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Revision: 1.40
Committed: Sat Mar 11 13:41:57 2006 UTC (18 years ago) by tdb
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.39: +9 -1 lines
Log Message:
Provisional NEWS entry.

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1 tdb 1.21 libstatgrab NEWS
2     http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3    
4 tdb 1.40 $Id: NEWS,v 1.39 2005/07/30 10:39:39 tdb Exp $
5 tdb 1.37
6     PLANS: We're now working towards a 1.0 release which is where we plan
7 ats 1.38 to stabilise the API. We'll be doing test releases before hand,
8 tdb 1.37 but as always we'll like to hear about any bugs found in the
9     current release.
10 tdb 1.40
11     libstatgrab 0.13? (?? March 2006)
12     * Fix build problems with recent linux kernels.
13     * Make saidar truncate disk/inteface/mount names to fit in display.
14     * Add WIN32 support using MINGW (not widely tested).
15     * Fix network interface up/down status on Solaris.
16     * Add extern "C" to header file to make linking with C++ code easier.
17     * A few build fixes.
18 tdb 1.37
19 tdb 1.39 libstatgrab 0.12 (31 July 2005)
20 tdb 1.37 * More details added to filesystem statistics.
21     (Patches provided by Roman Neuhauser)
22     * Rework Linux partition detection.
23     * Fix compile error in network stats on Linux 2.6.
24     (Patches provided by Scott Lampert)
25     * Change name of duplex value in network interface stats.
26     NOTE: this minor change breaks the API.
27     * Manual pages for saidar, statgrab and the other tools.
28     * Fix minor typo in statgrab usage output.
29     * Support for Solaris 10.
30     * Support for FreeBSD 7.
31 tdb 1.36
32     libstatgrab 0.11.1 (03 March 2005)
33     * Add NFS to list of supported filesystems.
34     * Fix reporting of network interface duplex settings on Linux.
35     * Fix saidar to support negative FS usage.
36 tdb 1.33
37     libstatgrab 0.11 (09 November 2004)
38 tdb 1.34 * Add support for HP-UX 11.11.
39 tdb 1.35 (Patches provided by Roy Keene)
40 tdb 1.33 * Minor fixes to statgrab mrtg tools.
41     * Minor fixes to saidar.
42 tdb 1.34 * Minor code cleanups and fixes to libstatgrab.
43 ats 1.31
44 tdb 1.32 libstatgrab 0.10.3 (24 August 2004)
45 ats 1.31
46 tdb 1.32 * Add -f flag to statgrab to display floating-point numbers multiplied
47     by an integer.
48     * Add -K, -M and -G flags to statgrab to show byte counts in kibibytes,
49     mebibytes or gibibytes.
50     * Make statgrab-make-mrtg-config use the new flags to scale extremely
51     large or small numbers so that mrtg can handle them.
52     * Make statgrab-make-mrtg-config automatically detect network interface
53     speeds.
54     * Add support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT.
55 tdb 1.30
56     libstatgrab 0.10.2 (27 July 2004)
57    
58     * Fix shared library version that when backwards in 0.10.1.
59 tdb 1.27
60 tdb 1.29 libstatgrab 0.10.1 (26 July 2004)
61 tdb 1.27
62     * Use DESTDIR correctly when setting permissions at install time.
63     * Fix disk stats to work with OpenBSD 3.5.
64     * Fix disk stats on NetBSD 2.0 (statvfs instead of statfs).
65     * Fix memory leak in process stats on NetBSD 2.0.
66 ats 1.28 * Add vxfs (Veritas filesystem) to list of known filesystems
67 tdb 1.27 on Solaris.
68     * Add more variables to the pkg-config file to suggest suitable
69     ownership and permissions for binaries using libstatgrab.
70 ats 1.28 * Make sure statgrab.h can safely be included twice.
71 tdb 1.27 * Fix statgrab to display network interface names even if they
72     don't have IO stats (like the loopback interface on Solaris).
73     * Add error reporting function that grabs errno.
74 tdb 1.26
75     libstatgrab 0.10 (20 May 2004)
76    
77     * All function and structure names now follow a standardised
78     naming scheme. This will break compatibility with existing
79     programs. To use pre-0.10 compatibility functions:
80    
81     #define SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED
82     #include <statgrab.h>
83    
84     * New process stats function added to provide full details
85     on currently running processes. See sg_get_process_stats
86     for details.
87     * Compare functions provided for process, network, and disk io
88     statistics. These can be used with qsort.
89     * Error reporting functions added. See sg_get_error and
90     associated functions.
91     * Support added for NetBSD 2.0.
92     * Lots of code tidying.
93     * Python bindings now exist in a separate package:
94     http://www.i-scream.org/pystatgrab/
95 tdb 1.24
96     libstatgrab 0.9 (10 March 2004)
97    
98     * Added network interface information:
99     speed, duplex, up/down.
100     * Added more statistics on network interfaces:
101     i/o packets, i/o errors, and collisions.
102     * Added support for OpenBSD 3.3.
103     * Added support for DragonFly BSD 1.0.
