1 2016-06-27, Version 1.9.0:
2 * liboping: The new "PING_OPT_MARK" option allows to mark packets,
3 which can be used for filtering and routing such packets on Linux.
4 * oping, noping: The new "-m" command line option allows to set a mark
5 on packets sent by the tool.
6 * oping, noping: The new "-O" command line option allows to write
7 measurements to an CSV file.
8 * oping, noping: The new "-w" command line option allows to specify
9 the timeout after which a packet/reply is considered "dropped".
11 2014-11-20, Version 1.8.0:
12 * oping, noping: Average and standard deviation have been removed from
13 the status output, which show median and 95th percentile instead.
14 The percentile can be chosen with the "-P" option.
15 * noping: The additional graph types "histogram" and "boxplot" have
16 been added, which can be selected with the "-g" option.
18 2014-09-25, Version 1.7.0:
19 * oping, noping: The new -Z option allows the exit status to indicate
20 the number of failing hosts. Thanks to Barak Pearlmutter for the
21 patch.
22 * noping: The ability to print a "prettyping" style graph has been
23 added. Thanks to Antoine Beaupré for his work!
24 * src/liboping.c: Build issues on Solaris have been fixed. Thanks
25 Scott Severtson for the fix!
26 * Build system: Creation and installation of a pkg-config file has
27 been added. Thanks to Barak Pearlmutter for the patch.
29 2012-01-31, Version 1.6.2:
30 * Build system: Setting capabilities and the set-UID bit has been made
31 more fault-tolerant, so that it will work with Debian's fakeroot(1)
32 utility.
33 * src/liboping.c: Fixed a compiler warning about an non-static format
34 string. Thanks to Brian Edwards for pointing this out.
35 * src/liboping.c: Fixed compilation under Mac OS X and Solaris. Thanks
36 to Clayton O'Neill for his patch.
38 2011-03-06, Version 1.6.1:
39 * Build system: If "make install" is executed as root, the CAP_NET_RAW
40 capability is added to the binary (on Linux) or the set-UID bit is
41 set (other Unixes).
42 * src/oping.c: Fix compiler warnings which may abort the build. Thanks
43 to James Bromberger for reporting the problem.
44 * noping: Compatibility with ncurses 5.8 has been fixed. Thanks to
45 Gaetan Bisson for his patch.
47 2011-01-26, Version 1.6.0:
48 * liboping: Improve timing of received network packets using
49 SO_TIMESTAMP if available. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his patch.
51 2010-11-17, Version 1.5.1:
52 * oping, noping: Alias for the “Voice Admit” DSCP has been added.
53 * src/oping.c, src/liboping.c: Compiler warnings / errors have been
54 fixed. Thanks to James Bromberger for reporting one of them.
56 2010-10-27, Version 1.5.0:
57 * src/liboping.c: The possibility to set the QoS byte of outgoing IPv4
58 and IPv6 packets and read the byte from incoming packets has been
59 added. Thanks to Vladimir Melnikov for his patch.
60 * oping, noping: Add the ability to configure the QoS field on the
61 command line. If either the QoS field of outgoing or incoming
62 packets is non-standard, the QoS byte of incoming packets will be
63 printed.
64 * liboping: The library has been relicensed under the LGPL 2.1.
66 2010-06-13, Version 1.4.0:
67 * noping: A new front-end to liboping, using the ncurses library, has
68 been added. The new command line application displays ping
69 statistics online and highlights aberrant round-trip times.
71 2009-12-20, Version 1.3.4:
72 * src/liboping.c: When one file descriptor was in an error state, the
73 select(2) loop would run indefinitely. Error handling has been
74 improved so the loop ends gracefully now in this case.
75 * src/liboping.c: Drop privileges before reading files if supported by
76 the system. This way files are opened using the user's original
77 privileges when using the “-f” option.
78 * Net::Oping: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the Perl bindings.
79 Thanks to Fredrik Soderblom for his patch.
81 2009-09-29, Version 1.3.3:
82 * oping: Disable the “-f” option if the real and effective user IDs
83 don't match. If that is the case the program is probably running
84 SetUID and should not read foreign files. Unfortunately, dropping
85 privileges before reading the file is not possible, because they are
86 required for opening raw sockets.
88 Reading from STDIN using “-f -” is still possible.
90 Thanks to Steve Kemp for reporting this issue as Debian bug #548684.
92 2009-07-27, Version 1.3.2:
93 * src/oping.h: Remove `HAVE_*_H' macros for system headers. Those
94 macros should not be used in system wide installed header files.
95 Thanks to Sebastian for fixing this.
97 2009-07-20, Version 1.3.1
98 * src/liboping.c: Fix too eager argument validation that prevented the
99 library to work as documented. Thanks to Sebastian for catching this
100 bug.
102 2009-07-18, Version 1.3.0
103 * oping: Documentation and messages have been improved.
104 * oping: Support for the `-D' command line option has been added.
105 Using this new option, the outgoing network device can be set.
106 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
107 * src/liboping.c: The value of the `received TTL' information after
108 missing packets has been corrected.
109 * src/liboping.c: A bug when matching received packets to configured
110 hosts has been fixed. This regression was introduced after 1.0, we
111 believe. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for noticing and fixing this bug.
