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Revision: 1.45
Committed: Fri Jul 13 20:36:46 2007 UTC (16 years, 9 months ago) by tdb
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: LIBSTATGRAB_0_15
Changes since 1.44: +9 -1 lines
Log Message:
Update for 0.15 release.

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# User Rev Content
1 tdb 1.21 libstatgrab NEWS
2     http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3    
4 tdb 1.45 $Id: NEWS,v 1.44 2007/01/05 13:34:20 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 1.45 libstatgrab 0.15 (14 July 2007)
12     * Fix breakages in memory stats on OpenBSD that were introduced in
13     the last release.
14     (Thanks to David Love)
15     * Update internal string functions and some related cleanups.
16     (Thanks to David Love)
17     * Fix compile warning on FreeBSD.
18    
19 tdb 1.44 libstatgrab 0.14 (08 January 2007)
20 tdb 1.42 * Fix memory stats on OpenBSD.
21     * Add colour support to saidar.
22     (Thanks to Angelina Carlton)
23     * Fix CPU stats on Solaris - swap and iowait were incorrectly reported.
24     * Fix kstat related memory leaks on Solaris.
25     (Thanks to Javier Donaire)
26     * Fix network stats on some unusual Solaris setups.
27     * Fix process time_spent on Linux.
28     (Thanks to Fred Barnes)
29     * Make interface up status check the link status as well.
30     (Thanks to Michelangelo Vassallo)
31     * Fix build on NetBSD 3.
32     (Thanks to Wijnand Wiersma)
33 tdb 1.43 * Rework curses detection code in the configure script.
34 tdb 1.44 * Fix bug that caused saidar to crash when the window was rapidly resized.
35 tdb 1.42
36 tdb 1.41 libstatgrab 0.13 (19 March 2006)
37 tdb 1.40 * Fix build problems with recent linux kernels.
38     * Make saidar truncate disk/inteface/mount names to fit in display.
39     * Add WIN32 support using MINGW (not widely tested).
40     * Fix network interface up/down status on Solaris.
41     * Add extern "C" to header file to make linking with C++ code easier.
42 tdb 1.41 * Fix statgrab to cope with filesystem paths containing dots.
43     * Make NFS a legal filesystem type on all platforms.
44     * A few minor build fixes.
45 tdb 1.37
46 tdb 1.39 libstatgrab 0.12 (31 July 2005)
47 tdb 1.37 * More details added to filesystem statistics.
48     (Patches provided by Roman Neuhauser)
49     * Rework Linux partition detection.
50     * Fix compile error in network stats on Linux 2.6.
51 tdb 1.42 (Patches provided by Scott Lampert)
52 tdb 1.37 * Change name of duplex value in network interface stats.
53 tdb 1.42 NOTE: this minor change breaks the API.
54 tdb 1.37 * Manual pages for saidar, statgrab and the other tools.
55     * Fix minor typo in statgrab usage output.
56     * Support for Solaris 10.
57     * Support for FreeBSD 7.
58 tdb 1.36
59     libstatgrab 0.11.1 (03 March 2005)
60     * Add NFS to list of supported filesystems.
61     * Fix reporting of network interface duplex settings on Linux.
62     * Fix saidar to support negative FS usage.
63 tdb 1.33
64     libstatgrab 0.11 (09 November 2004)
65 tdb 1.34 * Add support for HP-UX 11.11.
66 tdb 1.35 (Patches provided by Roy Keene)
67 tdb 1.33 * Minor fixes to statgrab mrtg tools.
68     * Minor fixes to saidar.
69 tdb 1.34 * Minor code cleanups and fixes to libstatgrab.
70 ats 1.31
71 tdb 1.32 libstatgrab 0.10.3 (24 August 2004)
72 ats 1.31
73 tdb 1.32 * Add -f flag to statgrab to display floating-point numbers multiplied
74     by an integer.
75     * Add -K, -M and -G flags to statgrab to show byte counts in kibibytes,
76     mebibytes or gibibytes.
77     * Make statgrab-make-mrtg-config use the new flags to scale extremely
78     large or small numbers so that mrtg can handle them.
79     * Make statgrab-make-mrtg-config automatically detect network interface
80     speeds.
81     * Add support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT.
82 tdb 1.30
83     libstatgrab 0.10.2 (27 July 2004)
84    
85     * Fix shared library version that when backwards in 0.10.1.
86 tdb 1.27
87 tdb 1.29 libstatgrab 0.10.1 (26 July 2004)
88 tdb 1.27
89     * Use DESTDIR correctly when setting permissions at install time.
90     * Fix disk stats to work with OpenBSD 3.5.
91     * Fix disk stats on NetBSD 2.0 (statvfs instead of statfs).
92     * Fix memory leak in process stats on NetBSD 2.0.
93 ats 1.28 * Add vxfs (Veritas filesystem) to list of known filesystems
94 tdb 1.27 on Solaris.
95     * Add more variables to the pkg-config file to suggest suitable
96     ownership and permissions for binaries using libstatgrab.
97 ats 1.28 * Make sure statgrab.h can safely be included twice.
98 tdb 1.27 * Fix statgrab to display network interface names even if they
99     don't have IO stats (like the loopback interface on Solaris).
100     * Add error reporting function that grabs errno.
101 tdb 1.26
102     libstatgrab 0.10 (20 May 2004)
103    
104     * All function and structure names now follow a standardised
105     naming scheme. This will break compatibility with existing
106     programs. To use pre-0.10 compatibility functions:
107    
108     #define SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED
109     #include <statgrab.h>
110    
111     * New process stats function added to provide full details
112     on currently running processes. See sg_get_process_stats
113     for details.
114     * Compare functions provided for process, network, and disk io
115     statistics. These can be used with qsort.
