1.9.0

Feature highlights:

Power Profiles

• tlp-pd: the brand new TLP Profiles Daemon enables easy profile switching with a mouse click. tlp-pd replaces power-profiles-daemon by implementing the same D-Bus API that major Linux desktop environments like GNOME, KDE and Cinnamon already use.
• Introduce a third configuration profile for maximum power savings and make tlp-pd possible. The following are now available:
  • performance: parameters ending in _AC are used when AC power is connected or when the new command `tlp performance' is run.
  • balanced: parameters ending in _BAT are used when operating on battery power or when the new command tlp balanced is run.
  • power-saver: parameters ending in _SAV are used when the new command tlp power-saver is run. If there is no _SAV parameter available for a feature, the _BAT parameter will be used instead.
• tlpctl: new command to switch between power profiles, launch applications with specific profiles and control tlp-pd. It offers a subset of powerprofilesctl's commands supplemented by TLP-specific shortcuts.
• TLP_AUTO_SWITCH: controls the automatic switching of the power profile when the charger is connected or removed (even during a suspend). The Innovation (and new default) is a "smart" mode that can retain a manually selected profile when the power source changes.
• Use the TLP_DEFAULT_MODE profile when automatic switching is disabled.

Battery Care

• Tuxedo laptops supported by the clevo_acpi out-of-tree driver from tuxedo-drivers: start and stop threshold (Issue #803). Only models with a Clevo ODM chassis are compatible, check the tlp-stat -b output to find out if yours is.

General

• TLP_DISABLE_DEFAULTS: deactivate all intrinsic defaults so that only settings that have been explicitly activated are applied. Helpful to use only selected features.

Selected bugfixes:

Battery Care

• Chromebooks, Framework laptops: fix tlp discharge to a target percentage
• ThinkPads: fix X201, X220 discharge (Issue #793)

Radio Devices

• Ensure clean wifi/wwan switching by keeping the status of NetworkManager and TLP in sync

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Check out the full changelog for details and all the fixes!

For information regarding packaging, please refer to https://linrunner.de/tlp/developers/packaging.html.

1.9.0-beta.1

Beta Release

Please participate in the beta test! Instructions can be found at #832.

Feature highlights:

Power Profiles

• tlp-pd: TLP Profiles Daemon is a new addition to TLP. It implements the D-Bus interface, which lets desktop environments show a power profile switch. Together with TLP as the backend for applying these profiles, it replaces power-profiles-daemon.
• Introduce a third configuration profile for maximum power savings and make tlp-pd possible. The following are now available:
  • performance: parameters ending in _AC are used when AC power is connected or when the new command `tlp performance' is run.
  • balanced: parameters ending in _BAT are used when operating on battery power or when the new command tlp balanced is run.
  • power-saver: parameters ending in _SAV are used when the new command tlp power-saver is run. If there is no _SAV parameter available for a feature, the _BAT parameter will be used instead.
• tlpctl: new command to switch between power profiles, launch applications with specific profiles and control tlp-pd. It offers a subset of powerprofilesctl's commands supplemented by TLP-specific shortcuts.
• TLP_AUTO_SWITCH: controls the automatic switching of the power profile when the charger is connected or removed (even during a suspend). The Innovation (and new default) is a "smart" mode that can retain a manually selected profile when the power source changes.
• Use the TLP_DEFAULT_MODE profile when automatic switching is disabled.

Battery Care

• Tuxedo laptops supported by the clevo_acpi out-of-tree driver from tuxedo-drivers: start and stop threshold (Issue #803). Only models with a Clevo ODM chassis are compatible, check the tlp-stat -b output to find out if yours is.

General

• TLP_DISABLE_DEFAULTS: deactivate all intrinsic defaults so that only settings that have been explicitly activated are applied. Helpful to use only selected features.

Selected bugfixes:

Battery Care

• Chromebooks, Framework laptops: fix tlp discharge to a target percentage
• ThinkPads: fix X201, X220 discharge (Issue #793)

Radio Devices

• Ensure clean wifi/wwan switching by keeping the status of NetworkManager and TLP in sync

Check out the full changelog for details and all the fixes!

