERS
-- Install an ignore handler for SIGPIPE on *BSD
-  Original patch by Jason Oster.
+  - MODBUS_GET_INT32_FROM_INT16
+  - MODBUS_GET_INT16_FROM_INT8
+  - MODBUS_SET_INT16_TO_INT8
+- Fix GH-2. Read/write were swapped in \_FC_READ_AND_WRITE_REGISTERS
+- Install an ignore handler for SIGPIPE on \*BSD
+    Original patch by Jason Oster.
 - Fix closing of Win32 socket.
-  Reported by Petr Parýzek.
+    Reported by Petr Parýzek.
 - Fix unit identifier not copied by the TCP server.
-  Reported by Antti Manninen.
+    Reported by Antti Manninen.
 - Fix missing modbus_flush() in unit tests
 - Fixes for OpenBSD by Barry Grumbine and Jason Oster
 
-
-libmodbus 2.9.2 (2010-12-05)
-============================
+## libmodbus 2.9.2 (2010-12-05)
 
 - Win32 support by Tobias Doerffel
 - Split source code around RTU and TCP (backends)
-- Rename modbus_[listen|accept] to modbus_tcp_[listen|accept]
+- Rename modbus*[listen|accept] to modbus_tcp*[listen|accept]
 - Remove slave argument from modbus_new_rtu()
 - Check received function code
 - Fix segfault in bandwidth-server-many-up on inet_ntoa() call
@@ -446,9 +453,7 @@ libmodbus 2.9.2 (2010-12-05)
 - Correctly detect if we are cross-compiling for win32 by Kirill Smelkov.
 - Fix setting of the broadcast address
 
-
-libmodbus 2.9.1 (2010-08-16)
-============================
+## libmodbus 2.9.1 (2010-08-16)
 
 - Brand new API (see MIGRATION notes)!
 - Remove the internal function set_message_length_tcp
@@ -459,20 +464,18 @@ libmodbus 2.9.1 (2010-08-16)
 - OpenBSD support by Anibal Limón.
 - New read and write registers function by Hannu Vuolasaho.
 - Versioning infrastructure
-  Inspired by the Clutter project and the work done by Florian Forster.
+    Inspired by the Clutter project and the work done by Florian Forster.
 - Fix the broadcast constant (255 -> 0)
-  Reported by David Olivari.
+    Reported by David Olivari.
 - Fix #463299 - New functions to define the timeouts of begin and end of trame
-  Original patch by Sisyph (eric-paul).
+    Original patch by Sisyph (eric-paul).
 - Fix #591142 - Slave id check should be disabled in TCP connection
-  Reported by aladdinwu.
-
+    Reported by aladdinwu.
 
-libmodbus 2.1.0 (2010-03-24)
-============================
+## libmodbus 2.1.0 (2010-03-24)
 
 - New API to read and write float values by Stéphane Raimbault and Florian
-  Forster.
+    Forster.
 - New API for slave server (see MIGRATION)
 - New slave server able to handle multiple connections
 - Slave only replies to broadcast queries or queries with its slave ID
@@ -481,76 +484,69 @@ libmodbus 2.1.0 (2010-03-24)
 - Better error management and SIGPIPE signal is blocked
 - Faster
 - Fix #333455 - Cygwin IPTOS_LOWDELAY not supported on cygwin
-  Reported by Jeff Laughlin and Yishin Li.
+    Reported by Jeff Laughlin and Yishin Li.
 - Fix #375926 - modbus.c:164: error: `MSG_DONTWAIT' undeclared
-  Reported and tested by Yishin Li.
+    Reported and tested by Yishin Li.
 - Fix #378981 - CRC error on RTU response doesn't return negative value
-  Reported by Henrik Munktell.
+    Reported by Henrik Munktell.
 - Fix report slave ID request
-  Patch (bzr) provided by Paul Fertser.
+    Patch (bzr) provided by Paul Fertser.
 - Fix #425604 - Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
-  Occurs on first occurrence of slave timeout.
-  Reported by Henrik Munktell.
+    Occurs on first occurrence of slave timeout.
+    Reported by Henrik Munktell.
 - Fix #457200 - FreeBSD support
-  Patch provided by Norbert Koch.
+    Patch provided by Norbert Koch.
 
 Other changes:
 
 - The code is now published and developed on
-  http://github.com/stephane/libmodbus
+    <http://github.com/stephane/libmodbus>
 - Waf support has been removed
 
-
-libmodbus 2.0.3 (2009-03-22)
-============================
+## libmodbus 2.0.3 (2009-03-22)
 
 - Fix CRC error when a slave RTU send a response.
-  Thanks to Justin Carroll to have reported and tested my patch.
+    Thanks to Justin Carroll to have reported and tested my patch.
 - Remove an assignment in compute_response_length()
 - Remove duplicate counter in read_io_status()
 - Fix #274511 reported by 'Kylesch'
-  Invalid error check in modbus_init_listen_tcp
+    Invalid error check in modbus_init_listen_tcp
 
+## libmodbus 2.0.2 (2008-08-10)
 
-libmodbus 2.0.2 (2008-08-10)
-============================
 - Fix a bug reported by email by Davide Pippa
-  The function modbus_receive must check the number of values
-  indicated in the response accordingly to the query.
+    The function modbus_receive must check the number of values
+    indicated in the response accordingly to the query.
 - Fix #241006 reported by Jesus Hernandez Tapia
-  modbus_check_response() crashes on an invalid exception code
+    modbus_check_response() crashes on an invalid exception code
 - Reduce the number of function calls (read_reg_response and
-  preset_response have been removed)
+    preset_response have been removed)
 - Add a new unit test for bad response
 - Catch the timeout even if the length is equal to a exception trame
 - Test only msg_length_computed on change
 - Many comments and cleanups
 
