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+New in 2.28.2 - 28 September 2010
+* Remove use of deprecated GTK+ API.
+* Fix build with -DGSEAL_ENABLE.
+* Updated translations.
+
+New in 2.28.1 - 30 March 2010
+* Updated translations.
+
+New in 2.28.0 - 21 September 2009
+* Updated translations.
+
+New in 2.27.4 - 13 July 2009
+* NetBSD sysinfo support.
+
+New in 2.27.3 - 15 June 2009
+* Fixed a small memory leak.
+* No more deprecated GTK+ symbols.
+* Network speed can be also displayed in bits.
+
+New in 2.26.1 - 13 April 2009
+* Small bugfix about hiding pseudo filesystems.
+
+New in 2.26.0.1 - 16 Mars 2009
+* Updated translations.
+
+New in 2.26.0 - 2 Mars 2009
+* Fixed potential segfault with broken icon themes (#573030).
+
+New in 2.25.91 - 16 February 2009
+* A few bugfixes.
+* Faster startup (spaws lsb_release only when needed).
+
+New in 2.24.1 - 20 October 2008
+* Translation updates.
+
+New in 2.24.0 - 22 September 2008
+* Translation updates.
+
+New in 2.23.91 - 1 September 2008
+* Fixed bug 549383 – network assertion in the resource tab.
+
+New in 2.23.90 - 18 August 2008
+* Fixed truncated process names.
+
+New in 2.23.6 - 4 August 2008
+* Don't segfault in the disk list when icon cannot be retried from gvfs.
+
+New in 2.23.5 - 21 July 2008
+* Fixed network speed when there are pseudo-devices with no address.
+
+New in 2.23.3 - 2 June 2008
+* New 'Waiting Channel' process column.
+
+New in 2.23.2 - 26 May 2008
+* This is the first 2.23 release
+* New option to start with the system tab.
+* Don't crash on invalid regex in lsof. Display an error message.
+* Fixed the graph time scale.
+* Performance fix for bad graphic card drivers (yes, system-monitor is
+ very fast with the vesa driver without this patch). Blame your
+ driver's writers.
+* Moved to gio.
+* Many internal cleanups.
+* Filesystem column are now configurable.
+* lsof now shows IPv6 connections.
+* New wchan column (if you have a better name for that...)
+
+Thanks to Mark McCelland, Karl Lattimer, Toby Dacre, Matthis Clasen and
+Hubert Figuière.
+
+New in 2.22.0 - 10 Mars 2008
+* Updated translations.
+
+New in 2.21.92 - 28 February 2008
+* Dropped dependency on pcrecpp.
+* Improved network Y-scale in the Resources tab.
+* Enabled transparent theming. Jon Bolt.
+* All graphs CPU colors are stored in mateconf /cpu_color{n} keys.
+* Non-blocking lsb_release call : may improve startup time.
+* A bunch of cleanups / c++-ification.
+
+New in 2.21.5 - 14 January 2008
+* A lot of changes: 64 revisions since 2.21.4 !
+* Uses more stock menu entries.
+* application-x-executable is now the default icon.
+* New color pickers in the resources tab.
+* Many graphs improvements. Special thanks to Toby Dacre.
+* The Network graph now shows a sensible Y-scale.
+* The process list can now be manually refreshed.
+* Fixed kernel process' tooltips.
+* etc
+
+New in 2.21.4 - 18 December 2007
+* 'Arguments' column is now correctly escaped for markup. Josh Lee.
+ Closes #498569.
+* Graph improvements by Karl Lattimer - new developer.
+
+New in 2.21.3 - 3 December 2007
+* Performance improvement in the process list
+* Removed space to the left of process name.
+ Closes #307762.
+* Requires GTK+ >= 2.12.
+* Documentation update by Patrick Hulin.
+
+New in 2.21.2 - 12 November 2007
+* This is the first 2.21.x release.
+* Displays N/A when memory stats are not available. Memory stats are not
+ available for processes like kernel ones or if the user can't access the
+ memory stats (which happens on linux sysctl kernel.maps_protect = 1).
+ Closes #487105.
+* A few cleanups replacing overcomplicated treeview usage by
+ gtk_tree_view_column_set_cell_data_func.
+
+New in 2.20.1 - 15 October 2007
+* Updated translations.
+* Fixed liststore usage in the disk list.
+
+New in 2.20.0 - 17 September 2007
+* Minossr fixes.
+* Updated translations.
+
+New in 2.19.91.1 - 29 August 2007
+* Fixed build from tarball. Re-dist with newer intltool.
