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