1 This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
3 1.4.?? ??th ??? 200?
4 Fix Debian bug #460097: check_http --max-age broken (Hilko Bengen)
5 Optimised pst3 for systems with large number of processes (Duncan Ferguson)
6 Updated Nagios::Plugin to 0.27
7 Fix Debian bug #479013: check_dig's -l is mandatory now (sf.net #1986306)
8 check_dig now returns CRITICAL instead of WARNING when no answer section is found
9 check_procs now captures stderr in external command and adds to plugin output
11 1.4.12 27th May 2008
12 Added ./check_nt -v INSTANCES to count number of instances (Alessandro Ren)
13 New check_icmp -s option to specify the source IP address
14 check_dns now sorts addresses for testing results for more than one returned IP (Matthias Urlichs)
15 Fix segfault in check_ntp_time and (deprecated) check_ntp (Bug #1862300)
16 check_disk should now work with large file systems (2TB+) on all archs that supports it
17 Fixed check_disk disk usage calculation when using --group=NAME (related to bug #1348746)
18 Fix help text of check_ntp* (Bug #1880095)
19 Fix bugs and flaws in best offset server selection of check_ntp_time and (deprecated) check_ntp
20 check_ntp_peer now checks for the LI_ALARM flag
21 Sync to latest Gnulib (includes new floorf function)
22 check_pgsql now successfully builds with postgres lib v8.3 (Bug #1878972)
23 check_procs now accepts --ereg-argument-array for a regular expression match to the argument array
24 Reverted back to using pst3 for Solaris systems. Fixed issues re: -m64 needed to compile on 64bit systems
25 If applicable, Gettext linked dynamically instead of statically
26 check_dig can now pass arguments to dig by using -A/--dig-arguments (#1874041/#1889453)
27 check_ntp and check_ntp_peer now show proper jitter/stratum thresholds longopts in --help
28 check_dns now allow to repeat -a to match multiple possibly returned address (common with load balancers)
29 check_mysql and check_radius now try clearing password in processlist just like check_mysql_query
30 check_mysql and check_mysql_query now support sockets explicitely (-s, --socket)
31 negate now has the ability to replace the status text as well (-s, --substitute)
32 Added performance data to check_ping (Christian Schneemann)
33 Added support for --extra-opts in all C plugins (disabled by default, see configure --help)
34 Fixed passive option in check_by_ssh
35 On non-skipped stderr, check_by_ssh now returns UNKNOWN or worse (result from command) instead of always UNKNOWN.
36 Fix linking against OpenSSL where libdl is required
38 1.4.11 13th December 2007
39 Fixed check_http regression in 1.4.10 where following redirects to
40 relative URLs on virtual hosts failed if both "-H" and "-I" were used
41 Merged two new checks that deprecates check_ntp: check_ntp_peer and check_ntp_time.
42 You should read the --help output so see which one is suitable for you. check_ntp_peer
43 implement stratum thresholds support (feature request #1703823).
44 check_ntp now returns UNKNOWN instead of WARNING if jitter is unavailable (jitter=-1.000000)
45 as long as the thresholds range include -1. If no offset threshold is specified
46 and the offset is unavailable, will return UNKNOWN as well.
47 NOTE: If jitter thresholds are specified as integers it will return CRITICAL if jitter
48 is "-1" as the default range starts at 0. See Examples in --help output.
49 Fixed broken usage2 in check_snmp and check_cluster
50 check_cluster now accepts all valid characters in its thresholds ("-", "@", "~")
51 Fixed check_disk reporting OK if disk usage grows over 100% (bug #1348746).
52 The problem happens to be in Gnulib but a workaround have been implemented in check_disk.c
53 Fixed check_load argument handling when not passing triplets (bug #1831890)
54 Fixed buffer overflow in check_snmp (CVE-2007-5623)
55 Tinderbox builds now runs tests in a verbose mode
56 Updated Nagios::Plugin to 0.22
57 VPATH problem fixed for compiling plugins-root
59 1.4.10 28th September 2007
60 Fix check_http buffer overflow vulnerability when following HTTP redirects (CVE-2007-5198)
61 check_http now explicitly asks HTTP/1.1 servers to close the connection
62 after completion of the response
63 Check_ldaps' guessing which secure method to use (starttls vs. ssl on connect)
64 is now deprecated. See --help for further information.
