upower/NEWS

Version 0.9.10
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Released: 2011-05-03

New Features:
 - Add a config option 'IgnoreLid' for users with broken lid switches (Richard Hughes)
 - Add integration test suite for Linux (Martin Pitt)
 - Add option to run daemon on the session bus for testing (Martin Pitt)
 - Add OpenBSD backend which uses the APM_IOC_GETPOWER ioctl() (Landry Breuil)
 - Support virtual UPS devices for testing (Martin Pitt)

Bugfixes:
 - Consider a discharging UPS as "on battery" (Martin Pitt)
 - Do not overwrite aclocal flags in autogen, fixes b.fd.o #35261 (Tobias Mueller)
 - Fix "unknown" battery status guessing to not be recursive (Martin Pitt)
 - Respect $UPOWER_CONF_FILE_NAME in up_config_init (Martin Pitt)
 - Support batteries that report both energy and charge (Benson Leung)
 - upower needs -pthread (Landry Breuil)
 - Use the new threadsafe signal handling support in GLib (Richard Hughes)
 - Wuninitialized needs -O (Landry Breuil)

Version 0.9.9
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Released: 2011-03-21

New Features:
 - Add a config option to disable the Watts Up Pro device (Richard Hughes)
 - Add a LidForceSleep property to ensure that we don't melt any laptops (Richard Hughes)
 - Add an option for polling dock devices in UPower.conf, defaulting to false (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Depend on stable GUdev API (Michael Biebl)
 - Drop devkit and devkit-power-daemon symlinks (Michael Biebl)
 - Fix bitmap check in the input code (Arnaud Patard)
 - Honour ACLOCAL_FLAGS in Makefile.am (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.9.8
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Released: 2011-01-07

New Features:
 - Add an IsDocked binary property to the main interface (Richard Hughes)
 - Use the number of active DRM devices to determine the system docked status (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Add method to set history dir (Martin Pitt)
 - Check for and link against libplist (Martin Pitt)
 - Drop check for polkit-backend again (Martin Pitt)
 - Fix compilation error against Linux 2.6.36 (Martin Pitt)
 - Fix links to git repository in HACKING (Zygmunt Krynicki)
 - Fix self check to work as non-root (Martin Pitt)
 - Re-add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE (but enable it by default) (Michael Biebl)
 - Reduce race condition in history purging self check (Martin Pitt)
 - Support the power_now sysfs attribute to get time remaining on new kernels (Richard Hughes)
 - Update the list of HID UPS devices (Arnaud Quette)

Version 0.9.7
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Released: 2010-11-01

Translations:
 - Add French translation (Christoph Thompson)

New Features:
 - Add support for controlling leds keyboard backlights (Alex Murray)
 - Port from EggDebug to the GLib built-in logging framework (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Fix building with gobject-introspection 0.9.10 (Edward Sheldrake)
 - Fix up all the warnings when building with new versions of gobject-introspection (Richard Hughes)
 - Keyboard backlight of zero is not an error (Alex Murray)
 - libupower-glib: Reject invalid object paths to avoid asserting libdbus (Richard Hughes)
 - Remove the UP_DEVICE_SUPPLY_CHARGED_THRESHOLD heuristic (Michal Schmidt)

Version 0.9.6
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Released: 2010-10-04

New Features:
 - Remove devkit-power-gobject (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Allow explicitly disabling libimobiledevice support (Brett Witherspoon)
 - Free GErrors after returning them (Matthias Clasen)
 - Add missing D-Bus return in up_qos_cancel_request() (Matthias Clasen)
 - Fix double D-BUS return in up_daemon_*_allowed (Matthias Clasen)
 - Fix up_polkit_get_subject() D-BUS error return (Matthias Clasen)
 - Ensure the new device types get valid descriptions in upower --dump (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix compile with the latest PolicyKit release (Richard Hughes)
 - Only save by default 7 days data to stop the log files becoming huge. Fixes rh#634228 (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not continue to poll the serial port if there is no Watts Up Pro adaptor (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix the build with new versions of gobject-introspection (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.9.5
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Released: 2010-07-12

