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* The "`--watchfd`" option will now show relative filenames, if they are under the current directory (patch supplied by [ikasty](https://github.com/ikasty))
* support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its derivatives has been dropped; removed the RPM spec file, and will no longer build binaries
* docs: moved all open issues into GitHub and updated the TODO list
* docs: renamed README to README.md and altered it to Markdown format
* docs: moved contributors from the README to docs/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.md
* docs: moved TODO to TODO.md and altered it to Markdown format
* docs: moved NEWS to NEWS.md, converted it to UTF-8, and altered it to Markdown format
1.6.20 - 12 September 2021
* fix: add missing stddef.h include to number.c (Sam James)
1.6.19 - 5 September 2021
* fix: starting pv in the background no longer immediately stops unless the transfer is to/from the terminal (Andriy Gapon, Jonathan Elchison)
* fix: using -B, -A, or -T now switches on -C implicitly (Johannes Gerer, André Stapf)
* fix: AIX build fixes (Peter Korsgaard)
* i18n: updated German "--help" translations (Richard Fonfara)
* i18n: switched to UTF-8 encoding, added missing translations (de,fr,pt)
* docs: new "common switches" manual section (Jacek Wielemborek)
* docs: use placeholder instead of /dev/sda in the manual (Pranav Peshwe)
* docs: mention MacOS pipes and "-B 1024" in the manual (Jan Venekamp)
* docs: correct shell in autoconf/scripts/index.sh (Juan Picca)
* cleanup: various compiler warnings cleaned up
Full changelog is below:
* (r181) added common switches section to manual (Jacek Wielemborek)
* (r184) use placeholder instead of /dev/sda in the manual (Pranav Peshwe)
* (r185) replace ash with sh in autoconf/scripts/index.sh (Juan Picca)
* (r185) added note to manual about "-B 1024" in MacOS pipes (Jan Venekamp)
* (r185) fix AIX config check when the CWD contains "yes" (Peter Korsgaard)
* (r189) (#1556) updated German "--help" translations (Richard Fonfara)
* (r189) updated missing German translations and changed to UTF-8 encoding
* (r191) updated missing French translations and changed to UTF-8 encoding
* (r193) updated missing Portuguese translations, changed to UTF-8 encoding
* (r196) (#1563) using -B, -A, or -T now switches on -C implicitly (Johannes Gerer, André Stapf)
* (r199) fixed numerous compiler warnings in newer GCC versions
* (r200,205) fixed bug where "pv /dev/zero >/dev/null &" stopped immediately (Jonathan Elchison, Andriy Gapon)
* (r203,205) marked unused arguments with GCC unused attribute, started using boolean data type for flags, corrected more compiler warnings
1.6.6 - 30 June 2017
* (r161) use %llu instead of %Lu for better compatibility (Eric A. Borisch)
* (r162) (#1532) fix target buffer size (-B) being ignored (AndCycle, Ilya Basin, Antoine Beaupré)
* (r164) cap read/write sizes, and check elapsed time during read/write cycles, to avoid display hangs with large buffers or slow media; also remove select() call from repeated_write function as it slows the transfer down and the wrapping alarm() means it is unnecessary
* (r169) (#1477) use alternate form for transfer counter, such that 13GB is shown as 13.0GB so it's the same width as 13.1GB (André Stapf)
* (r171) cleanup: units corrections in man page, of the form kb -> KiB
* (r175) report error in "-d" if process fd directory is unreadable, or if process disappears before we start the main loop (Jacek Wielemborek)
1.6.0 - 15 March 2015
* fix lstat64 support when unavailable - separate patches supplied by Ganael Laplanche and Peter Korsgaard
* (#1506) new option "-D" / "--delay-start" to only show bar after N seconds (Damon Harper)
