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  1. This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
  2. 2.4.10 2024-XX-XX
  3. FIXES
  4. check_mailq: Add config directory option and update pattern matching for exim mailservers (#754)
  5. 2.4.9 2024-03-21
  6. FIXES
  7. check_snmp: Robustly fixes incorrect integer return value parsing (#749)
  8. 2.4.8 2023-12-7
  9. FIXES
  10. check_snmp: Fixed issue where Timeticks would incorrectly show "No valid data returned" (#743)
  11. 2.4.7 2023-11-16
  12. FIXES
  13. check_ntp.pl: Fix warning/critical threshold information missing from performance data output (#735)
  14. check_ntp.pl: Fix issues when NTP server has a positive time offset (#734)
  15. check_snmp: Fixed issue where plugin returned OK for missing OID (#679)
  16. check_snmp: Fixed issue where OID name with numeric data was misinterpreted as OID value (#720)
  17. 2.4.6 2023-08-01
  18. FIXES
  19. check_log: Fixed issue where /tmp directory would fill with unnecessary information (#724)
  20. check_mailq: Correctly handle "Mail queue is empty" when monitoring Postfix over SSMTP (#611)
  21. check_oracle: Reduce false positives when looking for "OK" messages (#723)
  22. utils: Fix compiler warnings (#583, #637)
  23. 2.4.5 2023-06-01
  24. FIXES
  25. check_dns: Fix buffer overflow on Ubuntu 22.04 (#699)
  26. check_sensors: Use grep instead of deprecated egrep (#697)
  27. check_tcp: Add --sni as an alias to -N (#701)
  28. check_by_ssh: Prevent users from using ProxyCommand/LocalCommand/PermitLocalCommand (./configure --with-unrestricted-ssh-options=yes to re-enable)
  29. build: fix bug when using VPATH builds (#700)
  30. 2.4.4 2023-04-14
  31. FIXES
  32. check_log: improve file readability test to accommodate CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH and similar (#604)
  33. check_mrtgtraf: fix incorrect out_pct performance data metric (#600)
  34. check_ping: handle "bad checksum" warning from ping output (#616)
  35. 2.4.3 2023-01-17
  36. FIXES
  37. check_dig: Improve matching logic when using -a (#652)
  38. check_mailq: Fix garbled output when checking postfix (#663)
  39. 2.4.2 2022-11-08
  40. FIXES
  41. check_ntp/check_ntp_time: Fix calculation bug introduced in 2.4.1 (#677)
  42. 2.4.1 2022-10-25
  43. FIXES
  44. check_ntp_time: Ensure -W/-C (stratum warning/critical thresholds) are available as short options (#661)
  45. check_icmp: Fix "Invalid Argument" errors on FreeBSD 13.1 (#659)
  46. check_icmp: Fix address binding in ipv6 (#666)
  47. check_ntp/check_ntp_time: Fixed errors when compiling with strict aliasing (#665)
  48. check_ifstatus: Fixed issue where OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.2.1.1.28 was queried on systems that didn't support it (#650)
  49. check_smtp: Fix regression when using STARTTLS (#649, #648, #651)
  50. check_log.sh: Use temporary files to fix diffing for high-throughput logs (#566)
  51. Fixed several compile errors for upcoming clang-16 (#670)
  52. 2.4.0 2021-11-18
  53. ENHANCEMENTS
  54. check_http: Add -o option (Append page body as performance data) (#615) (Tobias Leich)
  55. check_icmp: Add -f and -F perfdata options (#567)
  56. check_ifstatus: Add -d option (exclude interfaces by description regexp) (#548) (Alexandre Anriot)
  57. check_smtp: Add support for SMTP over TLS (#565) (Franz Schwartau)
  58. check_snmp: Add -M to multiply results by a given factor (#559) (Scott Baker)
  59. FIXES
  60. lib: _np_state_calculate_location_prefix() should return non-void when running under suid (Kris Shannon)
  61. pst3.c: Fix build issue on Solaris (#537)
  62. check_by_ssh: Fix return code when ssh or the shell itself fails (#618) (Guillaume Rousse)
  63. check_disk: Fix false DISK CRITICAL alerts on btrfs systems (#569) (George Hansper)
  64. check_log: Fix error message for systems that don't use bash (#539)
  65. check_log: Fix linebreaks in documentation (#621) (Matt Capra)
  66. check_mysql_query: Fix use-after-free (#602) (Simon F)
  67. negate: Errors are now printed directly to stderr instead of being redirected to stdout (#571) (Geert Hendrickx)
  68. 2.3.3 2020-03-11
  69. FIXES
  70. check_http: Fix several issues related to page length calculation (#535, #533, #536)
  71. check_icmp: fix issues when not running in debug mode (#530)
  72. 2.3.2 2020-02-20
  73. FIXES
  74. build: Fix broken builds on some systems, including Homebrew (#508)
  75. check_disk: Change unit calculations to always use binary units for backward compatibility (#518)
  76. check_dns: Improve error messaging for "connection timed out" and "connected refused" cases (#503) (Barak Shohat)
  77. check_http: Fix host:port syntax when using -H (#514) (Isaac White)
  78. check_icmp: All performance data tags should show when packet loss is 100% (#510)
  79. check_icmp: Fix incorrect status when run against multiple hosts (#520)
  80. check_mailq: Fix nullmailer regular expression to recognize minutes and seconds properly (#522)
  81. check_ntp_peer: Fixed improper performance data by setting LC_NUMERIC to 'C' (#526)
  82. check_ntp_time: Fixed improper performance data by setting LC_NUMERIC to 'C' (#526)
  83. check_ping: Fixed inconsistent timeout behavior (#323, #419) (Barak Shohat)
  84. perl dependencies: updated the included Module::Build to work with newer versions of perl (#505)
  85. 2.3.1 2019-12-09
  86. FIXES
  87. check_icmp: Fixed backward-compatibility issue with performance data (#480)
  88. 2.3.0 2019-12-04
  89. Note: nagios-plugins 2.3.0 introduced a backward-compatibility issue for performance data graphs produced by check_icmp.
  90. Anyone upgrading from an older version of nagios-plugins should upgrade directly to >=2.3.1.
  91. ENHANCEMENTS
  92. Added a plugin "remove_perfdata" to remove perfdata from another plugin's output
  93. Added a plugin "check_ssl_validity" which verifies a certificate through CRL or OCSP
  94. Added directory plugins-python containing three Python plugins
  95. check_apt: Add --only-critical switch
  96. check_apt: Add --packages-warning (Marc Sánchez)
  97. check_disk: Add --combined-thresholds to alert on a percentage AND raw units.
