Nagios: Nagios 2.x Version History

Nagios 2.x Version History

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2.12 - 05/19/2008

Minor bug fixes in CGIs to ensure extra host/servicegroup url strings are terminated properly
Patches for possible XSS vulnerability in CGIs (CVE-2007-5803) - Florian Weimer & SUSE Linux team

2.11 - 03/12/2008

Better error logging when failing to rename/move files
Possible fix for Unicode html encoding errors in CGIs
Fix for encoding HTML characters in CGIs
Fix for a potential cross site scripting vulnerability in the CGIs
Fix for a bug with processing service dependency templates with null master host(group) names
Fix for a possible memory leak in situations where overflow occurs in check result buffer
Fix for segfault in event broker module code
Fix for cfg_dir directive not working on Solaris
Fix for flap detection information not be retained across restarts
Patch to allow non-ASCII characters in notifications, etc.

2.10 - 10/21/2007

Added 'make install-webconf' command to install Apache web config file
Sample config files are now installed without a -sample extension
Fix for SIGTERMs being seen as SIGEXITs, non-logging of SIGTERMs/shutdowns
Minor fix for notification timeout log messages
Fix for not logging passive host check results
Minor bug fixes in CGIs
Fix for a segfault when processing passive host check results with empty output/perfdata
Fix for incorrect latency calculation for passive service checks
Bug fix with attempting to access an uninitalized mutex if external commands are disabled
Fix for keeping service checks in the event queue when active service checks are disabled globally
Fix for a potential cross site scripting vulnerability in the CGIs
Program version is now displayed in CGIs

2.9 - 04/10/2007

Fix for incorrect performance data file write/append mode options
Fix for current status of hosts with no host check command defined
SIGSEGV signals should now be logged again (broken in 2.8)
Configure script fix for no mail program found/installed on system
Configure script option bug fixes for cygwin and embedded perl
Command definitions and host/service plugin perfdata with HTML should now be escaped in CGIs
Patch for incorrect time down percentage in availability CGI
Updated init script to fix a race condition during restarts

2.8 - 03/08/2007

Bug fix for calculating notification interval with service escalations
Bug fix for using servicegroups in service dependency definitions
Bug fix for bad date format submission in command CGI
Possible segfault fix during restarts when daemon was performing host checks
Fix for missing check timeout in event broker calls
Fix for handling signals under NPTL
Added error messages for passive service checks that don't correspond to a defined service

2.7 - 01/19/2007

p1.pl now sets environment var (NAGIOS_PLUGIN) to indicate patch of plugin that is executing
Updated nagiostats with new MRTG vars for tracking buffer usage
Added sample MRTG config file
Minor patches to availability and status CGIs
Minor documentation updates
Fix for segfault during expiration or deletion of scheduled downtime
Fix for scheduling immediate service check through WAP interface
Fix for leading whitespace before comments in object config files

2.6 - 11/27/2006

Fix for unscheduled triggered downtime entries
Fix for embedded audio in tac and status CGIs
Fixed bug in nagiostats utility when reporting host/service check latency
Misc code cleanups for compiler warnings
Fixed error when reading empty (zero byte) config files
Default is now to check for orphaned service checks (Francois Caen)
Fixed bug with non-standard CGI config file location in status data (Carson Gaspar)
Fixed bugs and simplified examples in sample config files (Mark Young)

2.5 - 07/13/2006

Bug fix for excluding hidden files from config file processing
Bug fix for incorrect links to trends CGI from notification CGI
Hopefully faster shutdown during host checks
Lock file is now closed just prior to shutdown, instead of when SIGINT is received
Bug fix for segfault during startup due to extended service definition duplication
Bug fix for segfault with wildcards in servicegroup members
Bug fix for segfault when p1.pl file was missing and embedded Perl interpreter was enabled

2.4 - 05/31/2006

Fix for missing include that prevented CGI compilation under Solaris
Better error message reporting in the command CGI (cmd.cgi)
Fix for order of recovery/flapping notifications immediately after end of host/service flapping
Bug fix for potential crash (SIGBUS) of CGIs when reading mmap()'ed status, comment, and downtime files
Added 'install-unstripped' option to Makefile to allow installing unstripped binaries for debugging
Minor bug fix to sample redundancy handle-master-proc-event script

2.3.1 - 05/15/2006

Bug fix for HTTP content_length header integer overflow in CGIs

2.3 - 05/03/2006

Bug fix for negative HTTP content_length header in CGIs
Added missing links for notes_url and action_url to service column of status detail page

2.2 - 04/07/2006

Minor bug fix in availability CGI
Bug fix with temporary file location used for retention data
Fix for segfault that occurred in 2.1 during service flapping notifications

2.1 - 03/27/2006

Changed freshness logic so that passive checks don't immediately go stale after program restart
Bug fix for minor memory leak in object cleanup code
Bug fix for flapping notifications during scheduled downtime
Bug fix for $TOTALHOSTSDOWNUNHANDLED$ macro
Bug fix in sample minimal.cfg file
Bug fix in status CGI when displaying servicegroups
Bug fixes in computation of indeterminate time and scheduled downtime in availability CGI
Bug fix with not deleting all comments associated with a service
Lowered max plugin output length from 348 to 332 chars to run on 64-bit systems without problems
Minor fix to p1.pl for embedded Perl interpreter
Minor fixes to WAP interface (statuswml CGI)
Minor bug fix to VRML interface (statuswrl CGI)
Minor doc updates

2.0 - 02/07/2006

Fix for segfault in timed event queue
Removed length limitations for object vars/vals
Updated config.sub and config.guess to versions from automake-1.9
Doc updates

