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Revision: 1.36
Committed: Tue Mar 1 18:12:31 2005 UTC (19 years, 9 months ago) by tdb
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: LIBSTATGRAB_0_11_1
Changes since 1.35: +6 -1 lines
Log Message:
Prepare NEWS for new release.

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# User Rev Content
1 tdb 1.21 libstatgrab NEWS
2     http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3    
4 tdb 1.36 $Id: NEWS,v 1.35 2004/11/08 18:47:47 tdb Exp $
5    
6     libstatgrab 0.11.1 (03 March 2005)
7     * Add NFS to list of supported filesystems.
8     * Fix reporting of network interface duplex settings on Linux.
9     * Fix saidar to support negative FS usage.
10 tdb 1.33
11     libstatgrab 0.11 (09 November 2004)
12 tdb 1.34 * Add support for HP-UX 11.11.
13 tdb 1.35 (Patches provided by Roy Keene)
14 tdb 1.33 * Minor fixes to statgrab mrtg tools.
15     * Minor fixes to saidar.
16 tdb 1.34 * Minor code cleanups and fixes to libstatgrab.
17 ats 1.31
18 tdb 1.32 libstatgrab 0.10.3 (24 August 2004)
19 ats 1.31
20 tdb 1.32 * Add -f flag to statgrab to display floating-point numbers multiplied
21     by an integer.
22     * Add -K, -M and -G flags to statgrab to show byte counts in kibibytes,
23     mebibytes or gibibytes.
24     * Make statgrab-make-mrtg-config use the new flags to scale extremely
25     large or small numbers so that mrtg can handle them.
26     * Make statgrab-make-mrtg-config automatically detect network interface
27     speeds.
28     * Add support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT.
29 tdb 1.30
30     libstatgrab 0.10.2 (27 July 2004)
31    
32     * Fix shared library version that when backwards in 0.10.1.
33 tdb 1.27
34 tdb 1.29 libstatgrab 0.10.1 (26 July 2004)
35 tdb 1.27
36     * Use DESTDIR correctly when setting permissions at install time.
37     * Fix disk stats to work with OpenBSD 3.5.
38     * Fix disk stats on NetBSD 2.0 (statvfs instead of statfs).
39     * Fix memory leak in process stats on NetBSD 2.0.
40 ats 1.28 * Add vxfs (Veritas filesystem) to list of known filesystems
41 tdb 1.27 on Solaris.
42     * Add more variables to the pkg-config file to suggest suitable
43     ownership and permissions for binaries using libstatgrab.
44 ats 1.28 * Make sure statgrab.h can safely be included twice.
45 tdb 1.27 * Fix statgrab to display network interface names even if they
46     don't have IO stats (like the loopback interface on Solaris).
47     * Add error reporting function that grabs errno.
48 tdb 1.26
49     libstatgrab 0.10 (20 May 2004)
50    
51     * All function and structure names now follow a standardised
52     naming scheme. This will break compatibility with existing
53     programs. To use pre-0.10 compatibility functions:
54    
55     #define SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED
56     #include <statgrab.h>
57    
58     * New process stats function added to provide full details
59     on currently running processes. See sg_get_process_stats
60     for details.
61     * Compare functions provided for process, network, and disk io
62     statistics. These can be used with qsort.
63     * Error reporting functions added. See sg_get_error and
64     associated functions.
65     * Support added for NetBSD 2.0.
66     * Lots of code tidying.
67     * Python bindings now exist in a separate package:
68     http://www.i-scream.org/pystatgrab/
69 tdb 1.24
70     libstatgrab 0.9 (10 March 2004)
71    
72     * Added network interface information:
73     speed, duplex, up/down.
74     * Added more statistics on network interfaces:
75     i/o packets, i/o errors, and collisions.
76     * Added support for OpenBSD 3.3.
77     * Added support for DragonFly BSD 1.0.
78     * No longer need elevated privileges on most platforms:
79     FreeBSD 5, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
80 tdb 1.25 (see PLATFORMS file for details on which OS's need elevated privileges)
81 tdb 1.24 * Minor changes to the return types of the python bindings functions.
82    
83     * PLEASE NOTE: this will break binary (only) compatibility.
84 tdb 1.23
85     libstatgrab 0.8.2 (11 February 2004)
86    
87     * Fixes to add support for Solaris 6.
88     * Python bindings available in extras directory.
89     * Some tidying up of code.
90 tdb 1.21
91 tdb 1.20 libstatgrab 0.8.1 (21 January 2004)
92    
93     * The library part of libstatgrab is now released under the LGPL.
