1 2015-03-22 i3status 2.9
3 • meta: i3status is now on GitHub and uses clang-format
4 • allow customization of the module separator
5 • add “align” and “min_width” options for each module
6 • fix CFLAGS and LDFLAGS for DragonFly and FreeBSD
7 • add contrib/net-speed, a more light-weight reimplementation of
8 contrib/measure-net-speed.bash
9 • battery: add hide_seconds option
10 • battery: fix for systems without POWER_SUPPLY_VOLTAGE_NOW
11 • battery: for %percentage, drop leading 0 for values < 10
12 • battery: add NetBSD support
13 • battery: use absolute values for (dis)charging rates
14 • battery: introduce status_{chr,bat,full}
15 • cpu_temperature: fix displaying multiple sensors
16 • cpu_temperature: fix NetBSD support
17 • cpu_temperature: fix DragonFly support
18 • disk: introduce threshold_type and low_threshold
19 • disk: add format_not_mounted for unmounted paths
20 • ethernet, wireless: support special interface name _first_
21 • run_watch: check all matching pid files until first valid one
22 • volume: fix wrong color tags with xmobar
23 • wireless: support %frequency (2.4 vs. 5 GHz)
25 2014-01-05 i3status 2.8
27 • Fix build on GNU/Hurd
28 • Add format_down for battery if no battery is available
29 • Use degraded color in case volume is muted with OSS
30 • Support mixer_idx with OSS
31 • Enable colored output for battery on FreeBSD
32 • print_volume: don’t return, complete the buffer first
33 • Support colored output for CPU temperature on FreeBSD
34 • manpage: mention i3bar in the description
35 • manpage: be more explicit about the path option
36 • battery: use path as i3bar JSON “instance”
37 • print_volume(linux): Open a new mixer every time
38 • Implement term output format
39 • signal handler: set flag because directly calling fprintf() is unsafe
40 • Makefile: use .SILENT and support V=1 for verbose builds
41 • load: allow max_threshold to be a float
42 • manpage: Add example path for CPU temperature
44 • Implement cpu usage, ethernet status, cpu temperature on NetBSD
45 • fix slurp(), it needs to read size-1 for the trailing NUL
46 • format detection: simplify code, handle "sh" processes in the hierarchy
47 • default config: show %avail disk space instead of %free
48 • Added different format string for volume in case it is muted
49 • manpage: document format_muted
50 • add support for path_exists directive
51 • disk: Distinguish between IEC, SI and custom prefixes
53 2013-02-27 i3status 2.7
55 • Various battery fixes for OpenBSD
56 • Implement %speed for ethernet on OpenBSD
57 • Implement %essid and %signal for wireless on OpenBSD
58 • Skip a day in the Discordian calendar when St. Tib's Day has passed
59 • colors: Handle down wireless interfaces just like ethernet interfaces
60 • Use acpitz(4) instead of cpu(4) for temperature on OpenBSD
61 • temperature: introduce max_threshold
62 • temperature: allow for abitrary sensors to be selected with 'path' on OpenBSD
63 • battery: colorize output even without discharge rate
64 • ddate: Reduce the season day to 0-9 to properly print ordinal suffixes
65 • add good, degraded and bad colors per module
66 • config: introduce an utf-8 character so that editors are forced to use utf-8
67 • ddate: Teen ordinal numbers always use a 'th' suffix.
