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Revision: 1.46
Committed: Thu Mar 13 11:23:43 2008 UTC (16 years, 9 months ago) by tdb
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1 libstatgrab NEWS
2 http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3
4 $Id: NEWS,v 1.45 2007/07/13 20:36:46 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 0.16 (13 March 2008)
12 * Fix saidar build on Solaris with Sun's compiler.
13 * Add support for FreeBSD 8.0.
14 * Fix build on "armel" Debian port.
15 (Thanks to Riku Voipio and Martin Guy)
16 * Fix statgrab-make-mrtg-config on machines with no swap.
17 (Thanks to Tom Carlson)
18
19 libstatgrab 0.15 (14 July 2007)
20 * Fix breakages in memory stats on OpenBSD that were introduced in
21 the last release.
22 (Thanks to David Love)
23 * Update internal string functions and some related cleanups.
24 (Thanks to David Love)
25 * Fix compile warning on FreeBSD.
26
27 libstatgrab 0.14 (08 January 2007)
28 * Fix memory stats on OpenBSD.
29 * Add colour support to saidar.
30 (Thanks to Angelina Carlton)
31 * Fix CPU stats on Solaris - swap and iowait were incorrectly reported.
32 * Fix kstat related memory leaks on Solaris.
33 (Thanks to Javier Donaire)
34 * Fix network stats on some unusual Solaris setups.
35 * Fix process time_spent on Linux.
36 (Thanks to Fred Barnes)
37 * Make interface up status check the link status as well.
38 (Thanks to Michelangelo Vassallo)
39 * Fix build on NetBSD 3.
40 (Thanks to Wijnand Wiersma)
41 * Rework curses detection code in the configure script.
42 * Fix bug that caused saidar to crash when the window was rapidly resized.
43
44 libstatgrab 0.13 (19 March 2006)
45 * Fix build problems with recent linux kernels.
46 * Make saidar truncate disk/inteface/mount names to fit in display.
47 * Add WIN32 support using MINGW (not widely tested).
48 * Fix network interface up/down status on Solaris.
49 * Add extern "C" to header file to make linking with C++ code easier.
50 * Fix statgrab to cope with filesystem paths containing dots.
51 * Make NFS a legal filesystem type on all platforms.
52 * A few minor build fixes.
53
54 libstatgrab 0.12 (31 July 2005)
55 * More details added to filesystem statistics.
56 (Patches provided by Roman Neuhauser)
57 * Rework Linux partition detection.
58 * Fix compile error in network stats on Linux 2.6.
59 (Patches provided by Scott Lampert)
60 * Change name of duplex value in network interface stats.
61 NOTE: this minor change breaks the API.
62 * Manual pages for saidar, statgrab and the other tools.
63 * Fix minor typo in statgrab usage output.
64 * Support for Solaris 10.
65 * Support for FreeBSD 7.
66
67 libstatgrab 0.11.1 (03 March 2005)
68 * Add NFS to list of supported filesystems.
69 * Fix reporting of network interface duplex settings on Linux.
70 * Fix saidar to support negative FS usage.
71
72 libstatgrab 0.11 (09 November 2004)
73 * Add support for HP-UX 11.11.
74 (Patches provided by Roy Keene)
75 * Minor fixes to statgrab mrtg tools.
76 * Minor fixes to saidar.
77 * Minor code cleanups and fixes to libstatgrab.
78
79 libstatgrab 0.10.3 (24 August 2004)
80
81 * Add -f flag to statgrab to display floating-point numbers multiplied
82 by an integer.
83 * Add -K, -M and -G flags to statgrab to show byte counts in kibibytes,
84 mebibytes or gibibytes.
85 * Make statgrab-make-mrtg-config use the new flags to scale extremely
86 large or small numbers so that mrtg can handle them.
87 * Make statgrab-make-mrtg-config automatically detect network interface
88 speeds.
89 * Add support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT.
90
91 libstatgrab 0.10.2 (27 July 2004)
92
93 * Fix shared library version that when backwards in 0.10.1.
94
95 libstatgrab 0.10.1 (26 July 2004)
96
97 * Use DESTDIR correctly when setting permissions at install time.
98 * Fix disk stats to work with OpenBSD 3.5.
99 * Fix disk stats on NetBSD 2.0 (statvfs instead of statfs).
100 * Fix memory leak in process stats on NetBSD 2.0.
101 * Add vxfs (Veritas filesystem) to list of known filesystems
102 on Solaris.
103 * Add more variables to the pkg-config file to suggest suitable
104 ownership and permissions for binaries using libstatgrab.
105 * Make sure statgrab.h can safely be included twice.
106 * Fix statgrab to display network interface names even if they
107 don't have IO stats (like the loopback interface on Solaris).
108 * Add error reporting function that grabs errno.
109
110 libstatgrab 0.10 (20 May 2004)
111
112 * All function and structure names now follow a standardised
113 naming scheme. This will break compatibility with existing
114 programs. To use pre-0.10 compatibility functions:
115
116 #define SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED
117 #include <statgrab.h>
118
119 * New process stats function added to provide full details
120 on currently running processes. See sg_get_process_stats
121 for details.
