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2009-11-14
        * Added support for $pid_state and $pid_state_short
        * Added support for $cmdline_to_pid
        * Make it possible to use other vars as arguments for the $pid_'s

2009-11-13
        * Add $conky_user_time (sf.net #2830919)
        * Drop adt746x objects
        * Added support for $pid_chroot
        * Added middle_middle alignment support

2009-11-12
        * Added support for $pid_environ_list, $pid_exe, $pid_openfiles,
        $pid_stdin, $pid_stdout and $pid_stderr

2009-11-11
        * Added support for $pid_cmdline, $pid_cwd, $pid_environ

2009-11-10
        * Fix $if_mpd_playing and $mpd_percent when you stop playing a song,
        thanks Sakari Matikka

2009-11-09
        * Fix $scroll only scrolls once

2009-11-08
        * Fix segfaults and memleaks in curl
        * Fix building with metar but without xoap

2009-11-07
        * Added support for $threads on Linux
        * Fixed bug in $processes on Linux
        * Fixed building with --disable-x11, --disable-xft, --disable-lua,
        --disable-ncurses and --disable-iostats
        * Added ncurses to the "-v" output when necessary

2009-10-25
        * Fixed loadavg and loadgraph argument parsing and corrected it's
        documentation.

2009-09-11
        * Fixed configure test failure. Tolua test program couldn't find lua
        libraries (even though they existed) and failed to compile.

2009-09-06
        * Rewrite hddtemp support for better scaling.

2009-08-10
        * Add day and date data_type to $weather_forecast

2009-08-03
        * Added support for $weather_forecast (experimental)

2009-08-01
        * Added support for out_to_ncurses

2009-07-31
        * Removed alias config option due to brokenness
        * Added support for $include

2009-07-29
        * Add icon data_type for xoap weather

2009-07-23
        * Changed xoap parsing method to xpath, in preparation to include
        forecast data

2009-07-19
        * Fixed out-of-tree builds
        * Update MPD elapsed/progress when stopped (sf.net #2792113)
        * Overhauled RSS and weather, added $curl

2009-07-18
        * Added compilation switch --enable-xoap to be able to use
        www.weather.com as a source of weather data (this avoids adding
        libxml2 as a required dependency for users that wish to use noaa
        and not weather.com)
        * Added support for X alignment across multi-lined objects (i.e., using
        $alignr with $exec)
        * Disabled OpenMP code until GCC's implementation stabilizes
        * www.weather.com can now be used as well as a source of weather data

2009-07-11
        * Added support for $desktop, $desktop_number and $desktop_name (sf.net #2040528)

2009-07-09
        * Added support for $swapfree
        * Improved Lua API (lua_read_parse has been removed in favour of the
        conky_parse() Lua API call)
        * Introduced new Lua Cairo and Imlib2 bindings

2009-07-08
        * Fixed a couple memory-related bugs

2009-07-06
        * Added support for $weather (experimental)

2009-07-04
        * Remove newline with comment only lines in TEXT
        * Improved parsing of graph arguments, removed "log"|"normal" arguments in
        favour of -l switch

2009-07-01
        * Fix escaping of comments in TEXT (sf.net #2813390, thanks Nils)

2009-06-29
        * Fix segfault in to_real_path, it's sometimes called with the same
        source and dest without checking the length, causing a segfault.

2009-06-20
        * Use the internal process list for if_running on Linux

2009-06-14
        * Fix XMMS2 related crash (sf.net #2806111 and #2805310, thanks Lassi)

2009-06-13
        * Added support for $blink
        * Added support for $to_bytes
        * Fix segfault due to bad checking of return values for inotify code
        (sf.net #2804886)
        * Added 'own_window_type panel' to make Conky behave like a panel (thanks
        Ole)

2009-06-12
        * Added support for per-task I/O statistics - $top_io

2009-06-11
        * Added border_inner_margin and border_outer_margin config options, and
        deprecated border_margin

2009-06-10
        * Fix regression with loading of non-Xft fonts (sf.net #2804324)

2009-06-09
        * Fixed a regression which causes fonts to not be rendered properly with
        certain types of windows
        * Added format_human_readable option (sf.net #2803345, thanks Vincent)
        * Fix bug in comments within TEXT (where the line contains just '#')
        (sf.net #2803586), thanks Pavelo
        * Fix bug in $mails (sf.net #2802529, thanks Nikos)

2009-06-08
        * $battery_short can now also display F (full), N (not present),E (empty),
        U (unknown)
        * Fix problem that $battery and $battery_short displayed unknown on some
        systems when the battery wasn't unknown but full

2009-06-06
        * Add support for membar,swapbar,cpubar,fs_bar,fs_bar_free,battery_bar,
        execbar,execibar,lua_bar,entropy_bar,mpd_bar,apcupsd_loadbar and
        wireless_link_bar
        * Fix finding IP before first update

2009-06-04
        * Add entropy_perc printing the available entropy as percentage
        * Add read_tcp to print stuff from tcp-sockets

2009-06-03
        * Improved Imlib2 cache control by adding a global cache flush option, and
        per image cache flushing

2009-05-24
        * Added fancy new 'temperature gradients' feature for graphs, via the -t
        switch at the end of graph arguments.
        * Allow ~/... and $HOME/... paths for more stuff.

2009-06-07
        * Conky 1.7.1 released

2009-05-31
        * Fix hostname resolution for mpd_host
        * Made sure that no X11 stuff is in the binary with --disable-X11

2009-05-19
        * Added inotify support to reload the config when modified automatically
        on systems that support it
        * Added inotify support for reloading Lua scripts automagically

2009-05-17
        * Added support for the Lua programming language
        * Added support for rending images by way of Imlib2
        * Patch to fix rounding error with CPU values (thanks Filipe)
        * Added support for execbar without X

2009-05-16
        * Added another builtin config that is used when compiled with --disable-X11

2009-05-13
        * Fix segfault when there is no config available

2009-05-12
        * Make sure if_gw isn't checked twice

2009-05-11
        * Added arguments to hwmon for value precalculation

2009-05-10
        * Added support for APC UPS daemon monitoring
        * Fixed hwmon for kernel 2.6.29

2009-05-09
        * Allow the use of '#' for comments within text area (can be escaped with
        '\#'

2009-05-08
        * Only include disp when needed
        * Made sure update_uname works without X11

2009-05-07
        * Fix occasional cpubar segfaults
        * Added top_name_width config option

2009-05-05
        * Added some completely pointless OpenMP optimizations(?)

