4 * Fixed issue with SIGPIPE and mpd
5 * Updated COPYING (with more clarifications)
8 * Updated vim/nano syntax files.
11 * Added $hwmon var, similar to $i2c and $platform.
14 * Added var $platform which is similar to $i2c and accommodates the conversion
15 of many devices from /sys/bus/i2c/devices to /sys/bus/platform/devices.
16 * Removed config item post_21_kernel since it forced all i2c device lookups
17 to go to /sys/bus/platform/devices and some people may need a mix of both
18 i2c and platform devices.
21 * Clarifying licensing
25 * Wireless support for Linux
28 * Conky 1.4.6 released
29 * Updated to libmpdclient 0.13.0
30 * Added 'post_21_kernel' config param to specify kernels 2.6.22 and newer
34 * Fixed potential issue on FreeBSD when nprocs < 10 (thanks zotrix)
35 * Added support for multiple batteries when using acpi (thanks Phil)
36 * a bunch of code cleanups (thanks Psychon)
37 * added max length paramater to mpd_title (thinks fow)
38 * a number of small bug fixes
41 * Fix PID display, patch #1753934. thanks sohalt.
42 * Fix displaying 4 GB traffic after reloading network driver,
43 patch #1754260. thanks sohalt.
46 * Right-justify top/top_mem vars (pid/cpu/mem} so they align on the decimal.
49 * Added color[0-9] variable patch (thanks jieryn)
52 * Added if_empty patch (thanks Erik)
53 * Added if_existing patch for string matching (thanks cromka)
54 * Added hwmon support (thanks flitsch)
55 * Some xmms2 updates (thanks sleipner)
56 * Added $battery_percent and $battery_bar (thanks akash)
59 * OpenBSD support added to Conky (thanks hifi)
60 * Updated mboxscan stuff (thanks calmar)
63 * Created branch/1.5 copy of trunk/conky1. Removing all experimental
64 network code from trunk/conky1.
67 * Include missing mboxscan.h in conky.h.
68 * Fixed signedness warnings in conky.c.
71 * Added buffer_text_size option to change the size of the buffer for
72 things like $exec, $tail, et cetera
73 * Added $mboxscan which lets you display the Subject and From fields
74 from recent email in an mbox file
75 * Disambiguated (is that a word?) $cpu docs
78 * Fallback to gettimeofday() when clock_gettime () not available (mac os).
81 * API change (timing in milliseconds) for dexter_timedsampler_new ().
84 * Add config.rpath (created by gettextize -copy) to distribution
86 * Clean up some warnings; remove ftp.[ch] from src/Makefile.am.
89 * Update svn ebuild to new sourceforge url scheme.
90 - requires deletion of existing wc: rm -rf /usr/portage/distfile/svn-src/conky/
91 * Added head/tail rewrite patch (thanks Ryan Twitchell)
92 * Added diskio read/write sf.net patch 1542880 (thanks Blondak)
95 * Clear conky vars on disconnect/failure to open files.
98 * Updated to libmpdclient 0.12.0
101 * client/server infrastructure and prototype for linux only (so far):
102 - requires libdexter (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdexter)
103 and the dxt-sysinfo plugin (svn only at the moment).
105 - dexter_client yes/no
106 - dexter_server yes/no
107 - dexter_config /path/to/libdexter/config (default: $HOME/.dexterrc)
108 - own_window_class <WM Class Name> (default: Conky)
109 - replaces wm_class_name
110 - own_window_title <Window Title> (default: <hostname> - conky)
111 * removed config items:
112 - wm_class_name (use own_window_class, same function)
114 --disable-network (default=yes) with auto-detection for libdexter.
115 - remove useless --enable-proc-uptime (PROC_UPTIME never referenced).
116 HAVE_SYSINFO and others determine if /proc/uptime is used.
117 - silently disable xft, double-buffer and xdamage if no x11.
118 - change enable/disable labels to reflect defaults accurately.
119 - simplified compile-based checks for sysinfo/getloadavg and by moving
120 them into AC_CHECK_FUNCS.
