1 2012-05-02 i3status 2.5
3 • implement the i3bar JSON protocol
4 • Fix configuration paths in error message
5 • manpage: add a "format" example for run_watch
6 • manpage: add a section explaining why we don’t want RAM usage etc.
7 • manpage: add "exit 1" to example shell script.
8 • manpage: document %emptytime to the battery part
9 • various patches for OpenBSD
11 2011-12-27 i3status 2.4
13 • Support wifi, cpu usage, volume, disk usage on FreeBSD
14 • Don’t exit, but display an error when CPU temperature/usage/load is not
16 • manpage: load format is %1min %5min %15min
17 • Don’t use a default order, so that config files can use += everywhere
18 • Interpret configfiles case-insensitive
19 • battery: implement path option for batteries with non-standard paths
21 2011-07-21 i3status 2.3
23 • config search order is now ~/.i3status.conf, ~/.config/i3status/config,
24 /etc/i3status/config, then /etc/xdg/i3status/config
25 • battery: use POWER_NOW if CURRENT_NOW is not available (linux >= 2.6.36)
26 • use kill(0, pid) instead of /proc to check if a process is alive
27 • cache DNS query results also if there is no IPv6 connectivity
28 • implement the 'path' option for cpu_temperature
29 • add cpu_usage module
30 • automatically detect the output format unless configured specifically
31 • Bugfix: get time at the beginning of the loop
32 • Bugfix: respect locale settings (for %c in date format)
33 • debian: use [linux-any] in dependencies (Closes: #634491)
35 2010-09-22 i3status 2.2
37 • Implement a discordian date module (like ddate(1))
38 • Implement ALSA volume support
39 • disk: implement %avail (different from %free with regard to the reserved
40 space of your filesystem)
41 • wireless: display quality relative to the wireless maximum quality.
42 • wireless: display connection speed (bitrate)
43 • wireless: custom colors for link quality
44 • Bugfix: Treat an interface as 'down' when it cannot be found in
46 • Bugfix: Correctly check for interface up/down status
48 2010-04-10 i3status 2.1
50 • battery: implement %emptytime, the time of day when your battery is empty
51 • ipv6: cache DNS query lookups (for finding the K root server)
52 • disk: also round when printing TB
53 • wireless: display no IP instead of (null)
54 • instead of a relative sleep(1), sleep until the full second
55 • colorize ethernet output
56 • use cap_net_admin instead of running i3status as root for getting
58 • ipv6: don't require a title for config option
59 • ipv6: provide format strings for ipv6 up and ipv6 down
61 2009-10-27 i3status 2.0
63 • add support for disk info (free/used/ins)
64 • add support for displaying the ESSID of the wireless interface
65 • add support for getting the public IPv6 address of the system
66 • all "modules" now support format strings
67 • switch to libconfuse for parsing the config file
68 • merge support for FreeBSD for many "modules"
69 • drop support for wmii, add support for xmobar
71 2009-06-21 i3status 1.2
73 • Handle SIGPIPE to avoid zombie processes
75 2009-06-17 i3status 1.1
77 • Implement getting temperature from thermal zones (Thanks atsutane)