2009-05-03
        * Added Sony VAIO fanspeed info (thanks Yeon-Hyeong)

2009-05-01
        * Added diskio_avg_samples patch (thanks Yeon-Hyeong)
        * Fixed $texeci regression

2009-04-30
        * Added $combine, a var that places 2 other vars next to each other, even if they
        have a output of multiple lines. This also makes the moving of RSS-itemes with
        $goto (see change from 2009-04-19) no longer necessary.

2009-04-28
        * Various XMMS2 updates (thanks Lassi)
        * Make ALSA mixers available on Linux, and added $if_mixer_mute (thanks

2009-04-19
        * Make it possible to place spaces in front of RSS-items as a workaround
        for the problem that $goto only moves the first RSS-item. This is only a
        workaround and should be replaced by a permanent fix that makes $goto move
        all RSS-items !

2009-04-13
        * Fix broken compilation without X11

2009-04-09
        * Added default_bar/graph/gauge_size config options (thanks wire64 for the
        idea)

2009-03-24
        * Added eval text object to realise double parsing

2009-03-15
        * Added gauge widget patch, sf.net id #2676128 (thanks Aner)

2009-05-01
        * Conky 1.7.0 "Hungry Hobo" released!

2009-04-28
        * Various XMMS2 updates (thanks Lassi)

2009-04-09
        * Fix broken xmms2 compilation (thanks fusetak)
        * Minor fix for fs_used_perc, fs_free and fs_free_perc (thanks
        lightpriest)

2009-03-28
        * Applied FreeBSD patches (thanks Nikos)

2009-03-16
        * Fix bug with wacky netstat values on startup

2009-03-15
        * Added extra newline patch, sf.net id #2638601 (thanks Ali)
        * Disk i/o support on FreeBSD patch, sf.net id #2657227 (thanks Nikos)
        * Added gauge widget patch, sf.net id #2676128 (thanks Aner)

2009-03-07
        * Added alias patch ( sf.net id #2663691 ) changed it to prevent it from
        overwriting existing environment variables and updated docs, syntaxfiles, ...

2009-03-01
        * Added if_updatenr
        * Rewrite human_readable() to minimise amount of padding
        * Fix padding in temp_print()
        * Fix padding of $processes and $running_processes

2009-02-17
        * Added $battery_short patch, sf.net id #2300911 (thanks Swoog)
        * Patch by Kim Holviala sf.net id #2484548:
                * change the height of execbar and execibar to be the same as other
                bars have by default (6 pixels)
                * treat mixer values as percentages as they're usually 0-100 (switch
                to spaced_print() with pad_percents)
                * change temp_print() from snprintf() to spaced_print()
                * remove decimals from temp_print() as none of the current sources can
                supply values smaller than 1 degree (C or F, doesn't matter)
                * fix number printing in human_readable()
                * network $upspeed and $downspeed now use human_readable()
        * Fix diskio_read/write patch sf.net id #2493084 (thanks Alexander)
        * Fix nvidia memory frequency reading patch sf.net id #2493134
        * Patch to clarify things in conky.conf sf.net id #2548805 (thanks
        Carpathia).
        * Fix shown battery status when the battery is not charging any more but
        is not full charged patch sf.net id #2556056 (thanks Martin)
        * Extended support for local Maildir patch sf.net id #2561323 (thanks
        Nicolas)
        * XMMS2 fix and refactoring patch sf.net id #2579357 (thanks Tamim)
        * Null mpd variables should have an empty string patch sf.net id #2564747

2009-02-15
        * Added out_to_x

2009-02-12
        * Added overwrite_file and append_file

2009-02-10
        * Added out_to_stderr

2009-02-08
        * Refactor top code, add top_time to sort by process cpu time (thanks
        sohalt).

2009-01-04
        * Drop --enable-smapi and use --enable-ibm instead
        * Make ibm-acpi objects optional (--enable-ibm)

2008-12-20
        * Add if_match object comparing strings, floats and ints

2008-12-18
        * Fix segfault for diskiograph*, note the changed order of arguments
        * Fix documentation for all graph objects

2008-12-17
        * Make gateway objects also detect routes with missing RTF_GATEWAY flag

2008-12-15
        * Have a maximum width for all variable length mpd vars
        * Patch to allow escaping newlines in the config (thanks Itai)

2008-12-14
        * Fix disk_protect for linux-2.6.27 (and hopefully above)
        * Improve behaviour of $pb_battery

2008-12-09
        * Add an option to timed_thread_test() to not wait for the interval period
        (so that IMAP IDLE works better)

2008-12-08
        * Fix runtime debugging macros again
        * Big hddtemp rewrite
        * Remove README from git and ignore it
        * Remove obsolete documentation

2008-12-07
        * Removing $freq_dyn and $freq_dyn_g due to license issues (see sf.net
        tracker bug #2166612)
        * Allow more than 9 CPUs for CPU stats (bug 2155500)
        * Fix broken $execbar (bug 2133709)
        * Don't put unit with hddtemp values for consistency (bug 2133107)
        * Limit $battery_percent to 100 (bug 2145006)
        * Fix runtime debugging macros
        * Make unit of all temperature objects selectable
        * Make Conky in dock mode a withdrawn window

2008-12-06
        * Switching from svn to git repository.  The repo can be viewed from
        http://git.omp.am/?p=conky.git;a=summary and you can clone the repo with:
        git clone git://git.omp.am/conky.git
        * Fix for wrong usage of strncat (thanks Pavol)
        * Adds a variable if_xmms2_connected to hide objects when xmms2d is not
        running (thanks Lassi)
        * Fix for buffer overflow with $execi (thanks Cesare)
        * Fetch volume through Audacious API (thanks Erik)

2008-12-06
        * Removed duplicate sanity check for diskio

2008-11-30
        * Added runtime debugging output

2008-11-29
        * Added template support

2008-10-08
        * Applied OpenBSD patches
        * Added $if_mpd_playing patch (thanks tarpman)

2008-09-24
        * Introduced (buggy) support for IMAP IDLE
        * Added support for MOC (the console audio player) (thanks henux)
        * Added scroll step patch (thanks asto)

