1 This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
3 1.4.12 or 1.5 ??
4 Added ./check_nt -v INSTANCES to count number of instances (Alessandro Ren)
5 New check_icmp -s option to specify the source IP address
6 check_dns now sorts addresses for testing results for more than one returned IP (Matthias Urlichs)
7 Fix segfault in check_ntp_time and (deprecated) check_ntp (Bug #1862300)
8 check_disk should now work with large file systems (2TB+) on all archs that supports it
9 Fixed check_disk disk usage calculation when using --group=NAME (related to bug #1348746)
10 Fix help text of check_ntp* (Bug #1880095)
11 Fix bugs and flaws in best offset server selection of check_ntp_time and (deprecated) check_ntp
12 check_ntp_peer now checks for the LI_ALARM flag
13 Sync to latest Gnulib (includes new floorf function)
15 1.4.11 13th December 2007
16 Fixed check_http regression in 1.4.10 where following redirects to
17 relative URLs on virtual hosts failed if both "-H" and "-I" were used
18 Merged two new checks that deprecates check_ntp: check_ntp_peer and check_ntp_time.
19 You should read the --help output so see which one is suitable for you. check_ntp_peer
20 implement stratum thresholds support (feature request #1703823).
21 check_ntp now returns UNKNOWN instead of WARNING if jitter is unavailable (jitter=-1.000000)
22 as long as the thresholds range include -1. If no offset threshold is specified
23 and the offset is unavailable, will return UNKNOWN as well.
24 NOTE: If jitter thresholds are specified as integers it will return CRITICAL if jitter
25 is "-1" as the default range starts at 0. See Examples in --help output.
26 Fixed broken usage2 in check_snmp and check_cluster
27 check_cluster now accepts all valid characters in its thresholds ("-", "@", "~")
28 Fixed check_disk reporting OK if disk usage grows over 100% (bug #1348746).
29 The problem happens to be in Gnulib but a workaround have been implemented in check_disk.c
30 Fixed check_load argument handling when not passing triplets (bug #1831890)
31 Fixed buffer overflow in check_snmp (CVE-2007-5623)
32 Tinderbox builds now runs tests in a verbose mode
33 Updated Nagios::Plugin to 0.22
34 VPATH problem fixed for compiling plugins-root
36 1.4.10 28th September 2007
37 Fix check_http buffer overflow vulnerability when following HTTP redirects
38 check_http now explicitly asks HTTP/1.1 servers to close the connection
39 after completion of the response
40 Check_ldaps' guessing which secure method to use (starttls vs. ssl on connect)
41 is now deprecated. See --help for further information.
42 Check_disk now calls stat() on all filesystems to check. (Old: only the ones selected using -p)
43 A meaningful error message (eg "Stale NFS Handle") is printed if stat fails.
44 New check_disk option -L: Only check local filesystems, but call stat() on remote ones, too.
45 Thus accessibility of remote filesystems can be checked without any threshold comparison.
46 Check_disk's --help now prints some examples for the new features introduced in 1.4.8
47 New check_disk -i/-I option to ignore pathes/partitions based on regular expressions
48 New check_disk -A option to select all filesystems explicitly
49 WARNING: check_disk's -E option must now be passed before -p or -r/-R arguments
50 Passing -E after -p or -r results in UNKNOWN state, now
51 This is needed due to the new ignore feature
52 Fix check_disk bug when mixing case sensitive and case insensitive regex arguments
53 New check_dhcp -u/--unicast option for emulating a DHCP relay in order
54 to check DHCP servers on remote networks
55 New check_dhcp -m/--mac option which allows for specifying the MAC
56 address to use in the DHCP request
57 The check_dhcp -r and -s options now accept host names, too
58 Fix possible check_icmp bus errors on some (non-x86/AMD64) platforms
59 Fix check_smtp's handling of multiple-packet server responses
60 WARNING: Fix for negate which may break existing commands:
61 - stop evaluating command line options through shell twice
62 - enforce a full path for the command to run
63 The "negate" utility can now remap custom states
64 Check_radius now supports radiusclient-ng
65 The (undocumented) positional parameter parsing which check_radius used
66 instead of getopt(3) if 8 arguments were given is no longer available
67 Check_by_ssh now supports multiline output