121 * allow decorated, own_window=yes windows to be given input focus by WM:
122 - do not pass button clicks through to desktop in this scenario as conky
123 immediately loses focus.
126 * Clarify LGPL license on timed_thread modules.
130 * Split battery variable into two:
131 battery, e.g. "charging 75%" and
132 battery_time, e.g. "3h 15m".
133 * Conky 1.4.5 released.
136 * Close pop3/imap sockets.
137 * Fix outstanding battery issues.
140 * Fix peek table bug with new portmon code.
143 * Replaced hash module used by libtcp-portmon with GLib's GHashTable,
144 due to licensing issue noted by Fedora Core packagers.
145 * Eliminated config items:
147 min_port_monitor_connections
149 max_port_monitor_connections
152 * Added $entropy_avail, $entropy_poolsize and $entropy_bar
153 for the crypto freaks. Idea suggested by Perttu Luukko
154 <nuteater@users.sourceforge.net> in feature request 1497050.
155 * Added max length specifier to audacious_title. Closes
156 feature request #1600631.
159 * Rearrange retry attempts in pop3 and imap code, removing sleep()
160 calls which cause the whole process to sleep, not just the thread.
163 * Added max_specials config item with default 512. This should
164 close bug #1574523 for real this time. Thanks to John Harrigan
165 <jfharrigan@fedex.com> for this one.
168 * Changed autotools for subversion versioning.
169 * Updated svn ebuild for gentoo.
170 * Documentation updates for clarity, i.e. close bug #1599041.
173 * fix compile error with --disable-xdamage when Xdamage.h not present.
176 * fix bug where present rate var was not being read from acpi battery
177 state file: /proc/acpi/battery/%s/state.
180 * Change linkstatus display for use_spacer. Closes bug #1577580.
183 * Fix compile error with --disable-x11.
184 * Add new timed thread abstraction routines.
185 * Convert thread activity to timed threads, including
186 texeci, imap, pop3, audacious.
187 * Change memory vars from unsigned long to unsigned long long
188 to fix reported overflow, e.g. swapmax >= 4Gb.
191 * Use pthread_cond_timedwait() instead of sleep() in audacious
192 thread. Will convert all worker threads to this timing method.
195 * Fix freebsd build error.
196 * Minor changes to syntax files.
197 * Conky 1.4.4 released.
200 * Add max_user_text to documentation.
201 * Fixed BadWindow bugs (#1568366, #1588384).
204 * Remove on_bottom and xmms_player completely.
205 * Closed ibm_temps bug #1591609.
206 * Conky 1.4.3 released.
209 * Updated vim and nano syntax coloring scripts.
210 * Added extras/ dir with syntax stuff to distribution tarball.
213 * Added new config item 'max_user_text' with default 16384,
214 twice as large as previous hard-coded default of 8192 bytes.
215 Increase as needed to accomodate large config files with a
216 great deal of text. This closes SF bug #1574523.
219 * Changes to configure.ac for pkg-config on x11/xext/xdamage,
220 with fallback to conventional checks.
221 * Fixed segmentation fault on SUGUSR1 bug.
222 * Commented out Imlib2 from configure.ac since it's only partially
226 * Removed broken mldonkey and seti support.
227 * Added Hellf[i]re's nano syntax coloring script to svn.
230 * Removed support for Xmms, BMP and Infopipe from conky.
231 The Xmms and Bmp players are projects are dead and distros such
232 as Gentoo are slating them for removal.
233 * Added support for Audacious using new audacious vars.
236 * Implement WiFi signal level detection on FreeBSD (patch
240 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG
241 environment variables and fix crash for users with locale
242 name longer than 10 chars (repored by Michael Schwendt)
245 * --enable-debug added.
246 * prevent libtool from adding its default CFLAGS
249 * Use pkg-config instead of xft-config.
250 * Fix last line bug which had required padding text with extra blank line
251 to see text on last line.
