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A simple open-source disk benchmark tool for Linux distros

3.1.4

10 months ago

Changed

  • Fixed config directory name to ~/.config/kdiskmark
  • Hungarian localization correction (#120)
  • Fixed window icon for AppImage, Flatpak and Snap

Added

  • Dutch localization (#121)

Specific AppImage changes

  • Fixed window freezing during a benchmark stop
  • PageCache flushing support via built-in helper
  • Fixed error caused by missing system libaio
  • Fixed eventual crash on restarting tests

AppImage Note: If PageCache flushing is enabled, the privileged helper will be requested via pkexec or kdesu.

3.1.3

1 year ago

Changed

  • Benchmark file name is randomly generated (#94)
  • Fixed the device list template when changing the locale

Added

  • Japanese localization (#111)

3.1.2

1 year ago

Changed

  • Fixed visual glitch when scrolling the storage list
  • Polish localization correction (#95)

Added

  • Swedish localization (#96)

3.1.1

1 year ago

Changed

  • Fixed helper crash on completion of benchmarking

Note: AppImage no longer requires root privileges.

3.1.0

1 year ago

Added

  • Prevent multiple instances from being opened (#88)
  • Progress bar styles: Fusion, for light/dark theme and system one
  • Stylized design of the storage list
  • Update the storage list by changing the language
  • Prevent a line break in the dialog for a path contains a hyphen
  • Optional O_DIRECT flag

Changed

  • Migrated from KAuth to PolicyKit
  • The helper runs only if necessary
  • Pre-create a benchmark file only once before tests
  • Bring back the ability to specify the directory manually (#92)
  • Localization updated (incl. #89)

AppImage Note: Uses the built-in Breeze style to get the same appearance on different distributions and desktop environments.

3.0.0

1 year ago

Added

  • Benchmarking is performed within the helper
  • Stored configuration
  • Configurable pattern of each test
  • Region-specific numeric formatting
  • Standard and NVMe presets
  • Changeable test data: random or zeros
  • Demo profile
  • Ability to perform read and write tests separately
  • Button to refresh the storage list
  • Turkish (#77) and Hungarian (#70, #71, #72) localization

Changed

  • The occupied space is displayed instead of free space
Security Issue (14 September 2022)
This release is affected by CVE-2022-40673, upgrade to a newer one.

2.3.0

2 years ago

Added

  • Added measurement time limit

Changed

  • Fixed display of units above bars
  • The pause between tests selector has been moved to the settings window
  • Default value for threads of the first RND test is now one

2.2.1

2 years ago

Added

Changed

  • Display the text of the KAuth error that occurred
  • Using the ISO 8601 date format
  • Fix HiDPI issue (#55)
  • Fix kdiskmark.desktop syntax errors

Updated (30 October 2021): Fixed paths to icons and localization files in the AppImage build

2.2.0

3 years ago

Added

  • The ability to drop pagecache before doing a test job (using K5Auth)

Updated (5 May 2021): AppImage package added, bundled with fio 3.26

2.1.1

3 years ago

Changed

  • Fix directory selection (#41)