NEWS

   1 smartmontools NEWS
   2 ------------------
   3 $Id: NEWS 3057 2010-02-03 20:56:41Z chrfranke $
   4
   5 The most up-to-date version of this file is:
   6 http://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smartmontools/trunk/smartmontools/NEWS?view=markup
   7
   8 Date <Not released yet, please try current SVN>
   9 Summary: smartmontools release 5.40
  10 -----------------------------------------------------------
  11 - Option '-v' allows to specify byte order of attribute raw value
  12 - configure: New default value for '--with-docdir'.
  13 - Drive database is in a separate source file 'drivedb.h'
  14   which can be downloaded from SVN.
  15 - smartd libcap-ng support, option '-C, --capabilities'.
  16
  17 Date 2010-01-28
  18 Summary: smartmontools release 5.39.1
  19 -----------------------------------------------------------
  20 - Fix crash on kFreeBSD.
  21 - Fix regression in smartctl option '-q, --quietmode'.
  22 - Fix regression in smartd directive '-l selftest'.
  23 - Linux: Allow smartd 'DEVICESCAN -d sat'.
  24 - Linux: Fix spin-up of SATA drive if '-n standby' is used.
  25 - Windows: Fix parsing of 3ware 'tw_cli' output.
  26
  27 Date 2009-12-09
  28 Summary: smartmontools release 5.39 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
  29 -----------------------------------------------------------
  30 - Sourcecode repository moved from CVS to SVN
  31 - Support for USB devices with Cypress, JMicron and Sunplus USB bridges
  32 - USB device type autodetection for some devices on Linux, Windows and FreeBSD
  33   (http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/Supported_USB-Devices)
  34 - Support for Areca controllers on Linux
  35 - Support for MegaRAID controllers on Linux
  36 - Support for HighPoint RocketRAID controllers on FreeBSD
  37 - Support RAID controllers using /dev/pass devices on FreeBSD
  38 - Support CHECK_POWER_MODE and WRITE_LOG on FreeBSD
  39 - Support for up to 128 devices on 3ware controllers
  40 - smartctl option '-l xerror' to print ATA SMART Extended Comprehensive
  41   Error Log
  42 - smartctl option '-l xselftest' to print ATA SMART Extended Self-test Log
  43 - smartctl option '-l sataphy' to print SATA Phy Event Counters
  44 - smartctl option '-l sasphy' to print SAS device phy information
  45 - smartctl options '-l gplog,...' and '-l smartlog,...' to print any log page
  46 - smartctl option '-x' to print all extended info if available
  47 - smartctl prints SCSI load/unload cycle counts
  48 - Improve display of huge raw values of some SMART attributes
  49 - Option '-d sat+TYPE' to use SAT with controllers which require '-d TYPE'
  50 - Option '-v ID,RAW_FORMAT,ATTR_NAME' to add new vendor specific attributes
  51 - Support for SSD drives using 64-bit raw attributes
  52 - Many additions to drive database
  53 - New simplified syntax for drive database
  54 - Option '-B FILE' to read drive database from a file
  55 - Configure option to add drive database file to distribution
  56 - smartd can now handle attributes 197 and 198 with increasing raw values
  57 - smartd logs changes of self-test execution status
  58 - smartd directive '-n powermode,N' to limit the number of skipped checks
  59 - smartd flag '!' for '-r' and '-R' directives to log changes as critical
  60 - smartd supports scheduled Selective Self-Tests
  61 - Self-tests scheduled during system downtime or disk standby are run after
  62   next startup
  63 - smartd option '-s PREFIX' to store smartd internal state until next startup
  64 - smartd option '-A PREFIX' to log attributes at each check cycle
  65 - Configure options to enable the above by default
  66 - Change to an object oriented interface to access ATA and SCSI devices
  67 - Linux, Win32 and FreeBSD modules migrated to new interface
  68 - Rework of smartd data structures
  69 - Checkin date and SVN revision and optional BUILD_INFO printed in version info
  70 - Better support for GSmartControl on Windows
  71 - SELinux fixes to 3ware device node creation
  72 - Fix CCISS file descriptor leak on FreeBSD
  73 - Compile fixes for Solaris and FreeBSD
  74 - Use getaddrinfo() instead of gethostbyname() to support IPv6
  75 - C++ Support for QNX Target, already tested for QNX 6.3.2 on x86 and
  76   armle target