68 • DragonFlyBSD support added
69 • make SIGUSR1 do nothing, so that killall -USR1 i3status will force an update
70 • changing volume color from bad to degraded if muted
71 • make refreshs align with minutes
72 • wifi: properly display ad-hoc networks
73 • Bugfix: output auto detect: properly detect ambiguous situations
74 • Add tztime module to support multiple different timezones
75 • battery: add option to show capacity without decimals
76 • Add colorized output for load avg
77 • ipv6: properly handle colors for output_format == xmobar
78 • contrib: fix premature insetion of status message into JSON
80 2012-10-03 i3status 2.6
82 • Error handling: Properly output JSON errors in the battery module
83 • Colorize battery output if remaining time/percentage below threshold
84 • Colorize volume in red if muted
85 • Include a Perl and Python example wrapper script for i3status’s JSON output
86 • Avoid division by zero when calculating CPU usage
87 • Add consumption to battery info
88 • Use correct units for battery calculations
89 • Add percentage values for disk info
90 • Save the DNS lookup for k.root-servers.net in the ipv6 module
92 2012-05-11 i3status 2.5.1
94 • Handle %d with non-default CPU temperature path
95 • Improve error message when the cpu temperature cannot be read
96 • Remove cpu_temperature from the default config
97 • Error handling: Never output null as full_text (JSON), prefix messages with i3status
99 2012-05-02 i3status 2.5
101 • implement the i3bar JSON protocol
102 • Fix configuration paths in error message
103 • manpage: add a "format" example for run_watch
104 • manpage: add a section explaining why we don’t want RAM usage etc.
105 • manpage: add "exit 1" to example shell script.
106 • manpage: document %emptytime to the battery part
107 • various patches for OpenBSD
109 2011-12-27 i3status 2.4
111 • Support wifi, cpu usage, volume, disk usage on FreeBSD
112 • Don’t exit, but display an error when CPU temperature/usage/load is not
114 • manpage: load format is %1min %5min %15min
115 • Don’t use a default order, so that config files can use += everywhere
116 • Interpret configfiles case-insensitive
117 • battery: implement path option for batteries with non-standard paths
119 2011-07-21 i3status 2.3
121 • config search order is now ~/.i3status.conf, ~/.config/i3status/config,
122 /etc/i3status/config, then /etc/xdg/i3status/config
123 • battery: use POWER_NOW if CURRENT_NOW is not available (linux >= 2.6.36)
124 • use kill(0, pid) instead of /proc to check if a process is alive
125 • cache DNS query results also if there is no IPv6 connectivity
126 • implement the 'path' option for cpu_temperature
127 • add cpu_usage module
128 • automatically detect the output format unless configured specifically
129 • Bugfix: get time at the beginning of the loop
130 • Bugfix: respect locale settings (for %c in date format)
131 • debian: use [linux-any] in dependencies (Closes: #634491)
133 2010-09-22 i3status 2.2
135 • Implement a discordian date module (like ddate(1))
136 • Implement ALSA volume support
137 • disk: implement %avail (different from %free with regard to the reserved
138 space of your filesystem)
139 • wireless: display quality relative to the wireless maximum quality.
140 • wireless: display connection speed (bitrate)
141 • wireless: custom colors for link quality
142 • Bugfix: Treat an interface as 'down' when it cannot be found in
144 • Bugfix: Correctly check for interface up/down status
146 2010-04-10 i3status 2.1
148 • battery: implement %emptytime, the time of day when your battery is empty
149 • ipv6: cache DNS query lookups (for finding the K root server)
150 • disk: also round when printing TB
151 • wireless: display no IP instead of (null)
152 • instead of a relative sleep(1), sleep until the full second
153 • colorize ethernet output
154 • use cap_net_admin instead of running i3status as root for getting
156 • ipv6: don't require a title for config option
157 • ipv6: provide format strings for ipv6 up and ipv6 down
159 2009-10-27 i3status 2.0
161 • add support for disk info (free/used/ins)
162 • add support for displaying the ESSID of the wireless interface
163 • add support for getting the public IPv6 address of the system
164 • all "modules" now support format strings
165 • switch to libconfuse for parsing the config file
166 • merge support for FreeBSD for many "modules"
167 • drop support for wmii, add support for xmobar
169 2009-06-21 i3status 1.2
171 • Handle SIGPIPE to avoid zombie processes
173 2009-06-17 i3status 1.1
175 • Implement getting temperature from thermal zones (Thanks atsutane)