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1 This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
3 1.4.9 4th June 2006
4 Inclusion of contrib/check_cluster2 as check_cluster with some improvements
5 New/improved -E/--skip-stderr and -S/--skip-stdout options for check_by_ssh
6 check_snmp now supports Counter64
7 Fix compilation of check_ldap, check_radius and check_pgsql
8 check_load can optionally divide by number of cpus
9 Fix check_time returning wrong OK when time is before the epoch on some arch
10 Make check_http output more consistent
11 Fix possible check_http segfaults when following HTTP redirects
12 check_snmp don't warn anymore if something is printed on stderr
13 Fix check_tcp segfault when multiple expect strings are given
14 New option for check_tcp: -A/--all to test if all given expect strings match
16 1.4.8 11th April 2007
17 Respects --without-world-permissions for setuid plugins
18 check_disk extra options for regex matching of filesystems and grouping of filesystems
19 for collective thresholds
20 Better configure test for mysqlclient availability
21 Various check_ntp fixes
23 1.4.7 29th March 2007
24 check_procs uses /usr/ucb/ps if available - fixes pst3 problems on Solaris
25 Fixed MKINSTALLDIRS problem in po/
26 ./configure now detects if possible to compile check_mysql
27 Fixed broken HELO in check_smtp
28 check_icmp now allows to set a minimum number of hosts required for successs (-m)
29 check_icmp fix for *BSD when running for long time
30 check_ping times out 1 second quicker if host is unreachable
31 Root plugins installed with world executable
32 check_sybase from contrib now maintained in NagiosExchange
33 --with-nagios-user/group reinstated ./configure option
34 New --without-world-permissions ./configure option
36 1.4.6 5th February 2007
37 Reduced number of DNS lookups in check_ping and netutils.c for IPv6 configurations
38 Fixed compile problems with *BSD re: alloca.h
39 Fixed Solaris problems with check_swap (tested on Solaris 9)
40 Fixed check_swap for HP/UX where swapinfo command was incorrect
41 Fixed check_disk inode threshold checks, regressed at r1.4.4.
42 Fixed crit/warn for check_disk perf data
43 Fixed buffer overflow in check_procs
44 Fixed error handling for UNIX sockets in netutils.c
45 New -q and -o options for check_by_ssh which are handed over to ssh(1) as is
46 Synced with latest GNUlib
47 Fixed check_jabber always returns warning
49 1.4.5
50 Fixed bug in perl's is_hostname routine
52 1.4.4
53 New C based check_ntp. The perl version is now deprecated.
54 New check_apt plugin
55 Notice: plugins in contrib/ will start to be removed from this distribution.
56 Please check at http://www.nagiosexchange.org for contributed plugins
57 Major bug fixes to check_disk where values were incorrectly calculated and alerted on.
58 check_udp2 removed. check_udp is now linked to check_tcp.c
59 check_mailq now errors if the sub-program run returns non-zero return code. This would appear
60 as if mailqs were okay when the nagios user could not query the mail-queues
61 Compile problems with check_snmp fixed
63 1.4.3
64 Setuid plugins (check_dhcp, check_icmp) separated into plugins-root/. Run make install as root to install
65 SSL plugins work with gnutls as well as OpenSSL
66 check_mysql_query added to run arbitrary SQL commands, with threshold checking
67 libtool now required for development systems
68 Notice: check_udp (compiled from check_udp.c) will be deprecated in the next release.
69 check_udp2 should be used instead and will be renamed to check_udp
71 1.4.2
72 Fix for Redhat ES4 for check_dns and check_dig
74 1.4
75 IPv6 support in check_ping, check_by_ssh, check_http, check_ldap, check_smtp, check_tcp
76 Internationalisation support
77 Performance data added to most plugins
78 check_disk now using GNU coreutils code
79 New plugins - check_dhcp, check_icmp
80 contrib/check_citrix has been replaced by contrib/check_ica* (requires packet_utils.pm in libexec)
81 check_http --min changed to --pagesize, added max so min:max in check
82 check_vsz and check_rss deprecated - functionality moved into check_procs
83 check_swap % thresholds changed to measure amount free, instead of amount used
84 check_disk syntax changes for -p, -m/-M, defaults to MB instead of kB
85 check_procs -C expects no path for the command name