New Features:
 - Add battery query support for iDevices (Bastien Nocera)
 - Assign names to our idle sources when using new versions of glib2 (Richard Hughes)
 - Dynamic testing for enough hibernate swap (Martin Pitt)
 - Port UPower to libusb1 to avoid unfixable crashes (Richard Hughes)
 - Port to GTest (Richard Hughes)
 - Get the powersave command from the backend rather than hardcoding Linux specifics (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Update the list of supported TrippLite HID Power Devices (Joseph Stockman)
 - Fix a potential daemon crash. Fixes fd#27902 (Mariusz Ceier)
 - Increase UP_DAEMON_SWAP_WATERLINE (Martin Pitt)
 - Fix up a potential crasher in the CSR device code (Richard Hughes)
 - When calculating used swap space, only use anonymous pages (Steven Walter)
 - Use pm-is-supported to test if various sleep modes are supported (Victor Lowther)

IMPORTANT NOTE:
 - This is the last release with the deprecated devkit-power-gobject library
   included. Users should have ported to libupower-glib months ago...

Version 0.9.4
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Released: 2010-05-12

New Features:
 - Detect when the kernel changes the reported charge units. Fixes rh#587112 (Kyle McMartin)

Bugfixes:
 - Only emit ::Sleeping() after we've checked AboutToSleep (Richard Hughes)
 - Ensure we send ::Sleeping() if clients do not call AboutToSleep (Richard Hughes)
 - Ensure we sent ::notify signals when UpDaemon properties change (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.9.3
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Released: 2010-05-06

New Features:
 - Add a config file with SleepTimeout and AllowHibernateEncryptedSwap entries (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Fix c&p typo in documentation (Michael Biebl)
 - The gettext package should match the tarball name (Richard Hughes)
 - Provide UpDaemon with C setters rather than relying on GObject properties (Richard Hughes)
 - Sanity check the device is not already in the list before adding (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix recognition of lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) batteries (Sascha Silbe)

Version 0.9.2
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Released: 2010-04-06

New Features:
 - Add a missing accessor: up_client_get_lid_is_present() (Richard Hughes)
 - Change the tarball name to be all lower case to match udisks and udev (Richard Hughes)
 - Convert the daemon to using objects from libupower-glib, not devkit-power-gobject (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not allow client programs to enumerate the device list more than once (Richard Hughes)
 - Get the encrypted swap status from the backend, rather than hardcoding Linux specifics (Richard Hughes)
 - Get the kernel sleep capabilities from the backend, rather than hardcoding Linux specifics (Richard Hughes)
 - Get the suspend and hibernate commands from the backend, rather than hardcoding Linux specifics (Richard Hughes)
 - Get the swap size from the backend, rather than hardcoding Linux specifics (Richard Hughes)
 - Show in ./configure summary if unit tests have been enabled or not (Michael Biebl)

Bugfixes:
 - Do not warn what we are correcting energy-full when there is no data to copy (Richard Hughes)
 - Ensure we enumerate devices before we start monitoring them (Richard Hughes)
 - Fixes to the autogen.sh script (Michael Biebl)
 - Make dummy backend usable for architectures without a native backend (Michael Biebl)
 - Remove libdevkit-power-gobject dependency from backends (Michael Biebl)
 - Simplify udev subdirectory handling (Michael Biebl)

Version 0.9.1
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Released: 2010-03-03

