2 * Added support for $pid_cmdline
3 * Added support for $pid_cwd
4 * Added support for $pid_environ
7 * Fix $if_mpd_playing and $mpd_percent when you stop playing a song,
11 * Fix $scroll only scrolls once
14 * Fix segfaults and memleaks in curl
15 * Fix building with metar but without xoap
18 * Added support for $threads on Linux
19 * Fixed bug in $processes on Linux
20 * Fixed building with --disable-x11, --disable-xft, --disable-lua,
21 --disable-ncurses and --disable-iostats
22 * Added ncurses to the "-v" output when necessary
25 * Fixed loadavg and loadgraph argument parsing and corrected it's
29 * Fixed configure test failure. Tolua test program couldn't find lua
30 libraries (even though they existed) and failed to compile.
33 * Rewrite hddtemp support for better scaling.
36 * Add day and date data_type to $weather_forecast
39 * Added support for $weather_forecast (experimental)
42 * Added support for out_to_ncurses
45 * Removed alias config option due to brokenness
46 * Added support for $include
49 * Add icon data_type for xoap weather
52 * Changed xoap parsing method to xpath, in preparation to include
56 * Fixed out-of-tree builds
57 * Update MPD elapsed/progress when stopped (sf.net #2792113)
58 * Overhauled RSS and weather, added $curl
61 * Added compilation switch --enable-xoap to be able to use
62 www.weather.com as a source of weather data (this avoids adding
63 libxml2 as a required dependency for users that wish to use noaa
65 * Added support for X alignment across multi-lined objects (i.e., using
67 * Disabled OpenMP code until GCC's implementation stabilizes
68 * www.weather.com can now be used as well as a source of weather data
71 * Added support for $desktop, $desktop_number and $desktop_name (sf.net #2040528)
74 * Added support for $swapfree
75 * Improved Lua API (lua_read_parse has been removed in favour of the
76 conky_parse() Lua API call)
77 * Introduced new Lua Cairo and Imlib2 bindings
80 * Fixed a couple memory-related bugs
83 * Added support for $weather (experimental)
86 * Remove newline with comment only lines in TEXT
87 * Improved parsing of graph arguments, removed "log"|"normal" arguments in
91 * Fix escaping of comments in TEXT (sf.net #2813390, thanks Nils)
94 * Fix segfault in to_real_path, it's sometimes called with the same
95 source and dest without checking the length, causing a segfault.
98 * Use the internal process list for if_running on Linux
101 * Fix XMMS2 related crash (sf.net #2806111 and #2805310, thanks Lassi)
104 * Added support for $blink
105 * Added support for $to_bytes
106 * Fix segfault due to bad checking of return values for inotify code
108 * Added 'own_window_type panel' to make Conky behave like a panel (thanks
112 * Added support for per-task I/O statistics - $top_io
115 * Added border_inner_margin and border_outer_margin config options, and
116 deprecated border_margin
119 * Fix regression with loading of non-Xft fonts (sf.net #2804324)
122 * Fixed a regression which causes fonts to not be rendered properly with
123 certain types of windows
124 * Added format_human_readable option (sf.net #2803345, thanks Vincent)
125 * Fix bug in comments within TEXT (where the line contains just '#')
126 (sf.net #2803586), thanks Pavelo
127 * Fix bug in $mails (sf.net #2802529, thanks Nikos)
130 * $battery_short can now also display F (full), N (not present),E (empty),
132 * Fix problem that $battery and $battery_short displayed unknown on some
133 systems when the battery wasn't unknown but full
136 * Add support for membar,swapbar,cpubar,fs_bar,fs_bar_free,battery_bar,
137 execbar,execibar,lua_bar,entropy_bar,mpd_bar,apcupsd_loadbar and
139 * Fix finding IP before first update
142 * Add entropy_perc printing the available entropy as percentage
143 * Add read_tcp to print stuff from tcp-sockets
146 * Improved Imlib2 cache control by adding a global cache flush option, and
147 per image cache flushing
150 * Added fancy new 'temperature gradients' feature for graphs, via the -t
151 switch at the end of graph arguments.
152 * Allow ~/... and $HOME/... paths for more stuff.
155 * Conky 1.7.1 released
158 * Fix hostname resolution for mpd_host
159 * Made sure that no X11 stuff is in the binary with --disable-X11
162 * Added inotify support to reload the config when modified automatically
163 on systems that support it
164 * Added inotify support for reloading Lua scripts automagically
167 * Added support for the Lua programming language
168 * Added support for rending images by way of Imlib2
169 * Patch to fix rounding error with CPU values (thanks Filipe)
170 * Added support for execbar without X
173 * Added another builtin config that is used when compiled with --disable-X11
176 * Fix segfault when there is no config available
179 * Make sure if_gw isn't checked twice
182 * Added arguments to hwmon for value precalculation
185 * Added support for APC UPS daemon monitoring
186 * Fixed hwmon for kernel 2.6.29
189 * Allow the use of '#' for comments within text area (can be escaped with
193 * Only include disp when needed
194 * Made sure update_uname works without X11
197 * Fix occasional cpubar segfaults
198 * Added top_name_width config option
201 * Added some completely pointless OpenMP optimizations(?)
204 * Added Sony VAIO fanspeed info (thanks Yeon-Hyeong)
207 * Added diskio_avg_samples patch (thanks Yeon-Hyeong)
208 * Fixed $texeci regression
211 * Added $combine, a var that places 2 other vars next to each other, even if they
212 have a output of multiple lines. This also makes the moving of RSS-itemes with
213 $goto (see change from 2009-04-19) no longer necessary.
