Changelog

Changes in 2.5.0

Fixed:

• vicious.call freezing awesome when used with asynchronous widget types

Added:

• vicious.call_async asynchronous analogous to vicious.call

Moved:

• Most of the documentation in READMEs to docs/

• Changes.md to CHANGELOG.rst

• CONTRIBUTING.md to CONTRIBUTING.rst

• Meta helpers to tools/

Changes in 2.4.2

Feature: [hwmontemp] Bring back sysfs path cache

Changes in 2.4.1

Fixed:

• [pkg] Fallback the number of lines before packages listing to 0. This fixes crashes on Arch, FreeBSD and Mandriva.

• [mdir] Remove trailing semicolon at the end of command.

Changes in 2.4.0

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:

• notmuch_all, cpu_freebsd widget types.

• [cmus_all] Promote to widgets/.

• [wifiiw_linux] Expose BSSID.

• [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.

• templates for the ease of adding new widget types.

• CONTRIBUTING.md which guide contributors through the steps of filing an issue or submitting a patch.

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

• [mbox] Update the deprecated string.gfind to string.gmatch

• [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 and widget types

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 please see git log.