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Revision: 1.42
Committed: Fri Dec 1 00:06:22 2006 UTC (17 years, 4 months 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 1.41 2006/03/17 19:35:40 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 0.14 (?? December 2006)
12 * Fix memory stats on OpenBSD.
13 * Add colour support to saidar.
14 (Thanks to Angelina Carlton)
15 * Fix CPU stats on Solaris - swap and iowait were incorrectly reported.
16 * Fix kstat related memory leaks on Solaris.
17 (Thanks to Javier Donaire)
18 * Fix network stats on some unusual Solaris setups.
19 * Fix process time_spent on Linux.
20 (Thanks to Fred Barnes)
21 * Make interface up status check the link status as well.
22 (Thanks to Michelangelo Vassallo)
23 * Fix build on NetBSD 3.
24 (Thanks to Wijnand Wiersma)
25
26 libstatgrab 0.13 (19 March 2006)
27 * Fix build problems with recent linux kernels.
28 * Make saidar truncate disk/inteface/mount names to fit in display.
29 * Add WIN32 support using MINGW (not widely tested).
30 * Fix network interface up/down status on Solaris.
31 * Add extern "C" to header file to make linking with C++ code easier.
32 * Fix statgrab to cope with filesystem paths containing dots.
33 * Make NFS a legal filesystem type on all platforms.
34 * A few minor build fixes.
35
36 libstatgrab 0.12 (31 July 2005)
37 * More details added to filesystem statistics.
38 (Patches provided by Roman Neuhauser)
39 * Rework Linux partition detection.
40 * Fix compile error in network stats on Linux 2.6.
41 (Patches provided by Scott Lampert)
42 * Change name of duplex value in network interface stats.
43 NOTE: this minor change breaks the API.
44 * Manual pages for saidar, statgrab and the other tools.
45 * Fix minor typo in statgrab usage output.
46 * Support for Solaris 10.
47 * Support for FreeBSD 7.
48
49 libstatgrab 0.11.1 (03 March 2005)
50 * Add NFS to list of supported filesystems.
51 * Fix reporting of network interface duplex settings on Linux.
52 * Fix saidar to support negative FS usage.
53
54 libstatgrab 0.11 (09 November 2004)
55 * Add support for HP-UX 11.11.
56 (Patches provided by Roy Keene)
57 * Minor fixes to statgrab mrtg tools.
58 * Minor fixes to saidar.
59 * Minor code cleanups and fixes to libstatgrab.
60
61 libstatgrab 0.10.3 (24 August 2004)
62
63 * Add -f flag to statgrab to display floating-point numbers multiplied
64 by an integer.
65 * Add -K, -M and -G flags to statgrab to show byte counts in kibibytes,
66 mebibytes or gibibytes.
67 * Make statgrab-make-mrtg-config use the new flags to scale extremely
68 large or small numbers so that mrtg can handle them.
69 * Make statgrab-make-mrtg-config automatically detect network interface
70 speeds.
71 * Add support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT.
72
73 libstatgrab 0.10.2 (27 July 2004)
74
75 * Fix shared library version that when backwards in 0.10.1.
76
77 libstatgrab 0.10.1 (26 July 2004)
78
79 * Use DESTDIR correctly when setting permissions at install time.
80 * Fix disk stats to work with OpenBSD 3.5.
81 * Fix disk stats on NetBSD 2.0 (statvfs instead of statfs).
82 * Fix memory leak in process stats on NetBSD 2.0.
83 * Add vxfs (Veritas filesystem) to list of known filesystems
84 on Solaris.
85 * Add more variables to the pkg-config file to suggest suitable
86 ownership and permissions for binaries using libstatgrab.
87 * Make sure statgrab.h can safely be included twice.
88 * Fix statgrab to display network interface names even if they
89 don't have IO stats (like the loopback interface on Solaris).
90 * Add error reporting function that grabs errno.
91
92 libstatgrab 0.10 (20 May 2004)
93
94 * All function and structure names now follow a standardised
95 naming scheme. This will break compatibility with existing
96 programs. To use pre-0.10 compatibility functions:
97
98 #define SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED
99 #include <statgrab.h>
100
101 * New process stats function added to provide full details
102 on currently running processes. See sg_get_process_stats
103 for details.
104 * Compare functions provided for process, network, and disk io
105 statistics. These can be used with qsort.
106 * Error reporting functions added. See sg_get_error and
107 associated functions.
108 * Support added for NetBSD 2.0.
109 * Lots of code tidying.
110 * Python bindings now exist in a separate package:
111 http://www.i-scream.org/pystatgrab/
112
113 libstatgrab 0.9 (10 March 2004)
114
115 * Added network interface information:
116 speed, duplex, up/down.
