NEWS ==== -------------------- 0.7.3 (2011-12-22) -------------------- * Scan window: - items are now sorted first by channel (ascending) then by signal strength (descending), as before - using one line per entry doubled the capacity of the scan window - refresh interval is made configurable (via 'Statistics updates') * Configuration screen: - memorizes the last-changed item to ease longer configuration tasks * Fixes: - better (cleaner) termination on error - fixed clear-line refresh in info screen - fixed bug in generator for random link quality (causing negative values) - reverted using separate process group (problems when running under sudo) - miscellaneous code reordering to decouple functional units -------------------- 0.7.2 (2011-02-25) -------------------- * General: - support SIGWINCH for resizing (thanks to Koniu) - reorganized screen handling to support resizing - make geometry checking optional and off by default - allow suspending wavemon (CTRL-Z) on most screens * Info screen: - suppress obvious broadcast address (deriving from prefix) - special case for "no interface address assigned" - display interface MTU if different from the default value - show interface flags and TX queue length if enough space * Scan window: - set up enable interface if it is down (otherwise no scan) - drop support for wireless extensions < 18 (minimum requirement) - clean up child scan process on error (avoid garbled screen) * Configuration screen: - support 'Cisco-style' MAC addresses (dots rather than colons) * Fixes: - do not report zero bitrates (Info screen, 802.11n interface) - remove unused timer in Scan window (data sampling is now confined to info/histogram screens) - fixed various compiler warnings - fixed several problems in and improved the random generator - use sigaction() rather than signal() - miscellaneous reorganization of the configuration menu code -------------------- 0.7.1 (2010-12-24) -------------------- * Scan window: - improved and more consistent formatting of entries - better responsiveness by running scan operation as child process * Security capabilities: - display capabilities supported by the driver - display current and available key sizes - decode relevant IE information * check and warn about insufficient permissions (CAP_NET_ADMIN) that are required for several wireless operations (e.g. scanning) * Bug Fixes: - avoid triggering assertion on large screens - require minimum version (18) of the wireless extensions - better clearing of info screen - various cleanups * overhaul of manpages -------------------- 0.7.0 (2010-10-18) -------------------- * NEW Scan Window: this replaces the old access point screen. It displays a sorted list (in desc

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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.