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Revision: 1.25
Committed: Tue Mar 9 12:25:38 2004 UTC (20 years, 7 months ago) by tdb
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: LIBSTATGRAB_0_9
Changes since 1.24: +2 -1 lines
Log Message:
Add note about PLATFORMS to the NEWS file.

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# User Rev Content
1 tdb 1.21 libstatgrab NEWS
2     http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3    
4 tdb 1.25 $Id: NEWS,v 1.24 2004/03/08 14:27:31 tdb Exp $
5 tdb 1.24
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 tdb 1.25 (see PLATFORMS file for details on which OS's need elevated privileges)
17 tdb 1.24 * Minor changes to the return types of the python bindings functions.
18    
19     * PLEASE NOTE: this will break binary (only) compatibility.
20 tdb 1.23
21     libstatgrab 0.8.2 (11 February 2004)
22    
23     * Fixes to add support for Solaris 6.
24     * Python bindings available in extras directory.
25     * Some tidying up of code.
26 tdb 1.21
27 tdb 1.20 libstatgrab 0.8.1 (21 January 2004)
28    
29     * The library part of libstatgrab is now released under the LGPL.
30     (the tools are still released under the GPL)
31     * File descriptor leak fixed on Linux.
32     * strlcpy/strlcat functions added for Solaris 7 to fix compile.
33     * statgrab_init error behaviour fixed (primarly for Solaris 7).
34     * Some incorrect #includes moved.
35     * Significant speed increases to the Solaris disk mapping code in
36     statgrab_init, which improves startup time.
37 tdb 1.22 * Minor fix for saidar's -d flag and negative numbers.
38 tdb 1.20
39 tdb 1.19 libstatgrab 0.8 (06 January 2004)
40 tdb 1.17
41     * Support for Linux 2.6.
42     * Support for Cygwin.
43     * Use cNtNdNsN names on Solaris instead of sdN.
44     * Fixes and optimisations to saidar.
45     * Fixes to the --disable-saidar and --disable-statgrab configure flags.
46 tdb 1.18 * New function to drop elevated privileges some OS's require.
47     (after using the init function)
48 tdb 1.17
49 tdb 1.16 libstatgrab 0.7 (22 October 2003)
50 tdb 1.15
51     * Support for NetBSD 1.6.x.
52     * FreeBSD code optimised.
53     * Initialise function allows programs to drop extra privileges (on *BSD).
54     * saidar now works even if it can't get all statistics.
55     * List of known file systems increased on Linux and *BSD.
56     * Minor bug fixes.
57 tdb 1.16 * Tested (and working) on Solaris 9 x86, Linux 2.2 on alpha, and
58     Linux 2.4 on amd64.
59 tdb 1.15
60 tdb 1.14 libstatgrab 0.6.1 (18 October 2003)
61    
62     * Support for FreeBSD 5.1/sparc64.
63     * Bugs fixed in FreeBSD memory statistics.
64     * saidar displays disk percentages more "correctly".
65     * Bug fixed displaying hostname in saidar.
66     * statgrab now handles unusual /dev layouts more gracefully.
67     * Minor packaging changes.
68    
69 tdb 1.13 libstatgrab 0.6 (09 October 2003)
70    
71     * saidar, a curses-based tool, has been added to give an overview of
72     the current system statistics.
73     * Added support for FreeBSD 5.1.
74     * Documentation is now available in manpages.
75     * Fixed major bug in the FreeBSD diskio stats.
76     * Added a .pc file for pkgconfig.
77    
78 tdb 1.12 libstatgrab 0.5.1 (09 September 2003)
79    
80     * Network stats wrap-around bug fixed on Linux and FreeBSD
81     * Linux now reads disk information from /proc/partitions if available.
82     This results in it getting data for all the disks.
83     * An additional tool, statgrab, has been added to allow external programs
84     to easily parse statistics generated by libstatgrab.
85     * Scripts to generate MRTG (www.mrtg.org) configs with statgrab have
86     been added. This allows graphs to be generated from system stats.
87    
88 tdb 1.11 libstatgrab 0.5 (25 August 2003)
89    
90     * Fixed a bug with process stats on FreeBSD.
91     * Added documentation in 'docs' directory.
92     * Added examples in 'examples' directory.
93    
94 tdb 1.10 libstatgrab 0.4 (09 April 2003)
95 tdb 1.9
96     * Support added for FreeBSD 4.x (not tested on 5.x).
97    
98 tdb 1.7 libstatgrab 0.3.4 (31 March 2003)
99    
100     * Fixed memory leak, and file descriptor leak on linux.
101    
102 tdb 1.6 libstatgrab 0.3.3 (22 March 2003)
103    
104     * Network statistics wraparound code was broken on interfaces that
105     transfered no data - typically second interfaces that weren't
106     connected.
107    
108 tdb 1.5 libstatgrab 0.3.2 (21 March 2003)
109    
110 tdb 1.6 * Network statistics wraparound fix.
111 tdb 1.5
112 tdb 1.4 libstatgrab 0.3.1 (12 March 2003)
113    
114 tdb 1.6 * Fixed network statistics on Solaris 7 or below.
115     * Disk IO statistics are correctly reported.
116 tdb 1.4
117     libstatgrab 0.3 (10 March 2003)
118 tdb 1.3
119 tdb 1.6 * Support added for Linux with a 2.4 kernel.
120 tdb 1.3
121 tdb 1.8 libstatgrab 0.2 (03 March 2003)
122 tdb 1.2
123 tdb 1.6 * Initial working release for Solaris (tested on 7, 8, and 9).
124 tdb 1.2