2 * Added support for $weather_forecast (experimental)
5 * Added support for out_to_ncurses
8 * Removed alias config option due to brokenness
9 * Added support for $include
12 * Add icon data_type for xoap weather
15 * Changed xoap parsing method to xpath, in preparation to include
19 * Fixed out-of-tree builds
20 * Update MPD elapsed/progress when stopped (sf.net #2792113)
21 * Overhauled RSS and weather, added $curl
24 * Added compilation switch --enable-xoap to be able to use
25 www.weather.com as a source of weather data (this avoids adding
26 libxml2 as a required dependency for users that wish to use noaa
28 * Added support for X alignment across multi-lined objects (i.e., using
30 * Disabled OpenMP code until GCC's implementation stabilizes
31 * www.weather.com can now be used as well as a source of weather data
34 * Added support for $desktop, $desktop_number and $desktop_name (sf.net #2040528)
37 * Added support for $swapfree
38 * Improved Lua API (lua_read_parse has been removed in favour of the
39 conky_parse() Lua API call)
40 * Introduced new Lua Cairo and Imlib2 bindings
43 * Fixed a couple memory-related bugs
46 * Added support for $weather (experimental)
49 * Remove newline with comment only lines in TEXT
50 * Improved parsing of graph arguments, removed "log"|"normal" arguments in
54 * Fix escaping of comments in TEXT (sf.net #2813390, thanks Nils)
57 * Fix segfault in to_real_path, it's sometimes called with the same
58 source and dest without checking the length, causing a segfault.
61 * Use the internal process list for if_running on Linux
64 * Fix XMMS2 related crash (sf.net #2806111 and #2805310, thanks Lassi)
67 * Added support for $blink
68 * Added support for $to_bytes
69 * Fix segfault due to bad checking of return values for inotify code
71 * Added 'own_window_type panel' to make Conky behave like a panel (thanks
75 * Added support for per-task I/O statistics - $top_io
78 * Added border_inner_margin and border_outer_margin config options, and
79 deprecated border_margin
82 * Fix regression with loading of non-Xft fonts (sf.net #2804324)
85 * Fixed a regression which causes fonts to not be rendered properly with
86 certain types of windows
87 * Added format_human_readable option (sf.net #2803345, thanks Vincent)
88 * Fix bug in comments within TEXT (where the line contains just '#')
89 (sf.net #2803586), thanks Pavelo
90 * Fix bug in $mails (sf.net #2802529, thanks Nikos)
93 * $battery_short can now also display F (full), N (not present),E (empty),
95 * Fix problem that $battery and $battery_short displayed unknown on some
96 systems when the battery wasn't unknown but full
99 * Add support for membar,swapbar,cpubar,fs_bar,fs_bar_free,battery_bar,
100 execbar,execibar,lua_bar,entropy_bar,mpd_bar,apcupsd_loadbar and
102 * Fix finding IP before first update
105 * Add entropy_perc printing the available entropy as percentage
106 * Add read_tcp to print stuff from tcp-sockets
109 * Improved Imlib2 cache control by adding a global cache flush option, and
110 per image cache flushing
113 * Added fancy new 'temperature gradients' feature for graphs, via the -t
114 switch at the end of graph arguments.
115 * Allow ~/... and $HOME/... paths for more stuff.
118 * Conky 1.7.1 released
121 * Fix hostname resolution for mpd_host
122 * Made sure that no X11 stuff is in the binary with --disable-X11
125 * Added inotify support to reload the config when modified automatically
126 on systems that support it
127 * Added inotify support for reloading Lua scripts automagically
130 * Added support for the Lua programming language
131 * Added support for rending images by way of Imlib2
132 * Patch to fix rounding error with CPU values (thanks Filipe)
133 * Added support for execbar without X
136 * Added another builtin config that is used when compiled with --disable-X11
139 * Fix segfault when there is no config available
142 * Make sure if_gw isn't checked twice
145 * Added arguments to hwmon for value precalculation
148 * Added support for APC UPS daemon monitoring
149 * Fixed hwmon for kernel 2.6.29
152 * Allow the use of '#' for comments within text area (can be escaped with
156 * Only include disp when needed
157 * Made sure update_uname works without X11
160 * Fix occasional cpubar segfaults
161 * Added top_name_width config option
164 * Added some completely pointless OpenMP optimizations(?)
167 * Added Sony VAIO fanspeed info (thanks Yeon-Hyeong)
170 * Added diskio_avg_samples patch (thanks Yeon-Hyeong)
171 * Fixed $texeci regression
174 * Added $combine, a var that places 2 other vars next to each other, even if they
175 have a output of multiple lines. This also makes the moving of RSS-itemes with
176 $goto (see change from 2009-04-19) no longer necessary.
179 * Various XMMS2 updates (thanks Lassi)
180 * Make ALSA mixers available on Linux, and added $if_mixer_mute (thanks
183 * Make it possible to place spaces in front of RSS-items as a workaround
184 for the problem that $goto only moves the first RSS-item. This is only a
185 workaround and should be replaced by a permanent fix that makes $goto move
189 * Fix broken compilation without X11
192 * Added default_bar/graph/gauge_size config options (thanks wire64 for the
196 * Added eval text object to realise double parsing
199 * Added gauge widget patch, sf.net id #2676128 (thanks Aner)
202 * Conky 1.7.0 "Hungry Hobo" released!
