Renew v.0.1.8
Pre-release
Pre-release
v0.1.8 Improvements and Changes
- Added extensible language support
- Added default messages for:
- Italiano
- Deutsch
- French
- Espaniol
- Français
- Added a 5 minute reduction to all deferrment calculations. This should result in a more reliable experience for duration of deferrals
- Streamlined and simplified logging by reducing chatty messages to the log file
- Added simple log rotation
- Added support for Banner images
- Added support for Dark Mode Icons and Banner Images
- Unified and clarified various exit codes
- Display sleep assertion detection added.
- If an application has told your computer "don't sleep the display" then this is detected, and Renew does not trigger (and does not use a deferral).
- Exmple of applications which assign Display sleep assertions: Zoom/Teams/WebEx phone/video calls, Teams calls, Youtube/Netflix video playback, caffeinate command
- Some Display sleep assertions are ignored by default, and a future release will allow admins to configure applications they wish to ignore via profile key.
- Default ignored assertions:
- Amphetamine
- caffeinate
- obs