* new option "--fineta" / "-I" to show ETA as time of day rather than time remaining - patch supplied by Erkki Seppälä (r147)
* (#1509) change ETA (--eta / -e) so that days are given if the hours remaining are 24 or more (Jacek Wielemborek)
* (#1499) repeat read and write attempts on partial buffer fill/empty to work around post-signal transfer rate drop reported by Ralf Ramsauer
* (#1507) do not try to calculate total size in line mode, due to bug reported by Jacek Wielemborek and Michiel Van Herwegen
* cleanup: removed defunct RATS comments and unnecessary copyright notices
* clean up displayed lines when using --watchfd PID, when PID exits
* output errors on a new line to avoid overwriting transfer bar
1.5.7 - 26 August 2014
* show KiB instead of incorrect kiB (Debian bug #706175)
* (#1284) do not gzip man page, for non-Linux OSes (Bob Friesenhahn)
* work around "awk" bug in tests/016-numeric-timer in decimal "," locales
* fix "make rpm" and "make srpm", extend "make release" to sign releases
1.5.3 - 4 May 2014
* remove SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK to fix problem with slow splice() (Jan Seda)
1.5.2 - 10 February 2014
* allow "--watchfd" to look at block devices
* let "--watchfd PID:FD" work with "--size N"
* moved contributors out of the manual as the list was too long (NB everyone is still listed in the README and always will be)
1.5.1 - 23 January 2014
* new option "--watchfd" - suggested by Jacek Wielemborek and "fdwatch"
* use non-block flag with splice()
* new display option "--buffer-percent", suggested by Kim Krecht
* new display option "--last-written", suggested by Kim Krecht
* new transfer option "--no-splice"
* fix for minor bug which dropped display elements after one empty one
* fix for single fd leak on exit (Cristian Ciupitu)
1.4.12 - 5 August 2013
* new option "--null" - patch supplied by Zing Shishak
* AIX build fix (add "-lc128") - with help from Pawel Piatek
* AIX "-c" fixes - with help from Pawel Piatek
* SCO build fix (po2table.sh) - reported by Wouter Pronk
* test scripts fix for older distributions - patch from Bryan Dongray
* fix for splice() not using stdin - patch from Zev Weiss
1.4.6 - 22 January 2013
* added patch from Pawel Piatek to omit O_NOFOLLOW in AIX
1.4.5 - 10 January 2013
* updated manual page to show known problem with "-R" on Cygwin
1.4.4 - 11 December 2012
* added debugging, see `pv -h' when configure run with "--enable-debugging"
* rewrote cursor positioning code used when IPC is unavailable (Cygwin)
* fixed cursor positioning cursor read answerback problem (Cygwin/Solaris)
* fixed bug causing crash when progress displayed with too-small terminal
1.4.0 - 6 December 2012
* new option "--skip-errors" commissioned by Jim Salter
* if stdout is a block device, and we don't know the total size, use the size of that block device as the total (Peter Samuelson)
* new option "--stop-at-size" to stop after "--size" bytes
* report correct filename on read errors
* fix use-after-free bug in remote PID cleanup code
* refactored large chunks of code to make it more readable and to replace most static variables with a state structure
1.3.9 - 5 November 2012
* allow "--format" parameters to be sent with "--remote"
* configure option "--disable-ipc"
* added tests for --numeric with --timer and --bytes
* added tests for --remote
1.3.8 - 29 October 2012
* new "--pidfile" option to save process ID to a file
* integrated patch for --numeric with --timer and --bytes (Sami Liedes)
* removed signalling from --remote to prevent accidental process kills
* new "--format" option (originally Vladimir Pal / Vladimir Ermakov)
1.3.4 - 27 June 2012
* new "--disable-splice" configure script option
* fixed line mode size count with multiple files (Moritz Barsnick)
