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+% xmobar - Release notes
+
+## Version 0.15
+
+_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].
+
+_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 #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