216 * Various XMMS2 updates (thanks Lassi)
217 * Make ALSA mixers available on Linux, and added $if_mixer_mute (thanks
220 * Make it possible to place spaces in front of RSS-items as a workaround
221 for the problem that $goto only moves the first RSS-item. This is only a
222 workaround and should be replaced by a permanent fix that makes $goto move
226 * Fix broken compilation without X11
229 * Added default_bar/graph/gauge_size config options (thanks wire64 for the
233 * Added eval text object to realise double parsing
236 * Added gauge widget patch, sf.net id #2676128 (thanks Aner)
239 * Conky 1.7.0 "Hungry Hobo" released!
242 * Various XMMS2 updates (thanks Lassi)
245 * Fix broken xmms2 compilation (thanks fusetak)
246 * Minor fix for fs_used_perc, fs_free and fs_free_perc (thanks
250 * Applied FreeBSD patches (thanks Nikos)
253 * Fix bug with wacky netstat values on startup
256 * Added extra newline patch, sf.net id #2638601 (thanks Ali)
257 * Disk i/o support on FreeBSD patch, sf.net id #2657227 (thanks Nikos)
258 * Added gauge widget patch, sf.net id #2676128 (thanks Aner)
261 * Added alias patch ( sf.net id #2663691 ) changed it to prevent it from
262 overwriting existing environment variables and updated docs, syntaxfiles, ...
266 * Rewrite human_readable() to minimise amount of padding
267 * Fix padding in temp_print()
268 * Fix padding of $processes and $running_processes
271 * Added $battery_short patch, sf.net id #2300911 (thanks Swoog)
272 * Patch by Kim Holviala sf.net id #2484548:
273 * change the height of execbar and execibar to be the same as other
274 bars have by default (6 pixels)
275 * treat mixer values as percentages as they're usually 0-100 (switch
276 to spaced_print() with pad_percents)
277 * change temp_print() from snprintf() to spaced_print()
278 * remove decimals from temp_print() as none of the current sources can
279 supply values smaller than 1 degree (C or F, doesn't matter)
280 * fix number printing in human_readable()
281 * network $upspeed and $downspeed now use human_readable()
282 * Fix diskio_read/write patch sf.net id #2493084 (thanks Alexander)
283 * Fix nvidia memory frequency reading patch sf.net id #2493134
284 * Patch to clarify things in conky.conf sf.net id #2548805 (thanks
286 * Fix shown battery status when the battery is not charging any more but
287 is not full charged patch sf.net id #2556056 (thanks Martin)
288 * Extended support for local Maildir patch sf.net id #2561323 (thanks
290 * XMMS2 fix and refactoring patch sf.net id #2579357 (thanks Tamim)
291 * Null mpd variables should have an empty string patch sf.net id #2564747
297 * Added overwrite_file and append_file
300 * Added out_to_stderr
303 * Refactor top code, add top_time to sort by process cpu time (thanks
307 * Drop --enable-smapi and use --enable-ibm instead
308 * Make ibm-acpi objects optional (--enable-ibm)
311 * Add if_match object comparing strings, floats and ints
314 * Fix segfault for diskiograph*, note the changed order of arguments
315 * Fix documentation for all graph objects
318 * Make gateway objects also detect routes with missing RTF_GATEWAY flag
321 * Have a maximum width for all variable length mpd vars
322 * Patch to allow escaping newlines in the config (thanks Itai)
325 * Fix disk_protect for linux-2.6.27 (and hopefully above)
326 * Improve behaviour of $pb_battery
329 * Add an option to timed_thread_test() to not wait for the interval period
330 (so that IMAP IDLE works better)
333 * Fix runtime debugging macros again
334 * Big hddtemp rewrite
335 * Remove README from git and ignore it
336 * Remove obsolete documentation
339 * Removing $freq_dyn and $freq_dyn_g due to license issues (see sf.net
340 tracker bug #2166612)
341 * Allow more than 9 CPUs for CPU stats (bug 2155500)
342 * Fix broken $execbar (bug 2133709)
343 * Don't put unit with hddtemp values for consistency (bug 2133107)
344 * Limit $battery_percent to 100 (bug 2145006)
345 * Fix runtime debugging macros
346 * Make unit of all temperature objects selectable
347 * Make Conky in dock mode a withdrawn window
350 * Switching from svn to git repository. The repo can be viewed from
351 http://git.omp.am/?p=conky.git;a=summary and you can clone the repo with:
352 git clone git://git.omp.am/conky.git
353 * Fix for wrong usage of strncat (thanks Pavol)
354 * Adds a variable if_xmms2_connected to hide objects when xmms2d is not
355 running (thanks Lassi)
356 * Fix for buffer overflow with $execi (thanks Cesare)
357 * Fetch volume through Audacious API (thanks Erik)
360 * Removed duplicate sanity check for diskio
363 * Added runtime debugging output
366 * Added template support
369 * Applied OpenBSD patches
370 * Added $if_mpd_playing patch (thanks tarpman)
373 * Introduced (buggy) support for IMAP IDLE
374 * Added support for MOC (the console audio player) (thanks henux)
375 * Added scroll step patch (thanks asto)
378 * Maybe fix missing include bug
379 (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235233)
380 * Improve timed_thread interval timing
381 * Improve Conky's overall interval timing
382 * Added small patch to support negative values (such as negative disk
383 capacity) (thanks hinokind)
386 * Improved hddtemp support
389 * Fixed bug with freq_dyn on x86_64 (thanks Miroslav)
390 * Fixed buffer overflow in update_net_stats() (thanks Miroslav)
391 * Small fix for nvidia mem freq (thanks Cezary)
394 * Conky 1.6.1 released
395 * Fix compile error when MPD support not enabled
398 * Add option to specify number of retries for IMAP/POP3 stuff (via -r)
401 * Smaller $nvidia improvements
404 * Added missing header to package dist
407 * Conky 1.6.0 released
410 * Fixed bug with $if_empty and $mpd_* vars (sf.net #2008752)
413 * Made log/normal argument for graphs optional
416 * Solve linking on problems on some systems (like Debian's Lenny)
419 * Add libgnu convenience lib, modules stdio and getaddrinfo.
