1 2016-01-01 i3status 2.10
3 • man: fix typo in battery example
4 • Pass the "instance" JSON property key for tztime blocks
5 • Fix build (and build warnings) on FreeBSD
7 • path_exists, run_watch: add format_down
8 • volume: add PulseAudio support. This significantly reduces battery
9 consumption on systems that use PulseAudio, which is the default on any
11 • wireless/OpenBSD: use the maximum rssi, not the scaled percentage for the
13 • make: Add support for differing PREFIX and MANPREFIX.
14 • battery: make output HH:MM across all platforms.
15 • battery: clamp the percentage at 100% when last_full_capacity is enabled.
16 • Use format_not_mounted if the directory for a disk_info block does not
18 • disk_info/OS X: Fix build.
19 • volume/OpenBSD: use SndIO.
20 • eth, wireless: Use "color_degraded" when interface has no IP.
21 • eth, wireless/FreeBSD: Fix for recent FreeBSD versions.
22 • wireless/Linux: switch from libiw to libnl. This allows you to run i3status
23 on kernels which don’t have the wext compatibility module enabled.
24 • battery/FreeBSD: properly detect charging status
25 • eth: first_eth_interface: ignore MAC addresses, look for IPv4/IPv6 addresses
26 • Implement support for Pango markup.
27 • format detection: recognise swaybar
29 2015-03-22 i3status 2.9
31 • meta: i3status is now on GitHub and uses clang-format
32 • allow customization of the module separator
33 • add “align” and “min_width” options for each module
34 • fix CFLAGS and LDFLAGS for DragonFly and FreeBSD
35 • add contrib/net-speed, a more light-weight reimplementation of
36 contrib/measure-net-speed.bash
37 • battery: add hide_seconds option
38 • battery: fix for systems without POWER_SUPPLY_VOLTAGE_NOW
39 • battery: for %percentage, drop leading 0 for values < 10
40 • battery: add NetBSD support
41 • battery: use absolute values for (dis)charging rates
42 • battery: introduce status_{chr,bat,full}
43 • cpu_temperature: fix displaying multiple sensors
44 • cpu_temperature: fix NetBSD support
45 • cpu_temperature: fix DragonFly support
46 • disk: introduce threshold_type and low_threshold
47 • disk: add format_not_mounted for unmounted paths
48 • ethernet, wireless: support special interface name _first_
49 • run_watch: check all matching pid files until first valid one
50 • volume: fix wrong color tags with xmobar
51 • wireless: support %frequency (2.4 vs. 5 GHz)
53 2014-01-05 i3status 2.8
55 • Fix build on GNU/Hurd
56 • Add format_down for battery if no battery is available
57 • Use degraded color in case volume is muted with OSS
58 • Support mixer_idx with OSS
59 • Enable colored output for battery on FreeBSD
60 • print_volume: don’t return, complete the buffer first
61 • Support colored output for CPU temperature on FreeBSD
62 • manpage: mention i3bar in the description
63 • manpage: be more explicit about the path option
64 • battery: use path as i3bar JSON “instance”
65 • print_volume(linux): Open a new mixer every time
66 • Implement term output format
67 • signal handler: set flag because directly calling fprintf() is unsafe
68 • Makefile: use .SILENT and support V=1 for verbose builds
69 • load: allow max_threshold to be a float
70 • manpage: Add example path for CPU temperature
72 • Implement cpu usage, ethernet status, cpu temperature on NetBSD
73 • fix slurp(), it needs to read size-1 for the trailing NUL
74 • format detection: simplify code, handle "sh" processes in the hierarchy
75 • default config: show %avail disk space instead of %free
76 • Added different format string for volume in case it is muted
77 • manpage: document format_muted
78 • add support for path_exists directive
79 • disk: Distinguish between IEC, SI and custom prefixes
81 2013-02-27 i3status 2.7
83 • Various battery fixes for OpenBSD
84 • Implement %speed for ethernet on OpenBSD
85 • Implement %essid and %signal for wireless on OpenBSD
86 • Skip a day in the Discordian calendar when St. Tib's Day has passed
87 • colors: Handle down wireless interfaces just like ethernet interfaces
88 • Use acpitz(4) instead of cpu(4) for temperature on OpenBSD
89 • temperature: introduce max_threshold
90 • temperature: allow for abitrary sensors to be selected with 'path' on OpenBSD
91 • battery: colorize output even without discharge rate
92 • ddate: Reduce the season day to 0-9 to properly print ordinal suffixes
93 • add good, degraded and bad colors per module
94 • config: introduce an utf-8 character so that editors are forced to use utf-8
95 • ddate: Teen ordinal numbers always use a 'th' suffix.
