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libstatgrab NEWS
http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
PLANS: We're now working towards a 1.0 release which is where we plan
to stabilise the API. We'll be doing test releases before hand,
but as always we'll like to hear about any bugs found in the
current release.
libstatgrab 0.90
* Please note the API in 0.90 has changed, so applications using
libstatgrab will need to be updated to support the changes.
* Thread safety and reentrant functions.
* API unification (every stats call is now able to return multiple entries).
* Complete rewrite of internal memory management (eases future extensions).
* Add experimental support for tracing using log4cplus.
* Complete the ports for AIX, HP-UX and most of the widely used
BSD-based operating systems.
* Complete the port for Darwin/MacOS X including basic Mach.
* Clean up the FreeBSD and Solaris implementations.
* Remove explicit support for Linux 2.4.
libstatgrab 0.17 (21 February 2010)
* Provide iowait cpu information on Linux version 2.5.41 or later.
* Display data for ZFS on Solaris.
* Dynamically get list of valid filesystems on FreeBSD.
(Thanks to Baptiste Daroussin)
* Support FreeBSD 9.
* Use utmpx when available (required for FreeBSD 9).
(Thanks to Ed Schouten)
* Support larger amounts of memory on FreeBSD.
(Thanks to Tom Bird)
libstatgrab 0.16 (13 March 2008)
* Fix saidar build on Solaris with Sun's compiler.
* Add support for FreeBSD 8.0.
* Fix build on "armel" Debian port.
(Thanks to Riku Voipio and Martin Guy)
* Fix statgrab-make-mrtg-config on machines with no swap.
(Thanks to Tom Carlson)
libstatgrab 0.15 (14 July 2007)
* Fix breakages in memory stats on OpenBSD that were introduced in
the last release.
(Thanks to David Love)
* Update internal string functions and some related cleanups.
(Thanks to David Love)
* Fix compile warning on FreeBSD.
libstatgrab 0.14 (08 January 2007)
* Fix memory stats on OpenBSD.
* Add colour support to saidar.
(Thanks to Angelina Carlton)
* Fix CPU stats on Solaris - swap and iowait were incorrectly reported.
* Fix kstat related memory leaks on Solaris.
(Thanks to Javier Donaire)
* Fix network stats on some unusual Solaris setups.
* Fix process time_spent on Linux.
(Thanks to Fred Barnes)
* Make interface up status check the link status as well.
(Thanks to Michelangelo Vassallo)
* Fix build on NetBSD 3.
(Thanks to Wijnand Wiersma)
* Rework curses detection code in the configure script.
* Fix bug that caused saidar to crash when the window was rapidly resized.
libstatgrab 0.13 (19 March 2006)
* Fix build problems with recent linux kernels.
* Make saidar truncate disk/inteface/mount names to fit in display.
* Add WIN32 support using MINGW (not widely tested).
* Fix network interface up/down status on Solaris.
* Add extern "C" to header file to make linking with C++ code easier.
* Fix statgrab to cope with filesystem paths containing dots.
* Make NFS a legal filesystem type on all platforms.
* A few minor build fixes.
libstatgrab 0.12 (31 July 2005)
* More details added to filesystem statistics.
(Patches provided by Roman Neuhauser)
* Rework Linux partition detection.
* Fix compile error in network stats on Linux 2.6.
(Patches provided by Scott Lampert)
* Change name of duplex value in network interface stats.
NOTE: this minor change breaks the API.
* Manual pages for saidar, statgrab and the other tools.
* Fix minor typo in statgrab usage output.
* Support for Solaris 10.
* Support for FreeBSD 7.
libstatgrab 0.11.1 (03 March 2005)
* Add NFS to list of supported filesystems.
* Fix reporting of network interface duplex settings on Linux.
* Fix saidar to support negative FS usage.
libstatgrab 0.11 (09 November 2004)
* Add support for HP-UX 11.11.
(Patches provided by Roy Keene)
* Minor fixes to statgrab mrtg tools.
* Minor fixes to saidar.
* Minor code cleanups and fixes to libstatgrab.
libstatgrab 0.10.3 (24 August 2004)
* Add -f flag to statgrab to display floating-point numbers multiplied
by an integer.
* Add -K, -M and -G flags to statgrab to show byte counts in kibibytes,
mebibytes or gibibytes.
* Make statgrab-make-mrtg-config use the new flags to scale extremely
large or small numbers so that mrtg can handle them.
* Make statgrab-make-mrtg-config automatically detect network interface
speeds.
* Add support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT.
libstatgrab 0.10.2 (27 July 2004)
* Fix shared library version that when backwards in 0.10.1.
libstatgrab 0.10.1 (26 July 2004)
* Use DESTDIR correctly when setting permissions at install time.
* Fix disk stats to work with OpenBSD 3.5.
* Fix disk stats on NetBSD 2.0 (statvfs instead of statfs).
* Fix memory leak in process stats on NetBSD 2.0.
* Add vxfs (Veritas filesystem) to list of known filesystems
on Solaris.