420 * Configure option for mathfunctions
423 * Fixed missing entries in Makefile.am
424 * Get rid of obsolete gethostbyaddr and getservbyport
427 * Added sysfs AC adapter support patch (thanks Byron)
428 * Added support for EVE-Online skill monitoring (thanks Asbjørn)
431 * new variables smapi_bat_temp and smapi_bat_power
432 * improved docs for freq_dyn* variables
435 * Replaced the global text_object array and count with a
437 * Renamed various vars
438 * Removed redundancy in various parts
441 * Use output_methods instead of out_to_console
442 * Made some functions non-inline to compile with gcc 4.2 and higher
445 * Fixed compilation issues with --enable-testing
446 * Refactored format_seconds and format_seconds_short
447 * Changed addr to print "No Address" when there is no address
448 * Removed redundancy in various parts
449 * Split help output into a separate function
452 * Made defines of magic numbers
455 * Moved audacious defs into header
456 * Fixed 3 bufferoverflows in a struct utmp in users.c
459 * Graphs can now be logarithmic (except execigraph)
462 * Bugfix, $memgraph wasn't working and needed docs
463 * Code for $lines and $words
464 * Bugfix, $execgraph showed 0-0 instead of 0-100 values
467 * Case-insensitive values for if_up_strictness
468 * Fix bug where DEV_NAME can read uninitialised memory
469 * Fix bug where ${if_mounted /}foo$endif prints foo on 1 line for
470 each update instead of just 1 line
474 * Code for $memfree and $memeasyfree
477 * Fix bug where conky prints everything twice to STDOUT when
478 out_to_console is enabled
479 * Code for show_graph_range
480 * Code for $monitor and $monitor_number
483 * Fix bug where conky tries to free a already freed pointer when you
484 use gw_iface with a empty routingtable in linux
485 * Fix bug where conky tries to tries to display deleted chars in a
486 string (chars followed by a backspace-char) causing strange output.
489 * Added NVIDIA Graficcard support patch (thanks meissna)
490 * Added --quiet patch (thanks sceptik)
493 * Simplified docs for color0-9 config settings and variables.
494 * Improved $if_up for configurable behaviour.
497 * own_window_type dock patch (thanks Morgan).
498 * Fix for $if_up memleak (thanks Micha¿).
501 * Added patch for the following (thanks larsko):
502 * New $loadgraph to show a graph of load averages,
503 * add "show_graph_scale" option to turn off/on the showing of the
504 current max value for the graph,
506 * update nano and vim syntax highlighting stuff.
509 * Getting rid of goto usage throughout code.
510 * Fix bug due to usage of gethostbyname() in threads (which is not
511 reentrant) by using gethostbyname_r() when available.
512 * Added patch for battery_time problem on 2.6.24 (thanks wedge).
513 * Added patch to fix broken xmms2 stuff (thanks sleipner).
514 * Added patch to fix SIGHUP/SIGUSR1 segfault (thanks norsetto).
515 * Added patch to improve $if_up (thanks Aseem).
518 * Added patch to use mail_spool correctly (thanks Kapil)
519 * Replacing strdup() with strndup() throughout
522 * Fixed segfault when configuration doesn't contain TEXT block (thanks
526 * Conky 1.5.1 released.
527 * Added --enable-testing configure option to use insane compiler flags.
530 * Added mem_res and mem_vsize to $top.
531 * Improved parsing of $diskio*, $disk_protect and $ioscheduler args.
534 * Increased C99 compliance.
535 * Fixed potential segfault in get_ioscheduler().
536 * Implemented upwards path traversal for fs_type.
537 * Fixed bug in libmpdclient that caused file descriptors to be left open.
538 * Cleaned up output of battery_* vars.
541 * Fixed messed up percentages (fs_free_perc, fs_used_perc, mpd_percent,
545 * Fixed for specifying a non-existent configuration file.
546 * Added disk_protect.
547 * Fixed too many open files bug in laptop_mode.
548 * Fixed reading interface adresses.
549 * Fixed battery_bar default size.
552 * Fixed compilation with --disable-x11.
553 * Fixed linux.c compilation problem due to (suspected) broken linux
555 * $battery_bar sysfs fix (thanks Marcus).
558 * Conky 1.5.0 released.
559 * Smapi review: improved code, fixed memleaks and smapi_bat_perc when
561 * Fixed spaced_print, so pad_percents should now work as expected.
562 * Removed a line of dead code.
563 * Added support for displaying the default gateway.
564 * Support displaying current laptop_mode.
565 * Per-disk IO scheduler information now available.
566 * Support printing current nameservers.
569 * Added CRLF characters to POP3 and IMAP stuff (should play nicer with
571 * Added preliminary support for parsing the output of external commands
572 (via $execp and $execpi).
573 * Applied FreeBSD total memory patch (thanks Nikos).
576 * Fixed a number of small memory leaks.
577 * Performed some minor profiling on Conky; reduced text_buffer_size
578 default to 128 bytes to improve performance.
579 * Fixed some minor bugs introduced by new patches.