205 * Various XMMS2 updates (thanks Lassi)
208 * Fix broken xmms2 compilation (thanks fusetak)
209 * Minor fix for fs_used_perc, fs_free and fs_free_perc (thanks
213 * Applied FreeBSD patches (thanks Nikos)
216 * Fix bug with wacky netstat values on startup
219 * Added extra newline patch, sf.net id #2638601 (thanks Ali)
220 * Disk i/o support on FreeBSD patch, sf.net id #2657227 (thanks Nikos)
221 * Added gauge widget patch, sf.net id #2676128 (thanks Aner)
224 * Added alias patch ( sf.net id #2663691 ) changed it to prevent it from
225 overwriting existing environment variables and updated docs, syntaxfiles, ...
229 * Rewrite human_readable() to minimise amount of padding
230 * Fix padding in temp_print()
231 * Fix padding of $processes and $running_processes
234 * Added $battery_short patch, sf.net id #2300911 (thanks Swoog)
235 * Patch by Kim Holviala sf.net id #2484548:
236 * change the height of execbar and execibar to be the same as other
237 bars have by default (6 pixels)
238 * treat mixer values as percentages as they're usually 0-100 (switch
239 to spaced_print() with pad_percents)
240 * change temp_print() from snprintf() to spaced_print()
241 * remove decimals from temp_print() as none of the current sources can
242 supply values smaller than 1 degree (C or F, doesn't matter)
243 * fix number printing in human_readable()
244 * network $upspeed and $downspeed now use human_readable()
245 * Fix diskio_read/write patch sf.net id #2493084 (thanks Alexander)
246 * Fix nvidia memory frequency reading patch sf.net id #2493134
247 * Patch to clarify things in conky.conf sf.net id #2548805 (thanks
249 * Fix shown battery status when the battery is not charging any more but
250 is not full charged patch sf.net id #2556056 (thanks Martin)
251 * Extended support for local Maildir patch sf.net id #2561323 (thanks
253 * XMMS2 fix and refactoring patch sf.net id #2579357 (thanks Tamim)
254 * Null mpd variables should have an empty string patch sf.net id #2564747
260 * Added overwrite_file and append_file
263 * Added out_to_stderr
266 * Refactor top code, add top_time to sort by process cpu time (thanks
270 * Drop --enable-smapi and use --enable-ibm instead
271 * Make ibm-acpi objects optional (--enable-ibm)
274 * Add if_match object comparing strings, floats and ints
277 * Fix segfault for diskiograph*, note the changed order of arguments
278 * Fix documentation for all graph objects
281 * Make gateway objects also detect routes with missing RTF_GATEWAY flag
284 * Have a maximum width for all variable length mpd vars
285 * Patch to allow escaping newlines in the config (thanks Itai)
288 * Fix disk_protect for linux-2.6.27 (and hopefully above)
289 * Improve behaviour of $pb_battery
292 * Add an option to timed_thread_test() to not wait for the interval period
293 (so that IMAP IDLE works better)
296 * Fix runtime debugging macros again
297 * Big hddtemp rewrite
298 * Remove README from git and ignore it
299 * Remove obsolete documentation
302 * Removing $freq_dyn and $freq_dyn_g due to license issues (see sf.net
303 tracker bug #2166612)
304 * Allow more than 9 CPUs for CPU stats (bug 2155500)
305 * Fix broken $execbar (bug 2133709)
306 * Don't put unit with hddtemp values for consistency (bug 2133107)
307 * Limit $battery_percent to 100 (bug 2145006)
308 * Fix runtime debugging macros
309 * Make unit of all temperature objects selectable
310 * Make Conky in dock mode a withdrawn window
313 * Switching from svn to git repository. The repo can be viewed from
314 http://git.omp.am/?p=conky.git;a=summary and you can clone the repo with:
315 git clone git://git.omp.am/conky.git
316 * Fix for wrong usage of strncat (thanks Pavol)
317 * Adds a variable if_xmms2_connected to hide objects when xmms2d is not
318 running (thanks Lassi)
319 * Fix for buffer overflow with $execi (thanks Cesare)
320 * Fetch volume through Audacious API (thanks Erik)
323 * Removed duplicate sanity check for diskio
326 * Added runtime debugging output
329 * Added template support
332 * Applied OpenBSD patches
333 * Added $if_mpd_playing patch (thanks tarpman)
336 * Introduced (buggy) support for IMAP IDLE
337 * Added support for MOC (the console audio player) (thanks henux)
338 * Added scroll step patch (thanks asto)
341 * Maybe fix missing include bug
342 (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235233)
343 * Improve timed_thread interval timing
344 * Improve Conky's overall interval timing
345 * Added small patch to support negative values (such as negative disk
346 capacity) (thanks hinokind)
349 * Improved hddtemp support
352 * Fixed bug with freq_dyn on x86_64 (thanks Miroslav)
353 * Fixed buffer overflow in update_net_stats() (thanks Miroslav)
354 * Small fix for nvidia mem freq (thanks Cezary)
357 * Conky 1.6.1 released
358 * Fix compile error when MPD support not enabled
361 * Add option to specify number of retries for IMAP/POP3 stuff (via -r)
364 * Smaller $nvidia improvements
367 * Added missing header to package dist
370 * Conky 1.6.0 released
373 * Fixed bug with $if_empty and $mpd_* vars (sf.net #2008752)
376 * Made log/normal argument for graphs optional
379 * Solve linking on problems on some systems (like Debian's Lenny)
382 * Add libgnu convenience lib, modules stdio and getaddrinfo.
