NEWS

   1 smartmontools NEWS
   2 ------------------
   3 CVS ID: $Id: NEWS,v 1.32 2006/12/20 20:39:25 chrfranke Exp $
   4
   5 The most up-to-date version of this file is:
   6 http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/NEWS?view=markup
   7
   8 Date 2006-12-20
   9 Summary: smartmontools release 5.37 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
  10 -----------------------------------------------------------
  11 This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools.
  12 It includes:
  13
  14 - Many additions to the table of known drives
  15 - SAT (SCSI/ATA Translation) support
  16 - SCSI background scan results log
  17 - smartd -W directive for temperature tracking and warning
  18 - smartctl -n option to check power state
  19 - improved smartd power state logging
  20 - CCISS support under Linux
  21 - HighPoint RocketRAID support under Linux
  22 - 3ware RAID support under Windows
  23 - SPT interface for SCSI devices under Windows
  24 - ATA selective self test under Windows XP/2003
  25 - NSIS installer support for Windows version
  26 - Started move from C to C++
  27 - Various other improvements
  28
  29
  30 Date 2006-04-12
  31 Summary: smartmontools release 5.36 (STABLE)
  32 -----------------------------------------------------------
  33 This is a stable smartmontools release.  The 5.34 version
  34 described just below was never officially released because
  35 Bruce Allen decided to wait until Linux support for
  36 accessing SATA devices through libata was in the official
  37 kernel.org sources.  Changes include:
  38
  39 - Win 2000/XP:ability to cancel drive self-tests
  40 - Additions to the table of known drives
  41 - FreeBSD support for 3ware char device interface and
  42   multiple 3ware cards
  43 - Various cygwin improvements for running as service
  44 - Works 'out of the box' with Linux SATA libata
  45 - smartd option added to list test schedules
  46 - smartctl option added to list part of drive database
  47 - various improvements for SCSI disks and logs
  48
  49
  50 Date 2005-04-19
  51 Summary: smartmontools release 5.34 (STABLE)
  52 -----------------------------------------------------------
  53 This is a stable smartmontools release.  It includes:
  54 - OS/2 and eComStation support
  55 All Platforms:
  56  - Printing of drive family info
  57  - SCSI disks: output size of grown defect list
  58  - Added info about drive family to 'smartctl -i' output.
  59  - Added option ',q' for smartd '-n' directive to suppress
  60    'skipping checks' message which may spin up laptop disk.
  61  - Added message if smartd '-n' check power mode spins up disk.
  62 Cygwin and Windows:
  63  - Added info about Windows version and service pack to banner line.
  64  - Added support for smartd '-n' directive for Win2000/XP.
  65  - Added support for READ_LOG for WinNT4 also.
  66  - Fixed bug that prevents display of empty logs on Win2000/XP
  67  - Fixed use of cached smart enabled state in 'smartctl -i' output.
  68 Windows:
  69  - Fixed bug that prevents running smartd as service on WinNT4.
  70
  71
  72 Date 2004-9-5
  73 Summary: smartmontools release 5.33 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
  74 -----------------------------------------------------------
  75 This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools.  It includes
  76  - support for Darwin/Mac OSX
  77  - support for OpenBSD
  78  - support for 3ware ATA RAID controllers under FreeBSD
  79  - support for 3ware 9500 series SATA RAID controllers under
  80    Linux.  Use /dev/twa[0-15] devices to access these.
  81  - support for 3ware character device interfaces /dev/twe[0-15]
  82    under Linux.  This allows (for example) Selective Self-tests.
  83  - support for Marvell chip-set based SATA controllers under Linux.
  84  - smartd mail now works also under Windows (using "Blat" mailer).
  85  - smartd can now be run as a Windows service.
  86 Please report sucess/failure with these items to the
  87 smartmontools-support mailing list.
  88
  89
  90 Date 2004-7-5
  91 Summary: smartmontools release 5.32 (STABLE)
  92 -----------------------------------------------------------
  93 This is an stable release of smartmontools.
  94 Note added 2004/7/7: users building a Solaris/Intel version of the code should
  95 modify the 'configure' file, changing "pc-*-solaris*" on line 106
  96 to read "*-pc-solaris*".  Reference:
  97 http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/configure.in?r1=1.83&r2=1.84
  98
  99
 100 Date: 2004-5-4
 101 Summary: smartmontools release 5.31 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
 102 -----------------------------------------------------------
 103 This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools.  It includes
 104 several new features:
 105 - Windows smartd daemon
 106 - smartd now monitors current and pending sector counts
 107 - Support for ATA-7 selective self-test features (Linux/NetBSD only)
 108   Please report sucess/failure with this option to the smartmontools-support
 109   mailing list.
 110
 111 Date: 2004-3-6
 112 Summary: smartmontools release 5.30 (STABLE)
 113 --------------------------------------------
 114 This is a stable release of smartmontools: the first stable release
 115 since 5.26.
 116 - KNOWN BUG (identified/fixed by CF): smartd will segv and crash if
 117   the configuration file /etc/smartd.conf contains NO valid entries.
