added note on locale

[rrdtool.git] / NEWS

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@@ -27,6 +27,19 @@ Graphing (Tobi Oetiker)
 * 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)
+ 
+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.
+
+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.
 
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