From 57a8111838d932abd814cb1e619238437661fa14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Holger Weiss Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 19:05:44 +0200 Subject: Add release notes for version 1.5 diff --git a/web/content/doc/release-notes/1-5.md b/web/content/doc/release-notes/1-5.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f1e351a --- /dev/null +++ b/web/content/doc/release-notes/1-5.md @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +title: Version 1.5 +parent: Download +--- + +# Version 1.5 Released + +*Wednesday, October 2, 2013* + +The Nagios Plugins Development Team is proud to announce version 1.5 of the +Nagios Plugins! This release comes with the new `check_dbi` plugin written by +Sebastian Harl, and includes lots of enhancements and fixes provided by more +than forty contributors. Many thanks to all of you! + +Special kudos go to Sven Nierlein for fixing numerous bugs, reviewing many +pull requests, bringing our test suite back into shape, and setting up +automated tests on a variety of platforms. This helped us spotting lots of +bugs *before* the release. Let me also thank Ton Voon for doing the +unenviable work of updating the bundled Perl modules; and our newest team +member Jan Wagner for all his help with patch review. + +See below for a list of major changes. Note that the new `check_http` version +introduces two minor backwards incompatibilities mentioned at the end of that +list, so please be sure to check whether they might affect you. + +You can get the tarball from our [download page][download]. + +## Enhancements + +* New `check_dbi` plugin for checking an (SQL) database using DBI +* Let OpenSSL load its configuration file (see the `OPENSSL_config(3)` man + page) +* Add performance data to `check_apt` +* Add performance data to `check_procs` +* Added `-4`/`-6` options to `check_dig` +* New `check_oracle` `--connect` option to perform real login +* New `check_nagios` `-t` option to override the default timeout +* New `check_disk` `-f`/`--freespace-ignore-reserved` option to ignore space + reserved for root +* New `check_disk` `-N`/`--include-type` option to limit the filesystem types + to check +* Allow for building the plugins in parallel +* Add `--without-{dbi,ldap,radius}` options to `./configure` +* Made Verbose output of `check_sensors` compliant +* New switch `-E`/`--extended-perfdata` for `check_http` to print additional + performance data +* New `check_http` `-d` option to specify a string to expect within the + response headers +* New `check_http` `-J`/`-K` options for client certificate authentication + support +* Add support for executing queries to `check_pgsql` +* Let `check_pgsql` accept a UNIX socket directory as hostname +* New `check_pgsql` `-o` option to specify additional connection parameters +* New `check_fping` `-S` option to specify the source IP address +* New `check_fping` `-I` option to specify the interface to bind to +* Let `check_fping` support IPv6 +* New `check_procs` `-k` option to ignore kernel threads (on Linux) +* Let `check_procs` use `/proc//exe` (if available) instead of + `getpid(2)`, unless `-T` is specified +* Let `check_mysql` support SSL +* Let `check_mysql` add perfromance metrics for all checks +* New `check_mysql` `-f` option to specify a client options file +* New `check_mysql` `-g` option to specify a client options group +* New `check_snmp` `--offset` option to allow for adding/substracting an + offset value to sensor data +* Let `check_snmp` support an arbitrary number of OIDs +* Let `check_ide_smart` support NetBSD + +## Fixes + +* Change the MAIL FROM command generated by `check_smtp` to be RFC compliant +* Fix compilation of `check_http` without SSL support +* Fix `check_snmp` reversed threshold ranges (backward-compatibility) +* Fix `check_snmp` memory violation when using more than 8 OIDs +* Fix `check_apt` security regular expression +* Fix `check_http` handling extra header (`-k`) containing semicolons +* Fix `check_apt` handling unknown exit codes from apt-get +* Fix deprecated imports of `check_nmap.py` + +## Warnings + +* `check_http` behaviour of `-k`/`--header` changed since it does not seperate + multiple headers by semicolons anymore. Use multiple `-k` switches instead. +* `check_http`'s `--proxy_authorization` option is now called + `--proxy-authorization` (it was always documented this way) + +[download]: /download.html + + -- cgit v0.10-9-g596f