  98. check_disk: Add --inode-perfdata to get extra performance data from inode statistics
  99. check_disk: Add support for base-10 units kB, MB, GB, TB; rename base-2 units to KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB
  100. check_disk_smb: Add configfile feature
  101. check_disk_smb: Added additional smb support
  102. check_disk_smb: Allow non-latin characters in names (Konstantin Shalygin)
  103. check_file_age: Use extended plugin output to show one file per line
  104. check_http: New parameter `--verify-host` will check if -H hostname matches the SSL certificate
  105. check_icmp: Add Jitter, MOS, Score (Alessandro Ren)
  106. check_ldap: Add support for checking LDAP cert age (Guillaume Rousse)
  107. check_mailq: Add mailq -C option for config dir or config file
  108. check_mailq: Add option for opensmtpd (brigriffin)
  109. check_mailq: Add support for opensmtpd
  110. check_mysql_query: Add --character-set flag
  111. check_ntp: Add --delay flag to circumvent DOS detection
  112. check_ntp: Add --allow-zero-stratum flag
  113. check_ntp_time: Add --delay flag to circumvent DOS detection
  114. check_ntp_time: Add support for monitoring stratum of timesources
  115. check_oracle: Add support for Oracle XE databases (Peter Athaks)
  116. check_ping: plugin output will now include hostname and IP address
  117. check_pgsql: Add --print-query flag
  118. check_procs: Add FreeBSD jail support (Mathieu Arnold)
  119. check_procs: Allow process to be excluded from check_procs (Marcel Klein)
  120. check_procs: Additional performance data metrics (azthec)
  121. check_radius: Add calling-station-id (cejkar)
  122. check_smtp: Add --proxy flag for PROXY protocol (Patrick Uiterwijk)
  123. check_smtp: Add support for --sni (Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz)
  124. check_snmp: Add --strict flag to ensure returned OID matches -o.
  125. check_swap: Add --no-swap flag (Mario Trangoni)
  126. check_ups: Add check for battery runtime left (gino0631)
  127. lib: Added warning_string/critical_string to struct thresholds for storing originally parsed strings
  128. ssl_utils: Added certificate expiry data in OK status (check_http, check_smtp, check_tcp) (Matt Capra)
  129. FIXES
  130. build: Fix ax_with_python not crashing on Python3 (Michael Orlitzky)
  131. build: fix configure.ac for FreeBSD SWAPFORMAT
  132. build: Fix rpmbuild errors (Josh Coughlan)
  133. check_disk: autofs being mounted despite '-l'. Fixed, and also excluded some system "fake" mountpoints
  134. check_disk: Add missing timeout logic
  135. check_dns: Fix for Bind 9.11.x AAAA records being reported with A record format (Troy Lea)
  136. check_dns: reverse (PTR) check is now case insensitive
  137. check_file_age: For multiple files, use the "worst" status instead of the "last" one
  138. check_file_age: perfdata labels when using multiple files
  139. check_file_age: For multiple files, don't exit immediately on first file not found
  140. check_http: Additional header/status checking
  141. check_http: Fix --no-body
  142. check_http: When checking certificate, don't check content/status unless specified by --continue-after-certificate
  143. check_load: Fixed for operating systems which don't have commas in their load averages (like Mac OSX)
  144. check_log does not check for "-O oldlog"
  145. check_log lost ability to use regexes for query (-q) in 2.1.4
  146. check_mysql_query & mysql_query: extra-opts causes crash
  147. check_ntp/ntp_time/ntp_peer: Fix how thresholds are displayed in performance data
  148. check_ntp_time calls `write` on a UDP socket without a successful call to `connect`
  149. check_ntp_time: Periodically returns "Socket timeout" when one of several ntp server doesn't respond
  150. check_ntp.pl: Fixed crash due to references to undefined variables
  151. check_ping: FreeBSD ping working natively
  152. check_procs: Prevent buffer overflow/crash on Solaris
  153. check_radius: Fix for null pointer dereference (Vít Heřman)
  154. check_sensors: Fix fault test with --ignore-fault
  155. check_snmp: Fix --authpasswd option
  156. check_snmp: Fix perfdata not adhering to plugin dev guidelines
  157. check_snmp: warning/critical perfdata is returned properly
  158. check_ups: Change performance data units to match spec. (Temperature and voltage units can be accessed via -e)
  159. check_wave: produces lots of errors if required arguments are not provided
  160. 2.2.1 2017-04-19
  161. FIXES
  162. check_users: not accepting zero as the threshold
  163. check_http: reports warning where it should report ok with -e
  164. check_snmp: does not work with -6 --ipv6 flags
  165. check_swap: threshold calculation in bytes requires subtracting 65
  166. check_uptime: fixed backward help text for thresholds
  167. check_http: Don’t prematurely report success when checking HTTP TLS cert validity
  168. check_http: fix parsing the last header
  169. check_mailq: Fix for Postfix and better Sudo Checking
  170. configure.ac: Fix spelling error
  171. check_ntp_peer: requires newline when there is a socket timeout (fix in netutils.c)
  172. check_users: segmentation fault if both thresholds are not provided
  173. check_dns: DNS CRITICAL - expected ‘{hostname}.’ but got 'name = {hostname}.'
  174. check_mailq: Nullmailer Regex is not working for Ubuntu 16.04
  175. check_swap: Downstream Fedora patch: Prevent check_swap from returning OK, if no swap activated
  176. Building RPMs on Amazon Linux - Add 'install-root' on line 165 of spec file
  177. check_http: Memory allocation error
  178. 2.2.0 2017-01-19
  179. ENHANCEMENTS
  180. check_flexlm: if `-F <license file>` is not specified, will use `LM_LICENSE_FILE` environment var
  181. check_load: Added per cpu load average message
  182. check_smtp: add -L flag to support LMTP (LHLO instead of HELO/EHLO)
  183. FIXES
  184. check_http: -e breaks -f
  185. check_mrtg: Add state to status output
  186. check_ping: ping runs 30 times when host is down
  187. check_icmp: does not have the -p argument in the help
  188. check_dns: Segfaulting with timeout > 26 sec
  189. check_disk: missing -lrt on Solaris
  190. check_http: segmentation fault
  191. check_http: help text update for virtual hosts
  192. check_snmp: Thresholds were being shown twice
  193. check_hpjd: some jd 610 cards have a false flag that printer is offline
  194. check_http: Handle reference redirect like //www.site.org/test
  195. check_disk: alerts issued too soon
  196. fix: Allocator sizeof operand mismatch
  197. fix: Dead assignment
  198. Shellcheck: fix most of the shellcheck warnings.
  199. check_ntp: touch ntp servers at most once every seconds
  200. check_dns: authoritative test (-A) is broken
  201. check_dns: reports TXT records incorrectly
  202. check_file_age: does not handle filenames WITHOUT space!
