libusb
libusb-1.0.9 has now been released on 2012-04-20, 2 years after version 1.0.8.This can now end my blog serie about libusb:
- "new" version of libusb, March 30, 2011
- "new" version of libusb, part 2, May 5, 2011
- libusb 1.0.9-rc1, September 18, 2011
- libusb-1.0.9-rc3, December 3, 2011
libusbx
The other good news is that this libusb-1.0.9 release is linked to the released of a fork of libusb called libusbx.libusbx is the source code of libusb but with active maintainers. libusbx has already made 4 releases in 3 months (1.0.9, 1.0.10, 1.0.11 and 1.0.12).
Many Linux distributions have already switched to libusbx or are planning to do so.