v4.0.0

The final release is identical with the beta-14 version and some documentation updates. Here is a high level summary of new features and changes:

New

• smfc is using udev (pyudev package) for device management (thanks to @abbaad):
  • Automatic discovery of HWMON files for both Intel and AMD CPUs, including the number of CPUs, no manual configuration required.
  • Automatic discovery of HWMON files for HDDs/SSDs based on hd_names= parameter, including the number of HDDS/SSDs, no manual configuration required.
  • Automatic use of smartctl if no HWMON file found for a hard disks (e.g. SCSI disk).
• smfc is a Python package, uploaded to pypi.org
• smfc has new command-line options (-s, -nd, -ne)
• smfc is using uv for Python project management
• smfc implements new fan controllers:
  • [GPU zone]: supporting nvidia GPUs (using nvidia-smi command)
  • [CONST zone] constant fan level in the zone(s)
• smfc implements free IPMI zone assignment, where a fan controller can control fans on one or more IPMI zones (see ipmi_zone= parameter)
• CHANGELOG.md added

Change

• smfc installer moved to bin folder, and can install remotely:

  curl --silent https://raw.githubusercontent.com/petersulyok/smfc/refs/heads/main/bin/install.sh|bash /dev/stdin --keep-config --verbose

• Default location of smfc.conf moved to /etc/smfc folder.

• hddtemp is deprecated, smfc uses smartctl command for SAS/SCSI disks.

• smfc configuration file changes:

  • smfc can read the old configuration files (version 3.x), but some parameters are not used anymore.
  • count= parameter is not used anymore, count is calculated automatically.
  • hwmon_path= parameter is not used anymore, identified automatically.
  • hddtemp_path= is not used anymore.
  • swapped_zones= is not used anymore, use ipmi_zone= parameter instead to specify the proper IPMI zone

• TESTING.md was renamed to DEVELOPMENT.md

• Docker changes:

  • There are two docker images available: smaller standard image (Alpine Linux based), bigger gpu-enabled image (Debian 12 based)
  • Tag naming is also changed (e.g. 4.0, latest, 4.0-gpu, latest-gpu)

Removed

• Unused test data files from test folder
• Unused scripts from bin folder
• hddtemp removed

Fix

• Support of AMD CPUs (without manual configuration) - issue #25