What's new in Fastfetch 2.11.5
May 6, 2024
- Fix logo printing for OpenMandriva.
- Remove --os-file in help messages.
New in Fastfetch 2.11.4 (May 6, 2024)
- Changes:
- Fastfetch will print a colorless ascii logo in --pipe mode for better lolcat compatibility. fastfetch | lolcat should work and no --pipe false needed.
- Previously the logo would be disabled in --pipe mode.
- --os-file was removed and CMake option -DCUSTOM_OS_RELEASE_PATH=/path/to/os-release was added. This option should not used in most cases.
- Bugfixes:
- Fix possible out-of-bound memory access (#868)
- Fix Apple Terminal detection (macOS, Terminal)
- Fix doubled output in custom formation (#852)
- Fix deprecation warning for macOS 14.0 hopefully (#860, macOS, Camera)
- Fix memory leaks when passing informative options
- Fix JSON config size.ndigits doesn't work
- Features:
- Enable --pipe mode if environment variable $NO_COLOR is set
- Support Armbian and Proxmox distro detection (OS, Linux)
- Logo:
- Add Armbian
New in Fastfetch 2.11.3 (May 4, 2024)
- Features:
- Add cmake option CUSTOM_AMDGPU_IDS_PATH for specifying custom path of amdgpu.ids
- Bugfixes:
- Fix hanging when detecting disconnected network drive (Disk, Windows)
- Ensure line ending is printed when printing image logo errors (Logo)
- Revert image logo limitation change in 2.11.2; allow image logo in SSH session and tmux again (#861, Logo)
- Fix doubled output in custom formation (#852, PhysicalDisk, Windows)
New in Fastfetch 2.11.2 (May 3, 2024)
- Changes:
- Error messages when trying to print image logo will only be printed with --show-errors
- When generating JSON output, fastfetch will generate an empty array when no result is detected, instead of an error.
- Bugfixes:
- Fix segfault in Debian 11 and some old kernels. Regression introduced in 2.11.0 (#845, GPU, Linux)
- Don't try detecting version of raw sh shell (#849, Shell, Linux)
- Trim r on Windows
- Features:
- Check xdg state home for nix user packages (#837, Packages, Linux)
- Disable image logos in ssh and tmux sessions (#839)
- Support MX Linux distro detection (#847, OS, Linux)
- Logo:
- Add KernelOS
- Fix name of DraugerOS
- Add missing FF_LOGO_LINE_TYPE_SMALL_BIT flags
- Add MX2
New in Fastfetch 2.11.1 (May 2, 2024)
- Hotfix for Android
- Bugfixes:
- Fix uninitialized variables which can cause crashes (#760 #838, Battery, Android)
- Don't detect hyfetch as shell when used as backend of hyfetch
- Fix incorrect information in man page (#828)
- Features:
- Support sorcery package manager detection (Packages, Linux)
- Make --custom-format optional (Custom)
- Make / an alias of C: for --disk-folders (Disk, Windows)
- Build for Linux armv7
- Logo:
- Fix colors of Source Mage logo
New in Fastfetch 2.11.0 (Apr 30, 2024)
- Changes:
- Default hideCursor to false. It doesn't make much difference but makes user's terminal unusable if fastfetch is not exited correctly.
- Linux amd64 binaries are built with Ubuntu 20.04 again (#808)
- Bugfixes:
- Fix swap usage detection in x86-32 build (Windows, Swap)
- Fix minimum cmake version support (#810)
- Fix wifi detection on platforms that don't use NetworkManager (#811, Wifi, Linux)
- Fix NixOS wrapped process name (#814, Terminal, Linux)
- Fix GPU type detection for AMD cards (#816, GPU, Linux)
- Silence system deprecation warnings (#822, Camera, macOS)
- Features:
- Add basic support DE detection support for UKUI (DE, Linux)
- Support printing total number of nix / flatpak / brew packages (Packages)
- See fastfetch -h packages-format for detail
- Better max CPU frequency detection support with CPUID / 16H instruction (CPU, Windows)
- This requires Intel Core I Gen 6 or newer, and with Virtual Machine Platform Windows feature disabled. X86 only.
- Improve performance of nix packages detection (Packages, Linux)
- Make config specified in JSONC overridable by command line flags
- Note this change only make global config overridable; module configs are still not
- Suggest increasing --processing-timeout when child process timeouts
- Only detect folders that specified by --disk-folders
- Previously --disk-folders only omits unmatched disks from output
- This option can be used to improve detection performance by ignoring slow network drives
New in Fastfetch 2.10.2 (Apr 23, 2024)
- Hotfix release that fixes a regression which incorrectly detect x11 as wayland.
New in Fastfetch 2.10.1 (Apr 22, 2024)
- 2.10.1 is a hotfix version that fixes building with -DENABLE_DBUS=OFF on Linux.
New in Fastfetch 2.10.0 (Apr 22, 2024)
- Changes:
- We now always detect max frequency of GPUs for consistent, instead of current frequency
- Features:
- Improve display detection for wlroots based WMs. Fastfetch now correctly reports fractional scale factors in hyprland (Display, Linux)
- Improve GPU detection on Linux (GPU, Linux)
- Support GPU memory usage detection for AMD GPUs
- Support GPU frequency detection for Intel GPUs
- Improve performance of Gnome version detection (DE, Linux)
- Improve performance of kitty version detection (Terminal, Linux)
- Detect refresh rate when using --ds-force-drm sysfs-only (Display, Linux)
- Add option --ts-version to disable terminal and shell version detection. Mainly for benchmarking purposes
- Improve performance of detecting WSL version (Host, Linux)
- Bugfixes:
- Correctly detect /bin/sh as current shell if it's used as default shell (#798, Shell, Linux)
- Work around an issue which CPU module reports incorrect CPU frequency that is too high (#800, CPU, Linux)
- Don't print ANSI escape codes in --pipe mode
New in Fastfetch 2.9.2 (Apr 16, 2024)
- Changes:
- To make use of the newly introduced yyjson flag YYJSON_WRITE_NEWLINE_AT_END, fastfetch now requires yyjson 0.9.0 or later
- Features:
- Always add a final new-line when generating JSON output
- Detect partition create time, which can be used as OS installation time (Disk)
- Print time string when generating JSON result instead of UNIX epoch time number, which is more human-readable
- Bugfixes:
- Fix a memory leak
- Better portable mode detection of Windows Terminal (TerminalFont, Windows)
- Fix parsing of option --packages-disabled (Packages)
- Don't use command time as a shell (Shell)
- Logos:
- Add openSUSE MicroOS
- Fix color of AOSC OS
New in Fastfetch 2.9.1 (Apr 7, 2024)
- Features:
- Support weston-terminal (missed commit in v2.9.0) (TerminalFont, Linux)
- Support hyprcursor detection (#776, Cursor, Linux)
- Bugfixes:
- Fix fastfetch --gen-config raises SIGSEGV when ~/.config/fastfetch doesn't exist. Regression of 2.9.0 (#778)
New in Fastfetch 2.9.0 (Apr 4, 2024)
- To package managers:
- Dev dependency libpci should be dropped and hwdata should be added as an recommended runtime dependency instead.
