[monitoring-plugins] Shorten NEWS quite a bit

waja git at monitoring-plugins.org
Tue Oct 17 18:00:14 CEST 2023


    Module: monitoring-plugins
    Branch: master
    Commit: ddbf839d933d38ec00d399367c9b22b12a2b72b0
    Author: RincewindsHat <12514511+RincewindsHat at users.noreply.github.com>
 Committer: waja <waja at users.noreply.github.com>
      Date: Tue Oct 17 17:12:56 2023 +0200
       URL: https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/repositories/monitoring-plugins/commit/?id=ddbf839

Shorten NEWS quite a bit

---

 NEWS | 195 ++++++++++---------------------------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 168 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b2ffec5..97ac837 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,178 +2,37 @@ This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
 
 2.3.4 18th Oct 2023
 	ENHANCEMENTS
-	check_disk_smb: allow checking 0-sized resource (ex. IPC$)
-	check_icmp: Add support to Jitter, MOS and Score
-	check_icmp: Clean up plugin exit
-	check_mysql: Detect running mysqldump
-	check_disk: add ignore-missing option to return OK for missing fs
-	check_disk: add tests for new option --ignore-missing
-	check_icmp: Remove trailing whitespaces
-	check_icmp: Remove hardcoded DBL_MAX definition
-	check_icmp: Replace DBL_MAX with INFITY to check if value was set
-	check_mailq: separate submission queue
-	check_psql: add extra output
-	check_curl: using CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS_STR instead of
-	CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS for curl >= 7.85.0
-	check_http: Implement special case test for zero size chunk only
-	check_radius: cope with radcli-1.3.1 RC_BUFFER_LEN
-	check_curl: added --cookie-jar and doing proper cleanup of libcurl
-	check_disk: still allow check of available disks with ignore-missing
-	param used
-	check_disk: add new tests for new ignore-missing feature
-	check_disk: use cleaner code for ignore-missing option
-	check_curl: in SSL host caching mode try to connect and bind and take
-	the first getaddrinfo result which succeeds
-	check_curl: Include all IPs from getaddrinfo() in curl DNS cache
-	check_procs: Implement --exclude-process to exclude specific processes
-	check_procs: add a test for the newly added -X option
-	check_snmp: simplify code
-	check_smtp: Add option to prefix PROXY header
-	check_smtp: Add support for SNI
-	check_snmp: Detect if fmtstr was set in edge cases
-	check_snmp: Implement option to ignore mib file parsing errors
-	check_snmp: Enhance regex in test to be more tolerant to follow up text
-	check_users: prefer systemd-logind over utmp
-	check_smtp: Add support for SMTP over TLS
-	check_smtp: set default port to smtps (465) for TLS
-	check_smtp: remove restriction of --proxy with --ssl
-	check_smtp: add new longoption --tls
-	check_smtp: Let port option always take precedence
-	check_smtp: add tests for --ssl
-	check_mysql: Initialize slaveresult to 0 and use strncat instead of
-	bsd strlcat
-	check_disk: Mention -A and long options in error message about
-	missing thresholds
-	check_disk: More spacing to separate examples
-	check_disk: Add some general usage hints
-	check_disk: Add -C to general usage hints
-	check_icmp: remove root check
-	check_disk: make -X a regex list
-	check_disk: Change usage for --include-type to indicated regexes are 
-	now possible
-	check_dhcp: Add dhcp rogue detection
+	 * check_curl: added --cookie-jar and doing proper cleanup of libcurl
+	 * check_curl: Include all IPs from getaddrinfo() in curl DNS cache
+	 * check_dhcp: Add dhcp rogue detection
+	 * check_disk: add ignore-missing option to return OK for missing fs
+	 * check_disk_smb: allow checking 0-sized resource (ex. IPC$)
+	 * check_disk: The options to include or exlude specific file systems now allow the usage of regex(7)
+	 * check_icmp: Add support to Jitter, MOS and Score
+	 * check_mysql: Detect running mysqldump and handle it more gracefully
+	 * check_procs: Implement --exclude-process to exclude specific processes
+	 * check_smtp: add new longoption --tls
+	 * check_smtp: Add option to prefix PROXY header
+	 * check_smtp: Add support for SMTP over TLS
+	 * check_smtp: Add support for SNI
+	 * check_snmp: Implement option to ignore mib file parsing errors
+	 * check_users: prefer systemd-logind over utmp
 
