nwipe/CHANGELOG.md

RELEASE NOTES

v0.28-pre-release (Pending Release Summer 2020 ?)

Proposed changes (Changes that have been implemented in the master are tagged with [DONE])

• Fix premature exit when terminal resized on completion of wipes (PartialVolume)
• Fix GUI when terminal is resized, currently not handled correctly causing missing or incorrectly sized ncurses windows/panels (work in progress by PartialVolume)
• Add enhancement fibre channel wiping of non 512 bytes/sector drives such as 524/528 bytes/sector etc (work in progress by PartialVolume)
• HPA/DCO detection and adjustment to wipe full drive.

v0.27

• Add verify method to verify a disk is zero filled #128 (Thanks Legogizmo)
• Add new HMG IS5 enhanced wipe method #168 (Thanks infrastation)
• Fix percentage progress and show on completion of wipe (Thanks PartialVolume)
• Implement clang-format support (Thanks louib)
• Implement more frequent disk sync support (Thanks Legogizmo)
• Format command line help to 80 character line length #114 (Thanks PartialVolume)
• Fix nwipe message log and missing messages that was causing segfaults under certain conditions (Thanks PartialVolume)
• Add the Github build CI service and update Readme with build status labels (Thanks louib)
• Miscellaneous smaller fixes

v0.26

• Add exclude drive option (Thanks PartialVolume)
• Log hardware (Thanks PartialVolume)

v0.25

• Correct J=Up K=Down in footer (Thanks PartialVolume)
• Fix segfault initialize nwipe_gui_thread (Thanks PartialVolume)
• Fix memory leaks (Thanks PartialVolume)
• Check right pointer (Thanks PartialVolume)
• Fix casting problem (Thanks PartialVolume)
• Fix serial number
• Fixes uninitialized variable warning (Thanks PartialVolume)

v0.24

• use include values for version 0.17
• display throughput value more friendly (Thanks Kelderek)

v0.23

• make serial visible again on 32Bit machines

v0.22

• Update manpage
• use long long for device size
• Use ped_unit_format_byte function to display(friendly) size of device

v0.21

• Fix ETA not updating properly and bad total throughput display. (Thanks Niels Bassler).

v0.20

• Fix build when panel header is not in /usr/include (Thanks Vincent Untz).

v0.19

• Fix building on Fedora(Unknown off64_t) bug #19.
• Use PRNG instead of zero's bug #7. (Thanks xambroz).

v0.18

• Fixed grammar.
• Move from loff_t to off64_t for musl libc support.
• Add --nosignals option.
• Automake needs the dist_ prefix to include man pages in make dist.
• Remove more compiler warnings.
• Add libintl, libuuid dependencies to allow parted static link

v0.17

• Remove control reaches end of non-void function" warnings (Thanks Vincent Untz).
• Remove unused variables (Thanks Vincent Untz).
• Change start key to 'S' instead of F10 (closes debian bug #755474).
• Fix problem with unusable device (Closes debian bug #755473).

v0.16

• Fix problems building with clang compiler (Thanks Martijn van Brummelen)

v0.15

• Add more detailed information to status page when wiping
• Add ability to send SIGUSR1 to print wiping current status to log
• Fixed problem with status bar disappearing on narrow windows (Github issue #1)

v0.14

• Added explicit check for ncurses (required for Fedora). See bug 3604008.

v0.13

• Added nowait option (patch 3601259 - thanks David Shaw).
• Added nogui option.
• Updated man page and help command for above options and autonuke.
• Added pkg-config check for ncurses (patch 3603140 - thanks Alon Bar-Lev).

v0.12

• Added ability to specify device on command line (patch 3587144).
• Fixed segfault for -p option (patch 3587132).

v0.11

• Fixed bug 3568750. Not closing devices after initial scan.

v0.10

• Fixed bug 3553851. Not exiting on terminal kill. Fixed for all areas of program including wiping.

v0.09

• Added feature #3545971. Display device name.
• Added feature #3496858. Option to not perform a final blanking pass.

v0.08

• Fixed bug #3501746 whereby "wipe finished" was displayed too early

v0.07

• Added threading synchronisation for logging
• Fixed bug #3486927 (incorrect Sourceforge URL)

v0.06

• Added man page (thanks Michal Ambroz rebus@seznam.cz)
• Updated GPL licence and FSF address (thanks Michal Ambroz rebus@seznam.cz)

v0.05

• Added sequence number to disk selection
• Added check for ncurses header files in subdir
• Fixed screen corruption bug introduced in 0.04
• Fixed occasional seg fault on start
• Introduced dynamic array allocation for devices, with no hard limit
• Minor updates to configure.ac

v0.04

• Removed references to DBAN in options.c
• Added log file name option (-l|--logfile)
• If no log file specified all messages go to STDOUT
• Incorrect success message after an interruption fixed
• Improved labelling of disks with no partition table
• Added help command
• Added version command
• Added command 'b' to blank screen during wipe
• Compilation needs to include panel library

KNOWN BUG - display sometimes becomes corrupted after starting wipe

v0.03

• Added quit option label (ctrl-c)
• Removed further references to DWIPE
• Added GPL V2 licence file (COPYING)

v0.02

• Fixed segfault that happened during multiple disk wipes