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Revision: 1.25
Committed: Tue Mar 9 12:25:38 2004 UTC (20 years, 7 months ago) by tdb
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: LIBSTATGRAB_0_9
Changes since 1.24: +2 -1 lines
Log Message:
Add note about PLATFORMS to the NEWS file.

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1 libstatgrab NEWS
2 http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3
4 $Id: NEWS,v 1.24 2004/03/08 14:27:31 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 (see PLATFORMS file for details on which OS's need elevated privileges)
17 * Minor changes to the return types of the python bindings functions.
18
19 * PLEASE NOTE: this will break binary (only) compatibility.
20
21 libstatgrab 0.8.2 (11 February 2004)
22
23 * Fixes to add support for Solaris 6.
24 * Python bindings available in extras directory.
25 * Some tidying up of code.
26
27 libstatgrab 0.8.1 (21 January 2004)
28
29 * The library part of libstatgrab is now released under the LGPL.
30 (the tools are still released under the GPL)
31 * File descriptor leak fixed on Linux.
32 * strlcpy/strlcat functions added for Solaris 7 to fix compile.
33 * statgrab_init error behaviour fixed (primarly for Solaris 7).
34 * Some incorrect #includes moved.
35 * Significant speed increases to the Solaris disk mapping code in
36 statgrab_init, which improves startup time.
37 * Minor fix for saidar's -d flag and negative numbers.
38
39 libstatgrab 0.8 (06 January 2004)
40
41 * Support for Linux 2.6.
42 * Support for Cygwin.
43 * Use cNtNdNsN names on Solaris instead of sdN.
44 * Fixes and optimisations to saidar.
45 * Fixes to the --disable-saidar and --disable-statgrab configure flags.
46 * New function to drop elevated privileges some OS's require.
47 (after using the init function)
48
49 libstatgrab 0.7 (22 October 2003)
50
51 * Support for NetBSD 1.6.x.
52 * FreeBSD code optimised.
53 * Initialise function allows programs to drop extra privileges (on *BSD).
54 * saidar now works even if it can't get all statistics.
55 * List of known file systems increased on Linux and *BSD.
56 * Minor bug fixes.
57 * Tested (and working) on Solaris 9 x86, Linux 2.2 on alpha, and
58 Linux 2.4 on amd64.
59
60 libstatgrab 0.6.1 (18 October 2003)
61
62 * Support for FreeBSD 5.1/sparc64.
63 * Bugs fixed in FreeBSD memory statistics.
64 * saidar displays disk percentages more "correctly".
65 * Bug fixed displaying hostname in saidar.
66 * statgrab now handles unusual /dev layouts more gracefully.
67 * Minor packaging changes.
68
69 libstatgrab 0.6 (09 October 2003)
70
71 * saidar, a curses-based tool, has been added to give an overview of
72 the current system statistics.
73 * Added support for FreeBSD 5.1.
74 * Documentation is now available in manpages.
75 * Fixed major bug in the FreeBSD diskio stats.
76 * Added a .pc file for pkgconfig.
77
78 libstatgrab 0.5.1 (09 September 2003)
79
80 * Network stats wrap-around bug fixed on Linux and FreeBSD
81 * Linux now reads disk information from /proc/partitions if available.
82 This results in it getting data for all the disks.
83 * An additional tool, statgrab, has been added to allow external programs
84 to easily parse statistics generated by libstatgrab.
85 * Scripts to generate MRTG (www.mrtg.org) configs with statgrab have
86 been added. This allows graphs to be generated from system stats.
87
88 libstatgrab 0.5 (25 August 2003)
89
90 * Fixed a bug with process stats on FreeBSD.
91 * Added documentation in 'docs' directory.
92 * Added examples in 'examples' directory.
93
94 libstatgrab 0.4 (09 April 2003)
95
96 * Support added for FreeBSD 4.x (not tested on 5.x).
97
98 libstatgrab 0.3.4 (31 March 2003)
99
100 * Fixed memory leak, and file descriptor leak on linux.
101
102 libstatgrab 0.3.3 (22 March 2003)
103
104 * Network statistics wraparound code was broken on interfaces that
105 transfered no data - typically second interfaces that weren't
106 connected.
107
108 libstatgrab 0.3.2 (21 March 2003)
109
110 * Network statistics wraparound fix.
111
112 libstatgrab 0.3.1 (12 March 2003)
113
114 * Fixed network statistics on Solaris 7 or below.
115 * Disk IO statistics are correctly reported.
116
117 libstatgrab 0.3 (10 March 2003)
118
119 * Support added for Linux with a 2.4 kernel.
120
121 libstatgrab 0.2 (03 March 2003)
122
123 * Initial working release for Solaris (tested on 7, 8, and 9).
124