* fixes for AIX core dumps (Pawel Piatek)
1.3.1 - 9 June 2012
* do not use splice() if the write buffer is not empty (Thomas Rachel)
* added test 15 (pipe transfers), and new test script
1.3.0 - 5 June 2012
* added Tiger build patch from Olle Jonsson
* fix 1024-boundary display garble (Debian bug #586763)
* use splice(2) where available (Debian bug #601683)
* added known bugs section of the manual page
* fixed average rate test, 12 (Andrew Macheret)
* use IEEE1541 units (Thomas Rachel)
* bug with rate limit under 10 fixed (Henry Precheur)
* speed up PV line mode (patch: Guillaume Marcais)
* remove LD=ld from vars.mk to fix cross-compilation (paintitgray/PV#1291)
1.2.0 - 14 December 2010
* integrated improved SI prefixes and --average-rate (Henry Gebhardt)
* return nonzero if exiting due to SIGTERM (Martin Baum)
* patch from Phil Rutschman to restore terminal properly on exit
* fix i18n especially for --help (Sebastian Kayser)
* refactored pv_display
* we now have a coherent, documented, exit status
* modified pipe test and new cksum test from Sebastian Kayser
* default CFLAGS to just "-O" for non-GCC (Kjetil Torgrim Homme)
* LFS compile fix for OS X 10.4 (Alexandre de Verteuil)
* remove DESTDIR / suffix (Sam Nelson, Daniel Pape)
* fixed potential NULL deref in transfer (Elias Pipping / LLVM/Clang)
1.1.4 - 6 March 2008
* patch from Elias Pipping correcting compilation failure on Darwin 9
* patch from Patrick Collison correcting similar problems on OS X
* trap SIGINT/SIGHUP/SIGTERM so we clean up IPCs on exit (Laszlo Ersek)
* abort if numeric option, eg -L, has non-numeric value (Boris Lohner)
1.1.0 - 30 August 2007
* new option --remote (-R) to control an already-running process
* new option --line-mode (-l) to count lines instead of bytes
* fix for "-L" to be less resource intensive
* fix for input/output equivalence check on Mac OS X
* fix for size calculation in pipelines on Mac OS X
* fixed "make uninstall"
* removed /debian directory at request of new Debian maintainer
1.0.1 - 4 August 2007
* licensing change from Artistic to Artistic 2.0
* removed the "-l" / "--license" option
1.0.0 - 2 August 2007
* act more like "cat" - just skip unreadable files, don't abort
* removed text version of manual page, and obsolete Info file generation
* code cleanup and separation of PV internals from CLI front-end
0.9.9 - 5 February 2007
* new option --buffer-size (-B) suggested by Mark Tomich
* build fix: HP/UX largefile compile fix from Timo Savinen
* maintain better buffer filling during transfers
* workaround: pv /dev/zero | dd bs=1M count=1k bug (reported by Gert Menke)
* dropped support for the Texinfo manual
0.9.6 - 27 February 2006
* bugfix: key_t incompatibility with Cygwin
* bugfix: interval (-i) parameter parses numbers after decimal point
* build fix: use static NLS if msgfmt is unavailable
* on the final update, blank out the now-zero ETA
0.9.2 - 1 September 2005
* Daniel Roethlisberger patch: use lockfiles if terminal locking fails
0.9.1 - 16 June 2005
* minor RPM spec file fix for Fedora Core 4
0.9.0 - 15 November 2004
* minor NLS bugfix
0.8.9 - 6 November 2004
* decimal values now accepted for rate and size, eg "-L 1.23M"
* code cleanup
* developers: "make help" now lists Makefile targets
0.8.6 - 29 June 2004
* use uu_lock() for terminal locking on FreeBSD
0.8.5 - 2 May 2004
* cursor positioning (-c) reliability improved on systems with IPC
* minor fix: made test 005 more reliable
* new option --height (-H)
0.8.2 - 24 April 2004
* allow k,m,g,t suffixes on numbers
* added "srpm" and "release" Makefile targets
0.8.1 - 19 April 2004
* bugfix in cursor positioning (-c)
0.8.0 - 12 February 2004
* replaced GNU getopt with my library code
* replaced GNU gettext with my very minimal replacement