112 * src/liboping.c: Support for the `PING_OPT_DEVICE' option has been
113 added. This option can be used to set the outgoing network device.
114 Thanks to Sebastian for his patch.
116 2009-07-15, Version 1.2.0
117 * `oping': Implement the `-f' command line option to read hostnames
118 from a file (or STDIN).
119 * src/liboping.c: No longer export `sstrerror'.
121 2009-04-05, Version 1.1.2
122 * liboping.c: A NULL-pointer dereference has been fixed in the IPv4
123 code. This led to a segmentation fault when an ICMPv4 paket could
124 not be associated with any host. This usually happened when one or
125 more hosts were unreachable for some time. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for
126 discovering the problem and finding a way to reproduce it.
128 2009-03-23, Version 1.1.1
129 * liboping.c: Use libxnet when available. The `normal' version of
130 `recvmsg' does not provide the `auxiliary data' on some or all
131 versions of Solaris.
133 2009-03-15, Version 1.1.0
134 * liboping.c: Eliminate the use of `strerror' and use `strerror_r'
135 instead, removing the (hopefully) last thread-unsafe function.
136 * liboping.c: Provide the TTL of received IP packets.
137 * oping.c: Allow setting of the TTL using the `-t' command line
138 option.
140 2009-02-17, Version 1.0.0
141 * oping.h: Provide the OPING_VERSION to easily determine the library's
142 version at compile time.
143 * liboping.c: Fixed an off-by-one error in `ping_iterator_get_info':
144 When determining the buffer size to hold the hostname, the function
145 would return one byte too little.
146 * liboping.c: Fix an incorrect assertion in `ping_timeval_add'. Thanks
147 to Alex Brooks for reporting the issue.
148 * liboping.c: Make sure `EAI_SYSTEM' is defined at compile time.
149 Although specified by POSIX, Cygwin apparently doesn't have it.
150 * liboping.c: Add compatibility code for AIX. Thanks to Doug
151 MacEachern for the patch.
152 * liboping.c: Store and possibly return the host name as provided by
153 the user.
154 * liboping.c: The number of timed out packets is now counted and can
155 be retrieved with `ping_iterator_get_info'.
156 * Perl bindings: The Net::Oping Perl package has been added to
157 bindings/ and is built along with liboping.
159 2007-03-27, Version 0.3.5
160 * liboping.c: Close the filedescriptor in `ping_free', not
161 `ping_host_remove'. Thanks to Esteban Sanchez for submitting this
162 patch.
163 * oping.h: Include <sys/types.h> so that `size_t' is defined. Thanks
164 to Alex Brooks for pointing this out.
165 * oping.h: Use `extern "C"' when being used with C++. Thanks to Alex
166 Brooks for pointing this out.
168 2006-12-01, Version 0.3.4
169 * Fixes a bug in `ping_host_remove': Due to an incorrect hostname
170 checking the wrong host would be removed.
172 2006-07-16, Version 0.3.3
173 * `sendto(2)' now catches `EHOSTUNREACH' and `ENETUNREACH' if they're
174 defined.
176 2006-07-13, Version 0.3.2
177 * `oping' now drops root privileges as soon as possible.
178 * `liboping' now contains an `soname' and a version.
180 2006-07-09, Version 0.3.1
181 * Removed `libltdl' from the distribution since it's not used.
182 * More nonsense has been removed from the build system. Thanks to
183 Sebastian Harl for pointing it out :)
185 2006-07-09, Version 0.3.0
186 * The ability to set the source address from which the packets
187 originate has been added to the library and the oping application.
189 2006-07-16, Version 0.2.3
190 * `sendto(2)' now catches `EHOSTUNREACH' and `ENETUNREACH' if they're
191 defined.
193 2006-06-05, Version 0.2.2
194 * The `oping' application didn't exit if no hosts could be resolved.
195 This release fixes it's behavior.
197 2006-06-01, Version 0.2.1
198 * Fix the behavior for non GNU-Linux systems. liboping tried to
199 `bind(2)' to the raw-socket it uses to send ICMP packets. Apparently
200 (decided by majority vote ;) this is not the right thing to do.
201 GNU/Linux never complained about it, but works find without the bind.
202 Other operating systems don't work at all with the bind.
203 * Build fixes for non-GNU/Linux platforms: Mac OS X doesn't define
204 `size_t' as `unsigned int' and therefore needs casting and FreeBSD
205 needs to have `sys/types.h' included before `netinet/*.h'
207 2006-05-29, Version 0.2.0
208 * It's now possible to set the data to be send to the remote host and
209 to get the data received from the host.
210 * The `oping' binary now calculates the standard deviation. Also, it
211 displays the number of byes that were received and other output
212 changes.
213 * Hosts are now returned in the same order as they were added by
214 `ping_host_add'. This is not guaranteed, but makes `oping' prettier.
216 2006-05-12, Version 0.1.1
217 * A bug in the library has been fixed: When the sequence got higher
218 than 2^16 the counter in the packets wrapped around, but the
219 internal counter didn't, causing the library to ignore all further
220 ICMP packets. This affected both, ICMPv4 and ICMPv6.
222 2006-05-08, Version 0.1.0
223 * Initial release.