I've just released xmobar 0.16, the lightweight text-based system monitor written in Haskell. See http://projects.haskell.org/xmobar, and full release notes below. As always, thanks a bunch to the many contributors, who keep helping me improving xmobar and making it more and more useful. The continuous flow of patches and suggestions is one the nicest things about hacking on and maitaining xmobar. This is a somewhat risky release, because some users are reporting problems with GHC 7.6.1 and xmonad (see links below), but there are so many new features and fixes, and happy users of the unstable version, that i thought a release was in order. Please, do not hesitate to complain about problems you might encounter: i'll do my best to fix them in subsequent releases. Thanks! ## Version 0.16 (Dec 3, 2012) _New features_ - New monitor `AutoMPD`, which uses asynchronous events to display MPD status (thanks to Ben Boeckel). - New monitor `BufferedPipeReader` displaying data from multiple pipes (thanks to Jochen Keil). - New monitor `DynNetwork`, which detects the active interface automatically, by Reto Hablützel - New monitor, `Locks`, displaying the status of lock keys, by Patrick Chilton. - Extension for DBUS signal handling (Jochen Keil) - Hide/Reveal: one can send signals to xmobar and make it (un)hide itself (Jochen again). - `PipeReader`'s default text is now configurable, by Reto Hablützel. - Dependencies updated to latest mtl and libmpd (thanks to Sergei Trofimovich). - Dependencies on the deprecated dbus-core removed in favour of dbus 0.10 (thanks to Jochen Keil). - MPris2 now includes genre and composer among its fields. _Bug fixes_ - `DiskIO` now can report overall activity in all partitions of a device which is not mounted itself (e.g., sda when sda1, sda3, etc. are the mounted partitions). Thanks to John Soros. See [github #73]. - `DiskU`, the disk usage monitor, works again correctly on Linux, instead of randomly crashing every now and then, and reporting wrong used size. - When using antialiased fonts, we were causing a memory leak in the X server by repeatedly allocating colors that, apparently, the server doesn't know how to get rid of (even when told so!). We're caching them now and X server memory doesn't grow. - Compilation errors and warnings with GHC 7.6 removed (thanks to Raghavendra D Prabhu for his reports in [github #71]). _Known problems_ Some users have reported problems with xmobar compiled with GHC 7.6 in ArchLinux: see [github #78] and pointers therein. Please, send reports of any problems or successes in that regard so that we can fix any remaining issues. Thanks! [github #71]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/71 [github #73]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/73 [github #78]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/78