+ Closes #471333.
+
+New in 2.19.91 - 26 August 2007
+* Updated translations.
+* Fixed logo mis-rendering in the system info tab.
+ Patch by Jared Moore. #405739.
+
+New in 2.19.6 - 30 July 2007
+* Use new Gtk+ treeview tooltip API when available. Christian Persch.
+ #459598.
+* Added many comments for translators. #460511.
+* More icons for processes.
+* s/Mate/MATE/. #455826.
+* Fixed CPU% when using dependencies and (My or Active). #450545.
+* Little cleanups.
+
+New in 2.19.5 - 9 July 2007
+* Dynamically adjust graph lines to the graph height. Toby Dacre. #367016.
+* Added kernel info and MATE version to sysinfo. #399069.
+* Keep process selection. #451932.
+
+New in 2.19.4 - 18 June 2007
+* Disable pcrecpp by default. You really want to enable this.
+
+New in 2.19.3 - 3 June 2007
+* Some GTKmm :)
+* Use regex in the default icon table. This results in more icons :)
+* Every process now has a default icon.
+* Simplified lsof code with regex.
+* Lots of stuff git-log doesn't remember.
+
+New in 2.19.2 - 13 may 2007
+* New Solaris mode.
+* Fixed crash on startup with dependencies+myprocesses.
+* pcre is back for good.
+
+New in 2.19.1 - 23 april 2007
+* Fixed hostname in the sysinfo tab.
+* Big cleanup of the process list code.
+* Reworded and fixed the process dependency tree.
+
+New in 2.18.0 - 12 Mars 2007
+* Fixed .desktop.
+* Really fixed FreeBSD build.
+* Nicer net scaling.
+* Fixed CPU labels layout when there are a lot of CPUs.
+
+New in 2.17.95 - 28 February 2007
+* Fixed build and sysinfo on FreeBSD.
+ Patch by Joe Marcus Clarke.
+ Bug #412953
+
+New in 2.17.94 - 28 February 2007
+* More build fixes.
+
+New in 2.17.93 - 28 February 2007
+* Fixed documentation installation (omf files were missing).
+
+New in 2.17.92 - 25 February 2007
+* Ignore removable media in SysInfo.
+
+New in 2.17.91 - 12 Fabruary 2007
+* Bézier curves by Lucas Mazzardo Veloso.
+* Moved to mate-doc-utils by Paroz.
+* No longer depends ton libmate.
+* Fixed bugs #374090, #352507, #328287 and #402013
+
+
+New in 2.17.6 - 22 January 2007
+* Dropped libmateui dependency.
+* MATE logo enhanced by Luca Cavalli.
+* Various code improvements.
+
+New in 2.17.5 - 8 January 2007
+* More C++
+* Tuned the behaviour of smooth refresh.
+* A few code improvments.
+
+New in 2.17.4.2 - 19 December 2006
+* Fixed build with strict C++ compilers.
+
+New in 2.17.4.1 - 18 December 2006
+* Fixed POTFILES.in. Sorry :/
+
+New in 2.17.4 - 17 December 2006
+* 100% C++.
+* Disabled libsexy because it is buggy and unmaintained.
+* Fixed build on solaris.
+
+New in 2.17.3 - 4 December 2006
+* Renamed the Arguments column as "Command Line".
+* Fixed mateconf schema.
+* Use lsb_release when available to get distro information.
+* Disabled the process blacklist.
+* More C++ :)
+
+New in 2.17.2 - 5 november 2006
+* This is the first 2.17.x release.
+* New lsof feature. Temporarily requires pcre, see #367827.
+* New SysInfo tab from OpenSuse. Artwork by Baptiste Mille-Mathias.
+* Some code cleanups.
+* Fixed sensitivity of the View menu.
+* New features have been developed in C++, old C code will be soon compiled
+ as C++.
+
+New in 2.16.1 - 2 october 2006
+* Fixed locales dir initialization.
+* Fixed memory maps for 64bits kernel running a 32bits system-monitor.
+* Fixed gksu password prompt.
+
+New in 2.16.0 - 5 septembre 2006
+* Fixed a small memory leak.
+* Fixed schema.
+
+New in 2.15.92 - 21 august 2006
+* Fixed LoadGraph overlay.
+* Fixed tiny leak.
+* Fixed font and alignment of various columns.
+
+New in 2.15.91 - 7 august 2006
+* Renamed Devices tab as File Systems.
+* Updated translations.