- Fastfetch no longer uses libpci / pciutils in GPU module. However, we still use hwdata / pci.ids to convert device id to its marketing name.
- Features:
- Support Lxterminal version detection (Terminal, Linux)
- Support weston-terminal version and font detection (TerminalFont, Linux)
- Support am package manager detection (#771, Packages, Linux)
- Support network prefix length detection for IPv6 (LocalIP)
- Display all IPs when multiple IPs are assigned to the same interface (LocalIP)
- Add option --localip-show-prefix-len to show network prefix length for both IPv4 and IPv6. Defaults to true (LocalIP)
- Bugfixes:
- Fix network prefix length detection when the value is greater than 24 (#773, LocalIP, Linux)
- For xfce4-terminal, use system mono font if no config file is found (TerminalFont, Linux)
New in Fastfetch 2.8.10 (Mar 25, 2024)
- Changes:
- Use MS-DOS device name as mountFrom result, instead of useless GUID volume name (Windows, Disk)
- Some adjustments to Terminal detection (Terminal, Windows)
- Don't pretty print CMD
- Print conhost as Windows Console
- Don't detect wininit as Terminal
- Bugfixes:
- Don't display 0.00 GHz (CPU, FreeBSD)
- Don't detect manufactor of Qualcomm as ARM (CPU, Android)
- Ignore chezmoi (Terminal, Linux)
- Trim trailing possible whitespaces (PublicIP)
- Fix detection compatibility for KDE 6 (Font, Linux)
- Always use Metal API to detect vmem size (GPU, macOS)
- Features:
- Improve stability; print more useful error message; avoid misuse (PublicIP / Weather)
- Logo:
- Fix color of Arco Linux
New in Fastfetch 2.8.9 (Mar 15, 2024)
- Bugfixes:
- Don't detect SessionLeader as terminal, actually (Terminal, Linux)
- Fix blurry chafa result when specifying both width and height (#757, Logo)
- Features:
- Support new MacBook Air (Host, macOS)
- Distinguish min frequency and base frequency (CPU)
- Logo:
- Fix proxmox
New in Fastfetch 2.8.8 (Mar 8, 2024)
- Bugfixes:
- Fix old fish version compatibility (#744)
- Fix truncated texts in --help format (#745)
- Fix old vulkan-header and libdrm library compatibility (#748, Linux)
- Fix possible segfaults in --help *-format (#749)
- Fix invalid resolution detection when using libdrm (Linux, Display)
- Fix segfault when /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ doesn't exist (#750, CPU, Linux)
- Don't detect SessionLeader as terminal (Terminal, Linux)
- Fix detection of client IP (Users, Linux)
New in Fastfetch 2.8.7 (Mar 2, 2024)
- Bugfixes:
- Fix max CPU frequency detection for some cases (CPU, Linux)
- Fix some memory leaks
- Fix ddcutil 2.1 compatibility (Brightness, Linux)
- Workaround permission denied error when reading /proc/uptime (Uptime, Android)
- Features:
- Support zellij version detection (Linux, Terminal)
- Logo:
- Fix PostMarketOS
New in Fastfetch 2.8.6 (Feb 27, 2024)
- Changes:
- Due to newly introduced configs, JSONC option { "temperatureUnit": "C" } has been changed to { "temp": { "unit": "C" } }
- Bugfixes:
- Fix incorrect GPU name detection for Intel iGPU on Linux (#736, GPU, Linux)
New in Fastfetch 2.8.5 (Feb 23, 2024)
- A hotfix release that fixes two uninitialized variables.
New in Fastfetch 2.8.4 (Feb 23, 2024)
- Bugfixes:
- Fix segfault if we fail to find Vendor ID in lscpu (#718, CPU, Linux)
- Fix multi-device bcachefs filesystem compatibility (#731, Disk, Linux)
- Features:
- Support portable Windows Terminal settings (#720, Terminal, Windows)
- Support --color-block-width and --color-block-range (#721, Colors)
- Support --diskio-detect-total to show total bytes read/written (DiskIO)
- Support --netio-detect-total to show total bytes received/sent (NetIO)
- Support --packages-disabled to disable specified package manager (#729, Packages)
- Support --display-order to sort multiple displays in a specific order (Display)
- Support --display-compact-type original-with-refresh-rate to show refresh rates in compact / oneline mode (Display)
New in Fastfetch 2.8.3 (Feb 12, 2024)
- Fix GPU name detection for AMD graphic cards (GPU, Linux / FreeBSD).
New in Fastfetch 2.8.2 (Feb 10, 2024)
- Changes:
- The linux binaries are now built with glibc 2.35, which means they no longer support Debian 11 and Ubuntu 20.04. Users using these distros may download the artifacts fastfetch-linux-old from GitHub Actions.
