archey4/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project (partially) adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

v4.14.0.1 - 2022-10-08

Changed

• Fix warning related to "broken" Custom entry
• Fix PermissionError when opening restricted configuration files
• Prefer macOS-latest for unit tests in integration jobs matrix

v4.14.0.0 - 2022-09-22

Breaking

• Project internal versioning update (v4.Y.Z -> 4.X.Y.Z)
• Distributions logo preference over Windows' one in WSL environments

Removed

• dmidecode usage in Model for virtual environments info gathering

Added

• Custom entry
• Load Average entry
• KWin Wayland WM detection
• Windows Terminal detection
• Missing method static types
• CPU, RAM and Model FreeBSD support
• Official Guix System distribution support
• Official Siduction Linux distribution support

Changed

• Improve Rocky Linux logo
• Fix macOS APFS volumes duplication
• CPU and Model entries initialization
• Prevent vendor name duplication in Model
• Fix WSL virtual environment detection (without systemd) in Model
• Project code base formatted using Black and isort

v4.13.4 - 2022-03-20

Added

• Support for pacstall package manager
• Official Buildroot distribution support
• New entries_color config option to tune entries color
• New sensors_excluded_subfeatures temperature config option to exclude specific sub-features

Changed

• Update fpm to v1.14.1 for .DEB and .RPM packages building
• Improve sensors_chipsets temperature config option documentation

v4.13.3 - 2021-11-13

Added

• Official Rocky Linux distribution support
• Official upcoming support for Python 3.11
• Support for pkgin (NetBSD) package manager
• Support for motherboard DMI information in Model
• Document terminal monospaced font recommendation for ASCII art

Changed

• Fix possible Uptime discrepancies on macOS 10.12+
• Prevent system_profiler STDERR logs output on macOS
• Remove square brackets around architecture from Distro entry output
• virt-what and/or dmidecode probing for Model, even for unprivileged users

v4.13.2 - 2021-10-16

Added

• Support for maim ("Make image") screenshot back-end

Changed

• Fix df output parsing when file-systems column contain white-spaces in Disk
• Prevent program crash when calling external programs raise PermissionError exception
• Prevent program crash when reading from /sys/ file system is not allowed

v4.13.1 - 2021-09-04

Changed

• Only run pkg on *BSD systems
• Improve Darwin (Apple) logo design
• Fix text width overlap regression introduced in v4.13.0
• Fix brew Packages count on Apple Silicon and GNU/Linux
• Prevent entries disabled special field from being propagated in options

v4.13.0 - 2021-08-29

Added

• Official NetBSD support
• Archey official project logo (CC-BY Brume)
• Protected _logger attribute for Entry objects
• PEP-561 compliance (Distributing and Packaging Type Information)

Changed

• Logos are now right-padding "unaware"
• Fix Pop!_OS logo (reverted) coloration
• Fix sensors_chipsets option (when containing multiple values)
• Fix potential configuration file encoding issues on Windows platforms
• Improve logging style of multiple lines sensors error messages
• Extend Android system auto-detection (as CPython standard library does)

v4.12.0 - 2021-05-08

Added

• Kernel name
• CHANGELOG.md file
• Homebrew formula in the default tap
• CLICOLOR[_FORCE] environment variables support
• one_line configuration option for LAN_IP & WAN_IP entries
• TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION environment variable support for Terminal
• USER, LOGNAME & LNAME environment variables support for User entry
• Alternative logo style support (see -l option with retro parameter for Darwin)

Changed

• Prevent text truncation when writing output to a pipe
• "Pretty names" by default for multiple-words entries (WanIP -> WAN IP)
• distro & netifaces Python dependencies are now "frozen" to allow upstream breakages

v4.11.0 - 2021-03-21

Added

• Official BSD (and its derivatives) support
• Official Darwin (macOS) support
• Official Parabola GNU/Linux-libre support
• API : new distro key now stores the internally detected distribution

Changed

• disabled entries won't be internally executed anymore
• Internal logging has been rewritten, LM-SENSORS(1) warnings messages may now appear
• Now (very degradedly) run even without procps[-ng] package installed
• Fix Disk detection for mount points containing space characters
• sys.exit usages have been replaced by proper ArcheyException raising