2008-09-11
        * Maybe fix missing include bug
        (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235233)
        * Improve timed_thread interval timing
        * Improve Conky's overall interval timing
        * Added small patch to support negative values (such as negative disk
        capacity) (thanks hinokind)

2008-09-10
        * Improved hddtemp support

2008-09-07
        * Fixed bug with freq_dyn on x86_64 (thanks Miroslav)
        * Fixed buffer overflow in update_net_stats() (thanks Miroslav)
        * Small fix for nvidia mem freq (thanks Cezary)

2008-08-14
        * Conky 1.6.1 released
        * Fix compile error when MPD support not enabled

2008-08-05
        * Add option to specify number of retries for IMAP/POP3 stuff (via -r)

2008-08-03
        * Smaller $nvidia improvements

2008-07-29
        * Added missing header to package dist

2008-07-21
        * Conky 1.6.0 released

2008-07-16
        * Fixed bug with $if_empty and $mpd_* vars (sf.net #2008752)

2008-07-06
        * Made log/normal argument for graphs optional

2008-07-03
        * Solve linking on problems on some systems (like Debian's Lenny)

2008-07-01
        * Add libgnu convenience lib, modules stdio and getaddrinfo.
        * Configure option for mathfunctions

2008-06-29
        * Fixed missing entries in Makefile.am
        * Get rid of obsolete gethostbyaddr and getservbyport

2008-06-28
        * Added sysfs AC adapter support patch (thanks Byron)
        * Added support for EVE-Online skill monitoring (thanks Asbjørn)

2008-06-25
        * new variables smapi_bat_temp and smapi_bat_power
        * improved docs for freq_dyn* variables

2008-06-21
        * Replaced the global text_object array and count with a
        text_object_list
        * Renamed various vars
        * Removed redundancy in various parts

2008-06-20
        * Use output_methods instead of out_to_console
        * Made some functions non-inline to compile with gcc 4.2 and higher

2008-06-19
        * Fixed compilation issues with --enable-testing
        * Refactored format_seconds and format_seconds_short
        * Changed addr to print "No Address" when there is no address
        * Removed redundancy in various parts
        * Split help output into a separate function

2008-06-17
        * Made defines of magic numbers

2008-06-16
        * Moved audacious defs into header
        * Fixed 3 bufferoverflows in a struct utmp in users.c

2008-06-09
        * Graphs can now be logarithmic (except execigraph)

2008-06-08
        * Bugfix, $memgraph wasn't working and needed docs
        * Code for $lines and $words
        * Bugfix, $execgraph showed 0-0 instead of 0-100 values

2008-06-07
        * Case-insensitive values for if_up_strictness 
        * Fix bug where DEV_NAME can read uninitialised memory
        * Fix bug where ${if_mounted /}foo$endif prints foo on 1 line for
        each update instead of just 1 line

2008-06-06
        * Code for $scroll
        * Code for $memfree and $memeasyfree

2008-06-05
        * Fix bug where conky prints everything twice to STDOUT when
        out_to_console is enabled
        * Code for show_graph_range
        * Code for $monitor and $monitor_number

2008-06-04
        * Fix bug where conky tries to free a already freed pointer when you
        use gw_iface with a empty routingtable in linux
        * Fix bug where conky tries to tries to display deleted chars in a
        string (chars followed by a backspace-char) causing strange output.

2008-06-03
        * Added NVIDIA Graficcard support patch (thanks meissna)
        * Added --quiet patch (thanks sceptik)

2008-05-30
        * Simplified docs for color0-9 config settings and variables.
        * Improved $if_up for configurable behaviour.

2008-04-29
        * own_window_type dock patch (thanks Morgan).
        * Fix for $if_up memleak (thanks Micha¿).

2008-04-12
        * Added patch for the following (thanks larsko):
                * New $loadgraph to show a graph of load averages,
                * add "show_graph_scale" option to turn off/on the showing of the
                current max value for the graph,
                * minor code fixes,
                * update nano and vim syntax highlighting stuff.

2008-04-10
        * Getting rid of goto usage throughout code.
        * Fix bug due to usage of gethostbyname() in threads (which is not
        reentrant) by using gethostbyname_r() when available.
        * Added patch for battery_time problem on 2.6.24 (thanks wedge).
        * Added patch to fix broken xmms2 stuff (thanks sleipner).
        * Added patch to fix SIGHUP/SIGUSR1 segfault (thanks norsetto).
        * Added patch to improve $if_up (thanks Aseem).

2008-04-02
        * Added patch to use mail_spool correctly (thanks Kapil)
        * Replacing strdup() with strndup() throughout

2008-04-01
        * Fixed segfault when configuration doesn't contain TEXT block (thanks
        Pippijn).

2008-03-31
        * Conky 1.5.1 released.
        * Added --enable-testing configure option to use insane compiler flags.

2008-03-30
        * Added mem_res and mem_vsize to $top.
        * Improved parsing of $diskio*, $disk_protect and $ioscheduler args.

2008-03-29
        * Increased C99 compliance.
        * Fixed potential segfault in get_ioscheduler().
        * Implemented upwards path traversal for fs_type.
        * Fixed bug in libmpdclient that caused file descriptors to be left open.
        * Cleaned up output of battery_* vars.

2008-03-28
        * Fixed messed up percentages (fs_free_perc, fs_used_perc, mpd_percent,
        battery_percent).

2008-03-24
        * Fixed for specifying a non-existent configuration file.
        * Added disk_protect.
        * Fixed too many open files bug in laptop_mode.
        * Fixed reading interface adresses.
        * Fixed battery_bar default size.

2008-03-23
        * Fixed compilation with --disable-x11.
        * Fixed linux.c compilation problem due to (suspected) broken linux
        headers.
        * $battery_bar sysfs fix (thanks Marcus).

2008-03-22
        * Conky 1.5.0 released.
        * Smapi review: improved code, fixed memleaks and smapi_bat_perc when
        using pad_percents.
        * Fixed spaced_print, so pad_percents should now work as expected.
        * Removed a line of dead code.
        * Added support for displaying the default gateway.
        * Support displaying current laptop_mode.
        * Per-disk IO scheduler information now available.
        * Support printing current nameservers.

