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Revision: 1.43
Committed: Fri Dec 1 14:21:16 2006 UTC (17 years, 4 months ago) by tdb
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.42: +2 -1 lines
Log Message:
Sort out curses detection. It'll now detect ncurses before curses, and
cope with the header files being in include or include/ncurses. I think
this will work in every case.

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# User Rev Content
1 tdb 1.21 libstatgrab NEWS
2     http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3    
4 tdb 1.43 $Id: NEWS,v 1.42 2006/12/01 00:06:22 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 tdb 1.43 * Rework curses detection code in the configure script.
26 tdb 1.42
27 tdb 1.41 libstatgrab 0.13 (19 March 2006)
28 tdb 1.40 * Fix build problems with recent linux kernels.
29     * Make saidar truncate disk/inteface/mount names to fit in display.
30     * Add WIN32 support using MINGW (not widely tested).
31     * Fix network interface up/down status on Solaris.
32     * Add extern "C" to header file to make linking with C++ code easier.
33 tdb 1.41 * Fix statgrab to cope with filesystem paths containing dots.
34     * Make NFS a legal filesystem type on all platforms.
35     * A few minor build fixes.
36 tdb 1.37
37 tdb 1.39 libstatgrab 0.12 (31 July 2005)
38 tdb 1.37 * More details added to filesystem statistics.
39     (Patches provided by Roman Neuhauser)
40     * Rework Linux partition detection.
41     * Fix compile error in network stats on Linux 2.6.
42 tdb 1.42 (Patches provided by Scott Lampert)
43 tdb 1.37 * Change name of duplex value in network interface stats.
44 tdb 1.42 NOTE: this minor change breaks the API.
45 tdb 1.37 * Manual pages for saidar, statgrab and the other tools.
46     * Fix minor typo in statgrab usage output.
47     * Support for Solaris 10.
48     * Support for FreeBSD 7.
49 tdb 1.36
50     libstatgrab 0.11.1 (03 March 2005)
51     * Add NFS to list of supported filesystems.
52     * Fix reporting of network interface duplex settings on Linux.
53     * Fix saidar to support negative FS usage.
54 tdb 1.33
55     libstatgrab 0.11 (09 November 2004)
56 tdb 1.34 * Add support for HP-UX 11.11.
57 tdb 1.35 (Patches provided by Roy Keene)
58 tdb 1.33 * Minor fixes to statgrab mrtg tools.
59     * Minor fixes to saidar.
60 tdb 1.34 * Minor code cleanups and fixes to libstatgrab.
61 ats 1.31
62 tdb 1.32 libstatgrab 0.10.3 (24 August 2004)
63 ats 1.31
64 tdb 1.32 * Add -f flag to statgrab to display floating-point numbers multiplied
65     by an integer.
66     * Add -K, -M and -G flags to statgrab to show byte counts in kibibytes,
67     mebibytes or gibibytes.
68     * Make statgrab-make-mrtg-config use the new flags to scale extremely
69     large or small numbers so that mrtg can handle them.
70     * Make statgrab-make-mrtg-config automatically detect network interface
71     speeds.
72     * Add support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT.
73 tdb 1.30
74     libstatgrab 0.10.2 (27 July 2004)
75    
76     * Fix shared library version that when backwards in 0.10.1.
77 tdb 1.27
78 tdb 1.29 libstatgrab 0.10.1 (26 July 2004)
79 tdb 1.27
80     * Use DESTDIR correctly when setting permissions at install time.
81     * Fix disk stats to work with OpenBSD 3.5.
82     * Fix disk stats on NetBSD 2.0 (statvfs instead of statfs).
83     * Fix memory leak in process stats on NetBSD 2.0.
84 ats 1.28 * Add vxfs (Veritas filesystem) to list of known filesystems
85 tdb 1.27 on Solaris.
86     * Add more variables to the pkg-config file to suggest suitable
87     ownership and permissions for binaries using libstatgrab.
88 ats 1.28 * Make sure statgrab.h can safely be included twice.
89 tdb 1.27 * Fix statgrab to display network interface names even if they
90     don't have IO stats (like the loopback interface on Solaris).
91     * Add error reporting function that grabs errno.
92 tdb 1.26
93     libstatgrab 0.10 (20 May 2004)
94    
95     * All function and structure names now follow a standardised
96     naming scheme. This will break compatibility with existing
97     programs. To use pre-0.10 compatibility functions:
98    
99     #define SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED
100     #include <statgrab.h>
101    
102     * New process stats function added to provide full details
103     on currently running processes. See sg_get_process_stats
104     for details.
105     * Compare functions provided for process, network, and disk io
106     statistics. These can be used with qsort.
107     * Error reporting functions added. See sg_get_error and
108     associated functions.
109     * Support added for NetBSD 2.0.
110     * Lots of code tidying.
111     * Python bindings now exist in a separate package:
112     http://www.i-scream.org/pystatgrab/
113 tdb 1.24
114     libstatgrab 0.9 (10 March 2004)
115    
116     * Added network interface information:
117     speed, duplex, up/down.
118     * Added more statistics on network interfaces:
119     i/o packets, i/o errors, and collisions.
120     * Added support for OpenBSD 3.3.
121     * Added support for DragonFly BSD 1.0.