 118   This bug was introduced in version 1.259 of smartd.c by BA and
 119   is present in smartmontools releases 5.27-5.30 inclusive. This can
 120   be fixed by editing line 3165 of smartd.c, and changing:
 121   "else if (cfgentries[0]) {"
 122   to read:
 123   "else if (cfgentries && cfgentries[0]) {"
 124
 125
 126 Date: 2004-2-24
 127 Summary: smartmontools release 5.29 (Experimental, not STABLE)
 128 --------------------------------------------------------------
 129 This is another experimental release, to replace the 5.27 release that
 130 had a damaged configure script.  The next stable release will be 5.30
 131 - This release has SCSI support for NetBSD
 132
 133
 134 Date: 2004-2-12
 135 Summary: smartmontools release 5.27 (Experimental, not STABLE)
 136 --------------------------------------------------------------
 137 - WARNING: this release has a broken --prefix=/a/path option to the
 138   configure script.  The consequence is that smartd will not look for the
 139   configuration file (smartd.conf) at the desired location.
 140 - NetBSD support added
 141 - A new Directive (-s) for smartd.conf now enables flexible automatic
 142   scheduled self-testing for both ATA and SCSI devices.
 143 - Solaris now has ATA device support (SPARC only)
 144 - A new Directive (-n) for smartd.conf to avoid spinning up disks
 145 - Errors when smartd sends mail are now logged to SYSLOG
 146 - Solaris smartd mail now works correctly (uses mailx not mail)
 147
 148
 149 Date: 2003-11-29
 150 Summary: smartmontools release 5.26
 151 -----------------------------------
 152 This is a stable smartmontools release.  The only known problem is
 153 that under Solaris, the email features of smartd do not work 'out of
 154 the box'.  Three workarounds are:
 155   [1] use '-M exec mailx' in /etc/smartd.conf
 156   [2] in the start script for smartd, put /usr/ucb into PATH before
 157       /bin
 158   [3] upgrade to release 5.27 or later, or the latest CVS snapshot
 159
 160
 161 Date: 2003-11-19
 162 Summary: smartmontools release 5.25
 163 -----------------------------------
 164 This release should not hang when accessing USB devices. It provides
 165 smartd SCSI self-test log monitoring for self-test errors, and a
 166 larger table of known ATA drives.  DEVICESCAN should work correctly
 167 even on file systems containing XFS or JFS partitions, and on machines
 168 that use devfs, even without traditional links.
 169
 170 From this time on, even numbered releases will be 'stable' ones and
 171 odd numbered releases (like 5.25) will be unstable/testing/development
 172 releases.
 173
 174
 175 Date: 2003-10-30
 176 Summary: smartmontools release 5.23
 177 -----------------------------------
 178 This release has one known problem: DEVICESCAN device scanning does
 179 not work correctly if the disk with the /dev directory also has XFS
 180 or JFS file systems on it.
 181
 182
 183 Date: 2003-10-28
 184 Summary: smartmontools release 5.22
 185 -----------------------------------
 186 Replaces flawed 5.21 release: the -T verypermissive option had to be
 187 entered as -T verpermissive. First experimental solaris support (SCSI
 188 only).  This release had a serious flaw: smartd left open file descriptors
 189 for devices that it couldn't monitor.
 190
 191
 192 Date: 2003-10-14
 193 Summary: smartmontools release 5.21
 194 -----------------------------------
 195 Preliminary support for FreeBSD added to smartmontools.  For FreeBSD,
 196 ATA support requires a 5.1-CURRENT kernel while SCSI support should
 197 work across multiple versions (any that support CAM).
 198
 199
 200 Date: 2003-10-04
 201 Summary: smartmontools release 5.20
 202 -----------------------------------
 203 Replaces flawed 5.19 release (which had a zero-length man page
 204 smartd.conf.5).
 205
 206
 207 Date: 2003-10-03
 208 Summary: smartmontools release 5.19
 209 -----------------------------------
 210 This is the first release of smartmontools based on autoconf/automake.
 211 For this reason, it is a very experimental release.  Please let us
 212 know in particular about documenation errors/omissions, missing or
 213 unneccesary files, and similar oversights.  The major changes are:
 214  [1]  installation scripts based on autoconfig/automake
 215  [2] ./configure [options] lets you set arbitrary paths
 216  [3] supports FHS with ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
 217  [4] correct paths are inserted into all man pages, binaries, etc.
 218  [5] tarballs and RPMs are now GPG-signed
 219
 220
 221 Date: 2003-10-02 11:35
 222 Summary: smartd SEGV
 223 --------------------
 224 Some versions of smartd, including smartmontools release 5.1-18, will
 225 SEGV if the combination of Directives in /etc/smartd.conf contains
 226 -l error
 227 AND/OR
 228 -l selftest
 229 without any Attribute monitoring Directives.  This is fixed in 5.19
 230 and above.
 231
 232 A good workaround is to add:
 233 -o on
 234 OR
 235 -o off
 236 to enable or disable automatic offline data collection.
 237
 238
 239 Date: 2002-11-17 07:41
 240 Summary: testunitready bug in smartd
 241 ------------------------------------
 242 A bug in smartd prevented functioning on scsi devices.
 243 The bug in question only affects smartd users with scsi devices.
 244 To see if your version of smartd has the testunitready() bug, do
 245 smartd -V
 246 If the version of the module smartd.c in a line like:
 247 Module: smartd.c revision: 1.66 date: 2002/11/17
 248 has a revision greater than or equal to 1.30, and less than or
 249 equal to 1.64, then your version of the code has this problem.
 250
 251 This problem affected releases starting with RELEASE_5_0_16 up to and
 252 including RELEASE_5_0_43.