383 * Configure option for mathfunctions
386 * Fixed missing entries in Makefile.am
387 * Get rid of obsolete gethostbyaddr and getservbyport
390 * Added sysfs AC adapter support patch (thanks Byron)
391 * Added support for EVE-Online skill monitoring (thanks Asbjørn)
394 * new variables smapi_bat_temp and smapi_bat_power
395 * improved docs for freq_dyn* variables
398 * Replaced the global text_object array and count with a
400 * Renamed various vars
401 * Removed redundancy in various parts
404 * Use output_methods instead of out_to_console
405 * Made some functions non-inline to compile with gcc 4.2 and higher
408 * Fixed compilation issues with --enable-testing
409 * Refactored format_seconds and format_seconds_short
410 * Changed addr to print "No Address" when there is no address
411 * Removed redundancy in various parts
412 * Split help output into a separate function
415 * Made defines of magic numbers
418 * Moved audacious defs into header
419 * Fixed 3 bufferoverflows in a struct utmp in users.c
422 * Graphs can now be logarithmic (except execigraph)
425 * Bugfix, $memgraph wasn't working and needed docs
426 * Code for $lines and $words
427 * Bugfix, $execgraph showed 0-0 instead of 0-100 values
430 * Case-insensitive values for if_up_strictness
431 * Fix bug where DEV_NAME can read uninitialised memory
432 * Fix bug where ${if_mounted /}foo$endif prints foo on 1 line for
433 each update instead of just 1 line
437 * Code for $memfree and $memeasyfree
440 * Fix bug where conky prints everything twice to STDOUT when
441 out_to_console is enabled
442 * Code for show_graph_range
443 * Code for $monitor and $monitor_number
446 * Fix bug where conky tries to free a already freed pointer when you
447 use gw_iface with a empty routingtable in linux
448 * Fix bug where conky tries to tries to display deleted chars in a
449 string (chars followed by a backspace-char) causing strange output.
452 * Added NVIDIA Graficcard support patch (thanks meissna)
453 * Added --quiet patch (thanks sceptik)
456 * Simplified docs for color0-9 config settings and variables.
457 * Improved $if_up for configurable behaviour.
460 * own_window_type dock patch (thanks Morgan).
461 * Fix for $if_up memleak (thanks Micha¿).
464 * Added patch for the following (thanks larsko):
465 * New $loadgraph to show a graph of load averages,
466 * add "show_graph_scale" option to turn off/on the showing of the
467 current max value for the graph,
469 * update nano and vim syntax highlighting stuff.
472 * Getting rid of goto usage throughout code.
473 * Fix bug due to usage of gethostbyname() in threads (which is not
474 reentrant) by using gethostbyname_r() when available.
475 * Added patch for battery_time problem on 2.6.24 (thanks wedge).
476 * Added patch to fix broken xmms2 stuff (thanks sleipner).
477 * Added patch to fix SIGHUP/SIGUSR1 segfault (thanks norsetto).
478 * Added patch to improve $if_up (thanks Aseem).
481 * Added patch to use mail_spool correctly (thanks Kapil)
482 * Replacing strdup() with strndup() throughout
485 * Fixed segfault when configuration doesn't contain TEXT block (thanks
489 * Conky 1.5.1 released.
490 * Added --enable-testing configure option to use insane compiler flags.
493 * Added mem_res and mem_vsize to $top.
494 * Improved parsing of $diskio*, $disk_protect and $ioscheduler args.
497 * Increased C99 compliance.
498 * Fixed potential segfault in get_ioscheduler().
499 * Implemented upwards path traversal for fs_type.
500 * Fixed bug in libmpdclient that caused file descriptors to be left open.
501 * Cleaned up output of battery_* vars.
504 * Fixed messed up percentages (fs_free_perc, fs_used_perc, mpd_percent,
508 * Fixed for specifying a non-existent configuration file.
509 * Added disk_protect.
510 * Fixed too many open files bug in laptop_mode.
511 * Fixed reading interface adresses.
512 * Fixed battery_bar default size.
515 * Fixed compilation with --disable-x11.
516 * Fixed linux.c compilation problem due to (suspected) broken linux
518 * $battery_bar sysfs fix (thanks Marcus).
521 * Conky 1.5.0 released.
522 * Smapi review: improved code, fixed memleaks and smapi_bat_perc when
524 * Fixed spaced_print, so pad_percents should now work as expected.
525 * Removed a line of dead code.
526 * Added support for displaying the default gateway.
527 * Support displaying current laptop_mode.
528 * Per-disk IO scheduler information now available.
529 * Support printing current nameservers.
532 * Added CRLF characters to POP3 and IMAP stuff (should play nicer with
534 * Added preliminary support for parsing the output of external commands
535 (via $execp and $execpi).
536 * Applied FreeBSD total memory patch (thanks Nikos).
539 * Fixed a number of small memory leaks.
540 * Performed some minor profiling on Conky; reduced text_buffer_size
541 default to 128 bytes to improve performance.
542 * Fixed some minor bugs introduced by new patches.
545 * Applied 12 patches:
546 1) sysfs battery support (for Linux >=2.6.24) (thanks Kapil)
547 2) Improved audacious support patch (thanks Miroslav)
548 3) tp_smapi support patch for IBM laptops (thanks Phil)
549 4) user info patch (thanks Roland)
550 5) added conky build info patch (thanks Roland)
551 6) added if_up patch (thanks Phil)
552 7) added reload on SIGHUP patch (thanks Jonas)
553 8) added pad percentages patch (thanks Jonas)
554 9) added fs_type patch (thanks Ryan)
555 10) added xmms2 fixes patch (thanks Lassi)
556 11) fix sysfs crash patch (thanks Phil)
557 12) multiple ip patch ($addrs).
