Shorten NEWS quite a bit

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 168 deletions

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@@ -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