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Last major dfc release was almost 5 years ago. Needless to say that it was time for a new release! In the future, I plan to release more often with less features. This will be easy now that the major code refactoring I wanted to do is done. Therefore, I renamed the stable branch to old-stable and the master branch is now the stable branch.

This release contains a number of new features, a bunch of bug fixes and some (minor) incompatible changes.

Download link: v3.1.0

New features¶

• Major code refactoring: now, platform specific code is clearly separated (see src/platform), the auto-adjust feature should also be more accurate.
• Solaris support.
• The CSV separator can be specified via the configuration file (defaults to ",").
• In addition to the already export formats (CSV, text, tex and HTML), dfc is able to export the information as JSON (no additional dependency required).
• Add support for bold font via the configuration file
• Add -M option to disable "Mounted On" information.
• Add Dutch translation.
• Add git revision to the dfc version string for development versions of dfc.

A number of bugs were also fixed:¶

• Fix type not respecting -W flag.
• Fix alignment issue when both -M and -o options are specified.
• Plug a few memory leaks.
• Escape mount options with "" when exporting to CSV as mount options may typically contain a ",".
• Linux: avoid stat'ing remote file system when local flag is given (prevents dfc from potentially hanging on remote file systems).
• Consider nfs4 a remote filesystem.
• Correctly link math library (fixes build on, at least, Ubuntu).
• Remove a few extra incorrect CSV separators in CSV export mode.
• Silently ignore EACCESS error on statvfs.
• Fix build failure on Hurd.
• Fix build failure on kFreeBSD.

And some minor incompatible changes:¶

• Remove "GRIM" compile option - compile flags previously set by "grim" are now defaults.
• Stop translating color names in the configuration file - now, only "English" names are understood.

Thanks¶

As always, thanks to all the dfc contributors!

• Adam Borowski
• Alexandre Perrin
• Baptiste Daroussin
• Cyril Roelandt
• Frank Villaro-Dixon
• Kevin Gillieron
• Landry Breuil
• Matthieu Le Jeune
• Sylvain Laperche
• Tobias Patzl
• Michiel Pater
• Andreas Rönnquist

And next?¶

The next dfc release will probably (finally) accept mount points as argument, just like regular df does. This is a long awaited feature that I miss from dfc and that many people seem to want as well.