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+====
+
+--------------------
+0.6.10 (2009-10-25)
+--------------------
+ * Bug Fixes:
+   - fixed installation bug which caused manpages to be installed in /man;
+   - fixed mode of installation to support sandbox-builds on Gentoo (Lovelace);
+   - improved (automated) linking process, now possible to pass LDFLAGS (Boeck);
+   - bail out when no statistics are available, instead of flagging an error.
+
+--------------------
+0.6.7 (2009-07-09)
+--------------------
+ * Screen geometry:
+   Reduced the screen size again, to 24x80, since this is a widely used default
+   size (thanks to Nelson A. de Oliveira). Removed the "wireless extensions"
+   information from the information screen, to reduce the minimum required
+   number of lines from 25 to 24. The wireless extension information however
+   remains still available, via the "wavemon -d" dump option.
+
+ * Histogram screen improvements:
+   - a new revised approach to fix several old bugs and limitations,
+   - new code better observes the boundaries and the configured ranges,
+   - better visibility, signal/noise are now plotted in bold.
+
+ * Better separation of error messages, into:
+   - informational warning messages (outside ncurses mode),
+   - fatal errors unrelated to system calls,
+   - fatal errors following a system call (with interpretation of errno(3)).
+
+ * Bug Fixes:
+   - fixed a bug in the histogram initialisation (producing ghost values);
+   - fixed a bug which caused non-ASCII encryption key strings to be garbled;
+   - key string length is now checked to avoid spilling over the right border
+     into the next line; curtailing long keys in a pretty-printing manner.
+
+--------------------
+0.6.6 (2009-06-01)
+--------------------
+ * Access point screen:
+   Overly long access point lists (more than 6 peer access points) are now
+   truncated, so as not to overwrite screen borders.
+
+ * Histogram screen:
+   The bottom 'key' window used to replicate the configured range values which
+   are available also via the configuration screen. This replication has now
+   been superseded by a dynamic range-tracking feature:
+   - for each of the three ranges (signal level, noise level, SNR), it shows
+     the min..max values on the screen or 'unknown' if the driver reports
+     values as unknown (e.g. noise levels on iwl3945),
+   - these values correspond to the current histogram and are updated
+     dynamically, thus complementing the visual display.
+
+ * Bug Fixes:
+   - histogram screen no longer tracks values that the driver reports as invalid;
+   - fixed off-by-one bug which caused the bottom access-point border to be erased;
+   - miscellaneous code clean-ups:
+     o unified description of window sizes via header file constants,
+     o updated and extended source code documentation.
+
+--------------------
+0.6.5 (2009-05-08)
+--------------------
+ * Several improvements in displaying driver parameters:
+   - ESSID: support for indexed ESS identifiers,
+   - nickname: no longer present empty/void nicknames,
+   - nwid: added support for displaying it (even if is pre-802.11),
+   - IP-address: collapse netmask information into shorter CIDR prefix length,
+   - mode: preliminary support to display 802.11s mesh mode (2.6.26),
+   - retry: new code to display information about MAC-layer retransmissions,
+   - frequency: suppress trailing zeroes, unified conversion,
+   - channel: now also prints the number of the current channel,
+   - encryption keys: added pretty-printing, suppress always-present '0' index,
+   - sensitivity: only print if card supports it, now also supports dBm values,
+   - tx-power: better support for the various formats (relative | mW | dBm),
+   - power management: improved output formatting.
+
+ * Mode-sensitive display:
+   - when operating in 'monitor' or 'access point' mode, the 'access point'
+     field is not necessary or redundant (in AP mode, it is the same as the
+     mac address shown in the network window), hence omitted;
+   - when operating in 'master', 'repeater' or 'secondary' mode, the bitrate
+     information is also not needed and hence suppressed;
+   - wavemon is now able to distinguish auto-configured values (using upper-case
+     labels) from manually configured values (using standard lower-case labels).
+
+ * Encryption keys (only with CAP_NET_ADMIN privileges): display of all-ASCII
+   keys is now in cleartext, otherwise the hex format is now pretty-printed.
+
+ * Screen Layout: redundancies (repeated interface name) have been removed, the
+   whole screen fits again into a 25x80 console window. In addition, wavemon
+   tests if the screen size and bails out if the screen is too small for a
+   readable layout.
+
+ * Better display of MAC addresses:
+   - detects the "not associated" state of a managed client and then
+   - displays 'non-associated' state instead of showing zero MAC address,
+   - sanity checks on access point addresses (broadcast address is invalid),
+   - Ethernet addresses are automatically translated to symbolic names if a
+     mapping  exists for the MAC address in /etc/ethers.
+
+ * The Access Point List is now sorted in descending order of signal strength.
+
+ * The LC_NUMERIC locale is honoured: when displaying large numbers (e.g. packet
+   counters, numbers are now grouped according to the locale.
+
+ * Bug Fixes:
+   - fixed several conditions which caused the window borders to be punctured;
+   - fixed a bug in the display of MAC addresses on the access point screen;
+   - RTS/CTS threshold suffered from the same problem - also fixed,
+   - fixed broken display of frag[mentation] threshold;
+   - fixed a bug which caused empty nicknames ("") to be displayed;
+   - fixed several smaller bugs, thanks to sparse.
+
+--------------------
+0.6 (2009-04-01)
+--------------------
+ * Update to the latest wireless extension API (number 22),
+   As a consequence of updating the wireless extensions, more
+   information is now displayed, including
+   - excessive TX MAC reassembly retries,
+   - missed beacon count
+   - display of wireless extension version used by the driver
+   - the driver's internal WE version
+
+ * wavemon now uses ioctl to obtain IW statistics and falls back
+   to /proc/net/wireless only as a last resort. (It is planned
+   to add netlink support in a later release.)
+
+ * Linear scales (-l option) no longer supported, since levels
+   are always reported both in log (dBm) and lin (mW).
+   (NB: in case of using an old version of ~/.wavemonrc, it is
+        necessary to remove the line containing 'linear_scale',
+	which is the option that has been removed.)
+
+ * Added sanity checks to the display of level information:
+   - noise level is only displayed if valid signal levels exist;
+   - some cards set a magic number to mean an invalid noise level - a
+     constant has been added to catch such cases;
+   - if the noise level (and hence the SNR value) is undefined, spread
+     out the  display of quality/signal levels over the info window.
+
+ * Added gui option for smoothing level meters (better readability).
+
+ * Much better and more accurate information in the Access Point List.
+
+ * Bug Fixes:
+   - it is finally possible to use the Access Point List as start screen,
+   - updated and fixed display of operation modes,
+   - selecting the wireless interface now works with multiple interfaces,
+   - header inclusion bug fix for Puppy Linux (thanks to Tom Gordon).
+
+ * Updated all components of the autoconf build system:
+   - DESTDIR is now supported for building packages
+     (thanks to Christoph J. Thompson),
+   - now using autoconf to set package version and build date.
+
+ * Reorganised source tree organisation:
+   - merged many small (one-line) header files into one,
+   - created a 'contrib' directory for contributed scripts,
+   - added 'config' directory for autoconf auxiliary scripts
+   - reinstated standard GNU autoconf listing of files
+
+--------------------
+0.5 (2009-01-17)
+--------------------
+Update on the build process, new maintainer, git tree
+to keep the changes. Fixes in this release include
+ * minor bug fixes
+ * build fixups and fixes for the build process
+ * a stub handler for SIGWINCH (still not fully supported)
+ * adding units to the levels (lin/log)
+ * tidied up code
+
+--------------------
+0.4.0b (2002-12-21)
+--------------------
+Last release by the original author, Jan Morgenstern.