- Features:
- Rewrite GPU module, drop libpci dependency (GPU, Linux)
- Detect marketing name of Apple Silicon CPUs for asahi linux (CPU, Linux)
- Add new module Camera, which prints the name and resolution of connected cameras
- Bugfixes:
- Fix compatibility with packages installed by flatpak (Terminal, Linux)
- Don't show an empty battery if no battery is detected (macOS, Battery)
- Don't show not connected if no power adapter is found (macOS / Linux, PowerAdapter)
- Make format of battery status be consistent with other platforms (Linux, Battery)
- Logo:
- Print Asahi logo in asahi linux (Logo, Linux)
- Add Asahi2, z/OS, Tatra, PikaOS
New in Fastfetch 2.7.1 (Jan 30, 2024)
- Features:
- Config presets in app folder now work with symlinks
- Bugfixes:
- Fix a possible segfault when detecting terminal (Terminal, Linux)
New in Fastfetch 2.7.0 (Jan 26, 2024)
- Features:
- Add new module TerminalTheme, which prints the foreground and background color of the current terminal window. Currently doesn't work on Windows.
- Allow command substitution when expanding paths. For example, now it's possible to use "source": "$(ls ~/path/to/images/*.png | shuf -n 1)" in JSONC config file to randomly choose an image to display. (#698)
- Use native methods instead of pciutils to detect GPUs in FreeBSD. (GPU, FreeBSD)
- Bugfixes:
- Fix text formatting (Wifi, Linux)
- Fix terminal detection in some cases (Terminal)
- Remove trailing in JSON results (FreeBSD)
- Fix uninitialized variables (GPU, Linux)
- Fix a possible segfault (OpenCL)
- Logo:
- Add ASCII logos for fedora immutable variants (#700)
New in Fastfetch 2.6.3 (Jan 22, 2024)
- Fix module not working (Bluetooth).
- Fix building for GCC in Windows (Windows).
New in Fastfetch 2.6.2 (Jan 21, 2024)
- Fix building for GCC in Windows.
New in Fastfetch 2.6.1 (Jan 20, 2024)
- Features:
- Improve xonsh shell detection (Shell)
- Support colored percentage values (Bluetooth / Gamepad / Sound)
- Add --<module>-percent-[green|yellow] options to specify threshold of percentage colors
- eg. --disk-percent-green 20 --disk-percent-yellow 50 will show green if disk usage is less than 20%, yellow if disk usage is less then 50%, and red otherwise.
- Add --percent-color-[green|yellow|red] options to specify color of different percent value states.
- eg. --percent-color-green blue will show blue color if percent value falls in green state.
- Bugfixes:
- Silence warnings when building in 32bit machines.
- Create sub folders when writing config file
- Improve user specific locale detection; fix locale detection in Windows 7 (Locale)
New in Fastfetch 2.6.0 (Jan 17, 2024)
- Changes:
- Remove support of option --battery-dir. We detect a lot of things in /sys/class/* and only module Battery supports specifying a custom directory for some reason, which is weird.
- Remove --chassis-use-wmi which is no longer used.
- Features:
- Add ENABLE_PROPRIETARY_GPU_DRIVER_API cmake option to disable using of proprietary GPU driver APIs (GPU)
- Support wallpaper detection for macOS Sonoma (Wallpaper, macOS)
- Support power adapter detection for Asahi Linux (PowerAdapter, Linux)
- Support battery serial number and manufacturer date detection (Battery)
- Support host serial number and UUID detection (Host)
- Support battery level detection for gamepads where possible (Gamepad)
- Support maximum CPU clock detection. Previously base clock was printed (CPU, Windows)
- Support manufacture date and serial number detection for physical monitors (Monitor)
- Support ash (default shell of BusyBox) version detection (Shell, Linux)
- Sound module in FreeBSD now uses native ioctls. Pulseaudio dependency is no longer used.
- Locale module in Windows now prints the same format as in Linux and other posix systems.
- Bugfixes:
- Fix overall memory leaks (macOS)
- Remove trailing in JSON results (FreeBSD)
- Fix physical monitor detection with Nvidia drivers (Monitor, Linux)
- Don't print llvmpipe in vulkan module (Vulkan)
- Fix system yyjson usage in fastfetch.c. Previously embedded 3rdparty/yyjson/yyjson.h was used in fastfetch.c even if ENABLE_SYSTEM_YYJSON was set (CMake)
- Fix locale module printing unexpected results in specific environments (Locale)
- Fix battery temperature detection in Windows. Note only smart batteries report temperatures but few laptops uses smart battery (Battery, Windows)
- Print device name if no backlight name is available, so we don't print empty parentheses (Brightness, FreeBSD)
New in Fastfetch 2.5.0 (Jan 1, 2024)
- Changes:
- --gpu-use-nvml has been renamed to --gpu-driver-specific due to using of IGCL and AGS
- We now detect external partitions more conservatively in Linux. USB partitions will not be detected as external always ( eg. The Linux kernel itself is installed in a USB drive )
- Features:
- Support more authentication type detection for macOS Sonoma (Wifi, macOS)
- Default preset names to .jsonc. For example, fastfetch -c all will load presets/all.jsonc (#666)
- Use Intel Graphics Control Library (IGCL) to detect more GPU information. Windows only (GPU, Windows)
- Improve support of Asahi Linux (Brightness / CPU / GPU / Disk, Linux)
- Support more properties of physical disks (PhysicalDisk)
- Support SSD temperature detection with --physicaldisk-temp (PhysicalDisk)
- Support partition label detection (Disk, FreeBSD)
- Support platform specific graphic API version detection (GPU, macOS / Windows)
- Bugfixes:
- Fix Windows partition detection for WSL2 (Linux, Disk)
- Fix Btrfs subvolumes being detected as external partitions some times (Linux, Disk)
- Fix battery cycle counts in some places (Battery)
- Fix CodeWhisperer compatibility (#676, Terminal, macOS)
New in Fastfetch 2.4.0 (Dec 19, 2023)
- Changes:
- All flag based presets are removed
- Features:
- Improve performance of detecting rpm and pkg package count (Packages, Linux / FreeBSD)
- Support Apple M3X temperature detection (CPU / GPU, macOS)
- --ds-force-drm support a new option sysfs-only
- Improve xfce4 version detection
- Detect WM and DE by enumerating running processes (WM / DE, FreeBSD)
- Add a new module Physical Disk, which detects product name, full size, serial number and so on.
