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