- Update to version 0.37
  * Added the XORoshiro-256 pseudo random number generator (PRNG).
    Thanks to Fabian Druschke @Knogle #555
  * Added the Lagged Fibonacci PRNG generator. Thanks again to
    Fabian Druschke @Knogle #556
  * Changed the default method from "DOD Short" to "prng stream",
    using the XORoshiro-256 prng
  * Added missing help for HMG IS5 enhanced. Thanks to @AndCycle
    #569
  * Fixed an issue in configure.ac which was producing an error
    while running ./configure, mentioning libconfig, however the
    presence of libconfig had already been checked for, earlier in
    configure.ac. Although this error did not cause ./configure to
    abort prematurely and therefore make would build the source
    correctly, it did cause a issue for inclusion into Debian Sid.
    Thanks to @Polynomial-C #574
  * Minor change to nwipe's man page filename, nwipe.1 to nwipe.8
    to fix a Debian warning. #577

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- Update to version 0.36
  * Added the abbreviation MMC for mmcblk devices such as SD and
    microSD cards and some low budget laptops. #526
  * Fixed some serial numbers that were displaying garbage. #527
  * Fixed auto power off and nowait when the screen has been blanked
    by the user. #529
  * Fixed nwipe not auto exiting on completion when in non gui
    mode. #531
  * Fixed smart page titles so they have a consistent format with
    page 1 in the PDF report. #532
  * Fixed some of the config help messages that displayed incorrect
    information. #533
  * Inserted a space between temperature and model. #534
  * Fixed incorrect footer on return to organisation/customer
    preview screen. #535
  * Made footer completion message more informative. #538
  * Fixed hidden sector detection for devices with logical/physical
    size of 4096/4096. #543 #546
  * Fixed some strcpy compiler warnings. #548

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- Update to version 0.35
  * Nwipe will now optionally create a multi-page PDF certificate
    that shows details of a specific discs erasure. The first page
    forms the certificate of erasure and subsequent pages show the
    drives smart data. Two related options have been added to
    nwipe's command line options -P, --PDFreportpath=PATH Path to
    write PDF reports to. Default is "." If set to "noPDF" no PDF
    reports are written. From the drive selection screen you can
    now press 'c' for config. This takes you to the configuration
    screen where you can select various PDF certificate related
    options such as enabling PDF, entering customer or company data
    for entry onto the certificate and enabling a preview of
    customer/company info prior to the drive selection screen
    starting.
  * Nwipe now supports HPA/DCO detection, aka hidden sector
    detection. This is where the drive has been configured to
    report a smaller size to the operating system (O.S.) than it
    actually is. The HPA/DCO status is reported on the main drive
    selection screen as [HS? N/A] for drive that does not support
    HPA/DCO such as NvMe. [HS? YES] for a drive that is reporting a
    size smaller than it actually is, i.e has hidden sectors and
    [HS? NO] where the drive is reporting it's actual size
    correctly to the O.S. And finally [HS? ???] where nwipe cannot
    determine the HPA/DCO status as the drive is not responding to
    the ATA commands used to detect HPA/DCO. This might be because
    the drive does not support HPA/DCO or the interface adapter
    does not support ATA passthrough as is the case with a lot of
    the USB adapters on the market, but not all USB adapters. Nwipe
    does not currently allow removal of the HPA/DCO so you will
    still need to use hdparm to reset the drive so it reports its
    correct size before using nwipe to wipe the drive. HPA/DCO
    reset may be added in the next version. Thanks to @mdcato for
    the help testing the code and HPA/DCO results as displayed in
    the report.
  * This bug only applies to ones wipe and one or zero's
    verification. A very rare occurrence of a incorrect percentage
    on completion. The actual wipe was completed correctly it was
    just that the percentage calculation was wrong. #459
  * Nwipe now supports a configuration file /etc/nwipe/nwipe.conf.
    Currently it supports settings related to the PDF certificate
    but more options will be added in the future.
  * If you are running nwipe within the KDE konsole terminal and
    you resize the window by pulling on the corners, occasionally
    nwipe will exit with the error message:
    "GUI.c,nwipe_gui_select(), loop runaway, did you close the
    terminal without exiting nwipe? Initiating shutdown now" The
    loop runaway detection has been made less sensitive, i.e 32
    iterations per second of the GUI update can now be completed
    before a loop runaway is detected. previously it was 8. In
    practise when sizing the konsole window, anywhere between 1 and
    17 iterations will occur.#467
  * Nwipe now provides better temperature support for SAS drives.
    Thanks to @ggruber for all the code and testing he contributed.
  * Disc sizes are now shown differently to provide more
    information about their size. For instance a 1.2TB drive was
    shown as 1TB, now it is shown as 1200GB. Thanks to @ggruber for
    his code contribution.
  * Interface/bustype type was reported as UNK fo SAS drives, now
    reported correctly as SAS. Thanks to @ggruber for his code
    contribution.
  * Interface/bustype type has been enhanced to show SAS-SSD when a
    SSD drive is present. Thanks to @ggruber for his code
    contribution.
  * Nwipe's temperature retrieval code has been placed in it's own
    thread. This was done because it was found that any delays in
    obtaining the temperature resulted in a momentary freeze in the
    GUI wipe screen updating it's stats. This wasn't noticable if
    you were erasing a small number of drives but become apparent
    when wiping ten or twenty drives simultaneously.
  * Nwipe now automatically sorts drives alphabetically by device
    name that are the same length. i.e /dev/sda - /dev/sdz will be
    in order, followed by drives /dev/sdaa - /dev/sdaz in order
    followed by nvme or loop being at the end of the list.