- Bugfixes:
- Fix crashes sometimes when --logo-padding-top is not set (Logo)
- Fix memory usage counting algorithm (Memory, macOS)
- Fix the behavior of --no-buffer in Windows
- Fix possible segfault in some devices (Display, Linux)
- Fix segfaults on first use of new images with Sixel flag (Image)
- Logo:
- Remove unnecessary escaping for Adelie logo
- Add EshanizedOS
New in Fastfetch 2.3.3 (Dec 7, 2023)
- Config related changes:
- The deprecated flag --gen-config conf is removed
- Flag --gen-config now does the same thing as --migrate-config, which can be used as config migration and default config file generation. Flag --migrate-config is removed
- Fastfetch now searches for config files in the order of fastfetch --list-config-paths, and won't load other config if one is found.
- The undocumented flag --load-user-config is removed. As an alternative, --config none can be used to disable loading config files.
- --config (previously named --load-config) is now supported for command line arguments only. If specified, other config files won't be loaded, which works like other programs.
- Config files will always be loaded before other command line flags being parsed. That is to say, command line flags will always override options defined in config files.
- the value of GPUType integrated contained a typo and was fixed. Existing config files may need to be updated.
- Features:
- Support Oils and elvish shell version detection (Shell)
- Support Windows Server Core (Windows)
- Better ddcutil 2.x compatibility (Brightness, Linux)
- Add completion support for fish (natively) and nushell (via carapace-bin)
- Support nix in macOS (Packages, macOS)
- Print module description for --list-modules
- Support alacritty.toml (TerminalFont)
- Support board detection on macOS. It simplily prints machine model identifier as for now (Board, macOS)
- Add general method to query product name (Host, macOS)
- Use libdrm as a better fall back for detecting displays, which correctly detects current mode; supports refresh rate detection and maybe also faster than using /sys/class/drm (Display, Linux)
- Support physical disk size detection (DiskIO)
- Support physical disk name and type detection (DiskIO, FreeBSD)
- Bugfixes:
- End va_list before returning (@VoltrexKeyva)
- Don't use background color when printing blocks (Color)
- Fix lots of typos
- Fix compatibility with Linux containers (Linux)
- Don't report disabled monitors when using DRM (Linux)
- Fix bad performance in some cases when using X11 (Display, Linux)
- Fix some memory leaks
- Fix used swap space detection (Swap, FreeBSD)
- Don't leak fds to child processes (Linux)
- Fix possible issues when reading procfs (Linux, @apocelipes)
- Logos:
- Add Adelie, Ironclad
- Update parch
- Fix Xray-OS logo name
New in Fastfetch 2.3.2 Pre-release (Dec 6, 2023)
- Config related changes:
- The deprecated flag --gen-config conf is removed
- Flag --gen-config now does the same thing as --migrate-config, which can be used as config migration and default config file generation. Flag --migrate-config is removed
- Fastfetch now searches for config files in the order of fastfetch --list-config-paths, and won't load other config if one is found.
- The undocumented flag --load-user-config is removed. As an alternative, --config none can be used to disable loading config files.
- --config (previously named --load-config) is now supported for command line arguments only. If specified, other config files won't be loaded, which works like other programs.
- Config files will always be loaded before other command line flags being parsed. That is to say, command line flags will always override options defined in config files.
- the value of GPUType integrated contained a typo and was fixed. Existing config files may need to be updated.
- Features:
- Support Oils and elvish shell version detection (Shell)
- Support Windows Server Core (Windows)
- Better ddcutil 2.x compatibility (Brightness, Linux)
- Add completion support for fish (natively) and nushell (via carapace-bin)
- Support nix in macOS (Packages, macOS)
- Print module description for --list-modules
- Support alacritty.toml (TerminalFont)
- Support board detection on macOS. It simplily prints machine model identifier as for now (Board, macOS)
- Add general method to query product name (Host, macOS)
- Use libdrm as a better fall back for detecting displays, which correctly detects current mode; supports refresh rate detection and maybe also faster than using /sys/class/drm (Display, Linux)
- Support physical disk size detection (DiskIO)
- Support physical disk name and type detection (DiskIO, FreeBSD)
- Bugfixes:
- End va_list before returning (@VoltrexKeyva)
- Don't use background color when printing blocks (Color)
- Fix lots of typos
- Fix compatibility with Linux containers (Linux)
- Don't report disabled monitors when using DRM (Linux)
- Fix bad performance in some cases when using X11 (Display, Linux)
- Fix some memory leaks
- Fix used swap space detection (Swap, FreeBSD)
- Don't leak fds to child processes (Linux)
- Fix possible issues when reading procfs (Linux, @apocelipes)
- Logos:
- Add Adelie, Ironclad
- Update parch
- Fix Xray-OS logo name
New in Fastfetch 2.3.1 Pre-release (Dec 6, 2023)
- Features:
- Support Oils and elvish shell version detection (Shell)
- Support Windows Server Core (Windows)
- Better ddcutil 2.x compatibility (Brightness, Linux)
- Add completion support for fish (natively) and nushell (via carapace-bin)
- Support nix in macOS (Packages, macOS)
- Print module description for --list-modules
- Support alacritty.toml (TerminalFont)
- Support board detection on macOS. It simplily prints machine model identifier as for now (Board, macOS)
- Add general method to query product name (Host, macOS)
- Use libdrm as a better fall back for detecting displays, which correctly detects current mode; supports refresh rate detection and maybe also faster than using /sys/class/drm (Display, Linux)
- Support physical disk size detection (DiskIO)
- Support physical disk name and type detection (DiskIO, FreeBSD)
- Bugfixes:
- End va_list before returning (@VoltrexKeyva)
- Don't use background color when printing blocks (Color)
- Fix lots of typos
- Fix compatibility with Linux containers (Linux)
- Don't report disabled monitors when using DRM (Linux)
- Fix bad performance in some cases when using X11 (Display, Linux)
- Fix some memory leaks
- Fix used swap space detection (Swap, FreeBSD)
- Don't leak fds to child processes (Linux)
- Fix possible issues when reading procfs (Linux, @apocelipes)
New in Fastfetch 2.3.0 Pre-release (Dec 6, 2023)
- Config related changes:
- The deprecated flag --gen-config conf is removed
- Flag --gen-config now does the same thing as --migrate-config, which can be used as config migration and default config file generation. Flag --migrate-config is removed
- Fastfetch now searches for config files in the order of fastfetch --list-config-paths, and won't load other config if one is found.
