I'm happy to announce a new relase of xmobar, the text-based monitor bar. You can read everything about xmobar and this release at our new web address (http://projects.haskell.org/xmobar/), or see below for a summary of what's new (cf. http://projects.haskell.org/xmobar/releases.html). ## Version 0.12 xmobar has a new [maintainer], a new [website], a new [mailing list] and uses a new [source code repository]. Many thanks to Andrea Rossato, xombar's author and maintainer so far, for creating xmobar in the first place, and for giving me the chance to become its maintainer. And a big thanks to Ben Boeckel, Petr Rockai and Norbert Zeh for their patches. [website]: http://projects.haskell.org/xmobar/ [mailing list]: http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmobar [source code repository]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar [maintainer]: http://hacks-galore.org/jao/ _New features_ - Window borders: configuration options `border` and `borderColor` allow drawing borders around xmobar's window. - New monitor, `Uptime`, showing the system uptime. - New monitor argument (`-S`) to enable displaying the `%` symbol in percentages or other suffixes (e.g., units in Uptime and Network); the symbol is now never included by default. - New 'run once' commands, by specifying a 0 refresh rate in `Run Com` ([issue 26]). - MPD monitor: updated to libmpd 1.5. New fields `ppos` (playlist position) and `remaining` (remaining time). New configuration options to specify MPD's host, user name and password. - Battery monitor: new `watts` and `timeleft` fields (Petr Rockai), and specific arguments to control coloring and thresholds of the former. - MultiCPU monitor: new `auto*` fields that automatically detect all present CPUs (Ben Boeckel). - CpuFreq monitor uses just one decimal digit for GHz values (Petr Rockai). - Mail plugin expands paths starting with "~/" (Ben Boeckel). Ditto MBox. - Weather monitor now skips not retrieved fields, instead of displaying a long error message. - New compilation flag, `all_extensions`. - Documentation and website updates. _Bug fixes_ - [issue 23]: Wireless monitor is now compatible with iwlib 29. - [issue 24]: Swap monitor's used ratio display fixed. - [issue 25]: Percentages only include `%` if requested using `-P`. - [issue 31]: MPD monitor now respects `-W` argument. - Fixes in CPU frequency formatting, string alignment and colour boxes in monitors (Norbert Zeh). - TopMem and TopProc now use the `-L` and `-H` options correctly for memory template fields. - MBox skips non-existent mbox paths instead of hanging.