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--- a/NEWS
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-New in 1.2.9:
-* Added support for multiplatform builds
+This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
+
+1.4.12 or 1.5 ??
+ 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)
+ Fix segfault in check_ntp_time and (deprecated) check_ntp (Bug #1862300)
+ check_disk should now work with large file systems (2TB+) on all archs that supports it
+ Fixed check_disk disk usage calculation when using --group=NAME (related to bug #1348746)
+ Fix help text of check_ntp* (Bug #1880095)
+ Fix bugs and flaws in best offset server selection of check_ntp_time and (deprecated) check_ntp
+ 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 dig by using -A/--dig-arguments (#1874041/#1889453)
+
+1.4.11 13th December 2007
+ Fixed check_http regression in 1.4.10 where following redirects to
+ relative URLs on virtual hosts failed if both "-H" and "-I" were used
+ Merged two new checks that deprecates check_ntp: check_ntp_peer and check_ntp_time.
+ You should read the --help output so see which one is suitable for you. check_ntp_peer
+ implement stratum thresholds support (feature request #1703823).
+ check_ntp now returns UNKNOWN instead of WARNING if jitter is unavailable (jitter=-1.000000)
+ as long as the thresholds range include -1. If no offset threshold is specified
+ and the offset is unavailable, will return UNKNOWN as well.
+ NOTE: If jitter thresholds are specified as integers it will return CRITICAL if jitter
+ is "-1" as the default range starts at 0. See Examples in --help output.
+ Fixed broken usage2 in check_snmp and check_cluster
+ check_cluster now accepts all valid characters in its thresholds ("-", "@", "~")
+ Fixed check_disk reporting OK if disk usage grows over 100% (bug #1348746).
+ The problem happens to be in Gnulib but a workaround have been implemented in check_disk.c
+ Fixed check_load argument handling when not passing triplets (bug #1831890)
+ Fixed buffer overflow in check_snmp (CVE-2007-5623)
+ Tinderbox builds now runs tests in a verbose mode
+ Updated Nagios::Plugin to 0.22
+ VPATH problem fixed for compiling plugins-root
+
+1.4.10 28th September 2007
+ Fix check_http buffer overflow vulnerability when following HTTP redirects (CVE-2007-5198)
+ check_http now explicitly asks HTTP/1.1 servers to close the connection
+ after completion of the response
+ Check_ldaps' guessing which secure method to use (starttls vs. ssl on connect)
+ is now deprecated. See --help for further information.
+ Check_disk now calls stat() on all filesystems to check. (Old: only the ones selected using -p)
+ A meaningful error message (eg "Stale NFS Handle") is printed if stat fails.
+ New check_disk option -L: Only check local filesystems, but call stat() on remote ones, too.
+ Thus accessibility of remote filesystems can be checked without any threshold comparison.
+ Check_disk's --help now prints some examples for the new features introduced in 1.4.8
+ New check_disk -i/-I option to ignore pathes/partitions based on regular expressions
+ New check_disk -A option to select all filesystems explicitly
+ WARNING: check_disk's -E option must now be passed before -p or -r/-R arguments
+ Passing -E after -p or -r results in UNKNOWN state, now
+ This is needed due to the new ignore feature
+ Fix check_disk bug when mixing case sensitive and case insensitive regex arguments
+ New check_dhcp -u/--unicast option for emulating a DHCP relay in order
+ to check DHCP servers on remote networks
+ New check_dhcp -m/--mac option which allows for specifying the MAC
+ address to use in the DHCP request
+ The check_dhcp -r and -s options now accept host names, too
+ Fix possible check_icmp bus errors on some (non-x86/AMD64) platforms
+ Fix check_smtp's handling of multiple-packet server responses
+ WARNING: Fix for negate which may break existing commands:
+ - stop evaluating command line options through shell twice
+ - enforce a full path for the command to run
+ The "negate" utility can now remap custom states
+ Check_radius now supports radiusclient-ng
+ The (undocumented) positional parameter parsing which check_radius used
+ instead of getopt(3) if 8 arguments were given is no longer available
