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NEWS
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0.6.10 (2009-10-25)
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* 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.
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0.6.7 (2009-07-09)
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* 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.
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0.6.6 (2009-06-01)
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* 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been superseded by a dynamic range-tracking feature: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.
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0.6.5 (2009-05-08)
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* 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.
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0.6 (2009-04-01)
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* 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
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0.5 (2009-01-17)
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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
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0.4.0b (2002-12-21)
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Last release by the original author, Jan Morgenstern.
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