Preparation for 2.5M2

[marcel_erkel]

@Kai

I didn’t include (1) as I understand that this might have been in 2.4 and 2.5.0.M1 as well - so no immediate regression.

@wborn

It’s only an issue when using bindings that use the new serial transport ( org.eclipse.smarthome.io.transport.serial ) instead of gnu.io directly. In 2.5.0-SNAPSHOT these are: DSMR, EnOcean, PowerMax, RFXCom, Serial Button, Smartmeter, Plugwise, ZWave.

To provide a little context why this would have hit a lot more people in 2.5.0.M2 if it had not been fixed is that the ZWave binding in 2.4.0 did not use the new serial transport. This has been introduced in one of the 2.5.0 snapshot builds to allow people to share the Z-Wave dongle over IP.