104     * No longer need elevated privileges on most platforms:
105     FreeBSD 5, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
106 tdb 1.25 (see PLATFORMS file for details on which OS's need elevated privileges)
107 tdb 1.24 * Minor changes to the return types of the python bindings functions.
108    
109     * PLEASE NOTE: this will break binary (only) compatibility.
110 tdb 1.23
111     libstatgrab 0.8.2 (11 February 2004)
112    
113     * Fixes to add support for Solaris 6.
114     * Python bindings available in extras directory.
115     * Some tidying up of code.
116 tdb 1.21
117 tdb 1.20 libstatgrab 0.8.1 (21 January 2004)
118    
119     * The library part of libstatgrab is now released under the LGPL.
120     (the tools are still released under the GPL)
121     * File descriptor leak fixed on Linux.
122     * strlcpy/strlcat functions added for Solaris 7 to fix compile.
123     * statgrab_init error behaviour fixed (primarly for Solaris 7).
124     * Some incorrect #includes moved.
125     * Significant speed increases to the Solaris disk mapping code in
126     statgrab_init, which improves startup time.
127 tdb 1.22 * Minor fix for saidar's -d flag and negative numbers.
128 tdb 1.20
129 tdb 1.19 libstatgrab 0.8 (06 January 2004)
130 tdb 1.17
131     * Support for Linux 2.6.
132     * Support for Cygwin.
133     * Use cNtNdNsN names on Solaris instead of sdN.
134     * Fixes and optimisations to saidar.
135     * Fixes to the --disable-saidar and --disable-statgrab configure flags.
136 tdb 1.18 * New function to drop elevated privileges some OS's require.
137     (after using the init function)
138 tdb 1.17
139 tdb 1.16 libstatgrab 0.7 (22 October 2003)
140 tdb 1.15
141     * Support for NetBSD 1.6.x.
142     * FreeBSD code optimised.
143     * Initialise function allows programs to drop extra privileges (on *BSD).
144     * saidar now works even if it can't get all statistics.
145     * List of known file systems increased on Linux and *BSD.
146     * Minor bug fixes.
147 tdb 1.16 * Tested (and working) on Solaris 9 x86, Linux 2.2 on alpha, and
148     Linux 2.4 on amd64.
149 tdb 1.15
150 tdb 1.14 libstatgrab 0.6.1 (18 October 2003)
151    
152     * Support for FreeBSD 5.1/sparc64.
153     * Bugs fixed in FreeBSD memory statistics.
154     * saidar displays disk percentages more "correctly".
155     * Bug fixed displaying hostname in saidar.
156     * statgrab now handles unusual /dev layouts more gracefully.
157     * Minor packaging changes.
158    
159 tdb 1.13 libstatgrab 0.6 (09 October 2003)
160    
161     * saidar, a curses-based tool, has been added to give an overview of
162     the current system statistics.
163     * Added support for FreeBSD 5.1.
164     * Documentation is now available in manpages.
165     * Fixed major bug in the FreeBSD diskio stats.
166     * Added a .pc file for pkgconfig.
167    
168 tdb 1.12 libstatgrab 0.5.1 (09 September 2003)
169    
170     * Network stats wrap-around bug fixed on Linux and FreeBSD
171     * Linux now reads disk information from /proc/partitions if available.
172     This results in it getting data for all the disks.
173 tdb 1.32 * An additional tool, statgrab, has been added to allow external programs
174 tdb 1.12 to easily parse statistics generated by libstatgrab.
175     * Scripts to generate MRTG (www.mrtg.org) configs with statgrab have
176     been added. This allows graphs to be generated from system stats.
177    
178 tdb 1.11 libstatgrab 0.5 (25 August 2003)
179    
180     * Fixed a bug with process stats on FreeBSD.
181     * Added documentation in 'docs' directory.
182     * Added examples in 'examples' directory.
183    
184 tdb 1.10 libstatgrab 0.4 (09 April 2003)
185 tdb 1.9
186     * Support added for FreeBSD 4.x (not tested on 5.x).
187    
188 tdb 1.7 libstatgrab 0.3.4 (31 March 2003)
189    
190     * Fixed memory leak, and file descriptor leak on linux.
191    
192 tdb 1.6 libstatgrab 0.3.3 (22 March 2003)
193    
194     * Network statistics wraparound code was broken on interfaces that
195     transfered no data - typically second interfaces that weren't
196     connected.
197    
198 tdb 1.5 libstatgrab 0.3.2 (21 March 2003)
199    
200 tdb 1.6 * Network statistics wraparound fix.
201 tdb 1.5
202 tdb 1.4 libstatgrab 0.3.1 (12 March 2003)
203    
204 tdb 1.6 * Fixed network statistics on Solaris 7 or below.
205     * Disk IO statistics are correctly reported.
206 tdb 1.4
207     libstatgrab 0.3 (10 March 2003)
208 tdb 1.3
209 tdb 1.6 * Support added for Linux with a 2.4 kernel.
210 tdb 1.3
211 tdb 1.8 libstatgrab 0.2 (03 March 2003)
212 tdb 1.2
213 tdb 1.6 * Initial working release for Solaris (tested on 7, 8, and 9).
214 tdb 1.2