What's new in GSmartControl 0.8.6
May 3, 2012
- Support detecting drives behind 3ware controllers (Linux, Windows), including tw_cli/cx/px mode in Windows. Having tw_cli is recommended but not required.
- Added support for specifying -d option and extra parameters via command line, "Add Device" and "Preferences" dialogs. This change effectively adds full support for multiple drives behind a single device name.
- Beesu and su-to-root are supported by gsmartcontrol-root script now.
- Completely revamped the attribute database and its handling, should be a lot more usable and forward-compatible now; SSD attributes are also included.
- In-program help has been expanded considerably.
- General improvements to user interface have been implemented (better GNOME HIG compliance, better tooltips, dialogs, etc...).
- Added ability to show smartctl output for devices whose info could not be parsed fully.
- Attributes in "brief" format are supported now.
- The parser has been updated to reflect the recent changes in smartctl.
- Quit and rescan operations are no longer denied without confirmation when tests are running.
- The Windows NSIS installer has been vastly improved.
- Better support for Windows Vista and 7.
- Changed copyright notices for files with Whatever License to use Unlicense.
- Added other minor features and fixed quite a few bugs.
New in GSmartControl 0.8.5 (Oct 6, 2009)
- GSmartControl now uses XDG config directory for per-user configuration on UNIX and CSIDL_PROFILE directory on Windows. Existing configuration is migrated automatically.
- The names are shown correctly for unsupported devices even with the latest smartctl snapshots now.
- Smartctl SVN revision is shown (if available).
- The progress bars update properly when parallel tests are run.
- Windows: GSmartControl should be able to operate on any valid filesystem path (not just locale-representable ones).
- Windows: GSmartControl is now officially compilable on x86_64 via mingw64.
- Fixed compilation under very old gtkmm/libglademm, and with gcc 4.4.
- Fixed parsing of multiple error types in SMART error log.
- Added minor features and fixed miscellaneous bugs.
New in GSmartControl 0.8.4 (Mar 24, 2009)
- Linux Software RAID devices are blacklisted now. (backported from Debian).
- Attributes tab is before the capabilities tab now.
- A man page has been generously contributed by Giuseppe Iuculano .
- Smartctl version now includes the CVS snapshot date (if available).
- Windows: Look for "smartctl-nc.exe" instead of "smartctl.exe" by default.
- Windows: Use smartmontools-supplied smartctl-nc.exe by default (if found).
- Other minor changes (mainly Debian backports).
New in GSmartControl 0.8.1 (Nov 11, 2008)
- Disabled Linux "by-id" drive detection - it's unreliable on some broken systems.
- Added some more attribute descriptions.
- Our names for attributes override smartctls' now.
- Added a proper "Add Device" dialog for Windows.
- Added an icon and resource file for Windows.
- Fixed minor bugs.