254 * Fix type-punning and "differ in signedness" warnings seen with
258 * Fix compilation errors when building with --diable-x11; bug #1547164
261 * Make configure script print summary info
262 * Make `conky -v` show compiled-in features
265 * Added Spock's patches, adding hddtemp, goto and tab variables.
268 * Added tztime patch to show time in arbitrary time zones (thanks Ram
272 * Small battery fix (thanks Nexox, sf.net patch 1500014)
273 * Fixed order of variables/objects in docs (thanks Peter Tarjan)
276 * Fixed a bug with $font
279 * Xdamage support for composite and pals
282 * CPU voltage support via $voltage_mv and $voltage_v (thanks to Peter
283 Tarjan for the patch)
286 * SMP support for $freq and $freq_g (thanks to Peter Tarjan for the
290 * Fixed issue with graphs not reaching all the way to the borders
295 * Conky 1.4.2 released
298 * GNU Iconv support added, new objects $iconv_start and $iconv_stop
299 * Added some safety to the threading code
302 * Changed $font behavior so that the font persists past the next
303 newline. It can be set back to the default with $font with no args.
304 (closes bug 1478676 on sf.net)
307 * Added simple POP3/IMAP mail clients
310 * Added support for PowerBook batteries
311 * Fixed broken $if/$else stuff
314 * Added patch from Peter Tarjan to add support for IBM ACPI
315 * Added xmms2 patch from Lassi Selander (sf.net patch 1469523)
318 * Removed sa_restorer crap (may fix some compile errors for some
322 * Added patch for adt746x fan/cpu speed for kernel >=2.6.12
325 * Added patch to support new port monitor REMOTESERVICE peekable.
328 * Scan port numbers as short. Fixes debian bug# 359974.
331 * Added XMMS2 patch 1456203 from Lassi Selander
332 * Added FreeBSD battery patch 1456008 from Petr Holub
335 * Fixed ${top(_mem)} related code on FreeBSD (with help of Petr
336 Holub <hopet@users.sourceforge.net>)
339 * Removed bmp-infopipe dependency from 1.4.1 and 1.9999 ebuilds for Gentoo
340 (Gentoo bug# 125226).
341 * Fixed subversion ebuild for conky1 (1.9999) so it pulls the new trunk
345 * FreeBSD cpu info patch
346 * Conky 1.4.1 released
349 * Fixed issue where some WM's don't control conky own_window windows.
350 * Added newly-updated vim file detection and syntax hilighting files to svn.
351 * Fixed issue with graphs resetting colours (sf.net bug #1420473)
354 * Fixed battery problems when charged
355 * MPD code handles broken pipe now, instead of just killing conky
356 * Switch from CVS to SVN. Thanks SourceForge.
359 * Added patch to make $cpu stuff work on alpha (thanks Thomas Cort)
360 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122637#c3
361 * Stop using override_redirect true -- conky back under WM control
362 when using 'own_window yes'.
363 * Fixed texeci breakage when forking to background is on
366 * Drastically simplified own_window=yes window creation code.
367 * on_bottom and wm_class_name deprecated (they do nothing)
370 * Fixed typo bug in portmon code that caused incorrect monitor data
374 * Conky 1.4.0 released
377 * Cleaned up texeci code
380 * Added freedesktop.org extended window manager hints (EWMH)
381 for window type NORMAL and state's STICKY/SKIP_PAGER/SKIP_TASKBAR.
382 Fixes stacking order issues with freedesktop-compliant wm's,
386 * Fixed stupid graph code (it still sucks) sf.net bug 1372962
387 * Fixed $if_* stuff, sf.net bug 1401338 and 1400854
388 * Fixed xmms.c code to load glib 1.2 shared object lib.
391 * Added xmms version 1 support.
392 * Added bmp through 0.9.7.1 support.
393 * Added config item xmms_player: none, xmms, bmp, audacious or
397 * Added Audacious media player support.