558 * Added more alignment support (top_middle, bottom_middle, middle_left,
563 1) Add diskio for individual devices.
564 2) Improved output of units, added "short_units" option.
567 * Applied some more submitted patches:
568 1) Add long forms of (most of) the command-line options.
569 2) Added an option (top_cpu_separate) that emulates top's "separate
570 cpus" option. Processor usage is shown as a percentage of a
571 single processor on your system, instead of a percentage
572 of all processors combined.
573 3) Adds a parameter (time) to top and top_mem that will show the
574 cumulative CPU time of a process.
575 4) Simplified integer rounding.
576 5) Fixed the window width when a goto is used.
577 6) Fixed the window width when an offset is used.
578 (thanks Kevin Lyles).
581 * Applied submitted patches:
582 1) to suport Debian's kFreeBSD;
583 2) to use realtime clock in timed threads and
584 3) to fix get_ibm_acpi_volume zero value bug
585 (thanks Kapil Hari Paranjape).
588 * Conky 1.4.9 released.
591 * Added Gentoo USE flag audacious-legacy for Audacious legacy support.
594 * Added support for Audacious 1.4.0 and legacy versions via
595 --enable-audacious=yes|no|legacy.
598 * Fix compilation error with --disable-x11 (bug #1830373).
599 * Bump doc stylesheet from 4.3 to 4.4.
602 * Fix mpd_smart bug #1822773.
605 * Externalize default config file: ${sysconfdir}/conky/conky.conf
608 * Initialize music_player_interval so built-in .conkyrc actual works.
609 * Lower timed_thread minimum timing interval from 50 usecs to 10 usecs.
610 * Separate timed thread asserts for clarity.
611 * Remove ${tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log} from default text.
612 * Update vim/nano syntax files.
615 * Conky 1.4.8 released.
618 * doc/man fixes 1810328 & 1813483.
619 * struct alignment patch 1812924 (sohalt).
622 * Multiple mailbox patch (thanks Ben Kibbey).
625 * Small fix for $ibm_volume (thanks Kapil Hari Paranjape).
626 * Patch so $tail can read from a fifo file descriptor (thanks Ben Kibbey).
629 * Improved performance slightly.
630 * Added 'music_player_interval' config option to specify an update interval for
631 music player threads (currently honored by mpd and audacious).
632 * Fixed some minor memory leaks associated with SIGUSR1.
633 * Zero out imap and pop3 stuff when the connection fails.
636 * _Really_ fix mpd SIGPIPE issues.
637 * Fix timed thread race condition, seen esp. on new kernel scheduler (cfs).
638 * Fix $audacious_title not being displayed when no length argument indicated.
641 * Conky 1.4.7 released.
642 * Check for pkg-config >=0.19.
643 * Use timed_thread for mpd.
646 * Fixed issue with SIGPIPE and mpd.
647 * Updated COPYING (with more clarifications).
650 * Updated vim/nano syntax files.
653 * Added $hwmon var, similar to $i2c and $platform.
656 * Added var $platform which is similar to $i2c and accommodates the conversion
657 of many devices from /sys/bus/i2c/devices to /sys/bus/platform/devices.
658 * Removed config item post_21_kernel since it forced all i2c device lookups
659 to go to /sys/bus/platform/devices and some people may need a mix of both
660 i2c and platform devices.
663 * Clarifying licensing
667 * Wireless support for Linux
670 * Conky 1.4.6 released
671 * Updated to libmpdclient 0.13.0
672 * Added 'post_21_kernel' config param to specify kernels 2.6.22 and newer
673 so i2c works properly
676 * Fixed potential issue on FreeBSD when nprocs < 10 (thanks zotrix)
677 * Added support for multiple batteries when using acpi (thanks Phil)
678 * a bunch of code cleanups (thanks Psychon)
679 * added max length paramater to mpd_title (thinks fow)
680 * a number of small bug fixes
683 * Fix PID display, patch #1753934. thanks sohalt.
684 * Fix displaying 4 GB traffic after reloading network driver,
685 patch #1754260. thanks sohalt.
688 * Right-justify top/top_mem vars (pid/cpu/mem} so they align on the decimal.
691 * Added color[0-9] variable patch (thanks jieryn)
694 * Added if_empty patch (thanks Erik)
695 * Added if_existing patch for string matching (thanks cromka)
696 * Added hwmon support (thanks flitsch)
697 * Some xmms2 updates (thanks sleipner)
698 * Added $battery_percent and $battery_bar (thanks akash)
701 * OpenBSD support added to Conky (thanks hifi)
702 * Updated mboxscan stuff (thanks calmar)
705 * Created branch/1.5 copy of trunk/conky1. Removing all experimental
706 network code from trunk/conky1.
709 * Include missing mboxscan.h in conky.h.
710 * Fixed signedness warnings in conky.c.
713 * Added buffer_text_size option to change the size of the buffer for
714 things like $exec, $tail, et cetera
715 * Added $mboxscan which lets you display the Subject and From fields
716 from recent email in an mbox file
717 * Disambiguated (is that a word?) $cpu docs
720 * Fallback to gettimeofday() when clock_gettime () not available (mac os).
723 * API change (timing in milliseconds) for dexter_timedsampler_new ().
726 * Add config.rpath (created by gettextize -copy) to distribution
728 * Clean up some warnings; remove ftp.[ch] from src/Makefile.am.