- The undocumented flag --load-user-config is removed. As an alternative, --config none can be used to disable loading config files.
- --config (previously named --load-config) is now supported for command line arguments only. If specified, other config files won't be loaded, which works like other programs.
- Config files will always be loaded before other command line flags being parsed. That is to say, command line flags will always override options defined in config files.
- the value of GPUType integrated contained a typo and was fixed. Existing config files may need to be updated.
- Features:
- Support Oils and elvish shell version detection (Shell)
- Support Windows Server Core (Windows)
- Better ddcutil 2.x compatibility (Brightness, Linux)
- Add completion support for fish (natively) and nushell (via carapace-bin)
- Support nix in macOS (Packages, macOS)
- Print module description for --list-modules
- Support alacritty.toml (TerminalFont)
- Support board detection on macOS. It simplily prints machine model identifier as for now (Board, macOS)
- Add general method to query product name (Host, macOS)
- Use libdrm as a better fall back for detecting displays, which correctly detects current mode; supports refresh rate detection and maybe also faster than using /sys/class/drm (Display, Linux)
- Support physical disk size detection (DiskIO)
- Support physical disk name and type detection (DiskIO, FreeBSD)
- Bugfixes:
- End va_list before returning (@VoltrexKeyva)
- Don't use background color when printing blocks (Color)
- Fix lots of typos
- Fix compatibility with Linux containers (Linux)
- Don't report disabled monitors when using DRM (Linux)
- Fix bad performance in some cases when using X11 (Display, Linux)
- Fix some memory leaks
- Fix used swap space detection (Swap, FreeBSD)
- Don't leak fds to child processes (Linux)
- Fix possible issues when reading procfs (Linux, @apocelipes)
- Logos:
- Add Adelie, Ironclad
- Update parch
New in Fastfetch 2.2.3 (Nov 8, 2023)
- Features:
- Update the latest mac models (Host, macOS).
- Bugfixes:
- Fix local ips detection on Android. Regression from v2.2.0 (LocalIP, Android).
- Fix terminal detection on NixOS (Terminal).
New in Fastfetch 2.2.2 (Nov 7, 2023)
- Changes:
- --percent-type now defaults to 9 (colored percentage numbers)
- fastfetch now prints LocalIp module by default
- Features:
- LocalIP module now prints netmask in CIDR format for IPv4 (LocalIP)
- Bios module now detects system firmware type (Bios)
- Improve detection of module Battery
- Detect cycle count on supported platforms
- Detect temperature on Linux when supported
- Status detection on macOS has been adjusted to be consistant with other platforms
- Linux binaries are built with imagemagick7 support
- Bugfixes:
- Fix unitialized variables (#609)
- Fix spelling of --preserve-aspect-ratio (#614)
- Logos:
- Update NixOS_small
New in Fastfetch 2.2.1 (Nov 2, 2023)
- Bugfixes:
- Fix broken presets due to the breaking changes introduced in 2.2.0
- Features:
- Pretty print fastfetch --help
New in Fastfetch 2.2.0 (Nov 1, 2023)
- Changes:
- --pipe and --stat are moved from general options to display options. This affects cjson configuration.
- Display keys percent* and size* in JSON config are restructured. e.g. { "sizeNdigits": 1 } is now { "size": { "ndigits": 1 } }
- With the introduction of --migrate-config, the old flag based config file is deprecated, and will be removed in 3.0.0 (next major version)
- Support of --gen-config conf is deprecated accordingly, and will be removed in 2.3.0 (next minor version)
- The global flag --allow-slow-operations is splitted into some explicit flags in differnet modules
- --packages-winget: control whether winget packages count should be detected. Note it's a very slow operation, please enable it with caution.
- --chassis-use-wmi: control whether WMI query should be used to detect chassis type, which detects more information, but slower. This flag only affects --chassis-format and --format json.
- --battery-use-setup-api: control whether SetupAPI should be used on Windows to detect battery info, which supports multi batteries, but slower.
- --wm-detect-plugin: control whether WM plugins should be detected. Note it's implemented with global processes enumeration and can report false results.
- --de-slow-version-detection: control DE version should be detected with slow operations. It's usually not necessary and only provided as a backup.
- --localip-default-route-only and --netio-default-route-only defaults to true to avoid large number of results
- Features:
- Quirks for MIPS platforms (CPU, Linux)
- Use devicetree path for OBP hosts (Host, Linux)
- Detect tmux: server as tmux (Terminal, Linux)
- Support urxvt version detection (Terminal, Linux)
- Support st version detection (Terminal, Linux)
- Support st terminal font detection (TerminalFont, Linux)
- Support xfce4-terminal 1.1.0+ terminal font detection (TerminalFont, Linux)
- Add option --migrate-config <?target-file-path>
- Support Nvidia GPU temp and cuda core count detection via nvml. Use --gpu-use-nvml to enable it (GPU)
- Try supporting Wifi authentication type detection in macOS Sonoma. Please file a feature request if you get to be supported (num) with result of /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport -I | grep auth (Wifi, macOS)
- Bugfixes:
- Better GPU memory and type detection (GPU, Windows)
- Don't print display type twice (Display)
- Detect BSSID instead of Wifi MAC address to align with other platforms (Wifi, macOS)
- Remove support of used GPU memory detection, which is not reliable and only supported with --gpu-force-vulkan. (GPU)
- Fix flag --brightness-ddcci-sleep (Brightness, Linux)
- Fix hanging if a child process prints to both stdout and stderr (Linux)
- Logos:
- Add Black Mesa
- Add cycledream
- Add Evolinx
- Add azos
- Add Interix
New in Fastfetch 2.1.2 (Oct 15, 2023)
- Fix icon detection on Windows. It shows enabled system icons in desktop (This PC, Recycle Bin, etc) (Icon, Windows)
- Fix compatibility with ddcutil 2.0 (Brightness, Linux)
- Fix a compile warning (CPUUsage, FreeBSD)
New in Fastfetch 2.1.1 (Oct 14, 2023)
- Features:
- Support opkg (Packages, Linux)
- Support GNOME Console terminal version and font detection (Terminal, Linux)
- Add --cpu-freq-ndigits to set number of digits for CPU frequency (CPU)
- New module to detect physical disk I/O usage (DiskIO)
- Add --cpuusage-separate to display CPU usage per CPU logical core
- Add --brightness-ddcci-sleep to set the sleep times (in ms) when sending DDC/CI requests (Brightness, #580)
- Bugfixes:
- Fix possible crashes on Windows 7 (Disk, Windows)
- Fix possible crashes caused by uninitialized strings (Users, Windows)
- Improve support of --help *-format and several bugs are found and fixed
- Don't incorrectly print No active sound devices found when using a non-controllable sound device (Sound, macOS)
- Fix implementation processes counting (Processes, Linux)
- Work around a issue that SSID cannot be detected on macOS Sonoma (Wifi, macOS)
- Logo:
- Add Chimera Linux
- Add EndeavourSmall
- Add Xenia
New in Fastfetch 2.1.0 (Oct 2, 2023)
- Changes:
- Users module detects and prints user login time by default. Specifying --users-compact to disable it
- Fastfetch now requires yyjson 0.8.0 or later, which is embeded in fastfetch source tree. If you build fastfetch with -DENABLE_SYSTEM_YYJSON cmake option, you must upgrade your yyjson package
- Reduced information supported by --terminal-format, --shell-format
- Some config presets (devinfo and verbose) are obseleted and removed. They are barely maintained and can be replaced with --format json now.
