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Announce 2.10.2 release

Lm_sensors - Linux hardware monitoring

About this project

This is the home page for the effort of building and providing some essential tools for monitoring the hardware health of Linux systems containing hardware health monitoring hardware such as the LM78 and LM75. Read more here.

This ongoing project includes general libraries and hardware-specific software. Much of the work done could not have been done without the many knowledgable programmers who laid down the foundation.

Call to Device Manufacturers: Our efforts are now concentrated on adding support for new devices. If you wish to send us samples, datasheets, or project donations (hardware, software, etc.), please drop us an email.

Starting points

Latest news:

  • January 15th, 2006: 2.10.2 Released! See the CHANGES document for details. Go to the download page for download instructions. See the README document for additional warnings and information. Please note: You will need to install the  libsysfs library (or a dev package from your distribution) is you want support for Linux 2.6, because libsensors now depends on it.
  • December 5th, 2006: Note to k8temp users. The Linux 2.6.19 kernel features a new hardware monitoring driver, k8temp, which supports all recent AMD K8 CPUs. The driver will load automatically on supported systems. Due to technical specificities of this driver, upgrade to lm_sensors 2.10.1 is mandatory. Older versions of libsensors will fail with a "General parse error" message. If you can't upgrade lm_sensors for any reason, you'll have to blacklist the k8temp driver to prevent it from being loaded. Thanks to Artem S. Tashkinov for notifying us.
  • September 25th, 2006: 2.10.1 Released! See the CHANGES document for details. Go to the download page for download instructions. See the README document for additional warnings and information. Please note: You will need to install the  libsysfs library (or a dev package from your distribution) is you want support for Linux 2.6, because libsensors now depends on it.
  • August 22nd, 2006: 2.10.1 Coming Soon! We plan to release lm_sensors 2.10.1  by the end of September, at the latest. See the CHANGES document for what's coming. Please help test SVN HEAD and let us know if you have any problems. We have  nightly snapshots if you don't want to bother with Subversion.
  • August 22nd, 2006: Donation! We have received an Asus P4P800-X motherboard with CPU and memory from  Winbond. This will help us with the W83627THF support testing and improvements, as well as with the Intel 82801 family of chips. Many thanks to Winbond for their steady support to our project!
  • August 2nd, 2006: Mailing lists. Since we created a dedicated list for i2c, people seem to be very confused as to where to report their problems. Many post on the wrong list, some even dare posting the same message to both lists. Please think about what your report is about, and choose the right list. If your problem has nothing to do with hardware monitoring, the lm-sensors list makes no sense. If your problem has nothing to do with the i2c subsystem, the i2c list is not suitable. And don't post your message to both list, please.
  • July 25th, 2006: Spam issues. L0t of sp/\m h|t our ticket system, please follow instructions at the bottom of the page when creating or modifiyng the tickets.
  • July 25th, 2006: Still vacation time! Please be patient, as more than two of us are back.
  • July 12th, 2006: Vacation! It is a vacation time. Most of us is not available, please check back after July 23rd. Thanks!
  • June 20th, 2006: New mailing list! We decided to create a  new mailing list dedicated to i2c. For a long time i2c has been discussed on the lm-sensors list, but now we aim at a more neutral i2c subsystem implementation that would not only fit the hardware monitoring needs, but would also be suited for multimedia devices, real-time clocks, and other users of the i2c subsystem. Having a neutral ground where all parties can be equally represented appears to be a requirement if we want to succeed.
  • May 29th, 2006: Switching from CVS to Subversion. We are migrating our source repository from CVS to Subversion on a different machine. The new repository will be hosted by Axel Thimm. Many thanks to Philip Edelbrock and Edge Design for hosting the CVS repository for the past 8 years!
  • March 22nd, 2006: Donation! We have received the P5MT-S motherboard from  ASUS and the processor plus memory from  Winbond. This will help us with the W83792D driver testing and improvements. Many thanks!
  • February 14th, 2006: 2.10.0 Released! See the CHANGES document for details. Go to the download page for download instructions. See the README document for additional warnings and information. Please note: You will need to install the  libsysfs library (or a dev package from your distribution) is you want support for Linux 2.6, because libsensors now depends on it.
  • January 29th, 2006: 2.10.0 Coming Soon! See the CHANGES document for what's coming. Please help test CVS and let us know if you have any problems. The plan is to release 2.10.0 by the second week of February.
  • December 30th, 2005: Switching to Trac. The project maintainers decided to switch over to Trac (a nice tool to manage projects such as lm_sensors) as well as Subversion (a version control system, similar to CVS). It will take some time to perform the switch, please be patient.
  • November 19th, 2005: Call to VT8231 users. We are currently in the process of porting the integrated sensors vt8231 driver to Linux 2.6. We're almost done, but now  we need testers for both the new 2.6 driver and the old 2.4 driver, which we had to update as well. Please help if you can.
  • November 4th, 2005: Donation! Thanks to  Barracuda Networks for the donation of a motherboard with CPU and memory for development and testing of Fintek F71805F support!
  • October 29th, 2005: Donation! Thanks to  Aweta for the generous donation of a complete system for development and testing of PC87431 support!
  • September 18th, 2005: CVS Status The libsensors userspace library now depends on libsysfs. Therefore, you must build and install the sysfsutils package before building the lm-sensors userspace. The sysfsutils package is  here.

Older news can be found here.

About this Wiki

This wiki is used to hold all the nifty things that one might want to know about the lm_sensors project. Nearly all content in it can be modified by you, the users. You're welcome to contribute, any help is appreciated.

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