Community Edition Fork — Active Development & Localizations

[wolffcatskyy]

Hi @hholtmann,

First off, thank you for creating and maintaining smcFanControl over the years. It's been an essential utility for Mac users, and the 2,494 stars on this repo speak to how many people have relied on your work.

I'm reaching out because I've created a community fork at wolffcatskyy/smcFanControl to continue active development. I noticed this repo hasn't had a commit since August 2023 and there are 57 open issues, so I wanted to pick up where things left off rather than let the project go quiet.

What the Community Edition adds

• Localizations for 9 languages — Arabic, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish
• Community contributions already flowing in — the fork is actively accepting PRs and addressing issues
• Continued maintenance for newer macOS versions

My ask

Would you be open to adding a small note in this repo's README pointing users to the community fork? Something simple like:

Looking for active development? Check out the Community Edition.

This would help users who land here find a maintained version, especially those hitting open issues that may already be addressed in the fork.

Contributing back upstream

If you'd prefer, I'm also happy to contribute translations and fixes back to this repo directly via pull requests. Whatever works best for you — the goal is to keep smcFanControl alive and useful for the community.

Thanks again for all the work you've put into this project. It's genuinely appreciated.

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🤖 This issue was generated by Claude AI assisting the fork maintainer (@wolffcatskyy).