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FahMon: The Folding@home client monitoring program

v2.3.99.4 (12/11/10)

    General
    
      Monitoring
      
      * Fixed FAHlog.txt parsing on Fermi WUs.
      * Regular expressions for FAHlog.txt parsing imported from fci svn rev132
        (thanks to smoking2000).
      * Fixed broken pause detection.
    
      Other
      
      * Removed option to save xyz files as new cores don't save this anymore
        anyway.
      * Added version info to update available message box.
      * Projects database saves immediately after migration to prevent data
        loss.
      * Benchmarks database now stored in xml, and will migrate from old format
        automatically.

v2.3.99.3 (19/10/10)

    General

      Monitoring
      
      * Added fermi core support.

    Windows

      * Removed agressive exe stripping options when using MSVC 10.
      * Fixed bug where old projects file wasn't deleted.

v2.3.99.2 (17/10/10)

    General
    
      Monitoring
      
      * Added missing protomol core support.
      * Added missing openmmgpu core support.
      * Added bonus ppd (kfactor) support.
      * Added missing smp2 core support.

      Other

      * Fixed a number of thread safety issues which caused intermittent crashes
        and generally undesirable behaviour.
      * Added Simplified Chinese translation.
      * Added Slovak translation.
      * Projects database now stored in xml, and will migrate from old format
        automagically.

    Linux

      * Fixed accidental inclusion of a gcc debug warning level into
        compiliation. Removes the scary output from 2.3.99.1.
      * Fixed RPM .spec file. Thanks to "error".

    Windows

      * Now built against wxWidgets 2.8.11
      * Updated MSVC project to version 10.
      
v2.3.99.1 (06/04/09)

    General

      Monitoring

      * Added more rigorous checks to file handling to ensure that invalid file
        access attempts don't crash FahMon (particularly on Windows).

      Other

      * Updated German translation.

v2.3.99 (03/04/09)

    General

      GUI

      * Fixed total PPD value not updating unless a client is clicked.
      * Allow about and benchmark dialogs to be closed with escape key (thanks
        to smartcat99s).
      * Added columns for client type (determined from the core type) and core
        version number.
      * Main progress bar now hides along with the WU Info panel.
      * Total PPD display moved into the status bar.
      * Improved sorting of inaccessible or disabled clients.
      * Removed "zebra" background colour scheme from benchmarks list.
      * Added IRC channel link to help menu and First Time Dialog.
      * Removed info panel from default view, and replaced with extra columns.
      * Added informative tooltips to a number of controls.
      * Window stays maximised after hiding the FAHlog if it was maximised
        initially.

      Monitoring

      * Improved handling of clients within Virtual Machines.
      * Prevented FahMon from crashing when the FAH client produces excessively
        large unitinfo.txt files.
      * Fixed miscalculation of frame count when step count is a non-standard
        number.
      * Limited FAHlog parsing to last 16KiB.
      * Added ability to reload client in series rather than launching a thread
        for each client. Will improve memory usage with large numbers of
        clients.
      * Significantly reduced CPU usage while reloading.
      * Added support for monitoring clients over http.
      * Added limited support for monitoring clients over ftp.
      * Added slower, configurable timer for reloading http/ftp clients. This is
        also used for web output.
      * Added support for saving web output to an ftp server.
      * Added support for additional cores.
      * Web output is now sorted in the same way as the client list.

      Other

      * Added crash reporter to help debugging.
      * Fixed non-fatal bug in single-instance handler.
      * Fixed internal queue.dat/wx character conversion.
      * FahMon messages are now logged with millisecond timestamps.
      * Added partial Norwegian translation.
      * Plugged several memory leaks.
      * Message Manager now only logs errors by default.
      * Replaced internal inet protocol handling with libcurl.
      * Added "stress test" mode. Start with -s or --stress
      * New user manual.

