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1 This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
3 1.4.12 or 1.5 ??
4 Added ./check_nt -v INSTANCES to count number of instances (Alessandro Ren)
5 New check_icmp -s option to specify the source IP address
6 check_dns now sorts addresses for testing results for more than one returned IP (Matthias Urlichs)
7 Fix segfault in check_ntp_time and (deprecated) check_ntp (Bug #1862300)
8 check_disk should now work with large file systems (2TB+) on all archs that supports it
9 Fixed check_disk disk usage calculation when using --group=NAME (related to bug #1348746)
10 Fix help text of check_ntp* (Bug #1880095)
11 Fix bugs and flaws in best offset server selection of check_ntp_time and (deprecated) check_ntp
13 1.4.11 13th December 2007
14 Fixed check_http regression in 1.4.10 where following redirects to
15 relative URLs on virtual hosts failed if both "-H" and "-I" were used
16 Merged two new checks that deprecates check_ntp: check_ntp_peer and check_ntp_time.
17 You should read the --help output so see which one is suitable for you. check_ntp_peer
18 implement stratum thresholds support (feature request #1703823).
19 check_ntp now returns UNKNOWN instead of WARNING if jitter is unavailable (jitter=-1.000000)
20 as long as the thresholds range include -1. If no offset threshold is specified
21 and the offset is unavailable, will return UNKNOWN as well.
22 NOTE: If jitter thresholds are specified as integers it will return CRITICAL if jitter
23 is "-1" as the default range starts at 0. See Examples in --help output.
24 Fixed broken usage2 in check_snmp and check_cluster
25 check_cluster now accepts all valid characters in its thresholds ("-", "@", "~")
26 Fixed check_disk reporting OK if disk usage grows over 100% (bug #1348746).
27 The problem happens to be in Gnulib but a workaround have been implemented in check_disk.c
28 Fixed check_load argument handling when not passing triplets (bug #1831890)
29 Fixed buffer overflow in check_snmp (CVE-2007-5623)
30 Tinderbox builds now runs tests in a verbose mode
31 Updated Nagios::Plugin to 0.22
32 VPATH problem fixed for compiling plugins-root
34 1.4.10 28th September 2007
35 Fix check_http buffer overflow vulnerability when following HTTP redirects
36 check_http now explicitly asks HTTP/1.1 servers to close the connection
37 after completion of the response
38 Check_ldaps' guessing which secure method to use (starttls vs. ssl on connect)
39 is now deprecated. See --help for further information.
40 Check_disk now calls stat() on all filesystems to check. (Old: only the ones selected using -p)
41 A meaningful error message (eg "Stale NFS Handle") is printed if stat fails.
42 New check_disk option -L: Only check local filesystems, but call stat() on remote ones, too.
43 Thus accessibility of remote filesystems can be checked without any threshold comparison.
44 Check_disk's --help now prints some examples for the new features introduced in 1.4.8
45 New check_disk -i/-I option to ignore pathes/partitions based on regular expressions
46 New check_disk -A option to select all filesystems explicitly
47 WARNING: check_disk's -E option must now be passed before -p or -r/-R arguments
48 Passing -E after -p or -r results in UNKNOWN state, now
49 This is needed due to the new ignore feature
50 Fix check_disk bug when mixing case sensitive and case insensitive regex arguments
51 New check_dhcp -u/--unicast option for emulating a DHCP relay in order
52 to check DHCP servers on remote networks
53 New check_dhcp -m/--mac option which allows for specifying the MAC
54 address to use in the DHCP request
55 The check_dhcp -r and -s options now accept host names, too
56 Fix possible check_icmp bus errors on some (non-x86/AMD64) platforms
57 Fix check_smtp's handling of multiple-packet server responses
58 WARNING: Fix for negate which may break existing commands:
59 - stop evaluating command line options through shell twice
60 - enforce a full path for the command to run
61 The "negate" utility can now remap custom states
62 Check_radius now supports radiusclient-ng
63 The (undocumented) positional parameter parsing which check_radius used
64 instead of getopt(3) if 8 arguments were given is no longer available
65 Check_by_ssh now supports multiline output
66 IPv6 support can now be disabled using ./configure --without-ipv6