582 * Applied 12 patches:
583 1) sysfs battery support (for Linux >=2.6.24) (thanks Kapil)
584 2) Improved audacious support patch (thanks Miroslav)
585 3) tp_smapi support patch for IBM laptops (thanks Phil)
586 4) user info patch (thanks Roland)
587 5) added conky build info patch (thanks Roland)
588 6) added if_up patch (thanks Phil)
589 7) added reload on SIGHUP patch (thanks Jonas)
590 8) added pad percentages patch (thanks Jonas)
591 9) added fs_type patch (thanks Ryan)
592 10) added xmms2 fixes patch (thanks Lassi)
593 11) fix sysfs crash patch (thanks Phil)
594 12) multiple ip patch ($addrs).
595 * Added more alignment support (top_middle, bottom_middle, middle_left,
600 1) Add diskio for individual devices.
601 2) Improved output of units, added "short_units" option.
604 * Applied some more submitted patches:
605 1) Add long forms of (most of) the command-line options.
606 2) Added an option (top_cpu_separate) that emulates top's "separate
607 cpus" option. Processor usage is shown as a percentage of a
608 single processor on your system, instead of a percentage
609 of all processors combined.
610 3) Adds a parameter (time) to top and top_mem that will show the
611 cumulative CPU time of a process.
612 4) Simplified integer rounding.
613 5) Fixed the window width when a goto is used.
614 6) Fixed the window width when an offset is used.
615 (thanks Kevin Lyles).
618 * Applied submitted patches:
619 1) to suport Debian's kFreeBSD;
620 2) to use realtime clock in timed threads and
621 3) to fix get_ibm_acpi_volume zero value bug
622 (thanks Kapil Hari Paranjape).
625 * Conky 1.4.9 released.
628 * Added Gentoo USE flag audacious-legacy for Audacious legacy support.
631 * Added support for Audacious 1.4.0 and legacy versions via
632 --enable-audacious=yes|no|legacy.
635 * Fix compilation error with --disable-x11 (bug #1830373).
636 * Bump doc stylesheet from 4.3 to 4.4.
639 * Fix mpd_smart bug #1822773.
642 * Externalize default config file: ${sysconfdir}/conky/conky.conf
645 * Initialize music_player_interval so built-in .conkyrc actual works.
646 * Lower timed_thread minimum timing interval from 50 usecs to 10 usecs.
647 * Separate timed thread asserts for clarity.
648 * Remove ${tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log} from default text.
649 * Update vim/nano syntax files.
652 * Conky 1.4.8 released.
655 * doc/man fixes 1810328 & 1813483.
656 * struct alignment patch 1812924 (sohalt).
659 * Multiple mailbox patch (thanks Ben Kibbey).
662 * Small fix for $ibm_volume (thanks Kapil Hari Paranjape).
663 * Patch so $tail can read from a fifo file descriptor (thanks Ben Kibbey).
666 * Improved performance slightly.
667 * Added 'music_player_interval' config option to specify an update interval for
668 music player threads (currently honored by mpd and audacious).
669 * Fixed some minor memory leaks associated with SIGUSR1.
670 * Zero out imap and pop3 stuff when the connection fails.
673 * _Really_ fix mpd SIGPIPE issues.
674 * Fix timed thread race condition, seen esp. on new kernel scheduler (cfs).
675 * Fix $audacious_title not being displayed when no length argument indicated.
678 * Conky 1.4.7 released.
679 * Check for pkg-config >=0.19.
680 * Use timed_thread for mpd.
683 * Fixed issue with SIGPIPE and mpd.
684 * Updated COPYING (with more clarifications).
687 * Updated vim/nano syntax files.
690 * Added $hwmon var, similar to $i2c and $platform.
693 * Added var $platform which is similar to $i2c and accommodates the conversion
694 of many devices from /sys/bus/i2c/devices to /sys/bus/platform/devices.
695 * Removed config item post_21_kernel since it forced all i2c device lookups
696 to go to /sys/bus/platform/devices and some people may need a mix of both
697 i2c and platform devices.
700 * Clarifying licensing
704 * Wireless support for Linux
707 * Conky 1.4.6 released
708 * Updated to libmpdclient 0.13.0
709 * Added 'post_21_kernel' config param to specify kernels 2.6.22 and newer
710 so i2c works properly
713 * Fixed potential issue on FreeBSD when nprocs < 10 (thanks zotrix)
714 * Added support for multiple batteries when using acpi (thanks Phil)
715 * a bunch of code cleanups (thanks Psychon)
716 * added max length paramater to mpd_title (thinks fow)
717 * a number of small bug fixes
720 * Fix PID display, patch #1753934. thanks sohalt.
721 * Fix displaying 4 GB traffic after reloading network driver,
722 patch #1754260. thanks sohalt.
725 * Right-justify top/top_mem vars (pid/cpu/mem} so they align on the decimal.
728 * Added color[0-9] variable patch (thanks jieryn)
731 * Added if_empty patch (thanks Erik)
732 * Added if_existing patch for string matching (thanks cromka)
733 * Added hwmon support (thanks flitsch)
734 * Some xmms2 updates (thanks sleipner)
735 * Added $battery_percent and $battery_bar (thanks akash)
738 * OpenBSD support added to Conky (thanks hifi)
739 * Updated mboxscan stuff (thanks calmar)
742 * Created branch/1.5 copy of trunk/conky1. Removing all experimental
743 network code from trunk/conky1.
746 * Include missing mboxscan.h in conky.h.
747 * Fixed signedness warnings in conky.c.
