vicious/Changes.md

Changes in 2.4.0 (WIP)

IMPORTANT:

• volume now uses 🔉 and 🔈 instead of ♫ and ♩ to show mute state. This BREAKS backward compatibility if users substitute custom symbols from these default.

Added:

• [wifi_linux] Expose frequency and transmission power
• spawn as a fallback for awful.spawn in case Vicious is used as a stand-alone library. This wrapper, however, does NOT provide the facilities to asynchronously spawn new processes. It also lacks a few features such as parsing stderr and returning PID.
• helpers.setasyncall to avoid writing redundant workers for asynchronous widget types. Note that these workers are only needed in case Vicious is used as a stand-alone library.
• helpers.setcall for registering functions as widget types.
• headergen script for automatic generation of copyright notices.

Fixed:

• Deprecate the use of io.popen in following widgets:
  • wifi_linux, wifiiw_linux, hwmontemp_linux, hddtemp_linux
  • bat_freebsd, mem_freebsd, net_freebsd, thermal_freebsd, uptime_freebsd, cpu_freebsd, cpufreq_freebsd, fanspeed_freebsd
  • bat_openbsd
  • volume, gmail, mdir, mpd, fs
• [mpd] Lua 5.3 compatibility (for real this time); also correct a typo
• [pkg,weather,contrib/btc] Allow function call without Awesome
• [pkg] Use more updated front-ends for Debian/Ubuntu (apt) and Fedora (dnf)
• [os] Splitted os_all into os_linux and os_bsd (and refactored to async)
• Tweak .luacheckrc to suit functional style and soft-limit text width to 80
• Update copyright headers for libraries

Removed:

• helpers.sysctl and helpers.sysctl_table were removed in favour of helpers.sysctl_async.

Changes in 2.3.3

Feature: Add battery widget type for OpenBSD

Fixes:

• [mpd] Lua 5.3 compatibility
• [bat_freebsd] Update battery state symbols

Changes in 2.3.2

Features:

• Support stacked graphs
• [hwmontemp_linux] Provide name-based access to hwmon sensors via sysfs
• [mpd_all] Expose more informations and format time in [hh:]mm:ss

Fixes:

• Improve defaults and mechanism for data caching
• Escape XML entities in results by default
• [weather_all] Update NOAA link and use Awesome asynchronous API
• [mem_linux] Use MemAvailable to calculate free amount
• [mem_freebsd] Correct calculation and switch to swapinfo for swap
• [bat_freebsd] Add critical charging state
• [fs_all] Fix shell quoting of option arguments

Moreover, .luacheckrc was added and README.md was refomatted for the ease of development.

Changes in 2.3.1

Fixes:

• widgets can be a function again (regression introduced in 2.3.0)

Changes in 2.3.0

Features:

• add btc widget
• add cmus widget
• alsa mixer also accept multiple arguments

Fixes:

• pkg now uses non-blocking asynchronous api

Changes in 2.2.0

Notable changes:

• moved development from git.sysphere.org/vicious to github.com/Mic92/vicious
• official freebsd support
• escape variables before passing to shell
• support for gear timers
• fix weather widget url
• add vicious.call() method to obtain data outside of widgets

For older versions see git log