PLIN-API, Manager & Status Display Version History

2025-10-31 - Version 3.1.1

Bug fixes:

• PLIN-USB devices were not recognized under certain conditions
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Hardware ID from being set correctly on some PCAN-USB Pro FD devices
   

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2025-03-14 - Version 3.1.0

Improvements:

• Added new hardware parameter hwpGUID for the LIN_GetHardwareParam function to query the Device GUID of a compatible hardware
• The PLIN Manager (ARM version only) has been updated to .NET 8
   

2024-01-22 - Version 3.0.3

Bug fixes:

• A race condition prevented PLIN clients from connecting to the PLIN Manager in some scenarios
• The PLIN Status Display tool was showing an access violation when opening a popup menu on Client and Hardware objects
   

2023-12-15 - Version 3.0.2

Improvements:

• General code enhancements
• Security improvements
   

2023-03-07 - Version 3.0.1

Improvements:

• Enhancements regarding ARM64

Bug fixes:

• LIN_GetVersionInfo and LIN_GetVersion functions failed with return code errUnknown on Windows 11 ARM64
   

2022-10-21 - Version 3.0.0

Improvements:

• New .NET 6.0 ARM64 version of the PLIN Manager
• New ARM64 API library

Changes:

• The version of PLIN Status Display is now synchronized with the version of the PLIN-API libraries
• PLIN Status Display is now an x64 application

Please note: Beginning with this release, the PLIN Status Display is handled as a part of the PLIN-API. Therefore, its version history was merged with the history of the API. 
 

2022-08-30 - Version 2.8.2

Improvements:

• PLIN Status Display - Version 2.1.2: Improved calculating the client message rate by considering a possible client reset to avoid the display of negative message rates
• General code enhancements

Bug fixes:

• The LIN_GetFrameEntry function failed to return the error code errIllegalFrameID when the ID was out of range
• The LIN_GetVersion function returned a wrong version text. The revision and build parts were mixed up
• The client parameter clpReceivedMessages always returned 0 when read out with LIN_GetClientParam

Changes:

• Some return codes were missing within the documentation of the functions LIN_GetVersionInfo, LIN_GetSchedule, LIN_StartKeepAlive, and LIN_StartAutoBaud
• The LIN_GetResponseRemap function returns a better error code if the HLINHW parameter is -1 (before errUnknown, now errIllegalHardware)
• The LIN_GetErrorText function returns a better error code if the ErrorCode or LanguageID parameter is out of range (before errUnknown, now errWrongParameterValue)
   

2021-12-14 - Version 2.8.1

Bug fixes:

• The GetErrorText function may not always have returned a text
• The hwpBossClient parameter returned an unexpected value when it was set or retrieved
• If the maximum of LIN hardware channels (255) are connected to the service, another new hardware channel could throw an exception
   

2020-12-03 - Version 2.8.0

Improvements:

• Added new client parameters clpLogStatus and clpLogConfiguration for the functions LIN_SetClientParam and LIN_SetGetParam, to set up the new logging functionality
• Like the PCAN-Basic API, the new logging function can also be activated via the Windows Registry
• Added new hardware parameters hwpScheduleActive, hwpScheduleState and hwpScheduleSuspendedSlot for the function LIN_GetHardwareParam
• The error codes relating to the schedule table functions have been revised

Bug fixes:

• The LIN_RegisterClient function did not recognize the maximum number of clients and always returned a handle 1 if 255 clients were already created. In this case the function now returns errOutOfResource
   

2019-06-27 - Version 2.7.0

Improvements:

• Added new function LIN_XmtDynamicWakeUp, to set a dynamic delay for wake-up message sending
• PLIN Status Display - Version 2.1.1: Minor graphical improvements

Bug fixes:

• Reception queue of LIN clients had no limit which could cause memory depletion problems if an application is connected but never read its queue; the limit was set to a maximum of 65535 messages
• Some compatibility problems solved
• Wrong error was being returned on LIN_Write when a transmit queue overrun occurred; the error ErrorUnknown was being returned instead of TransmitQueueFull
• Plugging-in a device was causing the service to crash if the language of the operating system was Turkish or Azerbaijani (Latin and Cyrillic)

Changes:

• The function LIN_GetVersionInfo was modified to additionally return driver version information
• Attention: Error code 'SlaveNOtResponding' renamed to 'SlaveNotResponding' (with small O) in C# and C++/CLR include files
   

2018-06-13 - Version 2.6.2

Improved PLIN Status Display - Version 2.1.0:

• New "Settings" toolbar button to quickly access the application settings that were previously only accessible via the context menu
• Some other minor improvements

Bug fixes:

• The timestamps of LIN channels were not synchronized with the system time for some devices
• Some dual-channel devices were showing only a single LIN channel
   

2018-05-25 - Version 2.6.1

Bug fixes:

• A bug on timestamp synchronization was preventing PLIN-View Pro from tracing LIN data for PCAN-USB Pro/FD devices
   

