NEWS: Add a warning regarding check_snmp

Tell users that check_snmp might now return CRITICAL in cases where it
used to return OK, and how to deal with that.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9e3c62fc..36345012 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -26,12 +26,14 @@ This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
         check_dig: make sure not to give up too early when a timeout is specified with -t
         check_log: don't stumble over log lines that include a "%" character
         check_nt: add UPTIME to perfdata
-        Handle negative values properly with check_snmp
         Handle SNMPv3 noAuthNoPriv properly with check_snmp
         Fix compilation with GnuTLS
 
         WARNINGS
         New default installation prefix: /usr/local instead of /usr/local/nagios
+        check_snmp now evaluates negative values properly, which means it might return CRITICAL
+          in cases where it used to return OK. If this is undesired, the warning/critical
+          threshold(s) must be fixed by specifying e.g. ~:100 instead of 100
         check_procs now ignores its parent process to avoid unexpected results when invoked via certain shells
         utils.sh no longer defines ECH
         check_ide_smart -q/--quiet and -n/--nagios (Nagios-compatile output) are now deprecated