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GKrellM 2.4.0 has been released after a rather long hiatus. This is the first release without the original author Bill Wilson who unfortunately passed away in 2021.

Source Code for all platforms is available at the GkrellM Website. A detailed list of changes including the ones mentioned in the previous post can be found at the GKrellM 2.4.0 Release Page.

For the Windows Installer this release again updates all dependencies to the latest versions available in the cross-compiler environment MXE that is used to build GKrellM for Windows. This is the first 64-bit only release and has only been tested on Windows 10/11 (though it should still work on Windows 7).

After a few GKrellM related questions arriving via email over the last few months I took another look at the different GTK 3 porting attempts and forks of the code. I approached the author of one of the forks and picked up some well organized commits to make GKrellM build without any deprecated Glib or Gtk 2.x functionality. GKrellM in git now requires the last GTK 2 release, which is GTK 2.24.x.

Today I finally managed to release GKrellM 2.3.11 for Windows.

This release updates all dependencies to newer versions, mostly thanks to MXE which is the cross-environment I use for building GKrellM for Windows. I switched back packaging to ship with OpenSSL instead of GnuTLS since GKrellM was originally meant to be built with that and it actually happens to be smaller overall compared to GnuTLS and its dependencies. Finally this release starts shipping third-party GKrellM plugins that could be made working on Windows. For now the plugins available are:

As part of modernizing GKrellWeather I changed the hand-coded configuration UI to a file that can be edited visually using Glade.

Originally intended to be released shortly after the gkrellm-2.3.2 release (released 2008-10-04), I stumbled across some bugs here and there so in the end it took much longer.

As some of you might know, Windows has something similar to daemons, its so called “services”. Lately I have been able to find some free time and managed to make a true Windows service out of gkrellmd.

I’m currently updating my build system and will look into some of the bugs that I found in the last GKrellM for Windows release. I also spotted a few problems with the new release (mainly clock/calendar formatting) so it will take some more time before I can release something usable.

Today I built and packaged GKrellM 2.3.0 for Windows. It is available both in form of a handy installer as well as plain Zip-File. As this is the first release made by me I’m very interested in any kind of feedback, even if it’s just as short as “it works” :)