750 * Added buffer_text_size option to change the size of the buffer for
751 things like $exec, $tail, et cetera
752 * Added $mboxscan which lets you display the Subject and From fields
753 from recent email in an mbox file
754 * Disambiguated (is that a word?) $cpu docs
757 * Fallback to gettimeofday() when clock_gettime () not available (mac os).
760 * API change (timing in milliseconds) for dexter_timedsampler_new ().
763 * Add config.rpath (created by gettextize -copy) to distribution
765 * Clean up some warnings; remove ftp.[ch] from src/Makefile.am.
768 * Update svn ebuild to new sourceforge url scheme.
769 - requires deletion of existing wc: rm -rf /usr/portage/distfile/svn-src/conky/
770 * Added head/tail rewrite patch (thanks Ryan Twitchell)
771 * Added diskio read/write sf.net patch 1542880 (thanks Blondak)
774 * Clear conky vars on disconnect/failure to open files.
777 * Updated to libmpdclient 0.12.0
780 * client/server infrastructure and prototype for linux only (so far):
781 - requires libdexter (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdexter)
782 and the dxt-sysinfo plugin (svn only at the moment).
784 - dexter_client yes/no
785 - dexter_server yes/no
786 - dexter_config /path/to/libdexter/config (default: $HOME/.dexterrc)
787 - own_window_class <WM Class Name> (default: Conky)
788 - replaces wm_class_name
789 - own_window_title <Window Title> (default: <hostname> - conky)
790 * removed config items:
791 - wm_class_name (use own_window_class, same function)
793 --disable-network (default=yes) with auto-detection for libdexter.
794 - remove useless --enable-proc-uptime (PROC_UPTIME never referenced).
795 HAVE_SYSINFO and others determine if /proc/uptime is used.
796 - silently disable xft, double-buffer and xdamage if no x11.
797 - change enable/disable labels to reflect defaults accurately.
798 - simplified compile-based checks for sysinfo/getloadavg and by moving
799 them into AC_CHECK_FUNCS.
800 * allow decorated, own_window=yes windows to be given input focus by WM:
801 - do not pass button clicks through to desktop in this scenario as conky
802 immediately loses focus.
805 * Clarify LGPL license on timed_thread modules.
809 * Split battery variable into two:
810 battery, e.g. "charging 75%" and
811 battery_time, e.g. "3h 15m".
812 * Conky 1.4.5 released.
815 * Close pop3/imap sockets.
816 * Fix outstanding battery issues.
819 * Fix peek table bug with new portmon code.
822 * Replaced hash module used by libtcp-portmon with GLib's GHashTable,
823 due to licensing issue noted by Fedora Core packagers.
824 * Eliminated config items:
826 min_port_monitor_connections
828 max_port_monitor_connections
831 * Added $entropy_avail, $entropy_poolsize and $entropy_bar
832 for the crypto freaks. Idea suggested by Perttu Luukko
833 <nuteater@users.sourceforge.net> in feature request 1497050.
834 * Added max length specifier to audacious_title. Closes
835 feature request #1600631.
838 * Rearrange retry attempts in pop3 and imap code, removing sleep()
839 calls which cause the whole process to sleep, not just the thread.
842 * Added max_specials config item with default 512. This should
843 close bug #1574523 for real this time. Thanks to John Harrigan
844 <jfharrigan@fedex.com> for this one.
847 * Changed autotools for subversion versioning.
848 * Updated svn ebuild for gentoo.
849 * Documentation updates for clarity, i.e. close bug #1599041.
852 * fix compile error with --disable-xdamage when Xdamage.h not present.
855 * fix bug where present rate var was not being read from acpi battery
856 state file: /proc/acpi/battery/%s/state.
859 * Change linkstatus display for use_spacer. Closes bug #1577580.
862 * Fix compile error with --disable-x11.
863 * Add new timed thread abstraction routines.
864 * Convert thread activity to timed threads, including
865 texeci, imap, pop3, audacious.
866 * Change memory vars from unsigned long to unsigned long long
867 to fix reported overflow, e.g. swapmax >= 4Gb.
870 * Use pthread_cond_timedwait() instead of sleep() in audacious
871 thread. Will convert all worker threads to this timing method.
874 * Fix freebsd build error.
875 * Minor changes to syntax files.
876 * Conky 1.4.4 released.
879 * Add max_user_text to documentation.
880 * Fixed BadWindow bugs (#1568366, #1588384).
883 * Remove on_bottom and xmms_player completely.
884 * Closed ibm_temps bug #1591609.
885 * Conky 1.4.3 released.
888 * Updated vim and nano syntax coloring scripts.
889 * Added extras/ dir with syntax stuff to distribution tarball.
892 * Added new config item 'max_user_text' with default 16384,
893 twice as large as previous hard-coded default of 8192 bytes.
894 Increase as needed to accomodate large config files with a
895 great deal of text. This closes SF bug #1574523.
898 * Changes to configure.ac for pkg-config on x11/xext/xdamage,
899 with fallback to conventional checks.
900 * Fixed segmentation fault on SUGUSR1 bug.
901 * Commented out Imlib2 from configure.ac since it's only partially
905 * Removed broken mldonkey and seti support.
906 * Added Hellf[i]re's nano syntax coloring script to svn.
909 * Removed support for Xmms, BMP and Infopipe from conky.
910 The Xmms and Bmp players are projects are dead and distros such
911 as Gentoo are slating them for removal.
912 * Added support for Audacious using new audacious vars.
915 * Implement WiFi signal level detection on FreeBSD (patch
919 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG
920 environment variables and fix crash for users with locale
921 name longer than 10 chars (repored by Michael Schwendt)
924 * --enable-debug added.
925 * prevent libtool from adding its default CFLAGS
928 * Use pkg-config instead of xft-config.
