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Revision: 1.42
Committed: Fri Dec 1 00:06:22 2006 UTC (18 years ago) by tdb
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.41: +18 -3 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 1.42 $Id: NEWS,v 1.41 2006/03/17 19:35:40 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 tdb 1.42 libstatgrab 0.14 (?? December 2006)
12     * Fix memory stats on OpenBSD.
13     * Add colour support to saidar.
14     (Thanks to Angelina Carlton)
15     * Fix CPU stats on Solaris - swap and iowait were incorrectly reported.
16     * Fix kstat related memory leaks on Solaris.
17     (Thanks to Javier Donaire)
18     * Fix network stats on some unusual Solaris setups.
19     * Fix process time_spent on Linux.
20     (Thanks to Fred Barnes)
21     * Make interface up status check the link status as well.
22     (Thanks to Michelangelo Vassallo)
23     * Fix build on NetBSD 3.
24     (Thanks to Wijnand Wiersma)
25    
26 tdb 1.41 libstatgrab 0.13 (19 March 2006)
27 tdb 1.40 * Fix build problems with recent linux kernels.
28     * Make saidar truncate disk/inteface/mount names to fit in display.
29     * Add WIN32 support using MINGW (not widely tested).
30     * Fix network interface up/down status on Solaris.
31     * Add extern "C" to header file to make linking with C++ code easier.
32 tdb 1.41 * Fix statgrab to cope with filesystem paths containing dots.
33     * Make NFS a legal filesystem type on all platforms.
34     * A few minor build fixes.
35 tdb 1.37
36 tdb 1.39 libstatgrab 0.12 (31 July 2005)
37 tdb 1.37 * More details added to filesystem statistics.
38     (Patches provided by Roman Neuhauser)
39     * Rework Linux partition detection.
40     * Fix compile error in network stats on Linux 2.6.
41 tdb 1.42 (Patches provided by Scott Lampert)
42 tdb 1.37 * Change name of duplex value in network interface stats.
43 tdb 1.42 NOTE: this minor change breaks the API.
44 tdb 1.37 * Manual pages for saidar, statgrab and the other tools.
45     * Fix minor typo in statgrab usage output.
46     * Support for Solaris 10.
47     * Support for FreeBSD 7.
48 tdb 1.36
49     libstatgrab 0.11.1 (03 March 2005)
50     * Add NFS to list of supported filesystems.
51     * Fix reporting of network interface duplex settings on Linux.
52     * Fix saidar to support negative FS usage.
53 tdb 1.33
54     libstatgrab 0.11 (09 November 2004)
55 tdb 1.34 * Add support for HP-UX 11.11.
56 tdb 1.35 (Patches provided by Roy Keene)
57 tdb 1.33 * Minor fixes to statgrab mrtg tools.
58     * Minor fixes to saidar.
59 tdb 1.34 * Minor code cleanups and fixes to libstatgrab.
60 ats 1.31
61 tdb 1.32 libstatgrab 0.10.3 (24 August 2004)
62 ats 1.31
63 tdb 1.32 * Add -f flag to statgrab to display floating-point numbers multiplied
64     by an integer.
65     * Add -K, -M and -G flags to statgrab to show byte counts in kibibytes,
66     mebibytes or gibibytes.
67     * Make statgrab-make-mrtg-config use the new flags to scale extremely
68     large or small numbers so that mrtg can handle them.
69     * Make statgrab-make-mrtg-config automatically detect network interface
70     speeds.
71     * Add support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT.
72 tdb 1.30
73     libstatgrab 0.10.2 (27 July 2004)
74    
75     * Fix shared library version that when backwards in 0.10.1.
76 tdb 1.27
77 tdb 1.29 libstatgrab 0.10.1 (26 July 2004)
78 tdb 1.27
79     * Use DESTDIR correctly when setting permissions at install time.
80     * Fix disk stats to work with OpenBSD 3.5.
81     * Fix disk stats on NetBSD 2.0 (statvfs instead of statfs).
82     * Fix memory leak in process stats on NetBSD 2.0.
83 ats 1.28 * Add vxfs (Veritas filesystem) to list of known filesystems
84 tdb 1.27 on Solaris.
85     * Add more variables to the pkg-config file to suggest suitable
86     ownership and permissions for binaries using libstatgrab.
87 ats 1.28 * Make sure statgrab.h can safely be included twice.
88 tdb 1.27 * Fix statgrab to display network interface names even if they
89     don't have IO stats (like the loopback interface on Solaris).
90     * Add error reporting function that grabs errno.
91 tdb 1.26
92     libstatgrab 0.10 (20 May 2004)
93    
94     * All function and structure names now follow a standardised
95     naming scheme. This will break compatibility with existing
96     programs. To use pre-0.10 compatibility functions:
97    
98     #define SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED
99     #include <statgrab.h>
100    
101     * New process stats function added to provide full details
102     on currently running processes. See sg_get_process_stats
103     for details.
104     * Compare functions provided for process, network, and disk io
105     statistics. These can be used with qsort.
106     * Error reporting functions added. See sg_get_error and
107     associated functions.
108     * Support added for NetBSD 2.0.
109     * Lots of code tidying.
110     * Python bindings now exist in a separate package:
111     http://www.i-scream.org/pystatgrab/
112 tdb 1.24
113     libstatgrab 0.9 (10 March 2004)
114    
115     * Added network interface information:
116     speed, duplex, up/down.
