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1953ff6d | 3 | CVS ID: $Id: NEWS,v 1.33 2008/02/24 20:16:31 ballen4705 Exp $ |
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5 | The most up-to-date version of this file is: | |
4d59bff9 | 6 | http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/NEWS?view=markup |
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8 | Date 2008-02-24 |
9 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.38 (STABLE) | |
10 | -------------------------------------------- | |
11 | This is a stable release of smartmontools. In addition to changes | |
12 | below, it includes: | |
13 | ||
14 | - Fixed auto-offline support in FreeBSD | |
15 | - SAT device type + SCSI generic devices work properly with smartd under Linux | |
16 | - Many additions to drive database | |
17 | - More portable autogen/autoconf/automake script set | |
18 | - Additional Windows IOCTL route to access SMART data | |
19 | - Some ATA-8 updates | |
20 | - Smoother CCISS compilation support in Linux | |
21 | - Dragonfly support | |
22 | - Fixed some ATA identity byte swap problems on big endian CPUs | |
23 | - Added support for the QNX operating system | |
24 | - No-fork option added to smartd | |
25 | - Improved device scanning and drive type recognition in Windows | |
26 | - 3ware support for controllers with more disks (32 max) | |
27 | - Improved Windows installer | |
28 | - Improved SMART Attribute list and descriptions | |
29 | - Fix to smartctl return codes | |
30 | - Fix to scheduled tests on Highpoint RAID controllers | |
31 | - New samsung firmware bug workaround option | |
32 | - Auto-offline and Auto-save fixed in Linux + libata | |
33 | - Solaris: better SCSI support | |
34 | - Fixed and improvements to CCISS support | |
35 | - More options for SCSI temperature monitoring and history | |
36 | - Additional command line options for selective self-tests | |
37 | - Compilation fixes for various platforms. | |
38 | ||
39 | See CHANGELOG for more details, or smartmontools CVS for still further | |
40 | details. | |
41 | ||
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42 | Date 2006-12-20 |
43 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.37 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL) | |
44 | ----------------------------------------------------------- | |
45 | This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools. | |
46 | It includes: | |
47 | ||
48 | - Many additions to the table of known drives | |
49 | - SAT (SCSI/ATA Translation) support | |
50 | - SCSI background scan results log | |
51 | - smartd -W directive for temperature tracking and warning | |
52 | - smartctl -n option to check power state | |
53 | - improved smartd power state logging | |
54 | - CCISS support under Linux | |
55 | - HighPoint RocketRAID support under Linux | |
56 | - 3ware RAID support under Windows | |
57 | - SPT interface for SCSI devices under Windows | |
58 | - ATA selective self test under Windows XP/2003 | |
59 | - NSIS installer support for Windows version | |
60 | - Started move from C to C++ | |
61 | - Various other improvements | |
62 | ||
63 | ||
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64 | Date 2006-04-12 |
65 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.36 (STABLE) | |
66 | ----------------------------------------------------------- | |
67 | This is a stable smartmontools release. The 5.34 version | |
68 | described just below was never officially released because | |
69 | Bruce Allen decided to wait until Linux support for | |
70 | accessing SATA devices through libata was in the official | |
71 | kernel.org sources. Changes include: | |
72 | ||
73 | - Win 2000/XP:ability to cancel drive self-tests | |
74 | - Additions to the table of known drives | |
75 | - FreeBSD support for 3ware char device interface and | |
76 | multiple 3ware cards | |
77 | - Various cygwin improvements for running as service | |
78 | - Works 'out of the box' with Linux SATA libata | |
79 | - smartd option added to list test schedules | |
80 | - smartctl option added to list part of drive database | |
81 | - various improvements for SCSI disks and logs | |
82 | ||
83 | ||
84 | Date 2005-04-19 | |
85 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.34 (STABLE) | |
86 | ----------------------------------------------------------- | |
87 | This is a stable smartmontools release. It includes: | |
88 | - OS/2 and eComStation support | |
89 | All Platforms: | |
90 | - Printing of drive family info | |
91 | - SCSI disks: output size of grown defect list | |
92 | - Added info about drive family to 'smartctl -i' output. | |
93 | - Added option ',q' for smartd '-n' directive to suppress | |
94 | 'skipping checks' message which may spin up laptop disk. | |
95 | - Added message if smartd '-n' check power mode spins up disk. | |
