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laptop-mode-tools 1.50 Released

Written for Laptop Mode Tools by Ritesh Raj Sarraf on 2009-07-28

I am happy to announce the release of Laptop Mode Tools, version 1.50.

This release ships a RPM spec file which should help users in generating an RPM
package. Just use: rpmbuild -ta laptop-mode-tools-$version.tar.gz

Changes include:
        * Ship pm-utils hooks in /usr/lib/ and not in /etc/pm/
        Distributions will always want to have customized settings in /etc
        and default upstream settings in /usr/lib. See LP: #384875
        * Fix incorrect explanation of Intel HDA Power Savings. See Debian
        BTS: #532733
        * Don't clutter screen with print messages.
        * Add patch from Mulyadi Santosa that adds ability to lm-profiler to show
        read/write frequency of each collected program. Thank you.
        * Enhance usb-autosuspend module to be executed under conditions.
        Also explain the weirdness of broken usb drivers. Fixes Debian Bug #535051
        * Do the test comparision of integeres using string operators.
        Fixes Debian Bug #535650
        * Run pidof with the -x Script Mode switch. Thanks Matthijs Kooijman
        * Disconnect descriptors when backgrounding a script.
        Thanks Matthijs Kooijman
        * Add option to run in shell debug mode
        * Add a spec file to generate an RPM package. Thanks to Nikolay Botev

For the full changelog, have a look here. [1]

The tarball is available here [2].
The md5 checksum for the tarball is b8efb707e1fe9464c53d34515cc7b6a7

Laptop Mode Tools now uses the bug tracker [3] at Launchpad. Please file any
bug reports at the bug tracker.

[1] https://code.launchpad.net/~laptop-mode-tools-dev/laptop-mode-tools/main
[2] http://samwel.tk/laptop_mode/tools/downloads/laptop-mode-tools_1.50.tar.gz
[3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/laptop-mode-tools

Ritesh