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Revision: 1.40
Committed: Sat Mar 11 13:41:57 2006 UTC (18 years, 1 month ago) by tdb
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Provisional NEWS entry.

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1 libstatgrab NEWS
2 http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3
4 $Id: NEWS,v 1.39 2005/07/30 10:39:39 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? (?? 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 * A few build fixes.
18
19 libstatgrab 0.12 (31 July 2005)
20 * More details added to filesystem statistics.
21 (Patches provided by Roman Neuhauser)
22 * Rework Linux partition detection.
23 * Fix compile error in network stats on Linux 2.6.
24 (Patches provided by Scott Lampert)
25 * Change name of duplex value in network interface stats.
26 NOTE: this minor change breaks the API.
27 * Manual pages for saidar, statgrab and the other tools.
28 * Fix minor typo in statgrab usage output.
29 * Support for Solaris 10.
30 * Support for FreeBSD 7.
31
32 libstatgrab 0.11.1 (03 March 2005)
33 * Add NFS to list of supported filesystems.
34 * Fix reporting of network interface duplex settings on Linux.
35 * Fix saidar to support negative FS usage.
36
37 libstatgrab 0.11 (09 November 2004)
38 * Add support for HP-UX 11.11.
39 (Patches provided by Roy Keene)
40 * Minor fixes to statgrab mrtg tools.
41 * Minor fixes to saidar.
42 * Minor code cleanups and fixes to libstatgrab.
43
44 libstatgrab 0.10.3 (24 August 2004)
45
46 * Add -f flag to statgrab to display floating-point numbers multiplied
47 by an integer.
48 * Add -K, -M and -G flags to statgrab to show byte counts in kibibytes,
49 mebibytes or gibibytes.
50 * Make statgrab-make-mrtg-config use the new flags to scale extremely
51 large or small numbers so that mrtg can handle them.
52 * Make statgrab-make-mrtg-config automatically detect network interface
53 speeds.
54 * Add support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT.
55
56 libstatgrab 0.10.2 (27 July 2004)
57
58 * Fix shared library version that when backwards in 0.10.1.
59
60 libstatgrab 0.10.1 (26 July 2004)
61
62 * Use DESTDIR correctly when setting permissions at install time.
63 * Fix disk stats to work with OpenBSD 3.5.
64 * Fix disk stats on NetBSD 2.0 (statvfs instead of statfs).
65 * Fix memory leak in process stats on NetBSD 2.0.
66 * Add vxfs (Veritas filesystem) to list of known filesystems
67 on Solaris.
68 * Add more variables to the pkg-config file to suggest suitable
69 ownership and permissions for binaries using libstatgrab.
70 * Make sure statgrab.h can safely be included twice.
71 * Fix statgrab to display network interface names even if they
72 don't have IO stats (like the loopback interface on Solaris).
73 * Add error reporting function that grabs errno.
74
75 libstatgrab 0.10 (20 May 2004)
76
77 * All function and structure names now follow a standardised
78 naming scheme. This will break compatibility with existing
79 programs. To use pre-0.10 compatibility functions:
80
81 #define SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED
82 #include <statgrab.h>
83
84 * New process stats function added to provide full details
85 on currently running processes. See sg_get_process_stats
86 for details.
87 * Compare functions provided for process, network, and disk io
88 statistics. These can be used with qsort.
89 * Error reporting functions added. See sg_get_error and
90 associated functions.
91 * Support added for NetBSD 2.0.
92 * Lots of code tidying.
93 * Python bindings now exist in a separate package:
94 http://www.i-scream.org/pystatgrab/
95
96 libstatgrab 0.9 (10 March 2004)
97
98 * Added network interface information:
99 speed, duplex, up/down.
100 * Added more statistics on network interfaces:
101 i/o packets, i/o errors, and collisions.
102 * Added support for OpenBSD 3.3.
103 * Added support for DragonFly BSD 1.0.
104 * No longer need elevated privileges on most platforms:
105 FreeBSD 5, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
106 (see PLATFORMS file for details on which OS's need elevated privileges)
107 * Minor changes to the return types of the python bindings functions.
108
109 * PLEASE NOTE: this will break binary (only) compatibility.
