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Introduction

The PowerPanel for Linux software is primary to help system to monitor UPS, 
which has USB or serial port. The pwrstatd program will run as a daemon process,
it startups since system is booting. The pwrstatd communicates with UPS and help
system to do graceful shutdown while the power events are aware. The another 
program called pwrstat, which helps user to get status of the UPS and settings 
of the pwrstatd daemon. It also allows user to configure the UPS and pwrstatd 
daemon.

Version 1.1.4
2010/01/28
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1. Support specified the device nodes for pwrstatd using from pwrstatd.conf
   file.
2. Fix issue, the USB HID kernel module has some issue which kernel version
   is between 2.6.9 and 2.6.11.

Version 1.1.3
2009/10/14
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1. Support Arch Linux Distribution.
2. Support x86_64/amd64 (.rpm,.deb and .tar) install packages.
3. Fix issue, daemon have memory leak problem when lost communication.
4. Fix issue, display wrong message when pwrstatd terminated.
5. Fix issue, typo in 'pwrstat -config'.

Version 1.1.2 
2009/1/16
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1. Support PR/OR Rackmount UPS series.

Version 1.1.1 
2009/1/13
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1. Support Office Power/Rackmount UPS series.
2. Provide apparent power(VA) information.
3. The USB HID kernel module has some issue, users have to upgrade kernel to
   version 2.6.12 to get normal work.

Version 1.1 
2008/7/7
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1. Support H2C USB adapter for communication.
2. Support OLRM UPS series and getting more detail information.
3. Provide a shell script to notify user by e-mail when power event occurred.
4. More UPS status and properties information in status query command.
5. Support feature of alarm mute.
6. Fixed issue: does not turn UPS off after system shutdown due to power event.

Version 1.0 
2008/4/15
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1. Change Software Marketing name to PowerPanel for Linux.
2. Support UPS which have DB-9 connector for serial or dry-contact
   communication.
3. Restore communication of UPS quickly at startup, and maintain same device as
   before as possible.
4. Add Man page for pwrstat and pwrstatd program.
5. Fix installation issue for Ubuntu, Debian.
6. Fix issue, daemon does not auto-startup for Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian.
7. Provide a generic install procedure if Linux distributor does not be
   recognized.
8. Well test under SUSE 10.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0, Fedora Core 7.0,
   Ubuntu 7.10, Debian 4.0 at present.
9. Add deploy-guide document for installation trouble shooting.
10. Add license document.


Version 0.9 
2008/1/28
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1. Support UPS which is developed base on USB-HID/Power class.
2. Daemon program is major to communicate with UPS and graceful shutdown in 
   critical condition.
3. Allow user to change the shell command when UPS in power failure or battery 
   low condition.
4. Setup the alarm of UPS.
5. To get UPS status.
6. To get UPS and daemon settings.