96 • DragonFlyBSD support added
97 • make SIGUSR1 do nothing, so that killall -USR1 i3status will force an update
98 • changing volume color from bad to degraded if muted
99 • make refreshs align with minutes
100 • wifi: properly display ad-hoc networks
101 • Bugfix: output auto detect: properly detect ambiguous situations
102 • Add tztime module to support multiple different timezones
103 • battery: add option to show capacity without decimals
104 • Add colorized output for load avg
105 • ipv6: properly handle colors for output_format == xmobar
106 • contrib: fix premature insetion of status message into JSON
108 2012-10-03 i3status 2.6
110 • Error handling: Properly output JSON errors in the battery module
111 • Colorize battery output if remaining time/percentage below threshold
112 • Colorize volume in red if muted
113 • Include a Perl and Python example wrapper script for i3status’s JSON output
114 • Avoid division by zero when calculating CPU usage
115 • Add consumption to battery info
116 • Use correct units for battery calculations
117 • Add percentage values for disk info
118 • Save the DNS lookup for k.root-servers.net in the ipv6 module
120 2012-05-11 i3status 2.5.1
122 • Handle %d with non-default CPU temperature path
123 • Improve error message when the cpu temperature cannot be read
124 • Remove cpu_temperature from the default config
125 • Error handling: Never output null as full_text (JSON), prefix messages with i3status
127 2012-05-02 i3status 2.5
129 • implement the i3bar JSON protocol
130 • Fix configuration paths in error message
131 • manpage: add a "format" example for run_watch
132 • manpage: add a section explaining why we don’t want RAM usage etc.
133 • manpage: add "exit 1" to example shell script.
134 • manpage: document %emptytime to the battery part
135 • various patches for OpenBSD
137 2011-12-27 i3status 2.4
139 • Support wifi, cpu usage, volume, disk usage on FreeBSD
140 • Don’t exit, but display an error when CPU temperature/usage/load is not
142 • manpage: load format is %1min %5min %15min
143 • Don’t use a default order, so that config files can use += everywhere
144 • Interpret configfiles case-insensitive
145 • battery: implement path option for batteries with non-standard paths
147 2011-07-21 i3status 2.3
149 • config search order is now ~/.i3status.conf, ~/.config/i3status/config,
150 /etc/i3status/config, then /etc/xdg/i3status/config
151 • battery: use POWER_NOW if CURRENT_NOW is not available (linux >= 2.6.36)
152 • use kill(0, pid) instead of /proc to check if a process is alive
153 • cache DNS query results also if there is no IPv6 connectivity
154 • implement the 'path' option for cpu_temperature
155 • add cpu_usage module
156 • automatically detect the output format unless configured specifically
157 • Bugfix: get time at the beginning of the loop
158 • Bugfix: respect locale settings (for %c in date format)
159 • debian: use [linux-any] in dependencies (Closes: #634491)
161 2010-09-22 i3status 2.2
163 • Implement a discordian date module (like ddate(1))
164 • Implement ALSA volume support
165 • disk: implement %avail (different from %free with regard to the reserved
166 space of your filesystem)
167 • wireless: display quality relative to the wireless maximum quality.
168 • wireless: display connection speed (bitrate)
169 • wireless: custom colors for link quality
170 • Bugfix: Treat an interface as 'down' when it cannot be found in
172 • Bugfix: Correctly check for interface up/down status
174 2010-04-10 i3status 2.1
176 • battery: implement %emptytime, the time of day when your battery is empty
177 • ipv6: cache DNS query lookups (for finding the K root server)
178 • disk: also round when printing TB
179 • wireless: display no IP instead of (null)
180 • instead of a relative sleep(1), sleep until the full second
181 • colorize ethernet output
182 • use cap_net_admin instead of running i3status as root for getting
184 • ipv6: don't require a title for config option
185 • ipv6: provide format strings for ipv6 up and ipv6 down
187 2009-10-27 i3status 2.0
189 • add support for disk info (free/used/ins)
190 • add support for displaying the ESSID of the wireless interface
191 • add support for getting the public IPv6 address of the system
192 • all "modules" now support format strings
193 • switch to libconfuse for parsing the config file
194 • merge support for FreeBSD for many "modules"
195 • drop support for wmii, add support for xmobar
197 2009-06-21 i3status 1.2
199 • Handle SIGPIPE to avoid zombie processes
201 2009-06-17 i3status 1.1
203 • Implement getting temperature from thermal zones (Thanks atsutane)