v1.4

Features and Improvements:

• IMPROVE: Update date for repo is checked/reported before other repo attributes

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Better exception handling in few places (some possible crashes fixed)
• BUGFIX: Indentation + type casting fixes in the code

v1.3

Features and Improvements:

• NEW: Added support for tracking watchers/subscribers changes in public repositories (when -j parameter is used)
• NEW: Added new parameter (-z / --send_test_email_notification) which allows to send test email notification to verify SMTP settings defined in the script
• IMPROVE: Switched watchers_count to subscribers_count as in fact it corresponds to the number of watchers whereas watchers_count and stargazers_count correspond to the number of users that have starred a repository
• IMPROVE: Email notifications for repositories changes (new -q parameter) have been separated from regular profile changes notifications (-p); also signal handler for SIGCONT has been added to switch repos changes email notifications
• IMPROVE: Email notifications for repositories update date changes (new -u parameter) have been separated from regular repo changes notifications (-q) as they can be quite verbose; also signal handler for SIGPIPE has been added to switch repos update date changes email notifications
• IMPROVE: Possibility to define email sending timeout (default set to 15 secs)

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Fixed "SyntaxError: f-string: unmatched (" issue in older Python versions
• BUGFIX: Fixed "SyntaxError: f-string expression part cannot include a backslash" issue in older Python versions
• BUGFIX: Missing \t character added when displaying forked repositories

v1.2

Features and Improvements:

• NEW: Feature allowing to track changes of user's public repos like new stargazers, forks, changed description etc.; it is disabled by default, you can enable it via -j / --track_repos_changes command line argument
• IMPROVE: CSV file format changed slightly to accommodate new features
• IMPROVE: Rewritten date/time related functions to automatically detect it time object is timestamp (int / float) or datetime
• IMPROVE: Info about output log file name in the start screen

v1.1

Features and Improvements:

• IMPROVE: Improvements for running the code in Python under Windows
• NEW: Automatic detection of local timezone if you set LOCAL_TIMEZONE variable to 'Auto' (it is default now); requires tzlocal pip module
• IMPROVE: Information about time zone is displayed in the start screen now
• IMPROVE: Event dates are displayed differently now, it also includes date of the previous event
• IMPROVE: Better checking for wrong command line arguments
• IMPROVE: pep8 style convention corrections

v1.0

Initial github_monitor v1.0 release. Features:

• Real-time monitoring of Github users activities & profile changes:
  • new events like new pushes, PRs, issues, forks, releases etc.
  • added/removed public repositories
  • added/removed starred repositories
  • added/removed followings and followers
  • changed user name, email, location, company, bio, blog URL
  • detection of account changes
• Email notifications for different events (new events, changed followings, followers, repos, user name, email, location, company, bio, blog URL, errors)
• Saving all user activities with timestamps to the CSV file
• Clickable Github URLs printed in the console & included in email notifications (repos, PRs, commits, issues, releases etc.)
• Possibility to control the running copy of the script via signals

RELEASE NOTES:

Features and Improvements:

• NEW: Possibility to define GITHUB_TOKEN via command line argument (-t / --github_token)"
• NEW: Possibility to limit the type of events to monitor via EVENTS_TO_MONITOR variable (if you use 'ALL' then all events are monitored)
• NEW: Showing the latest event for the user after the tool is started
• NEW: Added support for detecting changes in user's blog URL
• NEW: Added support for detecting account changes
• IMPROVE: Email sending function send_email() has been rewritten to detect invalid SMTP settings
• IMPROVE: Strings have been converted to f-strings for better code visibility
• IMPROVE: Info about CSV file name in the start screen
• IMPROVE: In case of getting an exception in main loop we will send the error email notification only once (until the issue is resolved)

Bug fixes:

• BUGFIX: Fixed the crash of the tool if the user have not generated any events yet (for example new accounts)
• BUGFIX: Fixed the issue of duplicated events showing up as it turned out event IDs are not always returned as increasing sequentially (we assumed earlier that new event ID value is always greater than the old one)