400 * Fixed infopipe bug (select() affects timer as a side effect on
404 * Added draw_graph_borders option
405 * Added XMMS/BMP InfoPipe plugin support
408 * Conky 1.3.5 released
411 * Fixed bug with use_xft causing ignorance of font selection (sf.net
413 * Fixed issue with parsing of hex values for colours
416 * Added BMPx (http://beep-media-player.org/) support
419 * Fixed issues with execi stuff
422 * Added sf.net patch 1374576
425 * Fixed sf.net bug 1367745
428 * Fixed sf.net bugs 1369607, 1367735 and gentoo bug 113921,
429 all variations of the same array out of bounds issue.
430 * "Fixed" code in fs.c and conky.c to make fs stats match those displayed by df (affects reporting against ext3 filesystems only)
433 * new code in linux.c and top.c to calculate CPU % correctly on 2.6 kernels.
436 * Fixed gentoo bug# 113219
439 * Added #define/#undef SIGNAL_BLOCKING in conky.c for experimenting
440 with synchronous signal processing. set to #undef for previous behavior.
441 * Use POSIX signal api's, not the ANSI signal().
444 * Fixed IP address bug (sf.net bug 1359055)
447 * Conky 1.3.4 released
450 * Replaced bitwise copy of tcp_connection_t with function
451 copy_tcp_connection().
452 * Changed call interfaces for get_acpi_fan(), get_acpi_ac_adapter(),
453 get_freq(), get_freq_dynamic(), get_adt746x_cpu(), get_adt746x_fan(),
454 eliminating all mallocs. pkovacs. See bug 1355470.
457 * moved hash sizing code into portmon lib, where it belongs
458 * More mem leaks fixed.
461 * Added config items min_port_monitors / min_port_monitor_connections
464 * Cleaned up top code, bug fixes
465 * Fixed some memory leaks
468 * Fix bug# 1351686. Patch by boojit.
469 * Fixed 1331576 (I think) with bad cpu usage reporting
472 * Documentation updates for compiling and port monitoring
473 * Removed cairo stuff (it's useless)
476 * Added statfs sf.net patch 1344493
479 * Added tcp port monitor support (pkovacs)
482 * Added WM_CLASS patch from sf.net patch 1340825
485 * acpi segfault should be fixed (sf.net bug 1330893)
486 * SIGUSR1 bug fixed? (sf.net bug 1330914)
489 * Ugly MPD mem leak fixed
490 * Other mem leaks fixed
491 * Fixed thing where conky exits if LC_ALL and friends isn't set
492 * Conky 1.3.3 released
495 * Conky 1.3.2 released
498 * More MPD objects (sf.net patch 1319461)
501 * fixed mldonkey bug? sf.net bug 1316531
504 * Linkstatus patch from btlee on f.g.o (see
505 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2765647.html#2765647)
508 * Fixed build on FreeBSD for non-i386
509 * Made it so top_mem doesn't show all the forks of one process
512 * Fixed small bug in config parsing (thanks robgrady, bug 1306032)
515 * Fixed bug where graphs/bars don't show when maximum_width is enabled
518 * Fixed right-alignment bug thanks to Pascal Eberhard
519 * Applied patch 1291420 from sf.net
520 * Fixed issue with whack graph data
521 * Fixed issue with Conky quitting when a file fails to load
524 * Fixed bug with xft and double buffer in own window
528 * Misc small bug fixes
531 * MPD patch (sf.net patch 1281108)
532 * Fixed graph width bug
535 * FreeBSD support was added
539 * added threaded execi, $texeci
543 * Fixed slight vertical misalignment of bars/graphs (sf.net 1273994)
544 * Diskio fixes (sf.net 1274140)
545 * $alignr and $alignc now have 25% more goodness! (sf.net bug 1273905)
546 * Far better SMP support
547 * Added support for i8k kernel driver, parsing information for dell inspiron laptops found in /proc/i8k (sf.net request 1256058)
550 * More own_window fixes
551 * applied disk io patch (sf.net patch 1271691)
552 * applied $freq fixes patch, adds new $freq_dyn (sf.net patch 1271633)
553 * removed units from $freq* output
554 * fix for graph config parsing
555 * Added $head, fixed mem leak with $tail
558 * More configure and makefile updates
559 * Added scale arg for net graphs
560 * Fixed bug in own_window stuff--amazing fake transparency now works
562 * added own_window_colour, own_window_transparent
565 * Added maximum_width
568 * Added $execibar and $execigraph
571 * Moved source into src/, moved docs into doc/
575 * Applied patch from zimba-tm, closes patch 1260225
576 * Fixed ugly gradient bug. closes bug 1255608
578 * Removed metar code. It sucked.
