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Revision: 1.24
Committed: Mon Mar 8 14:27:31 2004 UTC (20 years, 1 month ago) by tdb
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.23: +15 -1 lines
Log Message:
Getting ready for 0.9.

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# User Rev Content
1 tdb 1.21 libstatgrab NEWS
2     http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3    
4 tdb 1.24 $Id: NEWS,v 1.23 2004/02/10 19:50:57 tdb Exp $
5    
6     libstatgrab 0.9 (10 March 2004)
7    
8     * Added network interface information:
9     speed, duplex, up/down.
10     * Added more statistics on network interfaces:
11     i/o packets, i/o errors, and collisions.
12     * Added support for OpenBSD 3.3.
13     * Added support for DragonFly BSD 1.0.
14     * No longer need elevated privileges on most platforms:
15     FreeBSD 5, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
16     * Minor changes to the return types of the python bindings functions.
17    
18     * PLEASE NOTE: this will break binary (only) compatibility.
19 tdb 1.23
20     libstatgrab 0.8.2 (11 February 2004)
21    
22     * Fixes to add support for Solaris 6.
23     * Python bindings available in extras directory.
24     * Some tidying up of code.
25 tdb 1.21
26 tdb 1.20 libstatgrab 0.8.1 (21 January 2004)
27    
28     * The library part of libstatgrab is now released under the LGPL.
29     (the tools are still released under the GPL)
30     * File descriptor leak fixed on Linux.
31     * strlcpy/strlcat functions added for Solaris 7 to fix compile.
32     * statgrab_init error behaviour fixed (primarly for Solaris 7).
33     * Some incorrect #includes moved.
34     * Significant speed increases to the Solaris disk mapping code in
35     statgrab_init, which improves startup time.
36 tdb 1.22 * Minor fix for saidar's -d flag and negative numbers.
37 tdb 1.20
38 tdb 1.19 libstatgrab 0.8 (06 January 2004)
39 tdb 1.17
40     * Support for Linux 2.6.
41     * Support for Cygwin.
42     * Use cNtNdNsN names on Solaris instead of sdN.
43     * Fixes and optimisations to saidar.
44     * Fixes to the --disable-saidar and --disable-statgrab configure flags.
45 tdb 1.18 * New function to drop elevated privileges some OS's require.
46     (after using the init function)
47 tdb 1.17
48 tdb 1.16 libstatgrab 0.7 (22 October 2003)
49 tdb 1.15
50     * Support for NetBSD 1.6.x.
51     * FreeBSD code optimised.
52     * Initialise function allows programs to drop extra privileges (on *BSD).
53     * saidar now works even if it can't get all statistics.
54     * List of known file systems increased on Linux and *BSD.
55     * Minor bug fixes.
56 tdb 1.16 * Tested (and working) on Solaris 9 x86, Linux 2.2 on alpha, and
57     Linux 2.4 on amd64.
58 tdb 1.15
59 tdb 1.14 libstatgrab 0.6.1 (18 October 2003)
60    
61     * Support for FreeBSD 5.1/sparc64.
62     * Bugs fixed in FreeBSD memory statistics.
63     * saidar displays disk percentages more "correctly".
64     * Bug fixed displaying hostname in saidar.
65     * statgrab now handles unusual /dev layouts more gracefully.
66     * Minor packaging changes.
67    
68 tdb 1.13 libstatgrab 0.6 (09 October 2003)
69    
70     * saidar, a curses-based tool, has been added to give an overview of
71     the current system statistics.
72     * Added support for FreeBSD 5.1.
73     * Documentation is now available in manpages.
74     * Fixed major bug in the FreeBSD diskio stats.
75     * Added a .pc file for pkgconfig.
76    
77 tdb 1.12 libstatgrab 0.5.1 (09 September 2003)
78    
79     * Network stats wrap-around bug fixed on Linux and FreeBSD
80     * Linux now reads disk information from /proc/partitions if available.
81     This results in it getting data for all the disks.
82     * An additional tool, statgrab, has been added to allow external programs
83     to easily parse statistics generated by libstatgrab.
84     * Scripts to generate MRTG (www.mrtg.org) configs with statgrab have
85     been added. This allows graphs to be generated from system stats.
86    
87 tdb 1.11 libstatgrab 0.5 (25 August 2003)
88    
89     * Fixed a bug with process stats on FreeBSD.
90     * Added documentation in 'docs' directory.
91     * Added examples in 'examples' directory.
92    
93 tdb 1.10 libstatgrab 0.4 (09 April 2003)
94 tdb 1.9
95     * Support added for FreeBSD 4.x (not tested on 5.x).
96    
97 tdb 1.7 libstatgrab 0.3.4 (31 March 2003)
98    
99     * Fixed memory leak, and file descriptor leak on linux.
100    
101 tdb 1.6 libstatgrab 0.3.3 (22 March 2003)
102    
103     * Network statistics wraparound code was broken on interfaces that
104     transfered no data - typically second interfaces that weren't
105     connected.
106    
107 tdb 1.5 libstatgrab 0.3.2 (21 March 2003)
108    
109 tdb 1.6 * Network statistics wraparound fix.
110 tdb 1.5
111 tdb 1.4 libstatgrab 0.3.1 (12 March 2003)
112    
113 tdb 1.6 * Fixed network statistics on Solaris 7 or below.
114     * Disk IO statistics are correctly reported.
115 tdb 1.4
116     libstatgrab 0.3 (10 March 2003)
117 tdb 1.3
118 tdb 1.6 * Support added for Linux with a 2.4 kernel.
119 tdb 1.3
120 tdb 1.8 libstatgrab 0.2 (03 March 2003)
121 tdb 1.2
122 tdb 1.6 * Initial working release for Solaris (tested on 7, 8, and 9).
123 tdb 1.2