96 | Cygwin and Windows: | |
97 | - Added info about Windows version and service pack to banner line. | |
98 | - Added support for smartd '-n' directive for Win2000/XP. | |
99 | - Added support for READ_LOG for WinNT4 also. | |
100 | - Fixed bug that prevents display of empty logs on Win2000/XP | |
101 | - Fixed use of cached smart enabled state in 'smartctl -i' output. | |
102 | Windows: | |
103 | - Fixed bug that prevents running smartd as service on WinNT4. | |
104 | ||
105 | ||
106 | Date 2004-9-5 | |
107 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.33 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL) | |
108 | ----------------------------------------------------------- | |
109 | This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools. It includes | |
110 | - support for Darwin/Mac OSX | |
111 | - support for OpenBSD | |
112 | - support for 3ware ATA RAID controllers under FreeBSD | |
113 | - support for 3ware 9500 series SATA RAID controllers under | |
114 | Linux. Use /dev/twa[0-15] devices to access these. | |
115 | - support for 3ware character device interfaces /dev/twe[0-15] | |
116 | under Linux. This allows (for example) Selective Self-tests. | |
117 | - support for Marvell chip-set based SATA controllers under Linux. | |
118 | - smartd mail now works also under Windows (using "Blat" mailer). | |
119 | - smartd can now be run as a Windows service. | |
120 | Please report sucess/failure with these items to the | |
121 | smartmontools-support mailing list. | |
122 | ||
123 | ||
124 | Date 2004-7-5 | |
125 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.32 (STABLE) | |
126 | ----------------------------------------------------------- | |
127 | This is an stable release of smartmontools. | |
128 | Note added 2004/7/7: users building a Solaris/Intel version of the code should | |
129 | modify the 'configure' file, changing "pc-*-solaris*" on line 106 | |
130 | to read "*-pc-solaris*". Reference: | |
4d59bff9 | 131 | http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/configure.in?r1=1.83&r2=1.84 |
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133 | ||
134 | Date: 2004-5-4 | |
135 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.31 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL) | |
136 | ----------------------------------------------------------- | |
137 | This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools. It includes | |
138 | several new features: | |
139 | - Windows smartd daemon | |
140 | - smartd now monitors current and pending sector counts | |
141 | - Support for ATA-7 selective self-test features (Linux/NetBSD only) | |
142 | Please report sucess/failure with this option to the smartmontools-support | |
143 | mailing list. | |
144 | ||
145 | Date: 2004-3-6 | |
146 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.30 (STABLE) | |
147 | -------------------------------------------- | |
148 | This is a stable release of smartmontools: the first stable release | |
149 | since 5.26. | |
150 | - KNOWN BUG (identified/fixed by CF): smartd will segv and crash if | |
151 | the configuration file /etc/smartd.conf contains NO valid entries. | |
152 | This bug was introduced in version 1.259 of smartd.c by BA and | |
153 | is present in smartmontools releases 5.27-5.30 inclusive. This can | |
154 | be fixed by editing line 3165 of smartd.c, and changing: | |
155 | "else if (cfgentries[0]) {" | |
156 | to read: | |
157 | "else if (cfgentries && cfgentries[0]) {" | |
158 | ||
159 | ||
160 | Date: 2004-2-24 | |
161 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.29 (Experimental, not STABLE) | |
162 | -------------------------------------------------------------- | |
163 | This is another experimental release, to replace the 5.27 release that | |
164 | had a damaged configure script. The next stable release will be 5.30 | |
165 | - This release has SCSI support for NetBSD | |
166 | ||
167 | ||
168 | Date: 2004-2-12 | |
169 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.27 (Experimental, not STABLE) | |
170 | -------------------------------------------------------------- | |
171 | - WARNING: this release has a broken --prefix=/a/path option to the | |
172 | configure script. The consequence is that smartd will not look for the | |
173 | configuration file (smartd.conf) at the desired location. | |
174 | - NetBSD support added | |
175 | - A new Directive (-s) for smartd.conf now enables flexible automatic | |
176 | scheduled self-testing for both ATA and SCSI devices. | |
177 | - Solaris now has ATA device support (SPARC only) | |
178 | - A new Directive (-n) for smartd.conf to avoid spinning up disks | |
179 | - Errors when smartd sends mail are now logged to SYSLOG | |
180 | - Solaris smartd mail now works correctly (uses mailx not mail) | |
181 | ||
182 | ||