  203. de,fr.po: fix syntax errors end-of-line within string
  204. lib/parse_ini.c: fix gcc warning: implicit declaration of function ‘idpriv_temp_drop’ and ‘idpriv_temp_restore’
  205. add openssl 1.1 support
  206. 2.1.4 2016-11-17
  207. FIXES
  208. check_http: Don't include default Accept header if one is provided
  209. check_disk: added "fuse.gvfsd-fuse" to list of fs types to ignore
  210. check_http: Fixed non-text chunked-encoded decoding
  211. check_http: segmentation fault (FreeBSD)
  212. check_dns: Update IF_RECORD to not erase query_found
  213. check_http: SSL Certificate check returns 12:00:00AM <local timezone>
  214. check_http: -u is misleading. Changed help text
  215. check_file_age: does not handle filenames with space
  216. check_snmp: units label option outputs the label in the incorrect location
  217. plugins-root/check_dhcp.c: fix a potential segfault
  218. check_users: not correctly detecting thresholds
  219. 2.1.3 2016-09-12
  220. ENHANCEMENTS
  221. SNI support in check_tcp (ddbilik)
  222. check_disk_smb.pl: add support for -k for kerberos authentication
  223. check_file_age.c: allow wildcard matching
  224. FIXES
  225. check_tcp.c: tools/build_perl_modules hardcodes the perl used
  226. check_game.c: reports ping as number of players (Jason Rivers)
  227. fix some gcc5 warnings (Mario Trangoni)
  228. check_cluster.c: Update wording in comments (Troy Lea)
  229. check_nagios.c: could not locate a running nagios process
  230. check_swap.c: does not accept threshold of zero
  231. check_swap.c: uses inconsistent checks on negative thresholds
  232. check_snmp.c: --offset does not appear to do anything (Troy Lea)
  233. sslutils.c: output has first line of "SSL Version: xxxxxx"
  234. effects anything using sslutils including check_http, check_dhcp
  235. and others
  236. utils_cmd.c: when using ssh (or check-by-ssh) with ControlMaster/ControlPersist,
  237. nagios times out the first time and one gets zombie processes (Gordon Messmer)
  238. 2.1.2 2016-08-01
  239. SECURITY FIXES
  240. ENHANCEMENTS
  241. check_snmp's performance data now also includes warning/critical
  242. thresholds
  243. New check_snmp "-N" option to specify SNMPv3 context name
  244. New check_nt "-l" parameters: seconds|minutes|hours|days
  245. New check_mailq -s option which tells the plugin to use sudo(8)
  246. New -W/-C option for check_ldap to check number of entries (Gerhard Lausser)
  247. The check_http -S/--ssl option now accepts the arguments "1.1" and "1.2"
  248. to force TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 connections, respectively
  249. The check_http -S/--ssl option now allows for specifying the desired
  250. protocol with a "+" suffix to also accept newer versions
  251. New check_disk "-v" option to show troubled partition in verbose mode
  252. check_log.sh: Added a parameter -w (--max_warning) defining upper value to return a warning code
  253. check_ldap: Add support for LDAP URIs.
  254. check_file_age: Provide performance data
  255. check_by_ssh: added --hostname support
  256. check_ifstatus.pl: Add check_ifstatus option to ignore interfaces by name
  257. check_snmp: Introduce support for SNMPv3 context using "-N" option
  258. check_snmp.c: Added IPv6 support
  259. check_http: Added support for checking SSL-Websites through Proxies
  260. FIXES
  261. check_dig can now also use "drill" instead of "dig"
  262. check_dig honor the -4 and -6 switches
  263. check_ntp_peer: do not use uninitialized results for max state
  264. check_log.sh, check_oracle.sh, check_sensors.sh: Setting PATH at first
  265. check_log.sh: dropping path from basename while evaluating PROGNAME
  266. check_tcp: Fix check_jabber to work with Openfire servers
  267. check_ifstatus.pl: Fix "-n" and "-u" options to ignore if either is set, not just both
  268. check_mrtgtraf: Fix perfdata to comply with perfdata UOM definition
  269. check_real, check_ntp: fix null termination
  270. check_apt: fix memset
  271. check_ssh: change warning to critical for protocol/version errors
  272. utils_cmd.c: avoid a segfault, if ulimit is set to unlimited
  273. utils_cmd.c: make constants from maxfd values
  274. configure.ac: Added particular ps command for HP-UX
  275. check_disk: Fix pthread start routine type
  276. check_http: Make header_value() and chunked-encoding decoding more robust
  277. check_http: fix Host header if explicitly set with -k
  278. sslutils.c: Forcing further restriction of ciphers for current security concerns
  279. check_nagios, check_procs: Enable check_proc to monitor processes in PID name-spaced environments.
  280. check_dhcp.c: use /dev/urandom if available
  281. check_http.c: Don't decode page if it's not there
  282. check_disk.c: Prevent large tide values from truncation
  283. pst3.c: Fix for unclosed filehandle in pst3 on Solaris
  284. check_snmp: Timeticks are not being parsed correctly before performance data
  285. multiple *.h files: standardized header include fences
  286. multiple plugins/*.c files: fix unsafe signal handling
  287. sslutils.c: Fix compilation with GnuTLS which doesn't provide SSL_CTX_check_private_key()
  288. check_mailq.pl: fixed mailer names
  289. check_swap.c: Improving output when swap space has zero size
  290. check_icmp.c: Use kernel reception time on ICMP packets to compute rtt.
  291. check_icmp.c: make use of MSG_CONFIRM optional
  292. check_ldap.c: add counting of entries to check_ldap
  293. utils.c: add sperfdata() function which can handle threshold ranges
  294. sslutils.c: Check if OpenSSL supports SSLv3.
  295. check_dhcp.c: Fixes segfaults when running via monitoring worker (off-by-one)
  296. check_fping.c: autodetect ipv6 addresses
  297. sslutils.c: optimize output if certificate expires in less then 24h
  298. check_smtp.c: Let "-D" option imply "-S". Also QUIT SMTP connection when "-D" is used
  299. check_smtp.c: modified SSL check for use with -e
  300. check_tcp.c: Validate sent data size
  301. check_dns.c: conditional assignment
  302. check_dns.c: macro querytypes and auto cnames
  303. utils_cmd.c, utils_base.c: Multiple resource leaks
  304. check_http.c: Increase MAX_RE_SIZE from 256 to 2048
  305. check_procs.c: Changed the ps command args from axwo to axwwo allowing for longer output
  306. check_http.c: Allow a server to reply using only 'HTTP/1.x 200 OK' and a
  307. body, with no headers
  308. check_nt.c: check_nt does not correctly report a DNS entry it cannot resolve
  309. check_dhcp.c: check_dhcp broken on BSD
  310. TESTS
  311. check_procs.t: Add delay after forking in test to avoid race condition
  312. test.pl.in: Use "C" locale when running test suite
  313. check_http.t: Adjust date strings to the now-localized output
  314. check_dns.t - Fix Perl Warning. perl doesn't understand /d within "".
