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Revision: 1.37
Committed: Mon Jul 18 14:08:34 2005 UTC (19 years, 4 months ago) by tdb
Branch: MAIN
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1 libstatgrab NEWS
2 http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3
4 $Id: NEWS,v 1.36 2005/03/01 18:12:31 tdb Exp $
5
6 PLANS: We're now working towards a 1.0 release which is where we plan
7 to stabalise the API. We'll be doing test releases before hand,
8 but as always we'll like to hear about any bugs found in the
9 current release.
10
11 libstatgrab 0.12 (?? July 2005)
12 * More details added to filesystem statistics.
13 (Patches provided by Roman Neuhauser)
14 * Rework Linux partition detection.
15 * Fix compile error in network stats on Linux 2.6.
16 (Patches provided by Scott Lampert)
17 * Change name of duplex value in network interface stats.
18 NOTE: this minor change breaks the API.
19 * Manual pages for saidar, statgrab and the other tools.
20 * Fix minor typo in statgrab usage output.
21 * Support for Solaris 10.
22 * Support for FreeBSD 7.
23
24 libstatgrab 0.11.1 (03 March 2005)
25 * Add NFS to list of supported filesystems.
26 * Fix reporting of network interface duplex settings on Linux.
27 * Fix saidar to support negative FS usage.
28
29 libstatgrab 0.11 (09 November 2004)
30 * Add support for HP-UX 11.11.
31 (Patches provided by Roy Keene)
32 * Minor fixes to statgrab mrtg tools.
33 * Minor fixes to saidar.
34 * Minor code cleanups and fixes to libstatgrab.
35
36 libstatgrab 0.10.3 (24 August 2004)
37
38 * Add -f flag to statgrab to display floating-point numbers multiplied
39 by an integer.
40 * Add -K, -M and -G flags to statgrab to show byte counts in kibibytes,
41 mebibytes or gibibytes.
42 * Make statgrab-make-mrtg-config use the new flags to scale extremely
43 large or small numbers so that mrtg can handle them.
44 * Make statgrab-make-mrtg-config automatically detect network interface
45 speeds.
46 * Add support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT.
47
48 libstatgrab 0.10.2 (27 July 2004)
49
50 * Fix shared library version that when backwards in 0.10.1.
51
52 libstatgrab 0.10.1 (26 July 2004)
53
54 * Use DESTDIR correctly when setting permissions at install time.
55 * Fix disk stats to work with OpenBSD 3.5.
56 * Fix disk stats on NetBSD 2.0 (statvfs instead of statfs).
57 * Fix memory leak in process stats on NetBSD 2.0.
58 * Add vxfs (Veritas filesystem) to list of known filesystems
59 on Solaris.
60 * Add more variables to the pkg-config file to suggest suitable
61 ownership and permissions for binaries using libstatgrab.
62 * Make sure statgrab.h can safely be included twice.
63 * Fix statgrab to display network interface names even if they
64 don't have IO stats (like the loopback interface on Solaris).
65 * Add error reporting function that grabs errno.
66
67 libstatgrab 0.10 (20 May 2004)
68
69 * All function and structure names now follow a standardised
70 naming scheme. This will break compatibility with existing
71 programs. To use pre-0.10 compatibility functions:
72
73 #define SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED
74 #include <statgrab.h>
75
76 * New process stats function added to provide full details
77 on currently running processes. See sg_get_process_stats
78 for details.
79 * Compare functions provided for process, network, and disk io
80 statistics. These can be used with qsort.
81 * Error reporting functions added. See sg_get_error and
82 associated functions.
83 * Support added for NetBSD 2.0.
84 * Lots of code tidying.
85 * Python bindings now exist in a separate package:
86 http://www.i-scream.org/pystatgrab/
87
88 libstatgrab 0.9 (10 March 2004)
89
90 * Added network interface information:
91 speed, duplex, up/down.
92 * Added more statistics on network interfaces:
93 i/o packets, i/o errors, and collisions.
94 * Added support for OpenBSD 3.3.
95 * Added support for DragonFly BSD 1.0.
96 * No longer need elevated privileges on most platforms:
97 FreeBSD 5, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
98 (see PLATFORMS file for details on which OS's need elevated privileges)
99 * Minor changes to the return types of the python bindings functions.
