NEWS
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New in 1.19.1:

  * PR 350, Issue 349: Fix latency values lower than one second in the Windows
    monitor.

  * Issue 352: inotify no longer reports access, open, or close-without-write
    events unless access events are enabled with -a or --access.

New in 1.19.0:

  * PR 353, Issue 343: Fix a segmentation fault in the macOS FSEvents monitor
    when file event metadata does not include an inode.

  * PR 354, Issue 330: Fix recursive inotify monitoring so fast file creation
    in newly-created directories is detected.

  * PR 340: Enable libfswatch compilation under Windows MinGW.

New in 1.18.0:

  * Documentation: add reference to Go bindings.

  * Update FSEventStreamEventFlags flags and add support to macOS 10.13+
    features.

  * Issue 278: FSEvents monitor: Add support to for extended data, to allow file
    inodes to be collected with events.  This feature enables users to correlate
    rename events.

  * Issue 278: inotify monitor: Add support for correlation cookie.  This
    feature enables users to correlate rename events.

  * Update the event class to have a correlation id field.

  * Remove private headers from the list of installed header files.

  * Require <mutex>, <atomic> and thread_local and remove checks and conditional
    code.

  * Library interface does not depend on configuration any longer.

New in 1.17.1:

  * Issue 291: Configuration header leaked into public interface in v. 1.17.0.
  
New in 1.17.0:

  * Refactor code to replace usages of deprecated function
    FSEventStreamScheduleWithRunLoop with FSEventStreamSetDispatchQueue.

  * Issue 230: Improve responsiveness on macos: add support for
    kFSEventStreamCreateFlagNoDefer.

  * Issue 255: Implement event bubbling.

New in 1.16.0:

  * Issue 260: Fix memory leak.

New in 1.15.0:

  * Issue 224: Add pkg-config support.

New in 1.14.0:

  * Issue 218: fswatch v1.13 ignores the --monitor parameter and always uses the
    default monitor.

New in 1.13.0:

  * Issue 142: Static library will not have any monitor type available.

New in 1.12.0:

  * Issue 178: Migrate usages of POSIX regular expressions (<regex.h>) to the
    C++11 regex library (<regex>).

  * Issue 191: Wrong error message is printed when inotify event queue overflows.

New in 1.11.3:

  * Issue 185: Fix C99 compatibility in cevent.h.

  * Issue 186: Session memory is not freed.

  * Issue 188: Fix segmentation fault when starting monitor.

  * Issue 189: Add function to the C API to check that a monitor is running.

  * Issue 190: Fix stop sequence for FSEvents monitor.

New in 1.11.2:

  * Issue 182: Generate a single message catalog for both fswatch and
    libfswatch.

New in 1.11.1:

  * Issue 182: Remove mandatory dependency to git.

New in 1.11.0:

  * Issue 181: Make gettext an optional dependency.

New in 1.10.0:

  * Add Doxygen documentation.

  * Issue 60: Add function to load filters from a file.

  * Issue 137: Deadlock on C function fsw_destroy_session if fsw_start_monitor
    is called.

  * Modify fsw_destroy_session function not to destroy a session that has a
    running monitor.

  * Issue 143: Add fsw_stop_monitor to the C API.

New in 1.9.3:

  * Use C header names in C headers instead of C++.

  * Explicitly use the enum keyword when referring to enum types in C headers.

  * Remove default argument values from C headers.

New in 1.9.2:

  * Issue 118: v. 1.9.0 breaks the -1 option.

New in 1.9.1:

  * libfswatch API version 7:0:1.

New in 1.9.0:

  * Update monitor::~monitor() to invoke monitor::stop(), close resources in
    monitor::on_stop().

  * Issue 84: Add the possibility of scheduling a periodic idle event.

  * Run a separate thread to fire idle events.

  * Improve logging.

  * Do not fail if blocking calls are interrupted by a signal.

  * Issue 114: fswatch does not track newly created directories recursively when
    using the inotify monitor.

  * The AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX macro was patched so that the switches it adds to
    the compiler are added to the preprocessor configuration as well.

New in 1.8.0:

  * Unsupported CMake files and CLion project files are included as a courtesy.

  * Parts of the code have been refactored to use move semantics.

  * Fixed a bug in fsw::monitor_factory::create_monitor().

  * Refactor fsw::monitor_factory to dynamically create the default monitor
    using the factory registration information.

  * Generate documentation using Doxygen.

  * Texinfo documentation has been obsoleted by Doxygen documentation and has
    been removed.

  * Add fsw::monitor::stop() function to allow for cooperative monitor shutdown.

  * Implement fsw::monitor::stop() on all available monitors.

  * Fixed a but in the Solaris/Illumos monitor that prevented it to correctly
    detect the ETIME status code upon waiting for events.

New in 1.7.0:

  * Issue 35: Support Solaris/Illumos File Events Notification API.

  * Issue 98: A monitor can be requested to watch directories only during a
    recursive scan.

  * Issue 99: A monitor using the File Events Notification API of the
    Solaris/Illumos kernel has been added.

  * Issue 101: Add flag to watch file accesses.

New in 1.6.1:

  * Texinfo documentation now includes @dircategory and @direntry tags to be
    compatible with install-info.

New in 1.6.0:

  * libfswatch can now be built on Microsoft Windows using Cygwin.

  * A monitor for Microsoft Windows has been added.

  * libfswatch can report monitor buffer overflows (which cannot be avoided with
    certain monitors) as regular events for callers to recover gracefully.

  * Monitor can be customized by passing monitor-specific configuration
    properties.

New in 1.5.1:

  * Fixes Issue 91: Can't compile fswatch 1.5.0 on FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE.

New in 1.5.0:

  * Fix issue 46: Allow filtering by event type.

  * Fix issue 83: Callback invocation should be moved into fsw::monitor.

New in 1.4.7:

  * Provide a way to pass context data to the C API monitor callback.

New in 1.4.6:

  * Fix issue 74: Assertion failed on fsw_destroy_session.

New in 1.4.5.3:

  * Fix issue 67: 100% CPU usage while using libfswatch.  This issue only
    affects the inotify monitor, available only on Linux.

New in 1.4.5.2:

  * Fix issue 66: Exclude items with poll_monitor not considered.

New in 1.4.4:

  * Localize fswatch and libfswatch using GNU gettext.

  * Add Italian (it) localization.

  * Add Spanish (es) localization.

New in 1.4.3:

  * Add Texinfo documentation.

  * libfswatch API is now versioned.

  * Improved Autoconf checks.

  * The inotify monitor now waits for events and honours the latency settings.

  * Automaticaly generate the ChangeLog using Git.

  * Update autogen.sh to honour some commonly used environment variables.

New in 1.4.2:

  * The inotify monitor now provides the same functionality provided by all the
    other monitors.  Recursive directory monitoring is now implemented.

  * Version and revision is now determined dynamically from Git by ancillary
    scripts invoked by the GNU Build System.

New in 1.4.0:

  * The libfswatch library has been added with bindings for C and C++.

  * Move monitors to separate library.

  * Provide a libtool-configured library exposing the functionality of fswatch
    monitors.

  * Provide C and C++ headers and bindings.