579 * Added $acpitempf for amooricans
583 * Multiple unit additions and modifications
586 * mpd password patch from Joshua Gerrish
587 * conky can run without X now, use --disable-x11 when configuring
588 =========================================================================
589 =========================================================================
595 * added CVS ebuild, huge thanks to Hopeless for this
598 * special thanks to Citizen_X and his patience
600 * keep shakin' those big 'ol titties
607 * many small fixes, thanks to those who reported problems
610 * dramatically improved how conky handles fonts
611 * fixed issues with graph args
612 * fixed shades and outlines
616 * added gradients to graphs (very pretty)
619 * feature freeze; only bugfixes now
622 * finalized graphing code, see $cpugraph, $memgraph, $execgraph,
623 $downspeedgraph, and $upspeedgraph
624 * added override_utf8_locale option
626 * $tab patch from jack_mort on f.g.o
629 * Added new graphing code, such as $cpugraph
630 * small fixes all round
633 * added more mpd objects
636 * Conky now has UTF-8 support
637 * Fixed $freq for those with CPU scaling
638 * Fixed the problem with total_run_times
639 * Fixed alignment of bars and lines and stuff
640 * Reduced conky's memory usage (yay!)
641 * Removed top_sort_cpu, added top_mem which sorts by mem usage instead
645 * Fixed a pile of bugs in configure script
646 * Added proper checking for headers in configure script
647 * Made METAR shit threaded so it would stop being retarded, also made
648 it try more then once to update
649 * Added $metar_tempf and ${i2c tempf} for americans
652 * Added option for Conky to update N times and quit, see
653 total_run_times in conkyrc.sample
654 * Added metar code for weather info, thanks to somebody on sf.net
655 * Added $alignr and $alignc for right and centre alignment
656 * Added wireless info and IP addr patch, thanks Bobby Beckmann,
657 options $addr and $linkstatus (please test!), as well as fixed a mem
659 * adt746x fix, thanks to dan-h on sf.net
660 * Added mldonkey support patch, thanks Lucas Brutschy on sf.net
661 * Added patch to allow hex colour values, thanks roiban adi on sf.net
662 * Added if constructs patch, thanks Lucas Brutschy on sf.net
663 * Fixed bug in tab code (hopefully for the last time)
664 * Added option to sort by cpu or memory for top, see top_sort_cpu
667 * Added fix for battery charged state (thanks to Lukas Zapletal
670 =========================================================================
671 =========================================================================
677 * Added $mpd_bar and $mpd_bitrate
678 * Some minor code cleanups prior to release
679 * Fixed problem with Conky not compiling when XFT disabled
680 * Fixed configure.in problems with Xdbe
683 * Fixed memory leak in MPD code
684 * Added new $tail object (see conkyrc.sample) which loves to suck CPU
686 * Fixed more mem leaks
689 * Added use_spacer to config
691 * Added small fix for i2c from Filedil on forums.gentoo.org
694 * Made it possible to use tabs to right-justify (just add a bunch)
695 * Added ${execbar} (see conkyrc.sample)
698 * Added memory % to top output
699 * Added initial cairo backend (it's really quite useless at this stage actually, and I'm not sure if there is even any point to it)
702 * Conky now recognizes the tab character correctly
703 * Added simple config option to print to stdout (out_to_console
707 * Added top output. Check the sample config.