2008-03-20
        * Added CRLF characters to POP3 and IMAP stuff (should play nicer with
        some servers now).
        * Added preliminary support for parsing the output of external commands
        (via $execp and $execpi).
        * Applied FreeBSD total memory patch (thanks Nikos).

2008-03-19
        * Fixed a number of small memory leaks.
        * Performed some minor profiling on Conky; reduced text_buffer_size
        default to 128 bytes to improve performance.
        * Fixed some minor bugs introduced by new patches.

2008-03-17
        * Applied 12 patches:
                1) sysfs battery support (for Linux >=2.6.24) (thanks Kapil)
                2) Improved audacious support patch (thanks Miroslav)
                3) tp_smapi support patch for IBM laptops (thanks Phil)
                4) user info patch (thanks Roland)
                5) added conky build info patch (thanks Roland)
                6) added if_up patch (thanks Phil)
                7) added reload on SIGHUP patch (thanks Jonas)
                8) added pad percentages patch (thanks Jonas)
                9) added fs_type patch (thanks Ryan)
                10) added xmms2 fixes patch (thanks Lassi)
                11) fix sysfs crash patch (thanks Phil)
                12) multiple ip patch ($addrs).
        * Added more alignment support (top_middle, bottom_middle, middle_left,
        and middle_right).

2008-02-08
        * Applied 2 patches:
                1) Add diskio for individual devices.
                2) Improved output of units, added "short_units" option.

2008-01-05
        * Applied some more submitted patches:
                1) Add long forms of (most of) the command-line options.
                2) Added an option (top_cpu_separate) that emulates top's "separate
                cpus" option.  Processor usage is shown as a percentage of a
                single processor on your system, instead of a percentage
                of all processors combined.
                3) Adds a parameter (time) to top and top_mem that will show the
                cumulative CPU time of a process.
                4) Simplified integer rounding.
                5) Fixed the window width when a goto is used.
                6) Fixed the window width when an offset is used.
                (thanks Kevin Lyles).

2007-12-31
        * Applied submitted patches:
                1) to suport Debian's kFreeBSD;
                2) to use realtime clock in timed threads and
                3) to fix get_ibm_acpi_volume zero value bug
                (thanks Kapil Hari Paranjape).

2007-11-22
        * Conky 1.4.9 released.

2007-11-18
        * Added Gentoo USE flag audacious-legacy for Audacious legacy support.

2007-11-16
        * Added support for Audacious 1.4.0 and legacy versions via
                        --enable-audacious=yes|no|legacy.

2007-11-14
        * Fix compilation error with --disable-x11 (bug #1830373).
        * Bump doc stylesheet from 4.3 to 4.4.

2007-10-31
        * Fix mpd_smart bug #1822773.

2007-10-23
        * Externalize default config file: ${sysconfdir}/conky/conky.conf

2007-10-21
        * Initialize music_player_interval so built-in .conkyrc actual works.
        * Lower timed_thread minimum timing interval from 50 usecs to 10 usecs.
        * Separate timed thread asserts for clarity.
        * Remove ${tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log} from default text.
        * Update vim/nano syntax files.

2007-10-18
        * Conky 1.4.8 released.

2007-10-17
        * doc/man fixes 1810328 & 1813483.
        * struct alignment patch 1812924 (sohalt).

2007-10-02
        * Multiple mailbox patch (thanks Ben Kibbey).

2007-09-28
        * Small fix for $ibm_volume (thanks Kapil Hari Paranjape).
        * Patch so $tail can read from a fifo file descriptor (thanks Ben Kibbey).

2007-09-01
        * Improved performance slightly.
        * Added 'music_player_interval' config option to specify an update interval for
                        music player threads (currently honored by mpd and audacious).
        * Fixed some minor memory leaks associated with SIGUSR1.
        * Zero out imap and pop3 stuff when the connection fails.

2007-08-31
        * _Really_ fix mpd SIGPIPE issues.
        * Fix timed thread race condition, seen esp. on new kernel scheduler (cfs).
        * Fix $audacious_title not being displayed when no length argument indicated.

2007-08-30
        * Conky 1.4.7 released.
        * Check for pkg-config >=0.19.
        * Use timed_thread for mpd.

2007-08-27
        * Fixed issue with SIGPIPE and mpd.
        * Updated COPYING (with more clarifications).

2007-08-14
        * Updated vim/nano syntax files.

2007-08-12
        * Added $hwmon var, similar to $i2c and $platform.

2007-08-12
        * Added var $platform which is similar to $i2c and accommodates the conversion
          of many devices from /sys/bus/i2c/devices to /sys/bus/platform/devices.
        * Removed config item post_21_kernel since it forced all i2c device lookups
          to go to /sys/bus/platform/devices and some people may need a mix of both
                i2c and platform devices.

2007-08-10
        * Clarifying licensing

2007-08-08
        * RSS support
        * Wireless support for Linux

2007-08-05
        * Conky 1.4.6 released
        * Updated to libmpdclient 0.13.0
        * Added 'post_21_kernel' config param to specify kernels 2.6.22 and newer
        so i2c works properly

2007-08-04
        * Fixed potential issue on FreeBSD when nprocs < 10 (thanks zotrix)
        * Added support for multiple batteries when using acpi (thanks Phil)
        * a bunch of code cleanups (thanks Psychon)
        * added max length paramater to mpd_title (thinks fow)
        * a number of small bug fixes

2007-07-15
        * Fix PID display, patch #1753934.  thanks sohalt.
        * Fix displaying 4 GB traffic after reloading network driver,
                        patch #1754260.  thanks sohalt.

2007-06-21
        * Right-justify top/top_mem vars (pid/cpu/mem} so they align on the decimal.

2007-04-25
        * Added color[0-9] variable patch (thanks jieryn)

2007-04-05
        * Added if_empty patch (thanks Erik)
        * Added if_existing patch for string matching (thanks cromka)
        * Added hwmon support (thanks flitsch)
        * Some xmms2 updates (thanks sleipner)
        * Added $battery_percent and $battery_bar (thanks akash)

2007-02-25
        * OpenBSD support added to Conky (thanks hifi)
        * Updated mboxscan stuff (thanks calmar)

2007-02-25
        * Created branch/1.5 copy of trunk/conky1.  Removing all experimental
          network code from trunk/conky1.