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- Update to version 0.34
  * Fix a compiler warning -Wformat-zero-length string

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- Update to version 0.33
  * Fixes a slight screen corruption on 80 column display. When
    highlighting the verify ones option the first two digits of DoD
    5220.20-M disappear. This patch fixes that issue.@PartialVolume
    #348
  * For some controllers/drivers the readlink method of obtaining
    the bus type for GUI display does not work. If we haven't
    already resolved the bus type, we then also check smartctl for
    the transport protocol for SAS. @PartialVolume #350
  * Check smartctl for unresolved bus types SATA @PartialVolume
    #358
  * Changed message from (No ATA pass-thru) to (S/N: unknown) as
    the reason the serial number is unknown is because there is no
    ATA pass through for the chipset being used by the USB to SATA
    adapter, basically we are making the message more meaningful
    for the end user rather than for the engineer/programmer that
    may understand the previous terminology used. @PartialVolume
    @Firminator #356
  * Add drive temperature monitoring and display temperature in
    degrees Celsius in the GUI. Requires the kernel drivetemp
    module and makes use of the hwmon sub system in the kernel to
    extract drive temperatures. Nwipe will automatically load the
    drivetemp module if it's available. @PartialVolume #360 #361
    #364
  * Remove /dev/ from gui for long device names. This fixes column
    alignment issues in the gui with nvme drives i.e. nvme0n1 etc.
    If the drive name including path exceeds 8 characters the
    /dev/ is removed and prefixed with spaces to a total max length
    of 8 characters. @PartialVolume #365
  * Add -q --quiet option - anonymize serial numbers and SMBIOS-DMI
    data. This anonymizes serial numbers and related identifiable
    information for drives and hardware but does not remove model
    information in both the GUI and the log displayed by stdout at
    the end of a wipe and also in the log file if enabled in
    options. This feature is useful for uploading logs when
    submitting bug reports. @PartialVolume #366 #367 #371 #379 #383
  * Fixes a intermittent FAILED message that is displayed in the
    summary table when the message should have been UABORTED. The
    incorrect FAILED message only occurred when using control-C to
    abort a wipe. @PartialVolume #373
  * When many verification or pass errors are detected the status
    line can wrap on a 80 column display. This patch makes the
    error message more succinct which will free up about 10
    characters & prevents the line wrapping. @PartialVolume #374
  * Fixes a problem that occurs with a unresponsive drive that
    causes the ETA to grow to an enormous value. We now do not
    calculate an individual drives ETA when the throughput of the
    drive is zero so avoiding the overall ETA being incorrect for
    drives that are working correctly when multiple drives are
    being simultaneously wiped. While a individual drives ETA is
    calculated it is not displayed but only used to determine the
    overall ETA when all drives have completed. @PartialVolume #375
  * Add temperature monitoring and display with NVMe drives.
    @PartialVolume #377 #380 #381
  * When one of the two verify only methods are selected change the
    drive selected text from WIPE to VRFY to indicate the drive is
    not being wiped, but is only being verified. @PartialVolume
    #378
  * Fixes a incorrect sector, block and device sizes in 32 bit
    builds only as displayed in the nwipe log. This problem had no
    affect on the wipe as the issue was caused by a incorrect
    format specifier that affected the log text only.
    @PartialVolume #387 #388
  * Fixes a issue where temperatures may not have been available on
    Debian systems due to the location of modprobe. Particularly
    relevant to Debian which when logged in as root doesn't put
    /sbin in the $PATH environment setting. This issue was not
    necessarily relevant for Linux distros based on Debian, for
    instance, Ubuntu where nwipe would have found the modprobe
    command. @PartialVolume #390 #391
  * Improve wipe thread cancellation error checking.
    @PartialVolume #392
  * Improve GUI thread messaging if a pthread_join fails.
    @PartialVolume #393
  * Fixed a missing serial number on SAS drive.@PartialVolume #394
  * Added ISAAC-64 for 64 bit systems. Thanks @chkboom #398 #401
  * Fixes a problem with the Gutmann wipe where the random passes
    at the beginning and end were being re-arranged when only the
    inner passes should be rearranged. Thanks @chkboom #399
  * Fixes a obscure incorrect summary table status, while the log