711 * Finished MPD support ($mpd_title, $mpd_artist, $mpd_album, $mpd_vol)
712 * Removed NVCtrl code
713 * Added noswap and i2c patches
715 =========================================================================
716 =========================================================================
719 * Version 1.0. Conky is born from the ashes of torsmo. Main site:
722 * Added new feature for sample averaging of CPU and net info
725 * Version 0.18 released
728 * Fixed some double buffer + Xft stuff
729 * Applied X-Mozilla-Status patch (thanks affinity)
730 * Applied NVCtrl patch and modified it a bit (temperature monitoring
731 for nvdia-based graphics cards) (I couldn't test this so it may or
732 may not work or even compile) (thanks Dennis Frommknecht)
733 * Applied fs_used_perc and fs_bar_free patch (thanks killfire [send me
734 mail, I didn't catch your name from sourceforge])
735 * Applied patch that supports mailbox that is in some 'maildir' format
736 (thanks jolapache [send mail, I didn't catch your name from
739 * Applied pad_percents patch (thanks JL Farinacci)
740 * Fixed some stuff in acpi fan and acpi ac adapter
741 * Optional XFT even when compiled in
744 * Applied utime patch (UTC time) (thanks David McCabe)
747 * Applied Xdbe patch, this includes double_buffer configuration and
748 -b command line option (thanks Bruce Merry)
749 * Applied some other seti patch, not tested (thanks William DiPlacido)
752 * Applied netbsd patch (thanks Rui Paulo)
753 * Applied cpu frequency patch (thanks William DiPlacido)
754 * Applied adt746x patch (thanks Dennis Kaandorp)
755 * Applied some other FreeBSD patch by the same guy
758 * Applied FreeBSD patch (thanks Roman Bogorodskiy)
761 * Xft support and xftfont configuration
762 * rewrote some stuff, there might be some new bugs in old places
765 * I2C divisor from a file (thanks Falk Feuersenger)
768 * changed battery thing to ${battery <filename in
769 /proc/acpi/battery/>}
770 * SETI@Home stuff (thanks Jarski)
773 * changed signal for config file reloading to SIGUSR1
774 * mixer stuff, $mixer, $mixerl, $mixerr, $mixerbar, $mixerlbar,
778 * maybe fixed acpi battery thing when "present rate" isn't known
781 * fixed width for all bars, use like ${cpubar 4,50}
784 * Version 0.17 released
787 * battery number for ACPI battery (thanks Leszek Krupiñski)
788 * default battery is now BAT0 instead of BAT1, set ${battery 1} if
789 the old battery thing worked
790 * bug fix on load average reporting (thanks Leszek Krupiñski)
791 * outlines to text, draw_outline and default_outline_color
792 configurations and $outlinecolor (thanks adi)
793 * $acpifan, $acpiacadapter, $uptime_short (thanks adi)
796 * fixed a bug when starting after Opera (and some other programs)
801 * added border_width configuration
804 * fixed zero length bar bug
807 * file system stats, $fs_bar, $fs_free, $fs_free_perc, $fs_size,
809 * leaves ACPI temperature file open (faster)
810 * -a option to change alignment on command line
813 * fixed ACPI temperature bug
814 * border_margin configuration
815 * ${execi <interval> <command>}, execute with specific interval
816 * added possibility to manually set the position (-x and -y options)
817 (thanks to Gwenhael LE MOINE)
818 * $buffers and $cached (thanks to Jeremy Burch)
819 * WM_CLASS when drawing to own window (thanks to Gwenhael LE MOINE)
822 * Version 0.16 released
825 * $pre_exec, execute a shell command one time
826 * preparsing of text (faster but more memory usage)
827 * less system calls (faster)
828 * APM things to $battery (untested)
831 * added $new_mails changed $mails to tell total mail count
834 * transparent window, own_window configuration, -o cmdline option
835 * $exec, execute a shell command
836 * $acpitemp, $battery - acpi stuff (not really tested)
839 * $loadavg, load average
840 * $mails, unread local mails, mail_spool configuration
843 * Version 0.15 released
846 * SIGHUP reloads config file (thanks Jørgen P. Tjernø)