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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog new file mode 100644 index 0000000..99eedb0 --- /dev/null +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -0,0 +1,403 @@ + +What's new in version 0.9 + +* Add support for "steal"/guest CPU time measurement + in virtualization environments +* Expand and collapse subtrees using '+' and '-' when in tree-view +* Support for cgroups + (thanks to Guillaume Zitta and Daniel Lezcano) +* Show custom thread names + (thanks to Anders Torger) +* Add support for STARTTIME field +* Upgrade PLPA to version 1.3.2 +* Fix license terms with regard to PLPA + (thanks to Tom Callaway) +* getopt-based long options and --no-color + (thanks to Vincent Launchbury) +* BUGFIX: Fix display of nan% in CPU meters + (thanks to Steven Hampson) +* BUGFIX: Fix memory leak + (thanks to Pavol Rusnak) +* Add Bash/emacs style navigation keys + (thanks to Daniel Schuler) +* Improve battery meter support + (thanks to Richard W.) +* BUGFIX: Fix IO-wait color in "Black on White" scheme +* BUGFIX: Fix search by process name when list is filtered by user. + (thanks to Sergej Pupykin for the report.) +* BUGFIX: Fix alignment for display of memory values above 100G (sign of the times!) + (thanks to Jan van Haarst for the report.) + +What's new in version 0.8.3 + +* BUGFIX: Fix crash on F6 key + (thanks to Rainer Suhm) +* BUGFIX: Fix a minor bug which affected the build process. + +What's new in version 0.8.2 + +* Integrated lsof (press 'l') +* Fix display of gigabyte-sized values + (thanks to Andika Triwidada) +* Option to display hostname in the meters area +* Rename VEID to CTID in OpenVZ systems + (thanks to Thorsten Schifferdecker) +* Corrections to the desktop entry file + (thanks by Samuli Suominen) +* BUGFIX: Correct page size calculation for FreeBSD systems + (thanks to Andrew Paulsen) +* Allow compilation without PLPA on systems that don't support it + (thanks to Timothy Redaelli) +* BUGFIX: Fix missing tree view when userland threads are hidden + (thanks to Josh Stone) +* BUGFIX: Fix for VPID on OpenVZ systems + (thanks to Wolfgang Frisch) + +What's new in version 0.8.1 + +* Linux-VServer support + (thanks to Jonathan Sambrook and Benedikt Bohm) +* Battery meter + (thanks to Ian Page Hands) +* BUGFIX: Fix collection of IO stats in multithreaded processes + (thanks to Gerhard Heift) +* Remove assertion that fails on hardened kernels + (thanks to Wolfram Schlich for the report) + +What's new in version 0.8 + +* Ability to change sort column with the mouse by + clicking column titles (click again to invert order) +* Add support for Linux per-process IO statistics, + enabled with the --enable-taskstats flag, which + requires a kernel compiled with taskstats support. + (thanks to Tobias Oetiker) +* Add Unicode support, enabled with the --enable-unicode + flag, which requires libncursesw. + (thanks to Sergej Pupykin) +* BUGFIX: Fix display of CPU count for threaded processes. + When user threads are hidden, process now shows the + sum of processor usage for all processors. When user + threads are displayed, each thread shows its own + processor usage, including the root thread. + (thanks to Bert Wesarg for the report) +* BUGFIX: avoid crashing when using many meters + (thanks to David Cho for the report) + +What's new in version 0.7 + +* CPU affinity configuration ('a' key) +* Improve display of tree view, properly nesting + threads of the same app based on TGID. +* IO-wait time now counts as idle time, which is a more + accurate description. It is still available in + split time, now called detailed CPU time. + (thanks to Samuel Thibault for the report) +* BUGFIX: Correct display of TPGID field +* Add TGID field +* BUGFIX: Don't crash with invalid command-line flags + (thanks to Nico Golde for the report) +* Fix GCC 4.3 compilation issues + (thanks to Martin Michlmayr for the report) +* OpenVZ support, enabled at compile-time with + the --enable-openvz flag. + (thanks to Sergey Lychko) + +What's new in version 0.6.6 + +* Add support of NLWP field + (thanks to Bert Wesarg) +* BUGFIX: Fix use of configurable /proc location + (thanks to Florent Thoumie) +* Fix memory percentage calculation and make it saner + (thanks to Olev Kartau for the report) +* Added display of DRS, DT, LRS and TRS + (thanks to Matthias Lederhofer) +* BUGFIX: LRS and DRS memory values were flipped + (thanks to Matthias Lederhofer) +* BUGFIX: Don't crash on very high UIDs + (thanks to Egmont Koblinger) + +What's new in version 0.6.5 + +* Add hardened-debug flags for debugging with Hardened GCC +* BUGFIX: Handle error condition when a directory vanishes + from /proc +* BUGFIX: Fix leak of process command line +* BUGFIX: Collect orphaned items when arranging the tree view. + (thanks to Wolfram Schlich for assistance with