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diff --git a/inxi.changelog b/inxi.changelog index 0832fad..de2a905 100644 --- a/inxi.changelog +++ b/inxi.changelog @@ -1,4 +1,200 @@ ================================================================================ +Version: 3.3.25 +Patch: 00 +Date: 2022-??-?? +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +RELEASE NOTES: +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +A small point release, various smaller items, ongoing updates to matching table +features, bug fixes, but nothing major. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +SPECIAL THANKS: + +1. Thanks Umio-Yasuno in github issue #281 for actually being proactive and +finding some Intel/AMD gpu device id lists. I wish more issues would be like +that. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +KNOWN ISSUES: + +1. DEBUG: --debug-arg and --debug-arg-use must use the full format: +--debug-arg="-GS", or else the command line eats the args, even if in quotes. +The error handlers will then complain about no data supplied, and it will exit. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +BUGS: + +1. GRAPHICS: An accidental 'and' instead of 'or' test (see Code 1) led to +systems without gpu or dri graphics drivers not showing their xorg driver even +when present. This was due to a mistake, and also due to how Perl handles || and +&& in sequence, which made this bug not show up until I tested on a system with +xorg graphics driver, but without dri or gpu drivers. Virtually no modern +hardware or operating systems would trip this condition, but older hardware and +operating systems, which may not have gpu or dri drivers, might. And did, in my +case. This is by the way why I try to test on old hardware at least now and +then. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +FIXES: + +1. CODE: A poorly done attempt at optimization would have broken case +insensitive pre-compiled regex with $pattern = qr/../ because you can't add +/$pattern/i to precompiled pattern, but qr/.../i support only added perl 5.014. +This should impact almost nobody, but it is/was a glitch. Basically qr/../ can +only be used when no /i type modifier is required if supporting Perl less than +5.014. + +See inxi-perl/docs/optimization.txt section REGEX for more on this. + +Note that Perl already compares the values in the variable each iteration via a +simple equality test, so the only real gain from using qr// is not having to do +that equality test each iteration of a loop. + +2. OUTPUT: Fixed a few small inner key name failures to use '-' instead of ' ' +to separate key terms: + +3. REPOS: Called urpm urpmq, which is the query tool, not the actual type. + +4. GRAPHICS: Fixed some gpu_id.pl matching rules. Thanks Umio-Yasuno in github +issue #281 for noticing that some of the matching rules were either wrong or not +loose enough. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +ENHANCEMENTS: + +1a. OPTIONS: Long time oversight, no option to test or do one time change of key: +value separator string ':'. This goes along with existing config option +SEP2_CONSOLE. Added --separator/--sep {character}. + +1b. OPTIONS: Added synonym for --output: --export, and for --output-file: +--export-file. + +2a. GRAPHICS: New Intel gpu data source, from intel, finally. This let us add a +lot more gpu ids. Thanks Umio-Yasuno in github issue #281 for finding these. + +2b. GRAPHICS: New AMD data source, from github. This let me fill in some more, +albeit not as accurately as previous sources, but added more so fine. Thanks +Umio-Yasuno in github issue #281 for finding these. + +3. CONFIG: In a first, took a feature from acxi, --config, and imported it into +inxi! This shows active current configuration, by file. + +4. CPU: updated, fine tuned amd cpu microarch ids. + +5. DISKS: More disk vendors added. Not as many as usual, I think the high tech +sanctions against China may be slowing the rate of new Chinese SSD/USB vendors. +But still some new ones, as always. Not many new IDs for existing ones though, +that is noteworthy. A few new data sources to help pinpoint vendor names found +too, though those won't in general impact users, but can be used to determine if +a string is in fact a company name. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +CHANGES: + +1. OUTPUT: Fix 2, -t 'started by:' key name changed to: started-by: +-G 'direct render:' changed to 'direct-render:'. