2. Very detailed Change Log

This document intends to detail the change log for relatively recent work (roughly since the source code was tracked in Git).

Note

This change log section represents git commits in range v2.8.4..HEAD (commits 434cb36a3..0459ffb8d).

2.1. 2025-08-09 Colin Dean <colindean@users.noreply.github.com>

  • docs/download.txt, docs/nut.dict: Include macOS with Mac OS X Apple shortened the name to "OS X" in 2011 and then changed it to "macOS" in 2016 to align with the branding of Apple’s other operating systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacOS&oldid=1304698699
  • docs/download.txt: Update download.txt with link to Homebrew formula for macOS nut has been in Homebrew since 2014.

2.2. 2025-08-08 Jim Klimov <jimklimov+nut@gmail.com>

  • NEWS.adoc, UPGRADING.adoc: prepare for v2.8.5.x iterations
  • NEWS.adoc, UPGRADING.adoc, docs/docinfo.xml.in: Revert "NEWS.adoc, UPGRADING.adoc, docs/docinfo.xml.in: finalize text before NUT v2.8.4 release" This reverts commit 8f14140bbc395baa108bd06a9f664bd0a6f00bc8.
  • tools/gitlog2version.sh: for development, set fallback NUT_VERSION_DEFAULT=2.8.4.1
  • configure.ac: for now do not require (pre-)release tagged commits to build changelog by default - keep doing it on systems where we can though
  • configure.ac: rephrase the message about --enable-docs-changelog [#3019, #3053]
  • ci_build.sh: limit default "configure --enable-docs-changelog=no" for CI builds on systems where CANBUILD_DOCS_ALL!=yes
  • ci_build.sh: add support for WITH_CHANGELOG envvar to pass down as configure --enable-docs-changelog=…
  • .github/workflows/codeql.yml: configure --disable-docs-changelog in CI builds
  • configure.ac: for (pre-)release builds we default nut_enable_docs_changelog auto⇒yes - do so loudly, and default --with-doc man⇒auto as well for all builds to have a chance to try this
  • docs/maintainer-guide.txt: update the guide
  • docs/maintainer-guide.txt: commit that in tools/gitlog2version.sh: for development, set fallback NUT_VERSION_DEFAULT=X.Y.Z.1