3 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index fbc5c8b9..a4a38d94 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
         New option to check_smtp to ignore failures when sending QUIT (#3358348 - Duncan Ferguson)
         New check_by_ssh -F option which allows for specifying an alternative ssh_config(5) file (#2895334 - Sven Nierlein)
         check_sensors now detects faulty sensors unless --ignore-fault is specified (Jan Wagner)
+        utils.sh now provides a check_range function (Alex Griffin)
         Updated Nagios::Plugin perl module
 
         FIXES
diff --git a/THANKS.in b/THANKS.in
index 0b82024f..9a0521b6 100644
--- a/THANKS.in
+++ b/THANKS.in
@@ -270,3 +270,4 @@ Stéphane Urbanovski
 Marco Beck
 Sebastian Harl
 Jason Lunn
+Alex Griffin
diff --git a/plugins-scripts/utils.sh.in b/plugins-scripts/utils.sh.in
index d5013a60..5fae6adb 100644
--- a/plugins-scripts/utils.sh.in
+++ b/plugins-scripts/utils.sh.in
@@ -21,9 +21,10 @@ support() {
         $ECHO "@SUPPORT@" | sed -e 's/\n/ /g'
 }
 
-
+#
 # check_range takes a value and a range string, returning successfully if an
-# alert should be raised based on the range
+# alert should be raised based on the range.
+#
 check_range() {
         local v range yes no err decimal start end cmp match
         v="$1"
@@ -105,4 +106,3 @@ check_range() {
                 return "$no"
         fi
 }
-