This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases. 1.4.10 or 1.5 ?? Fix check_http buffer overflow vulnerability when following HTTP redirects check_http now explicitly asks HTTP/1.1 servers to close the connection after completion of the response Check_ldaps' guessing which secure method to use (starttls vs. ssl on connect) is now deprecated. See --help for further information. Check_disk now calls stat() on all filesystems to check. (Old: only the ones selected using -p) A meaningful error message (eg "Stale NFS Handle") is printed if stat fails. Check_disk's --help now prints some examples for the new features introduced in 1.4.8 New check_dhcp -u/--unicast option for emulating a DHCP relay in order to check DHCP servers on remote networks New check_dhcp -m/--mac option which allows for specifying the MAC address to use in the DHCP request The check_dhcp -r and -s options now accept host names, too Fix possible check_icmp bus errors on some (non-x86/AMD64) platforms Fix check_smtp's handling of multiple-packet server responses WARNING: Fix for negate which may break existing commands: - stop evaluating command line options through shell twice - enforce a full path for the command to run The "negate" utility can now remap custom states New check_disk -i/-I option to ignore pathes/partitions based on regular expressions New check_disk -A option to select all filesystems explicitly WARNING: check_disk's -E option must now be passed before -p or -r/-R arguments Passing -E after -p or -r results in UNKNOWN state, now This is needed due to the new ignore feature Fix bug when mixing case sensitive and case insensitive regex arguments 1.4.9 4th June 2006 Inclusion of contrib/check_cluster2 as check_cluster with some improvements New/improved -E/--skip-stderr and -S/--skip-stdout options for check_by_ssh check_snmp now supports Counter64 Fix compilation of check_ldap, check_radius and check_pgsql check_load can optionally divide by number of cpus Fix check_time returning wrong OK when time is before the epoch on some arch Make check_http output more consistent Fix possible check_http segfaults when following HTTP redirects check_snmp don't warn anymore if something is printed on stderr Fix check_tcp segfault when multiple expect strings are given New option for check_tcp: -A/--all to test if all given expect strings match 1.4.8 11th April 2007 Respects --without-world-permissions for setuid plugins check_disk extra options for regex matching of filesystems and grouping of filesystems for collective thresholds Better configure test for mysqlclient availability Various check_ntp fixes 1.4.7 29th March 2007 check_procs uses /usr/ucb/ps if available - fixes pst3 problems on Solaris Fixed MKINSTALLDIRS problem in po/ ./configure now detects if possible to compile check_mysql Fixed broken HELO in check_smtp check_icmp now allows to set a minimum number of hosts required for successs (-m) check_icmp fix for *BSD when running for long time check_ping times out 1 second quicker if host is unreachable Root plugins installed with world executable check_sybase from contrib now maintained in NagiosExchange --with-nagios-user/group reinstated ./configure option New --without-world-permissions ./configure option 1.4.6 5th February 2007 Reduced number of DNS lookups in check_ping and netutils.c for IPv6 configurations Fixed compile problems with *BSD re: alloca.h Fixed Solaris problems with check_swap (tested on Solaris 9) Fixed check_swap for HP/UX where swapinfo command was incorrect Fixed check_disk inode threshold checks, regressed at r1.4.4. Fixed crit/warn for check_disk perf data Fixed buffer overflow in check_procs Fixed error handling for UNIX sockets in netutils.c New -q and -o options for check_by_ssh which are handed over to ssh(1) as is Synced with latest GNUlib Fixed check_jabber always returns warning 1.4.5 Fixed bug in perl's is_hostname routine 1.4.4 New C based check_ntp. The perl version is now deprecated. New check_apt plugin Notice: plugins in contrib/ will start to be removed from this distribution. Please check at http://www.nagiosexchange.org for contributed plugins Major bug fixes to check_disk where values were incorrectly calculated and alerted on. check_udp2 removed. check_udp is now linked to check_tcp.c check_mailq now errors if the sub-program run returns non-zero return code. This would appear as if mailqs were okay when the nagios user could not query the mail-queues Compile problems with check_snmp fixed 1.4.3 Setuid plugins (check_dhcp, check_icmp) separated into plugins-root/. Run make install as root to install SSL plugins work with gnutls as well as OpenSSL check_mysql_query added to run arbitrary SQL commands, with threshold checking libtool now required for development systems Notice: check_udp (compiled from check_udp.c) will be deprecated in the next release. check_udp2 should be used instead and will be renamed to check_udp 1.4.2 Fix for Redhat ES4 for check_dns and check_dig 1.4 IPv6 support in check_ping, check_by_ssh, check_http, check_ldap, check_smtp, check_tcp Internationalisation support Performance data added to most plugins check_disk now using GNU coreutils code New plugins - check_dhcp, check_icmp contrib/check_citrix has been replaced by contrib/check_ica* (requires packet_utils.pm in libexec) check_http --min changed to --pagesize, added max so min:max in check check_vsz and check_rss deprecated - functionality moved into check_procs check_swap % thresholds changed to measure amount free, instead of amount used check_disk syntax changes for -p, -m/-M, defaults to MB instead of kB check_procs -C expects no path for the command name