debugging) +* Separate proc and memory debugging into separate #defines. +* BUGFIX: Fix message when configure fails due to + missing libraries + (thanks to Jon) +* BUGFIX: Don't truncate value when displaying a very large + process + (thanks to Bo Liu) + +What's new in version 0.6.4 + +* Add an option to split the display of kernel time + in the CPU meter into system, IO-wait, IRQ and soft-IRQ. + (thanks to Philipp Richter) +* --sort-key flag in the command-line, overriding the + saved setting in .htoprc for the session. + (thanks to Rodolfo Borges) +* BUGFIX: Fixed string overflow on uptime display. + (thanks to Marc Cahalan) + +What's new in version 0.6.3 + +* Performance improvements: uses much less CPU than the + previous release with the default setup. +* Use 64-bit values when storing processor times to + avoid overflow. +* Memory consumption improvements, compensating storage + of 64-bit values. +* Internal change: rename TypedVector to Vector and + ListBox (and related classes) to Panel. +* Have configure actually fail when needed libraries or + headers are not found. +* Horizontally scroll in larger increments when on the + Linux console because of slow update of unaccelerated fb +* No longer untag processes after sending a signal + (useful for when SIGTERM fails and one wants to try again + with SIGKILL). All processes can be untagged at once with 'U'. + (thanks to A. Costa for the suggestion) + +What's new in version 0.6.2 + +* BUGFIX: Fixed crash when using some .htoprc files from 0.6 + (thanks to Wolfram Schlich and John Thomas for the reports) +* BUGFIX: Ensure changes to color scheme are saved +* BUGFIX: Make configure behave correctly with --with-proc +* Minor addition to .desktop file. + +What's new in version 0.6.1 + +* New meter type: "All CPUs", which dynamically adjusts + to the number of CPUs present in the machine. Note that + because of this, older versions of htop may crash when + using an .htoprc file modified my the newer version. +* Accept --with-proc=<dir> in configure, to specify + alternative procfs locations (making htop friendlier + to the Linux compatibility layer in FreeBSD) +* Included icon .desktop and desktop entry + (thanks to Peter Hyman) +* Added a check to make sure that a root-user htop closes + when its parent non-root terminal is closed. + (thanks to Ilya Evseev for the report) +* BUGFIX: does not crash anymore when $HOME is not set + (thanks to Henning Schild for the report) +* Wait for strace child process to die properly. + (thanks to Marcus Fritzsch) +* Support $HTOPRC + (thanks to Luis Limon) + +What's new in version 0.6 + +* Configuration of columns merged into the Setup screen +* Integrated strace (press 's') + (thanks to Marinho Barcellos for the help) +* BUGFIX: some fixes, aided by Valgrind + (thanks to Wolfram Schlich for the report) +* BUGFIX: fixed bug when switching meter modes + (thanks to Eduardo Righes for the report) +* Show processes of a single user +* "SortBy" function now menu-based +* Improved mouse handling +* ...and on top of that reduced memory consumption! + +What's new in version 0.5.4 + +* Color schemes +* -d flag, to configure delay between updates. + Note that the delay value is saved in ~/.htoprc. +* BUGFIX: Update of meters was halting after help screen. + (thanks to Matt Moore) +* BUGFIX: No longer display incorrect information + in first frame. +* BUGFIX: Fix auto-detection of /proc/stat, + correcting CPU usage information on multiprocessor + systems. + +What's new in version 0.5.3 + +* Read new field "steal" on newer /proc/stat files +* Auto-detects format of /proc/stat, to cope + with patched 2.4 kernels which display 2.6-style + information (most notably those on RHEL 3) + (thanks to Fernando Dotta for the report) +* Support $HOME_ETC initiative + (see http://www.pld-linux.org/Docs/home-etc) + (thanks to Roman Barczynski for the tip) +* The configure script now tests for /proc, so + that it fails early on unsupported platforms + instead of during compilation/execution. +* Made presentation of the function keys in the + status bar consistent across views + (thanks to David Mathog for the report) +* Minor changes to make the codebase more friendly + to possible future ports + (thanks to Jari Aalto and David Mathog for the reports) + +What's new in version 0.5.2 + +* BUGFIX: Correct display of user field + (thanks to Marcin Miroslaw for the report) +* Keyboard support improvements + (thanks to Aury Fink Filho for the report) + +What's new in version 0.5.1 + +* BUGFIX: Correctly displays NPTL threads from + /proc/<pid>/task subdirectories + (thanks to Mike Pot for the report) +* BUGFIX: Fixes key handling on Signals listbox + (thanks to Ondrej Vlach) +* Renicing no longer displays temporary illegal values + (thanks to Ondrej Vlach) +* 'Hide userland threads' feature for NPTL threads + +What's new