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Revision: 1.23
Committed: Tue Feb 10 19:50:57 2004 UTC (20 years, 8 months ago) by tdb
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: LIBSTATGRAB_0_8_2
Changes since 1.22: +7 -1 lines
Log Message:
Update for release of 0.8.2.

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# Content
1 libstatgrab NEWS
2 http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3
4 $Id: NEWS,v 1.22 2004/01/21 10:27:45 tdb Exp $
5
6 libstatgrab 0.8.2 (11 February 2004)
7
8 * Fixes to add support for Solaris 6.
9 * Python bindings available in extras directory.
10 * Some tidying up of code.
11
12 libstatgrab 0.8.1 (21 January 2004)
13
14 * The library part of libstatgrab is now released under the LGPL.
15 (the tools are still released under the GPL)
16 * File descriptor leak fixed on Linux.
17 * strlcpy/strlcat functions added for Solaris 7 to fix compile.
18 * statgrab_init error behaviour fixed (primarly for Solaris 7).
19 * Some incorrect #includes moved.
20 * Significant speed increases to the Solaris disk mapping code in
21 statgrab_init, which improves startup time.
22 * Minor fix for saidar's -d flag and negative numbers.
23
24 libstatgrab 0.8 (06 January 2004)
25
26 * Support for Linux 2.6.
27 * Support for Cygwin.
28 * Use cNtNdNsN names on Solaris instead of sdN.
29 * Fixes and optimisations to saidar.
30 * Fixes to the --disable-saidar and --disable-statgrab configure flags.
31 * New function to drop elevated privileges some OS's require.
32 (after using the init function)
33
34 libstatgrab 0.7 (22 October 2003)
35
36 * Support for NetBSD 1.6.x.
37 * FreeBSD code optimised.
38 * Initialise function allows programs to drop extra privileges (on *BSD).
39 * saidar now works even if it can't get all statistics.
40 * List of known file systems increased on Linux and *BSD.
41 * Minor bug fixes.
42 * Tested (and working) on Solaris 9 x86, Linux 2.2 on alpha, and
43 Linux 2.4 on amd64.
44
45 libstatgrab 0.6.1 (18 October 2003)
46
47 * Support for FreeBSD 5.1/sparc64.
48 * Bugs fixed in FreeBSD memory statistics.
49 * saidar displays disk percentages more "correctly".
50 * Bug fixed displaying hostname in saidar.
51 * statgrab now handles unusual /dev layouts more gracefully.
52 * Minor packaging changes.
53
54 libstatgrab 0.6 (09 October 2003)
55
56 * saidar, a curses-based tool, has been added to give an overview of
57 the current system statistics.
58 * Added support for FreeBSD 5.1.
59 * Documentation is now available in manpages.
60 * Fixed major bug in the FreeBSD diskio stats.
61 * Added a .pc file for pkgconfig.
62
63 libstatgrab 0.5.1 (09 September 2003)
64
65 * Network stats wrap-around bug fixed on Linux and FreeBSD
66 * Linux now reads disk information from /proc/partitions if available.
67 This results in it getting data for all the disks.
68 * An additional tool, statgrab, has been added to allow external programs
69 to easily parse statistics generated by libstatgrab.
70 * Scripts to generate MRTG (www.mrtg.org) configs with statgrab have
71 been added. This allows graphs to be generated from system stats.
72
73 libstatgrab 0.5 (25 August 2003)
74
75 * Fixed a bug with process stats on FreeBSD.
76 * Added documentation in 'docs' directory.
77 * Added examples in 'examples' directory.
78
79 libstatgrab 0.4 (09 April 2003)
80
81 * Support added for FreeBSD 4.x (not tested on 5.x).
82
83 libstatgrab 0.3.4 (31 March 2003)
84
85 * Fixed memory leak, and file descriptor leak on linux.
86
87 libstatgrab 0.3.3 (22 March 2003)
88
89 * Network statistics wraparound code was broken on interfaces that
90 transfered no data - typically second interfaces that weren't
91 connected.
92
93 libstatgrab 0.3.2 (21 March 2003)
94
95 * Network statistics wraparound fix.
96
97 libstatgrab 0.3.1 (12 March 2003)
98
99 * Fixed network statistics on Solaris 7 or below.
100 * Disk IO statistics are correctly reported.
101
102 libstatgrab 0.3 (10 March 2003)
103
104 * Support added for Linux with a 2.4 kernel.
105
106 libstatgrab 0.2 (03 March 2003)
107
108 * Initial working release for Solaris (tested on 7, 8, and 9).
109