  315. check_snmp.t: skip extended snmp tests if snmpd has no perl support
  316. check_snmp.t: fix snmp test for included threshold
  317. check_http.t: fix tests for certificates expire date with seconds
  318. check_http.t: add faketime based tests for check_http
  319. LOCALIZATION
  320. 2.1.0 30th July 2015
  321. SECURITY FIXES
  322. ssl_utils.c - Disable SSLv3 & SSLv2 autonegotiation by default to limit poodle and other weak cipher attacks (sreinhardt)
  323. ENHANCEMENTS
  324. Timeout States Implemented - Plugins that support a timeout state will now also support specifying the exit state in case of timeout with the syntax -t <timeout>:<state> (abrist)
  325. Perl plugins now use FindBin for path discovery, obsoleting the nasty AWK script (evgeni, abrist)
  326. check_http.c - Added support for chunked transfer-encoding (koenwtje, dermoth, sreinhardt)
  327. check_radius.c - Added support for the FreeRADIUS Client library (weiss)
  328. check_snmp.c - Added thresholds to performance data (seemuellera)
  329. check_snmp.c - Added new option (-N) for SNMPv3 context (Johannes Engel)
  330. check_snmp.c - Added IPv6 support (abrist)
  331. check_ldap.c - Added a new option (-U) for LDAP URI support (qris)
  332. check_ifstatus.pl - Added new option (-n) to exclude interfaces (peelman, weiss)
  333. check_file_age.pl - Performance data output added (hggh)
  334. check_mailq.pl - Now supports sudo (Christopher Schultz, weiss)
  335. check_log.sh - Added a new option (-w) defining upper value to return a warning code (arvanus)
  336. FIXES
  337. check_by_ssh.c - Added --hostname support (sni)
  338. check_dbi.c - Spelling corrections (sreinhardt)
  339. check_dig.c - Fixed to work with dig/drill tools and ip version switch is now respected (abgandar)
  340. check_disk.c - Fix for hanging filesystems (Gerhard Lausser)
  341. check_disk.c - Partitions in problem state now reported in verbose mode (waja)
  342. check_disk.c - Prevent large tide values from truncation (JesperForsberg)
  343. check_dns.c - Server specific fixes and other cleanup (sreinhardt)
  344. check_http.c - Some small changes for readability (koenwtje)
  345. check_mrtgtraf.c - Added verbose output (sreinhardt)
  346. check_mrtgtraf.c - Perfdata now complies with UOM definition (Bobzikwick)
  347. check_ntp_peer.c - No longer uses uninitialized results for max state (sni)
  348. check_procs.c - Rare race condition fixed (Mikael Falkvidd)
  349. check_ssh.c - Now exits with CRITICAL when version/protocol string check fails to match (sni)
  350. check_tcp.c - Help description of escape characters now correct (Sebastian Herbszt)
  351. check_tcp.c - Fix to support Openfire servers with check_jabber (weiss)
  352. check_ups.c - Spelling corrections (sreinhardt)
  353. pst3.c - Fix for unclosed file handle in pst3 on Solaris (jwinkle01)
  354. plugins-scripts/*.sh - Trusted path fixes (waja)
  355. netutils.h - Decreased max path to 104 bytes to compensate for BSD paths (sreinhardt)
  356. configure.ac - Fix for HP-UX ps command (Tontonitch)
  357. lib/utils_cmd.c - Fix for potential segfault when ulimits are set to unlimited (nafets)
  358. lib/parse_ini.c - Many small fixes from coverity scans and the community (sreinhardt, weiss)
  359. lib/util_base.c - Code cleanup (sreinhardt)
  360. lib/utils_base.c - Add EIUD to state retention path for multi-user permissions support (sreinhardt)
  361. po/* - Spelling corrections (sreinhardt)
  362. Multiple resource leaks fixed (sreinhardt)
  363. Many other small fixes and cleanup caught by coverity (multiple contributors)
  364. TESTS
  365. Many small fixes to tests (multiple contributors)
  366. LOCALIZATION
  367. Many small fixes for locales and localizations (multiple contributors)
  368. 2.0.3 26th June 2014
  369. SECURITY FIXES
  370. parse_ini.c - Additional fixes for the SUID plugins vulnerabilities (sreinhardt)
  371. Added Gnulib module idpriv-droptemp (weiss)
  372. FIXES
  373. check_dns.c - Resolved issues with reverse lookup (sreinhardt)
  374. check_dns.c - Changed query types from ALL to ANY (sreinhardt)
  375. common.h - Include fixes for esoteric AIX compile issues (emislivec)
  376. negate.c - Small fixes from coverity (66479) (66480) (sreinhardt)
  377. check_dhcp.c - Small fix from coverity (66488) (sreinhardt)
  378. check_http.c - Potential memory leak and overflow fixed from coverity (66514) (sreinhardt)
  379. check_ntp.c - Small fix from coverity (66524) (sreinhardt)
  380. utils_cmd.c - Small file descriptor fix from coverity (66502) (sreinhardt)
  381. check_apt.c - Small fix for from coverity (66531) (sreinhardt)
  382. REVERTS
  383. check_mailq - Reverted autodetection commits to avoid awk parsing issues. Autodetection will return in version 2.1.0 as part of the changes in the FindBin branch (abrist)
  384. 2.0.2 20th May 2014
  385. SECURITY FIXES
  386. Fixed file access vulnerability with SUID binaries (check_icmp, check_dhcp) and extra-opts. Fixes were applied globally, so the new resrictions on fopen should apply to all plugins. Special thanks to Dawid Golunski for the submission. More information: http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33387/ (sreinhardt) (emislivec)
  387. ENHANCEMENTS
  388. check_disk - Now compiles in cygwin on windows (Gunnar Beutner)
  389. check_ping - Now compiles in cygwin on windows (Gunnar Beutner)
  390. check_users - Now compiles in cygwin on windows (Gunnar Beutner)
  391. netutils.c - Connection error verbosity increased. C plugins will now differentiate file socket errors from connection errors (Davide Madrisan)
  392. FIXES
  393. check_nt.c - Changed 'Mb' to 'MB' in MEMUSE output for clarity (abrist)
  394. 2.0.1 15th April 2014
  395. ENHANCEMENTS
  396. check_snmp.c - Added thresholds to performance data (jccomputing)
  397. check_http.c - Added */* MIME support (Alex Gottschalk)
  398. check_mailq.pl - Added autodetection for mailq implementation (evgeni)
  399. check_mailq.pl - Added autodetected version to output (evgeni)
  400. FIXES
  401. check_dns.c - Record type corrections for default check (sreinhardt)
  402. utils.c - Changed comment type - now supported by AIX and should no longer fail compile (hkpatv)
  403. check_uptime.c - Fixed timeout option (abrist)
  404. check_uptime.c - Fixed help output and updated verbose usage (abrist)
  405. check_uptime.c - Removed executable permissions on check_uptime.c (abrist)
  406. check_uptime.c - Removed old code (Davide Madrisan)
  407. check_pgsql.c - Fixed help output (weiss)
  408. lib/Makefile.am - Avoid deprecated includes (Davide Madrisan)
  409. lib/tests/Makefile.am - Avoid deprecated includes (Davide Madrisan)
  410. plugins/Makefile.am - Avoid deprecated includes (Davide Madrisan)
  411. check_apt.c - Removed the verbose flag suggestion (skottler)
  412. check_oracle.c - Changed regex to compensate for tns string match edge cases (waja)
  413. check_snmp.c - Always privides the security name when noAuthPriv is specified (catharsis)
  414. 2.0 4th March 2014
  415. ADDITIONS
  416. check_uptime - New plugin (only supports linux due to dependency on clock.gettime(). More supported platforms to follow.
