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