1.4.6 - 22 January 2013
- added patch from Pawel Piatek to omit O_NOFOLLOW in AIX
1.4.5 - 10 January 2013
- updated manual page to show known problem with "-R" on Cygwin
1.4.4 - 11 December 2012
- added debugging, see `pv -h' when configure run with "--enable-debugging"
- rewrote cursor positioning code used when IPC is unavailable (Cygwin)
- fixed cursor positioning cursor read answerback problem (Cygwin/Solaris)
- fixed bug causing crash when progress displayed with too-small terminal
1.4.0 - 6 December 2012
- new option "--skip-errors" commissioned by Jim Salter
- if stdout is a block device, and we don't know the total size, use the
size of that block device as the total (Peter Samuelson)
- new option "--stop-at-size" to stop after "--size" bytes
- report correct filename on read errors
- fix use-after-free bug in remote PID cleanup code
- refactored large chunks of code to make it more readable and to replace
most static variables with a state structure
1.3.9 - 5 November 2012
- allow "--format" parameters to be sent with "--remote"
- configure option "--disable-ipc"
- added tests for --numeric with --timer and --bytes
- added tests for --remote
1.3.8 - 29 October 2012
- new "--pidfile" option to save process ID to a file
- integrated patch for --numeric with --timer and --bytes (Sami Liedes)
- removed signalling from --remote to prevent accidental process kills
- new "--format" option (originally Vladimir Pal / Vladimir Ermakov)
1.3.4 - 27 June 2012
- new "--disable-splice" configure script option
- fixed line mode size count with multiple files (Moritz Barsnick)
- fixes for AIX core dumps (Pawel Piatek)
1.3.1 - 9 June 2012
- do not use splice() if the write buffer is not empty (Thomas Rachel)
- added test 15 (pipe transfers), and new test script
1.3.0 - 5 June 2012
- added Tiger build patch from Olle Jonsson
- fix 1024-boundary display garble (Debian bug #586763)
- use splice(2) where available (Debian bug #601683)
- added known bugs section of the manual page
- fixed average rate test, 12 (Andrew Macheret)
- use IEEE1541 units (Thomas Rachel)
- bug with rate limit under 10 fixed (Henry Precheur)
- speed up PV line mode (patch: Guillaume Marcais)
- remove LD=ld from vars.mk to fix cross-compilation (paintitgray/PV#1291)
1.2.0 - 14 December 2010
- integrated improved SI prefixes and --average-rate (Henry Gebhardt)
- return nonzero if exiting due to SIGTERM (Martin Baum)
- patch from Phil Rutschman to restore terminal properly on exit
- fix i18n especially for --help (Sebastian Kayser)
- refactored pv_display
- we now have a coherent, documented, exit status
- modified pipe test and new cksum test from Sebastian Kayser
- default CFLAGS to just "-O" for non-GCC (Kjetil Torgrim Homme)
- LFS compile fix for OS X 10.4 (Alexandre de Verteuil)
- remove DESTDIR / suffix (Sam Nelson, Daniel Pape)
- fixed potential NULL deref in transfer (Elias Pipping / LLVM/Clang)
1.1.4 - 6 March 2008
- patch from Elias Pipping correcting compilation failure on Darwin 9
- patch from Patrick Collison correcting similar problems on OS X
- trap SIGINT/SIGHUP/SIGTERM so we clean up IPCs on exit (Laszlo Ersek)
- abort if numeric option, eg -L, has non-numeric value (Boris Lohner)
1.1.0 - 30 August 2007
- new option --remote (-R) to control an already-running process
- new option --line-mode (-l) to count lines instead of bytes
- fix for "-L" to be less resource intensive
- fix for input/output equivalence check on Mac OS X
- fix for size calculation in pipelines on Mac OS X
- fixed "make uninstall"
- removed /debian directory at request of new Debian maintainer
1.0.1 - 4 August 2007
- licensing change from Artistic to Artistic 2.0
- removed the "-l" / "--license" option
1.0.0 - 2 August 2007
- act more like "cat" - just skip unreadable files, don't abort
- removed text version of manual page, and obsolete Info file generation
- code cleanup and separation of PV internals from CLI front-end
0.9.9 - 5 February 2007
- new option --buffer-size (-B) suggested by Mark Tomich
- build fix: HP/UX largefile compile fix from Timo Savinen
- maintain better buffer filling during transfers
- workaround: pv /dev/zero | dd bs=1M count=1k bug (reported by Gert Menke)
- dropped support for the Texinfo manual
0.9.6 - 27 February 2006
- bugfix: key_t incompatibility with Cygwin
- bugfix: interval (-i) parameter parses numbers after decimal point
- build fix: use static NLS if msgfmt is unavailable
- on the final update, blank out the now-zero ETA
0.9.2 - 1 September 2005
- Daniel Roethlisberger patch: use lockfiles if terminal locking fails