Removed

• Python 3.5 support

v4.10.0 - 2020-12-18

Added

• Official Devuan support
• Code base type annotations
• Python 3.10 official support
• DO_NOT_TRACK environment variable support
• On GNU/Linux, Kernel now supports optional version comparison against https://www.kernel.org/ (see check_version option)

Changed

• LAN_IP now excludes global (public) IP addresses from entry by default (see new show_global option to keep old behavior)
• Lazy-load logo (standalone building against Stickytape and PyInstaller may break, see README or Wiki)
• Subprocess call to UNAME(1) have been replaced by proper platform module (standard library) usages
• Uptime won't crash anymore in environments implying parsing of the uptime command (as Android)
• Artifact for Arch-based distributions will now be available as .tar.zst

Removed

• Python 3.4 support

v4.9.0 - 2020-11-28

Added

• PEX building official support
• Entries may now be reordered as you wish
• CPU now supports multiple CPUs and show number of cores
• WAN_IP now supports very accurate configuration for resolvers and timeouts, including specific method disabling

Changed

• Configuration layout has changed, please check README or Wiki
• ./config.json path will automatically be looked up and loaded if it exists
• GPU will now be displayed on multiple lines by default
• Model now ignores fuzzy data (as "To Be Filled By O.E.M.")
• Disk won't soft-fail anymore due when df crashes "for reasons"
• LAN_IP internal class has been renamed to LanIP
• WAN_IP internal class has been renamed to WanIP
• CI now runs on GitHub Actions for performance purposes

Removed

• Unit testing modules from releases assets

v4.8.1 - 2020-10-11

Added

• Official Pop!_OS support
• Official Elementary OS support
• Hardware "product version" for Model on GNU/Linux

Changed

• Fix screenshot module crashing anyhow
• Properly set exit code on error in various situations

v4.8.0 - 2020-09-26

Added

• Entries are now loaded in parallel
• Python 3.9 official support
• NixOS (basic) support
• Android (basic) support
• *BSD (very partial) support
• BusyBox-based (final) support
• Specific distribution logo to display (-d option)
• Specific configuration file loading support (-c option)
• Screenshot taking is now supported (-s [FILENAME] option)
• New Processes entry, showing the number of running processes
• NO_COLOR environment variable support

Changed

• Disk now supports multiple entries
• Fix support for CrunchBang distribution (broken in v4.6.0)
• Unicode will now be enabled by default (see use_unicode configuration option)
• Update Fedora, Ubuntu & Windows logos

v4.7.2 - 2020-05-20

Added

• JSON output (-j option)
• GNU/Linux packages now ship a proper UNIX manual page

Changed

• GPU now supports multiple entries
• Terminal should now properly display terminal emulator
• Fix line overlapping when output is longer than terminal width
• Arch Linux release packages will now be built AUR
• Don't crash if netifaces Python module is not available

v4.7.1 - 2020-04-24

Added

• Official CentOS support
• Official Alpine Linux support
• Internal version output (-v option)
• LM-SENSORS(1) polled chipsets can now be configured (see sensors_chipsets configuration option)
• Distribution matching "fall-back" based on ID_LIKE OS-RELEASE(5) option
• ANSI_COLOR OS-RELEASE(5) option will now be honored by default (see honor_ansi_color configuration option)

Changed

• Fix .RPM and Arch Linux packages
• Fix BTRFS file-system type Disk support
• Fix some entries not working in limited environments (as Docker)
• Fix WAN_IP timeout exceptions that may occur when relying on urllib
• Fix Temperature average value computation against fan control chipsets
• Fix systemd-detect-virt execution output not being honored in Model
• Fix configuration file not being marked as one in .DEB & .RPM packages
• Update Arch Linux, Manjaro & Ubuntu logos colors

v4.7.0 - 2020-03-27

Added

• GPG signature for Debian packages
• BTRFS & TMPFS file-systems Disk support
• netifaces Python module dependency (for LAN_IP entry)
• Configurable thresholds for Disk & RAM entries output colors
• Basic support for Deepin windows manager & desktop environment