94     (the tools are still released under the GPL)
95     * File descriptor leak fixed on Linux.
96     * strlcpy/strlcat functions added for Solaris 7 to fix compile.
97     * statgrab_init error behaviour fixed (primarly for Solaris 7).
98     * Some incorrect #includes moved.
99     * Significant speed increases to the Solaris disk mapping code in
100     statgrab_init, which improves startup time.
101 tdb 1.22 * Minor fix for saidar's -d flag and negative numbers.
102 tdb 1.20
103 tdb 1.19 libstatgrab 0.8 (06 January 2004)
104 tdb 1.17
105     * Support for Linux 2.6.
106     * Support for Cygwin.
107     * Use cNtNdNsN names on Solaris instead of sdN.
108     * Fixes and optimisations to saidar.
109     * Fixes to the --disable-saidar and --disable-statgrab configure flags.
110 tdb 1.18 * New function to drop elevated privileges some OS's require.
111     (after using the init function)
112 tdb 1.17
113 tdb 1.16 libstatgrab 0.7 (22 October 2003)
114 tdb 1.15
115     * Support for NetBSD 1.6.x.
116     * FreeBSD code optimised.
117     * Initialise function allows programs to drop extra privileges (on *BSD).
118     * saidar now works even if it can't get all statistics.
119     * List of known file systems increased on Linux and *BSD.
120     * Minor bug fixes.
121 tdb 1.16 * Tested (and working) on Solaris 9 x86, Linux 2.2 on alpha, and
122     Linux 2.4 on amd64.
123 tdb 1.15
124 tdb 1.14 libstatgrab 0.6.1 (18 October 2003)
125    
126     * Support for FreeBSD 5.1/sparc64.
127     * Bugs fixed in FreeBSD memory statistics.
128     * saidar displays disk percentages more "correctly".
129     * Bug fixed displaying hostname in saidar.
130     * statgrab now handles unusual /dev layouts more gracefully.
131     * Minor packaging changes.
132    
133 tdb 1.13 libstatgrab 0.6 (09 October 2003)
134    
135     * saidar, a curses-based tool, has been added to give an overview of
136     the current system statistics.
137     * Added support for FreeBSD 5.1.
138     * Documentation is now available in manpages.
139     * Fixed major bug in the FreeBSD diskio stats.
140     * Added a .pc file for pkgconfig.
141    
142 tdb 1.12 libstatgrab 0.5.1 (09 September 2003)
143    
144     * Network stats wrap-around bug fixed on Linux and FreeBSD
145     * Linux now reads disk information from /proc/partitions if available.
146     This results in it getting data for all the disks.
147 tdb 1.32 * An additional tool, statgrab, has been added to allow external programs
148 tdb 1.12 to easily parse statistics generated by libstatgrab.
149     * Scripts to generate MRTG (www.mrtg.org) configs with statgrab have
150     been added. This allows graphs to be generated from system stats.
151    
152 tdb 1.11 libstatgrab 0.5 (25 August 2003)
153    
154     * Fixed a bug with process stats on FreeBSD.
155     * Added documentation in 'docs' directory.
156     * Added examples in 'examples' directory.
157    
158 tdb 1.10 libstatgrab 0.4 (09 April 2003)
159 tdb 1.9
160     * Support added for FreeBSD 4.x (not tested on 5.x).
161    
162 tdb 1.7 libstatgrab 0.3.4 (31 March 2003)
163    
164     * Fixed memory leak, and file descriptor leak on linux.
165    
166 tdb 1.6 libstatgrab 0.3.3 (22 March 2003)
167    
168     * Network statistics wraparound code was broken on interfaces that
169     transfered no data - typically second interfaces that weren't
170     connected.
171    
172 tdb 1.5 libstatgrab 0.3.2 (21 March 2003)
173    
174 tdb 1.6 * Network statistics wraparound fix.
175 tdb 1.5
176 tdb 1.4 libstatgrab 0.3.1 (12 March 2003)
177    
178 tdb 1.6 * Fixed network statistics on Solaris 7 or below.
179     * Disk IO statistics are correctly reported.
180 tdb 1.4
181     libstatgrab 0.3 (10 March 2003)
182 tdb 1.3
183 tdb 1.6 * Support added for Linux with a 2.4 kernel.
184 tdb 1.3
185 tdb 1.8 libstatgrab 0.2 (03 March 2003)
186 tdb 1.2
187 tdb 1.6 * Initial working release for Solaris (tested on 7, 8, and 9).
188 tdb 1.2