News of the OpenMRTD.org project

Second official librfid release

Today, the second official release of the librfid project was made, following-up the way too long time without any official releases.

I could have done this ages ago, but somehow I thought most people are using svn trunk anyway.

First official librfid release

Today, the first official release of the librfid project was made, following-up 19 months of (low-priority, spare-time) development.

I could have done this ages ago, but I didn't want to publicize an official release while the code was still a lot under flux. As of now, it seems to have stabilized quite a bit.

OpenMRTD gets its counterpart: OpenPCD

For the past year, users have enjoyed the use of Free Software for accessing RFID transponders and e-Passports using librfid and libmrtd.

Now, the person behind OpenMRTD was involved in building OpenPCD, a 100% free hardware and free software RFID reader. OpenPCD is fully supported by librfid. Therefore the combination of librfid and OpenPCD allows you to run a 100% Free host software and Free firmware RFID solution, completely customizable and auditable.

Meanwhile, OpenMRTD is working on completing a first 0.1 release of librfid. Current work is still mostly being done to stabilize the codebase, and to fix the remaining bugs. Our next milestones are mainly getting OpenCT integration for PC/SC and CT-API support.

Public announcement of the OpenMRTD project

Today, the OpenMRTD project publicly announces its existence.

The OpenMRTD project finally launches its own homepage. Harald Welte, the foundr of the project, has been silently working on the code since May 2005, without much public notice (apart from some articles on his blog).

Since some parts of the project now are reaching beta stage, and they can actually be used for getting useful stuff done, the homepage should provide some more exposure to the project.