122 * Compare functions provided for process, network, and disk io
123 statistics. These can be used with qsort.
124 * Error reporting functions added. See sg_get_error and
125 associated functions.
126 * Support added for NetBSD 2.0.
127 * Lots of code tidying.
128 * Python bindings now exist in a separate package:
129 http://www.i-scream.org/pystatgrab/
130
131 libstatgrab 0.9 (10 March 2004)
132
133 * Added network interface information:
134 speed, duplex, up/down.
135 * Added more statistics on network interfaces:
136 i/o packets, i/o errors, and collisions.
137 * Added support for OpenBSD 3.3.
138 * Added support for DragonFly BSD 1.0.
139 * No longer need elevated privileges on most platforms:
140 FreeBSD 5, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
141 (see PLATFORMS file for details on which OS's need elevated privileges)
142 * Minor changes to the return types of the python bindings functions.
143
144 * PLEASE NOTE: this will break binary (only) compatibility.
145
146 libstatgrab 0.8.2 (11 February 2004)
147
148 * Fixes to add support for Solaris 6.
149 * Python bindings available in extras directory.
150 * Some tidying up of code.
151
152 libstatgrab 0.8.1 (21 January 2004)
153
154 * The library part of libstatgrab is now released under the LGPL.
155 (the tools are still released under the GPL)
156 * File descriptor leak fixed on Linux.
157 * strlcpy/strlcat functions added for Solaris 7 to fix compile.
158 * statgrab_init error behaviour fixed (primarly for Solaris 7).
159 * Some incorrect #includes moved.
160 * Significant speed increases to the Solaris disk mapping code in
161 statgrab_init, which improves startup time.
162 * Minor fix for saidar's -d flag and negative numbers.
163
164 libstatgrab 0.8 (06 January 2004)
165
166 * Support for Linux 2.6.
167 * Support for Cygwin.
168 * Use cNtNdNsN names on Solaris instead of sdN.
169 * Fixes and optimisations to saidar.
170 * Fixes to the --disable-saidar and --disable-statgrab configure flags.
171 * New function to drop elevated privileges some OS's require.
172 (after using the init function)
173
174 libstatgrab 0.7 (22 October 2003)
175
176 * Support for NetBSD 1.6.x.
177 * FreeBSD code optimised.
178 * Initialise function allows programs to drop extra privileges (on *BSD).
179 * saidar now works even if it can't get all statistics.
180 * List of known file systems increased on Linux and *BSD.
181 * Minor bug fixes.
182 * Tested (and working) on Solaris 9 x86, Linux 2.2 on alpha, and
183 Linux 2.4 on amd64.
184
185 libstatgrab 0.6.1 (18 October 2003)
186
187 * Support for FreeBSD 5.1/sparc64.
188 * Bugs fixed in FreeBSD memory statistics.
189 * saidar displays disk percentages more "correctly".
190 * Bug fixed displaying hostname in saidar.
191 * statgrab now handles unusual /dev layouts more gracefully.
192 * Minor packaging changes.
193
194 libstatgrab 0.6 (09 October 2003)
195
196 * saidar, a curses-based tool, has been added to give an overview of
197 the current system statistics.
198 * Added support for FreeBSD 5.1.
199 * Documentation is now available in manpages.
200 * Fixed major bug in the FreeBSD diskio stats.
201 * Added a .pc file for pkgconfig.
202
203 libstatgrab 0.5.1 (09 September 2003)
204
205 * Network stats wrap-around bug fixed on Linux and FreeBSD
206 * Linux now reads disk information from /proc/partitions if available.
207 This results in it getting data for all the disks.
208 * An additional tool, statgrab, has been added to allow external programs
209 to easily parse statistics generated by libstatgrab.
210 * Scripts to generate MRTG (www.mrtg.org) configs with statgrab have
211 been added. This allows graphs to be generated from system stats.
212
213 libstatgrab 0.5 (25 August 2003)
214
215 * Fixed a bug with process stats on FreeBSD.
216 * Added documentation in 'docs' directory.
217 * Added examples in 'examples' directory.
218
219 libstatgrab 0.4 (09 April 2003)
220
221 * Support added for FreeBSD 4.x (not tested on 5.x).
222
223 libstatgrab 0.3.4 (31 March 2003)
224
225 * Fixed memory leak, and file descriptor leak on linux.
226
227 libstatgrab 0.3.3 (22 March 2003)
228
229 * Network statistics wraparound code was broken on interfaces that
230 transfered no data - typically second interfaces that weren't
231 connected.
232
233 libstatgrab 0.3.2 (21 March 2003)
234
235 * Network statistics wraparound fix.
236
237 libstatgrab 0.3.1 (12 March 2003)
238
239 * Fixed network statistics on Solaris 7 or below.
240 * Disk IO statistics are correctly reported.
241
242 libstatgrab 0.3 (10 March 2003)
243
244 * Support added for Linux with a 2.4 kernel.
245
246 libstatgrab 0.2 (03 March 2003)
247
248 * Initial working release for Solaris (tested on 7, 8, and 9).
249