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Revision: 1.20
Committed: Mon Jan 19 16:38:56 2004 UTC (20 years, 3 months ago) by tdb
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.19: +11 -0 lines
Log Message:
Update relevant files for release of 0.8.1.

File Contents

# User Rev Content
1 tdb 1.20 libstatgrab 0.8.1 (21 January 2004)
2    
3     * The library part of libstatgrab is now released under the LGPL.
4     (the tools are still released under the GPL)
5     * File descriptor leak fixed on Linux.
6     * strlcpy/strlcat functions added for Solaris 7 to fix compile.
7     * statgrab_init error behaviour fixed (primarly for Solaris 7).
8     * Some incorrect #includes moved.
9     * Significant speed increases to the Solaris disk mapping code in
10     statgrab_init, which improves startup time.
11    
12 tdb 1.19 libstatgrab 0.8 (06 January 2004)
13 tdb 1.17
14     * Support for Linux 2.6.
15     * Support for Cygwin.
16     * Use cNtNdNsN names on Solaris instead of sdN.
17     * Fixes and optimisations to saidar.
18     * Fixes to the --disable-saidar and --disable-statgrab configure flags.
19 tdb 1.18 * New function to drop elevated privileges some OS's require.
20     (after using the init function)
21 tdb 1.17
22 tdb 1.16 libstatgrab 0.7 (22 October 2003)
23 tdb 1.15
24     * Support for NetBSD 1.6.x.
25     * FreeBSD code optimised.
26     * Initialise function allows programs to drop extra privileges (on *BSD).
27     * saidar now works even if it can't get all statistics.
28     * List of known file systems increased on Linux and *BSD.
29     * Minor bug fixes.
30 tdb 1.16 * Tested (and working) on Solaris 9 x86, Linux 2.2 on alpha, and
31     Linux 2.4 on amd64.
32 tdb 1.15
33 tdb 1.14 libstatgrab 0.6.1 (18 October 2003)
34    
35     * Support for FreeBSD 5.1/sparc64.
36     * Bugs fixed in FreeBSD memory statistics.
37     * saidar displays disk percentages more "correctly".
38     * Bug fixed displaying hostname in saidar.
39     * statgrab now handles unusual /dev layouts more gracefully.
40     * Minor packaging changes.
41    
42 tdb 1.13 libstatgrab 0.6 (09 October 2003)
43    
44     * saidar, a curses-based tool, has been added to give an overview of
45     the current system statistics.
46     * Added support for FreeBSD 5.1.
47     * Documentation is now available in manpages.
48     * Fixed major bug in the FreeBSD diskio stats.
49     * Added a .pc file for pkgconfig.
50    
51 tdb 1.12 libstatgrab 0.5.1 (09 September 2003)
52    
53     * Network stats wrap-around bug fixed on Linux and FreeBSD
54     * Linux now reads disk information from /proc/partitions if available.
55     This results in it getting data for all the disks.
56     * An additional tool, statgrab, has been added to allow external programs
57     to easily parse statistics generated by libstatgrab.
58     * Scripts to generate MRTG (www.mrtg.org) configs with statgrab have
59     been added. This allows graphs to be generated from system stats.
60    
61 tdb 1.11 libstatgrab 0.5 (25 August 2003)
62    
63     * Fixed a bug with process stats on FreeBSD.
64     * Added documentation in 'docs' directory.
65     * Added examples in 'examples' directory.
66    
67 tdb 1.10 libstatgrab 0.4 (09 April 2003)
68 tdb 1.9
69     * Support added for FreeBSD 4.x (not tested on 5.x).
70    
71 tdb 1.7 libstatgrab 0.3.4 (31 March 2003)
72    
73     * Fixed memory leak, and file descriptor leak on linux.
74    
75 tdb 1.6 libstatgrab 0.3.3 (22 March 2003)
76    
77     * Network statistics wraparound code was broken on interfaces that
78     transfered no data - typically second interfaces that weren't
79     connected.
80    
81 tdb 1.5 libstatgrab 0.3.2 (21 March 2003)
82    
83 tdb 1.6 * Network statistics wraparound fix.
84 tdb 1.5
85 tdb 1.4 libstatgrab 0.3.1 (12 March 2003)
86    
87 tdb 1.6 * Fixed network statistics on Solaris 7 or below.
88     * Disk IO statistics are correctly reported.
89 tdb 1.4
90     libstatgrab 0.3 (10 March 2003)
91 tdb 1.3
92 tdb 1.6 * Support added for Linux with a 2.4 kernel.
93 tdb 1.3
94 tdb 1.8 libstatgrab 0.2 (03 March 2003)
95 tdb 1.2
96 tdb 1.6 * Initial working release for Solaris (tested on 7, 8, and 9).
97 tdb 1.2