731 * Update svn ebuild to new sourceforge url scheme.
732 - requires deletion of existing wc: rm -rf /usr/portage/distfile/svn-src/conky/
733 * Added head/tail rewrite patch (thanks Ryan Twitchell)
734 * Added diskio read/write sf.net patch 1542880 (thanks Blondak)
737 * Clear conky vars on disconnect/failure to open files.
740 * Updated to libmpdclient 0.12.0
743 * client/server infrastructure and prototype for linux only (so far):
744 - requires libdexter (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdexter)
745 and the dxt-sysinfo plugin (svn only at the moment).
747 - dexter_client yes/no
748 - dexter_server yes/no
749 - dexter_config /path/to/libdexter/config (default: $HOME/.dexterrc)
750 - own_window_class <WM Class Name> (default: Conky)
751 - replaces wm_class_name
752 - own_window_title <Window Title> (default: <hostname> - conky)
753 * removed config items:
754 - wm_class_name (use own_window_class, same function)
756 --disable-network (default=yes) with auto-detection for libdexter.
757 - remove useless --enable-proc-uptime (PROC_UPTIME never referenced).
758 HAVE_SYSINFO and others determine if /proc/uptime is used.
759 - silently disable xft, double-buffer and xdamage if no x11.
760 - change enable/disable labels to reflect defaults accurately.
761 - simplified compile-based checks for sysinfo/getloadavg and by moving
762 them into AC_CHECK_FUNCS.
763 * allow decorated, own_window=yes windows to be given input focus by WM:
764 - do not pass button clicks through to desktop in this scenario as conky
765 immediately loses focus.
768 * Clarify LGPL license on timed_thread modules.
772 * Split battery variable into two:
773 battery, e.g. "charging 75%" and
774 battery_time, e.g. "3h 15m".
775 * Conky 1.4.5 released.
778 * Close pop3/imap sockets.
779 * Fix outstanding battery issues.
782 * Fix peek table bug with new portmon code.
785 * Replaced hash module used by libtcp-portmon with GLib's GHashTable,
786 due to licensing issue noted by Fedora Core packagers.
787 * Eliminated config items:
789 min_port_monitor_connections
791 max_port_monitor_connections
794 * Added $entropy_avail, $entropy_poolsize and $entropy_bar
795 for the crypto freaks. Idea suggested by Perttu Luukko
796 <nuteater@users.sourceforge.net> in feature request 1497050.
797 * Added max length specifier to audacious_title. Closes
798 feature request #1600631.
801 * Rearrange retry attempts in pop3 and imap code, removing sleep()
802 calls which cause the whole process to sleep, not just the thread.
805 * Added max_specials config item with default 512. This should
806 close bug #1574523 for real this time. Thanks to John Harrigan
807 <jfharrigan@fedex.com> for this one.
810 * Changed autotools for subversion versioning.
811 * Updated svn ebuild for gentoo.
812 * Documentation updates for clarity, i.e. close bug #1599041.
815 * fix compile error with --disable-xdamage when Xdamage.h not present.
818 * fix bug where present rate var was not being read from acpi battery
819 state file: /proc/acpi/battery/%s/state.
822 * Change linkstatus display for use_spacer. Closes bug #1577580.
825 * Fix compile error with --disable-x11.
826 * Add new timed thread abstraction routines.
827 * Convert thread activity to timed threads, including
828 texeci, imap, pop3, audacious.
829 * Change memory vars from unsigned long to unsigned long long
830 to fix reported overflow, e.g. swapmax >= 4Gb.
833 * Use pthread_cond_timedwait() instead of sleep() in audacious
834 thread. Will convert all worker threads to this timing method.
837 * Fix freebsd build error.
838 * Minor changes to syntax files.
839 * Conky 1.4.4 released.
842 * Add max_user_text to documentation.
843 * Fixed BadWindow bugs (#1568366, #1588384).
846 * Remove on_bottom and xmms_player completely.
847 * Closed ibm_temps bug #1591609.
848 * Conky 1.4.3 released.
851 * Updated vim and nano syntax coloring scripts.
852 * Added extras/ dir with syntax stuff to distribution tarball.
855 * Added new config item 'max_user_text' with default 16384,
856 twice as large as previous hard-coded default of 8192 bytes.
857 Increase as needed to accomodate large config files with a
858 great deal of text. This closes SF bug #1574523.
861 * Changes to configure.ac for pkg-config on x11/xext/xdamage,
862 with fallback to conventional checks.
863 * Fixed segmentation fault on SUGUSR1 bug.
864 * Commented out Imlib2 from configure.ac since it's only partially
868 * Removed broken mldonkey and seti support.
869 * Added Hellf[i]re's nano syntax coloring script to svn.
872 * Removed support for Xmms, BMP and Infopipe from conky.
873 The Xmms and Bmp players are projects are dead and distros such
874 as Gentoo are slating them for removal.
875 * Added support for Audacious using new audacious vars.
878 * Implement WiFi signal level detection on FreeBSD (patch
882 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG
883 environment variables and fix crash for users with locale
884 name longer than 10 chars (repored by Michael Schwendt)
887 * --enable-debug added.
888 * prevent libtool from adding its default CFLAGS
891 * Use pkg-config instead of xft-config.
892 * Fix last line bug which had required padding text with extra blank line
893 to see text on last line.
896 * Fix type-punning and "differ in signedness" warnings seen with
900 * Fix compilation errors when building with --diable-x11; bug #1547164
903 * Make configure script print summary info
904 * Make `conky -v` show compiled-in features
907 * Added Spock's patches, adding hddtemp, goto and tab variables.