- Custom strings in --module-key and --module-format are no longer trimmed.
- /boot is hidden by default (FreeBSD, Disk)
- Features:
- Add --format json, which prints system information as JSON format
- Add fast path for xfce4 version detection (DE, FreeBSD)
- Support contour terminal version and font detection (Terminal / TerminalFont)
- Support kitty-direct / iterm without specifying logo width / height. Note: in this case, the entre screen will be cleared.
- Support new flag --logo-separate. If true, print modules at bottom of the logo
- Support Apple Silicon CPU frequency detection (CPU, macOS)
- Support user login time detection (Users)
- Support winget package manager detection, guarded behind --allow-slow-operations (Packages, Windows)
- Print monitor type (built-in or external) (Display)
- Support full GPU detection in WSL (Linux, GPU)
- Add --module-key " " as a special case for hiding keys
- Support --title-format. See fastfetch --help title-format for detail
- Support --colors-key (Colors)
- Add -c as a shortcut of --load-config. Note it was used as the shortcut of --color before 2.0.5
- Support Windows Service Pack version detection (Kernel, Windows)
- Support Debian point releases detection (OS, Linux)
- Add new module NetIO which prints network throughput (usage) of specified interface. Note this module costs about 1 second to finish.
- Use lscpu to detect CPU name for ARM CPUs (CPU, Linux)
- Bugfixes:
- Fix fastfetch hanging in specific environment (#561)
- Fix short read when reading from stdin (Logo)
- Fix poll() timeout or failed error when image is very large (Logo)
- Fix Termux Monet terminal version detection (Terminal)
- Fix zpool volumes detection (Disk, Linux)
- Fix external volumes detection (Disk, Linux)
- Fix snap package number detection on systems other than Ubuntu (Packages, Linux)
- Fix dpkg / apt package number detection (Packages, Linux)
- Fix bluetooth mac address detection (Bluetooth, Windows)
- Logo:
- Add Afterglow
- Add Elbrus
- Update EvolutionOS
- Update AOSC OS
- Update Ubuntu_old
- Update Windows 11_small
- Add Amazon Linux
- Add LainOS
- Fix colors of Slackware
New in Fastfetch 2.0.5 (Aug 26, 2023)
- Bugfixes:
- Fix segfault when using libxrandr (#544, Display, Linux)
- Don't print 0px (#544, Cursor)
- Features:
- Add option --disk-use-available (#543)
- Add option --disk-show-readonly
New in Fastfetch 2.0.3 (Aug 25, 2023)
- Bugfixes:
- Fix building on 32-bit FreeBSD (Memory, BSD)
- Fix --file-raw doesn't work (Logo)
- Features:
- Trait - as an alias for /dev/stdin. Available for --file, --file-raw and --raw (Logo)
New in Fastfetch 2.0.3 (Aug 24, 2023)
- Bugfixes:
- Fix typo in config parsing for --color-title (#534)
- Fix percent formatting for --*-format (#535)
- Fix loading presets for homebrew (macOS)
- Features:
- Add option --percent-ndigits
- Add command flag --config as an alias of --load-config
- Windows packages now include presets (Windows)
New in Fastfetch 2.0.2 (Aug 22, 2023)
- Bugfixes:
- Workarund a compiler bug of GCC
- Fix presets not detected by file name
- Logo:
- Add Tuxedo OS
New in Fastfetch 2.0.1 (Aug 21, 2023)
- Changes:
- Unescape strings only when parsing .conf files
- Previously: $ NO_CONFIG=1 fastfetch --os-key \\ -s os -l none prints : *. Note the backslashs are unescaped twice (once by shell and once by fastfetch).
- Now: $ NO_CONFIG=1 fastfetch --os-key \\ -s os -l none prints \: *
- Remove option shortcut -c (alias of --color), which is more commonly used as alias of --config
- Rename --recache to --logo-recache (which is used for regenerate image logo cache). Remove option shortcut -r (alias of --recache).
- Detecting brightness of external displays with DDC/CI is no longer guarded behind --allow-slow-operations (Brightness)
- Features:
- Add --key-width for aligning the left edge of values, supported both for global --key-width and specific module --module-key-width
- Add --bar-char-elapsed, --bar-char-total, --bar-width and --bar-border options
- Add CMake option ENABLE_SYSTEM_YYJSON, which allow building fastfetch with system-provided yyjson (for package managers)
- Add new module Version, which prints fastfetch version (like fastfetch --version)
- Bugfixes:
- Fix label detection. Use --disk-key 'Disk ({2})' to display it (Disk, Linux)
- Fix some module options were not inited
- Fix terminal version and font detection on NixOS (Terminal, Linux)
New in Fastfetch 2.0.0 Beta (Aug 14, 2023)
- Changes:
- Drop the dependency of cJSON. We now use yyjson to parse JSON documents.
