Caffeine Changelog

What's new in Caffeine 2.8.2

Jan 18, 2015
  • This release fixes some minor bugs in 2.8, and a major bug inadvertently introduced in the short-lived 2.8.1 (caffeine-indicator was broken).

New in Caffeine 2.8 (Jan 16, 2015)

  • This release restores widely-missed functionality removed in Caffeine 2.7: namely the ability to inhibit desktop idleness manually, (via the new caffeine-indicator) and the ability to inhibit desktop idleness for the duration of a particular command (via the new command 'caffeinate'). It should also work in most desktop environments again (Caffeine 2.7 worked in only a few).

New in Caffeine 2.7.2 (Jan 13, 2015)

  • Fix a crash when there is no active window (LP# 1322291).
  • Fix Caffeine not terminating when the session ends (LP #1324304).

New in Caffeine 2.7 (Jan 13, 2015)

  • This release removes the user interface and manual operation, and reduces resource consumption by not using external programs. Caffeine is now fully automatic: when the active window is full screen, Caffeine inhibits desktop idleness (and thereby disables the screen saver and/or screen sleep).

New in Caffeine 2.5 (Dec 11, 2013)

  • Many bugs are fixed, and the application is now much simpler.
  • Unfortunately, Flash video support is gone, as it was too complicated to keep it working. It had been broken for some years.

New in Caffeine 2.4.1 (Nov 14, 2011)

  • Migrated from pygtk to pygobject.
  • Fixed memory leak.

New in Caffeine 2.2 (Dec 2, 2010)

  • Added option to run Caffeine without a tray icon.
  • Fixed several bugs.

New in Caffeine 1.0.1 (Nov 2, 2009)

  • Fixed bugs #460124, #457490, #458847, #464201, #463273.

New in Caffeine 0.3 (Aug 27, 2009)

  • Complete object-oriented rewrite.
  • Support for xscreensaver
  • Support for DPMS
  • Full support for internationalization
  • Command-line interface
  • Simplification of packaging