2.0.1

First stable release of Fastfetch V2

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)

2.0.0-beta

Fastfetch v2 ( currently in beta, will be changed to stable if no serious bug is found in this week ) introduces a new configuration file format: JSON config. Please refer to https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch/wiki/Configuration for details.

Changes:

• Start with fastfetch v2, binaries are built with debug symbols (RelWithDebInfo). That's why the image size bloats.
• 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 (TerminalSize)
• 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:
  1. Although konsole was said to support kitty image protocol, it doesn't support kitty-direct
  2. 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.

1.12.2

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)

1.12.1

Bugfixes:

• Fix compiling error on Apple Slicon (Bios, macOS)

1.12.0

This release backports some changes from dev branch, and fixes 2 crashing issues

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

1.11.3

Bugfixes:

• Fix a segfault bug, regression of 1.11.1 (Linux, wmtheme, #467)

1.11.2

This release should be the last version of fastfetch 1.x (if no serious bugs found, hopefully)

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.

1.11.1

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

1.11.0

Features:

• Support linuxbrew (Packages, Linux)
• Support foot terminal (#431, Linux)
• Support cursor size detection on Windows (Cursor, Windows)
• Support cursor detection on macOS (Cursor, macOS)
• Support display name, display type and decimal refresh rate detection (Display, macOS / Windows)
• Support --display-compact-type to display multiple resolutions in one line (Display)
• Support flatpak-user (Packages, Linux, #436)
• 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
• Fix compiling with musl (Wifi, Linux, #429)
• Don't exit if libpci is failed to init (GPU, Linux, #433)
• Names of most well-known gamepads are correctly printed instead of Wireless Controller on Windows

Logo:

• Small update for nobara logo (#435, @regulargvy13)

1.10.3

Bugfixes:

• Fix uninitialized variables (GPU, Windows)
• Fix compiling errors (Windows)

Improvements:

• Improve preformance (WmTheme amd Font, Windows and macOS)
• Enable nonblocking public-ip / weather detection (Android)