i3status-rust 0.14.1

• Forgot to regenerate Cargo.lock when 0.14.0 was released

(No features/code changes from 0.14.0)

i3status-rust 0.14.0

New Blocks and Features

• New KDEConnect block (#717 by @ammgws)

• New CustomDBus block (#687 by @ammgws)

• New Network Manager block (#641 by @kennylevinsen). This block existed previously but was undocumented until it was overhauled completely by @kennylevinsen)

• New Taskwarrior block (#600 by @flying7eleven)

• New GitHub block (#425 by @jlevesy)

• Keyboard Layout block now supports sway (#670 by @ammgws), and also has a new format config option (#593 by @thiagokokada)

• IBus block now allows mapping of displayed engine to user configured value (#576 by @ammgws)

• Weather block now supports humidity and apparent (Australian Apparent Temperature) format specifiers (#640 by @ryanswilson59, @ammgws). Location can now also be set by name rather than ID using the new place option (#635 by @ammgws). Alternatively, the location can be guessed from your current IP address (#690 by @ammgws)

• Focused Window block new show_marks option to show marks instead of title (#532 by @ammgws)

• Net and Speedtest blocks now take speed_min_unit and speed_digits parameters to format speeds (#704, #707 by @GladOSkar, @ammgws).

• Net block ssid config option now supports iwctl and wpa_cli (#625, #721 by @ammgws). Can now show bitrate for wired devices (#612 by @ammgws). New ipv6 option (#647 by @ammgws)

• Pacman block now supports a critical_updates_regex parameter to control block state (#613 by @PicoJr), and now supports AUR as well (#658 by @PicoJr)

• Music block has a new smart_trim config option (#654 by @jgbyrne). Artist/title separator can now be customised with the separator option (#655 by @ammgws)

• Sound block now supports a format parameter (#618 by @jedahan). Along with that a format qualifier output_name was added which will show the name of the sink whose volume is being reported (#712 by @ammgws). ALSA driver: new device and natural_mapping options (#622 by @ammgws)

• CPU block now has per_core support for {frequency}, {utilization} (@grim7reaper)

• Block interval config can now take "once" in order to run blocks only one time (#684 by @PicoJr)

• Update font awesome icons to version 5 (#619 by @carloabelli)

• Add support for progress bars to some blocks (#578 by @carloabelli)

• Themes can now be read from standalone files (#611 by @atheriel & @PicoJr)

• New command line option --never-pause which will ignore any attempts by i3 to pause the bar when hidden/full-screen (#701 by @ammgws)

• If no config file path is supplied then we default to XDG_CONFIG_HOME/i3status-rust

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Net block fixed to support ppp vpn (#570 by @MiniGod). Device is now auto selected by default (#626 by @ammgws). Fixed error in use_bits calculation (#704 by @ammgws). Use /sys/class/net//carrier instead of operstate in is_up() (#605 by @happycoder97, @ammgws)

• Music block artist parsing from metadata fixed (#561 by @Riey)

• Fix panics for blocks without update intervals (#582 by @ammgws)

• Nvidia block: make threshold configurable, swap idle/good (#615 by @ammgws). Also fixed utilisation to have a fixed width (#566 by @TheJP)

• Backlight block now reads from actual_brightness as per kernel docs (#631 by @ammgws), with a special case for amdgpu backlights which don't follow the spec (#643 by @ammgws)

• Battery block now has a fallback for determining power consumption (#653 by @ammgws), and the time remaining is now only displayed when useful (#591 by @debugloop)

• Time block fixed to only register left mouse button clicks (#628 by @ammgws)

• Toggle block fixed to only toggle if command exited successfully (#648 by @ammgws)

• Fix missing icons for bat_half in the none theme (#719 by @varunkashyap)

• Fix panic in CPU block if >32 CPUs present (#639 @snicket2100)

• Fix panic in Memory block when wrong placeholder given (#616 by @ammgws)

• Fix missing good_bg and good_fg theme overrides (#630 by @carloabelli)

• Unified handling of stdin and stdout to prevent broken pipe errors (#594 by @Celti)

• Travis CI will now run clippy for all features and targets (#682 by @rotty)

• Dependent crates have been updated to their latest versions (#729 by @ammgws, @ignatenkobrain)

Documentation

• Document info, good, warning, critical parameters for the Battery block (@ammgws)

• Document interval for Notmuch, Uptime blocks (@ammgws)

• Fix error in Pomodoro block docs (#646 by @kaworu)

• Add profiling.md (#649 by @PicoJr)

• Adds a man page #556

i3status-rust 0.13.1

• Dependent crates have been updated to their latest versions to make downstream packaging easier. This will become part of the normal release process in the future. (#540 by @rotty, #551 by @atheriel)

i3status-rust 0.13.0

New Blocks and Features

• The Net block now takes a use_bits parameter to display speeds in bit-based instead of byte-based units. (#496 by @hlmtre)