910 * Added tztime patch to show time in arbitrary time zones (thanks Ram
914 * Small battery fix (thanks Nexox, sf.net patch 1500014)
915 * Fixed order of variables/objects in docs (thanks Peter Tarjan)
918 * Fixed a bug with $font
921 * Xdamage support for composite and pals
924 * CPU voltage support via $voltage_mv and $voltage_v (thanks to Peter
925 Tarjan for the patch)
928 * SMP support for $freq and $freq_g (thanks to Peter Tarjan for the
932 * Fixed issue with graphs not reaching all the way to the borders
937 * Conky 1.4.2 released
940 * GNU Iconv support added, new objects $iconv_start and $iconv_stop
941 * Added some safety to the threading code
944 * Changed $font behavior so that the font persists past the next
945 newline. It can be set back to the default with $font with no args.
946 (closes bug 1478676 on sf.net)
949 * Added simple POP3/IMAP mail clients
952 * Added support for PowerBook batteries
953 * Fixed broken $if/$else stuff
956 * Added patch from Peter Tarjan to add support for IBM ACPI
957 * Added xmms2 patch from Lassi Selander (sf.net patch 1469523)
960 * Removed sa_restorer crap (may fix some compile errors for some
964 * Added patch for adt746x fan/cpu speed for kernel >=2.6.12
967 * Added patch to support new port monitor REMOTESERVICE peekable.
970 * Scan port numbers as short. Fixes debian bug# 359974.
973 * Added XMMS2 patch 1456203 from Lassi Selander
974 * Added FreeBSD battery patch 1456008 from Petr Holub
977 * Fixed ${top(_mem)} related code on FreeBSD (with help of Petr
978 Holub <hopet@users.sourceforge.net>)
981 * Removed bmp-infopipe dependency from 1.4.1 and 1.9999 ebuilds for Gentoo
982 (Gentoo bug# 125226).
983 * Fixed subversion ebuild for conky1 (1.9999) so it pulls the new trunk
987 * FreeBSD cpu info patch
988 * Conky 1.4.1 released
991 * Fixed issue where some WM's don't control conky own_window windows.
992 * Added newly-updated vim file detection and syntax hilighting files to svn.
993 * Fixed issue with graphs resetting colours (sf.net bug #1420473)
996 * Fixed battery problems when charged
997 * MPD code handles broken pipe now, instead of just killing conky
998 * Switch from CVS to SVN. Thanks SourceForge.
1001 * Added patch to make $cpu stuff work on alpha (thanks Thomas Cort)
1002 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122637#c3
1003 * Stop using override_redirect true -- conky back under WM control
1004 when using 'own_window yes'.
1005 * Fixed texeci breakage when forking to background is on
1008 * Drastically simplified own_window=yes window creation code.
1009 * on_bottom and wm_class_name deprecated (they do nothing)
1012 * Fixed typo bug in portmon code that caused incorrect monitor data
1016 * Conky 1.4.0 released
1019 * Cleaned up texeci code
1022 * Added freedesktop.org extended window manager hints (EWMH)
1023 for window type NORMAL and state's STICKY/SKIP_PAGER/SKIP_TASKBAR.
1024 Fixes stacking order issues with freedesktop-compliant wm's,
1028 * Fixed stupid graph code (it still sucks) sf.net bug 1372962
1029 * Fixed $if_* stuff, sf.net bug 1401338 and 1400854
1030 * Fixed xmms.c code to load glib 1.2 shared object lib.
1033 * Added xmms version 1 support.
1034 * Added bmp through 0.9.7.1 support.
1035 * Added config item xmms_player: none, xmms, bmp, audacious or
1039 * Added Audacious media player support.
1042 * Fixed infopipe bug (select() affects timer as a side effect on
1046 * Added draw_graph_borders option
1047 * Added XMMS/BMP InfoPipe plugin support
1050 * Conky 1.3.5 released
1053 * Fixed bug with use_xft causing ignorance of font selection (sf.net
1055 * Fixed issue with parsing of hex values for colours
1058 * Added BMPx (http://beep-media-player.org/) support
1061 * Fixed issues with execi stuff
1064 * Added sf.net patch 1374576
1067 * Fixed sf.net bug 1367745
1070 * Fixed sf.net bugs 1369607, 1367735 and gentoo bug 113921,
1071 all variations of the same array out of bounds issue.
1072 * "Fixed" code in fs.c and conky.c to make fs stats match those displayed by df (affects reporting against ext3 filesystems only)
1075 * new code in linux.c and top.c to calculate CPU % correctly on 2.6 kernels.
1078 * Fixed gentoo bug# 113219
1081 * Added #define/#undef SIGNAL_BLOCKING in conky.c for experimenting
1082 with synchronous signal processing. set to #undef for previous behavior.
1083 * Use POSIX signal api's, not the ANSI signal().
1086 * Fixed IP address bug (sf.net bug 1359055)
1089 * Conky 1.3.4 released
1092 * Replaced bitwise copy of tcp_connection_t with function
1093 copy_tcp_connection().
1094 * Changed call interfaces for get_acpi_fan(), get_acpi_ac_adapter(),
1095 get_freq(), get_freq_dynamic(), get_adt746x_cpu(), get_adt746x_fan(),
1096 eliminating all mallocs. pkovacs. See bug 1355470.
1099 * moved hash sizing code into portmon lib, where it belongs
1100 * More mem leaks fixed.
