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weather-information collector, version 0.12.0 (2025-01-25)

Support for OpenWeatherMap's Expert plan is added.

The request limit for Weatherstacks's free plan is adjusted to
100 requests per month, since they changed the limit from 1000 to
100 requests.

There have been a few changes in Weatherbit's plans, and this
release reflects those changes:
* Support for Weatherbit's Hobbyist plan is removed, because
  Weatherbit does not offer that plan anymore.
* The Starter plan is renamed to Standard and the limit is
  changed from 50000 requests per day to 25000 requests per day.
* The Developer plan is renamed to Plus and the limit is changed
  from 500000 requests per day to 250000 requests per day.
* The Advanced plan is renamed to Business and the limit is
  changed from 5000000 requests per day to 2000000 requests per
  day.

simdjson, the library used for JSON parsing, has been updated from
version 3.11.1 to version 3.11.6.

weather-information collector, version 0.11.2 (2024-12-08)

Fix a bug where some Linux distributions would not properly detect
the user's home directory and thus would not search for an
existing configuration file in  the user's home directory.

simdjson, the library used for JSON parsing, has been updated from
version 3.1.6 to version 3.11.1.

nlohmann/json, the library used for JSON parsing when simdjson is
not supported, has been updated from version 3.11.2 to version
3.11.3.

weather-information collector, version 0.11.1 (2023-04-01)

This release fixes a problem where current weather data gathered
from Open-Meteo API could not be saved to the database.

weather-information collector, version 0.11.0 (2023-04-01)

Tasks using the DarkSky API are not allowed anymore and will cause
an error when trying to run the weather-information-collector.
Since DarkSky has been shut down by Apple on 31st March 2023, this
is just the right course of action.

simdjson, the library used for JSON parsing, has been updated from
version 3.0.1 to version 3.1.6.

weather-information collector, version 0.10.1 (2023-01-01)

An informational notice will be shown when there is at least one
task uses the DarkSky API to get data. DarkSky will shut down on
31st March 2023, so users get a notice to prepare for migration
to other APIs.

The request limit for Weatherbit's free plan is adjusted to 50
requests per day, since they changed the limit from 500 to 50
requests.

Furthermore, support for Weatherbit's Hobbyist plan (350 requests
per day) is added.

simdjson, the library used for JSON parsing, has been updated
from version 3.0.0 to version 3.0.1.

weather-information collector, version 0.10.0 (2022-10-24)

The program is now able to collect data from the Open-Meteo API,
too.

weather-information-collector-task-creator can now work even if
there is no API key for OpenWeatherMap available in the config
file. It will fall back to Open-Meteo in that case.

simdjson, the library used for JSON parsing, has been updated
from version 2.2.2 to version 3.0.0.

nlohmann/json, the library used for JSON parsing when simdjson is
not supported, has been updated from version 3.11.1 to version
3.11.2.

weather-information collector, version 0.9.22 (2022-08-18)

simdjson, the library used for JSON parsing, has been updated
from version 1.0.0 to version 2.2.2.

nlohmann/json, the library used for JSON parsing when simdjson is
not supported, has been updated from version 3.10.2 to version
3.11.1.

weather-information-collector can now be built on Windows with
the help of MSYS2.

weather-information collector, version 0.9.21 (2021-10-05)

A possible null-pointer dereference in the update program has
been fixed.

simdjson, the library used for JSON parsing, has been updated
from version 0.7.1 to version 1.0.0.

nlohmann/json, the library used for JSON parsing when simdjson is
not supported, has been updated from version 3.9.1 to version
3.10.2.

weather-information collector, version 0.5.7 (2017-09-05)

The update program does not need to load task information or API
keys, so the configuration loading procedure is changed to skip
such information for the update program only.

weather-information collector, version 0.5.6 (2017-09-03)

Add a new program that performs database structure and data
updates for older database variants (currently only version 0.5.4
and earlier) and brings them up to data with the current database
structure.

weather-information collector, version 0.5.5 (2017-08-31)

weather-information-collector will now parse the rain amount
given in JSON files, too. This will also be written to the
database.

weather-information collector, version 0.5.4 (2017-08-24)

Add a new program that performs configuration checks only. This
way the user can check whether all configuration files are
acceptable without having to start the data collection.

weather-information collector, version 0.5.3 (2017-08-24)

This is the first working version of weather-information-collector.
It can collect data from two distinct APIs (OpenWeatherMap, Apixu).
Fixes a missing variable initialization issue that resulted in a
null pointer dereference and thus in a segmentation fault.

weather-information collector, version 0.9.20 (2021-08-24)

The collector and the task creator programs do now show the
version of the cURL library as part of their version information,
too.

The collector, synchronization and update programs do now show the
version of the MariaDB client library as part of their version
information, too.

weather-information collector, version 0.9.19 (2021-06-14)

simdjson, the library used for JSON parsing, has been updated
from version 0.6.0 to version 0.7.1.

nlohmann/json, the library used for JSON parsing when simdjson is
not supported, has been updated from version 3.5.0 to version
3.9.1.

weather-information collector, version 0.9.18 (2021-04-28)

The minimum required CMake version for compiling the project is
raised from 2.8 to 3.8.

weather-information collector, version 0.9.17 (2021-04-26)

Precision of temperature values is now limited to three decimal
digits after the decimal separator, i. e. values like
23.4560001 °C will become 23.456 °C instead. The update program
will adjust the values accordingly when executed.

weather-information collector, version 0.9.16 (2021-04-23)

- Parser errors will now show more information why JSON parsing
  failed.
- A potential error with finding the user's home directory has
  been fixed.
- HTTPS connections will now try to use TLS v1.2 or newer by
  default, if your system uses cURL 7.54.0 or newer. For older
  cURL versions, the minimum TLS version is 1.0 as it was before.

weather-information collector, version 0.9.15 (2020-11-11)

Update simdjson library to version 0.6.0.

weather-information collector, version 0.9.14 (2020-09-20)

Restore full capabilities of update program.