929 * Fix last line bug which had required padding text with extra blank line
930 to see text on last line.
933 * Fix type-punning and "differ in signedness" warnings seen with
937 * Fix compilation errors when building with --diable-x11; bug #1547164
940 * Make configure script print summary info
941 * Make `conky -v` show compiled-in features
944 * Added Spock's patches, adding hddtemp, goto and tab variables.
947 * Added tztime patch to show time in arbitrary time zones (thanks Ram
951 * Small battery fix (thanks Nexox, sf.net patch 1500014)
952 * Fixed order of variables/objects in docs (thanks Peter Tarjan)
955 * Fixed a bug with $font
958 * Xdamage support for composite and pals
961 * CPU voltage support via $voltage_mv and $voltage_v (thanks to Peter
962 Tarjan for the patch)
965 * SMP support for $freq and $freq_g (thanks to Peter Tarjan for the
969 * Fixed issue with graphs not reaching all the way to the borders
974 * Conky 1.4.2 released
977 * GNU Iconv support added, new objects $iconv_start and $iconv_stop
978 * Added some safety to the threading code
981 * Changed $font behavior so that the font persists past the next
982 newline. It can be set back to the default with $font with no args.
983 (closes bug 1478676 on sf.net)
986 * Added simple POP3/IMAP mail clients
989 * Added support for PowerBook batteries
990 * Fixed broken $if/$else stuff
993 * Added patch from Peter Tarjan to add support for IBM ACPI
994 * Added xmms2 patch from Lassi Selander (sf.net patch 1469523)
997 * Removed sa_restorer crap (may fix some compile errors for some
1001 * Added patch for adt746x fan/cpu speed for kernel >=2.6.12
1004 * Added patch to support new port monitor REMOTESERVICE peekable.
1007 * Scan port numbers as short. Fixes debian bug# 359974.
1010 * Added XMMS2 patch 1456203 from Lassi Selander
1011 * Added FreeBSD battery patch 1456008 from Petr Holub
1014 * Fixed ${top(_mem)} related code on FreeBSD (with help of Petr
1015 Holub <hopet@users.sourceforge.net>)
1018 * Removed bmp-infopipe dependency from 1.4.1 and 1.9999 ebuilds for Gentoo
1019 (Gentoo bug# 125226).
1020 * Fixed subversion ebuild for conky1 (1.9999) so it pulls the new trunk
1024 * FreeBSD cpu info patch
1025 * Conky 1.4.1 released
1028 * Fixed issue where some WM's don't control conky own_window windows.
1029 * Added newly-updated vim file detection and syntax hilighting files to svn.
1030 * Fixed issue with graphs resetting colours (sf.net bug #1420473)
1033 * Fixed battery problems when charged
1034 * MPD code handles broken pipe now, instead of just killing conky
1035 * Switch from CVS to SVN. Thanks SourceForge.
1038 * Added patch to make $cpu stuff work on alpha (thanks Thomas Cort)
1039 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122637#c3
1040 * Stop using override_redirect true -- conky back under WM control
1041 when using 'own_window yes'.
1042 * Fixed texeci breakage when forking to background is on
1045 * Drastically simplified own_window=yes window creation code.
1046 * on_bottom and wm_class_name deprecated (they do nothing)
1049 * Fixed typo bug in portmon code that caused incorrect monitor data
1053 * Conky 1.4.0 released
1056 * Cleaned up texeci code
1059 * Added freedesktop.org extended window manager hints (EWMH)
1060 for window type NORMAL and state's STICKY/SKIP_PAGER/SKIP_TASKBAR.
1061 Fixes stacking order issues with freedesktop-compliant wm's,
1065 * Fixed stupid graph code (it still sucks) sf.net bug 1372962
1066 * Fixed $if_* stuff, sf.net bug 1401338 and 1400854
1067 * Fixed xmms.c code to load glib 1.2 shared object lib.
1070 * Added xmms version 1 support.
1071 * Added bmp through 0.9.7.1 support.
1072 * Added config item xmms_player: none, xmms, bmp, audacious or
1076 * Added Audacious media player support.
1079 * Fixed infopipe bug (select() affects timer as a side effect on
1083 * Added draw_graph_borders option
1084 * Added XMMS/BMP InfoPipe plugin support
1087 * Conky 1.3.5 released
1090 * Fixed bug with use_xft causing ignorance of font selection (sf.net
1092 * Fixed issue with parsing of hex values for colours
1095 * Added BMPx (http://beep-media-player.org/) support
1098 * Fixed issues with execi stuff
1101 * Added sf.net patch 1374576
1104 * Fixed sf.net bug 1367745
1107 * Fixed sf.net bugs 1369607, 1367735 and gentoo bug 113921,
1108 all variations of the same array out of bounds issue.
1109 * "Fixed" code in fs.c and conky.c to make fs stats match those displayed by df (affects reporting against ext3 filesystems only)
1112 * new code in linux.c and top.c to calculate CPU % correctly on 2.6 kernels.
1115 * Fixed gentoo bug# 113219
1118 * Added #define/#undef SIGNAL_BLOCKING in conky.c for experimenting
1119 with synchronous signal processing. set to #undef for previous behavior.
1120 * Use POSIX signal api's, not the ANSI signal().
1123 * Fixed IP address bug (sf.net bug 1359055)
1126 * Conky 1.3.4 released
1129 * Replaced bitwise copy of tcp_connection_t with function
1130 copy_tcp_connection().
1131 * Changed call interfaces for get_acpi_fan(), get_acpi_ac_adapter(),
1132 get_freq(), get_freq_dynamic(), get_adt746x_cpu(), get_adt746x_fan(),
1133 eliminating all mallocs. pkovacs. See bug 1355470.