    Windows

    * Reduced executable size by aggressively optimising MSVC linking
      and padding boundaries.
    * Reduced executable size by aggressively stripping unneeded options
      from wxWidgets.
    * Added --local option to allow config to be managed from local directory.
    * Fixed main window location behaviour.

v2.3.4 (04/11/08)

    General

    * Fixed missing core support.
    * Fixed clients never reloading.
    * Improved CPU usage by altering message log routines.
    * Altered clientstab.txt to be tab delimited.

    Windows

    * Installer now cleans up old config folder which is no longer used.
    * Release generator language support fixed.

v2.3.3 (01/11/08)

    General

    * Added new cores support.
    * Made "Last 3 Frames" the default PPD/ETA calculation method.
    * Added multiple new data columns.
    * Made client management more intuitive by adding a "Clients" menu.
    * Made main window menus more intuitive.
    * Added ability to remove the "WU Info" panel from view.
    * Updated queue structure to qd FR 069
    * Add ability to select custom web output templates.
    * Altered About Dialog text.
    * Added custom variables to web output templates.
    * Fixed GPUv2 always reporting PPD as "inaccurate."
    * Updated folding support forum link in "Web" menu (thanks to Mark Gerber).
    * Fixed div by zero error that affected GPU2 clients (thanks to John
      Daiker).
    * Fixed quick refresh crash bug (thanks to John Daiker).
    * Fixed file manager bug with paths containing spaces (thanks to John
      Daiker).
    * Fixed team number and username refresh issue (thanks to John Daiker).
    * Changed client list style and removed "zebra" background colour scheme.
    * Issue time no longer used as download time.
    * Added ability to disable clients.
    * Improved sorting algorithm.
    * Added client pause detection.
    * Added support for truncating usernames in the web output.

    Windows

    * Fixed cosmetic issue with work/current.xyz using / instead of \.
    * Migrated configuration folder to %APPDATA% to improve behaviour in Vista.
    * Updated installer to add entry to add/remove programs.
    * Fixed some minor installer issues.
    * Now built against wxWidgets 2.8.9.

    Linux

    * Fixed an issue with latest GCC and inline functions (thanks to KB3LWJ).
    * Fixed compiler warnings about deprecated conversions (thanks to John
      Daiker).
    * Added configure test to check for ANSI wxWidgets and warn if found.

v2.3.2b (11/04/08)

    General

    * Fixed bug that caused xyz files to be saved with no project number.
    * A badly formatted psummary no longer produces error message, rather logs a
      warning silently to the log.
    * Added Italian translation.
    * Fixed bug with fractional deadlines still being truncated.
    * Checking for updates from the menu now informs you if no update was found.
    * Added GPUv2 core support.
    * Fixed ETA calculation for WUs with less than 100 % markers.
    * Non-standard system tray menu items moved to icon tooltip.

    Windows

    * Maximised restoring from system tray now works. Finally.
    * Updated MSVC project to version 9.
    * Fixed display of ç character in François.

    OS X

    * Fixed log window not scrolling.
    * Fixed line encoding bug when monitoring MSW clients.
    * Altered progress bar to decrease CPU usage.

v2.3.2a (16/02/08)

    General

    * Added German translation.
    * Fixed endian swap bug when monitoring PPC Macs.
    * FahMon now works on Macs running OS X.
    * Fixed some minor translation bugs.

    Windows

    * Fixed window state bug that caused FahMon to to restore correctly from the
      system tray icon or the taskbar.
    * Fixed regression in the benchmarks dialog that would always display old
      benchmarks by location rather than name.

v2.3.2 (08/02/08)