2007-02-14
        * Include missing mboxscan.h in conky.h.
        * Fixed signedness warnings in conky.c.

2007-02-11
        * Added buffer_text_size option to change the size of the buffer for
        things like $exec, $tail, et cetera
        * Added $mboxscan which lets you display the Subject and From fields
        from recent email in an mbox file
        * Disambiguated (is that a word?) $cpu docs

2007-01-14
        * Fallback to gettimeofday() when clock_gettime () not available (mac os).

2007-01-09
        * API change (timing in milliseconds) for dexter_timedsampler_new ().

2007-01-07
        * Add config.rpath (created by gettextize -copy) to distribution
          to satisfy AM_ICONV.
        * Clean up some warnings; remove ftp.[ch] from src/Makefile.am.

2006-12-29
        * Update svn ebuild to new sourceforge url scheme.
                - requires deletion of existing wc: rm -rf /usr/portage/distfile/svn-src/conky/
        * Added head/tail rewrite patch (thanks Ryan Twitchell)
        * Added diskio read/write sf.net patch 1542880 (thanks Blondak)

2006-12-26
        * Clear conky vars on disconnect/failure to open files.

2006-12-23
        * Updated to libmpdclient 0.12.0

2006-12-22
        * client/server infrastructure and prototype for linux only (so far):
                - requires libdexter (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdexter)
                and the dxt-sysinfo plugin (svn only at the moment).
        * new config items:
                - dexter_client yes/no
                - dexter_server yes/no
                - dexter_config /path/to/libdexter/config (default: $HOME/.dexterrc)
                - own_window_class <WM Class Name> (default: Conky)
                        - replaces wm_class_name
                - own_window_title <Window Title> (default: <hostname> - conky)
        * removed config items:
                - wm_class_name (use own_window_class, same function)
        * configure changes:
          --disable-network (default=yes) with auto-detection for libdexter.
                - remove useless --enable-proc-uptime (PROC_UPTIME never referenced).
                        HAVE_SYSINFO and others determine if /proc/uptime is used.
                - silently disable xft, double-buffer and xdamage if no x11.
                - change enable/disable labels to reflect defaults accurately.
                - simplified compile-based checks for sysinfo/getloadavg and by moving
                  them into AC_CHECK_FUNCS.
        * allow decorated, own_window=yes windows to be given input focus by WM:
                - do not pass button clicks through to desktop in this scenario as conky
                  immediately loses focus.

2006-12-13
        * Clarify LGPL license on timed_thread modules.
        * Update NEWS files.

2006-12-12
        * Split battery variable into two:
                battery, e.g. "charging 75%" and
                battery_time, e.g. "3h 15m".
        * Conky 1.4.5 released.

2006-12-11
        * Close pop3/imap sockets.
        * Fix outstanding battery issues.

2006-12-10
        * Fix peek table bug with new portmon code.

2006-12-09
        * Replaced hash module used by libtcp-portmon with GLib's GHashTable,
        due to licensing issue noted by Fedora Core packagers.
        * Eliminated config items:
                min_port_monitors,
                min_port_monitor_connections
        * Added config item:
                max_port_monitor_connections

2006-11-30
        * Added $entropy_avail, $entropy_poolsize and $entropy_bar
        for the crypto freaks.  Idea suggested by Perttu Luukko
        <nuteater@users.sourceforge.net> in feature request 1497050.
        * Added max length specifier to audacious_title.  Closes
        feature request #1600631.

2006-11-28
        * Rearrange retry attempts in pop3 and imap code, removing sleep()
        calls which cause the whole process to sleep, not just the thread.

2006-11-22
        * Added max_specials config item with default 512.  This should
        close bug #1574523 for real this time.  Thanks to John Harrigan
        <jfharrigan@fedex.com> for this one.

2006-11-21
        * Changed autotools for subversion versioning.
        * Updated svn ebuild for gentoo.
        * Documentation updates for clarity, i.e. close bug #1599041.

2006-11-20
        * fix compile error with --disable-xdamage when Xdamage.h not present.

2006-11-18
        * fix bug where present rate var was not being read from acpi battery
        state file: /proc/acpi/battery/%s/state.

2006-11-15
        * Change linkstatus display for use_spacer.  Closes bug #1577580.

2006-11-14
        * Fix compile error with --disable-x11.
        * Add new timed thread abstraction routines.
        * Convert thread activity to timed threads, including
        texeci, imap, pop3, audacious.
        * Change memory vars from unsigned long to unsigned long long
        to fix reported overflow, e.g. swapmax >= 4Gb.

2006-11-13
        * Use pthread_cond_timedwait() instead of sleep() in audacious
        thread.  Will convert all worker threads to this timing method.

2006-11-12
        * Fix freebsd build error.
        * Minor changes to syntax files.
        * Conky 1.4.4 released.

2006-11-11
        * Add max_user_text to documentation.
        * Fixed BadWindow bugs (#1568366, #1588384).

2006-11-10
        * Remove on_bottom and xmms_player completely.
        * Closed ibm_temps bug #1591609.
        * Conky 1.4.3 released.

2006-11-09
        * Updated vim and nano syntax coloring scripts.
        * Added extras/ dir with syntax stuff to distribution tarball.

2006-11-08
        * Added new config item 'max_user_text' with default 16384,
        twice as large as previous hard-coded default of 8192 bytes.
        Increase as needed to accomodate large config files with a
        great deal of text.  This closes SF bug #1574523.

2006-11-07
        * Changes to configure.ac for pkg-config on x11/xext/xdamage,
        with fallback to conventional checks.
        * Fixed segmentation fault on SUGUSR1 bug.
        * Commented out Imlib2 from configure.ac since it's only partially
        implemented.

2006-11-04
        * Removed broken mldonkey and seti support.
        * Added Hellf[i]re's nano syntax coloring script to svn.

2006-11-03
        * Removed support for Xmms, BMP and Infopipe from conky.
        The Xmms and Bmp players are projects are dead and distros such
        as Gentoo are slating them for removal.
        * Added support for Audacious using new audacious vars.

2006-10-18
        * Implement WiFi signal level detection on FreeBSD (patch
        by Stepan Zastupov)

2006-10-04
        * Fix buffer overflow in parsing LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG
        environment variables and fix crash for users with locale
        name longer than 10 chars (repored by Michael Schwendt)

2006-09-30
        * --enable-debug added.
        * prevent libtool from adding its default CFLAGS

2006-09-28
        * Use pkg-config instead of xft-config.
        * Fix last line bug which had required padding text with extra blank line
        to see text on last line.