0.9.1 - 16 June 2005
- minor RPM spec file fix for Fedora Core 4
0.9.0 - 15 November 2004
- minor NLS bugfix
0.8.9 - 6 November 2004
- decimal values now accepted for rate and size, eg "-L 1.23M"
- code cleanup
- developers: "make help" now lists Makefile targets
0.8.6 - 29 June 2004
- use uu_lock() for terminal locking on FreeBSD
0.8.5 - 2 May 2004
- cursor positioning (-c) reliability improved on systems with IPC
- minor fix: made test 005 more reliable
- new option --height (-H)
0.8.2 - 24 April 2004
- allow k,m,g,t suffixes on numbers
- added "srpm" and "release" Makefile targets
0.8.1 - 19 April 2004
- bugfix in cursor positioning (-c)
0.8.0 - 12 February 2004
- replaced GNU getopt with my library code
- replaced GNU gettext with my very minimal replacement
- use DESTDIR instead of RPM_BUILD_ROOT for optional installation prefix
- looked for flaws using RATS, cleaned up code
0.7.0 - 8 February 2004
- display buffer management fixes (thanks Cédric Delfosse)
- replaced --enable-debug with --enable-debugging and --enable-profiling
0.6.4 - 14 January 2004
- fixed minor bug in RPM installation
- bugfix in "make index" (only of interest to developers)
0.6.3 - 22 December 2003
- fixed transient bug that reported "resource unavailable" occasionally
0.6.2 - 6 August 2003
- block devices now have their size read correctly, so pv /dev/hda1 works
- minor code cleanups (mainly removal of CVS "Id" tags)
0.6.0 - 3 August 2003
- doing ^Z then "bg" then "fg" now continues displaying
0.5.9 - 23 July 2003
- fix for test 007 when not in C locale
- fix for build process to use CPPFLAGS
- fix for build process to use correct i18n libraries
- fix for build process - more portable sed in dependency generator
- fix for install process - remember to mkinstalldirs before installing
- fixes for building on Mac OS X
0.5.3 - 4 May 2003
- added Polish translation thanks to Bartosz Feñski
<fenio@o2.pl> <http://skawina.eu.org/> and Krystian Zubel
- moved doc/debian to ./debian at insistence of common sense
- minor Solaris 8 compatibility fixes
- seems to compile and test OK on Mac OS X
0.5.0 - 15 April 2003
- added French translation thanks to Stéphane Lacasse
<stephane@gorfou.ca>
- added German translation thanks to Marcos Kreinacke
<public@kreinacke.com>
- switched LGPL reference from "Library" to "Lesser"
0.4.9 - 18 February 2003
- support for >2GB files added where available (Debian bug #180986)
- added doc/debian dir (from Cédric Delfosse)
- added "make rpm" and "make deb" targets to build RPM and Debian packages
- added a "make pv-static" rule to build a statically linked version
0.4.5 - 13 December 2002
- added Portuguese (Brazilian) translation thanks to Eduardo Aguiar
0.4.4 - 7 December 2002
- pause/resume support - don't count time while stopped
- stop output when resumed in the background
- terminal size change support
- bugfix: <=> indicator no longer sticks at right hand edge
0.4.0 - 27 November 2002
- allow decimal interval values, eg 0.1, 0.5, etc
- some simple tests added (`make check')
- smoother throughput limiting (--rate-limit), now done in 0.1sec chunks
- bounds-check interval values (-i) - max update interval now 10 minutes
- more reliable non-blocking output to keep display updated
- no longer rely on atoll()
- don't output final blank line if --numeric
- use fcntl() instead of flock() for Solaris compatibility
0.3.0 - 25 November 2002
- handle broken output pipe gracefully
- continue updating display even when output pipe is blocking
0.2.6 - 21 October 2002
- we now ignore EINTR on select()
- variable-size buffer (still need to add code to change size)
- added (tentative) support for internationalisation
- removed superfluous --no-progress, etc options
- optimised transfer by using bigger buffers, based on st_blksize
- added --wait option to wait until transfer begins before showing progress
- added --rate-limit option to limit rate to a maximum throughput
- added --quiet option (no output at all) to be used with --rate-limit
0.2.5 - 23 July 2002
- added [FILE]... arguments, like `cat'
- function separation in code
- some bug fixes related to numeric overflow
0.2.3 - 19 July 2002
- Texinfo manual written, man page updated
- byte counter added
0.2.0 - 18 July 2002
- ETA counter added
- screen width estimation added
- progress bar added
0.1.0 - 17 July 2002
- main loop created
- rate counter added
- elapsed time counter added
- percentage calculation added
0.0.1 - 16 July 2002
- package created
- first draft of man page written
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