New Features:
 - Add a new method and two new signals to inform userspace of the pending suspend and the resume event (Richard Hughes)
 - Add {Suspend,Hibernate}Allowed D-Bus methods (Martin Pitt)
 - Add up_polkit_is_allowed() function (Martin Pitt)
 - Check PolicyKit in client's can_{suspend,hibernate} properties (Martin Pitt)
 - Don't ship an introspection file for devkit-power-gobject, it's soon to be obsolete (Richard Hughes)
 - Install the introspection data to the correct location (Richard Hughes)
 - Make the upower client tool use libupower-glib, rather than devit-power-gobject (Richard Hughes)
 - Use GCancellable in libupower-glib so we can eventually get to GIO async methods (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Ensure we return all lines of the UpDevice when we call up_device_to_string() (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix libupower-glib include dir and pkgconfig (Martin Pitt)
 - Fix up autogen.sh after the configure.ac modernisation (Michael Biebl)
 - Fix up the FreeBSD backend compile (Michael Biebl)
 - Fix up the include directory in the pkgconfig file (Richard Hughes)
 - Make sure the tests link against all necessary libraries (Michael Biebl)
 - Move the history files to /var/lib/upower (Michael Biebl)
 - Update help and g_option_context_new to upower (Michael Biebl)
 - Use the new project name in g_option_context_new (Michael Biebl)

Version 0.9.0
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Released: 2010-02-01

NOTES:
 - The DBus service and interfaces have been renamed
 - The devkit-power-gobject library is still API and ABI stable
 - The libupower library co-installs with devkit-power-gobject for now
 - The version has changed to 0.9.0 from 015. You'll need to use an epoch in
   your distro package if you're not renaming the package from DeviceKit-power
   to UPower. See the sample Fedora spec if you need a template.

Translations:
 - Add Swedish translation (Daniel Nylander)
 - Added Italian translation (Luca Ferretti)
 - Add Polish translation (Piotr Drąg)

New Features:
 - Add initial GObject introspection support (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Use a fallback for the capability bit when checking the lid status. Fixes #25041 (Richard Hughes)
 - Rename the DBus service from org.freedesktop.DeviceKit.Power to org.freedesktop.UPower (Richard Hughes)
 - Rename the PolicyKit rules from org.freedesktop.devicekit.power to org.freedesktop.upower (Richard Hughes)
 - Make the client tool be called upower, but maintain a symlink to devkit-power (Richard Hughes)
 - Rename the man pages and rename the main daemon binary name (Richard Hughes)
 - Change the version number to 0.9.0 and tarball name to UPower (Richard Hughes)
 - Version-lock the devkit-power-gobject version to 015, not 0.9.0 (Richard Hughes)
 - Make DkpClient a singleton to avoid some weird race conditions (Richard Hughes)
 - Add libupower so applications can switch away from devkit-power-gobject (Richard Hughes)
 - Update the Free Software Foundation address (Richard Hughes)

Version 014
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Released: 2010-01-08

New Features:
 - Import the FreeBSD backend (Joe Marcus Clarke)

Bugfixes:
 - Check if swap exists before determining how much is free (Debbie Beliveau)
 - Comment out some problematic compiler warnings (Joe Marcus Clarke)
 - Prevent segfault if connection to system dbus fails (Martin Koegler)
 - Fix segfault in the history code. Fixes fd#25632 (Richard Hughes)

Version 013
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Released: 2009-12-07

Note:
 - The DBus interface of DeviceKit-power may be subject to change in future
   versions of this daemon.
 - This will probably be the last release of DeviceKit-power as the project has
   been renamed to upower.

New Features:
 - When using devkit-power --monitor, print a timestamp before each message for
   debugging. Fixes fd#24666 (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Update the list of HID UPS (Arnaud Quette)
 - Use a gdouble for percentage to fix on-battery reporting (Byron Clark)
 - Bug 24262 – incorrect battery recall warning for Lenovo T61 (Martin Pitt)
 - Fix the toshiba battery recal notices by matching up the double quotes (Richard Hughes)
 - Avoid going from discharging to pending-discharge when the expansion battery
   is very low (Richard Hughes)
 - Some vendors fill the NVRAM full of junk. Don't crash the daemon if the
   battery is broken. Fixes rh#533654 (Richard Hughes)
 - When the internal battery is in the unknown state, we can't make a decision
   whether the system is on battery power (Richard Hughes)
 - Some batteries give out massive rate values when nearly empty (Richard Hughes)

Version 012
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Released: 2009-10-19

Note:
 - The DBus interface of DeviceKit-power may be subject to change in future
   versions of this daemon.

