Recent Releases

1.9.004 Jan 2024 13:25 major bugfix: Release date: 2023-01-04. Middle click now toggles the balloon from displaying the forecast and more detailed current conditions. The tab key may now be used to cycle through the text fields in the preferences window. An AppStream metadata file is now distributed. Various behind-the-scenes changes and.
1.931 Dec 2023 20:58 major bugfix: * Release date: 2023-01-04 * Middle click now toggles the balloon from displaying the forecast and more detailed current conditions. * The tab key may now be used to cycle through the text fields in the preferences window. * An AppStream metadata file is now distributed. * Various behind-the-scenes changes and bug fixes.
1.821 Mar 2022 03:25 minor feature: Bump to version 1.8 Add support for libgweather4..
1.730 Jun 2021 06:45 minor feature: Release date: 2021-06-29. Print error message from Geoclue when "Find Coords" button doesn't work. Add section to README about running Geoclue's demo agent.
1.614 Mar 2021 07:25 minor feature: Release date: 2021-03-13. Add support for older libgweather versions ( = 3.11.3). Note that with the recent yr.no - met.no change, using a version 40 will only display current conditions and no forecast data. Add release dates to previous NEWS.md entries. Stop generating and shipping ChangeLog.
1.507 Mar 2021 08:45 minor feature: Add support for libgweather 40; needed for fetching forecast data after yr.no - met.no change. .
1.408 Jun 2020 13:05 minor feature: If there is no current weather data but there are upcoming Forecasts, then use the data from the first forecast. New button to restore default colors in the preferences window. .
1.318 May 2020 07:05 minor feature: Git2cl is no longer a dependency if building from git.
1.213 May 2020 06:25 minor feature: You can now build wmforecast from a directory other than the source Directory without needing git2cl to regenerate ChangeLog. . You can now build wmforecast from a directory other than the source Directory without needing git2cl to regenerate ChangeLog.
1.105 May 2020 03:16 minor feature:
1.030 Apr 2020 14:05 minor feature: Due to changes in the Yahoo! weather API, we have switched to usinglibgweather. This brings with it several interface changes: Instead of using WOEID or ZIP Code to determine your location, we Now use latitude and longitude. You may (optionally) useGeoClue to find this information in the preferences GUI by clicking the "Find Coords" button. Since libgweather uses icons that follow theXDG Icon Naming Specification, we have renamed our icons accordingly (and deleted several which Would never appear as they did not correspond with any of the names in the specification). You may also use any other icon themes which Follow this specification using the --icondir command-line Option, the icondir option in the configuration file, or by Clicking the "Icon directory" button in the preferences GUI. . Instead of using WOEID or ZIP Code to determine your location, we Now use latitude and longitude. You may (optionally) useGeoClue to find this information in the preferences GUI by clicking the "Find Coords" button. Since libgweather uses icons that follow theXDG Icon Naming Specification, we have renamed our icons accordingly (and deleted several which Would never appear as they did not correspond with any of the names in the specification). You may also use any other icon themes which Follow this specification using the --icondir command-line Option, the icondir option in the configuration file, or by Clicking the "Icon directory" button in the preferences GUI. You may now run wmforecast in windowed mode (i.e., not as a dockapp) Using the --windowed command-line option.
0.1102 Apr 2016 14:05 minor feature: New Yahoo! API gives us bad xml pretty frequently, which was causing Frequent segfaults. We display an error instead. If we get an error, we try again in 1 minute. If we manually refresh the display, the countdown to the next automatic Refresh is reset to the default interval. (Previously, if it was set to Refresh every 60 minutes and we manually refreshed it after 10 minutes, it would refresh again after 50 minutes. Now it will refresh again after 60 minutes.).
0.1029 Mar 2016 14:05 minor feature: Update to work with new Yahoo! Weather API.
0.911 Feb 2016 03:15 minor feature: New feature! You may change the background or text colors either using the command line. (-b or --background for background, -t or --text for text), or by using the. Preferences GUI. . You may change the background or text colors either using the command line (-b or --background for background, -t or --text for text), or by using the. Preferences GUI. The configuration file has been moved to the GNUstep Defaults directory (likely /GNUstep/Defaults/wmforecast -- note this is the same directory as. The Window Maker configuration files). You may also store system-wide Configuration in, e.g., /etc/GNUstep/Defaults/wmforecast. This move takes Advantage of several built-in WINGs functions.
0.722 Jul 2014 06:58 minor feature: Updated icon license to switch Debian build from non-free to regular.