* use DESTDIR instead of RPM_BUILD_ROOT for optional installation prefix
* looked for flaws using RATS, cleaned up code
0.7.0 - 8 February 2004
* display buffer management fixes (thanks Cédric Delfosse)
* replaced --enable-debug with --enable-debugging and --enable-profiling
0.6.4 - 14 January 2004
* fixed minor bug in RPM installation
* bugfix in "make index" (only of interest to developers)
0.6.3 - 22 December 2003
* fixed transient bug that reported "resource unavailable" occasionally
0.6.2 - 6 August 2003
* block devices now have their size read correctly, so pv /dev/hda1 works
* minor code cleanups (mainly removal of CVS "Id" tags)
0.6.0 - 3 August 2003
* doing ^Z then "bg" then "fg" now continues displaying
0.5.9 - 23 July 2003
* fix for test 007 when not in C locale
* fix for build process to use CPPFLAGS
* fix for build process to use correct i18n libraries
* fix for build process - more portable sed in dependency generator
* fix for install process - remember to mkinstalldirs before installing
* fixes for building on Mac OS X
0.5.3 - 4 May 2003
* added Polish translation thanks to Bartosz Feński <fenio@o2.pl> <http://skawina.eu.org/> and Krystian Zubel
* moved doc/debian to ./debian at insistence of common sense
* minor Solaris 8 compatibility fixes
* seems to compile and test OK on Mac OS X
0.5.0 - 15 April 2003
* added French translation thanks to Stéphane Lacasse <stephane@gorfou.ca>
* added German translation thanks to Marcos Kreinacke <public@kreinacke.com>
* switched LGPL reference from "Library" to "Lesser"
0.4.9 - 18 February 2003
* support for >2GB files added where available (Debian bug #180986)
* added doc/debian dir (from Cédric Delfosse)
* added "make rpm" and "make deb" targets to build RPM and Debian packages
* added a "make pv-static" rule to build a statically linked version
0.4.5 - 13 December 2002
* added Portuguese (Brazilian) translation thanks to Eduardo Aguiar
0.4.4 - 7 December 2002
* pause/resume support - don't count time while stopped
* stop output when resumed in the background
* terminal size change support
* bugfix: <=> indicator no longer sticks at right hand edge
0.4.0 - 27 November 2002
* allow decimal interval values, eg 0.1, 0.5, etc
* some simple tests added (`make check')
* smoother throughput limiting (--rate-limit), now done in 0.1sec chunks
* bounds-check interval values (-i) - max update interval now 10 minutes
* more reliable non-blocking output to keep display updated
* no longer rely on atoll()
* don't output final blank line if --numeric
* use fcntl() instead of flock() for Solaris compatibility
0.3.0 - 25 November 2002
* handle broken output pipe gracefully
* continue updating display even when output pipe is blocking
0.2.6 - 21 October 2002
* we now ignore EINTR on select()
* variable-size buffer (still need to add code to change size)
* added (tentative) support for internationalisation
* removed superfluous --no-progress, etc options
* optimised transfer by using bigger buffers, based on st_blksize
* added --wait option to wait until transfer begins before showing progress
* added --rate-limit option to limit rate to a maximum throughput
* added --quiet option (no output at all) to be used with --rate-limit
0.2.5 - 23 July 2002
* added [FILE]... arguments, like `cat'
* function separation in code
* some bug fixes related to numeric overflow
0.2.3 - 19 July 2002
* Texinfo manual written, man page updated
* byte counter added
0.2.0 - 18 July 2002
* ETA counter added
* screen width estimation added
* progress bar added
0.1.0 - 17 July 2002
* main loop created
* rate counter added
* elapsed time counter added
* percentage calculation added
0.0.1 - 16 July 2002
* package created
* first draft of man page written