+ Check_by_ssh now supports multiline output
+ IPv6 support can now be disabled using ./configure --without-ipv6
+ Fix check_ntp now honor ntp flags
+
+1.4.9 4th June 2006
+ Inclusion of contrib/check_cluster2 as check_cluster with some improvements
+ New/improved -E/--skip-stderr and -S/--skip-stdout options for check_by_ssh
+ check_snmp now supports Counter64
+ Fix compilation of check_ldap, check_radius and check_pgsql
+ check_load can optionally divide by number of cpus
+ Fix check_time returning wrong OK when time is before the epoch on some arch
+ Make check_http output more consistent
+ Fix possible check_http segfaults when following HTTP redirects
+ check_snmp don't warn anymore if something is printed on stderr
+ Fix check_tcp segfault when multiple expect strings are given
+ New option for check_tcp: -A/--all to test if all given expect strings match
+
+1.4.8 11th April 2007
+ Respects --without-world-permissions for setuid plugins
+ check_disk extra options for regex matching of filesystems and grouping of filesystems
+ for collective thresholds
+ Better configure test for mysqlclient availability
+ Various check_ntp fixes
+
+1.4.7 29th March 2007
+ check_procs uses /usr/ucb/ps if available - fixes pst3 problems on Solaris
+ Fixed MKINSTALLDIRS problem in po/
+ ./configure now detects if possible to compile check_mysql
+ Fixed broken HELO in check_smtp
+ check_icmp now allows to set a minimum number of hosts required for successs (-m)
+ check_icmp fix for *BSD when running for long time
+ check_ping times out 1 second quicker if host is unreachable
+ Root plugins installed with world executable
+ check_sybase from contrib now maintained in NagiosExchange
+ --with-nagios-user/group reinstated ./configure option
+ New --without-world-permissions ./configure option
+
+1.4.6 5th February 2007
+ Reduced number of DNS lookups in check_ping and netutils.c for IPv6 configurations
+ Fixed compile problems with *BSD re: alloca.h
+ Fixed Solaris problems with check_swap (tested on Solaris 9)
+ Fixed check_swap for HP/UX where swapinfo command was incorrect
+ Fixed check_disk inode threshold checks, regressed at r1.4.4.
+ Fixed crit/warn for check_disk perf data
+ Fixed buffer overflow in check_procs
+ Fixed error handling for UNIX sockets in netutils.c
+ New -q and -o options for check_by_ssh which are handed over to ssh(1) as is
+ Synced with latest GNUlib
+ Fixed check_jabber always returns warning
+
+1.4.5
+ Fixed bug in perl's is_hostname routine
+
+1.4.4
+ New C based check_ntp. The perl version is now deprecated.
+ New check_apt plugin
+ Notice: plugins in contrib/ will start to be removed from this distribution.
+ Please check at http://www.nagiosexchange.org for contributed plugins
+ Major bug fixes to check_disk where values were incorrectly calculated and alerted on.
+ check_udp2 removed. check_udp is now linked to check_tcp.c
+ check_mailq now errors if the sub-program run returns non-zero return code. This would appear
+ as if mailqs were okay when the nagios user could not query the mail-queues
+ Compile problems with check_snmp fixed
+
+1.4.3
+ Setuid plugins (check_dhcp, check_icmp) separated into plugins-root/. Run make install as root to install
+ SSL plugins work with gnutls as well as OpenSSL
+ check_mysql_query added to run arbitrary SQL commands, with threshold checking
+ libtool now required for development systems
+ Notice: check_udp (compiled from check_udp.c) will be deprecated in the next release.
+ check_udp2 should be used instead and will be renamed to check_udp
+
+1.4.2
+ Fix for Redhat ES4 for check_dns and check_dig
+
+1.4
+ IPv6 support in check_ping, check_by_ssh, check_http, check_ldap, check_smtp, check_tcp
+ Internationalisation support
+ Performance data added to most plugins
+ check_disk now using GNU coreutils code
+ New plugins - check_dhcp, check_icmp
+ contrib/check_citrix has been replaced by contrib/check_ica* (requires packet_utils.pm in libexec)
+ check_http --min changed to --pagesize, added max so min:max in check
+ check_vsz and check_rss deprecated - functionality moved into check_procs
+ check_swap % thresholds changed to measure amount free, instead of amount used
+ check_disk syntax changes for -p, -m/-M, defaults to MB instead of kB
+ check_procs -C expects no path for the command name
+