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1 2012-01-31, Version 1.6.2:
2 * Build system: Setting capabilities and the set-UID bit has been made
3 more fault-tolerant, so that it will work with Debian's fakeroot(1)
4 utility.
5 * src/liboping.c: Fixed a compiler warning about an non-static format
6 string. Thanks to Brian Edwards for pointing this out.
7 * src/liboping.c: Fixed compilation under Mac OS X and Solaris. Thanks
8 to Clayton O'Neill for his patch.
10 2011-03-06, Version 1.6.1:
11 * Build system: If "make install" is executed as root, the CAP_NET_RAW
12 capability is added to the binary (on Linux) or the set-UID bit is
13 set (other Unixes).
14 * src/oping.c: Fix compiler warnings which may abort the build. Thanks
15 to James Bromberger for reporting the problem.
16 * noping: Compatibility with ncurses 5.8 has been fixed. Thanks to
17 Gaetan Bisson for his patch.
19 2011-01-26, Version 1.6.0:
20 * liboping: Improve timing of received network packets using
21 SO_TIMESTAMP if available. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his patch.
23 2010-11-17, Version 1.5.1:
24 * oping, noping: Alias for the “Voice Admit” DSCP has been added.
25 * src/oping.c, src/liboping.c: Compiler warnings / errors have been
26 fixed. Thanks to James Bromberger for reporting one of them.
28 2010-10-27, Version 1.5.0:
29 * src/liboping.c: The possibility to set the QoS byte of outgoing IPv4
30 and IPv6 packets and read the byte from incoming packets has been
31 added. Thanks to Vladimir Melnikov for his patch.
32 * oping, noping: Add the ability to configure the QoS field on the
33 command line. If either the QoS field of outgoing or incoming
34 packets is non-standard, the QoS byte of incoming packets will be
35 printed.
36 * liboping: The library has been relicensed under the LGPL 2.1.
38 2010-06-13, Version 1.4.0:
39 * noping: A new front-end to liboping, using the ncurses library, has
40 been added. The new command line application displays ping
41 statistics online and highlights aberrant round-trip times.
43 2009-12-20, Version 1.3.4:
44 * src/liboping.c: When one file descriptor was in an error state, the
45 select(2) loop would run indefinitely. Error handling has been
46 improved so the loop ends gracefully now in this case.
47 * src/liboping.c: Drop privileges before reading files if supported by
48 the system. This way files are opened using the user's original
49 privileges when using the “-f” option.
50 * Net::Oping: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the Perl bindings.
51 Thanks to Fredrik Soderblom for his patch.
53 2009-09-29, Version 1.3.3:
54 * oping: Disable the “-f” option if the real and effective user IDs
55 don't match. If that is the case the program is probably running
56 SetUID and should not read foreign files. Unfortunately, dropping
57 privileges before reading the file is not possible, because they are
58 required for opening raw sockets.
60 Reading from STDIN using “-f -” is still possible.
62 Thanks to Steve Kemp for reporting this issue as Debian bug #548684.
64 2009-07-27, Version 1.3.2:
65 * src/oping.h: Remove `HAVE_*_H' macros for system headers. Those
66 macros should not be used in system wide installed header files.
67 Thanks to Sebastian for fixing this.
69 2009-07-20, Version 1.3.1
70 * src/liboping.c: Fix too eager argument validation that prevented the
71 library to work as documented. Thanks to Sebastian for catching this
72 bug.
74 2009-07-18, Version 1.3.0
75 * oping: Documentation and messages have been improved.
76 * oping: Support for the `-D' command line option has been added.
77 Using this new option, the outgoing network device can be set.
78 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
79 * src/liboping.c: The value of the `received TTL' information after
80 missing packets has been corrected.
81 * src/liboping.c: A bug when matching received packets to configured
82 hosts has been fixed. This regression was introduced after 1.0, we
83 believe. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for noticing and fixing this bug.
84 * src/liboping.c: Support for the `PING_OPT_DEVICE' option has been
85 added. This option can be used to set the outgoing network device.
86 Thanks to Sebastian for his patch.
88 2009-07-15, Version 1.2.0
89 * `oping': Implement the `-f' command line option to read hostnames
90 from a file (or STDIN).
91 * src/liboping.c: No longer export `sstrerror'.
93 2009-04-05, Version 1.1.2
94 * liboping.c: A NULL-pointer dereference has been fixed in the IPv4
95 code. This led to a segmentation fault when an ICMPv4 paket could
96 not be associated with any host. This usually happened when one or
97 more hosts were unreachable for some time. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for
98 discovering the problem and finding a way to reproduce it.