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +DOCUMENTATION: + +1a. MAN: there were a few <...> instead of [...] for required option arguments. +Fixed those. + +1b. MAN: also added --debug-id [string] since that is in general useful info. + +1c. MAN: Added qualifiers about when xwayland: and compositor: items appear for +default -Ga output. + +1d. MAN: Typo in config path in man page, .conf/ should be .config/. + +1e. MAN: for --output json/xml, added pointer to doc page on smxi.org, people +being unable to grasp the output is getting tiresome. + +1f. MAN: Added synonym for --output, --export. + +2a. SMXI.ORG DOCS: added --output json/xml documentation page: +https://smxi.org/docs/inxi-json-xml-output.htm - this is also linked to from the +github wiki page, though of course nobody is going to read it, as well as from +a few pages in smxi.org. + +2b. Updated inxi-man,options,changelog.htm files. + +3. CHANGELOG: Changed to use same format as acxi.changelog, leading topic id's +in upper case, makes it easier to scan read and organize. + +4a. DOCS: docs/inxi-cpu.txt - cleaned up, re-arranged a bit, added cpuid data +explanation, and updated header on inxi-perl/data/cpu/microarch to better +explain the way amd does ext fam / ext model, which are not the same, +bizarrrely, very confusing. + +4b. DOCS: New: docs/inxi-disks.txt. Split out from inxi-resources.txt, part of +the ongoing to documentation modularization, slowly splitting out sub topics +from inxi-data.txt and inxi-resources.txt. Note this is in general only done +when I'm working on that specific feature. But slowly, surely. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +CODE: + +1. GRAPHICS: Test when no gpu drivers and no dri drivers but x drivers never +showed x driver. Was supposed to be all || for tests: + +if (@$gpu_drivers || $graphics{'dri-drivers'} && @$x_drivers){ + +https://perldoc.perl.org/perlop. I believe this led to test 1 being false, test +2 being false, and since that left tests 2 and 3 needing to be true for the && +logical and to be true. Since only one of the two was true, the last bit was +seen as false. + +2. GRAPHICS: Connected with 1, noticed that for some weird reason, I'd decided +to assign the array ref for drivers like this: + +@$x_drivers = (a, b, c); +when it was supposed to be: +$x_drivers = [a,b,c]; + +This did not cause any issues, since they mean the same thing, but it was silly +to write it that way. + +3a. DEBUG: Added --debug-arg-use which allows testers to run a specific argument +combination that may be causing issues. + +3b. DEBUG: Also added more validation, to make sure arg for --debug-arg / +--debug-arg-use start with - or -- followed by a letter. + +4. START: Removed this code block from set_konvi_data. I had left this in place +for a release or two to make sure no need for it was found, but it will never be +used since it never worked in the first place. + # my $config_cmd = ''; + # there's no current kde 5 konvi config tool that we're aware of. Correct if changes. + # This part may never have worked, but I don't have legacy data to determine. + # The idea was to get inxi.conf files from konvi data stores, but that was never right. + # if (main::check_program('kde4-config')){ + # $config_cmd = 'kde4-config --path data'; + # } + # kde5-coinfig never existed, was replaced by $XDG_DATA_HOME in KDE + # elsif (main::check_program('kde-config')){ + # $config_cmd = 'kde-config --path data'; + # } + # elsif (main::check_program('qtpaths')){ + # $config_cmd = 'qtpaths --paths GenericDataLocation'; + # } + # The section below is on request of Argonel from the Konversation developer team: + # it sources config files like $HOME/.kde/share/apps/konversation/scripts/inxi.conf + # if ($config_cmd){ + # my @data = main::grabber("$config_cmd 2>/dev/null",':'); + # Configs::set(\@data) if @data; + # main::log_data('dump',"kde config \@data",\@data) if $b_log; + # } + +5. OPTIONS: in OptionsHandler::post_process(), reorganized the various run and +exit triggers, help, configs, recommends, version, etc. All on top now. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-- Harald Hope - Sun, 18 Dec 2022 14:22:22 -0800 + +================================================================================ Version: 3.3.24 Patch: 00 Date: 2022-12-10 |