• NOTE!! Changed it to default to NOT have the socket open, please use -socket now to enable it.
• Added Pg table definition, ability to connect to remote database (Miles Lott).
• Added a configuration file. See bcidl.conf for an example.
• I seem to be having problems with the name in the download directory, please be sure you get 1.0.14 and not an earlier version.

• Added '-fixpriv' option to change the 'O' and 'P' numbers to a more human-readable form. Added catch for "MESG" key if the "NAME" key is empty from the modem. (Thanks Alok K. Dhir)

• Fixed the $SIG{HUP} line to actually point to a function. (Thanks Charles Galpin.)

• Updated termios using code from Device::SerialPort.
• Better modem reading code.
• Works with RedHat 7.0.

DSS Controll w/Perl + Serial Port (For reference)

• New (or now functioning) '-nosocket' option if you do not want a port listener.
• Fixed, again, the interaction with pppd. It seems that in the daemon mode I was closing and unlocking the modem in the parent process.
• More verbose log files. Now the PID and a date/time are reported.
• Kludge so that -k does not kill some editing programs looking at the code.
• The rc script contains the -nosocket by default. I do not want to be mentioned on security focus or bugtrack :) .

• New '-nodb' option if you do not want to log the data to a databse.
• Better DBI error reporting to track down problems.
• Email! As suggested by Christian Caper you can now send email based on simple rulesets. Run the program with -? to see the syntax. Of note: (1) You can send email to different addresses for different rules. (2) You can send all email to the same address for different rules. Really, I will document this better some day.

• More fixes to catch when pppd is running. Specifically, the regex that looks for KEY=VALUE is better (added ^).
• The signal_handler sets the handler to an anonymous sub that exits so if the user tries to kill the program multiple times it will actuall exit.

• Now handles split-line modem reads (last fix did not seem to work).
• The order of the KEY = VALUE data from the modem does not matter.

• Fixed the problem where the modem would not get set back into line mode after pppd ran and exited.
• Added command line options for debugging (-d or -debug) and to kill other running processes (-k). Note that you have to have the standard module Getopt::Long installed for this to work but it will still work even if you do not.

• POD udpates.

• Network code clean ups.
• "-w" warning removal except a nasty one on the POSIX.pm module.
• "callerid.pl" Tk program for instant notification of new calls on your desktop.
• Better signal handling.

• Applied a patch by Ryan Ayers to try to write data to a UNIX file socket so another program can get the caller ID information in near real time. Added his name to the perlpod AUTHORS.
• Made it so that you can run pppd without having to stop and start basic_callerid_logger.