1103 * Added config items min_port_monitors / min_port_monitor_connections
1106 * Cleaned up top code, bug fixes
1107 * Fixed some memory leaks
1110 * Fix bug# 1351686. Patch by boojit.
1111 * Fixed 1331576 (I think) with bad cpu usage reporting
1114 * Documentation updates for compiling and port monitoring
1115 * Removed cairo stuff (it's useless)
1118 * Added statfs sf.net patch 1344493
1121 * Added tcp port monitor support (pkovacs)
1124 * Added WM_CLASS patch from sf.net patch 1340825
1127 * acpi segfault should be fixed (sf.net bug 1330893)
1128 * SIGUSR1 bug fixed? (sf.net bug 1330914)
1131 * Ugly MPD mem leak fixed
1132 * Other mem leaks fixed
1133 * Fixed thing where conky exits if LC_ALL and friends isn't set
1134 * Conky 1.3.3 released
1137 * Conky 1.3.2 released
1140 * More MPD objects (sf.net patch 1319461)
1143 * fixed mldonkey bug? sf.net bug 1316531
1146 * Linkstatus patch from btlee on f.g.o (see
1147 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2765647.html#2765647)
1150 * Fixed build on FreeBSD for non-i386
1151 * Made it so top_mem doesn't show all the forks of one process
1154 * Fixed small bug in config parsing (thanks robgrady, bug 1306032)
1157 * Fixed bug where graphs/bars don't show when maximum_width is enabled
1160 * Fixed right-alignment bug thanks to Pascal Eberhard
1161 * Applied patch 1291420 from sf.net
1162 * Fixed issue with whack graph data
1163 * Fixed issue with Conky quitting when a file fails to load
1166 * Fixed bug with xft and double buffer in own window
1170 * Misc small bug fixes
1173 * MPD patch (sf.net patch 1281108)
1174 * Fixed graph width bug
1177 * FreeBSD support was added
1181 * added threaded execi, $texeci
1185 * Fixed slight vertical misalignment of bars/graphs (sf.net 1273994)
1186 * Diskio fixes (sf.net 1274140)
1187 * $alignr and $alignc now have 25% more goodness! (sf.net bug 1273905)
1188 * Far better SMP support
1189 * Added support for i8k kernel driver, parsing information for dell inspiron laptops found in /proc/i8k (sf.net request 1256058)
1192 * More own_window fixes
1193 * applied disk io patch (sf.net patch 1271691)
1194 * applied $freq fixes patch, adds new $freq_dyn (sf.net patch 1271633)
1195 * removed units from $freq* output
1196 * fix for graph config parsing
1197 * Added $head, fixed mem leak with $tail
1200 * More configure and makefile updates
1201 * Added scale arg for net graphs
1202 * Fixed bug in own_window stuff--amazing fake transparency now works
1204 * added own_window_colour, own_window_transparent
1207 * Added maximum_width
1210 * Added $execibar and $execigraph
1213 * Moved source into src/, moved docs into doc/
1217 * Applied patch from zimba-tm, closes patch 1260225
1218 * Fixed ugly gradient bug. closes bug 1255608
1220 * Removed metar code. It sucked.
1221 * Added $acpitempf for amooricans
1225 * Multiple unit additions and modifications
1228 * mpd password patch from Joshua Gerrish
1229 * conky can run without X now, use --disable-x11 when configuring
1230 =========================================================================
1231 =========================================================================
1233 * Conky 1.2 released
1237 * added CVS ebuild, huge thanks to Hopeless for this
1240 * special thanks to Citizen_X and his patience
1242 * keep shakin' those big 'ol titties
1249 * many small fixes, thanks to those who reported problems
1252 * dramatically improved how conky handles fonts
1253 * fixed issues with graph args
1254 * fixed shades and outlines
1258 * added gradients to graphs (very pretty)
1261 * feature freeze; only bugfixes now
1264 * finalized graphing code, see $cpugraph, $memgraph, $execgraph,
1265 $downspeedgraph, and $upspeedgraph
1266 * added override_utf8_locale option
1268 * $tab patch from jack_mort on f.g.o
1271 * Added new graphing code, such as $cpugraph
1272 * small fixes all round
1275 * added more mpd objects
1278 * Conky now has UTF-8 support
1279 * Fixed $freq for those with CPU scaling
1280 * Fixed the problem with total_run_times
1281 * Fixed alignment of bars and lines and stuff
1282 * Reduced conky's memory usage (yay!)
