1 Version History

1.1 1.12.0

• Fix issue 178: Migrate usages of POSIX regular expressions (<regex.h>) to the C++11 regex library (<regex>).
• Fix issue 191: Wrong error message is printed when inotify event queue overflows.

1.2 1.11.3

• Fix issue 192: Make the build reproducible.

1.3 1.11.2

• Fix issue 182: Generate a single message catalog for both fswatch and libfswatch.

1.4 1.11.1

• Fix issue 182: Remove mandatory dependency to git.

1.5 1.11.0

• Fix issue 174: Update the --event option to accept a numeric event mask.
• Fix issue 181: Make gettext an optional dependency.

1.6 1.10.0

• Fix issue 60: Allow excluding file patterns by passing a file.
• Fix issue 119: Merge fswatch and libfswatch Autotools projects into one.
• Fix issue 141: Add Docker files for Linux distributions used for testing.
• Add target to build fswatch on Alpine Linux and Debian.

1.7 1.9.3

• Fix issue 120: C binding is pulling in C++ headers and using C++ constructs.
• Fix issue 128: C binding is pulling in C++ headers.

1.8 1.9.2

• Fix issue 118: v. 1.9.0 breaks the -1 option.
• libfswatch API version set to 8:0:2.

1.9 1.9.1

• libfswatch API version set to 7:0:1.

1.10 1.9.0

• Fix issue 114: fswatch does not track newly created directories recursively when using the inotify monitor.
• Add the possibility of scheduling a periodic event.

1.11 1.8.0

• Add preemptive monitor stop support.

1.12 1.7.0

• Fix issue 35: Support Solaris/Illumos File Events Notification API.
• Fix issue 98: Add (-d, --directories) option to request the monitor to watch directories only during a recursive scan.
• Fix issue 99: A monitor using the File Events Notification API of the Solaris/Illumos kernel has been added.
• Fix issue 101: Add flag to watch file accesses.

1.13 1.6.0

• fswatch can be built on Microsoft Windows using Cygwin.
• A monitor for Microsoft Windows has been added.
• fswatch can survive monitor overflows and notify them as a specially crafted change event (of type Overflow) if invoked with the --allow-overflow option.

1.14 1.5.1

• fswatch-run scripts have been removed.
• As a consequence of the fswatch-run removal, dependency on at least one supported shell (Zsh and Bash) has been removed.

1.15 1.5.0

• Added the --event option to allow filtering by event type.

1.16 1.4.7

• Fix bug in exclusion filter ordering (PR 75).
• README.md improvements.
• Documentation improvements.

1.17 1.4.6

• Fix issue 74: Assertion failed on fsw_destroy_session.

1.18 1.4.5.3

• Fix issue 67: 100% CPU usage while using libfswatch. This issue only affects the inotify monitor.

1.19 1.4.5.2

• Fix issue 66: Exclude items with poll_monitor not considered.

1.20 1.4.5.1

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

1.21 1.4.5

• Add custom record formats.

1.22 1.4.4

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

1.23 1.4.3.2

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

1.24 1.4.3.1

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

1.25 1.4.3

• 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 file using Git.
• Update autogen.sh to honour some commonly used environment variables.

1.26 1.4.2

• 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 using Git by ancillary scripts invoked by the GNU Build System.

1.27 1.4.1.1

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

1.28 1.4.1

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

1.29 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.

1.30 1.3.9

• Fix Issue 23: Add --include option.
• Fix Issue 25: Add --include option.
• Paths can be included using -i/--include and providing a set of regular expressions.

1.31 1.3.8

• Fix Issue 34: Diagnostic messages were output by the inotify monitor even if fswatch was not run in verbose mode.

1.32 1.3.7

• Fix Issue 32: Problems building fswatch 1.3.6 on Mac v. 10.8.5.
• Remove usages of C++11 initializer lists so that fswatch builds with older compilers.

1.33 1.3.6

• Fix Issue 26: fswatch-run cannot run a command with arguments.
• fswatch-run scripts are provided for Zsh and Bash.
• System is scanned during installation to check for Zsh and Bash availability. Path of found shells is substituted in the corresponding scripts, otherwise the default /bin/shell is used.
• If a supported shell is found, the fswatch-run symbolic link is created in the installation directory to the corresponding script. The lookup order of the shells is:
  • Zsh.
  • Bash.

1.34 1.3.5

• Fix Issue 27: Redirect usage text to standard error unless -h or --help.
• Fix bug to write usage to standard error when invalid arguments are specified.

1.35 1.3.4

• Fix bug in fswatch-run script to allow arguments to be passed to the command to run.

1.36 1.3.3

• Add -o/--one-per-batch option to print a single message with the number of change events in the current batch.
• Add fswatch-run shell script to mimic the behaviour of earlier fswatch versions and launch the specified command when change events are received.

1.37 1.3.2

• fswatch has been merged with fsw.