KDiskMark

Changed

• Fixed config directory name to ~/.config/kdiskmark
• Hungarian localization correction (#120)
• Fixed window icon for AppImage, Flatpak and Snap

Added

• Dutch localization (#121)

Specific AppImage changes

• Fixed window freezing during a benchmark stop
• PageCache flushing support via built-in helper
• Fixed error caused by missing system libaio
• Fixed eventual crash on restarting tests

AppImage Note: If PageCache flusing is enabled, the privileged helper will be requested via pkexec or kdesu.

Changed

• Benchmark file name is randomly generated (#94)
• Fixed the device list template when changing the locale

Added

• Japanese localization (#111)

Changed

• Fixed visual glitch when scrolling the storage list
• Polish localization correction (#95)

Added

• Swedish localization (#96)

Changed

• Fixed helper crash on completion of benchmarking

Note: AppImage no longer requires root privileges.

Added

• Prevent multiple instances from being opened (#88)
• Progress bar styles: Fusion, for light/dark theme and system one
• Stylized design of the storage list
• Update the storage list by changing the language
• Prevent a line break in the dialog for a path contains a hyphen
• Optional O_DIRECT flag

Changed

• Migrated from KAuth to PolicyKit
• The helper runs only if necessary
• Pre-create a benchmark file only once before tests
• Bring back the ability to specify the directory manually (#92)
• Localization updated (incl. #89)

AppImage Note: Uses the built-in Breeze style to get the same appearance on different distributions and desktop environments.

Added

• Benchmarking is performed within the helper
• Stored configuration
• Configurable pattern of each test
• Region-specific numeric formatting
• Standard and NVMe presets
• Changeable test data: random or zeros
• Demo profile
• Ability to perform read and write tests separately
• Button to refresh the storage list
• Turkish (#77) and Hungarian (#70, #71, #72) localization

Changed

• The occupied space is displayed instead of free space

Added

• Added measurement time limit

Changed

• Fixed display of units above bars
• The pause between tests selector has been moved to the settings window
• Default value for threads of the first RND test is now one

Added

• Two build flags: BUILD_WITH_PAGECACHE_CLEARING_SUPPORT and PERFORM_PAGECACHE_CLEARING_USING_KF5AUTH
• FreeBSD support (#52)
• Hindi localization (https://crowdin.com/profile/panwar108)

Changed

• Display the text of the KAuth error that occurred
• Using the ISO 8601 date format
• Fix HiDPI issue (#55)
• Fix kdiskmark.desktop syntax errors

Updated (30 October 2021): Fixed paths to icons and localization files in the AppImage build

Added

• The ability to drop pagecache before doing a test job (using K5Auth)

Updated (5 May 2021): AppImage package added, bundled with fio 3.26

Changed

• Fix directory selection (#41)

Added

• Spanish (Mexico) (#36), Slovak, Polish, Ukrainian (#40) localization
• Allow selecting the UI language: Help > Language

Changed

• Prevent adding the same directory multiple times
• Hide status bar
• Fix directory selection dialog (#37)
• Fix benchmark won't run (#39)

Added

• Performance profiles (#20)
• Column with bars of mixed tests (mixed profile)
• Possibility to specify a test-directory manually (#15)
• French translation
• Italian translation
• Portuguese (Brazilian) translation
• Chinese (Simplified) translation

Changed

• Removed 20-px icon (#18)

Changed

• Scan all non-readonly devices in /dev

Added

• Czech localization (#9 #10 #11)
• Encrypted devices detection

Changed

• Loops are separated in the app instead of fio (#12)
• Fix indents in the text report

Added

• KDiskMark and FIO version in the text-output

Changed

• Fix bandwidth for the multi-threaded tests (https://github.com/JonMagon/KDiskMark/issues/5)
• Fix home directory device

Changed

• Full-direct way to read drive model name
• Fix incorrect bandwidth conversion to KiB while metric prefixes are using
• Removed benchmark time limit (https://github.com/JonMagon/KDiskMark/issues/2)
• Fix close all FIO child processes
• Fix buttons captions restore

Added

• Editable comment field with a disk drive model by default
• Save the report to a text file

Changed

• A timeout message instead of "Bad FIO output"

Changed

• Parse all FIO errors
• Correct way to close a thread, it doesn't throw exceptions anymore
• Fix the second RND in report

Added

• Desktop file for KDE
• Project info in DEB and RPM packages

Changed

• Fix icons application
• Minimal FIO is now 3.1

Initial release