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bootchart2 0.14.5:
	+ pybootchartgui (Riccardo)
		+ Fix tests with python3
		+ Fix parsing of files with non-ascii bytes
		+ Robustness fixes to taskstats and meminfo parsing
		+ More python3 fixes

bootchart2 0.14.4:
	+ bootchartd
		+ Add relevant EXIT_PROC for GNOME3, XFCE4, openbox
		  (Justin Lecher, Ben Eills)
	+ pybootchartgui (Riccardo)
		+ Fix some issues in --crop-after and --annotate
		+ Fix pybootchartgui process_tree tests
		+ More python3 fixes

bootchart2 0.14.2:
	+ pybootchartgui
		+ Fix some crashes in parsing.py (Jakub Czaplicki, Riccardo)
		+ speedup a bit meminfo parsing (Riccardo)
		+ Fix indentation for python3.2 (Riccardo)

bootchart2 0.14.1:
	+ bootchartd
		+ Expect dmesg only if started as init (Henry Yei)
		+ look for bootchart_init in the environment (Henry Gebhardt)
	+ pybootchartgui
		+ Fixup some tests (Riccardo)
		+ Support hp smart arrays block devices (Anders Norgaard,
		  Brian Murray)
		+ Fixes for -t, -o and -f options (Mladen Kuntner, Harald, Riccardo)

bootchart2 0.14.0:
	+ bootchartd
		+ Add ability to define custom commands
		  (Lucian Muresan, Peter Hjalmarsson)
	+ collector
		+ fix tmpfs mount leakage (Peter Hjalmarsson)
	+ pybootchartgui
		+ render cumulative I/O time chart (Sankar P)
		+ python3 compatibility fixes (Riccardo)
	+ Misc (Michael)
		+ remove confusing, obsolete setup.py
		+ install docs to /usr/share/
		+ lot of fixes for easier packaging (Peter Hjalmarsson)
		+ add bootchart2, bootchartd and pybootchartgui manpages
		  (Francesca Ciceri, David Paleino)

bootchart2 0.12.6:
	+ bootchartd
		+ better check for initrd (Riccardo Magliocchetti)
		+ code cleanup (Riccardo)
		+ make the list of processes we are waiting for editable
		  in config file by EXIT_PROC (Riccardo)
		+ fix parsing of cmdline for alternative init system (Riccardo)
		+ fixed calling init in initramfs (Harald)
		+ exit 0 for start, if the collector is already running (Harald)
	+ collector
		+ try harder with taskstats (Michael)
		+ plug some small leaks (Riccardo)
		+ fix missing PROC_EVENTS detection (Harald)
	+ pybootchartgui (Michael)
		+ add kernel bootchart tab to interactive gui
		+ report bootchart version in cli interface
		+ improve rendering performance
		+ GUI improvements
		+ lot of cleanups
	+ Makefile
		+ do not python compile if NO_PYTHON_COMPILE is set (Harald)
	+ systemd service files
		+ added them and install (Harald, Wulf C. Krueger)

bootchart2 0.12.5:
	+ administrative snafu version; pull before pushing...

bootchart2 0.12.4:
	+ bootchartd
		+ reduce overhead caused by pidof (Riccardo Magliocchetti)
	+ collector
		+ attempt to retry ptrace to avoid bogus ENOSYS (Michael)
		+ add meminfo polling (Dave Martin)
	+ pybootchartgui
		+ handle dmesg timestamps with big delta (Riccardo)
		+ avoid divide by zero when rendering I/O utilization (Riccardo)
		+ add process grouping in the cumulative chart (Riccardo)
		+ fix cpu time calculation in cumulative chart (Riccardo)
		+ get i/o statistics for flash based devices (Riccardo)
		+ prettier coloring for the cumulative graphs (Michael)
		+ fix interactive CPU rendering (Michael)
		+ render memory usage graph (Dave Martin)

