What's New in fswatch 1.17.1

fswatch 1.17.1 introduces the following features and bug fixes:

• Issue #291: Issue 291: Configuration header leaked into public interface in v. 1.17.0.

libfswatch 1.17.1 introduces the following features and bug fixes:

• Issue #291: Issue 291: Configuration header leaked into public interface in v. 1.17.0.

What's New in fswatch 1.17.0

fswatch 1.17.0 introduces the following features and bug fixes:

• Refactor code to replace usages of deprecated function FSEventStreamScheduleWithRunLoop with FSEventStreamSetDispatchQueue.

• Issue #230: Improve responsiveness on macos: add support for kFSEventStreamCreateFlagNoDefer.

• Issue #249: Man page still mentions fswatch-run.

• Issue #255: Implement event bubbling.

• Issue #256: -1 flag prints the file changed 3x before exiting.

libfswatch 1.17.0 introduces the following features and bug fixes:

• Refactor code to replace usages of deprecated function FSEventStreamScheduleWithRunLoop with FSEventStreamSetDispatchQueue.

• Issue #230: Improve responsiveness on macos: add support for kFSEventStreamCreateFlagNoDefer.

• Issue #255: Implement event bubbling.

What's New in fswatch 1.16.0

fswatch 1.16.0 introduces the following features and bug fixes:

• Update FSEvents flags and add support to macOS 10.10+ features.

• Issue #226: Add FreeBSD installation instructions.

• Issue #243: PlatformSpecific instead of Updated on Darwin 19.4.

• Issue #248: Update fswatch.7.in to add the Event Types section to the man
  page.

• Issue #257: Update FreeBSD installation instructions.

• Issue #260: Fix memory leak.

• Issue #269: do not use global variable in function, pass parameter
  instead.

• Issue #270: using both AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR and AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS is
  deprecated in autoconf-2.71

• Issue #272: Send AttributeModified on touch when using the FSevents monitor.

libfswatch 1.16.0 introduces the following features and bug fixes:

• Update FSEvents flags and add support to macOS 10.10+ features.

• Issue #260: Fix memory leak.

What's New in fswatch 1.15.0

libfswatch 1.15.0 introduces the following features and bug fixes:

• #224: Add pkg-config support.

What's New in fswatch 1.14.0

libfswatch 1.14.0 introduces the following features and bug fixes:

• The library version has been updated to 11:1:0.
• #218: fswatch v1.13 ignores the --monitor parameter and always uses the default monitor

What's New in fswatch 1.13.0

libfswatch 1.13.0 introduces the following features and bug fixes:

• The library version has been updated to 11:0:0.
• #142: Static library will not have any monitor type available

What's New in fswatch 1.12.0

fswatch 1.12.0 introduces the following features and bug fixes:

• #178: Migrate usages of POSIX regular expressions (<regex.h>) to the C++11 regex library (<regex>).
• #191: Wrong error message is printed when inotify event queue overflows.

libfswatch 1.11.3 introduces the following features and bug fixes:

• #178: Migrate usages of POSIX regular expressions (<regex.h>) to the C++11 regex library (<regex>).
• #191: Wrong error message is printed when inotify event queue overflows.

What's New in fswatch 1.11.3

fswatch 1.11.3 introduces the following features and bug fixes:

• #192: Make the build reproducible.

libfswatch 1.11.3 introduces the following features and bug fixes:

• #185: Fix C99 compatibility in cevent.h.
• #186: Session memory is not freed.
• #188: Fix segmentation fault when starting monitor.
• #189: Add function to the C API to check that a monitor is running.
• #190: Fix stop sequence for FSEvents monitor.

What's New in fswatch 1.11.2

fswatch 1.11.2 introduces the following features and bug fixes:

• #183: Generate a single message catalog for both fswatch and libfswatch
• NLS support can be disabled.
• gettext is an optional dependency.

What's New in fswatch 1.11.1

fswatch 1.11.1 introduces the following features and bug fixes:

• #182: Remove mandatory dependency to git

What's New in fswatch 1.11.0

fswatch 1.11.0 introduces the following features and bug fixes:

• #174: Allow a numeric event mask to be specified.
• #181: Make gettext an optional dependency.

What's New in fswatch 1.10.1

fswatch 1.10.1 introduces the following features and bug fixes:

• Update texinfo documentation.

What's New in fswatch 1.10.0

fswatch 1.10.0 introduces the following features and bug fixes:

• #60: Allow excluding file patterns by passing in a file.
• #119: Merge fswatch and libfswatch Autotools project into one.
• #141: Add Docker files for Linux distributions used for testing.
• Add target to build fswatch on Alpine Linux and Debian.

libfswatch 1.10.0 introduces the following features and bug fixes:

• Add Doxygen documentation.
• #60: Add function to load filters from a file.
• #137: Deadlock on C function fsw_destroy_session if fsw_start_monitor is called.
• Modify fsw_destroy_session function not to destroy a session that has a running monitor.
• #143: Add fsw_stop_monitor to the C API.

What's New in fswatch 1.9.3

libfswatch 1.9.3 fixes the following bugs:

• #120: Header files were not C compliant

What's New in fswatch 1.9.2

fswatch and libfswatch 1.9.2 fix the following bugs:

• Issue #118: v. 1.9.0 breaks the -1 option.

What's New in fswatch 1.9.1

fswatch uses libfswatch v. 1.9.1.

libfswatch v. 1.9.1 introduces the following features:

• libfswatch API version 7:0:1.

What's New in fswatch 1.9.0

fswatch v. 1.9.0 introduces the following features:

• Issue 84: Add the possibility of scheduling a periodic event.
• Issue 114: fswatch does not track newly created directories recursively when using the inotify monitor.
• The AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX macro was patched so that the switches it adds to the compiler are added to the preprocessor configuration as well.

libfswatch v. 1.9.0 introduces the following features:

• Update monitor::~monitor() to invoke monitor::stop(), close resources in monitor::on_stop().
• Issue 84: Add the possibility of scheduling a periodic idle event.
• Run a separate thread to fire idle events.
• Improve logging.
• Do not fail if blocking calls are interrupted by a signal.
• Issue 114: fswatch does not track newly created directories recursively when using the inotify monitor.
• The AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX macro was patched so that the switches it adds to the compiler are added to the preprocessor configuration as well.

What's New in fswatch 1.8.0

fswatch v. 1.8.0 introduces the following features:

• Issue 103: Add Doxygen documentation.
• Issue 110: Add preemptive monitor stop support.

What's New in fswatch 1.7.0

fswatch v. 1.7.0 introduces the following features:

• Issue 35: Support Solaris/Illumos File Events Notification API.
• Issue 98: Add (-d, --directories) option to request the monitor to watch directories only during a recursive scan.
• Issue 99: A monitor using the File Events Notification API of the Solaris/Illumos kernel has been added.
• Issue 101: Add flag to watch file accesses.

What's New in fswatch 1.6.1

fswatch v. 1.6.1 fixes the following bugs:

• Texinfo documentation now includes @dircategory and @direntry tags to be compatible with install-info.