I.18. Changes from 2.2.2 to 2.4.0
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The nut.conf file has been introduced to standardize startup configuration
across the various systems.
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The cpsups and nitram drivers have been replaced by the powerpanel driver,
and removed from the tree. The cyberpower driver may suffer the same in the
future.
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The al175 and energizerups drivers have been removed from the tree, since
these were tagged broken for a long time.
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Developers of external client application using libupsclient must rename
their "UPSCONN" client structure to "UPSCONN_t".
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The upsd server will now disconnect clients that remain silent for more than
60 seconds.
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The files under scripts/python/client are distributed under GPL 3+, whereas
the rest of the files are distributed under GPL 2+. Refer to COPYING for more
information.
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The generated udev rules file has been renamed with dash only, no underscore
anymore (i.e. 52-nut-usbups.rules instead of 52_nut-usbups.rules)