1 This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
3 1.4.10 or 1.5 ??
4 Fix check_http buffer overflow vulnerability when following HTTP redirects
5 Check_ldaps' guessing which secure method to use (starttls vs. ssl on connect)
6 is now deprecated. See --help for further information.
8 1.4.9 4th June 2006
9 Inclusion of contrib/check_cluster2 as check_cluster with some improvements
10 New/improved -E/--skip-stderr and -S/--skip-stdout options for check_by_ssh
11 check_snmp now supports Counter64
12 Fix compilation of check_ldap, check_radius and check_pgsql
13 check_load can optionally divide by number of cpus
14 Fix check_time returning wrong OK when time is before the epoch on some arch
15 Make check_http output more consistent
16 Fix possible check_http segfaults when following HTTP redirects
17 check_snmp don't warn anymore if something is printed on stderr
18 Fix check_tcp segfault when multiple expect strings are given
19 New option for check_tcp: -A/--all to test if all given expect strings match
21 1.4.8 11th April 2007
22 Respects --without-world-permissions for setuid plugins
23 check_disk extra options for regex matching of filesystems and grouping of filesystems
24 for collective thresholds
25 Better configure test for mysqlclient availability
26 Various check_ntp fixes
28 1.4.7 29th March 2007
29 check_procs uses /usr/ucb/ps if available - fixes pst3 problems on Solaris
30 Fixed MKINSTALLDIRS problem in po/
31 ./configure now detects if possible to compile check_mysql
32 Fixed broken HELO in check_smtp
33 check_icmp now allows to set a minimum number of hosts required for successs (-m)
34 check_icmp fix for *BSD when running for long time
35 check_ping times out 1 second quicker if host is unreachable
36 Root plugins installed with world executable
37 check_sybase from contrib now maintained in NagiosExchange
38 --with-nagios-user/group reinstated ./configure option
39 New --without-world-permissions ./configure option
41 1.4.6 5th February 2007
42 Reduced number of DNS lookups in check_ping and netutils.c for IPv6 configurations
43 Fixed compile problems with *BSD re: alloca.h
44 Fixed Solaris problems with check_swap (tested on Solaris 9)
45 Fixed check_swap for HP/UX where swapinfo command was incorrect
46 Fixed check_disk inode threshold checks, regressed at r1.4.4.
47 Fixed crit/warn for check_disk perf data
48 Fixed buffer overflow in check_procs
49 Fixed error handling for UNIX sockets in netutils.c
50 New -q and -o options for check_by_ssh which are handed over to ssh(1) as is
51 Synced with latest GNUlib
52 Fixed check_jabber always returns warning
54 1.4.5
55 Fixed bug in perl's is_hostname routine
57 1.4.4
58 New C based check_ntp. The perl version is now deprecated.
59 New check_apt plugin
60 Notice: plugins in contrib/ will start to be removed from this distribution.
61 Please check at http://www.nagiosexchange.org for contributed plugins
62 Major bug fixes to check_disk where values were incorrectly calculated and alerted on.
63 check_udp2 removed. check_udp is now linked to check_tcp.c
64 check_mailq now errors if the sub-program run returns non-zero return code. This would appear
65 as if mailqs were okay when the nagios user could not query the mail-queues
66 Compile problems with check_snmp fixed
68 1.4.3
69 Setuid plugins (check_dhcp, check_icmp) separated into plugins-root/. Run make install as root to install
70 SSL plugins work with gnutls as well as OpenSSL
71 check_mysql_query added to run arbitrary SQL commands, with threshold checking
72 libtool now required for development systems
73 Notice: check_udp (compiled from check_udp.c) will be deprecated in the next release.
74 check_udp2 should be used instead and will be renamed to check_udp
76 1.4.2
77 Fix for Redhat ES4 for check_dns and check_dig
79 1.4
80 IPv6 support in check_ping, check_by_ssh, check_http, check_ldap, check_smtp, check_tcp
81 Internationalisation support
82 Performance data added to most plugins
83 check_disk now using GNU coreutils code
84 New plugins - check_dhcp, check_icmp
85 contrib/check_citrix has been replaced by contrib/check_ica* (requires packet_utils.pm in libexec)
86 check_http --min changed to --pagesize, added max so min:max in check
87 check_vsz and check_rss deprecated - functionality moved into check_procs
88 check_swap % thresholds changed to measure amount free, instead of amount used
89 check_disk syntax changes for -p, -m/-M, defaults to MB instead of kB
90 check_procs -C expects no path for the command name