New Features:
 - Detect encrypted swap and prevent hibernate in this case. Fixes fd#23196 (Richard Hughes)
 - Add g_object_notify() calls for properties on DkpClient (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Ensure we only reset the update-time property when we have done the refresh, not before (Richard Hughes)
 - Don't emit changed events from the DkpBackend layer, instead push then through DkpDevice (Richard Hughes)
 - When we do a delayed refresh, actually do 5 x 1 second apart rather than 1 x 3 seconds (Richard Hughes)

Version 011
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Released: 2009-10-06

Note:
 - The DBus interface of DeviceKit-power may be subject to change in future
   versions of this daemon.
 - The DBus interface has changed to use FirstLetterCaps property names
   so Qt projects can use the DBus interface without resorting to ugly hacks.

New Features:
 - Return meaningful errors if the user tries to suspend or hibernate without
   kernel support or swap set up (Richard Hughes)
 - Use the sysfs file 'type' to work out the battery type before using a
   fallback (Enrico Zini, Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Update list of HID UPS devices (Arnaud Quette)
 - Add backend code to make DeviceKit-power compile without GUdev for non-Linux
   platforms (Richard Hughes)
 - Only disable the polling if the kernel tells us we're fully charged, not if
   we guessed it (Richard Hughes)
 - Make the remove logic much cleaner to try to fix bugs where removing the
   mouse kills the session (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix up some small memory leaks (Richard Hughes)
 - Freeze and thaw the device during initial coldplug (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix up a few potential problems spotted by clang (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix a tiny memory leak when we collect the properties from the interface
   multiple times (Richard Hughes)
 - Use voltage_now as a fallback to the design voltage (Enrico Zini, Richard Hughes)

Version 010
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Released: 2009-07-22

Note:
 - The DBus interface of DeviceKit-power may be subject to change in future
   versions of this daemon.
 - This project now depends on GUdev and PolicyKit1

New Features:
 - Port to GUdev (Richard Hughes)
 - Port to PolicyKit1 (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Add a notify flag to set_lid_is_closed to fix the initial state (Loïc Minier)
 - Correct a description string from one of the new enums (Richard Hughes)
 - Only guess the battery status if we have > 1 battery in the system (Richard Hughes)
 - Use the global battery state as a metric for single battery machines (Richard Hughes)
 - Query the kernel to decide if we have hibernate and suspend support (Richard Hughes)
 - If we don't have enough swap available, don't advertise hibernate. Fixes rh#513015 (Richard Hughes)
 - Force a refresh all battery devices when the ac-adaptor changes. Fixes rh#512995 (Richard Hughes)

Version 009
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Released: 2009-07-06

Note:
 - The DBus interface of DeviceKit-power may be subject to change in future
   versions of this daemon.
 - The experimental devkit-power-gobject library has no API or ABI guarantees.
 - This is the first version of DeviceKit-power where multiple laptop batteries
   are officially supported.

