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