What's New in fswatch 1.6.0

fswatch v. 1.6.0 introduces the following features:

• Issue 88: A monitor for Microsoft Windows has been added.
• fswatch can now be built on Microsoft Windows using Cygwin.
• Issue 39fswatch can report monitor buffer overflows (which cannot be avoided with certain monitors) as regular events for callers to recover gracefully.
• Monitors can be customized by passing monitor-specific configuration properties.

fsw has been merged with fswatch.

What's New in fswatch 1.5.1

fswatch v. 1.5.1 introduces the following improvements:

• fswatch-run scripts have been removed.
• Dependency on at least one supported shell (Zsh or Bash) has been removed.
• Fixes Issue 91: Can't compile fswatch 1.5.0 on FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE.

What's New in fswatch 1.5.0

fswatch v. 1.5.0 fixes the following bugs:

• Fix issue 46: Allow filtering by event type.

libfswatch v. 1.5.0 introduces the following improvements:

• Fix issue 46: Allow filtering by event type.
• Fix issue 83: Callback invocation should be moved into fsw::monitor.

What's New in fswatch 1.4.7

fswatch v. 1.4.7 fixes the following bugs:

• Fix bug in exclusion filter ordering.

libfswatch v. 1.4.7 introduces the following improvements:

• Provide a way to pass context data to the C API monitor callback.

What's New in fswatch 1.4.6

fswatch v. 1.4.6 fixes the following bugs:

• Issue 74: Assertion failed on fsw_destroy_session.

What's New in fswatch 1.4.5.3

fswatch v. 1.4.5.3 introduces the following features, improvements and bug fixes:

• Issue 67: 100% CPU usage while using libfswatch.

This issue only affects the inotify monitor, available only on Linux systems.

What's New in fswatch 1.4.5.2

fswatch v. 1.4.5.2 introduces the following features, improvements and bug fixes:

• Issue 66: Exclude items with poll_monitor not considered.

What's New in fswatch 1.4.5.1

fswatch v. 1.4.5.1 introduces the following features, improvements and bug fixes:

• Do not distribute wrapper scripts for shells which are not installed (the FreeBSD port system checks shebangs and complains).

What's New in fswatch 1.4.5

fswatch v. 1.4.5 introduces the following features, improvements and bug fixes:

• Add custom record formats.

What's New in fswatch 1.4.4

fswatch v. 1.4.4 introduces the following features, improvements and bug fixes:

• Localize fswatch and libfswatch using GNU gettext.
• Add Italian (it) localization.
• Add Spanish (es) localization.

What's New in fswatch 1.4.3.2

fswatch v. 1.4.3.2 introduces the following features, improvements and bug fixes:

• Fix Makefile.am because of broken link when DESTDIR installs are performed.

What's New in fswatch 1.4.3.1

fswatch v. 1.4.3.1 introduces the following features, improvements and bug fixes:

• Fix bug in fswatch-run wrapper script for ZSH which caused last argument not to be split when passed to xargs.

What's New in fswatch 1.4.3

fswatch v. 1.4.3 introduces the following new features and improvements:

• Add batch marker feature to delimit the boundaries of a batch of events.
• Add Texinfo documentation.
• libfswatch API is now versioned.
• Improved Autoconf checks.
• The inotify monitor now waits for events and honours the latency settings.
• Automaticaly generate the ChangeLog using Git.
• Update autogen.sh to honour some commonly used environment variables.

What's New

fswatch v. 1.4.2 introduces the following new features and improvements:

• The inotify monitor now provides the same functionality provided by all the other monitors. Recursive directory monitoring is now implemented.
• Version and revision is now determined dynamically from Git by ancillary scripts invoked by the GNU Build System.

What's New

The following bug fixes were added in fswatch 1.4.1.1:

• fswatch does not compile on OS X < 10.9 because some required C++11 classes are not supported by the C++ runtime.

What's New

The following bug fixes were added in fswatch 1.4.1:

• fswatch does not compile on OS X < 10.9 because some required C++11 classes are not supported by the C++ runtime.

What's New

The following features were added in fswatch 1.4.0:

• The libfswatch library has been added with bindings for C and C++.
• fswatch let users specify the monitor to use by name.

What's New

The following feature was added:

• Issue 23 and Issue 25: Add --include [regex] option.

What's New

The following bugs were fixed:

• Issue 34: The inotify monitor prints diagnostic messages even when not run in verbose mode