+
+New in 2.15.90 - 26 july 2006
+* Fixed segfault is libselinux not installed.
+* The disks list is now correctly updated.
+* Double-click in disks list opens the corresponding volume.
+* debug messages are displayed on command line if
+ MATE_SYSTEM_MONITOR_DEBUG is defined.
+* New icon - Rodney Dawes <[email protected]>
+
+New in 2.15.4 - 9 july 2006
+* No more compile dependency on libselinux.
+* Process arguments with line feeds are now escaped. Closes #341095.
+* Displays scale on graphs.
+
+New in 2.15.0 - 29 june 2006
+* Updated mateconf schema.
+* Can use libsexy to display process arguments.
+* New memory column : displays estimated memory usage.
+* Can use libgksu2.
+
+New in 2.14.3 - 17 may 2006
+* Requires intltool 0.35. Actually ships translations files.
+* Fixed a couple of small leaks.
+* CPU% column is displayed by default.
+
+New in 2.14.2 - 5 may 2006
+* Updated translations.
+* Improved Writable Memory on linux.
+
+New in 2.14.1 - 10 april 2006
+* Updated translations.
+* Fixed signedness warnings.
+* Updated gksu backend.
+* Set graph minimum size to 30px (Johannes H. Jensen <[email protected]>):x
+
+New in 2.14.0 - 13 march 2006
+* Updated translations.
+
+New in 2.13.92 - 27 february 2006
+* Updated translations.
+
+New in 2.13.90 - 29 january 2006
+* I18N fixes Frank Arnold <[email protected]>
+* Fixed desktop file.
+
+New in 2.13.5 - 15 january 2006
+* Dropped thread view. It's broken and not fixable. Søren Sandmann <[email protected]>
+* HIG fixes by Dennis Cranston <[email protected]>
+
+New in 2.13.4 - 2 january 2006
+* Don't account iowait in CPU graphs.
+* Start the graphs on startup so that they can acquire data even if
+ not shown.
+* Added "Started" column to display start time of each process.
+* Added smooth_refresh option to please Linus.
+* Allow user to sort the device list (Dennis Cranston)
+* Made Resources tab default.
+* Reworked LoadGraph.
+
+New in 2.13.3 - 13 december 2005
+* gksu support (ok it's broken ;)
+* requires automake-1.9 (James Henstridge)
+* use g_slice instead of GMemChunks
+
+New in 2.13.2 - 13 november 2005
+* proclist : new "Writable memory" column.
+* disklist : new "Available" column. Makes more sense on fs with reserved
+ space (i.e. ext2/3)
+
+New in 2.13.1 - 27 october 2005
+* cairo graphs - Paolo Borelli
+* fixed some strings - Adam Weinberger
+* got rid of the infoview
+* dropped irrelevant/cryptic memory info.
+
+New in 2.11.92 - 22 august 2005
+* Reworked and fixed device list.
+
+
+New in 2.11.91 - 9 august 2005
+* Removed some debug messages.
+
+
+New in 2.11.90 - 25 july 2005
+* Better icon lookup.
+* Fixed column default sort order. #310804.
+* Fixed division by 0.
+
+
+New in 2.11.5 - 13 july 2005
+* Provide controls to SIGSTOP and SIGCONT a process.
+* Start timeouts only when needed. Should save some CPU.
+* Fixed process kill.
+
+New in 2.11.4 - 1 july 2005
+* Added network history graph.
+ Modified default colors to be a little brighter.
+ Martin Ejdestig <[email protected]>.
+
+* Fixed column order.
+* Moved Show combo box functionality to View menu.
+* Change priority slider max value on Linux.
+* Fixed confusing error message when libmatesu is not found.
+
+* Fixed startup notification.
+ Davyd Madeley and Paollo Borelli.
+
+* HIG fixes.
+ Dennis Cranston <[email protected]>.
+
+Merci à tous :)
+
+New in 2.11.3 - 8 june 2005
+* Better SELinux detection.
+* Use "CPU" instead of "CPU%d" is system has only one cpu.
+* Disable process dependencies by default.
+* Fixed process sort.
+* Fixed segfault. Special thanks to Rod Butcher.
+* Many code cleanups.
+
+New in 2.11.2 - 18 may 2005
+* Port to GtkUIManager by Paolo Borelli.
+* Removed the search box.
+* Displays load averages.
+* Fixed user name is uid changes. Fixed process name.
+* Fixed a lot of leaks.
+* Uses SI units.
+* New Device tab. New option to show all devices. Refresh devices list whenever
+ a device is mounted or unmounted.