  77 - Additional support for Samsung MLC flash drives
  78 - New device type detection algorithm on FreeBSD, not based on filename
  79 - Support for the adaX (ATA on CAM bus) devices on FreeBSD 8.0 and higher
  80
  81 Date 2008-03-10
  82 Summary: smartmontools release 5.38 (STABLE)
  83 --------------------------------------------
  84 This is a stable release of smartmontools.  In addition to changes
  85 below, it includes:
  86  - Libata/Marvell driver devices no longer need explicit '-d' switch
  87  - DEVICESCAN automatically detects libata/marvell driver SATA devices
  88  - Fixed auto-offline/autosave support in FreeBSD
  89  - SAT device type + SCSI generic devices work properly with smartd under Linux
  90  - Many additions to drive database
  91  - More portable autogen/autoconf/automake script set
  92  - Additional Windows IOCTL route to access SMART data
  93  - Some ATA-8 updates
  94  - Smoother CCISS compilation support in Linux
  95  - Dragonfly support
  96  - Fixed some ATA identity byte swap problems on big endian CPUs
  97  - Added support for the QNX operating system
  98  - No-fork option added to smartd
  99  - Improved device scanning and drive type recognition in Windows
 100  - 3ware support for controllers with more disks (32 max)
 101  - Improved Windows installer
 102  - Improved SMART Attribute list and descriptions
 103  - Fix to smartctl return codes
 104  - Fix to scheduled tests on Highpoint RAID controllers
 105  - New samsung firmware bug workaround option
 106  - Auto-offline and Auto-save fixed in Linux + libata
 107  - Solaris: better SCSI support and support for Sun compilers AND gcc
 108  - Fixed and improvements to CCISS support
 109  - More options for SCSI temperature monitoring and history
 110  - Additional command line options for selective self-tests
 111  - Compilation fixes for various platforms.
 112
 113 See CHANGELOG for more details, or smartmontools SVN for still further
 114 details.
 115
 116 Date 2006-12-20
 117 Summary: smartmontools release 5.37 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
 118 -----------------------------------------------------------
 119 This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools.
 120 It includes:
 121
 122 - Many additions to the table of known drives
 123 - SAT (SCSI/ATA Translation) support
 124 - SCSI background scan results log
 125 - smartd -W directive for temperature tracking and warning
 126 - smartctl -n option to check power state
 127 - improved smartd power state logging
 128 - CCISS support under Linux
 129 - HighPoint RocketRAID support under Linux
 130 - 3ware RAID support under Windows
 131 - SPT interface for SCSI devices under Windows
 132 - ATA selective self test under Windows XP/2003
 133 - NSIS installer support for Windows version
 134 - Started move from C to C++
 135 - Various other improvements
 136
 137
 138 Date 2006-04-12
 139 Summary: smartmontools release 5.36 (STABLE)
 140 -----------------------------------------------------------
 141 This is a stable smartmontools release.  The 5.34 version
 142 described just below was never officially released because
 143 Bruce Allen decided to wait until Linux support for
 144 accessing SATA devices through libata was in the official
 145 kernel.org sources.  Changes include:
 146
 147 - Win 2000/XP:ability to cancel drive self-tests
 148 - Additions to the table of known drives
 149 - FreeBSD support for 3ware char device interface and
 150   multiple 3ware cards
 151 - Various cygwin improvements for running as service
 152 - Works 'out of the box' with Linux SATA libata
 153 - smartd option added to list test schedules
 154 - smartctl option added to list part of drive database
 155 - various improvements for SCSI disks and logs
 156
 157
 158 Date 2005-04-19
 159 Summary: smartmontools release 5.34 (STABLE)
 160 -----------------------------------------------------------
 161 This is a stable smartmontools release.  It includes:
 162 - OS/2 and eComStation support
 163 All Platforms:
 164  - Printing of drive family info
 165  - SCSI disks: output size of grown defect list
 166  - Added info about drive family to 'smartctl -i' output.
 167  - Added option ',q' for smartd '-n' directive to suppress
 168    'skipping checks' message which may spin up laptop disk.