122     * No longer need elevated privileges on most platforms:
123     FreeBSD 5, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
124 tdb 1.25 (see PLATFORMS file for details on which OS's need elevated privileges)
125 tdb 1.24 * Minor changes to the return types of the python bindings functions.
126    
127     * PLEASE NOTE: this will break binary (only) compatibility.
128 tdb 1.23
129     libstatgrab 0.8.2 (11 February 2004)
130    
131     * Fixes to add support for Solaris 6.
132     * Python bindings available in extras directory.
133     * Some tidying up of code.
134 tdb 1.21
135 tdb 1.20 libstatgrab 0.8.1 (21 January 2004)
136    
137     * The library part of libstatgrab is now released under the LGPL.
138     (the tools are still released under the GPL)
139     * File descriptor leak fixed on Linux.
140     * strlcpy/strlcat functions added for Solaris 7 to fix compile.
141     * statgrab_init error behaviour fixed (primarly for Solaris 7).
142     * Some incorrect #includes moved.
143     * Significant speed increases to the Solaris disk mapping code in
144     statgrab_init, which improves startup time.
145 tdb 1.22 * Minor fix for saidar's -d flag and negative numbers.
146 tdb 1.20
147 tdb 1.19 libstatgrab 0.8 (06 January 2004)
148 tdb 1.17
149     * Support for Linux 2.6.
150     * Support for Cygwin.
151     * Use cNtNdNsN names on Solaris instead of sdN.
152     * Fixes and optimisations to saidar.
153     * Fixes to the --disable-saidar and --disable-statgrab configure flags.
154 tdb 1.18 * New function to drop elevated privileges some OS's require.
155     (after using the init function)
156 tdb 1.17
157 tdb 1.16 libstatgrab 0.7 (22 October 2003)
158 tdb 1.15
159     * Support for NetBSD 1.6.x.
160     * FreeBSD code optimised.
161     * Initialise function allows programs to drop extra privileges (on *BSD).
162     * saidar now works even if it can't get all statistics.
163     * List of known file systems increased on Linux and *BSD.
164     * Minor bug fixes.
165 tdb 1.16 * Tested (and working) on Solaris 9 x86, Linux 2.2 on alpha, and
166     Linux 2.4 on amd64.
167 tdb 1.15
168 tdb 1.14 libstatgrab 0.6.1 (18 October 2003)
169    
170     * Support for FreeBSD 5.1/sparc64.
171     * Bugs fixed in FreeBSD memory statistics.
172     * saidar displays disk percentages more "correctly".
173     * Bug fixed displaying hostname in saidar.
174     * statgrab now handles unusual /dev layouts more gracefully.
175     * Minor packaging changes.
176    
177 tdb 1.13 libstatgrab 0.6 (09 October 2003)
178    
179     * saidar, a curses-based tool, has been added to give an overview of
180     the current system statistics.
181     * Added support for FreeBSD 5.1.
182     * Documentation is now available in manpages.
183     * Fixed major bug in the FreeBSD diskio stats.
184     * Added a .pc file for pkgconfig.
185    
186 tdb 1.12 libstatgrab 0.5.1 (09 September 2003)
187    
188     * Network stats wrap-around bug fixed on Linux and FreeBSD
189     * Linux now reads disk information from /proc/partitions if available.
190     This results in it getting data for all the disks.
191 tdb 1.32 * An additional tool, statgrab, has been added to allow external programs
192 tdb 1.12 to easily parse statistics generated by libstatgrab.
193     * Scripts to generate MRTG (www.mrtg.org) configs with statgrab have
194     been added. This allows graphs to be generated from system stats.
195    
196 tdb 1.11 libstatgrab 0.5 (25 August 2003)
197    
198     * Fixed a bug with process stats on FreeBSD.
199     * Added documentation in 'docs' directory.
200     * Added examples in 'examples' directory.
201    
202 tdb 1.10 libstatgrab 0.4 (09 April 2003)
203 tdb 1.9
204     * Support added for FreeBSD 4.x (not tested on 5.x).
205    
206 tdb 1.7 libstatgrab 0.3.4 (31 March 2003)
207    
208     * Fixed memory leak, and file descriptor leak on linux.
209    
210 tdb 1.6 libstatgrab 0.3.3 (22 March 2003)
211    
212     * Network statistics wraparound code was broken on interfaces that
213     transfered no data - typically second interfaces that weren't
214     connected.
215    
216 tdb 1.5 libstatgrab 0.3.2 (21 March 2003)
217    
218 tdb 1.6 * Network statistics wraparound fix.
219 tdb 1.5
220 tdb 1.4 libstatgrab 0.3.1 (12 March 2003)
221    
222 tdb 1.6 * Fixed network statistics on Solaris 7 or below.
223     * Disk IO statistics are correctly reported.
224 tdb 1.4
225     libstatgrab 0.3 (10 March 2003)
226 tdb 1.3
227 tdb 1.6 * Support added for Linux with a 2.4 kernel.
228 tdb 1.3
229 tdb 1.8 libstatgrab 0.2 (03 March 2003)
230 tdb 1.2
231 tdb 1.6 * Initial working release for Solaris (tested on 7, 8, and 9).
232 tdb 1.2