release-2025-06-26

📝 Release Notes – Sysmon9

📦 Version 1.0.0 (Initial Release)

🚀 What's New

• 🎉 First public release of Sysmon9, a sleek, animated desktop app to track your system performance in real time!
• 🧠 Built using Tkinter, psutil, GPUtil, and Matplotlib
• 📊 Live charts for CPU & RAM usage (60-sec history)
• 🌐 Real-time network upload/download speed display
• 🎮 GPU usage and temperature support (via GPUtil)
• 💾 Disk usage monitoring
• 🌓 Dark/Light mode toggle for the UI
• 🔄 Adjustable refresh rate (from 500 ms to 5 sec)
• 🔲 Glassmorphism Blur Effect for Windows users
• 🪟 Windows executable available (.exe) via PyInstaller
• 💡 Cross-platform support (macOS/Linux/Windows) — GPU & blur limited to Windows

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📁 Assets

• 🖼️ App icon: Retro-style 8-bit monitor
• 📸 UI screenshots included in /screenshots
• 📘 Full documentation and setup steps in README.md

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🛠️ Known Issues

• ❌ Blur effect does not work on macOS/Linux (Windows-only)
• ❌ Fan speed and extended hardware info limited unless 3rd-party tools like OpenHardwareMonitor are installed
• ❗ App size may be larger due to bundled dependencies like matplotlib

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🔧 Recommended Tools

• OpenHardwareMonitor – for additional sensor access (Windows only)
• UPX – to compress executable size
• pyinstaller – used to package the app for distribution

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🔮 Future Plans

• ✅ Add process viewer (like top)
• ✅ Battery status monitoring
• ✅ Export stats to .CSV
• ✅ Add alerts for high temperature/usage
• ✅ Minimize to system tray

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👨‍💻 Author

Built with ❤️ by [Your Name]
Feel free to fork, use, and contribute to the project!

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📜 License

MIT License – Free to use, modify, and share.