2.0rc2 - 01/10/2006

Fix for initialization of embedded Perl interpreter
Fix for potential duplicate membership entry bug in (host/service/contact)groups
Minor documentation updates

2.0rc1 - 12/27/2005

Event broker modifications: (1) minor change to log timestamps, (2) changes to notification, check, event handler, and system command callbacks, (3) addition of acknowledgement and state change callbacks
Minor bug fix to statuswml CGI
Minor spec file updates
Minor include file fix to remove duplicate _REENTRANT definitions affecting embedded Perl
Bug fix in template resolution of contactgroups variable in contact definitions
Fixed bug with comments not expiring (for some reason this was not previously implemented!)
Minor embedded Perl changes
Fixed bug with non-registered objects in wildcard/regex templates
Added configure script option to disable use of nanosleep() in event queue
Improvements to circular path/dependency checks to prevent segfaults
Minor documentation updates

2.0b6 - 11/30/2005

Changed license to specifically state GPL version 2
Minor fixes to sample nagios.cfg config file
Fix for non-US date formats in command CGI
Spec file updates
Include file modifications for C++ event broker modules
Minor event broker changes (addition of timed event "sleep" data)
Added some sanity checks during write of status data for full partitions
Sample web server config file changes
Doc updates

2.0b5 - 11/14/2005

Typo fix in availability CGI
Minor changes to sample config files
Fixed order of include files in config.h for clean compile on OpenBSD 3.6
Minor fixes in availability and trends CGIs for assumed states during program downtime
Fixed bug with initial scheduling of active service checks in configs with a large number of passive-only checks
Fixed bugs with scheduling active host and service checks when active checks were disabled globally
Host name search in web interface is now case-insensitive
Fixed bug in times reported by nagiostats utility
Nagios now drops privileges before reading config files for config verification and scheduling info tests
Fixed bug where non-config files would occassionally be processed with config directory recursion
Improvements to init script when stopping Nagios
Minor changes to improve host and service freshness checking
Fixed bug with event handlers and logging during soft host recoveries
Added check for duplicate object names that could adversely affect template resolution
Updated mini EPN (embedded Perl) test modules
A few other misc minor fixes

2.0b4 - 08/02/2005

Memory leak fixes
Fixed log message error at start of flapping
Fixed segfault with invalid servicegroups in service definitions
Non-existent problems can no longer be acknowledged
Privileges will now only attempted be dropped if started as root user
Embedded Perl fixes (to reduce memory leaks)
Sample CGI config file fixes
Added $HOSTCHECKTYPE$ and $SERVICECHECKTYPE$ macros
Fixed bugs in $LASTHOSTCHECK$ macro (and corresponding on-demand macro)
Fixed bugs in status data routines
Fixed bug with NULL hostgroup and servicegroup membership
Fixed bug with config directory recursion being broken
Fixed bug with processing directives in non-registered object definitions
Minor change to event broker API to prevent segfaults from unloaded modules
Updated sample helloworld NEB module to show how to register callback routines

2.0b3 - 04/03/2005

Sample config file fixes
Fixed segfaults in CGIs where plugin output was NULL
Minor fixes to INSTALL documentation
Fixed segfault with mispaired servicegroup memberships
Added $PROCESSSTARTTIME$ macro
If not specified, host address and alias now default to host name
Extended ASCII characters no longer auto-stripped from object names and macros
Added external commands to adjust host and service notification numbers
Init script changes
Fixed bug where passive checks with empty plugin output were being dropped
Fixed bug in state retention routines
Configure script changes to (hopefully) support event broker under AIX 5
Documentation fixes and updates
Additional MRTG output options in nagiostats utility
Fixed bug in macro processing where commands longer than 1K in length were sometimes being truncated
Fixed bug in initialization of servicedependency definitions
Nagios now aborts at startup if it can't drop privileges
Fixed segfault with adaptive monitoring when changing service check command

2.0b2 - 02/09/2005

Fixed bug with cleaning macro contents
Minor doc updates and fixes
Init script mods
Fixed bug in macro routines
Changed library ordering in GD configure script tests
Increased command buffer from 4K to 32K
Added ability to report on soft problem states in avail and trends CGIs
Fixed bug with hard service problems being reported as soft after host recoveries
Fixed bug with current attempt number during scheduled host checks
Fixed macro processing bug
Fixed bug where GUI didn't show UNREACHABLE hosts properly
Event broker bug fixes
Removed (un)setenv() calls for systems that don't support it
Fixed problem with installing sample config files
Sample config file fix
RPM spec file updates
Embedded Perl fixes (updated p1.pl and mini_epn)

2.0b1 - 12/15/2004

Extensive macro changes (see docs)
Hostgroup escalations removed
Freshness checking and an OCHP command added for host
Added support for regularly schedule host checks
Added support for passive host checks
Better retention of status data across program restarts
Embedded Perl improvements
Notification are now sent for flapping start/stop events
Improved notification logic
Timeperiods and state options added to host and service escalations
Service groups added
New nagiostats command-line stats utility
Some adaptive monitoring features introduced
Native DB support dropped
Faster CGIs through the use of hashes and other improvements
Improved logging of initial host and service states
Added support for config directory recursion
Seperate threads are now used for internal worker processes
Cached object config file created on startup
Regular expression matching added to some object directives
Added support for arguments in all types of commands
Added event broker API, which allows for third-party modules to integrate with Nagios (docs to be developed seperately)
Lots of other tweaks and improvements...

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