2006-09-01
        * Fix type-punning and "differ in signedness" warnings seen with
        gcc-4.1 -O2.

2006-08-27
        * Fix compilation errors when building with --diable-x11; bug #1547164

2006-08-12
        * Make configure script print summary info
        * Make `conky -v` show compiled-in features

2006-08-10
        * Added Spock's patches, adding hddtemp, goto and tab variables.

2006-07-13
        * Added tztime patch to show time in arbitrary time zones (thanks Ram
        Yalamanchili)

2006-06-07
        * Small battery fix (thanks Nexox, sf.net patch 1500014)
        * Fixed order of variables/objects in docs (thanks Peter Tarjan)

2006-05-27
        * Fixed a bug with $font

2006-05-24
        * Xdamage support for composite and pals

2006-05-23
        * CPU voltage support via $voltage_mv and $voltage_v (thanks to Peter
        Tarjan for the patch)

2006-05-21
        * SMP support for $freq and $freq_g (thanks to Peter Tarjan for the
        patch)

2006-05-17
        * Fixed issue with graphs not reaching all the way to the borders
        (sf.net bug 1470480)
        * Cleaned up units

2006-05-15
        * Conky 1.4.2 released

2006-05-13
        * GNU Iconv support added, new objects $iconv_start and $iconv_stop
        * Added some safety to the threading code

2006-05-09
        * Changed $font behavior so that the font persists past the next
        newline.  It can be set back to the default with $font with no args.
        (closes bug 1478676 on sf.net)

2006-05-08
        * Added simple POP3/IMAP mail clients

2006-04-23
        * Added support for PowerBook batteries
        * Fixed broken $if/$else stuff

2006-04-15
        * Added patch from Peter Tarjan to add support for IBM ACPI
        * Added xmms2 patch from Lassi Selander (sf.net patch 1469523)

2006-04-11
        * Removed sa_restorer crap (may fix some compile errors for some
        people)

2006-04-07
        * Added patch for adt746x fan/cpu speed for kernel >=2.6.12

2006-03-30
        * Added patch to support new port monitor REMOTESERVICE peekable.

2006-03-29
        * Scan port numbers as short.  Fixes debian bug# 359974.

2006-03-25
        * Added XMMS2 patch 1456203 from Lassi Selander
        * Added FreeBSD battery patch 1456008 from Petr Holub

2006-03-21
        * Fixed ${top(_mem)} related code on FreeBSD (with help of Petr
        Holub <hopet@users.sourceforge.net>)

2006-03-15
        * Removed bmp-infopipe dependency from 1.4.1 and 1.9999 ebuilds for Gentoo
        (Gentoo bug# 125226).
        * Fixed subversion ebuild for conky1 (1.9999) so it pulls the new trunk
        path for conky1.

2006-03-12
        * FreeBSD cpu info patch
        * Conky 1.4.1 released

2006-03-07
        * Fixed issue where some WM's don't control conky own_window windows.
        * Added newly-updated vim file detection and syntax hilighting files to svn.
        * Fixed issue with graphs resetting colours (sf.net bug #1420473)

2006-03-06
        * Fixed battery problems when charged
        * MPD code handles broken pipe now, instead of just killing conky
        * Switch from CVS to SVN.  Thanks SourceForge.

2006-03-05
        * Added patch to make $cpu stuff work on alpha (thanks Thomas Cort)
        http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122637#c3
        * Stop using override_redirect true -- conky back under WM control
        when using 'own_window yes'.
        * Fixed texeci breakage when forking to background is on

2006-02-14
        * Drastically simplified own_window=yes window creation code.
        * on_bottom and wm_class_name deprecated (they do nothing)

2006-02-13
        * Fixed typo bug in portmon code that caused incorrect monitor data
        to be displayed.

2006-02-12
        * Conky 1.4.0 released

2006-01-27
        * Cleaned up texeci code

2006-01-26
        * Added freedesktop.org extended window manager hints (EWMH)
        for window type NORMAL and state's STICKY/SKIP_PAGER/SKIP_TASKBAR.
        Fixes stacking order issues with freedesktop-compliant wm's,
        such as XFCE4+.

2006-01-25
        * Fixed stupid graph code (it still sucks) sf.net bug 1372962
        * Fixed $if_* stuff, sf.net bug 1401338 and 1400854
        * Fixed xmms.c code to load glib 1.2 shared object lib.

2006-01-11
        * Added xmms version 1 support.
        * Added bmp through 0.9.7.1 support.
        * Added config item xmms_player: none, xmms, bmp, audacious or
        infopipe.

2006-01-07
        * Added Audacious media player support.

2006-01-06
        * Fixed infopipe bug (select() affects timer as a side effect on
        Linux!)

2006-01-05
        * Added draw_graph_borders option
        * Added XMMS/BMP InfoPipe plugin support

2006-01-01
        * Conky 1.3.5 released

2005-12-31
        * Fixed bug with use_xft causing ignorance of font selection (sf.net
        bug 1387564)
        * Fixed issue with parsing of hex values for colours

2005-12-30
        * Added BMPx (http://beep-media-player.org/) support

2005-12-14
        * Fixed issues with execi stuff

2005-12-10
        * Added sf.net patch 1374576

2005-12-05
        * Fixed sf.net bug 1367745

2005-11-30
        * Fixed sf.net bugs 1369607, 1367735 and gentoo bug 113921,
          all variations of the same array out of bounds issue.
        * "Fixed" code in fs.c and conky.c to make fs stats match those displayed by df (affects reporting against ext3 filesystems only)

2005-11-27
        * new code in linux.c and top.c to calculate CPU % correctly on 2.6 kernels.

2005-11-24
        * Fixed gentoo bug# 113219

2005-11-23
        * Added #define/#undef SIGNAL_BLOCKING in conky.c for experimenting
        with synchronous signal processing. set to #undef for previous behavior.
        * Use POSIX signal api's, not the ANSI signal().