1136 * moved hash sizing code into portmon lib, where it belongs
1137 * More mem leaks fixed.
1140 * Added config items min_port_monitors / min_port_monitor_connections
1143 * Cleaned up top code, bug fixes
1144 * Fixed some memory leaks
1147 * Fix bug# 1351686. Patch by boojit.
1148 * Fixed 1331576 (I think) with bad cpu usage reporting
1151 * Documentation updates for compiling and port monitoring
1152 * Removed cairo stuff (it's useless)
1155 * Added statfs sf.net patch 1344493
1158 * Added tcp port monitor support (pkovacs)
1161 * Added WM_CLASS patch from sf.net patch 1340825
1164 * acpi segfault should be fixed (sf.net bug 1330893)
1165 * SIGUSR1 bug fixed? (sf.net bug 1330914)
1168 * Ugly MPD mem leak fixed
1169 * Other mem leaks fixed
1170 * Fixed thing where conky exits if LC_ALL and friends isn't set
1171 * Conky 1.3.3 released
1174 * Conky 1.3.2 released
1177 * More MPD objects (sf.net patch 1319461)
1180 * fixed mldonkey bug? sf.net bug 1316531
1183 * Linkstatus patch from btlee on f.g.o (see
1184 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2765647.html#2765647)
1187 * Fixed build on FreeBSD for non-i386
1188 * Made it so top_mem doesn't show all the forks of one process
1191 * Fixed small bug in config parsing (thanks robgrady, bug 1306032)
1194 * Fixed bug where graphs/bars don't show when maximum_width is enabled
1197 * Fixed right-alignment bug thanks to Pascal Eberhard
1198 * Applied patch 1291420 from sf.net
1199 * Fixed issue with whack graph data
1200 * Fixed issue with Conky quitting when a file fails to load
1203 * Fixed bug with xft and double buffer in own window
1207 * Misc small bug fixes
1210 * MPD patch (sf.net patch 1281108)
1211 * Fixed graph width bug
1214 * FreeBSD support was added
1218 * added threaded execi, $texeci
1222 * Fixed slight vertical misalignment of bars/graphs (sf.net 1273994)
1223 * Diskio fixes (sf.net 1274140)
1224 * $alignr and $alignc now have 25% more goodness! (sf.net bug 1273905)
1225 * Far better SMP support
1226 * Added support for i8k kernel driver, parsing information for dell inspiron laptops found in /proc/i8k (sf.net request 1256058)
1229 * More own_window fixes
1230 * applied disk io patch (sf.net patch 1271691)
1231 * applied $freq fixes patch, adds new $freq_dyn (sf.net patch 1271633)
1232 * removed units from $freq* output
1233 * fix for graph config parsing
1234 * Added $head, fixed mem leak with $tail
1237 * More configure and makefile updates
1238 * Added scale arg for net graphs
1239 * Fixed bug in own_window stuff--amazing fake transparency now works
1241 * added own_window_colour, own_window_transparent
1244 * Added maximum_width
1247 * Added $execibar and $execigraph
1250 * Moved source into src/, moved docs into doc/
1254 * Applied patch from zimba-tm, closes patch 1260225
1255 * Fixed ugly gradient bug. closes bug 1255608
1257 * Removed metar code. It sucked.
1258 * Added $acpitempf for amooricans
1262 * Multiple unit additions and modifications
1265 * mpd password patch from Joshua Gerrish
1266 * conky can run without X now, use --disable-x11 when configuring
1267 =========================================================================
1268 =========================================================================
1270 * Conky 1.2 released
1274 * added CVS ebuild, huge thanks to Hopeless for this
1277 * special thanks to Citizen_X and his patience
1279 * keep shakin' those big 'ol titties
1286 * many small fixes, thanks to those who reported problems
1289 * dramatically improved how conky handles fonts
1290 * fixed issues with graph args
1291 * fixed shades and outlines
1295 * added gradients to graphs (very pretty)
1298 * feature freeze; only bugfixes now
1301 * finalized graphing code, see $cpugraph, $memgraph, $execgraph,
1302 $downspeedgraph, and $upspeedgraph
1303 * added override_utf8_locale option
1305 * $tab patch from jack_mort on f.g.o
1308 * Added new graphing code, such as $cpugraph
1309 * small fixes all round
1312 * added more mpd objects
1315 * Conky now has UTF-8 support
1316 * Fixed $freq for those with CPU scaling
1317 * Fixed the problem with total_run_times
1318 * Fixed alignment of bars and lines and stuff
1319 * Reduced conky's memory usage (yay!)