    text correctly reports the failure. If the drive becomes non
    responsive during the wipe, the MB/s throughput will slowly
    drop towards 0MB/s and will display a FAILURE -1 error. The
    logs will correctly display errors and nwipe's return status
    will be non zero, however the summary table may display erased
    rather than FAILURE, this is because the wipe thread exited
    prematurely without setting the pass error. This fixes the
    error by checking the context's result status, i.e non zero on
    failure and if pass equals zero it makes pass equal to one.
    This is then picked up by the summary table log code which then
    marks the status correctly as FAILURE in the summary table.
    @PartialVolume #400
  * Fixes a spurious message on abort before wipe.This patch fixes
    a minor display issue that occurs when a user aborts a wipe
    before a wipe has started. It only occurs if the user had
    selected one or more drives for wipe and then aborted before
    starting the wipe. The spurious message only occurs in a
    virtual terminal, i.e. /dev/tty1, /dev/tty2, /dev/console It
    does not occur in terminal applications such as konsole, xterm,
    terminator etc. The spurious message that appears in the main
    window, states that "/dev/sdxyz 100% complete" along with
    garbage values in the statistics window. The message appears
    for a fraction of a second before being replaced with the
    textual log information that correctly states that the user
    aborted and no wipe was started. Basically the gui status
    information update function tries to update the data when the
    wipe hasn't even started. The fix is to only update the
    statistics information only if a wipe has started by checking
    the 'global_wipe_status' value which indicates whether any wipe
    started. '1' indicates that a wipe has started, else '0' if no
    wipe has started. @PartialVolume #406
  * Fixes temperature update in drive selection window. This fixes
    a problem where the drive temperature is not updated
    automatically in only the drive selection window. The
    temperature is however updated correctly every 60 seconds
    during a wipe in the wipe status window. This bug would
    probably never be noticed by most people as usually the drive
    temperature changes slowly and only rises once a wipe has
    started. The only time I imagine it would have been noticed
    would have been if the drive temperature was already high and
    you were trying to reduce the temperature by cooling before
    starting a wipe. This has now been corrected so that the
    temperature in the drive selection window is updated every 60
    seconds. @PartialVolume #407
  * Fixes a zombie nwipe process running at 100% CPU on one core
    but only on a Konsole based terminal. This only occurred when
    the Konsole terminal is exited while nwipe is sitting at the
    drive selection screen but nwipe did not exit when the konsole
    terminal was closed. If nwipe is exited normally on completion
    of a wipe or aborted by using control C then this problem would
    not be seen. Also occurs during a wipe if the konsole terminal
    is closed without exiting nwipe first, again only on Konsole
    based terminals. @PartialVolume #408 #409
  * Fixes a obscure segfault when --logfile option used with a non
    writable directory. @PartialVolume #410

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- Update to version 0.32
  * Add ones (0xFF) wipe to the methods. Renamed Zero Fill to Fill
    with Zeros and the new ones wipe, is called Fill with Ones.
  * Add ones verication to the methods. Renamed Verify Blank to
    Verify Zeros (0x00) and the new verification is called Verify
    Ones (0xFF).
  * Move method information from below the list of methods to the
    right of the method list. This allows better use of the screen
    space by allowing more methods to be added to the list,
    especially relevant to nwipe running as a standalone
    application on small distros such as shredos 2020 in frame
    buffer mode.
  * Removed the old DBAN syslinux.cfg configuration hints as not
    relevant to nwipe. See nwipe --help or man nwipe for command
    line options.
  * Add fdatasync errors to the error summary table.
  * During a wipe, you can now toggle between dark screen, blank
    screen and default blue screen by repeatedly pressing the b
    key. Dark screen, which is grey text on black background has
    been introduced to prevent TFT/LCD image persistence on
    monitors that are sensitive to that issue. However, according
    to this article grey text on a white background may be
    preferable. I will probably add that option in the next release
    along with possibly powering off the display as an additional
    option.