183 | Date: 2003-11-29 | |
184 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.26 | |
185 | ----------------------------------- | |
186 | This is a stable smartmontools release. The only known problem is | |
187 | that under Solaris, the email features of smartd do not work 'out of | |
188 | the box'. Three workarounds are: | |
189 | [1] use '-M exec mailx' in /etc/smartd.conf | |
190 | [2] in the start script for smartd, put /usr/ucb into PATH before | |
191 | /bin | |
192 | [3] upgrade to release 5.27 or later, or the latest CVS snapshot | |
193 | ||
194 | ||
195 | Date: 2003-11-19 | |
196 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.25 | |
197 | ----------------------------------- | |
198 | This release should not hang when accessing USB devices. It provides | |
199 | smartd SCSI self-test log monitoring for self-test errors, and a | |
200 | larger table of known ATA drives. DEVICESCAN should work correctly | |
201 | even on file systems containing XFS or JFS partitions, and on machines | |
202 | that use devfs, even without traditional links. | |
203 | ||
204 | From this time on, even numbered releases will be 'stable' ones and | |
205 | odd numbered releases (like 5.25) will be unstable/testing/development | |
206 | releases. | |
207 | ||
208 | ||
209 | Date: 2003-10-30 | |
210 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.23 | |
211 | ----------------------------------- | |
212 | This release has one known problem: DEVICESCAN device scanning does | |
213 | not work correctly if the disk with the /dev directory also has XFS | |
214 | or JFS file systems on it. | |
215 | ||
216 | ||
217 | Date: 2003-10-28 | |
218 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.22 | |
219 | ----------------------------------- | |
220 | Replaces flawed 5.21 release: the -T verypermissive option had to be | |
221 | entered as -T verpermissive. First experimental solaris support (SCSI | |
222 | only). This release had a serious flaw: smartd left open file descriptors | |
223 | for devices that it couldn't monitor. | |
224 | ||
225 | ||
226 | Date: 2003-10-14 | |
227 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.21 | |
228 | ----------------------------------- | |
229 | Preliminary support for FreeBSD added to smartmontools. For FreeBSD, | |
230 | ATA support requires a 5.1-CURRENT kernel while SCSI support should | |
231 | work across multiple versions (any that support CAM). | |
232 | ||
233 | ||
234 | Date: 2003-10-04 | |
235 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.20 | |
236 | ----------------------------------- | |
237 | Replaces flawed 5.19 release (which had a zero-length man page | |
238 | smartd.conf.5). | |
239 | ||
240 | ||
241 | Date: 2003-10-03 | |
242 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.19 | |
243 | ----------------------------------- | |
244 | This is the first release of smartmontools based on autoconf/automake. | |
245 | For this reason, it is a very experimental release. Please let us | |
246 | know in particular about documenation errors/omissions, missing or | |
247 | unneccesary files, and similar oversights. The major changes are: | |
248 | [1] installation scripts based on autoconfig/automake | |
249 | [2] ./configure [options] lets you set arbitrary paths | |
250 | [3] supports FHS with ./configure --prefix=/usr/local | |
251 | [4] correct paths are inserted into all man pages, binaries, etc. | |
252 | [5] tarballs and RPMs are now GPG-signed | |
253 | ||
254 | ||
255 | Date: 2003-10-02 11:35 | |
256 | Summary: smartd SEGV | |
257 | -------------------- | |
258 | Some versions of smartd, including smartmontools release 5.1-18, will | |
259 | SEGV if the combination of Directives in /etc/smartd.conf contains | |
260 | -l error | |
261 | AND/OR | |
262 | -l selftest | |
263 | without any Attribute monitoring Directives. This is fixed in 5.19 | |
264 | and above. | |
265 | ||
266 | A good workaround is to add: | |
267 | -o on | |
268 | OR | |
269 | -o off | |
270 | to enable or disable automatic offline data collection. | |
271 | ||
272 | ||
273 | Date: 2002-11-17 07:41 | |
274 | Summary: testunitready bug in smartd | |
275 | ------------------------------------ | |
276 | A bug in smartd prevented functioning on scsi devices. | |
277 | The bug in question only affects smartd users with scsi devices. | |
278 | To see if your version of smartd has the testunitready() bug, do | |
279 | smartd -V | |
280 | If the version of the module smartd.c in a line like: | |
281 | Module: smartd.c revision: 1.66 date: 2002/11/17 | |
282 | has a revision greater than or equal to 1.30, and less than or | |
283 | equal to 1.64, then your version of the code has this problem. | |
284 | ||
285 | This problem affected releases starting with RELEASE_5_0_16 up to and | |
286 | including RELEASE_5_0_43. |