116     * Error reporting functions added. See sg_get_error and
117     associated functions.
118     * Support added for NetBSD 2.0.
119     * Lots of code tidying.
120     * Python bindings now exist in a separate package:
121     http://www.i-scream.org/pystatgrab/
122 tdb 1.24
123     libstatgrab 0.9 (10 March 2004)
124    
125     * Added network interface information:
126     speed, duplex, up/down.
127     * Added more statistics on network interfaces:
128     i/o packets, i/o errors, and collisions.
129     * Added support for OpenBSD 3.3.
130     * Added support for DragonFly BSD 1.0.
131     * No longer need elevated privileges on most platforms:
132     FreeBSD 5, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
133 tdb 1.25 (see PLATFORMS file for details on which OS's need elevated privileges)
134 tdb 1.24 * Minor changes to the return types of the python bindings functions.
135    
136     * PLEASE NOTE: this will break binary (only) compatibility.
137 tdb 1.23
138     libstatgrab 0.8.2 (11 February 2004)
139    
140     * Fixes to add support for Solaris 6.
141     * Python bindings available in extras directory.
142     * Some tidying up of code.
143 tdb 1.21
144 tdb 1.20 libstatgrab 0.8.1 (21 January 2004)
145    
146     * The library part of libstatgrab is now released under the LGPL.
147     (the tools are still released under the GPL)
148     * File descriptor leak fixed on Linux.
149     * strlcpy/strlcat functions added for Solaris 7 to fix compile.
150     * statgrab_init error behaviour fixed (primarly for Solaris 7).
151     * Some incorrect #includes moved.
152     * Significant speed increases to the Solaris disk mapping code in
153     statgrab_init, which improves startup time.
154 tdb 1.22 * Minor fix for saidar's -d flag and negative numbers.
155 tdb 1.20
156 tdb 1.19 libstatgrab 0.8 (06 January 2004)
157 tdb 1.17
158     * Support for Linux 2.6.
159     * Support for Cygwin.
160     * Use cNtNdNsN names on Solaris instead of sdN.
161     * Fixes and optimisations to saidar.
162     * Fixes to the --disable-saidar and --disable-statgrab configure flags.
163 tdb 1.18 * New function to drop elevated privileges some OS's require.
164     (after using the init function)
165 tdb 1.17
166 tdb 1.16 libstatgrab 0.7 (22 October 2003)
167 tdb 1.15
168     * Support for NetBSD 1.6.x.
169     * FreeBSD code optimised.
170     * Initialise function allows programs to drop extra privileges (on *BSD).
171     * saidar now works even if it can't get all statistics.
172     * List of known file systems increased on Linux and *BSD.
173     * Minor bug fixes.
174 tdb 1.16 * Tested (and working) on Solaris 9 x86, Linux 2.2 on alpha, and
175     Linux 2.4 on amd64.
176 tdb 1.15
177 tdb 1.14 libstatgrab 0.6.1 (18 October 2003)
178    
179     * Support for FreeBSD 5.1/sparc64.
180     * Bugs fixed in FreeBSD memory statistics.
181     * saidar displays disk percentages more "correctly".
182     * Bug fixed displaying hostname in saidar.
183     * statgrab now handles unusual /dev layouts more gracefully.
184     * Minor packaging changes.
185    
186 tdb 1.13 libstatgrab 0.6 (09 October 2003)
187    
188     * saidar, a curses-based tool, has been added to give an overview of
189     the current system statistics.
190     * Added support for FreeBSD 5.1.
191     * Documentation is now available in manpages.
192     * Fixed major bug in the FreeBSD diskio stats.
193     * Added a .pc file for pkgconfig.
194    
195 tdb 1.12 libstatgrab 0.5.1 (09 September 2003)
196    
197     * Network stats wrap-around bug fixed on Linux and FreeBSD
198     * Linux now reads disk information from /proc/partitions if available.
199     This results in it getting data for all the disks.
200 tdb 1.32 * An additional tool, statgrab, has been added to allow external programs
201 tdb 1.12 to easily parse statistics generated by libstatgrab.
202     * Scripts to generate MRTG (www.mrtg.org) configs with statgrab have
203     been added. This allows graphs to be generated from system stats.
204    
205 tdb 1.11 libstatgrab 0.5 (25 August 2003)
206    
207     * Fixed a bug with process stats on FreeBSD.
208     * Added documentation in 'docs' directory.
209     * Added examples in 'examples' directory.
210    
211 tdb 1.10 libstatgrab 0.4 (09 April 2003)
212 tdb 1.9
213     * Support added for FreeBSD 4.x (not tested on 5.x).
214    
215 tdb 1.7 libstatgrab 0.3.4 (31 March 2003)
216    
217     * Fixed memory leak, and file descriptor leak on linux.
218    
219 tdb 1.6 libstatgrab 0.3.3 (22 March 2003)
220    
221     * Network statistics wraparound code was broken on interfaces that
222     transfered no data - typically second interfaces that weren't
223     connected.
224    
225 tdb 1.5 libstatgrab 0.3.2 (21 March 2003)
226    
227 tdb 1.6 * Network statistics wraparound fix.
228 tdb 1.5
229 tdb 1.4 libstatgrab 0.3.1 (12 March 2003)
230    
231 tdb 1.6 * Fixed network statistics on Solaris 7 or below.
232     * Disk IO statistics are correctly reported.
233 tdb 1.4
234     libstatgrab 0.3 (10 March 2003)
235 tdb 1.3
236 tdb 1.6 * Support added for Linux with a 2.4 kernel.
237 tdb 1.3
238 tdb 1.8 libstatgrab 0.2 (03 March 2003)
239 tdb 1.2
240 tdb 1.6 * Initial working release for Solaris (tested on 7, 8, and 9).
241 tdb 1.2