- Remove --shell-version and --terminal-version. They are always enabled (Terminal / Shell)
- Remove --*-error-format, which seems to be useless
- Remove --display-detect-name. Display name is always detected, and will be printed if multiple displays are detected
- Deprecate --set and --set-keyless; they may be removed in future releases. Use JSON config with Custom module instead
- Remove the special handling of Command module (it can be set once in the triditional config.conf). Use JSON config with Command module instead
- Change --wm-theme-* to --wmtheme-*. Affect key and format (WMTheme)
- Change --terminal-font-* to --terminalfont-*. Affect key and format (TerminalFont)
- Module Command uses /bin/sh as the default shell on systems other than Windows (Command)
- Fix M2 CPU temperature detection (CPU, macOS)
- Detect monitor name when available, instead of using DRM connector name (Display / Brightness, Linux)
- Features:
- FreeBSD support is improved greatly, and actually tested in a physical machine
- Add --no-buffer option for easier debugging. CMake option ENABLE_BUFFER is removed and always enabled.
- Support --*-key-color option to change the key color of specified module
- Support --colors-symbol and --colors-padding-left (Colors)
- Add LM (Login Manager) module. Currently requires systemd installed (thus Linux only)
- Add --wmi-timeout option (Windows)
- Add --logo-type small to search for small logos
- Support detecting brightness of external displays with DDC/CI (guard behind --allow-slow-operations) (Brightness)
- Add option --size-ndigits and --size-max-prefix (#494)
- Add option --processing-timeout to the timeout when waiting for child processes.
- Public IP module prints the IP location if --publicip-url is not set (PublicIP)
- Add option --localip-default-route-only (LocalIP)
- Add option --weather-location (Weather)
- Support iTerm non-ascii font detection (Terminal, macOS)
- Add option --title-color-user, --title-color-at and --title-color-host (Title)
- Add Exherbo logo and package manager count (Packages, Linux, #503)
- Add module Terminal Size which prints the number of terminal width and height in charactors and pixels
- Add new option --temperature-unit
- Better CPU and Host detection for Android (Android)
- Support yakuake terminal version & font detection (Terminal, Linux)
- Add new option --bright-color which can be used to disable the default bright color of keys, title and ASCII logo.
- Add module Monitor which prints physical parameters (native resolutions and demensions) of connected monitors
- Support path with environment variables for --logo-source and --load-config.
- Bugfixes:
- Fix possible hanging (TerminalFont, #493)
- Fix heap-buffer-overflow reading (DisplayServer, Linux)
- Fix false errors when built without libnm support (Wifi, Linux)
- Properly detect CPU on POWER (CPU, Linux)
- Fix compatibility with Fig (Terminal, macOS)
- Fix option --title-fqdn doesn't work (Title)
- Fix used spaces calculation (Disk, Linux / BSD / macOS, #508)
- Fix --brightness-format (Brightness)
- Fix specifying --set-keyless with the same key second time won't override the value set before (#517)
- Fix specifying --color second time won't clear the value set before (#517)
- Logo:
- Change the special handling of kitty protocol with .png image file to a new image protocol kitty-direct. This is the fastest image protocol because fastfetch doesn't need to pre-encode the image to base64 or something and the image content doesn't need to be transmitted via tty. Note:
- Although konsole was said to support kitty image protocol, it doesn't support kitty-direct
- wezterm support more image formats other than .png (tested with .jpg and .webp)
- Port all logos supported by neo(wo)fetch. Fastfetch now has 350 builtin logos in total.
New in Fastfetch 1.12.2 (Jul 5, 2023)
- Features:
- Support terminator terminal version detection (Linux, Terminal)
- Support pkgtool package manager detection (Linux, Packages)
- Support Far shell version detection (Windows, Shell)
- Bugfixes:
- Fix ConEmu terminal detection in some special cases (Windows, Terminal, #488)
- Fix incorrect Host on M2 Mac Studio with M2 Max CPU (macOS, Host, #490)
New in Fastfetch 1.12.0 (Jul 2, 2023)
- Features:
- Support KDE / LXQT / MATE / Cinnamon wallpaper detection (Wallpaper, Linux)
- Support QTerminal version & terminal font detection
- Support MATE Terminal version & terminal font detection
- Set --pipe true automatically if stdout is not a tty
- Detect new macs released on WWDC 2023 (macOS, Host)
- Count cached memory as free memory (FreeBSD, Memory)
- Support sound detection (FreeBSD, Sound)
- Bugfixes:
- Fix DE detection on Windows 8.1 (Windows, DE)
- Fix --logo-padding-left doesn't work when --logo-padding-top is set (Logo)
- Fix KDE version detection on Fedora (DE)
- Include limits.h when needed (Linux, #472)
- Fix Windows drives detection in WSL (Linux, Disk)
- Fix CPU temp detection (FreeBSD, CPU)
- Fix disk detection (Android, Disk)
- Fix Gnome Terminal version and font detection (FreeBSD, TerminalFont)
- Fix crash on newer wayland desktops (Linux, Display, #477)
- Fix vendor detection for Intel GPU (macOS, GPU)
- Fix possible crashes on Windows Server (Windows, GPU, #484)
- Logo:
- Add bsd, freebsd_small, ghostbsd
- Make Windows 11 logo colorable
New in Fastfetch 1.11.3 (Jun 10, 2023)
- Fix a segfault bug, regression of 1.11.1 (Linux, wmtheme, #467)
New in Fastfetch 1.11.2 (Jun 9, 2023)
- Features:
- Support display name, type, rotation detection on Wayland (Linux, Display)
- Print more useful display name instead of intel_backlight (Linux, Brightness)
- Icons module supports Windows (Windows, Icons)
- Add Wallpaper module which shows the current wallpaper image path
- Add mac address detection --localip-show-mac (LocalIP, #451)
- Bugfixes:
- Fix Gnome version detection on Fedora (DE)
- Fix Windows drives detection in WSL (Disk)
- Changes:
- In order to make Icons module consistant between different platforms, --icons-format no longer supports individual GTK / QT icon params.