1.8.0

Feature highlights:

Battery Care

• Add charge threshold support for:
  • Chromebooks (modded with chrultrabook/coreboot custom UEFI firmware),
    also supporting recalibration and targeted discharge (example: tlp discharge 80)
  • Dell laptops
  • Framework laptops
• Improve support for:
  • ThinkPads: targeted discharge, for example tlp discharge 80

Selected bugfixes:

Radio Devices

• RDW: if LAN gets disconnected in suspend, ensure wifi activation upon resume

Check out the full changelog for details and all the fixes!

If you want to package the release, please have a look at the Dev's changelog.

1.8.0-beta.1

Beta Release

Feature highlights:

Battery Care

• Add charge threshold support for:
  • Chromebooks (modded with chrultrabook/coreboot custom UEFI firmware)
    - also supporting recalibration and targeted discharge (ex: tlp discharge 80)
  • Dell laptops
  • Framework laptops
• Improve support for:
  • ThinkPads: targeted discharge, for example tlp discharge 80

Selected bugfixes:

Radio Devices

• RDW: if LAN gets disconnected in suspend, ensure wifi activation upon resume

Check out the full changelog for details and all the fixes!

1.7.0

Feature highlights:

Battery Care

• Add charge threshold support for:
  • Apple Silicon Macbooks (M*)
  • MSI laptops
• Improve support for:
  • LG Gram laptops
  • ThinkPads with coreboot

Graphics

• Laptop screen power saving with adaptive backlight modulation (ABM)
  for AMD Vega or newer GPUs

General

• Highlight (colorize) error, warning, notice and success messages
• Add option --version to all TLP commands
• Add Fish shell command completion
• Improve busybox compatibility
• Improve ARM system support

Selected bugfixes:

Radio Devices

• Avoid error popups from NetworkManager when switching wifi/wwan

USB

• Prevent USB devices from being unrecognized or malfunctioning on battery

Check out the full changelog to see all the amazing new features and bug fixes!

1.7.0-beta.2

Beta Release

Features since 1.7.0-beta.1:

Processor

• tlp-stat -p: identify CPU model on ARM systems

Bugfixes since 1.7.0-beta.1:

Battery

• Thinkpads:
  • Fix premature abort of discharge/recalibrate for *20 models (Issue #759)
  • Fix ThinkPad X13s ARM power source detection (Issue #758)
  • tlp-stat -b: do not recommend kernel 5.17 for coreboot, as coreboot does not support discharge/recalibrate anyway

USB

• tlp-stat -u: filter out error messages

1.7.0-beta.1

Beta Release

Feature highlights:

Battery Care

• Add charge threshold support for:
  • Apple Silicon Macbooks (M*)
  • MSI laptops
• Improve support for:
  • LG Gram laptops
  • ThinkPads with coreboot

Graphics

• Laptop screen power saving with adaptive backlight modulation (ABM)
  for AMD Vega or newer GPUs

General

• Highlight (colorize) error, warning, notice and success messages
• Add option --version to all TLP commands
• Add Fish shell command completion
• Improve busybox compatibility

Selected bugfixes:

Radio Devices

• Avoid error popups from NetworkManager when switching wifi/wwan

USB

• Prevent USB devices from being unrecognized or malfunctioning on battery

Check out the full changelog to see all the amazing new features and bug fixes!

TLP 1.6.1

Bugfixes:

Battery

• LG Gram laptops: ensure lg-legacy is used for kernel <= 5.17 (Issue #708)

General:

• tlp-stat -s: report manual mode despite restrictive umask (Issue #702)

1.6.0

Feature Highlights:

Battery Care

• LG Gram laptops:
  • Use standard sysfs attribute charge_control_end_threshold provided by kernel 5.18 and newer
  • Restore threshold after hibernate
• System76 laptops with open source EC firmware: start and stop threshold
• ThinkPads: model detection adapted Libreboot (Issue #679)
• Toshiba/Dynabook laptops: stop threshold 80/100%

Configuration

• Allow comments (#) after parameters (Issue #598)
• tlp-stat -c/--cdiff: append a notice to deprecated or removed parameters

