Release Notes

Release Policy

In general releases are made as soon as new features or important bug fixes are available. Release numbers consist of four parts: major-version.compatibility-version.new-features-version.bug-fix-version

major-version – Used for major releases. There may be little or no backwards compatibility.
compatibility-version – Used for releases where some coding may be needed for backwards compatibility.
new-features-version – Used for releases that introduce new features without breaking backwards compatibility.
bug-fix-version – Used for releases that only contain bug fixes and maintain full backwards compatibility.

Release Roadmap

The long-term goal of the Communicator-API is to allow the exchange of all formats of data supported by Garmin devices on both the Mac and PC. Current high-priority goals are:

Firefox and Safari support on Mac OS X.
Full support for reading and writing all formats of fitness data.

Release History

communicator-api-1.7 (August 12th, 2009)

Added ability to differentiate between FIT and TCX devices
Added FIT course and user profile write support for FIT devices
Note about reading FIT files: The use of the getBinaryFile function is restricted to Garmin websites. This will be fixed in an upcoming Communicator plugin release.
Fixed conflict issue with Flip4Mac plugin in Safari 4
Added methods for unit software updates to Control layer
Added ability to limit number of activities user can upload at once
Added ability to upload compressed data
Added fitness workout support (read/write)
Added fitness goals support (read/write)
Added support for Windows Safari
Improved progress status
Added ability to retrieve datatype file path from device object
Resurrected unit tests using the YUI Test framework

communicator-api-1.4.2 (February 27th, 2008)

Added ability to get device XML for the current device
Added a generic method for writing binary files (GPI specific methods/fields are deprecated and will be removed in 2.0)
Fixed bugs in the Device Control Demo
More complete documentation for display options
Improved end of progress status when writing large binary files to device

communicator-api-1.4.1 (December 19th, 2007)

Improved internationalization capabilities in DeviceDisplay.

communicator-api-1.4 (December 12th, 2007)

Added support for Edge 705
Maven groupId changed to com.garmin.developer
Required plugin version supported, allowing developers to set the minimum plugin version required on a per-application basis.

communicator-api-1.3 (September 14th, 2007)

Added the capability to read and write courses, workouts and user profile to fitness devices such as the Edge 305 and Forerunner 305.
Added Mac plugin detection and support.
Added the capability to plan trips by writing locations to SD cards without a GPS device present.
Added the capability to allow a web site to read a directory of fitness activities or courses and then just retrieve details for individual activities.
Added a function to allow web sites to retrieve fitness data in compressed format.
Cleaned up and improved JSDocs, linking related functions to each other, and adding minimum plugin version requirements.
Improved error message reporting for incompatible devices and plugin versions.