The version history with changes relevant for the user is documented here.
Improved timezone handling
Empty logfiles no longer crash arbtt-stats, thanks to Tomáš Janoušek
New option --first for arbtt-dump, thanks to Tomáš Janoušek.
Support for the $hidden and $wdesktop variables in the configuration file, thanks to Tomáš Janoušek.
The --filter option of arbtt-stats is greatly sped up, thanks to Tomáš Janoušek.
The category report now also has an entry (total time), especially useful with --for-each.
Support for GHC-8.0 and older has been dropped.
Rodney Lorrimar contributed fixed to build against newer versions of dependencies.
Michal J. Gajda ensured that intervals are also printed as local times.
Markus Hauck contributed the != operator, the
“$now” variable and the condition
construct (as well as other code cleanup).
The development repository migrated from darcs to git.
The command arbtt-import now supports reading JSON records, and can be used to append to an exising log file in a steaming fasion.
The --for-each option of
arbtt-stats now supports grouping results by
minute or hour.
Gwern Branwen contributed the the section called “Effective Use of Arbtt”.
The syntax now allows for time differences larger than 99:99. (issue #69)
arbtt-dump can now show the data in other formats
as well, as suggested by Waldir Pimenta (option
--format). This includes a human-readale output and
JSON.
New option --last of arbtt-dump.
arbtt-recover can handle larger datasets with a reasonable amount of memory.
When dumping samples with arbtt-stats or arbtt-dump (in human-readable mode), times are printed in the local time zone, as suggested by Oren Gampel.
arbtt-capture now supports the option --dump for development and debugging purposes.
The name of the current desktop (or workspace) is also recorded, and available as $desktop (issue #56).
Two bugs in the parser were fixed (issue #59 and issue #60).
arbtt-stats can print reports split by time interval, using the --for-each option.
arbtt-stats can print the actual samples selected, with --dump-samples.
Support for GHC-7.8 was added, with help from Jayesh Kumar Gupta (issue #63).
Arbtt now has a proper testsuite integrated into Cabal, and an automated test infrastructure on Travis.
Waldir Pimenta contributed a new web page, hosted at arbtt.nomeata.de.
Make sure that the log file is only readable by the current user. Thanks to Joey Hess for pointing that out.
Show a progress bar in arbtt-stats.
GHC-7.6 compatibility, thanks to Isaac Dupree.
Massive memory footprint reduction, due to processing the data in one run. See my blog post for technical information.
Performance improvements.
Support comparing a string to a list of strings, or matching it against a list ofregular expressions.
Add a warning whtn the system locale is not supported.
Allwo RTS options to be passed to the arbtt binaries.
GHC 7.4 compatibility.
The command arbtt-capture now supports the
--logfile.
New report “intervals”, available using arbtt-stats --intervals.
The paramters --exclude and
--include of arbtt-stats can match
categories as well as tags.
Bugfix: Numbers in tag names are no longer replaced by an underscore.
New paramters --output-exclude and
--output-include of arbtt-stats.
New command arbtt-import, which imports the output from arbtt-dump.
The command arbtt-stats now supports the
--logfile and --categorizefile as well.
(Martin Kiefel)
The command arbtt-stats now supports the csv (comma-separated values) and tsv (TAB-separated values) report output formats in addition to text. (Muharem Hrnjadovic)
Unicode is handled correctly in regular expressions.
Improved date-handling functions for categorize.cfg.
(Sergey Astanin)
Implement a custom compression method greatly reduce the file size of the log file. Run arbtt-capture to compress the previous samples as well.
Bugfix: Correctly parse a tag name containing a colon when passed to arbtt-stats --exclude.
Bugfix: Only warn once when the _NET_CLIENT_LIST X property is not set for the root window.
Use fetchName from xmonad instead of xFetchName, as it works with unicode characters in window titles.
Implement option --logfile to
arbtt-dump.
New command arbtt-recover to rescue data from a proken data log file.
Actually include this documentation in the released tarball.
Write this documentation
Drop dependency on setlocale: Copy the SetLocale module.
Drop dependency on tabular: Implement custom table rendering code.
In the absence of _NET_CLIENT_LIST, look for application windows as children of the root windows. This should work for users of window managers like i3 without EWHM support.
Implement option --each-categories to
arbtt-stats
Eliminate one possible cause for crashes of arbtt-capture.
Switch to binary log file format, for greatly increased speed
arbtt-capture will automatically detect and convert log files in the old format.
Add option --filter to
arbtt-stats
Add option --sample-rate to
arbtt-capture
Introduce time-base variables $time and
$sampleage
Be smarter when figuring out what window is active. Thanks to CJ van den Berg for investigating the issue.
Read _NET_CLIENT_LIST for the list of
applications, for compatibility with window managers such as metacity
Off-By-Ten error in the time display
Correctly show total number of records in
--information