New Features:
 - Interface with pm-powersave as external vendors are using this (Richard Hughes)
 - Enable pretty compiler output with new automake versions (Richard Hughes)
 - udev rules files now live in /lib/udev/rules.d, not /etc/udev/rules.d (Richard Hughes)
 - Add battery recall data rules (Richard Hughes)
 - Export the recall-notice, recall-vendor and recall-url properties on power devices (Richard Hughes)
 - Protect the non-GObject accessors with DKP_DISABLE_DEPRECATED (Richard Hughes)
 - Add two new state enums, pending-discharge and pending-charge (Richard Hughes)
 - Use the global state to fix the unknown battery status (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Suppress lid change event on startup (Martin Pitt)
 - Fix two issues with the pm-powersave code (Roland Dreier)
 - Mark batteries as empty if they have unknown state and a very low energy (Richard Hughes)
 - For power_supply, unknown is a valid state from the kernel (Richard Hughes)
 - Don't assume all batteries have positive energy_full values (Richard Hughes)
 - Add one more variation of lithium-poly (Richard Hughes)
 - Don't show empty vendor, model or serials in the debug outputs (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix a small memory leak on supply coldplugging (Richard Hughes)
 - Hardcode pm-powersave like we do pm-suspend and pm-hibernate (Richard Hughes)
 - Initial refresh after coldplug is not fatal if it fails (Richard Hughes)
 - Set the GObject properties correctly in the DkpDeviceHid class (Richard Hughes)
 - The UPS can't expose empty or fully-charged, so fixup these states (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix detecting the USB UPS devices (Richard Hughes)
 - Add a lid-is-present property (Richard Hughes)
 - Be less asserty when enum values are added in newer versions of the spec (Richard Hughes)
 - Add a DKP_CHECK_VERSION macro which we can use in client tools (Richard Hughes)
 - Move the udev rules to their own directory (Richard Hughes)
 - Move a small rule about the fully charged level from g-p-m (Richard Hughes)

Version 008
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Released: 2009-06-01

Note:
 - The DBus interface of DeviceKit-power may be subject to change in future
   versions of this daemon.
 - The experimental devkit-power-gobject library has no API or ABI guarantees.

New Features:
 - Allow the daemon to get the global online state for all devices (Matthew Garrett)
 - Add a has-capability to the org.freedesktop.DeviceKit.Power.Wakeups interface (Richard Hughes)
 - Add a property lid-is-closed for g-p-m and x-p-m to use (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Fix up some issues in DkpClient, and expose GObject properties (Ali Abdallah)
 - Remove the 0x prefix from some rule matches (Ronald)
 - Allow all DBus properties to be read with the new DBus (Richard Hughes)
 - Only reset the update-time if the read was successful (Richard Hughes)
 - Optimise the udev rules to skip non-usb devices (Richard Hughes)
 - Ensure we get properties on devices correctly that have not yet been changed (Richard Hughes)
 - Make the suspend and hibernate scripts execute synchronously. Fixes rh#497563 (Richard Hughes)
 - Ignore method timeouts when we suspend and hibernate (Richard Hughes)
 - Add two missing files to the last commit (Richard Hughes)
 - Don't overwrite energy-full-design with zero after coldplug (Richard Hughes)
 - Only get the device state for the poll after the refresh (Richard Hughes)
 - Continue to poll when power supply device is marked unknown. Fixes rh#495493 (Richard Hughes)
 - Correct a debugging statement (Richard Hughes)
 - Never overwrite ID_PRODUCT or ID_VENDOR (Richard Hughes)
 - Don't return history data relative to the earliest point (Richard Hughes)
 - Setup different polls based on the battery state (Matthew Garrett)
 - Don't poll on unknown forever. Based on a patch from Matthew Garrett (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix up the return statuses from coldplug and refresh (Richard Hughes)
 - Only attempt to print history if the device is capable (Richard Hughes)
 - Allow properties in DkpDevice (client) to be set (Richard Hughes)

Version 007
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Released: 2009-03-30

Note:
 - The DBus interface of DeviceKit-power may be subject to change in future
   versions of this daemon.
 - The experimental devkit-power-gobject library has no API or ABI guarantees.

