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 		</P>
 		<P><B>News</B>
 		<UL>
-			<LI><I>2008-03-26</I>: Xilinx has released their own drivers based on libusb with ISE Design Suite 10.1.
+			<LI><P><I>2008-03-26</I>: Xilinx has released their own drivers based on libusb with ISE Design Suite 10.1.
 			To use them, you need to set the environment-variable <kbd>XIL_IMPACT_USE_LIBUSB</kbd> to <kbd>1</kbd>
 			before running the tools. The driver on this page no longer needs to be preloaded if you only used
 			it to access USB cables. Parallel port support still seems to rely on <i>windrvr</i>, which can be
@@ -43,19 +43,32 @@
 			64-bit platform.</I>
 			To fix this, run the tools with <KBD>linux32</KBD> or preload the newest 32-bit version of
 			<i>libusb-driver</i>. This will lead the tools to believe that they are running on a 32-bit
-			platform and allows them to connect to the cable.</LI>
+			platform and allows them to connect to the cable.</P></LI>
 
-			<LI><I>2009-05-31</I>: ISE Design Suite 11.1 now uses their libusb based drivers as default, without
+			<LI><P><I>2009-05-31</I>: ISE Design Suite 11.1 now uses Xilinx's libusb-based drivers as default, without
 			the need to set <kbd>XIL_IMPACT_USE_LIBUSB</kbd>. If you want to use this driver with ISE 11.1 for USB
 			cables and disable the builtin support for libusb, you now have to set <kbd>XIL_IMPACT_USE_LIBUSB</kbd>
 			to <kbd>0</kbd> (<kbd>export XIL_IMPACT_USE_LIBUSB=0</kbd> or <kbd>setenv XIL_IMPACT_USE_LIBUSB 0</kbd>).
 			For parallel cables Xilinx still relies on <i>windrvr</i>. This library works fine with parallel cables and
-			ISE 11.1 with no need for <i>windrvr</i>.</LI>
+			ISE 11.1 with no need for <i>windrvr</i>.</P></LI>
+
+			<LI><P><I>2010-03-15</I>: If you are using newer udev-versions (like the version included in Debian Squeeze
+			and Ubuntu 9.10), then the file <i>/etc/udev/rules.d/xusbdfwu.rules</i> is incompatible with this udev
+			version. The effect of this is that the cable-firmware gets never loaded and the cable led never lights up.</P>
+			<P>To fix this, run the following command as root:<BR>
+			<kbd>sed -i -e 's/TEMPNODE/tempnode/' -e 's/SYSFS/ATTRS/g' -e 's/BUS/SUBSYSTEMS/' /etc/udev/rules.d/xusbdfwu.rules</kbd><BR>
+			You may have to reboot for this change to take effect.</P></LI>
+
+			<LI><P><I>2010-05-22</I>: Support for ISE 12 is now available in the driver.</P></LI>
+
+			<LI><P><I>2011-05-08</I>: Support for ISE 13 is now available in the driver. A rewritten version of <i>setup_pcusb</i>
+			which works on modern distributions has been added.</P></LI>
 		</UL>
 		</P>
 		<H2>Supported Cables</H2>
 		The following cables are reported to work with this driver:
 		<ul>
+			<li><a href="http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/data_sheets/ds593.pdf">XILINX Platform Cable USB II</a></li>
 			<li><a href="http://direct.xilinx.com/bvdocs/publications/ds300.pdf">XILINX Platform Cable USB DLC9, DLC9LP and DLC9G</a></li>
 			<li><a href="http://www.xilinx.com/s3estarter">Integrated Platform Cable USB on Spartan 3E starter kit</a></li>
 			<li><a href="http://www.xilinx.com/s3astarter">Integrated Platform Cable USB on Spartan 3A starter kit</a></li>
@@ -69,7 +82,6 @@
 		</ul>
 		These cables should work but have not yet been tested:
 		<ul>
-			<li><a href="http://www.xilinx.com/products/devkits/HW-USB-II-G.htm">XILINX Platform Cable USB II</a></li>
 			<li>Integrated Platform Cable USB on other development boards</li>
 			<li>other Parallel Cable III clones</li>
 			<li>other FTDI2232 based devices which use the chips standard JTAG pinout (experimental)</li>
@@ -77,7 +89,9 @@
 		<H2>Supported Software</H2>
 		The following software is reported to work with this driver:
 		<ul>
-			<li><a href="http://www.xilinx.com/ise/logic_design_prod/webpack.htm">ISE Webpack 11.1</a></li>
+			<li><a href="http://www.xilinx.com/tools/designtools.htm">ISE 13</a> (all editions)</li>
+			<li><a href="http://www.xilinx.com/tools/designtools.htm">ISE 12</a> (all editions)</li>
+			<li><a href="http://www.xilinx.com/tools/designtools.htm">ISE 11</a> (all editions)</li>
 			<li><a href="http://www.xilinx.com/ise/logic_design_prod/webpack.htm">ISE Webpack 10.1</a></li>
 			<li><a href="http://www.xilinx.com/ise/logic_design_prod/webpack.htm">ISE Webpack 9.2 SP1, SP2, SP3 and SP4</a></li>
 			<li><a href="http://www.xilinx.com/ise/logic_design_prod/webpack.htm">ISE Webpack 9.1 SP1, SP2 and SP3</a></li>
@@ -110,9 +124,10 @@
 			<li><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.arch.fpga/msg/2dfa36541174a4f2">Ubuntu installation instructions by Luzerne</a></li>
 			<li><a href="http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~listarch/microblaze-uclinux/archive/2007/03/msg00101.html">Ubuntu installation instructions by Paul-Armand Verhaegen</a></li>
 			<li><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.arch.fpga/browse_frm/thread/f149e5b6028e2c70">Initial announcement on comp.arch.fpga</a></li>
+			<li><a href="http://xc3sprog.sourceforge.net/">xc3sprog</a>, a suite of utilities for programming Xilinx FPGAs, CPLDs, and EEPROMs with the Xilinx Parallel Cable and other JTAG adapters under Linux</li>
 			<li><a href="http://inisyn.org/src/xup/">XUP</a> by inisyn research, opensource JTAG programming for Spartan 3E starter kit USB cable</li>
 			<li><a href="http://www.ixo.de/info/usb_jtag/">USB JTAG adapter</a> by Kolja Waschk, opensource integration of the XILINX platform cable USB into OpenOCD and openwince JTAG Tools</li>
-			<li><a href="http://www.rogerstech.co.uk/xc3sprog/">Spartan3 JTAG download tools for GNU/Linux (xc3sprog)</a></li>
+			<li><a href="http://xc3sprog.sourceforge.net/">Spartan3 JTAG download tools for GNU/Linux (xc3sprog)</a></li>
 			<li><a href="http://urjtag.org/">UrJTAG</a>, open source jtag tools with basic support for the xilinx XPCU</a></li>
 		</ul>
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