[Powertop] [Announcement] Release of PowerTOP v2.1

[Chris Ferron <chris.e.ferron at linux.intel.com>]

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We are pleased to announce the release of PowerTOP v2.1 which concludes 
a minor release.

About PowerTOP:
PowerTOP is a Linux tool to diagnose issues with power consumption and 
power management. In addition to being a diagnostic tool, PowerTOP also 
has an interactive mode where you can experiment with various power 
management settings for cases where the Linux distribution has not 
enabled those settings.

PowerTOP reports which components in the system are most likely to blame 
for a higher-than-needed power consumption, ranging from software 
applications to active components in the system. Detailed screens are 
available for CPU C and P states, device activity, and software activity.

For many years, PowerTOP has been used heavily by Intel, Linux 
distributors, and various parts of the open source community. We're 
hoping that our users find the second generation even more useful for 
their needs.

Highlights:
--Added Transifex project integration
--Added localization of the UI with 9 languages in progress and active
--Support for cores without P-states
--Support for Intel GPU statistics
--PowerTOP manual page added
--Added an option to specify workload to run during measurement
--Add an option to suppress output to the terminal
--Added more ARM support assets
--Synced Traceevent library from the kernel tree for better event parsing
--Bug fixes and clean ups

Project Details:
--URL: https://01.org/powertop
--Download: https://01.org/powertop/downloads/2012/PowerTOP-v2.1

Mailing list:
Discussions about PowerTOP occur on the PowerTOP(a)lists.01.org mailing list
--Subscribe to the list at https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/powertop
--Archives are found at http://lists.01.org/pipermail/powertop

The development PowerTOP git repositories are hosted at GitHub.
--URL: https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop
--HTTP: https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop.git
--GIT-readonly: git://github.com/fenrus75/powertop.git

Note: We will not use any of the integrate, merge, or tracking functions 
of GitHub, so please continue to use the provided lists.


For localization support and contributions we are using Transifex.
--Transifex URL: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/PowerTOP/

Our Thanks:
For this release, we would like to give a special thanks to the 
following contributors, and all contributors to PowerTOP. Not in any 
particular order:

Benedikt Morbach, Colin Ian King, Dirk Brandewie, Igor Zhbanov, Ivan 
Shapovalov, Jaroslav Škarvada, Magnus Fromreide, Mike Frysinger, Németh 
Márton, Patrick McCarty, Rajagopal Venkat, Sergey Senozhatsky, Stefan 
Weil, Steven Rostedt, Vinicius Costa Gomes, Jason, Margie Foster

Current v2.2 goals under consideration are:
--Continued improvements to the UI, including resolution scaling
--Continued support of emerging Intel Architecture
--Continued support of emerging Kernel development