  417. ENHANCEMENTS
  418. check_mysql_query - Added performance data (sreinhardt)
  419. check_file_age - New option -i/--ignore-missing which returns OK if file is missing (waja)
  420. check_nt - Added performance data to UPTIME -l seconds|minutes|hours|days (abrist)
  421. check_hpjd - New -p option for port specification (abrist)
  422. check_disk - new -n option for multi-line output (tmcnag)
  423. check_mysql_query - New -f/-g options for reading for mysql options file (awiddersheim)
  424. check_mailq - New -M option for nullmailer support in the mailserver (Luca Corti)
  425. check_dig - New -r option for specifying number of retries (abrist)
  426. check_ntp_peer - Added state output for each checked metric (abrist)
  427. check_dns - Warning and critical thresholds added to perfdata (jccomputing) (abrist)
  428. check_dns - New -q options for several query types (AAAA,TXT,SRV,MX) (sreinhardt)
  429. check_tcp - Status output now includes hostname when host_specified is set (madrisan)
  430. check_mysql - New -n/--ignore_auth option to ignore authentication failure (Julius Kriukas)
  431. check_ssh - New -P/--remote-protocol option to monitor the ssh protocol version (monitoring-user)
  432. check_ntp - New -o/--time-offset option to compensate for the ntp server's offset relative to the local server (monitoring-user)
  433. configure.ac - Added support for --disable-maintainer-mode (weiss)
  434. FIXES
  435. check_http - The -C option no longer resets SSL version if e.g. -S 1 -C 5 is specified
  436. check_ide_smart - Now defaults to nagios-compatible output (sreinhardt)
  437. Fixed misleading timeout message for non-network plugins (sreinhardt)
  438. check_swap - Now fails with 100% usage and a new status output when swap is disabled or missing (abrist)
  439. check_ifstatus - Removed commas from perfdata - should now output valid perfdata in nagios format (waja)
  440. check_ping - Now gracefully handle the "time of day goes back" error. This issue is rare, most will not notice the change (waja)
  441. check_disk - Help output was clarified that it supports mount paths or partitions instead of just paths and partitions (waja)
  442. check_ide_smart - Fixed attribute comparison (waja)
  443. check_ntp_time - Fixed average time calculation (larsi)
  444. NPTest.cache - Empty or Missing file no longer blocks writing to the file (dermoth)
  445. parse.ini - Fixed newlines in output (dermoth)
  446. check_dig - Fixed wrong IPv6 arguments order (Stéphane Bortzmeyer)
  447. check_dig - Now honors timeout value specified by switch -t (Jethro Carr) (abrist)
  448. configure.in - Renamed to configure.ac to avoid deprecation warning (abrist)
  449. configure.ac - The option --enable-extra-opts is now enabled by default (dermoth)
  450. check_snmp - Now handles negative values properly (Stephane Lapie)
  451. WARNINGS
  452. check_procs - Now ignores its parent process to avoid unexpected results when invoked via certain shells
  453. utils.sh - No longer defines ECHO (weiss)
  454. check_ide_smart now default to nagios output, -n kept for legacy support (sreinhardt)
  455. check_ntp_peer - Status output changed, now includes individual state for offset, truechimers, stratum, and jitter (abrist)
  456. check_tcp - Status output has changed, now includes hostname (madrisan)
  457. TESTS
  458. check_procs - Performance data tests added (dermoth)
  459. check_snmp - Added tests for negative thresholds (dermoth)
  460. check_hpjd - Added tests for port options (abrist)
  461. check_dns - Added new tests for query types (abrist)
  462. check_pop - Added option to enable ssl for the test (abrist)
  463. check_jabber - Fixed status output tests to account for hostname (abrist)
  464. check_procs - Tests no longer fail if uid 501 is not present (sni)
  465. check_mysql - Test prompts clarified (dermoth)
  466. check_file_age - Added tests for --ignore-missing (waja)
  467. OTHER
  468. Numerous small typos fixed.
  469. Help output has been changed in many places for clarity and verbosity.
  470. 1.5 2nd October 2013
  471. ENHANCEMENTS
  472. New check_dbi plugin for checking an (SQL) database using DBI
  473. Let OpenSSL load its configuration file (see the OPENSSL_config(3) man page)
  474. Add performance data to check_apt
  475. Add performance data to check_procs
  476. Added -4/-6 options to check_dig (Ville Mattila)
  477. New check_oracle --connect option to perform real login
  478. New check_nagios -t option to override the default timeout
  479. New check_disk -f/--freespace-ignore-reserved option to ignore space reserved for root
  480. New check_disk -N/--include-type option to limit the filesystem types to check
  481. Allow for building the plugins in parallel
  482. Add --without-{dbi,ldap,radius} options to ./configure
  483. Made Verbose output of check_sensors compliant (Gabriele Tozzi)
  484. New switch -E/--extended-perfdata for check_http to print additional performance data (Sebastian Nohn)
  485. New check_http -d option to specify a string to expect within the response headers
  486. New check_http -J/-K options for client certificate authentication support
  487. Add support for executing queries to check_pgsql
  488. Let check_pgsql accept a UNIX socket directory as hostname
  489. New check_pgsql -o option to specify additional connection parameters
  490. New check_fping -S option to specify the source IP address
  491. New check_fping -I option to specify the interface to bind to
  492. Let check_fping support IPv6
  493. New check_procs -k option to ignore kernel threads (on Linux)
  494. Let check_procs use /proc/<PID>/exe (if available) instead of getpid(2), unless -T is specified
  495. Let check_mysql support SSL
  496. Let check_mysql add performance metrics for all checks
  497. New check_mysql -f option to specify a client options file
  498. New check_mysql -g option to specify a client options group
  499. New check_snmp --offset option to allow for adding/subtracting an offset value to sensor data
  500. Let check_snmp support an arbitrary number of OIDs
  501. Let check_ide_smart support NetBSD
  502. FIXES
  503. Change the MAIL FROM command generated by check_smtp to be RFC compliant
  504. Fix compilation of check_http without SSL support
  505. Fix check_snmp reversed threshold ranges (backward-compatibility)
  506. Fix check_snmp memory violation when using more than 8 oids (Robin Sonefors)
  507. Fix check_apt security regular expression (Alex Bradley)
  508. Fix check_http handling extra header (-k) containing semicolons (Richard Leitner)
  509. Fix check_apt handling unknown exit codes from apt-get (Richard Leitner)
  510. Fix deprecated imports of check_nmap.py (Fabio Rueda)
  511. WARNINGS
  512. check_http behaviour of -k/--header changed since it does not separate multiple headers by semicolons anymore. Use multiple -k switches instead.
