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Revision: 1.24
Committed: Mon Mar 8 14:27:31 2004 UTC (20 years, 7 months ago) by tdb
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.23: +15 -1 lines
Log Message:
Getting ready for 0.9.

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1 libstatgrab NEWS
2 http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3
4 $Id: NEWS,v 1.23 2004/02/10 19:50:57 tdb Exp $
5
6 libstatgrab 0.9 (10 March 2004)
7
8 * Added network interface information:
9 speed, duplex, up/down.
10 * Added more statistics on network interfaces:
11 i/o packets, i/o errors, and collisions.
12 * Added support for OpenBSD 3.3.
13 * Added support for DragonFly BSD 1.0.
14 * No longer need elevated privileges on most platforms:
15 FreeBSD 5, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
16 * Minor changes to the return types of the python bindings functions.
17
18 * PLEASE NOTE: this will break binary (only) compatibility.
19
20 libstatgrab 0.8.2 (11 February 2004)
21
22 * Fixes to add support for Solaris 6.
23 * Python bindings available in extras directory.
24 * Some tidying up of code.
25
26 libstatgrab 0.8.1 (21 January 2004)
27
28 * The library part of libstatgrab is now released under the LGPL.
29 (the tools are still released under the GPL)
30 * File descriptor leak fixed on Linux.
31 * strlcpy/strlcat functions added for Solaris 7 to fix compile.
32 * statgrab_init error behaviour fixed (primarly for Solaris 7).
33 * Some incorrect #includes moved.
34 * Significant speed increases to the Solaris disk mapping code in
35 statgrab_init, which improves startup time.
36 * Minor fix for saidar's -d flag and negative numbers.
37
38 libstatgrab 0.8 (06 January 2004)
39
40 * Support for Linux 2.6.
41 * Support for Cygwin.
42 * Use cNtNdNsN names on Solaris instead of sdN.
43 * Fixes and optimisations to saidar.
44 * Fixes to the --disable-saidar and --disable-statgrab configure flags.
45 * New function to drop elevated privileges some OS's require.
46 (after using the init function)
47
48 libstatgrab 0.7 (22 October 2003)
49
50 * Support for NetBSD 1.6.x.
51 * FreeBSD code optimised.
52 * Initialise function allows programs to drop extra privileges (on *BSD).
53 * saidar now works even if it can't get all statistics.
54 * List of known file systems increased on Linux and *BSD.
55 * Minor bug fixes.
56 * Tested (and working) on Solaris 9 x86, Linux 2.2 on alpha, and
57 Linux 2.4 on amd64.
58
59 libstatgrab 0.6.1 (18 October 2003)
60
61 * Support for FreeBSD 5.1/sparc64.
62 * Bugs fixed in FreeBSD memory statistics.
63 * saidar displays disk percentages more "correctly".
64 * Bug fixed displaying hostname in saidar.
65 * statgrab now handles unusual /dev layouts more gracefully.
66 * Minor packaging changes.
67
68 libstatgrab 0.6 (09 October 2003)
69
70 * saidar, a curses-based tool, has been added to give an overview of
71 the current system statistics.
72 * Added support for FreeBSD 5.1.
73 * Documentation is now available in manpages.
74 * Fixed major bug in the FreeBSD diskio stats.
75 * Added a .pc file for pkgconfig.
76
77 libstatgrab 0.5.1 (09 September 2003)
78
79 * Network stats wrap-around bug fixed on Linux and FreeBSD
80 * Linux now reads disk information from /proc/partitions if available.
81 This results in it getting data for all the disks.
82 * An additional tool, statgrab, has been added to allow external programs
83 to easily parse statistics generated by libstatgrab.
84 * Scripts to generate MRTG (www.mrtg.org) configs with statgrab have
85 been added. This allows graphs to be generated from system stats.
86
87 libstatgrab 0.5 (25 August 2003)
88
89 * Fixed a bug with process stats on FreeBSD.
90 * Added documentation in 'docs' directory.
91 * Added examples in 'examples' directory.
92
93 libstatgrab 0.4 (09 April 2003)
94
95 * Support added for FreeBSD 4.x (not tested on 5.x).
96
97 libstatgrab 0.3.4 (31 March 2003)
98
99 * Fixed memory leak, and file descriptor leak on linux.
100
101 libstatgrab 0.3.3 (22 March 2003)
102
103 * Network statistics wraparound code was broken on interfaces that
104 transfered no data - typically second interfaces that weren't
105 connected.
106
107 libstatgrab 0.3.2 (21 March 2003)
108
109 * Network statistics wraparound fix.
110
111 libstatgrab 0.3.1 (12 March 2003)
112
113 * Fixed network statistics on Solaris 7 or below.
114 * Disk IO statistics are correctly reported.
115
116 libstatgrab 0.3 (10 March 2003)
117
118 * Support added for Linux with a 2.4 kernel.
119
120 libstatgrab 0.2 (03 March 2003)
121
122 * Initial working release for Solaris (tested on 7, 8, and 9).
123