117     * Added more statistics on network interfaces:
118     i/o packets, i/o errors, and collisions.
119     * Added support for OpenBSD 3.3.
120     * Added support for DragonFly BSD 1.0.
121     * No longer need elevated privileges on most platforms:
122     FreeBSD 5, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
123 tdb 1.25 (see PLATFORMS file for details on which OS's need elevated privileges)
124 tdb 1.24 * Minor changes to the return types of the python bindings functions.
125    
126     * PLEASE NOTE: this will break binary (only) compatibility.
127 tdb 1.23
128     libstatgrab 0.8.2 (11 February 2004)
129    
130     * Fixes to add support for Solaris 6.
131     * Python bindings available in extras directory.
132     * Some tidying up of code.
133 tdb 1.21
134 tdb 1.20 libstatgrab 0.8.1 (21 January 2004)
135    
136     * The library part of libstatgrab is now released under the LGPL.
137     (the tools are still released under the GPL)
138     * File descriptor leak fixed on Linux.
139     * strlcpy/strlcat functions added for Solaris 7 to fix compile.
140     * statgrab_init error behaviour fixed (primarly for Solaris 7).
141     * Some incorrect #includes moved.
142     * Significant speed increases to the Solaris disk mapping code in
143     statgrab_init, which improves startup time.
144 tdb 1.22 * Minor fix for saidar's -d flag and negative numbers.
145 tdb 1.20
146 tdb 1.19 libstatgrab 0.8 (06 January 2004)
147 tdb 1.17
148     * Support for Linux 2.6.
149     * Support for Cygwin.
150     * Use cNtNdNsN names on Solaris instead of sdN.
151     * Fixes and optimisations to saidar.
152     * Fixes to the --disable-saidar and --disable-statgrab configure flags.
153 tdb 1.18 * New function to drop elevated privileges some OS's require.
154     (after using the init function)
155 tdb 1.17
156 tdb 1.16 libstatgrab 0.7 (22 October 2003)
157 tdb 1.15
158     * Support for NetBSD 1.6.x.
159     * FreeBSD code optimised.
160     * Initialise function allows programs to drop extra privileges (on *BSD).
161     * saidar now works even if it can't get all statistics.
162     * List of known file systems increased on Linux and *BSD.
163     * Minor bug fixes.
164 tdb 1.16 * Tested (and working) on Solaris 9 x86, Linux 2.2 on alpha, and
165     Linux 2.4 on amd64.
166 tdb 1.15
167 tdb 1.14 libstatgrab 0.6.1 (18 October 2003)
168    
169     * Support for FreeBSD 5.1/sparc64.
170     * Bugs fixed in FreeBSD memory statistics.
171     * saidar displays disk percentages more "correctly".
172     * Bug fixed displaying hostname in saidar.
173     * statgrab now handles unusual /dev layouts more gracefully.
174     * Minor packaging changes.
175    
176 tdb 1.13 libstatgrab 0.6 (09 October 2003)
177    
178     * saidar, a curses-based tool, has been added to give an overview of
179     the current system statistics.
180     * Added support for FreeBSD 5.1.
181     * Documentation is now available in manpages.
182     * Fixed major bug in the FreeBSD diskio stats.
183     * Added a .pc file for pkgconfig.
184    
185 tdb 1.12 libstatgrab 0.5.1 (09 September 2003)
186    
187     * Network stats wrap-around bug fixed on Linux and FreeBSD
188     * Linux now reads disk information from /proc/partitions if available.
189     This results in it getting data for all the disks.
190 tdb 1.32 * An additional tool, statgrab, has been added to allow external programs
191 tdb 1.12 to easily parse statistics generated by libstatgrab.
192     * Scripts to generate MRTG (www.mrtg.org) configs with statgrab have
193     been added. This allows graphs to be generated from system stats.
194    
195 tdb 1.11 libstatgrab 0.5 (25 August 2003)
196    
197     * Fixed a bug with process stats on FreeBSD.
198     * Added documentation in 'docs' directory.
199     * Added examples in 'examples' directory.
200    
201 tdb 1.10 libstatgrab 0.4 (09 April 2003)
202 tdb 1.9
203     * Support added for FreeBSD 4.x (not tested on 5.x).
204    
205 tdb 1.7 libstatgrab 0.3.4 (31 March 2003)
206    
207     * Fixed memory leak, and file descriptor leak on linux.
208    
209 tdb 1.6 libstatgrab 0.3.3 (22 March 2003)
210    
211     * Network statistics wraparound code was broken on interfaces that
212     transfered no data - typically second interfaces that weren't
213     connected.
214    
215 tdb 1.5 libstatgrab 0.3.2 (21 March 2003)
216    
217 tdb 1.6 * Network statistics wraparound fix.
218 tdb 1.5
219 tdb 1.4 libstatgrab 0.3.1 (12 March 2003)
220    
221 tdb 1.6 * Fixed network statistics on Solaris 7 or below.
222     * Disk IO statistics are correctly reported.
223 tdb 1.4
224     libstatgrab 0.3 (10 March 2003)
225 tdb 1.3
226 tdb 1.6 * Support added for Linux with a 2.4 kernel.
227 tdb 1.3
228 tdb 1.8 libstatgrab 0.2 (03 March 2003)
229 tdb 1.2
230 tdb 1.6 * Initial working release for Solaris (tested on 7, 8, and 9).
231 tdb 1.2