  513. check_http's --proxy_authorization option is now called --proxy-authorization (it was always documented this way)
  514. The contrib directory has been removed from this distribution
  515. 1.4.16 27th June 2012
  516. ENHANCEMENTS
  517. check_nt UPTIME accepts warning/critical thresholds (Ryan Kelly)
  518. check_disk_smb now allows spaces in share names (#990948, #1370031, Debian #601699)
  519. check_http now uses standard threshold functions (enables floating point and ranges)
  520. check_http now checks for and prints the certificate cn (hostname) in SSL certificate checks (Stéphane Urbanovski)
  521. check_http now supports an optional -S/--ssl value to choose the SSL protocol version (#3066166 - Jason Lunn)
  522. Add perfdata to check_ssh (#3244097 - Marco Beck)
  523. New option to check_smtp to ignore failures when sending QUIT (#3358348 - Duncan Ferguson)
  524. New check_by_ssh -F option which allows for specifying an alternative ssh_config(5) file (#2895334 - Sven Nierlein)
  525. check_sensors now detects faulty sensors unless --ignore-fault is specified (Jan Wagner)
  526. utils.sh now provides a check_range function (Alex Griffin)
  527. Improved the performance of check_users (Marc Remy)
  528. Add perfdata to check_disk_smb (Debian #654259 - Charles-Henri Larose)
  529. Updated Nagios::Plugin perl module
  530. Add warning threshold to certificate expiration checks of check_tcp/http/smtp (William Leibzon)
  531. Add --perf-oids option for check_snmp (Jochen Bern)
  532. FIXES
  533. Fix check_disk free space calculation if blocksizes differ within a disk group (Bekar - #2973603)
  534. check_disk_smb now handles NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED properly (Debian #601696)
  535. Make check_snmp work more like v1.4.14 with regard to using special values (Timeticks, STRING) as numeric thresholds
  536. Fix check_ldap overriding the port when --ssl was specified after -p
  537. Fix check_procs where regex input of '|' would get displayed in output - now replaced with ','
  538. Fix segfault in check_host when hostname returns multiple IP addresses (Sebastian Harl)
  539. Fix check_smtp and check_tcp where duplicate messages were displayed for certificate errors
  540. Fix check_ping's parsing of ping6(1) output (#1894850, Debian #514588, Debian #662638 - Matej Vela)
  541. Fix a check_dhcp bug which was triggered by checking Windows 2003 DHCP servers (#3503921)
  542. Disable RFC4507 support, to work around SSL negotiation issues with (at least) some Tomcat versions
  543. Fix performance data label containing spaces in check_snmp (Jochen Bern)
  544. 1.4.15 27th July 2010
  545. ENHANCEMENTS
  546. New check_ntp_peer -m and -n options to check the number of usable time sources ("truechimers")
  547. New check_disk_smb -a option which allows for specifying the IP address of the remote server
  548. New check_radius -N option which allows for specifying the value of the NAS-IP-Address attribute
  549. New check_snmp --rate option to store differences between invocations. Saves state in PREFIX/var/{plugin}
  550. check_snmp -l label option now also changes the perfdata label. See WARNINGS
  551. check_snmp has an --invert-search option which reverses status of the string and regexp searches
  552. check_http now displays the missing search string and the URL in the output when failed (Duncan Ferguson - #2999924)
  553. Updated Nagios::Plugin perl module
  554. Updated gnulib to June 2010
  555. FIXES
  556. Fix check_ircd binding to wrong interface (#668778)
  557. Add proxy-authorization option to check_http (Marcel Kuiper - #1323230, Bryan Irvine - #2863925)
  558. check_icmp now increment the sequence counter in each packet
  559. Fix usage of repeated -o options in check_snmp
  560. Try to detect arguments passed via --with-ping[6]-command and set options accordingly (#2908236)
  561. Fix memory leak in check_http for large pages (Jimmy Bergman - #2957455)
  562. Fix compilation with GCC 2.96 (Konstantin Khomoutov - #2977105)
  563. Fix regression introduced in #1867716 where partially valid performance strings would not be printed anymore
  564. Fix regression in check_http ssl checks on some servers - make SNI an option
  565. Fix guest mode support in check_disk_smb
  566. Fix check_disk_smb and check_ircd failures when run via ePN
  567. check_ldap now allows for specifying an empty LDAP base
  568. Fix compilation error of pst3 in Solaris 8
  569. Fix check_radius returning OK on unexpected results (Craig Leres - #2911752)
  570. Fix translations when extra-opts aren't enabled (Jan Wagner - #2832884)
  571. Fix parsing of multi-line strings in check_snmp (broken in 1.4.14) and enhance output in such case (#2832451)
  572. Fix detection of pst3 64-bit compile flags with Sun CC
  573. Fix cmd_run overwriting the environment, which would break some commands that needed it
  574. Allow check_ifstatus to accept version=2c - used to only allow version=2 (Brian Landers)
  575. Fix examples in check_disk, where it implied was possible to suffix unit values to warn/crit parameters
  576. WARNINGS
  577. Updated developer documentation to say that performance labels should not have an equals sign or
  578. single quote in the label
  579. check_http 1.4.14 introduced SSL SNI support - you now have to enable it explicitly with "--sni"
  580. check_snmp -l label option is also used for the performance label. This could change history from previous uses
  581. 1.4.14 16th September 2009
  582. check_http has options to specify the HTTP method (#2155152)
  583. check_users thresholds were not working exactly as documented (>= rather than >)
  584. Updated tinderbox_build script to point to new tinderbox server
  585. check_ifoperstatus -n flag now works as expected (sf.net #1569488)
  586. check_ifoperstatus now supports ifType based lookup for ifIndex
  587. check_ups now sends a LOGOUT string (debian bug #387001)
  588. Extra-opts (C plugins) now allows both '#' and ';' for comments (like N::P)
  589. Extra-opts (C plugins) does not allow trailing comments anymore (like N::P)
  590. Fixed dependency issue on libtap when ./configure --enable-libtap used. Warning: will install libtap
  591. Fixed segfault in extra-opts under some circumstance when reading multiple sections
  592. Fix long options parsing in check_disk, check_dns, check_mrtg, check_mrtgtraf and check_tcp
  593. Add missing long options for check_nt (for use with extra-opts)
  594. check_icmp now reports min and max round trip time perfdata (Steve Rader)
  595. Fixed check_http bug where additional headers with redirection caused a segfault (Dieter Van de Walle - 2089159)
  596. check_disk: make autofs mount paths specified with -p before we determine the mount list (Erik Welch)
  597. Fixed buffer overflow in check_ntp/check_ntp_peer (#1999319, Ubuntu #291265)
  598. Re-bundled libtap as a built-in library (--enable-libtap): detects system library as pre-1.4.13 and does not install the built-in library anymore
  599. Fixed check_mrtg returning UNKNOWN instead of OK (bug #2378068)
  600. Fixed check_http behaviour: all check are now performed as long as a valid response is returned (sf.net #1460312)
  601. check_http --onredirect=sticky follows using the same IP address (sf.net #2550208)
  602. check_http --onredirect=stickyport also follows the same port
  603. Fixed coredump from check_nt when invalid drive is specified (#2179754 - Olli Hauer)
  604. Fixed crash from check_nt when -H unspecified or given multiple times (sf.net #2731755, debian #521097)
  605. Fixed passing of quotes in OID for check_snmp (#1985230 - Jan Wagner, patch by John Barbuto)
  606. Fixed check_http sending HTTP/1.0 with v1.1 headers (#2638765)
  607. Fixed check_http not timing-out on redirects
  608. Fixed negate not printing the real timeout in ALRM handler when left to default
  609. negate timeout result is now configurable
  610. Fixed segfault in check_mysql with old slaves (#2696823 - Oskar Ahner)
  611. check_nt can return UNKNOWN on timeouts (-u)
  612. Fixed typos for check_disk (Chris Pepper)
  613. Fixed check_mysql* not using password set in my.cnf (#2531905 - Ben Timby) - Specify an empty password explicitly if you need to override it.