67 Fix check_ntp now honor ntp flags
69 1.4.9 4th June 2006
70 Inclusion of contrib/check_cluster2 as check_cluster with some improvements
71 New/improved -E/--skip-stderr and -S/--skip-stdout options for check_by_ssh
72 check_snmp now supports Counter64
73 Fix compilation of check_ldap, check_radius and check_pgsql
74 check_load can optionally divide by number of cpus
75 Fix check_time returning wrong OK when time is before the epoch on some arch
76 Make check_http output more consistent
77 Fix possible check_http segfaults when following HTTP redirects
78 check_snmp don't warn anymore if something is printed on stderr
79 Fix check_tcp segfault when multiple expect strings are given
80 New option for check_tcp: -A/--all to test if all given expect strings match
82 1.4.8 11th April 2007
83 Respects --without-world-permissions for setuid plugins
84 check_disk extra options for regex matching of filesystems and grouping of filesystems
85 for collective thresholds
86 Better configure test for mysqlclient availability
87 Various check_ntp fixes
89 1.4.7 29th March 2007
90 check_procs uses /usr/ucb/ps if available - fixes pst3 problems on Solaris
91 Fixed MKINSTALLDIRS problem in po/
92 ./configure now detects if possible to compile check_mysql
93 Fixed broken HELO in check_smtp
94 check_icmp now allows to set a minimum number of hosts required for successs (-m)
95 check_icmp fix for *BSD when running for long time
96 check_ping times out 1 second quicker if host is unreachable
97 Root plugins installed with world executable
98 check_sybase from contrib now maintained in NagiosExchange
99 --with-nagios-user/group reinstated ./configure option
100 New --without-world-permissions ./configure option
102 1.4.6 5th February 2007
103 Reduced number of DNS lookups in check_ping and netutils.c for IPv6 configurations
104 Fixed compile problems with *BSD re: alloca.h
105 Fixed Solaris problems with check_swap (tested on Solaris 9)
106 Fixed check_swap for HP/UX where swapinfo command was incorrect
107 Fixed check_disk inode threshold checks, regressed at r1.4.4.
108 Fixed crit/warn for check_disk perf data
109 Fixed buffer overflow in check_procs
110 Fixed error handling for UNIX sockets in netutils.c
111 New -q and -o options for check_by_ssh which are handed over to ssh(1) as is
112 Synced with latest GNUlib
113 Fixed check_jabber always returns warning
115 1.4.5
116 Fixed bug in perl's is_hostname routine
118 1.4.4
119 New C based check_ntp. The perl version is now deprecated.
120 New check_apt plugin
121 Notice: plugins in contrib/ will start to be removed from this distribution.
122 Please check at http://www.nagiosexchange.org for contributed plugins
123 Major bug fixes to check_disk where values were incorrectly calculated and alerted on.
124 check_udp2 removed. check_udp is now linked to check_tcp.c
125 check_mailq now errors if the sub-program run returns non-zero return code. This would appear
126 as if mailqs were okay when the nagios user could not query the mail-queues
127 Compile problems with check_snmp fixed
129 1.4.3
130 Setuid plugins (check_dhcp, check_icmp) separated into plugins-root/. Run make install as root to install
131 SSL plugins work with gnutls as well as OpenSSL
132 check_mysql_query added to run arbitrary SQL commands, with threshold checking
133 libtool now required for development systems
134 Notice: check_udp (compiled from check_udp.c) will be deprecated in the next release.
135 check_udp2 should be used instead and will be renamed to check_udp
137 1.4.2
138 Fix for Redhat ES4 for check_dns and check_dig
140 1.4
141 IPv6 support in check_ping, check_by_ssh, check_http, check_ldap, check_smtp, check_tcp
142 Internationalisation support
143 Performance data added to most plugins
144 check_disk now using GNU coreutils code
145 New plugins - check_dhcp, check_icmp
146 contrib/check_citrix has been replaced by contrib/check_ica* (requires packet_utils.pm in libexec)
147 check_http --min changed to --pagesize, added max so min:max in check
148 check_vsz and check_rss deprecated - functionality moved into check_procs
149 check_swap % thresholds changed to measure amount free, instead of amount used
150 check_disk syntax changes for -p, -m/-M, defaults to MB instead of kB
151 check_procs -C expects no path for the command name