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