v1.9
Features and Improvements:
- NEW: The tool can now be installed via pip:
pip install github_monitor - NEW: Added support for external config files, environment-based secrets and dotenv integration with auto-discovery
- NEW: Introduced retry-enabled GitHub API call wrapper with fallback on failure
- NEW: Display GitHub user profile URL for the token owner and for event actors
- NEW: Display truncated GitHub repo description in relevant places
- IMPROVE: Increased GitHub event fetch size to 30 and removed fragile timestamp-based filtering
- IMPROVE: Enhanced startup summary to show loaded config and dotenv file paths
- IMPROVE: Simplified and renamed command-line arguments for improved usability
- NEW: Implemented SIGHUP handler for dynamic reload of secrets from dotenv files
- IMPROVE: Added configuration option to control clearing the terminal screen at startup
- IMPROVE: Changed connectivity check to use GitHub API endpoint for reliability
- IMPROVE: Added check for missing pip dependencies with install guidance
- IMPROVE: Allow disabling liveness check by setting interval to 0 (default changed to 12h)
- IMPROVE: Improved handling of log file creation
- IMPROVE: Refactored CSV file initialization and processing
- IMPROVE: Added support for
~path expansion across all file paths - IMPROVE: Refactored code structure to support packaging for PyPI
- IMPROVE: Enforced configuration option precedence: code defaults < config file < env vars < CLI flags
- IMPROVE: Display monitoring check interval range in output
- IMPROVE: Removed short option for
--send-test-emailto avoid ambiguity
Bug fixes:
- BUGFIX: Fixed account update date saving logic to CSV file