I.17. Changes from 2.0.5 to 2.2.0

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users of the newhidups driver are advised that the driver name has changed to usbhid-ups.
users of the hidups driver must switch to usbhid-ups.
users of the following drivers (powermust, blazer, fentonups, mustek, esupssmart, ippon, sms) must switch to megatec, which replaces all these drivers. Please refer to doc/megatec.txt for details.
users of the mge-shut driver are encouraged to test newmge-shut, which is an alternate driver scheduled to replace mge-shut,
users of the cpsups driver are encouraged to switch to powerpanel which is scheduled to replace cpsups,
packagers will have to rework the whole nut packaging due to the major changes in the build system (completely modified, and now using automake). Refer to packaging/debian/ for an example of migration.
specifying -a <id> is now mandatory when starting a driver manually, ie not using upsdrvctl.
Developers of external client application using libupsclient are encouraged to rename the "UPSCONN" client structure to "UPSCONN_t" since the former will disappear by the release of NUT 2.4.