117 * Added more statistics on network interfaces:
118 i/o packets, i/o errors, and collisions.
119 * Added support for OpenBSD 3.3.
120 * Added support for DragonFly BSD 1.0.
121 * No longer need elevated privileges on most platforms:
122 FreeBSD 5, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
123 (see PLATFORMS file for details on which OS's need elevated privileges)
124 * Minor changes to the return types of the python bindings functions.
125
126 * PLEASE NOTE: this will break binary (only) compatibility.
127
128 libstatgrab 0.8.2 (11 February 2004)
129
130 * Fixes to add support for Solaris 6.
131 * Python bindings available in extras directory.
132 * Some tidying up of code.
133
134 libstatgrab 0.8.1 (21 January 2004)
135
136 * The library part of libstatgrab is now released under the LGPL.
137 (the tools are still released under the GPL)
138 * File descriptor leak fixed on Linux.
139 * strlcpy/strlcat functions added for Solaris 7 to fix compile.
140 * statgrab_init error behaviour fixed (primarly for Solaris 7).
141 * Some incorrect #includes moved.
142 * Significant speed increases to the Solaris disk mapping code in
143 statgrab_init, which improves startup time.
144 * Minor fix for saidar's -d flag and negative numbers.
145
146 libstatgrab 0.8 (06 January 2004)
147
148 * Support for Linux 2.6.
149 * Support for Cygwin.
150 * Use cNtNdNsN names on Solaris instead of sdN.
151 * Fixes and optimisations to saidar.
152 * Fixes to the --disable-saidar and --disable-statgrab configure flags.
153 * New function to drop elevated privileges some OS's require.
154 (after using the init function)
155
156 libstatgrab 0.7 (22 October 2003)
157
158 * Support for NetBSD 1.6.x.
159 * FreeBSD code optimised.
160 * Initialise function allows programs to drop extra privileges (on *BSD).
161 * saidar now works even if it can't get all statistics.
162 * List of known file systems increased on Linux and *BSD.
163 * Minor bug fixes.
164 * Tested (and working) on Solaris 9 x86, Linux 2.2 on alpha, and
165 Linux 2.4 on amd64.
166
167 libstatgrab 0.6.1 (18 October 2003)
168
169 * Support for FreeBSD 5.1/sparc64.
170 * Bugs fixed in FreeBSD memory statistics.
171 * saidar displays disk percentages more "correctly".
172 * Bug fixed displaying hostname in saidar.
173 * statgrab now handles unusual /dev layouts more gracefully.
174 * Minor packaging changes.
175
176 libstatgrab 0.6 (09 October 2003)
177
178 * saidar, a curses-based tool, has been added to give an overview of
179 the current system statistics.
180 * Added support for FreeBSD 5.1.
181 * Documentation is now available in manpages.
182 * Fixed major bug in the FreeBSD diskio stats.
183 * Added a .pc file for pkgconfig.
184
185 libstatgrab 0.5.1 (09 September 2003)
186
187 * Network stats wrap-around bug fixed on Linux and FreeBSD
188 * Linux now reads disk information from /proc/partitions if available.
189 This results in it getting data for all the disks.
190 * An additional tool, statgrab, has been added to allow external programs
191 to easily parse statistics generated by libstatgrab.
192 * Scripts to generate MRTG (www.mrtg.org) configs with statgrab have
193 been added. This allows graphs to be generated from system stats.
194
195 libstatgrab 0.5 (25 August 2003)
196
197 * Fixed a bug with process stats on FreeBSD.
198 * Added documentation in 'docs' directory.
199 * Added examples in 'examples' directory.
200
201 libstatgrab 0.4 (09 April 2003)
202
203 * Support added for FreeBSD 4.x (not tested on 5.x).
204
205 libstatgrab 0.3.4 (31 March 2003)
206
207 * Fixed memory leak, and file descriptor leak on linux.
208
209 libstatgrab 0.3.3 (22 March 2003)
210
211 * Network statistics wraparound code was broken on interfaces that
212 transfered no data - typically second interfaces that weren't
213 connected.
214
215 libstatgrab 0.3.2 (21 March 2003)
216
217 * Network statistics wraparound fix.
218
219 libstatgrab 0.3.1 (12 March 2003)
220
221 * Fixed network statistics on Solaris 7 or below.
222 * Disk IO statistics are correctly reported.
223
224 libstatgrab 0.3 (10 March 2003)
225
226 * Support added for Linux with a 2.4 kernel.
227
228 libstatgrab 0.2 (03 March 2003)
229
230 * Initial working release for Solaris (tested on 7, 8, and 9).
231