  614. Fixed awk subst.in/subst script path error (#2722832 - Martin Foster)
  615. check_http: Add SSL/TLS hostname extension support (SNI) - (#1939022 - Joe Presbrey)
  616. Fixed wrong perfdata label for output traffic in check_mrtgtraf (#2654308 - Gavin Williams)
  617. Fixed check_by_ssh interpretation of quotes in -C parameter (#1985246, #2268675)
  618. check_snmp now supports standard threshold ranges and doubles (floating numbers) in thresholds
  619. check_fping now supports passing target timeout and interval to fping (#2347686 - Martin Foster)
  620. Fixed SNMPv3 behaviour of check_ifoperstatus and check_ifstatus. Added -P to define privprotocol (#2343438 - Robin Schroeder)
  621. check_ifoperstatus and check_ifstatus are now more user-friendly in case of missing arguments
  622. pst3 compile fix for Sun Studio Compiler (Grant Byers)
  623. 1.4.13 25th Sept 2008
  624. Fix Debian bug #460097: check_http --max-age broken (Hilko Bengen)
  625. Optimised pst3 for systems with large number of processes (Duncan Ferguson)
  626. Updated Nagios::Plugin to 0.27
  627. Fix Debian bug #479013: check_dig's -l is mandatory now (sf.net #1986306)
  628. check_dig now returns CRITICAL instead of WARNING when no answer section is found
  629. check_procs now captures stderr in external command and adds to plugin output
  630. check_snmp now only prints perfdata for non numeric values (#1867716)
  631. check_icmp now supports packet size modification
  632. check_http -e now accepts a comma-delimited list of expected status codes (Sven Nierlein)
  633. libtap now included with this distribution for easier testing. Run ./configure with --enable-libtap
  634. check_ntp_peer/check_ntp_time used to show port in --help but ignored the argument - now implemented
  635. Fix possible segfault in check_ntp_peer with deliberately invalid packets
  636. 1.4.12 27th May 2008
  637. Added ./check_nt -v INSTANCES to count number of instances (Alessandro Ren)
  638. New check_icmp -s option to specify the source IP address
  639. check_dns now sorts addresses for testing results for more than one returned IP (Matthias Urlichs)
  640. Fix segfault in check_ntp_time and (deprecated) check_ntp (Bug #1862300)
  641. check_disk should now work with large file systems (2TB+) on all archs that supports it
  642. Fixed check_disk disk usage calculation when using --group=NAME (related to bug #1348746)
  643. Fix help text of check_ntp* (Bug #1880095)
  644. Fix bugs and flaws in best offset server selection of check_ntp_time and (deprecated) check_ntp
  645. check_ntp_peer now checks for the LI_ALARM flag
  646. Sync to latest Gnulib (includes new floorf function)
  647. check_pgsql now successfully builds with postgres lib v8.3 (Bug #1878972)
  648. check_procs now accepts --ereg-argument-array for a regular expression match to the argument array
  649. Reverted back to using pst3 for Solaris systems. Fixed issues re: -m64 needed to compile on 64bit systems
  650. If applicable, Gettext linked dynamically instead of statically
  651. check_dig can now pass arguments to dig by using -A/--dig-arguments (#1874041/#1889453)
  652. check_ntp and check_ntp_peer now show proper jitter/stratum thresholds longopts in --help
  653. check_dns now allow to repeat -a to match multiple possibly returned address (common with load balancers)
  654. check_mysql and check_radius now try clearing password in processlist just like check_mysql_query
  655. check_mysql and check_mysql_query now support sockets explicitly (-s, --socket)
  656. negate now has the ability to replace the status text as well (-s, --substitute)
  657. Added performance data to check_ping (Christian Schneemann)
  658. Added support for --extra-opts in all C plugins (disabled by default, see configure --help)
  659. Fixed passive option in check_by_ssh
  660. On non-skipped stderr, check_by_ssh now returns UNKNOWN or worse (result from command) instead of always UNKNOWN.
  661. Fix linking against OpenSSL where libdl is required
  662. 1.4.11 13th December 2007
  663. Fixed check_http regression in 1.4.10 where following redirects to
  664. relative URLs on virtual hosts failed if both "-H" and "-I" were used
  665. Merged two new checks that deprecates check_ntp: check_ntp_peer and check_ntp_time.
  666. You should read the --help output so see which one is suitable for you. check_ntp_peer
  667. implement stratum thresholds support (feature request #1703823).
  668. check_ntp now returns UNKNOWN instead of WARNING if jitter is unavailable (jitter=-1.000000)
  669. as long as the thresholds range include -1. If no offset threshold is specified
  670. and the offset is unavailable, will return UNKNOWN as well.
  671. NOTE: If jitter thresholds are specified as integers it will return CRITICAL if jitter
  672. is "-1" as the default range starts at 0. See Examples in --help output.
