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Revision: 1.45
Committed: Fri Jul 13 20:36:46 2007 UTC (16 years, 8 months ago) by tdb
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: LIBSTATGRAB_0_15
Changes since 1.44: +9 -1 lines
Log Message:
Update for 0.15 release.

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1 libstatgrab NEWS
2 http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3
4 $Id: NEWS,v 1.44 2007/01/05 13:34:20 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 0.15 (14 July 2007)
12 * Fix breakages in memory stats on OpenBSD that were introduced in
13 the last release.
14 (Thanks to David Love)
15 * Update internal string functions and some related cleanups.
16 (Thanks to David Love)
17 * Fix compile warning on FreeBSD.
18
19 libstatgrab 0.14 (08 January 2007)
20 * Fix memory stats on OpenBSD.
21 * Add colour support to saidar.
22 (Thanks to Angelina Carlton)
23 * Fix CPU stats on Solaris - swap and iowait were incorrectly reported.
24 * Fix kstat related memory leaks on Solaris.
25 (Thanks to Javier Donaire)
26 * Fix network stats on some unusual Solaris setups.
27 * Fix process time_spent on Linux.
28 (Thanks to Fred Barnes)
29 * Make interface up status check the link status as well.
30 (Thanks to Michelangelo Vassallo)
31 * Fix build on NetBSD 3.
32 (Thanks to Wijnand Wiersma)
33 * Rework curses detection code in the configure script.
34 * Fix bug that caused saidar to crash when the window was rapidly resized.
35
36 libstatgrab 0.13 (19 March 2006)
37 * Fix build problems with recent linux kernels.
38 * Make saidar truncate disk/inteface/mount names to fit in display.
39 * Add WIN32 support using MINGW (not widely tested).
40 * Fix network interface up/down status on Solaris.
41 * Add extern "C" to header file to make linking with C++ code easier.
42 * Fix statgrab to cope with filesystem paths containing dots.
43 * Make NFS a legal filesystem type on all platforms.
44 * A few minor build fixes.
45
46 libstatgrab 0.12 (31 July 2005)
47 * More details added to filesystem statistics.
48 (Patches provided by Roman Neuhauser)
49 * Rework Linux partition detection.
50 * Fix compile error in network stats on Linux 2.6.
51 (Patches provided by Scott Lampert)
52 * Change name of duplex value in network interface stats.
53 NOTE: this minor change breaks the API.
54 * Manual pages for saidar, statgrab and the other tools.
55 * Fix minor typo in statgrab usage output.
56 * Support for Solaris 10.
57 * Support for FreeBSD 7.
58
59 libstatgrab 0.11.1 (03 March 2005)
60 * Add NFS to list of supported filesystems.
61 * Fix reporting of network interface duplex settings on Linux.
62 * Fix saidar to support negative FS usage.
63
64 libstatgrab 0.11 (09 November 2004)
65 * Add support for HP-UX 11.11.
66 (Patches provided by Roy Keene)
67 * Minor fixes to statgrab mrtg tools.
68 * Minor fixes to saidar.
69 * Minor code cleanups and fixes to libstatgrab.
70
71 libstatgrab 0.10.3 (24 August 2004)
72
73 * Add -f flag to statgrab to display floating-point numbers multiplied
74 by an integer.
75 * Add -K, -M and -G flags to statgrab to show byte counts in kibibytes,
76 mebibytes or gibibytes.
77 * Make statgrab-make-mrtg-config use the new flags to scale extremely
78 large or small numbers so that mrtg can handle them.
79 * Make statgrab-make-mrtg-config automatically detect network interface
80 speeds.
81 * Add support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT.
82
83 libstatgrab 0.10.2 (27 July 2004)
84
85 * Fix shared library version that when backwards in 0.10.1.
86
87 libstatgrab 0.10.1 (26 July 2004)
88
89 * Use DESTDIR correctly when setting permissions at install time.
90 * Fix disk stats to work with OpenBSD 3.5.
91 * Fix disk stats on NetBSD 2.0 (statvfs instead of statfs).
92 * Fix memory leak in process stats on NetBSD 2.0.
93 * Add vxfs (Veritas filesystem) to list of known filesystems
94 on Solaris.
95 * Add more variables to the pkg-config file to suggest suitable
96 ownership and permissions for binaries using libstatgrab.
97 * Make sure statgrab.h can safely be included twice.
98 * Fix statgrab to display network interface names even if they
99 don't have IO stats (like the loopback interface on Solaris).
100 * Add error reporting function that grabs errno.
101
102 libstatgrab 0.10 (20 May 2004)
103
104 * All function and structure names now follow a standardised
105 naming scheme. This will break compatibility with existing
106 programs. To use pre-0.10 compatibility functions:
107
108 #define SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED
109 #include <statgrab.h>
110
111 * New process stats function added to provide full details
112 on currently running processes. See sg_get_process_stats
113 for details.
114 * Compare functions provided for process, network, and disk io
115 statistics. These can be used with qsort.