    General

    * Updated licence information.
    * Included code from qd to retrieve PRCG, issue date, username and
      teamnumber.
    * Removed redundant (unstable) code.
    * Fixed bug that prevented FahMon from being restored to maximised state.
    * Fixed bug that formatted dates incorrectly in Web Output.
    * Added total PPD and update dates to Simple Web and Text output.
    * Fixed bug in progress calculation system that reported 100% as 0%
    * Fixed bug that broke effective frame time for some clients.
    * Fixed bug in monitoring system that broke PPD/ETA for projects with less
      than 100 frames.
    * Fixed proxy username text box sizing bug.
    * Cleaned up project download settings. Users migrating from =< 2.3.1 will
      need to enter their settings again if they were using an "alternate"
      download location.
    * WebApp web output now copies images automatically.
    * Fixed bug in project update system that prevented client list reloading
      data after an update.
    * Client information box shows as much info as possible even if projects
      database isn't up to date.
    * Web output now uses a templating system, allowing users to create their
      own output designs.
    * Fixed bug which broke deadline dates if a WU was downloaded the previous
      year.
    * Fixed bug which crashed FahMon if it updates the database and psummary is
      missing the information required.
    * Monitoring system now calculates how many markers are in a log file based
      on FAHlog.txt analysis and only uses the psummary "frame" count if no
      accurate determination can be made.
    * Fixed behaviour when FAHlog reports odd completion percentages like 100%->
      200% instead of 0%->100%.
    * Offline documentation is now more informative and easier to follow.
    * Added SCEARD (PS3 Gromacs) support just in case we ever get access to PS3
      logs in the future.
    * Fancy web output now renders satisfactorily on IE7.
    * Potentially inaccurate ETA and PPD values are marked with an asterisk (*).

    Windows

    * Fixed bug which drew the FahMon icon over the progress dialog title.
    * Fixed issue with VC8 resource compiler not accepting compressed vista
      icons.
    * Fixed issues with wxMSW 2.8.6 and network paths.
    * Built Win32 version against wxMSW 2.8.6.
    * Updated MSVC project to allow building of debug releases.

    Linux

    * Build requirements upped to wxGTK2.8.

v2.3.1 (30/10/07)

    General

    * Updated and improved documentation (this is still "Work in Progress").
    * Added Czech translation.
    * Preferences dialog and client list now save changes immediately, which
      should help in situations where FahMon crashes, like fast-user-switching
      or closing RDP/VNC sessions.
    * Added Drag-and-Drop function to the client list to allow new clients to be
      added more easily.
    * Add Gromacs SMP CVS (GROCVS) core support.
    * Adjusted margin on the benchmarks dialog.
    * Fixed bug in "Effective Duration" code that produced incorrect results
      when calculating values for WUs with less than 100 frames.
    * Detailed instructions on how to compile fahmon using the MS Free Tools are
      now provided.
    * Altered progress detection method to use FAHlog.txt, this should help with
      cores that don't update unitinfo.txt in a timely fashion, or at all.
      Unitinfo.txt is still used as a fallback if 1) The projectId is unknown,
      2) The WU is still in the "startup" phase (i.e. yellow).
    * Added WebApp module. You can now export the monitoring status to 3
      different formats, WebApp - a fancy jscript powered web page that mimics
      the FahMon interface; Simple Web - a simple web page containing useful
      data arranged in a simple table; Simple Text - similar to Simple Web, but
      optimised for shell based viewing - useful for monitoring over SSH.
    * Removed redundant "display deadlines in days option". The format is now
      controlled by the old "Display ETA as" option which has been renamed to
      "Display dates as"
    * Added menu item to cycle through ETA display styles as requested.
    * Updated about dialog to use new website
    * HTTP requests from FahMon now send a User-Agent string (i.e. FahMon/2.3.1)
    * Update notification system added
    * Added Dutch translation
    * Added Brazilian Portuguese translation
    * Added Spanish translation
    * New application icon, including Vista-required dimensions

v2.3.0 (10/09/07)

    Linux

    * Replaced scons with GNU build system (makes it easier for packagers).
    * Altered image path to now use standard directory (like
      /usr/share/pixmaps/fahmon).
    * Altered message.log location to use ~/.fahmon/
    * Above changes mean FahMon can be run from anywhere on the system without
      worrying about being in the right directory first.
    * Automatically creates Application Menu shortcut using GNU build system.
    * Fixed typo that caused default file manager to be set to "Other" instead
      of "Konqueror" on a fresh install.
    * psummary parser altered to change the decimal point symbol on the fly,
      thus allowing non-english users to display "," instead of "."