  673. Fixed broken usage2 in check_snmp and check_cluster
  674. check_cluster now accepts all valid characters in its thresholds ("-", "@", "~")
  675. Fixed check_disk reporting OK if disk usage grows over 100% (bug #1348746).
  676. The problem happens to be in Gnulib but a workaround have been implemented in check_disk.c
  677. Fixed check_load argument handling when not passing triplets (bug #1831890)
  678. Fixed buffer overflow in check_snmp (CVE-2007-5623)
  679. Tinderbox builds now runs tests in a verbose mode
  680. Updated Nagios::Plugin to 0.22
  681. VPATH problem fixed for compiling plugins-root
  682. 1.4.10 28th September 2007
  683. Fix check_http buffer overflow vulnerability when following HTTP redirects (CVE-2007-5198)
  684. check_http now explicitly asks HTTP/1.1 servers to close the connection
  685. after completion of the response
  686. Check_ldaps' guessing which secure method to use (starttls vs. ssl on connect)
  687. is now deprecated. See --help for further information.
  688. Check_disk now calls stat() on all filesystems to check. (Old: only the ones selected using -p)
  689. A meaningful error message (eg "Stale NFS Handle") is printed if stat fails.
  690. New check_disk option -L: Only check local filesystems, but call stat() on remote ones, too.
  691. Thus accessibility of remote filesystems can be checked without any threshold comparison.
  692. Check_disk's --help now prints some examples for the new features introduced in 1.4.8
  693. New check_disk -i/-I option to ignore paths/partitions based on regular expressions
  694. New check_disk -A option to select all filesystems explicitly
  695. WARNING: check_disk's -E option must now be passed before -p or -r/-R arguments
  696. Passing -E after -p or -r results in UNKNOWN state, now
  697. This is needed due to the new ignore feature
  698. Fix check_disk bug when mixing case sensitive and case insensitive regex arguments
  699. New check_dhcp -u/--unicast option for emulating a DHCP relay in order
  700. to check DHCP servers on remote networks
  701. New check_dhcp -m/--mac option which allows for specifying the MAC
  702. address to use in the DHCP request
  703. The check_dhcp -r and -s options now accept host names, too
  704. Fix possible check_icmp bus errors on some (non-x86/AMD64) platforms
  705. Fix check_smtp's handling of multiple-packet server responses
  706. WARNING: Fix for negate which may break existing commands:
  707. - stop evaluating command line options through shell twice
  708. - enforce a full path for the command to run
  709. The "negate" utility can now remap custom states
  710. Check_radius now supports radiusclient-ng
  711. The (undocumented) positional parameter parsing which check_radius used
  712. instead of getopt(3) if 8 arguments were given is no longer available
  713. Check_by_ssh now supports multiline output
  714. IPv6 support can now be disabled using ./configure --without-ipv6
  715. Fix check_ntp now honor ntp flags
  716. 1.4.9 4th June 2007
  717. Inclusion of contrib/check_cluster2 as check_cluster with some improvements
  718. New/improved -E/--skip-stderr and -S/--skip-stdout options for check_by_ssh
  719. check_snmp now supports Counter64
  720. Fix compilation of check_ldap, check_radius and check_pgsql
  721. check_load can optionally divide by number of cpus
  722. Fix check_time returning wrong OK when time is before the epoch on some arch
  723. Make check_http output more consistent
  724. Fix possible check_http segfaults when following HTTP redirects
  725. check_snmp don't warn anymore if something is printed on stderr
  726. Fix check_tcp segfault when multiple expect strings are given
  727. New option for check_tcp: -A/--all to test if all given expect strings match
  728. 1.4.8 11th April 2007
  729. Respects --without-world-permissions for setuid plugins
  730. check_disk extra options for regex matching of filesystems and grouping of filesystems
  731. for collective thresholds
  732. Better configure test for mysqlclient availability
  733. Various check_ntp fixes
  734. 1.4.7 29th March 2007
  735. check_procs uses /usr/ucb/ps if available - fixes pst3 problems on Solaris
  736. Fixed MKINSTALLDIRS problem in po/
  737. ./configure now detects if possible to compile check_mysql
  738. Fixed broken HELO in check_smtp
  739. check_icmp now allows to set a minimum number of hosts required for successs (-m)
  740. check_icmp fix for *BSD when running for long time
  741. check_ping times out 1 second quicker if host is unreachable
  742. Root plugins installed with world executable
  743. check_sybase from contrib now maintained in NagiosExchange
  744. --with-nagios-user/group reinstated ./configure option
  745. New --without-world-permissions ./configure option
  746. 1.4.6 5th February 2007
  747. Reduced number of DNS lookups in check_ping and netutils.c for IPv6 configurations
  748. Fixed compile problems with *BSD re: alloca.h
  749. Fixed Solaris problems with check_swap (tested on Solaris 9)
  750. Fixed check_swap for HP/UX where swapinfo command was incorrect
  751. Fixed check_disk inode threshold checks, regressed at r1.4.4.
  752. Fixed crit/warn for check_disk perf data
  753. Fixed buffer overflow in check_procs
  754. Fixed error handling for UNIX sockets in netutils.c
  755. New -q and -o options for check_by_ssh which are handed over to ssh(1) as is
  756. Synced with latest GNUlib
  757. Fixed check_jabber always returns warning
  758. 1.4.5
  759. Fixed bug in perl's is_hostname routine
  760. 1.4.4
  761. New C based check_ntp. The perl version is now deprecated.
  762. New check_apt plugin
  763. Notice: plugins in contrib/ will start to be removed from this distribution.
  764. Please check at http://www.nagiosexchange.org for contributed plugins
  765. Major bug fixes to check_disk where values were incorrectly calculated and alerted on.
  766. check_udp2 removed. check_udp is now linked to check_tcp.c
  767. check_mailq now errors if the sub-program run returns non-zero return code. This would appear
  768. as if mailqs were okay when the nagios user could not query the mail-queues
  769. Compile problems with check_snmp fixed
  770. 1.4.3
  771. Setuid plugins (check_dhcp, check_icmp) separated into plugins-root/. Run make install as root to install
  772. SSL plugins work with gnutls as well as OpenSSL
  773. check_mysql_query added to run arbitrary SQL commands, with threshold checking
  774. libtool now required for development systems
  775. Notice: check_udp (compiled from check_udp.c) will be deprecated in the next release.
  776. check_udp2 should be used instead and will be renamed to check_udp
  777. 1.4.2
  778. Fix for Redhat ES4 for check_dns and check_dig
  779. 1.4
  780. IPv6 support in check_ping, check_by_ssh, check_http, check_ldap, check_smtp, check_tcp
  781. Internationalisation support
  782. Performance data added to most plugins
  783. check_disk now using GNU coreutils code
  784. New plugins - check_dhcp, check_icmp
  785. contrib/check_citrix has been replaced by contrib/check_ica* (requires packet_utils.pm in libexec)
  786. check_http --min changed to --pagesize, added max so min:max in check
  787. check_vsz and check_rss deprecated - functionality moved into check_procs
  788. check_swap % thresholds changed to measure amount free, instead of amount used
  789. check_disk syntax changes for -p, -m/-M, defaults to MB instead of kB
  790. check_procs -C expects no path for the command name