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@@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +% xmobar - Release notes + +## Version 0.15 (June 4, 2012) + +_Incompatible changes_ + + - `Batt` monitor no longer uses `-c` to specify the charge file: it + should figure things out by itself (cf. [issue 69]). + +_New features_ + + - New command line option, `-C`, that allows *adding* commands to + those specified in the configuration file (Ben Boeckel). + - Dependency on GHC's threaded runtime has been eliminated. + - New MPRIS (versions 1 and 2) monitor, by Artem Tarasov. + - New monitor option `-d` to specify the number of decimal places to + display for float numbers. Defaults to 0. See [issue 58]. + - New compilation option `--with_threaded`, to use GHC's threaded + runtime to compile xmobar. Disabled by default (cf. discussion in + [github #36]). + +_Bug fixes_ + + - Stricter build dependencies versioning in cabal file. + - [issue 56]: vertical alignment of text improved. + - [issue 64]: display of `watts` in `Batt` monitor fixed. + - [issue 69]: miscellaneous battery reporting issues. + - [issue 67]: compilation in DragonFly. + - DiskIO works also when device path in mtab are symbolic links + to the real device file. + - Wireless monitor honours padding settings for ESSID names. + - CoreTemp monitor fixed for newer kernels ([github #38]). + +[issue 56]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=56 +[issue 58]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=58 +[issue 64]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=64 +[issue 67]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=67 +[issue 69]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=69 +[github #36]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/38 +[github #38]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/38 + +## Version 0.14 (Dec 10, 2011) + +_New features_ + + - New brightness monitor, courtesy of Martin Perner. + - New DateZone plugin, for configurable timezone and localized + datetimes, also by Martin. + - New keyboard layout monitor (Kbd). Yes, by Martin. + - Rewrite of the event handling ([issue 53], [issue 57]), you + guessed it. + - Cpu monitor now also reports `iowait` field ([issue 55]). + - Battery monitor: the full charge file is now settable in the + monitor arguments (olpc systems use `charge_full_design`; see + [issue 62]). + +_Bug fixes_ + + - [issue 45]: Fix for crashes with AC status changes in battery monitor. + - [issue 48]: The <quality> field of Wireless behaves like a percentage. + - [issue 50]/[issue 61]: `MPD` monitor now works with libmpd 0.6. + - [issue 60]: Fixes for crashes on power resume for battery monitor. + - Template sections without fields are now correctly displayed. + - Catch errors when reading battery status (Ben Boeckel). + - Compilation issues with ghc 7.x (Sergei Trofimovich). + - Fixes for CoreTemp monitor in new kernels (Norbert Zeh). + - Fix for pulseaudio problems in volume monitor (Martin Perner). + - Fix for parsing errors when a `Run` entry ended in an array + (Martin). + - Fixed compilation in OpenBSD (Ivo van der Sangen). + +[issue 45]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=45 +[issue 48]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=48 +[issue 50]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=50 +[issue 53]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=53 +[issue 55]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=55 +[issue 57]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=57 +[issue 60]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=60 +[issue 61]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=61 +[issue 62]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=62 + +## Version 0.13 (March 28, 2011) + +_New features_ + + - New `Volume` monitor displaying ALSA soundcards information, by + Thomas Tuegel. + - New `ThermalZone` plugin substituting `Thermal` and using linux's + *sysfs* interface (you need this one if you're using a kernel + version equal to or above 2.6.37). See [issue 44]. + - xmobar app new has WM_CLASS, WM_NAME and _NET_WM_PID xprops + ([issue 38]). + +_Incompatible changes_ + + - In the process of solving [issue 14], we've broken those + configurations that rely on including alignment separators in the + input fed to `StdinReader`. + - The MPD plugin does not accept host and port options anymore: use + the environment variables MPD_HOST and MPD_PORT instead. + - The `Mail` plugin now takes a second parameter (a string) + specifying its alias. As a side-effect, this solves [issue 30]. + +_Bug fixes_ + + - [issue 14]: `StdinReader` and other plugins accepting external + input don't get confused anymore when characters from `alignSep` + appear in their input. + - [issue 27]: `BottomSize` placement now respects its width argument. + - [issue 28]: Compilation in Mac OS X fixed. + - [issue 30]: `Mail` plugin can be specified anywhere in commands list. + - [issue 36]: Battery monitor now supports non-standard locations of + the `/sys/class/power_supply/AC/online` file. + - [issue 40]: Battery monitor now supports the new power_now, that + replaces current_now in linux kernels for v. 2.36 and above. + - [issue 42]: More accurate net monitor rates. + - DiskIO, Cpu and MultiCpu monitors are also more accurate now. + - Text is now correctly centered vertically. + - `FullBM` border spec fixed. + +[issue 14]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=14 +[issue 27]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=27 +[issue 28]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=28 +[issue 30]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=30 +[issue 36]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=36 +[issue 38]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=38 +[issue 40]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=40 +[issue 42]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=42 +[issue 44]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=44 + +## Version 0.12 (Dec 24, 2010) + +xmobar has a new [maintainer], a new [website], a new [mailing +list] and uses a new [source code repository]. + +Many thanks to Andrea Rossato, xmobar's author and maintainer so far, +for creating xmobar in the first place, and for giving me the chance +to become its maintainer. And a big thanks to Ben Boeckel, Petr Rockai +and Norbert Zeh for their patches. + +[website]: http://projects.haskell.org/xmobar/ +[mailing list]: http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmobar +[source code repository]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar +[maintainer]: http://hacks-galore.org/jao/ + +_New features_ + + - Window borders: configuration options `border` and `borderColor` + allow drawing borders around xmobar's window. + - New monitor, `Uptime`, showing the system uptime. + - New monitor argument (`-S`) to enable displaying the `%` symbol in + percentages or other suffixes (e.g., units in Uptime and Network); + the symbol is now never included by default. + - New 'run once' commands, by specifying a 0 refresh rate in `Run + Com` ([issue 26]). + - MPD monitor: updated to libmpd 1.5. New fields `ppos` (playlist + position) and `remaining` (remaining time). New configuration + options to specify MPD's host, user name and password. + - Battery monitor: new `watts` and `timeleft` fields (Petr Rockai), + and specific arguments to control coloring and thresholds of the + former. + - MultiCPU monitor: new `auto*` fields that automatically detect all + present CPUs (Ben Boeckel). + - CpuFreq monitor uses just one decimal digit for GHz values (Petr + Rockai). + - Mail plugin expands paths starting with "~/" (Ben Boeckel). Ditto + MBox. + - Weather monitor now skips not retrieved fields, instead of + displaying a long error message. + - New compilation flag, `all_extensions`. + - Documentation and website updates. + +_Bug fixes_ + + - [issue 23]: Wireless monitor is now compatible with iwlib 29. + - [issue 24]: Swap monitor's used ratio display fixed. + - [issue 25]: Percentages only include `%` if requested using `-P`. + - [issue 31]: MPD monitor now respects `-W` argument. + - Fixes in CPU frequency formatting, string alignment and colour + boxes in monitors (Norbert Zeh). + - TopMem and TopProc now use the `-L` and `-H` options correctly for + memory template fields. + - MBox skips non-existent mbox paths instead of hanging. + +[issue 23]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=23 +[issue 24]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=24 +[issue 25]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=25 +[issue 26]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=26 +[issue 31]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=31 |