Auto-cpufreq, a free and open-source automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux, has launched its latest version, 2.6.
Haven’t you heard of it? It’s a great piece of software that dynamically adjusts the CPU governor and frequency settings to balance power consumption, performance, and thermal management based on the system’s current workload and power state.
This release’s highlights include:
- Text-user-interface (TUI) system monitor. The command-line monitor now offers an ncurses-style dashboard that surfaces real-time CPU clocks, temperatures, and governor states. In effect, you get a top-like snapshot of your power environment without firing up the full GUI.
- Boot-time Bluetooth toggle. At long last, users can instruct Auto-cpufreq to switch Bluetooth on or off automatically during boot. That might sound mundane, yet for anyone who travels with a power-hungry wireless mouse or keeps Bluetooth disabled for security reasons, having the daemon handle the toggle is a real quality-of-life win.
- Enhanced SUSE installer. The bundled installer script has been refreshed to recognize recent SUSE releases, trimming manual steps for openSUSE users.
On the housekeeping front, auto-cpufreq 2.6 squashes a raft of longstanding annoyances. A pesky race condition that sometimes prevented the GTK front-end from launching has been eliminated, so those “nothing happens” moments should finally disappear.
Moreover, NixOS users benefit from several flake tweaks that fail gracefully when power-profiles-daemon is present and patch earlier typo-induced breakages, keeping declarative setups in step with upstream.
Rounding things out, Lenovo Ideapad owners will appreciate that the battery threshold logic now reads manufacturer firmware values, delivering more accurate charge-limit behavior without manual tinkering.
For more information, refer to the release changelog.
Ubuntu users can install auto-cpufreq through the Snap Store. For those on Arch, it’s available in the AUR. Users of other Linux distros can easily compile it from the source code by following the instructions on auto-cpufreq’s GitHub page.