    Windows

    * Created new installer using NSIS

    General

    * Documentation altered to fit with GNU build system.
    * Fixed regression that caused FahMon to lose settings on OS shutdown or
      logoff.
    * Added Double Gromacs B (DGROMACSB) core support.
    * Adapted asynchronous client detection to work with updated timezone
      conversion system. Asynchronous clients should no longer appear "hung"
      when "ignore asynchronous clocks" is enabled. This has the potential to
      display the state incorrectly for clients having very long frame times
      (close to 1 day). For the most accurate state detection, client clocks
      should be as in-sync as possible (use NTP).
    * Fixed some items on the preferences dialog that didn't automatically
      refresh the client list when the preferences were applied/saved.
    * The information panel now shows the full PRCG data for the current client
      (if readable).
    * The "effective" rate can now be used to calculate ETA and PPD. This bases
      the frame times on the total running time of the WU since it was
      downloaded, thus takes into account times when the client was not actually
      processing the WU.
    * Fixed bug which caused incorrect sorting by PPD when there were stopped
      clients in the list.
    * Double clicking on clients will open the folder containing that client.
    * Altered WU information panel to show deadlines as days, hours, minutes to
      match the ETA display.
    * Improved instance handling to raise the previous instance instead of
      producing a warning message. Uses DDE on Win32 and Unix sockets on Unix.
    * Made log processing routines more robust to cope with messy lines in
      FAHlog.txt created by the Windows SMP client.
    * Source package now contains all files necessary to build on Linux, MS
      Windows and OSX. However, they are only guaranteed to compile sucessfully
      on Linux. MS Windows can be made to work, OSX is unknown at this point.
    * FahMon is now internationalised, and comes with translations for: British
      English, French, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Swedish.

v2.2.2 (07/07/07)

    * Added preliminary detection for hung clients
    * Fixed bug which prevented reloading selected client data after being
      restored from the system tray
    * Fixed regression which caused inaccessible clients to report an incorrect
      state on FahMon launch
    * Fixed regression that often caused an incorrect xyz file to be saved when
      experimental reload system was activated
    * Fixed (longstanding) major issue with state detection and timezone
      conversion which caused clients to have an unknown state when the local
      timezone has passed 00:00 and the client hasn't.
    * Fixed bug which prevented you from running FahMon in "start minimised"
      mode without "enable tray icon" being set
    * Fixed another bug relating to window size not restoring correctly. If the
      frame is ever detected to be 0x0, default values are used instead
    * Client list colour scheme now follows system on both Windows and Linux
    * Made more code compatible with newer versions of wxWidgets (Win32)

v2.2.1a (13/06/07)

    * Reverted Win32 build back to wxWidgets 2.6.3 as 2.8.4 appeared to cause
      file access problems for some users
    * Altered projects database conversion system to work correctly

v2.2.1 (13/06/07)

    * Added "Start Minimized" option
    * Added the blue color for unsynched clients, please check the help file for
      more information
    * Added experimental auto-reload code (thanks to athropos_666)
    * Added option to base ETA and PPD on instantaneous frame time and rolling 3
      frame average
    * Added ability to override timezone detected by wxwidgets (whole hours
      only)
    * Message manager now writes out messages to messages.log
    * Added Simulated Tempering Gromacs (GROSIMT) core support
    * Added Dolphin as a filemanager option for Linux users in preparation for
      it being the default FM in KDE4
    * Added option to partially override state detection for clients with
      unsynced clocks
    * Fixed empty log crash bug
    * Fixed state detection bug for verbose clients trying to upload results
      periodically
    * Fixed projects database to handle non-integer deadlines correctly
    * Status images slightly altered
    * Worked around bug in wxwidgets breaking DST timezones, see above
    * Download times and deadlines are now displayed in local time instead of
      UTC
    * ETA times in the message log now displayed as HH:MM:SS instead of seconds
    * Projects database now versioned
    * Deadline and download dates can also be displayed as time elapsed or
      remaining, in days
    * Added missing declaration to allow compilation against wxWidgets 2.8
    * Switched win32 version to wxWidgets 2.8.4

v2.2.0 (25/03/07)