-
-libmodbus 2.0.1 (2008-07-02)
-============================
+## libmodbus 2.0.1 (2008-07-02)
 
 - Include libmodbus.spec in the tarball
 - Fix #241006 reported by Jesus Hernandez Tapia
-  modbus_check_response() crashes on an invalid exception code
-
+    modbus_check_response() crashes on an invalid exception code
 
-libmodbus 2.0.0 (2008-05-18)
-============================
+## libmodbus 2.0.0 (2008-05-18)
 
 - Slave API
-  https://blueprints.launchpad.net/libmodbus/+spec/slave-api
+    <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/libmodbus/+spec/slave-api>
 - No more glib dependency
-  https://blueprints.launchpad.net/libmodbus/+spec/glib-dependency
+    <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/libmodbus/+spec/glib-dependency>
 - Unit testing and many test programs
 - Waf build support
-  https://blueprints.launchpad.net/libmodbus/+spec/waf-support
+    <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/libmodbus/+spec/waf-support>
 - MacOS X support by Matthew Butch
-  https://blueprints.launchpad.net/libmodbus/+spec/macosx-support
+    <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/libmodbus/+spec/macosx-support>
 - Unit testing (unit-test-slave and unit-test-master)
 - Port number is now defined at initialisation by Dirk Reusch
-- Better memory management (uint8_t *data and packing of
-  modbus_param_t)
+- Better memory management (uint8_t \*data and packing of
+    modbus_param_t)
 - Better error management
 - Declare many static functions and const arrays
 - Enhance an integer division
@@ -558,67 +554,55 @@ libmodbus 2.0.0 (2008-05-18)
 - Debian and RPM packages (#224496)
 - Many cleanups
 - Fix #159443 reported by Stefan Bisanz
-  Index of incoming data in force multiple coils function
+    Index of incoming data in force multiple coils function
 - Fix #161989 reported by Konstantinos Togias
-  Serial device paths more than 10 chars long (eg. /dev/ttyUSB0) don't
-  fit to modbus_param_t -> device char[11] var.
+    Serial device paths more than 10 chars long (eg. /dev/ttyUSB0) don't
+    fit to modbus_param_t -> device char[11] var.
 - Fix #188189 reported by Chris Hellyar
-  Compute_response_size() no entry for read_input_status()
+    Compute_response_size() no entry for read_input_status()
 - Fix #191039 reported by Todd Denniston
-  modbus.h is not installed at prefix.
+    modbus.h is not installed at prefix.
 - Fix #211460 reported by Todd Denniston
-  With TCP, automatic reconnect on error may not be desired.
+    With TCP, automatic reconnect on error may not be desired.
 - Fix #224485 reported by Todd Denniston
-  libmodbus does not link with c++ code.
+    libmodbus does not link with c++ code.
 - Fix #224496 reported by Todd Denniston
-  It is easier to install on rpm based systems with a spec file.
+    It is easier to install on rpm based systems with a spec file.
 
-
-libmodbus 1.2.5 (2008-05-18)
-============================
+## libmodbus 1.2.5 (2008-05-18)
 
 - Fix #224485 reported by Todd Denniston
-  libmodbus does not link with c++ code.
-
+    libmodbus does not link with c++ code.
 
-libmodbus 1.2.4 (2008-03-14)
-============================
+## libmodbus 1.2.4 (2008-03-14)
 
 - Fix #191039 reported by Todd Denniston
-  modbus.h is not installed at prefix.
-
+    modbus.h is not installed at prefix.
 
-libmodbus 1.2.3 (2008-02-03)
-============================
+## libmodbus 1.2.3 (2008-02-03)
 
 - Fix #188189 reported by Chris Hellyar
-  Compute_response_size() no entry for read_input_status()
+    Compute_response_size() no entry for read_input_status()
 - Fix #181887 reported by Jesus Hernandez Tapia.
-  Slave address in build_request_packet_tcp() is hardcoded as 0xFF.
+    Slave address in build_request_packet_tcp() is hardcoded as 0xFF.
 
-
-libmodbus 1.2.2 (2007-11-12)
-============================
+## libmodbus 1.2.2 (2007-11-12)
 
 - Fix #161989 reported by Konstantinos Togias
-  Serial device paths more than 10 chars long (eg. /dev/ttyUSB0) don't
-  fit to modbus_param_t -> device char[11] var.
+    Serial device paths more than 10 chars long (eg. /dev/ttyUSB0) don't
+    fit to modbus_param_t -> device char[11] var.
 - Structure is also bit better 'packed' to conserve memory (see the
-  trunk for a real enhancement).
-
+    trunk for a real enhancement).
 
-libmodbus 1.2.1 (2007-11-02)
-============================
+## libmodbus 1.2.1 (2007-11-02)
 
 - Fix #159443 reported by Stefan Bisanz
-  Index of incoming data in force multiple coils function
+    Index of incoming data in force multiple coils function
 - Deleted useless code in check_crc16()
 - Untabify source code
 - Changed author's email to Stéphane Raimbault
 
-
-libmodbus 1.2.0 (2007-05-10)
-============================
+## libmodbus 1.2.0 (2007-05-10)
 
 - FIX Compilation GCC-4.0
 - Project name in autogen.sh

configure.ac

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 #
 m4_define([libmodbus_version_major], [3])
 m4_define([libmodbus_version_minor], [1])
-m4_define([libmodbus_version_micro], [8])
+m4_define([libmodbus_version_micro], [9])
 
 m4_define([libmodbus_release_status],
     [m4_if(m4_eval(libmodbus_version_minor % 2), [1], [snapshot], [release])])