1320 * Removed top_sort_cpu, added top_mem which sorts by mem usage instead
1324 * Fixed a pile of bugs in configure script
1325 * Added proper checking for headers in configure script
1326 * Made METAR shit threaded so it would stop being retarded, also made
1327 it try more then once to update
1328 * Added $metar_tempf and ${i2c tempf} for americans
1331 * Added option for Conky to update N times and quit, see
1332 total_run_times in conkyrc.sample
1333 * Added metar code for weather info, thanks to somebody on sf.net
1334 * Added $alignr and $alignc for right and centre alignment
1335 * Added wireless info and IP addr patch, thanks Bobby Beckmann,
1336 options $addr and $linkstatus (please test!), as well as fixed a mem
1338 * adt746x fix, thanks to dan-h on sf.net
1339 * Added mldonkey support patch, thanks Lucas Brutschy on sf.net
1340 * Added patch to allow hex colour values, thanks roiban adi on sf.net
1341 * Added if constructs patch, thanks Lucas Brutschy on sf.net
1342 * Fixed bug in tab code (hopefully for the last time)
1343 * Added option to sort by cpu or memory for top, see top_sort_cpu
1346 * Added fix for battery charged state (thanks to Lukas Zapletal
1349 =========================================================================
1350 =========================================================================
1353 * Conky 1.1 released
1356 * Added $mpd_bar and $mpd_bitrate
1357 * Some minor code cleanups prior to release
1358 * Fixed problem with Conky not compiling when XFT disabled
1359 * Fixed configure.in problems with Xdbe
1362 * Fixed memory leak in MPD code
1363 * Added new $tail object (see conkyrc.sample) which loves to suck CPU
1365 * Fixed more mem leaks
1368 * Added use_spacer to config
1370 * Added small fix for i2c from Filedil on forums.gentoo.org
1373 * Made it possible to use tabs to right-justify (just add a bunch)
1374 * Added ${execbar} (see conkyrc.sample)
1377 * Added memory % to top output
1378 * Added initial cairo backend (it's really quite useless at this stage actually, and I'm not sure if there is even any point to it)
1381 * Conky now recognizes the tab character correctly
1382 * Added simple config option to print to stdout (out_to_console
1386 * Added top output. Check the sample config.
1390 * Finished MPD support ($mpd_title, $mpd_artist, $mpd_album, $mpd_vol)
1391 * Removed NVCtrl code
1392 * Added noswap and i2c patches
1394 =========================================================================
1395 =========================================================================
1398 * Version 1.0. Conky is born from the ashes of torsmo. Main site:
1399 http://conky.sf.net/
1401 * Added new feature for sample averaging of CPU and net info
1404 * Version 0.18 released
1407 * Fixed some double buffer + Xft stuff
1408 * Applied X-Mozilla-Status patch (thanks affinity)
1409 * Applied NVCtrl patch and modified it a bit (temperature monitoring
1410 for nvdia-based graphics cards) (I couldn't test this so it may or
1411 may not work or even compile) (thanks Dennis Frommknecht)
1412 * Applied fs_used_perc and fs_bar_free patch (thanks killfire [send me
1413 mail, I didn't catch your name from sourceforge])
1414 * Applied patch that supports mailbox that is in some 'maildir' format
1415 (thanks jolapache [send mail, I didn't catch your name from
1418 * Applied pad_percents patch (thanks JL Farinacci)
1419 * Fixed some stuff in acpi fan and acpi ac adapter
1420 * Optional XFT even when compiled in
1423 * Applied utime patch (UTC time) (thanks David McCabe)
1426 * Applied Xdbe patch, this includes double_buffer configuration and
1427 -b command line option (thanks Bruce Merry)
1428 * Applied some other seti patch, not tested (thanks William DiPlacido)
1431 * Applied netbsd patch (thanks Rui Paulo)
1432 * Applied cpu frequency patch (thanks William DiPlacido)
1433 * Applied adt746x patch (thanks Dennis Kaandorp)
1434 * Applied some other FreeBSD patch by the same guy
1437 * Applied FreeBSD patch (thanks Roman Bogorodskiy)
1440 * Xft support and xftfont configuration
1441 * rewrote some stuff, there might be some new bugs in old places
1444 * I2C divisor from a file (thanks Falk Feuersenger)
1447 * changed battery thing to ${battery <filename in
1448 /proc/acpi/battery/>}
1449 * SETI@Home stuff (thanks Jarski)
1452 * changed signal for config file reloading to SIGUSR1
1453 * mixer stuff, $mixer, $mixerl, $mixerr, $mixerbar, $mixerlbar,
1457 * maybe fixed acpi battery thing when "present rate" isn't known
1460 * fixed width for all bars, use like ${cpubar 4,50}
1463 * Version 0.17 released
1466 * battery number for ACPI battery (thanks Leszek Krupiñski)
1467 * default battery is now BAT0 instead of BAT1, set ${battery 1} if
1468 the old battery thing worked
1469 * bug fix on load average reporting (thanks Leszek Krupiñski)
1470 * outlines to text, draw_outline and default_outline_color
1471 configurations and $outlinecolor (thanks adi)
1472 * $acpifan, $acpiacadapter, $uptime_short (thanks adi)
1475 * fixed a bug when starting after Opera (and some other programs)
1480 * added border_width configuration
1483 * fixed zero length bar bug
1486 * file system stats, $fs_bar, $fs_free, $fs_free_perc, $fs_size,
1488 * leaves ACPI temperature file open (faster)
1489 * -a option to change alignment on command line
1492 * fixed ACPI temperature bug
1493 * border_margin configuration
1494 * ${execi <interval> <command>}, execute with specific interval
1495 * added possibility to manually set the position (-x and -y options)
1496 (thanks to Gwenhael LE MOINE)
1497 * $buffers and $cached (thanks to Jeremy Burch)
1498 * WM_CLASS when drawing to own window (thanks to Gwenhael LE MOINE)
1501 * Version 0.16 released
1504 * $pre_exec, execute a shell command one time
1505 * preparsing of text (faster but more memory usage)
1506 * less system calls (faster)
1507 * APM things to $battery (untested)
1510 * added $new_mails changed $mails to tell total mail count
1513 * transparent window, own_window configuration, -o cmdline option
1514 * $exec, execute a shell command
1515 * $acpitemp, $battery - acpi stuff (not really tested)
1518 * $loadavg, load average
1519 * $mails, unread local mails, mail_spool configuration
1522 * Version 0.15 released
1525 * SIGHUP reloads config file (thanks Jørgen P. Tjernø)