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  1. This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
  2. 1.4.10 or 1.5 ??
  3. Fix check_http buffer overflow vulnerability when following HTTP redirects
  4. check_http now explicitly asks HTTP/1.1 servers to close the connection
  5. after completion of the response
  6. Check_ldaps' guessing which secure method to use (starttls vs. ssl on connect)
  7. is now deprecated. See --help for further information.
  8. Check_disk now calls stat() on all filesystems to check. (Old: only the ones selected using -p)
  9. A meaningful error message (eg "Stale NFS Handle") is printed if stat fails.
  10. Check_disk's --help now prints some examples for the new features introduced in 1.4.8
  11. New check_dhcp -u/--unicast option for emulating a DHCP relay in order
  12. to check DHCP servers on remote networks
  13. 1.4.9 4th June 2006
  14. Inclusion of contrib/check_cluster2 as check_cluster with some improvements
  15. New/improved -E/--skip-stderr and -S/--skip-stdout options for check_by_ssh
  16. check_snmp now supports Counter64
  17. Fix compilation of check_ldap, check_radius and check_pgsql
  18. check_load can optionally divide by number of cpus
  19. Fix check_time returning wrong OK when time is before the epoch on some arch
  20. Make check_http output more consistent
  21. Fix possible check_http segfaults when following HTTP redirects
  22. check_snmp don't warn anymore if something is printed on stderr
  23. Fix check_tcp segfault when multiple expect strings are given
  24. New option for check_tcp: -A/--all to test if all given expect strings match
  25. 1.4.8 11th April 2007
  26. Respects --without-world-permissions for setuid plugins
  27. check_disk extra options for regex matching of filesystems and grouping of filesystems
  28. for collective thresholds
  29. Better configure test for mysqlclient availability
  30. Various check_ntp fixes
  31. 1.4.7 29th March 2007
  32. check_procs uses /usr/ucb/ps if available - fixes pst3 problems on Solaris
  33. Fixed MKINSTALLDIRS problem in po/
  34. ./configure now detects if possible to compile check_mysql
  35. Fixed broken HELO in check_smtp
  36. check_icmp now allows to set a minimum number of hosts required for successs (-m)
  37. check_icmp fix for *BSD when running for long time
  38. check_ping times out 1 second quicker if host is unreachable
  39. Root plugins installed with world executable
  40. check_sybase from contrib now maintained in NagiosExchange
  41. --with-nagios-user/group reinstated ./configure option
  42. New --without-world-permissions ./configure option
  43. 1.4.6 5th February 2007
  44. Reduced number of DNS lookups in check_ping and netutils.c for IPv6 configurations
  45. Fixed compile problems with *BSD re: alloca.h
  46. Fixed Solaris problems with check_swap (tested on Solaris 9)
  47. Fixed check_swap for HP/UX where swapinfo command was incorrect
  48. Fixed check_disk inode threshold checks, regressed at r1.4.4.
  49. Fixed crit/warn for check_disk perf data
  50. Fixed buffer overflow in check_procs
  51. Fixed error handling for UNIX sockets in netutils.c
  52. New -q and -o options for check_by_ssh which are handed over to ssh(1) as is
  53. Synced with latest GNUlib
  54. Fixed check_jabber always returns warning
  55. 1.4.5
  56. Fixed bug in perl's is_hostname routine
  57. 1.4.4
  58. New C based check_ntp. The perl version is now deprecated.
  59. New check_apt plugin
  60. Notice: plugins in contrib/ will start to be removed from this distribution.
  61. Please check at http://www.nagiosexchange.org for contributed plugins
  62. Major bug fixes to check_disk where values were incorrectly calculated and alerted on.
  63. check_udp2 removed. check_udp is now linked to check_tcp.c
  64. check_mailq now errors if the sub-program run returns non-zero return code. This would appear
  65. as if mailqs were okay when the nagios user could not query the mail-queues
  66. Compile problems with check_snmp fixed
  67. 1.4.3
  68. Setuid plugins (check_dhcp, check_icmp) separated into plugins-root/. Run make install as root to install
  69. SSL plugins work with gnutls as well as OpenSSL
  70. check_mysql_query added to run arbitrary SQL commands, with threshold checking
  71. libtool now required for development systems
  72. Notice: check_udp (compiled from check_udp.c) will be deprecated in the next release.
  73. check_udp2 should be used instead and will be renamed to check_udp
  74. 1.4.2
  75. Fix for Redhat ES4 for check_dns and check_dig
  76. 1.4
  77. IPv6 support in check_ping, check_by_ssh, check_http, check_ldap, check_smtp, check_tcp
  78. Internationalisation support
  79. Performance data added to most plugins
  80. check_disk now using GNU coreutils code
  81. New plugins - check_dhcp, check_icmp
  82. contrib/check_citrix has been replaced by contrib/check_ica* (requires packet_utils.pm in libexec)
  83. check_http --min changed to --pagesize, added max so min:max in check
  84. check_vsz and check_rss deprecated - functionality moved into check_procs
  85. check_swap % thresholds changed to measure amount free, instead of amount used
  86. check_disk syntax changes for -p, -m/-M, defaults to MB instead of kB
  87. check_procs -C expects no path for the command name