- --theme-format no longer supports individual GTK / plasma theme params.
- --local-ip-* and --public-ip-* have been changed to --localip-* and --publicip-*
- --localip-compact-type is no longer supported. Fastfetch now display IPs as --localip-compat-type multiline by default, with --local-compact true can be set as an alias of --localip-compact-type oneline
- --localip-v6first is no longer supported.
New in Fastfetch 1.11.1 (May 28, 2023)
- Features:
- Support xonsh detection (TerminalShell)
- Support Tabby version / terminal font detection (TerminalFont)
- Bugfixes:
- Fix name of Pro Controller (Gamepad, Windows)
- Fix compile error with imagemagick enabled (Windows)
- Fix copy-and-paste errors (Gamepad)
- Flatpak: Fix user package count
- Flatpak: Count runtime packages too (#441)
- Fix flatpak package count (#441)
- Don't print white color blocks with --pipe (#450)
- Fix iTerm being detected as iTermServer-* sometimes
- Fix sound device volume being incorrectly detected as muted sometimes (Sound)
- Fix memleaks reported by LeakSanitizer (Linux)
- Fix potential memory curruption bug in unicode.c (Windows)
- Logo:
- Update Windows 11 ASCII logo to look more visually consistent (#445)
- Add another font color index to arch icon (#446)
- Add SteamOS
- Add macOS small / small2
New in Fastfetch 1.11.0 (Mar 25, 2023)
- Features:
- Support cursor size detection on Windows (Cursor, Windows)
- Support display name, display type and decimal refresh rate detection
- Support --display-compact-type to display multiple resolutions in one line (Display)
- Support --gpu-force-vulkan to force using vulkan to detect GPUs, which support video memory usage detection with --allow-slow-operations (GPU)
- Bugfixes:
- Fix date time format
- Names of most well-known gamepads are correctly printed instead of Wireless Controller on Windows
- Logo:
- Small update for nobara logo
New in Fastfetch 1.10.3 (Feb 25, 2023)
- Bugfixes:
- Fix uninitialized variables (GPU, Windows)
- Fix compiling errors (Windows)
- Improvements:
- Improve preformance
New in Fastfetch 1.10.2 (Feb 22, 2023)
- Bugfixes:
- Handle kAudioObjectPropertyElementMain for macOS SDK < 12 (#425, @nandahkrishna)
- Add missing NULL for ffProcessAppendStdOut (#421)
New in Fastfetch 1.10.1 (Feb 21, 2023)
- New release for debugging #421. No changes for platforms other than Android.
New in Fastfetch 1.10.0 (Feb 21, 2023)
- Notable Changes:
- With the support of Win32 platform, original Windows 64bit artifact file is renamed to Win64 to avoid possible confusion
- Features:
- Bluetooth module
- Sound module
- Gamepad module
- Support colored percentage numbers output (#409)
- Support --localip-compact-type option (#408)
- Terminator terminal font detection (@Zerogiven, #415)
- Windows 32bit compatibility
- Support global configuration in MSYS2 environment (Windows)
- Support GPU driver version detection on Windows 11
- Support scaled resolution detection for wayland (Linux)
- Bugfixes:
- Fix build with older libnm versions
- Fix a rare case that fails to detect terminal
- Fix Muffin detection (@Zerogiven, #411)
- Fix IPv6 detection (Windows)
- Fix scoop package count detection when scoop is installed in non-default path (Windows, #417)
- Fix UB reported by clang
- Honor $SCOOP when detecting scoop packages (#417)
- Other:
- Simplified wmtheme output format (Windows)
- Improved GPU detection performance on Windows 11
- Lastest Mac model identifier support (macOS)
New in Fastfetch 1.9.1 (Jan 24, 2023)
- Fix builds on s390x (@jonathanspw, #402)
- Fix zero refresh rate on some monitors (macOS)
- Fix default formatting of Wifi module
New in Fastfetch 1.9.0 (Jan 22, 2023)
- Notable Changes:
- fastfetch no longer creates a sample config file silently. Use --gen-config to generate one.
- fastfetch now search for user config file in the order of fastfetch --list-config-paths
- Unknown disks are hidden by default.
- Resolution module is renamed to Display. (#393)
- Features:
- --logo-padding-top option (@CarterLi, #372)
- Raw image file as logo support (@CarterLi)
- Look for config files in $APPDATA (RoamingAppData) (Windows)
- Look for config files in ~/Library/Preferences (macOS)
- Add --list-config-paths option which list search paths of config files
- Add --list-data-paths option which list search paths for presets and logos
- Add Brightness module support
- Add Battery module support for FreeBSD
- Add --disk-show-unknown option for Disk module
- Add --disk-show-subvolumes option for Disk module
- Add --gpu-hide-integrated option (#379)
- Add --gpu-hide-discrete option (#379)
- Detect terminal version when available
- Support WezTerm terminal font detection (requires wezterm executable being available)
- Add --shell-version and --terminal-version options to disable shell / terminal version detection
- Enhance --percent-type to allow hiding other texts (#387)
- Add Wifi module support for Linux
- Detect scaled resolutions (Windows, macOS)
- Optimise font module printing (Windows)
- Detect pacman package count inside MSYS2 environment (Windows)
- Add Wifi / Battery module support for Android
- Disk name support for Linux
- Logos:
- Raspbian (@IamNoRobot, #373)
- Bugfixes:
- --logo-type now does accept iterm too (@CarterLi, #374)
- Fix mintty terminal font detection (Windows)
- Fix bug that line buffering doesn't work properly (Windows)
- Fix rpm package count detection (Linux)
- Fix cpu temp detection (Linux)
- Other:
- Fixed a Typo in iterm error message (@jessebot, #376)
- Don't try to load config file in /etc (Windows)
New in Fastfetch 1.8.2 (Jan 18, 2023)
- Bugfixes:
- Fix memleaks Users module (Windows)
- Fix shell detection when installed with scoop (Windows)
- Don't use libcJSON as wlanapi's dll name (Windows)
- Align artifact names to other platforms (Windows)