New Features:
 - Get rid of internal Object and instead use the GObject property system (Richard Hughes)
 - Move the library directory from libdevkit-power to devkit-power-gobject (Richard Hughes)
 - Ship a shared library. There are now three external projects using copies of
   this, which is rediculous (Richard Hughes)
 - Require I_KNOW_THE_DEVICEKIT_POWER_API_IS_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Fix up DBus interface for CVE-2008-4311 (Stanislav Brabec)
 - Fix g-p-m and DeviceKit-power when running with a permissive dbus. Fixes fd#20882 (Frederic Crozat)
 - Remove use of EggObjList, and make the library more sane (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix compile error in dkp-power. Fixes #20749 (Richard Hughes)

Version 006
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Released: 2009-02-10

Bugfixes:
 - Fix compile failure with gcc-4.4.0 and old versions of glib2 (Richard Hughes)
 - Only enable the wakeups polling if a client requires the data (Richard Hughes)
 - Correctly set the power-supply property (David Zeuthen)
 - Don't crash when we limit the resolution of a small dataset (Richard Hughes)
 - Don't sync to disk every 5 seconds, do it every 10 minutes (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix the QoS interface with the proper signature (Richard Hughes)

Version 005
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Released: 2009-02-02

New Features:
 - Add a wakeups interface so we can get data from the system over DBus (Richard Hughes)
 - Allow showing the wakeup data in the devkit-power command line tool (Richard Hughes)

Version 004
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Released: 2009-01-23

Bugfixes:
 - Fix the battery capacity calculation. Fixes fd#19165 (Richard Hughes)
 - Special case machines where the kernel does not convert charge to power (Richard Hughes)
 - Check all the power supply fields for valid data (Richard Hughes)

Version 003
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Released: 2008-12-09

New Features:
 - Implement the .QoS interface -- still proof of concept (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Enable the low power saving code in DkpHistory (Richard Hughes)
 - Don't keep putting off the profile saving in DkpHistory (Richard Hughes)
 - Allow DeviceKit-power to run with the 'fixed' DBus (Richard Hughes)

Version 002
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Released: 2008-11-13

New Features:
 - add in CanSuspend and CanHibernate into API (Richard Hughes)
 - add two new properties, has-history and has-statistics (Richard Hughes)
 - add voltage property of a power device (Richard Hughes)
 - all logging for all the other device types too (Richard Hughes)
 - Move object paths so things are rooted under /org/freedesktop/DeviceKit/Power (David Zeuthen)
 - Add functionality to monitor a Watts Up Pro device (Richard Hughes)
 - Turn some methods into properties (David Zeuthen)

Bugfixes:
 - Also rename configure.in to configure.ac in autogen.sh (David Zeuthen)
 - Fix up deps and build system (David Zeuthen)
 - We're a fd.o project (David Zeuthen)
 - Update my email address (David Zeuthen)
 - Update mailing list reference in man pages (David Zeuthen)
 - Update bug report URL to point to our mailing list (David Zeuthen)
 - Nuke devkit-power-on-battery for now (David Zeuthen)
 - Don't report negative rate when charging (Richard Hughes)
 - Remove the battery- and line-power- prefix from the device properties (Richard Hughes)
 - Add DkpStatsObj convenience helpers (Richard Hughes)
 - Save the time to full and time to empty too (Richard Hughes)
 - Don't clear the list when we print it (Richard Hughes)
 - Support getting stats from DkpSupply devices (Richard Hughes)
 - Poll every 10 seconds to get better stats results (Richard Hughes)
 - Work out the statistics by binning them into percentage sized holes (Richard Hughes)
 - Add two remove functions to the generic object list (Richard Hughes)
 - Don't unconditionally set the energy_full to energy_full_design if larger (Richard Hughes)
 - Add a first approximation of a time resolution limiter (Richard Hughes)
 - Expand the client helper library to cover all the base API for gnome-power-manager (Richard Hughes)
 - Use 0 for unknown, not -1 as some values like rate and voltage are valid when negative (Richard Hughes)
 - Use a better resolution limiting function for getting the history to reduce CPU load (Richard Hughes)
 - Match the WUP device on the tty device, not the USB device (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix the include headers for DeviceKit 002 (Richard Hughes)
 - Document how to access the D-Bus service with examples (David Zeuthen)

Version 001
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Released: 2008-09-02

- Initial proof of concept version