1283 * Removed top_sort_cpu, added top_mem which sorts by mem usage instead
1287 * Fixed a pile of bugs in configure script
1288 * Added proper checking for headers in configure script
1289 * Made METAR shit threaded so it would stop being retarded, also made
1290 it try more then once to update
1291 * Added $metar_tempf and ${i2c tempf} for americans
1294 * Added option for Conky to update N times and quit, see
1295 total_run_times in conkyrc.sample
1296 * Added metar code for weather info, thanks to somebody on sf.net
1297 * Added $alignr and $alignc for right and centre alignment
1298 * Added wireless info and IP addr patch, thanks Bobby Beckmann,
1299 options $addr and $linkstatus (please test!), as well as fixed a mem
1301 * adt746x fix, thanks to dan-h on sf.net
1302 * Added mldonkey support patch, thanks Lucas Brutschy on sf.net
1303 * Added patch to allow hex colour values, thanks roiban adi on sf.net
1304 * Added if constructs patch, thanks Lucas Brutschy on sf.net
1305 * Fixed bug in tab code (hopefully for the last time)
1306 * Added option to sort by cpu or memory for top, see top_sort_cpu
1309 * Added fix for battery charged state (thanks to Lukas Zapletal
1312 =========================================================================
1313 =========================================================================
1316 * Conky 1.1 released
1319 * Added $mpd_bar and $mpd_bitrate
1320 * Some minor code cleanups prior to release
1321 * Fixed problem with Conky not compiling when XFT disabled
1322 * Fixed configure.in problems with Xdbe
1325 * Fixed memory leak in MPD code
1326 * Added new $tail object (see conkyrc.sample) which loves to suck CPU
1328 * Fixed more mem leaks
1331 * Added use_spacer to config
1333 * Added small fix for i2c from Filedil on forums.gentoo.org
1336 * Made it possible to use tabs to right-justify (just add a bunch)
1337 * Added ${execbar} (see conkyrc.sample)
1340 * Added memory % to top output
1341 * Added initial cairo backend (it's really quite useless at this stage actually, and I'm not sure if there is even any point to it)
1344 * Conky now recognizes the tab character correctly
1345 * Added simple config option to print to stdout (out_to_console
1349 * Added top output. Check the sample config.
1353 * Finished MPD support ($mpd_title, $mpd_artist, $mpd_album, $mpd_vol)
1354 * Removed NVCtrl code
1355 * Added noswap and i2c patches
1357 =========================================================================
1358 =========================================================================
1361 * Version 1.0. Conky is born from the ashes of torsmo. Main site:
1362 http://conky.sf.net/
1364 * Added new feature for sample averaging of CPU and net info
1367 * Version 0.18 released
1370 * Fixed some double buffer + Xft stuff
1371 * Applied X-Mozilla-Status patch (thanks affinity)
1372 * Applied NVCtrl patch and modified it a bit (temperature monitoring
1373 for nvdia-based graphics cards) (I couldn't test this so it may or
1374 may not work or even compile) (thanks Dennis Frommknecht)
1375 * Applied fs_used_perc and fs_bar_free patch (thanks killfire [send me
1376 mail, I didn't catch your name from sourceforge])
1377 * Applied patch that supports mailbox that is in some 'maildir' format
1378 (thanks jolapache [send mail, I didn't catch your name from
1381 * Applied pad_percents patch (thanks JL Farinacci)
1382 * Fixed some stuff in acpi fan and acpi ac adapter
1383 * Optional XFT even when compiled in
1386 * Applied utime patch (UTC time) (thanks David McCabe)
1389 * Applied Xdbe patch, this includes double_buffer configuration and
1390 -b command line option (thanks Bruce Merry)
1391 * Applied some other seti patch, not tested (thanks William DiPlacido)
1394 * Applied netbsd patch (thanks Rui Paulo)
1395 * Applied cpu frequency patch (thanks William DiPlacido)
1396 * Applied adt746x patch (thanks Dennis Kaandorp)
1397 * Applied some other FreeBSD patch by the same guy
1400 * Applied FreeBSD patch (thanks Roman Bogorodskiy)
1403 * Xft support and xftfont configuration
1404 * rewrote some stuff, there might be some new bugs in old places
1407 * I2C divisor from a file (thanks Falk Feuersenger)
1410 * changed battery thing to ${battery <filename in
1411 /proc/acpi/battery/>}
1412 * SETI@Home stuff (thanks Jarski)
1415 * changed signal for config file reloading to SIGUSR1
1416 * mixer stuff, $mixer, $mixerl, $mixerr, $mixerbar, $mixerlbar,
1420 * maybe fixed acpi battery thing when "present rate" isn't known
1423 * fixed width for all bars, use like ${cpubar 4,50}
1426 * Version 0.17 released
1429 * battery number for ACPI battery (thanks Leszek Krupiñski)
1430 * default battery is now BAT0 instead of BAT1, set ${battery 1} if
1431 the old battery thing worked
1432 * bug fix on load average reporting (thanks Leszek Krupiñski)
1433 * outlines to text, draw_outline and default_outline_color
1434 configurations and $outlinecolor (thanks adi)
1435 * $acpifan, $acpiacadapter, $uptime_short (thanks adi)
1438 * fixed a bug when starting after Opera (and some other programs)
1443 * added border_width configuration
1446 * fixed zero length bar bug
1449 * file system stats, $fs_bar, $fs_free, $fs_free_perc, $fs_size,
1451 * leaves ACPI temperature file open (faster)
1452 * -a option to change alignment on command line
1455 * fixed ACPI temperature bug
1456 * border_margin configuration
1457 * ${execi <interval> <command>}, execute with specific interval
1458 * added possibility to manually set the position (-x and -y options)
1459 (thanks to Gwenhael LE MOINE)
1460 * $buffers and $cached (thanks to Jeremy Burch)
1461 * WM_CLASS when drawing to own window (thanks to Gwenhael LE MOINE)
1464 * Version 0.16 released
1467 * $pre_exec, execute a shell command one time
1468 * preparsing of text (faster but more memory usage)
1469 * less system calls (faster)
1470 * APM things to $battery (untested)
1473 * added $new_mails changed $mails to tell total mail count
1476 * transparent window, own_window configuration, -o cmdline option
1477 * $exec, execute a shell command
1478 * $acpitemp, $battery - acpi stuff (not really tested)
1481 * $loadavg, load average
1482 * $mails, unread local mails, mail_spool configuration
1485 * Version 0.15 released
1488 * SIGHUP reloads config file (thanks Jørgen P. Tjernø)