2005-11-22
        * Fixed IP address bug (sf.net bug 1359055)

2005-11-16
        * Conky 1.3.4 released

2005-11-12
        * Replaced bitwise copy of tcp_connection_t with function
        copy_tcp_connection().
        * Changed call interfaces for get_acpi_fan(), get_acpi_ac_adapter(),
        get_freq(), get_freq_dynamic(), get_adt746x_cpu(), get_adt746x_fan(),
        eliminating all mallocs.  pkovacs.  See bug 1355470.

2005-11-11
        * moved hash sizing code into portmon lib, where it belongs
        * More mem leaks fixed.

2005-11-10
        * Added config items min_port_monitors / min_port_monitor_connections

2005-11-09
        * Cleaned up top code, bug fixes
        * Fixed some memory leaks

2005-11-08
        * Fix bug# 1351686.  Patch by boojit.
        * Fixed 1331576 (I think) with bad cpu usage reporting

2005-11-01
        * Documentation updates for compiling and port monitoring
        * Removed cairo stuff (it's useless)

2005-10-31
        * Added statfs sf.net patch 1344493

2005-10-30
        * Added tcp port monitor support (pkovacs)

2005-10-28
        * Added WM_CLASS patch from sf.net patch 1340825

2005-10-21
        * acpi segfault should be fixed (sf.net bug 1330893)
        * SIGUSR1 bug fixed? (sf.net bug 1330914)

2005-10-17
        * Ugly MPD mem leak fixed
        * Other mem leaks fixed
        * Fixed thing where conky exits if LC_ALL and friends isn't set
        * Conky 1.3.3 released

2005-10-13
        * Conky 1.3.2 released

2005-10-10
        * More MPD objects (sf.net patch 1319461)

2005-10-07
        * fixed mldonkey bug? sf.net bug 1316531

2005-09-30
        * Linkstatus patch from btlee on f.g.o (see
        http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2765647.html#2765647)

2005-09-29
        * Fixed build on FreeBSD for non-i386
        * Made it so top_mem doesn't show all the forks of one process

2005-09-27
        * Fixed small bug in config parsing (thanks robgrady, bug 1306032)

2005-09-24
        * Fixed bug where graphs/bars don't show when maximum_width is enabled

2005-09-15
        * Fixed right-alignment bug thanks to Pascal Eberhard
        * Applied patch 1291420 from sf.net
        * Fixed issue with whack graph data
        * Fixed issue with Conky quitting when a file fails to load

2005-09-11
        * Fixed bug with xft and double buffer in own window
        * 1.3.1 released

2005-09-04
        * Misc small bug fixes

2005-09-03
        * MPD patch (sf.net patch 1281108)
        * Fixed graph width bug

2005-08-31
        * FreeBSD support was added
        * 1.3.0 released

2005-08-27
        * added threaded execi, $texeci
        * feature freeze

2005-08-26
        * Fixed slight vertical misalignment of bars/graphs (sf.net 1273994)
        * Diskio fixes (sf.net 1274140)
        * $alignr and $alignc now have 25% more goodness! (sf.net bug 1273905)
        * Far better SMP support
        * Added support for i8k kernel driver, parsing information for dell inspiron laptops found in /proc/i8k (sf.net request 1256058)

2005-08-25
        * More own_window fixes
        * applied disk io patch (sf.net patch 1271691)
        * applied $freq fixes patch, adds new $freq_dyn (sf.net patch 1271633)
        * removed units from $freq* output
        * fix for graph config parsing
        * Added $head, fixed mem leak with $tail

2005-08-24
        * More configure and makefile updates
        * Added scale arg for net graphs
        * Fixed bug in own_window stuff--amazing fake transparency now works
        properly
        * added own_window_colour, own_window_transparent

2005-08-23
        * Added maximum_width

2005-08-22
        * Added $execibar and $execigraph

2005-08-21
        * Moved source into src/, moved docs into doc/
        * Updated makefiles

2005-08-20
        * Applied patch from zimba-tm, closes patch 1260225
        * Fixed ugly gradient bug.  closes bug 1255608
        * Added $voffset
        * Removed metar code.  It sucked.
        * Added $acpitempf for amooricans
        * $tail fixes

2005-08-12
        * Multiple unit additions and modifications

2005-08-07
        * mpd password patch from Joshua Gerrish
        * conky can run without X now, use --disable-x11 when configuring
=========================================================================
=========================================================================
2005-08-06
        * Conky 1.2 released

2005-08-05
        * small fixes
        * added CVS ebuild, huge thanks to Hopeless for this

2005-08-04
        * special thanks to Citizen_X and his patience
        * Citizen_X pwns
        * keep shakin' those big 'ol titties
        * Citizen_X
        * Citizen_X
        * Citizen_X
        * Citizen_X

2005-08-03
        * many small fixes, thanks to those who reported problems

2005-08-02
        * dramatically improved how conky handles fonts
        * fixed issues with graph args
        * fixed shades and outlines

2005-08-01
        * stabilized code
        * added gradients to graphs (very pretty)
        * things
        * added $font, yay
        * feature freeze; only bugfixes now

2005-07-30
        * finalized graphing code, see $cpugraph, $memgraph, $execgraph,
        $downspeedgraph, and $upspeedgraph
        * added override_utf8_locale option
        * poop
        * $tab patch from jack_mort on f.g.o

2005-07-28
        * Added new graphing code, such as $cpugraph
        * small fixes all round
        * stuff
        * things
        * added more mpd objects

2005-07-24
        * Conky now has UTF-8 support
        * Fixed $freq for those with CPU scaling
        * Fixed the problem with total_run_times
        * Fixed alignment of bars and lines and stuff
        * Reduced conky's memory usage (yay!)
        * Removed top_sort_cpu, added top_mem which sorts by mem usage instead
        of cpu

2005-07-17
        * Fixed a pile of bugs in configure script
        * Added proper checking for headers in configure script
        * Made METAR shit threaded so it would stop being retarded, also made
        it try more then once to update
        * Added $metar_tempf and ${i2c tempf} for americans