+* Smooth refresh so keep g-s-m own cpu usage < 10%
+* Fixed display if there's no swap.
+* Spawn only one instance of mate-system-monitor thanks to libbacon.
+* etc
+
+Thanks to everyone who helped me. See ChangeLog.
+
+New in 2.10.0 - 7 mar 2005
+* Updated i18n.
+
+New in 2.9.92 - 28 fev 2005
+* Detect libmatesu at runtime using GModule. (Hongli Lai)
+ misc. cleanups.
+
+New in 2.9.91 - 7 jan 2005
+* Fixed a couple of strings.
+* Updated i18n.
+
+New in 2.9.90 - 24 jan 2005
+* Fixed drawing of graph - Martin Ejdestig
+* UI fixes - Luca Ferretti
+* Open Files shows files opened by a process - Nicolás Lichtmaier
+
+New in 2.9.4 - 10 jan 2295
+* New OpenFiles view - [email protected].
+* Uses libmatesu - Hongli Lai.
+* HIG fixes - Luca Ferretti.
+* Displays "User Memory" instead of "Used Memory".
+
+New in 2.9.3 - 20 Dec 2004
+* Fixed crasher bugs : #161350 and #160560.
+* Updated translations.
+
+New in 2.9.0
+* Performance improvements.
+* Themed icon.
+* Columns are now reorderable in the proctable.
+* Devices list also shows 'free' diskspace.
+* 64bits fixes.
+* SELinux support.
+* Big cleanups.
+* Fixed so many bugs ...
+
+[Thanks to everyone who helped me :), Benoît]
+
+New in 2.8.0
+* HIG fix for the preference dialog
+* Updated translations
+
+New in 2.5.2
+* Add process list column for X Server memory usage (Havoc Pennington)
+* Add support for multiple processors - bug # 91363
+* Fix color saving of graphs - bug #126612 (Kaushal Kumar)
+* Fix crash when asking for root passwoard - bug #126923 (Kiran Kumar Immidi)
+* Fix memory display
+
+New in 0.10.3
+* scale icons better for nicer display
+* small UI improvements, bug fixes, memory leak fixes
+* search improvements
+* translation updates
+
+New in 0.10.2
+* renice will now prompt for root password if necessary
+* many UI improvements and polish
+* Add settings for graph colors, update speeds
+* Save window size on exit
+* bug fixes, memory leaks plugged
+
+New in 0.10.1:
+* bug fixes - if you still get strange files left in your home directory
+ let me know.
+* UI improvements to the system monitor tab - customizable colors, swap
+ displayed with memory
+* translation updates (sv-Christian, es-Carlos, tr Nilgun)
+
+New in 0.10:
+* new tab to graphically show cpu history, memory history, disk space
+* prompt for root password if trying to kill a process not owned by
+ the user (thanks to ximian-setup-tools for the code)
+* all options work in right click menu (Tige)
+* feedback when renice or kill don't work (Tige)
+* fix bug #58591 sending first SIGTERM and then SIGKILL if that doesn't
+ work
+* new option "about process" that dislplays a man page if it
+ exists (a bit cheesy at the moment)
+* bug fixes
+
+New in 0.9:
+* right click menu (Tige)
+* delay load the icons for better start up time - needs testing.
+* memory leaks fixed
+* UI improvements (Jonathan, me)
+
+New in 0.8.1:
+* ability to search for processes
+* fix memory leaks
+* Italian translation
+* bug fixes
+* cosmetic improvements
+
+New in 0.8:
+* dialog to edit the hidden process list
+* put cpu/mem/swap meters on faster timeout for better display
+* preferences dialog
+* new config option to not show icons. Speeds up load time a lot
+* new config option to show threads
+* Turkish translation
+
+New in 0.7:
+* view only running processes option
+* "hide" feature - define which process you don't want to see
+ Not complete though - Only way to reshow them is to mess with
+ the ~.mate/procman file
+* show tree view by default
+* lots of UI improvements
+* Added support to Debian packages
+
+New in 0.6:
+* improved info viewer
+* fixed crash on startup. If you were not running Ximian MATE you probably
+ would have experienced this crash.
+* memmaps dialog
+* fixed a crash in the tree view. Also fixes
+ the bug where if a parent process finished the children would
+ not be shown.
+
+New in 0.5:
+* process tree view
+* renice actually works
+* bug fixes
+* no longer hard code some paths
+ should get icons if you hadn't already
+* % cpu, mem, and swap meters