bootchart2 0.12.3
	+ collector
		+ pclose after popen (Riccardo Magliocchetti (xrmx))
		+ fix buffer overflow (xrmx)
		+ count 'processor:' in /proc/cpuinfo for ARM (Michael)
		+ get model name from that line too for ARM (xrmx)
		+ store /proc/cpuinfo in the boot-chart archive (xrmx)
		+ try harder to detect missing TASKSTATS (Michael)
		+ sanity-check invalid domain names (Michael)
		+ detect missing PROC_EVENTS more reliably (Michael)
		+ README fixes (xrmx, Michael)
	+ pybootchartgui
		+ make num_cpu parsing robust (Michael)

bootchart2 0.12.2
 	+ fix pthread compile / linking bug

bootchart2 0.12.1
	+ pybootchartgui
		+ pylint cleanup
		+ handle empty traces more elegantly
		+ add '-t' / '--boot-time' argument (Matthew Bauer)
	+ collector
		+ now GPLv2
		+ add rdinit support for very early initrd tracing
		+ cleanup / re-factor code into separate modules
		+ re-factor arg parsing, and parse remote process args
		+ handle missing bootchartd.conf cleanly
		+ move much of bootchartd from shell -> C
			+ drop dmesg and uname usage
			+ avoid rpm/dpkg with native version reporting

bootchart2 0.12.0 (Michael Meeks)
	+ collector
		+ use netlink PROC_EVENTS to generate parentage data
			+ finally kills any need for 'acct' et. al.
			+ also removes need to poll /proc => faster
		+ cleanup code to K&R, 8 stop tabs.
	+ pybootchartgui
		+ consume thread parentage data

bootchart2 0.11.4 (Michael Meeks)
	+ collector
		+ if run inside an initrd detect when /dev is writable
		  and remount ourselves into that.
		+ overflow buffers more elegantly in extremis
		+ dump full process path and command-line args
		+ calm down debugging output
	+ pybootchartgui
		+ can render logs in a directory again
		+ has a 'show more' option to show command-lines

bootchart2 0.11.3 (Michael Meeks)
	+ add $$ display to the bootchart header
	+ process command-line bits
		+ fix collection code, and rename stream to match
		+ enable parsing, add check button to UI, and --show-all
		  command-line option
	+ fix parsing of directories full of files.

bootchart2 0.11.2 (Michael Meeks)
	+ fix initrd sanity check to use the right proc path
	+ don't return a bogus error value when dumping state
	+ add -c to aid manual console debugging

bootchart2 0.11.1 (Michael Meeks)
	+ even simpler initrd setup
		+ create a single directory: /lib/bootchart/tmpfs

bootchart2 0.11 (Michael Meeks)
	+ bootchartd
		+ far, far simpler, less shell, more robustness etc.
	+ bootchart-collector
		+ remove the -p argument - we always mount proc
		+ requires /lib/bootchart (make install-chroot) to
		  be present (also in the initrd) [ with a kmsg
		  node included ]
		+ add a --probe-running mode
	+ ptrace re-write
		+ gives -much- better early-boot-time resolution
		+ unconditional chroot /lib/bootchart/chroot
			+ we mount proc there ourselves
		+ log extraction requires no common file-system view


bootchart2 0.10.1 (Kel Modderman)
	+ collector arg -m should mount /proc
	+ remove bogus vcsid code
	+ split collector install in Makefile
	+ remove bogus debug code
	+ accept process names containing spaces

bootchart2 0.10.0
	+ rendering (Anders Norgaard)
		+ fix for unknown exceptions
	+ interactive UI (Michael)
		+ much faster rendering by manual clipping
		+ horizontal scaling
		+ remove annoying page-up/down bindings
	+ initrd portability & fixes (Federic Crozat)
		+ port to Mandriva
		+ improved process waiting
		+ inittab commenting fix
		+ improved initrd detection / jail tagging
		+ fix for un-detectable accton behaviour change
		+ implement a built-in usleep to help initrd deps (Michael)

bootchart2 0.0.9
	+ fix initrd bug

bootchart2 0.0.8
	+ add a filename string to the window title in interactive mode
	+ add a NEWS file