API v1 (gopkg.in/hpcloud/tail.v1)

April, 2016

Migrated to godep, as depman is not longer supported
Introduced golang vendoring feature
Fixed issue #57 related to reopen deleted file

July, 2015

Fix inotify watcher leak; remove Cleanup (#51)

API v0 (gopkg.in/hpcloud/tail.v0)

June, 2015

Don't return partial lines (PR #40)
Use stable version of fsnotify (#46)

July, 2014

Fix tail for Windows (PR #36)

May, 2014

Improved rate limiting using leaky bucket (PR #29)
Fix odd line splitting (PR #30)

Apr, 2014

LimitRate now discards read buffer (PR #28)
allow reading of longer lines if MaxLineSize is unset (PR #24)
updated deps.json to latest fsnotify (441bbc86b1)

Feb, 2014

added Config.Logger to suppress library logging

Nov, 2013

add Cleanup to remove leaky inotify watches (PR #20)

Aug, 2013

redesigned Location field (PR #12)
add tail.Tell (PR #14)

July, 2013

Rate limiting (PR #10)

May, 2013

Detect file deletions/renames in polling file watcher (PR #1)
Detect file truncation
Fix potential race condition when reopening the file (issue 5)
Fix potential blocking of tail.Stop (issue 4)
Fix uncleaned up ChangeEvents goroutines after calling tail.Stop
Support Follow=false

Feb, 2013

Initial open source release