On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:08:42 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > It's been quite some time since lm-sensors 3.0.3 was released (end of > September 2008, that's 4.5 months ago) and I think it's about time to > push a new release out. Given the number of big changes in the upcoming > release I plan to renumber it from 3.0.4 to 3.1.0. > > The major changes in this release will be: > * Completely reworked sensors-detect. Support for Linux 2.4 was > dropped, devices probe order was reverted (integrated sensors first, > I2C/SMBus chips last), bus driver names are retrieved from sysfs, bus > number prediction was fixed, modules we loaded ourselves are unloaded. > The script is significantly smaller, and smarter. > * Improvements to libsensors. Circular dependencies in the > configuration file are detected and dealt with, and more importantly, > support for multiple configuration files was (well, is being) added. > This is an important step in the direction of automatic lm-sensors > configuration. Also some performance and memory usage improvements. > Support for instantaneous power sensors and current sensors. > * The format of /etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors was changed. The new format > is easier to edit, which will ease integration with external tools. > * New default sensors.conf file. Much lighter, with only always-correct > statements. Big performance boost, and hopefully less confusion for > the user. > * And as usual, random fixes to all tools. > > As some of these changes are pretty intrusive, I expect some problems. > This release will require some serious testing. The proposed version > number (3.1.0) hopefully reflects this. Proposed schedule for the 3.1.0 release: * February 21st: SVN freeze. * February 22nd to 27th: testing. * February 28th: release. -- Jean Delvare