* Add more variables to the pkg-config file to suggest suitable
ownership and permissions for binaries using libstatgrab.
* Make sure statgrab.h can safely be included twice.
* Fix statgrab to display network interface names even if they
don't have IO stats (like the loopback interface on Solaris).
* Add error reporting function that grabs errno.
libstatgrab 0.10 (20 May 2004)
* All function and structure names now follow a standardised
naming scheme. This will break compatibility with existing
programs. To use pre-0.10 compatibility functions:
#define SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED
#include <statgrab.h>
* New process stats function added to provide full details
on currently running processes. See sg_get_process_stats
for details.
* Compare functions provided for process, network, and disk io
statistics. These can be used with qsort.
* Error reporting functions added. See sg_get_error and
associated functions.
* Support added for NetBSD 2.0.
* Lots of code tidying.
* Python bindings now exist in a separate package:
http://www.i-scream.org/pystatgrab/
libstatgrab 0.9 (10 March 2004)
* Added network interface information:
speed, duplex, up/down.
* Added more statistics on network interfaces:
i/o packets, i/o errors, and collisions.
* Added support for OpenBSD 3.3.
* Added support for DragonFly BSD 1.0.
* No longer need elevated privileges on most platforms:
FreeBSD 5, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
(see PLATFORMS file for details on which OS's need elevated privileges)
* Minor changes to the return types of the python bindings functions.
* PLEASE NOTE: this will break binary (only) compatibility.
libstatgrab 0.8.2 (11 February 2004)
* Fixes to add support for Solaris 6.
* Python bindings available in extras directory.
* Some tidying up of code.
libstatgrab 0.8.1 (21 January 2004)
* The library part of libstatgrab is now released under the LGPL.
(the tools are still released under the GPL)
* File descriptor leak fixed on Linux.
* strlcpy/strlcat functions added for Solaris 7 to fix compile.
* statgrab_init error behaviour fixed (primarly for Solaris 7).
* Some incorrect #includes moved.
* Significant speed increases to the Solaris disk mapping code in
statgrab_init, which improves startup time.
* Minor fix for saidar's -d flag and negative numbers.
libstatgrab 0.8 (06 January 2004)
* Support for Linux 2.6.
* Support for Cygwin.
* Use cNtNdNsN names on Solaris instead of sdN.
* Fixes and optimisations to saidar.
* Fixes to the --disable-saidar and --disable-statgrab configure flags.
* New function to drop elevated privileges some OS's require.
(after using the init function)
libstatgrab 0.7 (22 October 2003)
* Support for NetBSD 1.6.x.
* FreeBSD code optimised.
* Initialise function allows programs to drop extra privileges (on *BSD).
* saidar now works even if it can't get all statistics.
* List of known file systems increased on Linux and *BSD.
* Minor bug fixes.
* Tested (and working) on Solaris 9 x86, Linux 2.2 on alpha, and
Linux 2.4 on amd64.
libstatgrab 0.6.1 (18 October 2003)
* Support for FreeBSD 5.1/sparc64.
* Bugs fixed in FreeBSD memory statistics.
* saidar displays disk percentages more "correctly".
* Bug fixed displaying hostname in saidar.
* statgrab now handles unusual /dev layouts more gracefully.
* Minor packaging changes.
libstatgrab 0.6 (09 October 2003)
* saidar, a curses-based tool, has been added to give an overview of
the current system statistics.
* Added support for FreeBSD 5.1.
* Documentation is now available in manpages.
* Fixed major bug in the FreeBSD diskio stats.
* Added a .pc file for pkgconfig.
libstatgrab 0.5.1 (09 September 2003)
* Network stats wrap-around bug fixed on Linux and FreeBSD
* Linux now reads disk information from /proc/partitions if available.
This results in it getting data for all the disks.
* An additional tool, statgrab, has been added to allow external programs
to easily parse statistics generated by libstatgrab.
* Scripts to generate MRTG (www.mrtg.org) configs with statgrab have
been added. This allows graphs to be generated from system stats.
libstatgrab 0.5 (25 August 2003)
* Fixed a bug with process stats on FreeBSD.
* Added documentation in 'docs' directory.
* Added examples in 'examples' directory.
libstatgrab 0.4 (09 April 2003)
* Support added for FreeBSD 4.x (not tested on 5.x).
libstatgrab 0.3.4 (31 March 2003)
* Fixed memory leak, and file descriptor leak on linux.
libstatgrab 0.3.3 (22 March 2003)
* Network statistics wraparound code was broken on interfaces that
transfered no data - typically second interfaces that weren't
connected.
libstatgrab 0.3.2 (21 March 2003)
* Network statistics wraparound fix.
libstatgrab 0.3.1 (12 March 2003)
* Fixed network statistics on Solaris 7 or below.
* Disk IO statistics are correctly reported.
libstatgrab 0.3 (10 March 2003)
* Support added for Linux with a 2.4 kernel.
libstatgrab 0.2 (03 March 2003)
* Initial working release for Solaris (tested on 7, 8, and 9).