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- Update to version 0.31
  * Blanking disabled in GUI for OPS2 (mandatory requirement of
    standard). #326
  * Total bytes written/read for ALL passes or verifications are
    now logged. #326
  * Final blanking being enabled is no longer required for
    verification passes. GUI Fix. #326
  * Add a summary table to the log that shows totals for pass &
    verification errors. #325
  * Fix the missing 'Verifying' message on final blanking. #324
  * Fix prng selection always using mersenne irrespective of
    whatever prng the user selected. #323
  * Fix a non functional Isaac prng. (May have never worked even
    in DBAN/dwipe 2.3.0). #322
  * Log whether the prng produces a stream, if not log failure
    message. #321
  * Log the specific prng that is initialised. #320
  * Log selection details to the log. #319
  * Improve log messaging. #317
  * Fix auto shutdown option for some distros. #315
  * Fix build for musl. #301
  * Fixes to summary table & fix final status message. 311
  * Updates to --help options #309
  * Updates to manpage. #300
- Version 0.30
  * Add auto power off option on completion of wipe
    ( --autopoweroff ) (Thanks PartialVolume)
  * Fixed --nowait option that wasn't working.
    (Thanks PartialVolume)
  * Add verbose option. -v, --verbose.
  * Add a spinner to the GUI for each drive being wiped. When nwipe
    is syncing the percentage completion pauses, having a spinner
    gives a clear indication that the wipe is still running. Each
    devices spinner disappears on completion of a given devices
    wipe. (Thanks PartialVolume)
  * Make log messages, especially the ones with the tag 'notice'
    succinct and less than 80 characters including the timestamp.
    This is of more importance when nwipe is used on a 80x30
    terminal (ALT-F2, Shredos etc) but generally makes the logs
    more readable. While doing this all information was still 
    etained. (Thanks PartialVolume)
  * Add a summary table to the log that shows each drives status,
    i.e. erased or failed, throughput, duration of wipe, model,
    serial no etc. In particular it benefits those that wipe many
    drives simultaneously in rack servers. At a glance any failed
    drives can be seen without having to browse back through the
    log. (Thanks PartialVolume)
  * Add ETA to --nogui wipes status when SIGUSR1 (kill -s USR1
    (nwipes PID) is issued on the command line.
  * Fixed misleading throughput calculation. Throughput now shows
    average throughput calculated from start of wipe.
  * Fixed system info not being displayed in Debian Sid. #229
    (Thanks PartialVolume)
  * Add serial number display for USB to IDE/SATA adapters. This
    only works if the USB to IDE/SATA adapter supports ATA pass
    through. See #149 for further details (Thanks PartialVolume)
  * Fixed disk capacity nomenclature, width and padding on drive
    selection screen. See #237 (Thanks PartialVolume)
  * Add bus type, ATA or USB, amongst others to drive selection and
    wipe windows. (Thanks PartialVolume)
  * Add --nousb option. If you use the option --nousb, all USB
    devices will be ignored. They won't show up in the GUI and
    they won't be wiped if you use the --nogui --autonuke command.
    They will even be ignored if you specifically name them on the
    command line.
  * Miscellaneous GUI fixes, throughput display format, percentage
    display format to improve column alignment when wiping multiple
    discs. (Thanks PartialVolume)
  * Improve visibility of failure messages with red text on white
    background. (Thanks PartialVolume)
  * Add NVME and VIRT (loop etc) devices to device type table for
    display in GUI and logs. NVME devices now show up as NVME
    devices rather than UNK (Thanks PartialVolume)
  * Fixed very obscure segmentation fault going back to at least
    0.24 in drive selection window when resizing terminal vertical
    axis while drive focus symbol '>' is pointing to the last drive
    of a multi drive selection window. See #248 for further details
    (Thanks PartialVolume)
  * Warn the user if they are incorrectly typing a lower case s to
    start a wipe, when they should be typing a capital S #262
    (Thanks PartialVolume)
  * Warn the user if they are typing capital S in order to start a
    wipe but haven't yet selected any drives for wiping #261
    (Thanks PartialVolume)
  * Add ctrl A that toggles drive selection, all drives selected for
    wipe or all drives deselected. #266
  * Fixed compilation issue with NixOS with broken musl libc error
    due to missing header #275
  * Fixed status bar message showing incorrect information #287
  * Right Justify log labels to maintain column alignment #280
  * Added nwipe version & OS info to log #297

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