[ANNOUNCE] Laptop Mode Tools 1.72 Released

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Hello World,

Full release announcement: https://www.researchut.com/blog/laptop-mode-
tools-1_72

What a way to make a gift!

I'm pleased to announce the 1.72 release of Laptop Mode Tools. Major
changes include the port of the GUI configuration utility to Python 3
and PyQt5. Some tweaks, fixes and enhancements in current modules.
Extending {black,white}list of devices to types other than USB. Listing
of devices by their devtype attribute.

A filtered list of changes is mentioned below. For the full log, please
refer to the git repository.

Source tarball, Feodra/SUSE RPM Packages available at:
https://github.com/rickysarraf/laptop-mode-tools/releases

Debian packages will be available soon in Unstable.

Homepage: https://github.com/rickysarraf/laptop-mode-tools/wiki
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/laptop-mode-tools



1.72 - Thu Feb 1 21:59:24 IST 2018
* Switch to PyQt5 and Python3
* Add btrfs to list of filesystems for which we can set commit
interval
* Add pkexec invocation script
* Add desktop file to upstream repo and invoke script
* Update installer to includes gui wrappers
* Install new SVG pixmap
* Control all available cards in radeon-dpm
* Prefer to use the new runtime pm autosuspend_delay_ms interface
* tolerate broken device interfaces quietly
* runtime-pm: Make {black,white}lists work with non-USB devices
* send echo errors to verbose log
* Extend blacklist by device types of devtype


PS: This release took around 13 months. A lot of things changed, for
me, personally. Some life lessons learnt. Some idiots uncovered. But
the best of 2017, I got married. I am hopeful to keep work-life
balanced, including time for FOSS.

--
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

This is a follow-up to the 1.72 release. A bug fix release, which
extends the default blacklist of devices, to include devices of type
'sd'. It fixes a serious issue, which was causing disk devices to go
offline.

https://github.com/rickysarraf/laptop-mode-tools/releases/tag/1.72.2