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Revision: 1.20
Committed: Mon Jan 19 16:38:56 2004 UTC (20 years, 3 months ago) by tdb
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.19: +11 -0 lines
Log Message:
Update relevant files for release of 0.8.1.

File Contents

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