116 * Error reporting functions added. See sg_get_error and
117 associated functions.
118 * Support added for NetBSD 2.0.
119 * Lots of code tidying.
120 * Python bindings now exist in a separate package:
121 http://www.i-scream.org/pystatgrab/
122
123 libstatgrab 0.9 (10 March 2004)
124
125 * Added network interface information:
126 speed, duplex, up/down.
127 * Added more statistics on network interfaces:
128 i/o packets, i/o errors, and collisions.
129 * Added support for OpenBSD 3.3.
130 * Added support for DragonFly BSD 1.0.
131 * No longer need elevated privileges on most platforms:
132 FreeBSD 5, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
133 (see PLATFORMS file for details on which OS's need elevated privileges)
134 * Minor changes to the return types of the python bindings functions.
135
136 * PLEASE NOTE: this will break binary (only) compatibility.
137
138 libstatgrab 0.8.2 (11 February 2004)
139
140 * Fixes to add support for Solaris 6.
141 * Python bindings available in extras directory.
142 * Some tidying up of code.
143
144 libstatgrab 0.8.1 (21 January 2004)
145
146 * The library part of libstatgrab is now released under the LGPL.
147 (the tools are still released under the GPL)
148 * File descriptor leak fixed on Linux.
149 * strlcpy/strlcat functions added for Solaris 7 to fix compile.
150 * statgrab_init error behaviour fixed (primarly for Solaris 7).
151 * Some incorrect #includes moved.
152 * Significant speed increases to the Solaris disk mapping code in
153 statgrab_init, which improves startup time.
154 * Minor fix for saidar's -d flag and negative numbers.
155
156 libstatgrab 0.8 (06 January 2004)
157
158 * Support for Linux 2.6.
159 * Support for Cygwin.
160 * Use cNtNdNsN names on Solaris instead of sdN.
161 * Fixes and optimisations to saidar.
162 * Fixes to the --disable-saidar and --disable-statgrab configure flags.
163 * New function to drop elevated privileges some OS's require.
164 (after using the init function)
165
166 libstatgrab 0.7 (22 October 2003)
167
168 * Support for NetBSD 1.6.x.
169 * FreeBSD code optimised.
170 * Initialise function allows programs to drop extra privileges (on *BSD).
171 * saidar now works even if it can't get all statistics.
172 * List of known file systems increased on Linux and *BSD.
173 * Minor bug fixes.
174 * Tested (and working) on Solaris 9 x86, Linux 2.2 on alpha, and
175 Linux 2.4 on amd64.
176
177 libstatgrab 0.6.1 (18 October 2003)
178
179 * Support for FreeBSD 5.1/sparc64.
180 * Bugs fixed in FreeBSD memory statistics.
181 * saidar displays disk percentages more "correctly".
182 * Bug fixed displaying hostname in saidar.
183 * statgrab now handles unusual /dev layouts more gracefully.
184 * Minor packaging changes.
185
186 libstatgrab 0.6 (09 October 2003)
187
188 * saidar, a curses-based tool, has been added to give an overview of
189 the current system statistics.
190 * Added support for FreeBSD 5.1.
191 * Documentation is now available in manpages.
192 * Fixed major bug in the FreeBSD diskio stats.
193 * Added a .pc file for pkgconfig.
194
195 libstatgrab 0.5.1 (09 September 2003)
196
197 * Network stats wrap-around bug fixed on Linux and FreeBSD
198 * Linux now reads disk information from /proc/partitions if available.
199 This results in it getting data for all the disks.
200 * An additional tool, statgrab, has been added to allow external programs
201 to easily parse statistics generated by libstatgrab.
202 * Scripts to generate MRTG (www.mrtg.org) configs with statgrab have
203 been added. This allows graphs to be generated from system stats.
204
205 libstatgrab 0.5 (25 August 2003)
206
207 * Fixed a bug with process stats on FreeBSD.
208 * Added documentation in 'docs' directory.
209 * Added examples in 'examples' directory.
210
211 libstatgrab 0.4 (09 April 2003)
212
213 * Support added for FreeBSD 4.x (not tested on 5.x).
214
215 libstatgrab 0.3.4 (31 March 2003)
216
217 * Fixed memory leak, and file descriptor leak on linux.
218
219 libstatgrab 0.3.3 (22 March 2003)
220
221 * Network statistics wraparound code was broken on interfaces that
222 transfered no data - typically second interfaces that weren't
223 connected.
224
225 libstatgrab 0.3.2 (21 March 2003)
226
227 * Network statistics wraparound fix.
228
229 libstatgrab 0.3.1 (12 March 2003)
230
231 * Fixed network statistics on Solaris 7 or below.
232 * Disk IO statistics are correctly reported.
233
234 libstatgrab 0.3 (10 March 2003)
235
236 * Support added for Linux with a 2.4 kernel.
237
238 libstatgrab 0.2 (03 March 2003)
239
240 * Initial working release for Solaris (tested on 7, 8, and 9).
241