2018-05-11 - Version 2.6.0

Improvements:

• Support for new PLIN-USB hardware added
• New hardware parameters added:
  • hwpBreakLength
  • hwpLinTermination
  • hwpFlashMode
• File properties of PLinApi.dll enhanced to show the platform to which it was compiled for (32/64-bit)
• General code enhancements
   

2015-06-24

Separated release of PLIN Status Display - Version 2.0.0

Improvements:

• New possibility to change the user interface style
• Better handling of such cases when the PLIN driver is not installed or the PLIN service is not running

Bug fixes:

• LIN hardware ID is shown in hexadecimal notation
• Hardware mode (master/slave) was not shown
• On systems with higher DPI setting some user interface elements were not shown correctly
   

2015-02-16 - Version 2.5.2

• PLIN-Manager: Some compatibility issues solved
• PLIN-API: Version changed due to updates in the PLIN-Manager
   

2014-08-25 - Version 2.5.1

• PLIN-Manager: Procedure for naming LIN-Channels was edited
• PLIN-API: Version changed due to updates in the PLIN-Manager
   

2014-05-13 - Version 2.5.0

Improvements:

• General code optimization
• Added support for new FD devices
• PLIN-Manager: The .NET Framework 4.0 is used instead of 2.0

Bug fixes:

• PLIN-API: Some minor bugs fixed

 
Please note: Version 2.3 and 2.4 were never released. Their changes are replaced with version 2.5.
 

2013-09-06 - Version 2.2.29 - Update

Improvements:

• New header files for Python and C++/CLR.
• New sample projects for C#, VB.Net, C++ Builder, Delphi, C++/CLR, C++/MFC, and Python 2.x and 3.x
   

2011-12-21 - Version 2.2.29

Bug fixes:

• The declaration of the function "SetSchedule" was wrong within the header files for VB.Net and C#
• The declaration of the function "InitializeHardware" was wrong within the header file for VB.Net
• Some functions declarations had incorrect attributes within the header file for VB.Net
• A compatibility problem within the LinManager under Windows® XP was fixed more information
   

2011-01-11 - Version 2.2.28

Improvements:

• New hardware parameter "hwIdNumber" added
• New hardware parameter "hwUserData" added. Up to LIN_MAX_USER_DATA bytes of custom data can be stored in the device
• Ability to use fixed hardware handles was added
• The hardware parameter "hwName" was changed to read-only, returning always "PCAN-USB Pro LIN"

Bug fixes:

• The calculation of the timestamp of received messages had a problem, causing the cropping of some amount of time
• .NET header files were edited due to a wrong declaration of parameters within the function "SetSchedule"
   

2010-03-15 - Version 2.1.25

Improvements:

• First 64-bit capable PLIN-API released
• New function "LIN_GetSystemTime"

Bug fixes:

• Infinite blocking within the function "LIN_SetSchedule" was repaired
• Problem solved with active connections when the connected device was plugged-out
• Checking the amount of available devices was working incorrectly under 64-bit systems
   

2009-07-09 - Version 2.0.21

Bug fixes:

• Change within the .NET header files due to wrong parameter declaration (Out string parameter changed to StringBuilder)
• Blocking/rights problems in some scenarios between PLIN and PCAN applications
   

2009-06-18 - Version 2.0.18

Improvements:

• 2 new API functions were added: "LIN_GetResponseRemap" and "LIN_SetResponseRemap"
• New flag "FRAME_FLAG_IGNORE_INIT_DATA" added
• Changes in the function definitions of the Pascal header file (string type PChar changed to PAnsiChar)
   

2009-05-25 - Version 2.0.14

Improvements:

• New message type "mstQueueOverrun"
• New hardware parameter "hwpQueueOverrunCount"

Bug fixes:

• Changes within the structure TLINScheduleSlot
• The PLIN-Manager was mixing up errors counter values of different connected clients
   

2009-04-22 - Version 2.0.11

Improvements:

• New definition values created for the c++/Pascal header files
• Adaptation of all functions and structures to the new defines

Bug fixes:

• Declaration changes of the functions "UpdateByteArray", "GetClientParam", and "SetHardwareParam" in .NET header files (*.cs, *.vb)
• Import declaration of the function "GetClientFilter" within the header fiel PLinapi.vb was wrong
• The declaration of the funciton "GetHardwareParam" (overloads) was not correct
   

2009-04-16 - Version 2.0.9

Improvements:

• Added support for multi languages (function "LIN_GetErrorText"). Supported languages: English, German, Italian, and Spanish
• New client-parameters added: "clpOnReceiveEventHandle" and "clpOnPluginEventHandle"
• Functions/Structures were updated due to changes in the size of some variables
   

2009-02-19 - Version 2.0.1

• Name changed. First release as "PLinAPI"
   

2008-01-17 - Version 1.1.7

• First release as "LinAPI" for 32-bit operating systems