65 Check_disk now calls stat() on all filesystems to check. (Old: only the ones selected using -p)
66 A meaningful error message (eg "Stale NFS Handle") is printed if stat fails.
67 New check_disk option -L: Only check local filesystems, but call stat() on remote ones, too.
68 Thus accessibility of remote filesystems can be checked without any threshold comparison.
69 Check_disk's --help now prints some examples for the new features introduced in 1.4.8
70 New check_disk -i/-I option to ignore pathes/partitions based on regular expressions
71 New check_disk -A option to select all filesystems explicitly
72 WARNING: check_disk's -E option must now be passed before -p or -r/-R arguments
73 Passing -E after -p or -r results in UNKNOWN state, now
74 This is needed due to the new ignore feature
75 Fix check_disk bug when mixing case sensitive and case insensitive regex arguments
76 New check_dhcp -u/--unicast option for emulating a DHCP relay in order
77 to check DHCP servers on remote networks
78 New check_dhcp -m/--mac option which allows for specifying the MAC
79 address to use in the DHCP request
80 The check_dhcp -r and -s options now accept host names, too
81 Fix possible check_icmp bus errors on some (non-x86/AMD64) platforms
82 Fix check_smtp's handling of multiple-packet server responses
83 WARNING: Fix for negate which may break existing commands:
84 - stop evaluating command line options through shell twice
85 - enforce a full path for the command to run
86 The "negate" utility can now remap custom states
87 Check_radius now supports radiusclient-ng
88 The (undocumented) positional parameter parsing which check_radius used
89 instead of getopt(3) if 8 arguments were given is no longer available
90 Check_by_ssh now supports multiline output
91 IPv6 support can now be disabled using ./configure --without-ipv6
92 Fix check_ntp now honor ntp flags
94 1.4.9 4th June 2006
95 Inclusion of contrib/check_cluster2 as check_cluster with some improvements
96 New/improved -E/--skip-stderr and -S/--skip-stdout options for check_by_ssh
97 check_snmp now supports Counter64
98 Fix compilation of check_ldap, check_radius and check_pgsql
99 check_load can optionally divide by number of cpus
100 Fix check_time returning wrong OK when time is before the epoch on some arch
101 Make check_http output more consistent
102 Fix possible check_http segfaults when following HTTP redirects
103 check_snmp don't warn anymore if something is printed on stderr
104 Fix check_tcp segfault when multiple expect strings are given
105 New option for check_tcp: -A/--all to test if all given expect strings match
107 1.4.8 11th April 2007
108 Respects --without-world-permissions for setuid plugins
109 check_disk extra options for regex matching of filesystems and grouping of filesystems
110 for collective thresholds
111 Better configure test for mysqlclient availability
112 Various check_ntp fixes
114 1.4.7 29th March 2007
115 check_procs uses /usr/ucb/ps if available - fixes pst3 problems on Solaris
116 Fixed MKINSTALLDIRS problem in po/
117 ./configure now detects if possible to compile check_mysql
118 Fixed broken HELO in check_smtp
119 check_icmp now allows to set a minimum number of hosts required for successs (-m)
120 check_icmp fix for *BSD when running for long time
121 check_ping times out 1 second quicker if host is unreachable
122 Root plugins installed with world executable
123 check_sybase from contrib now maintained in NagiosExchange
124 --with-nagios-user/group reinstated ./configure option
125 New --without-world-permissions ./configure option
127 1.4.6 5th February 2007
128 Reduced number of DNS lookups in check_ping and netutils.c for IPv6 configurations
129 Fixed compile problems with *BSD re: alloca.h
130 Fixed Solaris problems with check_swap (tested on Solaris 9)
131 Fixed check_swap for HP/UX where swapinfo command was incorrect
132 Fixed check_disk inode threshold checks, regressed at r1.4.4.
133 Fixed crit/warn for check_disk perf data
134 Fixed buffer overflow in check_procs
135 Fixed error handling for UNIX sockets in netutils.c
136 New -q and -o options for check_by_ssh which are handed over to ssh(1) as is
137 Synced with latest GNUlib
138 Fixed check_jabber always returns warning
140 1.4.5
141 Fixed bug in perl's is_hostname routine
143 1.4.4
144 New C based check_ntp. The perl version is now deprecated.
145 New check_apt plugin
146 Notice: plugins in contrib/ will start to be removed from this distribution.
147 Please check at http://www.nagiosexchange.org for contributed plugins
148 Major bug fixes to check_disk where values were incorrectly calculated and alerted on.
149 check_udp2 removed. check_udp is now linked to check_tcp.c
150 check_mailq now errors if the sub-program run returns non-zero return code. This would appear
151 as if mailqs were okay when the nagios user could not query the mail-queues
152 Compile problems with check_snmp fixed
154 1.4.3
155 Setuid plugins (check_dhcp, check_icmp) separated into plugins-root/. Run make install as root to install
156 SSL plugins work with gnutls as well as OpenSSL
157 check_mysql_query added to run arbitrary SQL commands, with threshold checking
158 libtool now required for development systems
159 Notice: check_udp (compiled from check_udp.c) will be deprecated in the next release.
160 check_udp2 should be used instead and will be renamed to check_udp
162 1.4.2
163 Fix for Redhat ES4 for check_dns and check_dig
165 1.4
166 IPv6 support in check_ping, check_by_ssh, check_http, check_ldap, check_smtp, check_tcp
167 Internationalisation support
168 Performance data added to most plugins
169 check_disk now using GNU coreutils code
170 New plugins - check_dhcp, check_icmp
171 contrib/check_citrix has been replaced by contrib/check_ica* (requires packet_utils.pm in libexec)
172 check_http --min changed to --pagesize, added max so min:max in check
173 check_vsz and check_rss deprecated - functionality moved into check_procs
174 check_swap % thresholds changed to measure amount free, instead of amount used
175 check_disk syntax changes for -p, -m/-M, defaults to MB instead of kB
176 check_procs -C expects no path for the command name