in version 0.5 + +* Tree view +* New column, TIME (user + system time, + like in top, 'T' switches to "sort by time") +* Major reorganization of the underlying code of the + setup screen, to manage setup pages +* New setup page: Display options +* Hide kernel threads ('K' key) +* Colorized memory numbers +* Vastly improved support for monochromatic terminals +* Shadow processes that do not belong to user ('U' key) +* Header margin configuration accessible via setup screen +* Visual feedback on failing incremental search +* BUGFIX: fixed keyboard input issues on 64-bit machines +* BUGFIX: hopefully fixed the incorrect values + that show on status bars in some systems +* BUGFIX: doesn't mess with fields list anymore when + canceling after changing the number of items +* Uptime meter no longer says "1 days" ;) + +What's new in version 0.4.1 + +* BUGFIX: compiles on 64-bit architectures again + (thanks to Bartosz Fenski for the report) +* BUGFIX: multi-processor support fixed on kernels 2.6 + (thanks to Wolfram Schlich for the report) + +What's new in version 0.4 + +* Support for multiple processors! +* Basic mouse support +* Modular header based on configurable meters; + supports 4 view modes: bar, text, LED, graph +* Uptime, load average meters + (thanks to Marc Calahan) +* Meters setup screen; should eventually evolve into a + general setup screen, with column setup, keybindings, etc. +* Thread hiding toggleable + (press 'T' to hide the nonstandard dotfiles in /proc) +* BUGFIX: Do not flicker screen on column configuration screen +* Clock and load average meters + (thanks to Marc Calahan) +* BUGFIX: numeric swap indicator was printing bogus value +* BUGFIX: internal fixes on Panel widget +* Clear the bottom line when exiting +* Press "F3" during search to walk through the results +* Improved navigation on column configuration screen +* BUGFIX: fix segfault on kernels with restricted /proc + enabled +* BUGFIX: a few last-minute bugfixes in the setup UI + (thanks to Gaspare Bruno for the reports) + + +What's new in version 0.3.3 + +* Saves column and sorting configuration in ~/.htoprc +* Displays "hidden" threads on RedHat 9 + (Thanks to Leonardo Godinho) +* BUGFIX: supports process names with spaces + (Thanks to Marc Calahan) +* BUGFIX: ...and parentheses :) +* BUGFIX: long process names overflowed RichString + (Thanks to Marc Calahan) + +What's new in version 0.3.2 + +* Performance and memory usage improvements, aided by gprof +* BUGFIX: quite a few fixes, aided by Valgrind +* Header preview on column configuration screen + (Thanks to Marc Calahan) + +What's new in version 0.3.1 + +* BUGFIX: crash fixes related to process list handling + (thanks to Marc Calahan) +* Man page + (thanks to Bartosz Fenski) +* Tag processes with the space bar +* Kill multiple process based on tag +* BUGFIX: corrected processing order of updates in list +* Screen refresh function on Ctrl-L +* Large numbers are shown in MB/GB notation in order to fit screen + (thanks to Marc Calahan) +* Realtime priority is correctly displayed + (thanks to Marc Calahan) +* Preliminary support for configurable columns, with 'C' + (thanks to Marc Calahan) + -- not all columns display properly yet + +What's new in version 0.3 + +* BUGFIX: no dirt left on screen on horizontal scrolling +* Signal selection on "kill" command +* Color-coding for users, nice and process status +* "Follow" function +* Fully selectable sort order +* Function bar on last line +* Build system now uses autotools + +What's new in version 0.2.1 + +* Sorting by process or memory usage ('P' and 'M', like top) +* Quicker default update (1.5 second, not yet configurable) +* Now the order of the elements in the process list stay + 'locked' for a while after you move the cursor to ease + selecting a process +* Corrected the installation instructions in README + (Thanks to Jeremy Eglen) +* Should now compile cleanly on Conectiva 9 and similar systems + (Thanks to Adriano Frare for the report) +* Friendlier Makefile +* Help screen ('h') + +What's new in version 0.2 + +* Memory indicators in header now show used and total, in MB +* Preliminary support for sorting (CPU% only) +* Memory percentage field (resident memory / used memory) +* BUGFIX: identified source of spurious crashes +* Can search names containing numbers + (Thanks to Rafael Jeffman) +* Correctly calculates memory page size + (Thanks to Rafael Jeffman) + +What's new in version 0.13 + +* Handles terminal resize +* Display all user names (not only those in /etc/passwd) + (Thanks to Julio Biason) + +What's new in version 0.12 + +* Support for 2.6 kernels +* Uses terminal default colors as a background + +What's new in version 0.11 + +* BUGFIX: does not crash when UID is not in /etc/passwd + +What's new in version 0.1 + +* Everything! 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