110
111 libstatgrab 0.8.2 (11 February 2004)
112
113 * Fixes to add support for Solaris 6.
114 * Python bindings available in extras directory.
115 * Some tidying up of code.
116
117 libstatgrab 0.8.1 (21 January 2004)
118
119 * The library part of libstatgrab is now released under the LGPL.
120 (the tools are still released under the GPL)
121 * File descriptor leak fixed on Linux.
122 * strlcpy/strlcat functions added for Solaris 7 to fix compile.
123 * statgrab_init error behaviour fixed (primarly for Solaris 7).
124 * Some incorrect #includes moved.
125 * Significant speed increases to the Solaris disk mapping code in
126 statgrab_init, which improves startup time.
127 * Minor fix for saidar's -d flag and negative numbers.
128
129 libstatgrab 0.8 (06 January 2004)
130
131 * Support for Linux 2.6.
132 * Support for Cygwin.
133 * Use cNtNdNsN names on Solaris instead of sdN.
134 * Fixes and optimisations to saidar.
135 * Fixes to the --disable-saidar and --disable-statgrab configure flags.
136 * New function to drop elevated privileges some OS's require.
137 (after using the init function)
138
139 libstatgrab 0.7 (22 October 2003)
140
141 * Support for NetBSD 1.6.x.
142 * FreeBSD code optimised.
143 * Initialise function allows programs to drop extra privileges (on *BSD).
144 * saidar now works even if it can't get all statistics.
145 * List of known file systems increased on Linux and *BSD.
146 * Minor bug fixes.
147 * Tested (and working) on Solaris 9 x86, Linux 2.2 on alpha, and
148 Linux 2.4 on amd64.
149
150 libstatgrab 0.6.1 (18 October 2003)
151
152 * Support for FreeBSD 5.1/sparc64.
153 * Bugs fixed in FreeBSD memory statistics.
154 * saidar displays disk percentages more "correctly".
155 * Bug fixed displaying hostname in saidar.
156 * statgrab now handles unusual /dev layouts more gracefully.
157 * Minor packaging changes.
158
159 libstatgrab 0.6 (09 October 2003)
160
161 * saidar, a curses-based tool, has been added to give an overview of
162 the current system statistics.
163 * Added support for FreeBSD 5.1.
164 * Documentation is now available in manpages.
165 * Fixed major bug in the FreeBSD diskio stats.
166 * Added a .pc file for pkgconfig.
167
168 libstatgrab 0.5.1 (09 September 2003)
169
170 * Network stats wrap-around bug fixed on Linux and FreeBSD
171 * Linux now reads disk information from /proc/partitions if available.
172 This results in it getting data for all the disks.
173 * An additional tool, statgrab, has been added to allow external programs
174 to easily parse statistics generated by libstatgrab.
175 * Scripts to generate MRTG (www.mrtg.org) configs with statgrab have
176 been added. This allows graphs to be generated from system stats.
177
178 libstatgrab 0.5 (25 August 2003)
179
180 * Fixed a bug with process stats on FreeBSD.
181 * Added documentation in 'docs' directory.
182 * Added examples in 'examples' directory.
183
184 libstatgrab 0.4 (09 April 2003)
185
186 * Support added for FreeBSD 4.x (not tested on 5.x).
187
188 libstatgrab 0.3.4 (31 March 2003)
189
190 * Fixed memory leak, and file descriptor leak on linux.
191
192 libstatgrab 0.3.3 (22 March 2003)
193
194 * Network statistics wraparound code was broken on interfaces that
195 transfered no data - typically second interfaces that weren't
196 connected.
197
198 libstatgrab 0.3.2 (21 March 2003)
199
200 * Network statistics wraparound fix.
201
202 libstatgrab 0.3.1 (12 March 2003)
203
204 * Fixed network statistics on Solaris 7 or below.
205 * Disk IO statistics are correctly reported.
206
207 libstatgrab 0.3 (10 March 2003)
208
209 * Support added for Linux with a 2.4 kernel.
210
211 libstatgrab 0.2 (03 March 2003)
212
213 * Initial working release for Solaris (tested on 7, 8, and 9).
214