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.

TLP 1.5.0

Features:

Battery Care

• Sony laptops: stop threshold 50/80/100% aka "battery care limiter"
• ThinkPads:
  • Use new sysfs attribute charge_behaviour for recalibration - in preparation for kernel patches not yet merged into the mainline kernel; this will make the external kernel module acpi_call obsolete
  • Support T400 running Coreboot via natacpi

Radio Devices

• Support for switching NFC devices (new command nfc on|off)

See the full changelog for bugfixes.

TLP 1.5.0-beta.1

Beta Release

Features:

Battery Care

• Sony laptops: stop threshold 50/80/100% aka "battery care limiter"
• ThinkPads:
  • Use new sysfs attribute charge_behaviour for recalibration - in preparation for kernel patches not yet merged into the mainline kernel; this will make the external kernel module acpi_call obsolete
  • Support T400 running Coreboot via natacpi

Radio Devices

• Support for switching NFC devices (new command nfc on|off)

See the full changelog for bugfixes.

Available packages are listed on the download page.

TLP 1.4.0

Feature Highlights:

Audio

• SOUND_POWER_SAVE_ON_AC: change default to enabled (Issue #495)

Battery

• "Battery Features" renamed to "Battery Care"
• Introduce plugins to support Battery Care for non-ThinkPads
  • ASUS laptops: stop threshold
  • Huawei MateBooks: start and stop threshold
  • LG Gram laptops: stop threshold at 80% aka "battery care limit"
  • Lenovo laptops: stop threshold at 60% aka "battery conservation mode"
  • Samsung laptops: stop threshold at 80% aka "battery life extender"
  • tlp-stat -b: show plugin, supported features, driver usage and related kernel module(s)
• ThinkPads
  • Allow deactivation of the start threshold (START_CHARGE_THRESH_BATx=0)

Configuration

• tlp-stat --cdiff: show configuration differing from defaults
• PARAMETER+="add values": append values to a parameter already defined as intrinsic default or in a previously read file (Issue #457)
• TLP_WARN_LEVEL: warn about invalid settings, configurable for background tasks and command line

Disks

• AHCI_RUNTIME_PM_ON_AC/BAT
  • No longer experimental i.e. now enabled by default
  • Works only on disks defined in DISK_DEVICES
  • Works on NVMe (new), SATA/ATA and plugged in USB (new) disks
  • Works on SATA ports
• DISK_APM_CLASS_DENYLIST: exclude disk classes from APM, i.e. you may now activate it for USB and IEEE1394 drives (Issue #523)
• DISK_APM_LEVEL_ON_AC/BAT, DISK_SPINDOWN_TIMEOUT_ON_AC, DISK_IOSCHED: now also work when plugging in USB disks

Graphics

• Add support for amdgpu (Issue #498)
• Improve powerdown of unused GPUs with drivers amdgpu, nouveau, nvidia and without driver (Issues #488, #495, #498)

Operation Mode AC/BAT

• Speed up system shutdown/suspend by not applying AC settings anymore
• TLP_PS_IGNORE: add USB; allow to ignore multiple power supply classes

PCI(e) devices

• RUNTIME_PM_ENABLE/DISABLE: permanently enable/disable runtime PM for PCI(e) devices based on address (independent of the power source)

Platform

• PLATFORM_PROFILE_ON_AC/BAT: select platform profile to control system operating characteristics around power/performance levels, thermal and fan speed

Processor

• CPU_HWP_DYN_BOOST_ON_AC/BAT: Intel CPU HWP dynamic boost (Issue #468)
• tlp-stat -p: cpu1..cpuN omitted for clarity, use -v to show all

USB

• USB_EXCLUDE_AUDIO: exclude audio devices from autosuspend (Issue #556)

See the full changelog for remaining features and bugfixes.

TLP 1.4.0-beta.2

Beta release

Bugfixes:

Battery

• Huawei: use legacy interface 'charge_control_thresholds' for reliability
• LG: fix battery and battery_care_limit detection (Issue #568)
• ThinkPad: fix enforcement via NATACPI_ENABLE, TPAPCI_ENABLE

Operation Mode AC/BAT

• Issue #573: power mode not updating when switching from AC to battery

Platform

• tlp-stat -p: show state of ThinkPad lapmode

Processor

• Issue #570: no_turbo=1 decreases scaling_max_freq on ThinkPad X1 Gen9
• tlp-stat -p: omit "EPB: unsupported" for AMD or non-intel_pstate CPUs