RRDTOOL NEWS
============
-Major Changes between 1.2.x and 1.3.x
-see http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool-trac/wiki/RRDtool13
-for up to date information
+#####################################
+Major Changes between 1.2.x and 1.3.x
+-------------------------------------
-File access methods (Bernhard Fischer)
--------------------
+NEW Fast file access methods (Bernhard Fischer / Tobi Oetiker)
+----------------------------
* introduced file-accessor functions rrd_read/rrd_seek/rrd_write
-* implemented full mmap-based file access with madvise hints for improved
- scalability, much reduced memory-footprint and much less blocking on
- disk
-* implemented optional full file-descriptor access instead of FILE* access
-Graphing (Tobi Oetiker)
---------
+* implemented full mmap-based file access with madvise hints for
+ improved scalability, much reduced memory-footprint and much less
+ blocking while accessing the disk
+
+* implemented optional full file-descriptor access instead of FILE*
+ access
+
+NEW Graphing (Tobi Oetiker)
+------------
* libart has been replaced by cairo/pango
-* pango markup is supported
-* full gridfitting
-* --graph-render-mode=mono for non antialiased graphing
-* --font-render-mode=mono for non antialiased fonts
-* fonts come through fontconfig, use the Pango fontnameing
- scheme -> 'Times 20' ... it is not possible to use
- truetype fonts directly anymore.
+
+* pango markup is supported (--pango-markup)
+
+* full grid fitting
+
+* --graph-render-mode=mono for non anti aliased graphing
+
+* --font-render-mode=mono for non anti aliased fonts
+
+* fonts come through fontconfig, use the Pango font nameing scheme
+ -> 'Times 20' ... it is not possible to use truetype fonts
+ directly anymore.
+
* Tabs are position independent.
-* TRENDNAN filter that ignores NAN values while caculating the TREND data. (Timo Stripf)
-* --full-size-mode to specify the outer border of the image and not just of the graphing canvas (Matthew Chambers)
-* TEXTALIGN command to alter default text alignment behaviour
-* C API supports in-memory graphing with rrd_graph_in_memory (Evan Miller)
+
+* TRENDNAN filter that ignores NAN values while calculating the
+ TREND data. (Timo Stripf)
+
+* --full-size-mode to specify the outer border of the image and not
+ just of the graphing canvas (Matthew Chambers)
+
+* TEXTALIGN command to alter default text alignment behavior
+
+* C API in-memory graphing with rrd_graph_v (Evan Miller)
+
* draw dashed lines in graphs (Thomas Gutzler)
-
-Forecasting (Evan Miller)
------------
-* the new MHWPREDICT consolidation function uses a variation of the Holt-Winters
- method. It is a drop-in replacement for HWPREDICT, and is better suited for
- data whose seasonal variations grow or shrink in proportion to the average.
-
-Misc
-----
-* ruby rrd_fetch will return step as a last property -- Mike Perham
-Incompatibility
+* new interface graphv which returns information using the rrd_info
+ interface (Tobi Oetiker and Mark Plaksin)
+
+* improved horizontal grid. Have a bit more grid lines and y-axis
+ labels while keeping them far enough apart to not run into each
+ other.
+
+NEW Forecasting (Evan Miller)
---------------
-* If you create an RRD with the new MHWPREDICT function, the resulting rrdfile will
- be version 0004 and can only be used in rrdtool 1.3.
+* the new MHWPREDICT consolidation function uses a variation of the
+ Holt-Winters method. It is a drop-in replacement for HWPREDICT,
+ and is better suited for data whose seasonal variations grow or
+ shrink in proportion to the average.
-Locale Independent Input
-------------------------
-* Regardles of locale you are in, rrdtool always expects input to be numbers (LC_NUMERIC)
- in C or POSIX locale for numbers. (not 1,1 but 1.1) this is necessary to make
- things like RPN work as it uses , as a separator.
+* If you create an RRD with the new MHWPREDICT function, the
+ resulting rrd file will be version 0004 and can only be used in
+ rrdtool 1.3.
-RRDTOOL NEWS
-============
-Major Changes between 1.0.x and 1.2.x
+Rewrites
+--------
+* rrd_restore now uses libxml for parsing which makes things much
+ more tolerant towards xml variations. The old code could mostly
+ just parse the XML as it was output by rrdtool dump. See also:
+ the note at the bottom of this document. (by Florian octo
+ Forster)
+
+* rrd_update rewritten to make it more modular. Fixed two
+ longstanding HW bugs in the process (Evan Miller)
+
+Internationalization (Takao Fujiwara and Tobi Oetiker)
+--------------------
+* The help output by rrdtool has been internationalized. There are
+ no real translations included with rrdtool yet, contributions are
+ welcome.
+
+* The internationalization will only be compiled if libintl and
+ friends are available on your system. Use the configure option
+ --disable-libintl if you want to disable this feature
+
+Language Bindings
+-----------------
+* ruby rrd_fetch will return step as a last property -- Mike Perham
+
+RRDtool dump / restore incompatibility
+--------------------------------------
+* rrdtool dump 1.3 does emit completely legal XML. Basically this
+ means that it contains an XML header and a DOCTYPE definition.
+ Unfortunately this causes older versions of rrdtool restore to be
+ unhappy.
+* To restore a new dump with an old rrdtool restore version, either
+ remove the XML header and the doctype by hand (both on the first
+ line of the dump) or use rrdtool dump --no-header.
+
+
+######################################################################################
+Major Changes between 1.0.x and 1.2.x
+======================================================================================
Graphing
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