100
101 * PLEASE NOTE: this will break binary (only) compatibility.
102
103 libstatgrab 0.8.2 (11 February 2004)
104
105 * Fixes to add support for Solaris 6.
106 * Python bindings available in extras directory.
107 * Some tidying up of code.
108
109 libstatgrab 0.8.1 (21 January 2004)
110
111 * The library part of libstatgrab is now released under the LGPL.
112 (the tools are still released under the GPL)
113 * File descriptor leak fixed on Linux.
114 * strlcpy/strlcat functions added for Solaris 7 to fix compile.
115 * statgrab_init error behaviour fixed (primarly for Solaris 7).
116 * Some incorrect #includes moved.
117 * Significant speed increases to the Solaris disk mapping code in
118 statgrab_init, which improves startup time.
119 * Minor fix for saidar's -d flag and negative numbers.
120
121 libstatgrab 0.8 (06 January 2004)
122
123 * Support for Linux 2.6.
124 * Support for Cygwin.
125 * Use cNtNdNsN names on Solaris instead of sdN.
126 * Fixes and optimisations to saidar.
127 * Fixes to the --disable-saidar and --disable-statgrab configure flags.
128 * New function to drop elevated privileges some OS's require.
129 (after using the init function)
130
131 libstatgrab 0.7 (22 October 2003)
132
133 * Support for NetBSD 1.6.x.
134 * FreeBSD code optimised.
135 * Initialise function allows programs to drop extra privileges (on *BSD).
136 * saidar now works even if it can't get all statistics.
137 * List of known file systems increased on Linux and *BSD.
138 * Minor bug fixes.
139 * Tested (and working) on Solaris 9 x86, Linux 2.2 on alpha, and
140 Linux 2.4 on amd64.
141
142 libstatgrab 0.6.1 (18 October 2003)
143
144 * Support for FreeBSD 5.1/sparc64.
145 * Bugs fixed in FreeBSD memory statistics.
146 * saidar displays disk percentages more "correctly".
147 * Bug fixed displaying hostname in saidar.
148 * statgrab now handles unusual /dev layouts more gracefully.
149 * Minor packaging changes.
150
151 libstatgrab 0.6 (09 October 2003)
152
153 * saidar, a curses-based tool, has been added to give an overview of
154 the current system statistics.
155 * Added support for FreeBSD 5.1.
156 * Documentation is now available in manpages.
157 * Fixed major bug in the FreeBSD diskio stats.
158 * Added a .pc file for pkgconfig.
159
160 libstatgrab 0.5.1 (09 September 2003)
161
162 * Network stats wrap-around bug fixed on Linux and FreeBSD
163 * Linux now reads disk information from /proc/partitions if available.
164 This results in it getting data for all the disks.
165 * An additional tool, statgrab, has been added to allow external programs
166 to easily parse statistics generated by libstatgrab.
167 * Scripts to generate MRTG (www.mrtg.org) configs with statgrab have
168 been added. This allows graphs to be generated from system stats.
169
170 libstatgrab 0.5 (25 August 2003)
171
172 * Fixed a bug with process stats on FreeBSD.
173 * Added documentation in 'docs' directory.
174 * Added examples in 'examples' directory.
175
176 libstatgrab 0.4 (09 April 2003)
177
178 * Support added for FreeBSD 4.x (not tested on 5.x).
179
180 libstatgrab 0.3.4 (31 March 2003)
181
182 * Fixed memory leak, and file descriptor leak on linux.
183
184 libstatgrab 0.3.3 (22 March 2003)
185
186 * Network statistics wraparound code was broken on interfaces that
187 transfered no data - typically second interfaces that weren't
188 connected.
189
190 libstatgrab 0.3.2 (21 March 2003)
191
192 * Network statistics wraparound fix.
193
194 libstatgrab 0.3.1 (12 March 2003)
195
196 * Fixed network statistics on Solaris 7 or below.
197 * Disk IO statistics are correctly reported.
198
199 libstatgrab 0.3 (10 March 2003)
200
201 * Support added for Linux with a 2.4 kernel.
202
203 libstatgrab 0.2 (03 March 2003)
204
205 * Initial working release for Solaris (tested on 7, 8, and 9).
206