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This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
-1.4.12 or 1.5 ??
+1.4.14 ...
+ check_users thresholds were not working excatly as documented (>= rather than >)
+ Updated tinderbox_build script to point to new tinderbox server
+ check_ifoperstatus -n flag now works as expected (sf.net #1569488)
+ check_ifoperstatus now supports ifType based lookup for ifIndex
+ check_ups now sends a LOGOUT string (debian bug #387001)
+ Extra-opts (C plugins) now allows both '#' and ';' for comments (like N::P)
+ Extra-opts (C plugins) does not allow trailing comments anymore (like N::P)
+
+1.4.13 25th Sept 2008
+ Fix Debian bug #460097: check_http --max-age broken (Hilko Bengen)
+ Optimised pst3 for systems with large number of processes (Duncan Ferguson)
+ Updated Nagios::Plugin to 0.27
+ Fix Debian bug #479013: check_dig's -l is mandatory now (sf.net #1986306)
+ check_dig now returns CRITICAL instead of WARNING when no answer section is found
+ check_procs now captures stderr in external command and adds to plugin output
+ check_snmp now only prints perfdata for non numeric values (#1867716)
+ check_icmp now supports packet size modification
+ check_http -e now accepts a comma-delimited list of expected status codes (Sven Nierlein)
+ libtap now included with this distribution for easier testing. Run ./configure with --enable-libtap
+ check_ntp_peer/check_ntp_time used to show port in --help but ignored the argument - now implemented
+ Fix possible segfault in check_ntp_peer with deliberately invalid packets
+
+1.4.12 27th May 2008
Added ./check_nt -v INSTANCES to count number of instances (Alessandro Ren)
New check_icmp -s option to specify the source IP address
check_dns now sorts addresses for testing results for more than one returned IP (Matthias Urlichs)
check_ntp_peer now checks for the LI_ALARM flag
Sync to latest Gnulib (includes new floorf function)
check_pgsql now successfully builds with postgres lib v8.3 (Bug #1878972)
+ check_procs now accepts --ereg-argument-array for a regular expression match to the argument array
+ Reverted back to using pst3 for Solaris systems. Fixed issues re: -m64 needed to compile on 64bit systems
+ If applicable, Gettext linked dynamically instead of statically
+ check_dig can now pass arguments to dig by using -A/--dig-arguments (#1874041/#1889453)
+ check_ntp and check_ntp_peer now show proper jitter/stratum thresholds longopts in --help
+ check_dns now allow to repeat -a to match multiple possibly returned address (common with load balancers)
+ check_mysql and check_radius now try clearing password in processlist just like check_mysql_query
+ check_mysql and check_mysql_query now support sockets explicitely (-s, --socket)
+ negate now has the ability to replace the status text as well (-s, --substitute)
+ Added performance data to check_ping (Christian Schneemann)
+ Added support for --extra-opts in all C plugins (disabled by default, see configure --help)
+ Fixed passive option in check_by_ssh
+ On non-skipped stderr, check_by_ssh now returns UNKNOWN or worse (result from command) instead of always UNKNOWN.
+ Fix linking against OpenSSL where libdl is required
1.4.11 13th December 2007
Fixed check_http regression in 1.4.10 where following redirects to