General

• MEM_SLEEP_ON_AC/BAT: change system suspend mode (deep, s2idle)
• Add ZSH command completion
• tlp-stat -s:
  • Silence warnings about unmasked systemd-rfkill.service/.socket when DEVICES_TO_ENABLE/DISABLE_ON_STARTUP is actually unconfigured
  • Show system suspend mode

PCI(e) devices

• RUNTIME_PM_ENABLE/DISABLE: apply even when RUNTIME_PM_ON_AC/BAT is disabled (Issue #614)

Processor

• CPU_DRIVER_OPMODE_ON_AC/BAT: set CPU scaling driver operation mode (active, guided, passive) for amd-pstate or intel_pstate driver
• CPU_ENERGY_PERF_POLICY_ON_AC/BAT: now supports AMD Zen 2 or newer CPUs (requires amd-pstate driver as of kernel 6.3)
• SCHED_POWERSAVE_ON_AC/BAT: removed (unavailable since kernel 3.5)
• tlp-stat -p:
  • Show amd-pstate operation mode, dynamic boost and performance attributes
  • Show min/max operating frequency the processor can run at (cpuinfo_min/max_freq) and limit imposed by the BIOS (bios_limit)

Radio Devices

• DEVICES_TO_ENABLE/DISABLE_ON_SHUTDOWN: deprecated - feature will be removed in TLP 1.7

USB

• USB_AUTOSUSPEND_DISABLE_ON_SHUTDOWN: deprecated - feature will be removed in TLP 1.7

Bugfixes:

Operation

• Deactivate AHCI_RUNTIME_PM and PCIE_ASPM before suspend to avoid resume freezes (Issue #593, #606, #698)

Processor

• Set governor although not listed in scaling_available_governors

See the full changelog for remaining features and bugfixes.

1.6.0-beta.1

Beta release

Features/Changes:

Battery Care

• LG Gram laptops:
  • Use standard sysfs attribute charge_control_end_threshold provided by kernel 5.18 and newer
  • Restore threshold after hibernate
• System76 laptops with open source EC firmware: start and stop threshold
• ThinkPads: model detection adapted for Libreboot (Issue #679)
• Toshiba/Dynabook laptops: stop threshold 80/100%

Configuration

• Allow comments (#) after parameters (Issue #598)
• tlp-stat -c/--cdiff: append a notice to deprecated or removed parameters

General

• MEM_SLEEP_ON_AC/BAT: change system suspend mode (deep, s2idle)
• Add ZSH command completion
• tlp-stat -s:
  • Silence warnings about unmasked systemd-rfkill.service/.socket when DEVICES_TO_ENABLE/DISABLE_ON_STARTUP is actually unconfigured
  • Show system suspend mode

PCI(e) devices

• RUNTIME_PM_ENABLE/DISABLE: apply even when RUNTIME_PM_ON_AC/BAT is disabled (Issue #614)

Processor

• CPU_DRIVER_OPMODE_ON_AC/BAT: set CPU scaling driver operation mode (active, guided, passive) for amd-pstate or intel_pstate driver
• CPU_ENERGY_PERF_POLICY_ON_AC/BAT: now supports AMD Zen 2 or newer CPUs (requires amd-pstate driver as of kernel 6.3)
• SCHED_POWERSAVE_ON_AC/BAT: removed (unavailable since kernel 3.5)
• tlp-stat -p:
  • Show amd-pstate operation mode, dynamic boost and performance attributes
  • Show min/max operating frequency the processor can run at (cpuinfo_min/max_freq) and limit imposed by the BIOS (bios_limit)

Radio Devices

• DEVICES_TO_ENABLE/DISABLE_ON_SHUTDOWN: deprecated - feature will be removed in TLP 1.7

USB

• USB_AUTOSUSPEND_DISABLE_ON_SHUTDOWN: deprecated - feature will be removed in TLP 1.7

Bugfixes:

Operation

• Deactivate AHCI_RUNTIME_PM and PCIE_ASPM before suspend to avoid resume freezes (Issue #593, #606, #698)

Processor

• Set governor although not listed in scaling_available_governors

See the full changelog for remaining features and bugfixes.