This change log won't cover everything that's changed. Have a look through the commit history for more info.

There were a lot of major changes made to how things work in this release so I'm expecting bugs/things not working for people. Expect a 1.9.X release.

I'm also looking for neofetch screenshots for the Readme, see this issue: #405

Thanks to everyone below who contributed, it's nice to see some new faces too. :)

Contributors

• @konimex
• @iandrewt
• @coypoop
• @ncmprhnsbl
• @koreacomputercenter

General

• Added new function called checkoldflags which informs users about deprecated config options.
• Change all OS X references to macOS. @iandrewt
• Fix corrupted text when long lines are cut-off.
• Don't dynamically place prompt in image=off mode.
• Cursor Position: Fix issues when using URxvt+Padding

Operating System

• Added support for Android.
  • Dependencies:
    • Required: bash and busybox
    • Note: I recommend installing termux from the Play Store or F-Droid. Termux provides you with a fully working Linux environment, doesn't require root acess and includes all dependencies.
    • Note2: Neofetch will be packaged in termux thanks to @konimex
      • PR #351
• Added support for Bitrig. @konimex
• Added support for Sparky Linux.
• Added support for Porteus. @ncmprhnsbl
• Added support for Red Star OS. @koreacomputercenter

Packages

• Neofetch is now in Gentoo's official repos.

Images

Fixed rendering issues in URxvt when using an XFT font.

This was first thought to be an issue between URxvt and W3m-img and I apologize for immediately closing bug reports and dismissing comments about this.

I spent yesterday trying to fix this issue and found out that launching neofetch with --bold off reduced the rendering problems. I did more digging and found out that removing all text formatting fixes the issue entirely. I later found out that adding a single unformatted character before the formatted text fixed the issue while keeping the formatting the same.

I opened up this PR https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/pull/358 which added options to enable a border between the image and the text to fix the issue. @konimex later commented informing me that we could just use a zero-width space to fix the issue and that we didn't need a new function/args/ugly border. doh

The final fix was as simple as adding a zero-width space before the info, here's the commit.

https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/commit/3e9c3d648cb4c6f0d5fe5f0b96f9e29429af39d9

Removed hard dependency on \033[14t

Neofetch no longer requires a terminal emulator that supports \033[14t this means that neofetch now works in Konsole. Instead of using the escape sequence users now have three options for getting the terminal size in pixels.

• xdotool
• xwininfo + xprop
• xwininfo + xdpyinfo

Neofetch will detect whatever combination you have insalled and use these programs.

Note: \033[14t is still supported, if images already work for you then you don't have to install anything else.

• [w3m-img] Draw the image twice to fix rendering issues in Konsole.
• [w3m-img] Fix cursor position when using yoffset.
• [w3m-img] Add -bg support with the new option --bg_color.
  • neofetch --bg_color blue will make the background behind the image blue.
  • Note: The background color is only visible behind transparent parts of the image.
• If the terminal width is found as 0, fallback to ascii mode.

Ascii

• Bold ascii art by default.
• Fixed incorrect prompt location when using ascii_logo_size small.
• Fixed incorrect colors used on light terminals.
• Update Void Linux ascii art. @ncmprhnsbl
• Update Solus ascii art.

Info

Distro<br >

• Expanded distro_shorthand to macOS, BSD and Solaris. @konimex
• Removed osx_buildversion and osx_codename in favour of distro_shorthand. @konimex

Desktop Environment<br >

• [Windows] Added support for showing DE.
  • Windows 8 and above: Modern UI/Metro
  • Windows 7 and below: Aero

Window Manager<br >

• [Windows] Added support for custom WMs/Shells.
  • Neofetch now detects blackbox, bugn, Windawesome, emerge and litestep.

Window Manager Theme<br >

• [Windows] Added support for Blackbox themes.

CPU<br >

• Added cpu_speed which lets you hide/show the speed in the output.
• Expanded cpu_cores option by adding two new values, logical and physical.
  • logical: Show all virtual cores (hyperthreaded).
  • physical: Only show physical cores.
• [Linux] Added support for showing CPU temperature.
  • Added new option called cpu_temp.
  • Note: This is disabled by default and can be enabled by changing the value of cpu_temp in your config to on.
• [macOS] Print physical cores instead of hyper-threaded cores. @iandrewt
• [iOS] Rewrite CPU function.

GPU

• [iOS] Rewrite GPU function.
• [Linux] Rewrite GPU function.
  • Neofetch also caches the info until reboot.

Uptime<br >

• Rewrote uptime function to use seconds since boot instead of the uptime command.
  • Every OS/Distro now has the pretty uptime -p output!
• Remove up from output.

Resolution<br >

• [macOS] Add @2x label for retina resolutions. @iandrewt

Memory<br >

• [Linux] Correctly calculate used memory.
  • The output should now match conky, htop and etc.
  • Source: https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch/issues/386#issuecomment-249312716
• [NetBSD] Fix memory output for sizes over 4GB. @coypoop

Shell<br >

• Hide shell path by default.
• Show shell version by default.

Battery<br >

• [Linux] Rewrote and simplified battery function.
• Removed battery_shorthand
• Removed battery_num

Theme Font<br >

• [XFCE] Fixed incorrect font output.

Color Blocks<br >

• Fixed block_width not working.
• Fixed % s appearing in color blocks when neofetch is run from tty
• Fixed block_width being off by one. A value of 2 made the blocks 3 wide instead of 2 wide.

Terminal and Terminal Font<br >

• [Linux] Use /proc/$PPID/comm instead of parsing ps.
• Uppercase first letter of termfont output.
• Don't print broken output of busybox's ps.
• Remove path from output.

Song<br >

• [macOS] Fix iTunes automatically opening. @iandrewt
• Added support for Audacious. @ncmprhnsbl
• Rewrote song function, it's now much faster/cleaner.