 	FIXES
-	check_disk: Remove weird code (workaround?) which broke with gnulib
-	update
-	check_http: Handle chunked encoding without actual content correctly
-	check_curl: fixed regerror is MAX_INPUT_BUFFER writing into too small
-	errbuf
-	check_curl: better cleanup of curl structures and buffers
-	check_curl: fixed double frees when doing old-style redirects
-	check_curl: changed #else/#if to #elif in libcurl library checks
-	check_curl: using real boolean
-	check_icmp: Fix compiler warning
-	check_disk: fix tests by setting correct test number and escaping line
-	end regex
-	check_disk: fix ugly output with -e option and adapt tests accordingly
-	check_curl: fixed a wrong compare and a wrong size in strncat
-	check_curl: removed a superfluous variable
-	check_snmp: disable multiplier when unused
-	check_swap: Remove unnecessary and problematic includes
-	check_curl: including netinet/in.h (for FreeBSD), fixed an ambiguous
-	compare warning
-	check_log/check_oracle/check_sensors: fixed the outputs of the
-	--versions options
-	check_nwstats: Fix 'requres' typo
-	Fix a lot of typos reported by codespell
-	check_http: Remove unused variable
-	check_curl: Avoid unnecessary malloc and use stack instead
-	check_nt: change encoding from latin1 to utf8
-	check_mysql: Fixed typo of encryption
-	check_disk: Display SI units correctly
-	check_mysql: handle ER_ACCESS_DENIED_NO_PASSWORD_ERROR if ignore_auth=1
-	check_smtp: add missing -r option in usage
-	check_http: Fix unchunking body fails when no body is present
-	check_snmp: Remove dead, commented code
-	check_radius: Change help to emphasize the necessity of a config file
-	check_wave: Use compile time determined path to snmpget
-	check_disk: Remove some dead variables
-	check_disk: Remove some dead variables
-	check_mysql: Add mysql_close to avoid spamming the server logs
-	check_disk: Fix printf format string
-	check_dhcp: Remove unnecessary type defines
-	check_dhcp: Homogenize whitespace usage
-	check_dhcp: Use real booleans
-	check_dhcp: Comment some endifs to make comprehension easier
-	check_dhcp: Remove trailing lines
-	check_dhcp: New variable is actually a boolean
-	check_dhcp: Make some booleans nicer
-	check_icmp: fix host count on when checking multiple hosts
-	check_icmp: remove sun ifdef
-	check_icmp: check malloc
-	check_ircd: use pack_sockaddr_in rather than hand-rolled
-	check_icmp: Refactor get_threshold2 to be barely understandable
-	check_icmp: Change function type of get_thresholds to better reflect the
-	options
-	check_icmp: Remove useless return after crash
-	check_icmp: Do some actual error checking on the threshold parser
-	check_icmp: Refactor new threshold parser
-	check_icmp: Initialise threshold variables properly
-	check_icmp: fix sign compare compiler warnings
-	check_icmp: fix unused variables compiler warning
-	check_icmp: More consequent booleans
-	check_icmp: Do some code formatting
-	check_icmp: Remove preprocessor macro
-	check_icmp: Add some more comments about the MOS score
-	check_curl: Fix -Wcast-function-type compiler warnings
-	check_http: Whitespace fixes
-	check_curl: fix compiler warnings for unused variables
-	check_ldap: fix compiler warnings for unused variables
-	check_http: Fixes for compiler warning -Wparentheses
-	check_procs: Fixes for compiler warning -Wparentheses
-	check_dhcp: Fix for -Wunused-but-set-variable
+	* check_disk: Display SI units correctly
+	* check_ircd: use pack_sockaddr_in rather than hand-rolled
+	* check_log/check_oracle/check_sensors: fixed the outputs of the help functionality
+	* check_mysql: Add mysql_close to avoid spamming the server logs
+	* check_smtp: add missing -r option in usage
+	* check_snmp: disable multiplier when unused
+	* check_wave: Use compile time determined path to snmpget
 	
 	GENERAL
-	Sync with the latest Gnulib code 668c0b8ffa
-	Set autoconf prerequisite version to 2.64
-	Remove sha1 and add sha256
-	Replace sha1 with sha256 in utils_base
-	remove gl/c++defs, replace gl/gettext with gl/gettext-h
-	Add gl/c++defs
-	Do not ignore /gl/warn-on-use.h and gl/arg-nonnull.h
-	sslutils.c: Move function after a function it uses to avoid forward
-	declarations
-	Link plugins against libcrypto to make hashes available
-	Also link LIB_CRYPTO against tests
-	Fix hashes in tests since we are using sha256 now
-	fallback to SSL_CTX_use_certificate_file for gnutls
-	Remove .deps files and folder
-	Ignore .dirstamp files in gnulib
-	Make preprocessor fallback for gnutls more readable
-	utils_disk: add name_prev pointer to struct parameter_list
-	Actually build check_mssql too
-	Implicit function declarations
-	Fixes for -Wunused
-	Fixes for -Wimplicit-fallthrough
-	Fixes for -Wunused-parameters
-	Fixes for -Wuninitialized
-	Fixes for -Wrestrict
-	Replace deprecated TLS client functions
-	Use default OPENSSL sha functions if available
-	Fix hash creation
-	Fixes for -Wnonnull-compare
-	Fixes for Waddress
-	Try fixing deprecated functions in libdbi
-	Refix spelling issues
-	Changing remaining sscanf format specifier to unsigned long
-	Avoid mounting when searching for matching mount points
-	Add xgettext option to not put file positions in translation files
-	Add dynamic path to snmpget to perl utils
-	Change encoding of german translation file to utf8
-	Remove note about comments, we will accept // comments
-	Switch guidelines to use bool instead of int for booleans
-	Rework maxfd/open_max to avoid unused variables
-	Place _cmd_pids in object not header to avoid unused variables
-	open_max is a library function now, it should be mp_open_max
-	Remove check for RETSIGTYPE in autoconf stuff
-	Document new np_add_regex more and add error handling
-	Fix some more typos
-	Fix missing include in plugins/runcmd.c
-	Fix spelling stuff
-	Update configure.ac
-	Whitespace fixes in lib
-	Replace all old school booleans in lib witch C99 ones
+	* Sync with the Gnulib code 668c0b8ffa
+	* Set autoconf prerequisite version to 2.64
+	* Remove sha1 and use sha256 in some parts of the plugin structure
+	* A lot of compiler warnings were fixed
+	* Some code was refactored a little bit
 
 2.3.3 2nd Feb 2023
         ENHANCEMENTS



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