 169  - Added message if smartd '-n' check power mode spins up disk.
 170 Cygwin and Windows:
 171  - Added info about Windows version and service pack to banner line.
 172  - Added support for smartd '-n' directive for Win2000/XP.
 173  - Added support for READ_LOG for WinNT4 also.
 174  - Fixed bug that prevents display of empty logs on Win2000/XP
 175  - Fixed use of cached smart enabled state in 'smartctl -i' output.
 176 Windows:
 177  - Fixed bug that prevents running smartd as service on WinNT4.
 178
 179
 180 Date 2004-9-5
 181 Summary: smartmontools release 5.33 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
 182 -----------------------------------------------------------
 183 This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools.  It includes
 184  - support for Darwin/Mac OSX
 185  - support for OpenBSD
 186  - support for 3ware ATA RAID controllers under FreeBSD
 187  - support for 3ware 9500 series SATA RAID controllers under
 188    Linux.  Use /dev/twa[0-15] devices to access these.
 189  - support for 3ware character device interfaces /dev/twe[0-15]
 190    under Linux.  This allows (for example) Selective Self-tests.
 191  - support for Marvell chip-set based SATA controllers under Linux.
 192  - smartd mail now works also under Windows (using "Blat" mailer).
 193  - smartd can now be run as a Windows service.
 194 Please report sucess/failure with these items to the
 195 smartmontools-support mailing list.
 196
 197
 198 Date 2004-7-5
 199 Summary: smartmontools release 5.32 (STABLE)
 200 -----------------------------------------------------------
 201 This is an stable release of smartmontools.
 202 Note added 2004/7/7: users building a Solaris/Intel version of the code should
 203 modify the 'configure' file, changing "pc-*-solaris*" on line 106
 204 to read "*-pc-solaris*".  Reference:
 205 http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/configure.in?r1=1.83&r2=1.84
 206
 207
 208 Date: 2004-5-4
 209 Summary: smartmontools release 5.31 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
 210 -----------------------------------------------------------
 211 This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools.  It includes
 212 several new features:
 213 - Windows smartd daemon
 214 - smartd now monitors current and pending sector counts
 215 - Support for ATA-7 selective self-test features (Linux/NetBSD only)
 216   Please report sucess/failure with this option to the smartmontools-support
 217   mailing list.
 218
 219 Date: 2004-3-6
 220 Summary: smartmontools release 5.30 (STABLE)
 221 --------------------------------------------
 222 This is a stable release of smartmontools: the first stable release
 223 since 5.26.
 224 - KNOWN BUG (identified/fixed by CF): smartd will segv and crash if
 225   the configuration file /etc/smartd.conf contains NO valid entries.
 226   This bug was introduced in version 1.259 of smartd.c by BA and
 227   is present in smartmontools releases 5.27-5.30 inclusive. This can
 228   be fixed by editing line 3165 of smartd.c, and changing:
 229   "else if (cfgentries[0]) {"
 230   to read:
 231   "else if (cfgentries && cfgentries[0]) {"
 232
 233
 234 Date: 2004-2-24
 235 Summary: smartmontools release 5.29 (Experimental, not STABLE)
 236 --------------------------------------------------------------
 237 This is another experimental release, to replace the 5.27 release that
 238 had a damaged configure script.  The next stable release will be 5.30
 239 - This release has SCSI support for NetBSD
 240
 241
 242 Date: 2004-2-12
 243 Summary: smartmontools release 5.27 (Experimental, not STABLE)
 244 --------------------------------------------------------------
 245 - WARNING: this release has a broken --prefix=/a/path option to the
 246   configure script.  The consequence is that smartd will not look for the
 247   configuration file (smartd.conf) at the desired location.
 248 - NetBSD support added
 249 - A new Directive (-s) for smartd.conf now enables flexible automatic
 250   scheduled self-testing for both ATA and SCSI devices.