68 IPv6 support can now be disabled using ./configure --without-ipv6
69 Fix check_ntp now honor ntp flags
71 1.4.9 4th June 2006
72 Inclusion of contrib/check_cluster2 as check_cluster with some improvements
73 New/improved -E/--skip-stderr and -S/--skip-stdout options for check_by_ssh
74 check_snmp now supports Counter64
75 Fix compilation of check_ldap, check_radius and check_pgsql
76 check_load can optionally divide by number of cpus
77 Fix check_time returning wrong OK when time is before the epoch on some arch
78 Make check_http output more consistent
79 Fix possible check_http segfaults when following HTTP redirects
80 check_snmp don't warn anymore if something is printed on stderr
81 Fix check_tcp segfault when multiple expect strings are given
82 New option for check_tcp: -A/--all to test if all given expect strings match
84 1.4.8 11th April 2007
85 Respects --without-world-permissions for setuid plugins
86 check_disk extra options for regex matching of filesystems and grouping of filesystems
87 for collective thresholds
88 Better configure test for mysqlclient availability
89 Various check_ntp fixes
91 1.4.7 29th March 2007
92 check_procs uses /usr/ucb/ps if available - fixes pst3 problems on Solaris
93 Fixed MKINSTALLDIRS problem in po/
94 ./configure now detects if possible to compile check_mysql
95 Fixed broken HELO in check_smtp
96 check_icmp now allows to set a minimum number of hosts required for successs (-m)
97 check_icmp fix for *BSD when running for long time
98 check_ping times out 1 second quicker if host is unreachable
99 Root plugins installed with world executable
100 check_sybase from contrib now maintained in NagiosExchange
101 --with-nagios-user/group reinstated ./configure option
102 New --without-world-permissions ./configure option
104 1.4.6 5th February 2007
105 Reduced number of DNS lookups in check_ping and netutils.c for IPv6 configurations
106 Fixed compile problems with *BSD re: alloca.h
107 Fixed Solaris problems with check_swap (tested on Solaris 9)
108 Fixed check_swap for HP/UX where swapinfo command was incorrect
109 Fixed check_disk inode threshold checks, regressed at r1.4.4.
110 Fixed crit/warn for check_disk perf data
111 Fixed buffer overflow in check_procs
112 Fixed error handling for UNIX sockets in netutils.c
113 New -q and -o options for check_by_ssh which are handed over to ssh(1) as is
114 Synced with latest GNUlib
115 Fixed check_jabber always returns warning
117 1.4.5
118 Fixed bug in perl's is_hostname routine
120 1.4.4
121 New C based check_ntp. The perl version is now deprecated.
122 New check_apt plugin
123 Notice: plugins in contrib/ will start to be removed from this distribution.
124 Please check at http://www.nagiosexchange.org for contributed plugins
125 Major bug fixes to check_disk where values were incorrectly calculated and alerted on.
126 check_udp2 removed. check_udp is now linked to check_tcp.c
127 check_mailq now errors if the sub-program run returns non-zero return code. This would appear
128 as if mailqs were okay when the nagios user could not query the mail-queues
129 Compile problems with check_snmp fixed
131 1.4.3
132 Setuid plugins (check_dhcp, check_icmp) separated into plugins-root/. Run make install as root to install
133 SSL plugins work with gnutls as well as OpenSSL
134 check_mysql_query added to run arbitrary SQL commands, with threshold checking
135 libtool now required for development systems
136 Notice: check_udp (compiled from check_udp.c) will be deprecated in the next release.
137 check_udp2 should be used instead and will be renamed to check_udp
139 1.4.2
140 Fix for Redhat ES4 for check_dns and check_dig
142 1.4
143 IPv6 support in check_ping, check_by_ssh, check_http, check_ldap, check_smtp, check_tcp
144 Internationalisation support
145 Performance data added to most plugins
146 check_disk now using GNU coreutils code
147 New plugins - check_dhcp, check_icmp
148 contrib/check_citrix has been replaced by contrib/check_ica* (requires packet_utils.pm in libexec)
149 check_http --min changed to --pagesize, added max so min:max in check
150 check_vsz and check_rss deprecated - functionality moved into check_procs
151 check_swap % thresholds changed to measure amount free, instead of amount used
152 check_disk syntax changes for -p, -m/-M, defaults to MB instead of kB
153 check_procs -C expects no path for the command name