v4.6.0

Hey everyone !

So this is an exhaustive recap of what has happened between July and August, and what you should read before upgrading in any way.

A project, A.K.A. "A story of dependencies"

So, if it's not already the case, you will understand sooner or later that a main dependency of Archey 4 has changed with v4.6.0.
As extensively discussed during #36, we will now drop the direct usage of lsb_release and instead ask the distro Python module.
The idea is to propose (in a backward-compatibility way) a better support of distribution detection, by using a known maintained module that will do the job.
In the future, we may expect a lighter integration process for new distributions (like *-BSD and much more), as their id would be predictable.
It also should be faster, as it uses /etc/os-release file under the hood (if available), instead of calling an external program.

This was also the occasion to improve some distribution matching pattern (fe8ec9).

⚠️ Unless your are using Debian Jessie (and thus you should opt for an installation from PIP now), you basically only have to install python[3]-distro package from your repositories, which will provide the distro Python module.
Don't forget that, if you don't want to install it as a package for instance, it is also available from PyPI : pip3 install distro.

Once it's done, you may consider removing the no longer used lsb-release dependency, if your packages manager allows you to do it 😌

TL;DR

-lsb-release
+python3-distro

One new feature

• A basic SlackWare support has been implemented : Feedbacks are welcome (3334624)

Some bug fixes

• The truncation of GPU information was not handling some special characters (794083e)
• The test cases were throwing (and still throw some) warnings (see #35)

As always, some minor improvements

• dig & wget calls will now be forced to use respective IP versions while detecting your public address (45fd5de)
• Little performance gain during GPU detection (fb7c79a)
• Little performance gain during distribution detection (additionally to the usage of distro)
• Documentation and README consistencies have been improved
• The contributors list has been updated with latest "makers" (Thanks guys ❤️)
• Code styles are now compliant with PyLint bad-indentation warning

Surprise (!)

Finally, I'm very happy to announce that @Xysto will kindly (try to do its best to) provide .rpm packages for Archey 🎉
As always, feedbacks will be appreciated 🙇

The COPYRIGHT.md will now list "official" Archey 4 packagers.

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Bye, thanks for your time and happy upgrading 👋

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EDIT : I forgot to sign this release... I've set you a signed Wheel as asset here.

EDIT 2 : Due to a bug with PyPI, I've re-submitted Wheel afterwards.
The corresponding version will hence be archey4-4.6.0.post1 due to setuptools versioning normalization.

v4.5.0

Hey all, you'll find below a short sum up of the changes brought to Archey 4 during june and july :

• Fixes an error with some ARM devices (thanks to @thisforeda) [see #31]
• Adds support for WSL filesystem (thanks to @Naragato) [see #32]
• Improves code style, development workflows and adds Python 3.7 job to Travis [see #33]
• Fixes a warning occurring while running test against Python 3.4 & beautifies documentation [see f52c1c4 and 0dda395]
• Later, the new Debian package will be published with UNIX rights fixed on configuration file !
• I've also added Python Wheel to GitHub release's assets, as long as its signature

Happy upgrade,
Bye 👋

v4.4.1

Hi everyone,

Below a short sum up of the changes brought between February and May :

• Installation instructions and documentation have been improved
• Encoding-relative errors will now be handled properly during execution (see #28)
• CPU detection has been extended to work on some ARM architectures (see #29 & #30)

Happy upgrade,
Cheers 👋

v4.4.0

Hello there,

This has been a very long road, here is an exhaustive briefing of new changes :

The project

• Software architecture has been reworked (such a Python project now)
• Test cases have been added (run them with python3 setup.py test)
• Now compatible with setuptools (pip3 install .)
• Improves documentation
• New code styles to improve readability
• Program now available on PyPI (pip3 install archey4)
• Travis CI will now automatically inspect the code !
• A .gitignore has been added

Features, Improvements & Bug fixes

• Now GPU will sort entries by relevancy and output only the best one
• Adds new strings to configuration for translation
• Execution warnings are now mutable (check suppress_warnings in the configuration)
• Major optimizations of external calls
• Packages entry will now output more accurate values, and is compatible with non-English locales

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A big thanks to @adjagu, @Si13n7 and @Xysto for their respective time !

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PS : I'll attach new binaries a bit later, sorry for the inconvenience 😬
PS2 : I'll also stop building RPM release packages 'cause they actually don't work (tested on Fedora with @Xysto), so we'd need a packager 👍

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There is actually a problem with the DEB package (you may have some files within your / directory)...
It will be fixed with the next release. Sorry for the inconvenience.

v4.3.3

So much work during these past 4 days, let's sum it up and draw a new release :

• Improves documentation (thanks to @Phoenix1747)
• Precises dependencies (see next packages) (thanks again to @Phoenix1747)
• Adds timeout for IP addresses detection to configuration file (thanks to @adjagu)
• Handles the absence of wget (for vanilla Linux environments)
• Now warnings and errors will be printed to STDERR to allow streams redirection

Thanks, bye 👋

v4.3.2

Hi there,

Today it's a new release with changes mainly coming from @Si13n7. A big thanks to him.

• IPv6 support for LAN_IP & WAN_IP
• One new option to specify the maximum number of local addresses to display
• Backward compatibility has been improved
• Archey support now Windows subsystems
• License and copyrights will now be externalized

Don't hesitate to report any issue 👌
Bye 👋

v4.3.1

Hello there !

New minor version, let's see what changed recently :

• Now users can mask one or many entries from the external configuration (see README.md) !
• Minor optimizations
• Improves code style
• Implements configuration "locking" (users can now block future configuration file to being loaded)
• Adds the color palette to Terminal output ! 🎨
• Fixes detection for WindowManager with KDE Plasma !

Everything is supposed to be backward compatible, don't hesitate to point out any issue you may experience 😬

Bye 👋

v4.3.0

Hi there,

New version = new stuffs :

• Adds a new entry for hardware temperature (see #10 and #12)
• Adds support for external configurations (optional though, Archey will keep working as a standalone script 😜) (see #13 and #14)
• Bug fix for RAM computation
• Typo
• Now packages are available (see Assets attached and previous release)
• Updates dependencies list
• Minor optimizations
• GitHub repo does not have a dev branch anymore (was actually useless and redundant)

Comments are still welcome 👌

Bye 👋

v4.2.2

Thanks to @Si13n7, the Ubuntu logo has been fixed !
New users will have a help message about the dependence to the lsb-release package.
The trailing white-space which had been added to the previous release has just been removed 😉

Happy monitoring 🏹

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EDIT 27/11/17 : A package is now available for Arch-based distributions (see binary attached below), and published on AUR (waiting for validation ?) : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/archey4/

EDIT 28/11/17 : Packages for Debian and Red Hat are now available (source) ! Check below and new README.

v4.2.1

Some optimizations, improves development conditions and modularity

EDIT : Sorry for those useless notifications... Some problems with GitHub... 😕

EDIT 2 : This repository is now detached from its parent !
After having thought about this A LOT, I've contacted the GitHub's support and now it's finally done 🎉