v2.4

Features and Improvements:

• NEW: Implemented HTML formatting (with markdown to HTML conversion) for email notifications, enhancing readability and visual presentation
• NEW: Added progress bar functionality for repository processing
• IMPROVE: Enhanced contribution data retrieval by handling long date ranges more effectively

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Corrected date calculation for yearly contribution chunks to handle leap years accurately
• BUGFIX: Prevented displaying "after" timestamp for older events in GitHub print output
• BUGFIX: Added handling for network errors when fetching user data
• BUGFIX: Prevented false positives for repository list changes in notifications

v2.3

Features and Improvements:

• NEW: Implemented support for selected repository monitoring (see --repos flag and REPOS_TO_MONITOR config option)
• NEW: Added signal handler for daily contributions notifications (SIGURG)

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Corrected daily contributions count by widening GraphQL query window to avoid timezone boundary errors

v2.2.1

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Replaced hard coded github.com links with dynamic base URL for GHE compatibility (thanks @commitSpectral)

v2.2

Features and Improvements:

• NEW: Added daily contributions tracking and notifications (-m and -y flags)
• IMPROVE: Added support to show original repo details for ForkEvent instead of fork target
• IMPROVE: Added RateLimitExceededException handling in gh_call with safe sleep logic and header parsing

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Restored missing PushEvent commits using compare API after GitHub Events API payload change in Aug 25

v2.1

Features and Improvements:

• NEW: Added GET_ALL_REPOS option and -a flag to toggle between all repos and user-owned only (default)
• NEW: Added BLOCKED_REPOS to toggle alerts for blocked repos (403 TOS, 451 DMCA) in monitoring mode; always shown in listing mode (-r)
• IMPROVE: Silently handle GitHub 403 (TOS violation) and 451 (DMCA block) repo errors in monitoring mode

v2.0

Features and Improvements:

• NEW: Added block status detection identifying when a tracked user has blocked/unblocked the token owner
• NEW: Introduced profile visibility detection distinguishing public profiles from private ones

v1.9.1

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Fixed config file generation to work reliably on Windows systems

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-email to avoid ambiguity

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Fixed account update date saving logic to CSV file

v1.8

Features and Improvements:

• NEW: Added monitoring of repository issues and PRs
• NEW: Added support for additional GitHub event types (Member, Public, Discussion, Discussion Comment)
• NEW: Added logic to fetch parent/previous comments for all new comments (issues, PRs, commits, etc.)
• NEW: Detection of forced pushes, tag pushes, branch resets and other ref updates
• IMPROVE: Extended event logging with more detailed information
• IMPROVE: Enhanced visual output of the repository list with some nice emojis for better readability
• IMPROVE: Display event number in event list output
• IMPROVE: Refactored and cleaned up code to reduce redundant API requests
• IMPROVE: Improved exception and error handling in several places
• IMPROVE: Enhanced output formatting for readability

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Fixed issue where manually defined LOCAL_TIMEZONE wasn't applied during timestamp conversion (fixes #3)

v1.7.1

Features and Improvements:

• IMPROVE: Refactored code around event processing to limit API fetch and simplify logic