100 2009-03-23, Version 1.1.1
101 * liboping.c: Use libxnet when available. The `normal' version of
102 `recvmsg' does not provide the `auxiliary data' on some or all
103 versions of Solaris.
105 2009-03-15, Version 1.1.0
106 * liboping.c: Eliminate the use of `strerror' and use `strerror_r'
107 instead, removing the (hopefully) last thread-unsafe function.
108 * liboping.c: Provide the TTL of received IP packets.
109 * oping.c: Allow setting of the TTL using the `-t' command line
110 option.
112 2009-02-17, Version 1.0.0
113 * oping.h: Provide the OPING_VERSION to easily determine the library's
114 version at compile time.
115 * liboping.c: Fixed an off-by-one error in `ping_iterator_get_info':
116 When determining the buffer size to hold the hostname, the function
117 would return one byte too little.
118 * liboping.c: Fix an incorrect assertion in `ping_timeval_add'. Thanks
119 to Alex Brooks for reporting the issue.
120 * liboping.c: Make sure `EAI_SYSTEM' is defined at compile time.
121 Although specified by POSIX, Cygwin apparently doesn't have it.
122 * liboping.c: Add compatibility code for AIX. Thanks to Doug
123 MacEachern for the patch.
124 * liboping.c: Store and possibly return the host name as provided by
125 the user.
126 * liboping.c: The number of timed out packets is now counted and can
127 be retrieved with `ping_iterator_get_info'.
128 * Perl bindings: The Net::Oping Perl package has been added to
129 bindings/ and is built along with liboping.
131 2007-03-27, Version 0.3.5
132 * liboping.c: Close the filedescriptor in `ping_free', not
133 `ping_host_remove'. Thanks to Esteban Sanchez for submitting this
134 patch.
135 * oping.h: Include <sys/types.h> so that `size_t' is defined. Thanks
136 to Alex Brooks for pointing this out.
137 * oping.h: Use `extern "C"' when being used with C++. Thanks to Alex
138 Brooks for pointing this out.
140 2006-12-01, Version 0.3.4
141 * Fixes a bug in `ping_host_remove': Due to an incorrect hostname
142 checking the wrong host would be removed.
144 2006-07-16, Version 0.3.3
145 * `sendto(2)' now catches `EHOSTUNREACH' and `ENETUNREACH' if they're
146 defined.
148 2006-07-13, Version 0.3.2
149 * `oping' now drops root privileges as soon as possible.
150 * `liboping' now contains an `soname' and a version.
152 2006-07-09, Version 0.3.1
153 * Removed `libltdl' from the distribution since it's not used.
154 * More nonsense has been removed from the build system. Thanks to
155 Sebastian Harl for pointing it out :)
157 2006-07-09, Version 0.3.0
158 * The ability to set the source address from which the packets
159 originate has been added to the library and the oping application.
161 2006-07-16, Version 0.2.3
162 * `sendto(2)' now catches `EHOSTUNREACH' and `ENETUNREACH' if they're
163 defined.
165 2006-06-05, Version 0.2.2
166 * The `oping' application didn't exit if no hosts could be resolved.
167 This release fixes it's behavior.
169 2006-06-01, Version 0.2.1
170 * Fix the behavior for non GNU-Linux systems. liboping tried to
171 `bind(2)' to the raw-socket it uses to send ICMP packets. Apparently
172 (decided by majority vote ;) this is not the right thing to do.
173 GNU/Linux never complained about it, but works find without the bind.
174 Other operating systems don't work at all with the bind.
175 * Build fixes for non-GNU/Linux platforms: Mac OS X doesn't define
176 `size_t' as `unsigned int' and therefore needs casting and FreeBSD
177 needs to have `sys/types.h' included before `netinet/*.h'
179 2006-05-29, Version 0.2.0
180 * It's now possible to set the data to be send to the remote host and
181 to get the data received from the host.
182 * The `oping' binary now calculates the standard deviation. Also, it
183 displays the number of byes that were received and other output
184 changes.
185 * Hosts are now returned in the same order as they were added by
186 `ping_host_add'. This is not guaranteed, but makes `oping' prettier.
188 2006-05-12, Version 0.1.1
189 * A bug in the library has been fixed: When the sequence got higher
190 than 2^16 the counter in the packets wrapped around, but the
191 internal counter didn't, causing the library to ignore all further
192 ICMP packets. This affected both, ICMPv4 and ICMPv6.
194 2006-05-08, Version 0.1.0
195 * Initial release.