    * Added full monitoring support for GPU and SMP clients
    * Added SREM Gromacs (GROST) core support
    * Added PPD display per client, and total
    * Fixed bug which caused all unsaved settings to be lost when client was
      left running on an OS shutdown or logoff.
    * Fixed bugs which prevented code working correctly with gcc > 4 (thanks to
      ck_wong and goober_dvd for the patches)
    * A local file can now be used as a project data source, and the download
      parameters can be changed
    * Added a tray menu showing number of clients and PPD
    * Right click menu for clients now allows you to open the client folder in
      your file manager
    * Client list can be sorted by PPD and Status
    * Inaccessible clients can be included in sorting, by default they are
      always displayed last.
    * Web menu now includes a link to fahinfo.org, pointing to the relevant
      project information page

v2.1.5 (26/11/06)

    * Added links to user's stats page in the right panel of the main window
    * When tray icon is enabled, hide the main window when it is minimized
      (thanks to Mihail Boev for the patch)

v2.1.4 (13/11/06)

    * Fixed refresh bug when changing selection
    * When psummary file is corrupted, don't abort on first error and continue
      to parse remaining lines
    * Added preliminary support for the new cores (GPU and SMP)

v2.1.3 (01/11/06)

    * Fixed a GMT date management bug (Linux)
    * Switched win32 version to wxWidgets 2.6.3

v2.1.2 (29/10/06)

    * Fixed the window size bug that occurred when FahMon was closed when
      minimized (win32)
    * Fixed operator precedence warnings for the alternating shading in list
      controls (thanks to Mihail Boev for the patch)
    * Fixed visual bug with resizing when showing/hiding the log window (thanks
      again to Mihail Boev)
    * Added a browser preference in Linux version (thanks to mdickinson for the
      patch, sorry for the delay :-))

v2.1.1 (18/07/06)

    * Added support for Gromacs33 core (thanks to uncle_fungus for the patch)

v2.1.0c (08/03/06)

    * When client was stopped, best benchmark was deleted

v2.1.0b (01/03/06)

    * Clients were sometimes falsely detected as stopped

v2.1.0 (25/02/06)

    * Made Linux version more standard: configuration and .xyz files are now
      stored in ~/.fahmon/
    * Added the black color for inaccessible clients, please check the help
      content for more information
    * The download date (and thus preferred/final deadlines) was sometimes
      corrupted
    * The selected entry in the benchmarks dialog was not always visible
    * Rewrote main parts of the benchmarking code, it should be more reliable
    * Improved error handling when loading client information
    * Improved the way inactivity is detected
    * Miscellaneous small fixes

v2.0.4 (12/02/06)

    * FahMon was unusable on some non-english Linux systems
    * Percentage of completion near the progress bar was not displayed until the
      window was resized
    * Fixed the 'Feburary' bug caused by some F@H cores

v2.0.3 (30/10/05)

    * The position of the frame is now saved and restored across sessions
    * Updated Stanford web addresses (vspx27.stanford.edu is now
      fah-web.stanford.edu)

v2.0.2 (15/10/05)

    * Added support for proxies that require authentication
    * Added support for a system tray icon
    * Fixed the bug that caused a blank window of Internet Explorer to appear in
      the win32 version
    * Miscellaneous small changes

v2.0.1 (29/09/05)

    * Fixed the inability to sort the list of clients using the ETA as the
      sorting criterion
    * Fixed the case where min. time / frame could be smaller than avg. time /
      frame
    * The correct dialog icon is now used in the win32 version
    * The name of a client is displayed instead of its location in the
      benchmarks dialog, if possible

v2.0.0 (24/09/05)

    * FahMon has been entirely rewritten and now works also with Linux. A lot of
      changes have been done, just check them! (Beware that file formats have
      changed and are not compatible with previous ones!)