• The Pacman block now supports a format parameter. (#473 by @ifreund)

• The top-level config now takes a scrolling parameter that can be used to turn on "natural" mouse scrolling in the bar. (#494 by @bakhtiyarneyman)

• The Brightness block will now fall back to using D-Bus for changing the brightness if it cannot modify it via sysfs. (#499 by @majewsky)

• The Bluetooth block now allows for setting a text label parameter to keep track of devices. (#528 by @jeffw387)

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Fixes a panic that could sometimes manifest when restarting Pulseaudio. (#484 by @ammgws)

• Fixes errors in the Pango markup we generate. (#518 by @ammgws)

• Fixes a potential panic when the Focused Window block was the only one in the configuration. (#535 by @ammgws)

• Fixes potential issues due to not ignoring stdin and stdout when spawning child processes. (#530 by @Celti)

• Improvements to the spacing around icons and IP addresses in the Net block. (#505 and #507 by @ammgws)

• Bumps several dependencies to fix security issues and reduce the number of transitive dependencies, which should improve build times. (#491, #492, #493, #510, #523 by @ammgws)

• Updates the installation documentation for Fedora. The project is now in the official repos! (#488 by @tim77)

• Simplifies the udev rule in the Brightness block docs. (#481 by @hellow554)

• Fixes a typo in the theme documentation. (#485 by @peeweep)

• Adds mention in the documentation that the Focused Window block is compatible with Sway. (#497 by @NilsIrl)

• Adds documentation for the optional Notmuch mail block. (#527 by @ammgws)

• Travis CI will now compile the project with all features enabled, which would have caught several bugs long ago. (#539 by @rotty)

i3status-rust 0.12.0

New Blocks and Features

• Wireguard devices are now correctly identified as VPNs in the net block. (#419 by @vvrein)

• The keyboard layout block now has a kbddbus driver. (#451 by @sashomasho)

• Adds a new Pomodoro block. (#453 by @ghedamat)

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Fixes a panic in the iBus block due to the use of Perl regex features. (#443 by @ammgws)

• Fixes more 32-bit build issues (e.g. for armv6 and i686). (#449 and #450 by @jcgruenhage)

• We now enforce cargo fmt on the codebase and in Travis CI. (#457 by @atheriel and @kennylevinsen, #474 by @ifreund)

• Improves parsing of setxkbmap output. (#458 by @sashomasho)

• Improvements to character width calculations in the rotating text widget. (#437 by @ammgws)

• Adds Fedora, NixOS, and Void Linux installation info to the README. (@tim77 and @atheriel)

• The Font Awesome icons now use bat_quarter and bat_three_quarters for battery ranges. (#393 by @Ma27)

• Adds documentation for hide_missing and hide_inactive in the net block. (#476 by @bascht)

i3status-rust 0.11.0

New Blocks and Features

• Adds a new Docker block, which can display information about containers overseen by the Docker daemon. (#413 by @jlevesy)

• Adds a new Notmuch block for querying information from a Notmuch mail database. This block is currently an optional feature and must be enabled with cargo build --feature notmuch. (#215 by @bobthemighty and @atheriel)

• The Weather block will now obey the OPENWEATHERMAP_API_KEY and OPENWEATHERMAP_CITY_ID environment variables. (#410 by @nicholasfagan)

• The Net block can now display wifi signal strength. (#418 by @bnjbvr)

• The project now has improved crate metadata, a proper CONTRIBUTING.md file, and will put release notes in a NEWS.md file. (by @atheriel)

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Updates the nix crate to fix broken builds on aarch64 with musl libc (#402).

• Fixes builds on i686. (#406 by @Gottox)

• Fixes a potential crash due to missing wind speed or direction in the Weather block. (#407 by @bramvdbogaerde).

• Fixes omission of UPower batteries that do not have a battery_ prefix. (#423 by @freswa)

• Fixes our use of now-deprecated dynamic trait and range syntax language features. (#428 by @Duac)

• Prunes some transient dependencies. (#434 by @ohk2kt3t4 and @ammgws)

• Fixes our use of a deprecated flag in our rustfmt configuration. (#438 by @ammgws)

• Internal refactoring to reduce merge conflicts when adding new blocks. (by @atheriel)

First tagged release- 0.10.0!

This is the first tagged release.

The prebuilt binary depends on the following shared libraries (check with your distro packages if you can't run the binary). You can also check the dependencies on the main page and build i3status-rust by yourself.

Unfortunately. we can't yet build static binaries.

Dependencies:
libdbus
libflac
glibc
libasyncns
libgcrypt
libgpg-error
libogg
libpulse
libsndfile
libvorbis
libxau
libxcb
libxdmcp
lz4
systemd-libs
xz