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+Version: 3.3.01
+Patch: 00
+Date: 2021-02-08
+-----------------------------------
+Changes:
+-----------------------------------
+
+Bug fixes!! Fixes!!! Refactors!!! Edits!!!
+
+Bugs:
+1. Big bug, 3.2 appears to have introduced this bug, for disks, rotation and
+partition scheme would never show, oops. 
+
+2. Tiny bug kept one specific smart value from ever showing, typo.
+
+Fixes:
+1. Accidentally followed Arch linux derived distro page, which claims KaOS as
+arch derived, when of course it's not, it's its own distro, own toolchain, etc.
+I kind of knew this but had forgotten, then I believed the Arch derived distro
+page, oh well. Resulted in KaOS being listed with arch linux as system base 
+with -Sx. Arch should fix this, it's not like it's hard, just remove the distro
+from the page. 
+
+2. Cleared up explanations for drivetemp vs hddtemp use, updated --recommends,
+man, and help to hopefully make this clear. Debian will be dropping hddtemp,
+which is not maintained, sometime in the coming years, sooner than later.
+Note that users unfortunately have to manually enable drivetemp module unless
+their distros enable it by default, but the man/recommands/help explain that.
+
+3. Fixed smart indentation issues, that went along with code change 1, was 
+failing to indent one further level for failed/age values like it's supposed
+to.
+
+Enhancements:
+1. Added /proc/device to debugger, that will help track block device main numbers
+
+2. More disk vendors, more disk vendor IDs!!! As noted, the enternal flow flows
+eternally, thanks linux-lite hardware database users!! and other inxi users,
+whose outputs sometimes reveal a failure or two.
+
+3. Added loaded kernel module tests to --recommends, this was mostly to let users
+know that drivetemp is needed if you want non superuser fast drive temps, and
+that this came along with kernels 5.6 or newer. Hopefully word will start drifting
+out. Note that if inxi is using drivetemp values, drive temps will appear as 
+regular user with -Dx, and will be to 1 decimal place. hddtemp temps are 
+integers, and requires sudo to display the temps.
+
+4. To handle issue #239  which I'd thought of trying off and on, but never did,
+added option to -Dxxx to show SSD if a positive SSD ID was made to rotation:
+So rotation will show either nothing, if no rotation or ssd data is detected,
+the disk speed in rpm, or SSD if an SSD device. There may be corner cases where
+this is wrong, but I don't have data for that, for example, if a disk is parked
+and has zero rotation but is a HDD, not as SSD. I don't know what the data 
+looksl ike in that case. Note that if sudo inxi -Da is used, and smartctl is
+installed, it should be right almost all the time, and with regular -Dxxx, it's
+going to be right almost always, with a few corner cases. That slight 
+uncertainty is why I never implemented this before. Legacy drives also sometimes
+did not report rotation speeds even when HDD, so those may create issues,
+but inxi will only call it an SSD if it's an nvme, mmcblk device, both are 
+easy to ID as SSD, or if it meets certain conditions. It will not call a drive
+an SSD if it was unable to meet those conditions.
+
+INTERNAL CODE CHANGES:
+1. Refactored the output logic for DiskData, that was messy, split it into a few 
+subs, and also refactored the way smartctl data was loaded and used, that's 
+much cleaner and easier to use now. Split the previous 1 big sub into: 
+totals_output(), drives_output(), and smart_output(). 
+Also split out the smart field arrays into a separate sub, which loads 
+references to avoid creating new arrays and copying them all over when outputting 
+smart data. References are weird to work with directly but they are MUCH faster
+to use, so I'm moving as much of the internal logic to use array raferences
+instead of dereferenced arrays/hashes assigned to a new array, or hash.
+
+2. Redid all the output modules and renamed them to be more consistent and 
+predictable, and redid the logic here and there to make the get() items be fairly
+similar on all the data builder packages. Now as with the data subs, which 
+generally end in _data, now most of the output subs end with _output.
+
+3. Roughly finished the process started in 3.2, got rid of redundant array loads,
+changed: 
+@something = something_data();
+push (@rows,@something);
+to:
+push (@rows,something_data());
+which avoids creating an extra array, this also let me remove many arrays overall.
+
+4. Missed a few hashes in machine data that were being passed directly, not as
+references, to other subs, corrected that. I think I missed those because they 
+were %, so the search I did for @ in sub arg lists didn't catch the % hashes.
+
+-----------------------------------
+-- Harald Hope - Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:16:27 -0800
+
+=====================================================================================
 Version: 3.3.00
 Patch: 00
 Date: 2021-01-28