Changed

• Fix (manual) RAM computations
• Fix units displayed for Disk & RAM
• Software architecture (now a proper Python module)
• If available, rely on systemd-detect-virt instead of virt-what
• Use FPM to build distributions packages

Removed

• Heading and trailing newlines
• bare_metal_environment I18N configuration option (internally dropped)
• wget dependency for WAN_IP (replaced by urllib standard Python module)

v4.6.0 - 2018-08-25

Added

• PyLint compliance
• SlackWare official support
• distro Python module dependency

Changed

• Fix GPU truncation
• Fix some warnings in unit tests
• Fix WAN_IP addresses consistency between IPv4 and IPv6
• Update contributors list

Removed

• LSB-RELEASE(1) dependency

v4.5.0 - 2018-07-23

Added

• Python 3.7 official support
• WSL file-systems Disk support
• Python Wheels as GitHub releases assets (as long as their GPG signature)

Changed

v4.4.1 - 2018-05-30

Changed

• Extend CPU detection for some ARM architectures
• Properly handle encoding-relative errors at runtime

v4.4.0 - 2018-02-19

Added

• Test cases
• CI pipeline
• .gitignore file
• Publish program on PyPI
• SetupTools compatibility
• Allow output strings to be configured (I18N)

Changed

• Enhance Packages accuracy
• Fix Packages compatibility against non-English locales
• Warning messages can now be silenced (see suppress_warnings configuration option)

v4.3.3 - 2018-02-02

Added

• Configurable timeout for IP addresses detection

Changed

• Fix crash if wget is missing
• Redirect warnings and errors messages to STDERR

v4.3.2 - 2018-01-30

Added

• Windows Subsystem Linux support
• IPv6 support for LAN_IP & WAN_IP
• New option to specify the maximum number of LAN_IP addresses to show

Changed

• Fix configuration file decoding against Python 3.4

v4.3.1 - 2017-12-27

Added

• Colors palette to Terminal entry output
• Entries can now be masked from configuration
• Implements configuration "locking" (see allow_overriding configuration option)

Changed

• Fix KDE Plasma detection

v4.3.0 - 2017-12-10

Added

• New Temperature entry
• External configuration file

Changed

• Fix RAM computation

v4.2.2 - 2017-10-23

Added

• Help message about LSB-RELEASE(1) dependency
• Distributions packages for Arch Linux, Debian & Red Hat

Changed

• Fix Ubuntu logo

Removed

• Trailing white-space

v4.2.1 - 2017-09-17

Changed

• Enhance modularity
• Detach repository from djmelik/archey GitHub network

v4.2.0 - 2017-08-29

Added

• Model now supports Raspberry Pi
• Model now supports virtual environments
• GitHub Issues & pull requests templates

Changed

• Fix crash when wmctrl is missing
• Silence distributions packages tools error messages

v4.1.2 - 2017-08-22

Changed

• Project name (lowercased)

Removed

• "Empty set" character usages for backward-compatibility against non-Unicode platforms

v4.1.1 - 2017-08-08

Changed

• Backward-compatibility for older inetutils packages

Removed

• Nemo windows manager

v4.1.0 - 2017-07-27

Added

• New LAN_IP entry
• New WAN_IP entry

Changed

• Replaces subprocess.Popen by subprocess.check_output

Removed

• Python < 3.4 support

v4.0.5 - 2017-06-21

Changed

• Enhance support for Arch Linux derivatives

v4.0.4 - 2017-05-19

Changed

• Allow longer GPU output text
• Fix a color glitch with some terminal emulators

v4.0.3 - 2017-05-15

Changed

• Fix output for uncolored terminal profiles

v4.0.2 - 2017-05-12

Changed

• Fix running as root
• Enhance backward-compatibility by removing free -w usage

v4.0.1 - 2017-05-06

Changed

• Fix some logos
• Enhance GPU support for some video cards

v4.0.0 - 2017-05-05

Added

• Support for new operating systems

Changed

• Main bugs fixes
• Project officially forked from djmelik/archey