 251 - Solaris now has ATA device support (SPARC only)
 252 - A new Directive (-n) for smartd.conf to avoid spinning up disks
 253 - Errors when smartd sends mail are now logged to SYSLOG
 254 - Solaris smartd mail now works correctly (uses mailx not mail)
 255
 256
 257 Date: 2003-11-29
 258 Summary: smartmontools release 5.26
 259 -----------------------------------
 260 This is a stable smartmontools release.  The only known problem is
 261 that under Solaris, the email features of smartd do not work 'out of
 262 the box'.  Three workarounds are:
 263   [1] use '-M exec mailx' in /etc/smartd.conf
 264   [2] in the start script for smartd, put /usr/ucb into PATH before
 265       /bin
 266   [3] upgrade to release 5.27 or later, or the latest CVS snapshot
 267
 268
 269 Date: 2003-11-19
 270 Summary: smartmontools release 5.25
 271 -----------------------------------
 272 This release should not hang when accessing USB devices. It provides
 273 smartd SCSI self-test log monitoring for self-test errors, and a
 274 larger table of known ATA drives.  DEVICESCAN should work correctly
 275 even on file systems containing XFS or JFS partitions, and on machines
 276 that use devfs, even without traditional links.
 277
 278 From this time on, even numbered releases will be 'stable' ones and
 279 odd numbered releases (like 5.25) will be unstable/testing/development
 280 releases.
 281
 282
 283 Date: 2003-10-30
 284 Summary: smartmontools release 5.23
 285 -----------------------------------
 286 This release has one known problem: DEVICESCAN device scanning does
 287 not work correctly if the disk with the /dev directory also has XFS
 288 or JFS file systems on it.
 289
 290
 291 Date: 2003-10-28
 292 Summary: smartmontools release 5.22
 293 -----------------------------------
 294 Replaces flawed 5.21 release: the -T verypermissive option had to be
 295 entered as -T verpermissive. First experimental solaris support (SCSI
 296 only).  This release had a serious flaw: smartd left open file descriptors
 297 for devices that it couldn't monitor.
 298
 299
 300 Date: 2003-10-14
 301 Summary: smartmontools release 5.21
 302 -----------------------------------
 303 Preliminary support for FreeBSD added to smartmontools.  For FreeBSD,
 304 ATA support requires a 5.1-CURRENT kernel while SCSI support should
 305 work across multiple versions (any that support CAM).
 306
 307
 308 Date: 2003-10-04
 309 Summary: smartmontools release 5.20
 310 -----------------------------------
 311 Replaces flawed 5.19 release (which had a zero-length man page
 312 smartd.conf.5).
 313
 314
 315 Date: 2003-10-03
 316 Summary: smartmontools release 5.19
 317 -----------------------------------
 318 This is the first release of smartmontools based on autoconf/automake.
 319 For this reason, it is a very experimental release.  Please let us
 320 know in particular about documenation errors/omissions, missing or
 321 unneccesary files, and similar oversights.  The major changes are:
 322  [1]  installation scripts based on autoconfig/automake
 323  [2] ./configure [options] lets you set arbitrary paths
 324  [3] supports FHS with ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
 325  [4] correct paths are inserted into all man pages, binaries, etc.
 326  [5] tarballs and RPMs are now GPG-signed
 327
 328
 329 Date: 2003-10-02 11:35
 330 Summary: smartd SEGV
 331 --------------------
 332 Some versions of smartd, including smartmontools release 5.1-18, will
 333 SEGV if the combination of Directives in /etc/smartd.conf contains
 334 -l error
 335 AND/OR
 336 -l selftest
 337 without any Attribute monitoring Directives.  This is fixed in 5.19
 338 and above.
 339
 340 A good workaround is to add:
 341 -o on
 342 OR
 343 -o off
 344 to enable or disable automatic offline data collection.
 345
 346
 347 Date: 2002-11-17 07:41
 348 Summary: testunitready bug in smartd
 349 ------------------------------------
 350 A bug in smartd prevented functioning on scsi devices.
 351 The bug in question only affects smartd users with scsi devices.
 352 To see if your version of smartd has the testunitready() bug, do
 353 smartd -V
 354 If the version of the module smartd.c in a line like:
 355 Module: smartd.c revision: 1.66 date: 2002/11/17
 356 has a revision greater than or equal to 1.30, and less than or
 357 equal to 1.64, then your version of the code has this problem.
 358
 359 This problem affected releases starting with RELEASE_5_0_16 up to and
 360 including RELEASE_5_0_43.