2005-07-16
        * Added option for Conky to update N times and quit, see
        total_run_times in conkyrc.sample
        * Added metar code for weather info, thanks to somebody on sf.net
        * Added $alignr and $alignc for right and centre alignment
        * Added wireless info and IP addr patch, thanks Bobby Beckmann,
        options $addr and $linkstatus (please test!), as well as fixed a mem
        leak in this patch
        * adt746x fix, thanks to dan-h on sf.net
        * Added mldonkey support patch, thanks Lucas Brutschy on sf.net
        * Added patch to allow hex colour values, thanks roiban adi on sf.net
        * Added if constructs patch, thanks Lucas Brutschy on sf.net
        * Fixed bug in tab code (hopefully for the last time)
        * Added option to sort by cpu or memory for top, see top_sort_cpu

2005-07-12
        * Added fix for battery charged state (thanks to Lukas Zapletal
        <lzap@seznam.cz>)

=========================================================================
=========================================================================

2005-07-05
        * Conky 1.1 released

2005-07-03
        * Added $mpd_bar and $mpd_bitrate
        * Some minor code cleanups prior to release
        * Fixed problem with Conky not compiling when XFT disabled
        * Fixed configure.in problems with Xdbe

2005-07-01
        * Fixed memory leak in MPD code
        * Added new $tail object (see conkyrc.sample) which loves to suck CPU
        and memory
        * Fixed more mem leaks

2005-06-30
        * Added use_spacer to config
        * Added $mpd_status
        * Added small fix for i2c from Filedil on forums.gentoo.org

2005-06-28
        * Made it possible to use tabs to right-justify (just add a bunch)
        * Added ${execbar} (see conkyrc.sample)

2005-06-26
        * Added memory % to top output
        * Added initial cairo backend (it's really quite useless at this stage actually, and I'm not sure if there is even any point to it)

2005-06-25
        * Conky now recognizes the tab character correctly
        * Added simple config option to print to stdout (out_to_console
        <yes/no>)

2005-06-23
        * Added top output.  Check the sample config.
        * Cleaned up code.

2005-06-22
        * Finished MPD support ($mpd_title, $mpd_artist, $mpd_album, $mpd_vol)
        * Removed NVCtrl code
        * Added noswap and i2c patches

=========================================================================
=========================================================================

2005-06-21
        * Version 1.0. Conky is born from the ashes of torsmo. Main site:
        http://conky.sf.net/
        * Added xwin patch
        * Added new feature for sample averaging of CPU and net info

2004-12-22
        * Version 0.18 released

2004-12-21
        * Fixed some double buffer + Xft stuff
        * Applied X-Mozilla-Status patch (thanks affinity)
        * Applied NVCtrl patch and modified it a bit (temperature monitoring
          for nvdia-based graphics cards) (I couldn't test this so it may or
          may not work or even compile) (thanks Dennis Frommknecht)
        * Applied fs_used_perc and fs_bar_free patch (thanks killfire [send me
          mail, I didn't catch your name from sourceforge])
        * Applied patch that supports mailbox that is in some 'maildir' format
          (thanks jolapache [send mail, I didn't catch your name from
          sourceforge])
        * min -> m
        * Applied pad_percents patch (thanks JL Farinacci)
        * Fixed some stuff in acpi fan and acpi ac adapter
        * Optional XFT even when compiled in

2004-11-30
        * Applied utime patch (UTC time) (thanks David McCabe)

2004-11-29
        * Applied Xdbe patch, this includes double_buffer configuration and
          -b command line option (thanks Bruce Merry)
        * Applied some other seti patch, not tested (thanks William DiPlacido)

2004-08-25
        * Applied netbsd patch (thanks Rui Paulo)
        * Applied cpu frequency patch (thanks William DiPlacido)
        * Applied adt746x patch (thanks Dennis Kaandorp)
        * Applied some other FreeBSD patch by the same guy

2004-07-31
        * Applied FreeBSD patch (thanks Roman Bogorodskiy)

2004-07-25
        * Xft support and xftfont configuration
        * rewrote some stuff, there might be some new bugs in old places

2004-07-24
        * I2C divisor from a file (thanks Falk Feuersenger)

2004-07-20
        * changed battery thing to ${battery <filename in
          /proc/acpi/battery/>}
        * SETI@Home stuff (thanks Jarski)

2004-07-05
        * changed signal for config file reloading to SIGUSR1
        * mixer stuff, $mixer, $mixerl, $mixerr, $mixerbar, $mixerlbar,
          $mixerrbar

2004-06-03
        * maybe fixed acpi battery thing when "present rate" isn't known

2004-06-01
        * fixed width for all bars, use like ${cpubar 4,50}

2004-05-25
        * Version 0.17 released

2004-05-23
        * battery number for ACPI battery (thanks Leszek Krupiñski)
        * default battery is now BAT0 instead of BAT1, set ${battery 1} if
          the old battery thing worked
        * bug fix on load average reporting (thanks Leszek Krupiñski)
        * outlines to text, draw_outline and default_outline_color
          configurations and $outlinecolor (thanks adi)
        * $acpifan, $acpiacadapter, $uptime_short (thanks adi)

2004-05-19
        * fixed a bug when starting after Opera (and some other programs)
        * sticky window
        * minimum_size

2004-05-18
        * added border_width configuration

2004-05-16
        * fixed zero length bar bug

2004-05-15
        * file system stats, $fs_bar, $fs_free, $fs_free_perc, $fs_size,
          $fs_used
        * leaves ACPI temperature file open (faster)
        * -a option to change alignment on command line

2004-05-14
        * fixed ACPI temperature bug
        * border_margin configuration
        * ${execi <interval> <command>}, execute with specific interval
        * added possibility to manually set the position (-x and -y options)
          (thanks to Gwenhael LE MOINE)
        * $buffers and $cached (thanks to Jeremy Burch)
        * WM_CLASS when drawing to own window (thanks to Gwenhael LE MOINE)

2004-05-14
        * Version 0.16 released

2004-05-13
        * $pre_exec, execute a shell command one time
        * preparsing of text (faster but more memory usage)
        * less system calls (faster)
        * APM things to $battery (untested)

2004-05-12
        * added $new_mails changed $mails to tell total mail count

2004-05-11
        * transparent window, own_window configuration, -o cmdline option
        * $exec, execute a shell command
        * $acpitemp, $battery - acpi stuff (not really tested)

2004-05-10
        * $loadavg, load average
        * $mails, unread local mails, mail_spool configuration

2004-05-09
        * Version 0.15 released

2004-05-06
        * SIGHUP reloads config file (thanks Jørgen P. Tjernø)
        * Some other stuff