3 CVS ID: $Id: NEWS,v 1.35 2008/03/10 10:44:30 ballen4705 Exp $
5 The most up-to-date version of this file is:
6 http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/NEWS?view=markup
9 Summary: smartmontools release 5.38 (STABLE)
10 --------------------------------------------
11 This is a stable release of smartmontools. In addition to changes
14 - Libata/Marvell driver devices no longer need explicit '-d' switch
15 - DEVICESCAN automatically detects libata/marvell driver SATA devices
16 - Fixed auto-offline/autosave support in FreeBSD
17 - SAT device type + SCSI generic devices work properly with smartd under Linux
18 - Many additions to drive database
19 - More portable autogen/autoconf/automake script set
20 - Additional Windows IOCTL route to access SMART data
22 - Smoother CCISS compilation support in Linux
24 - Fixed some ATA identity byte swap problems on big endian CPUs
25 - Added support for the QNX operating system
26 - No-fork option added to smartd
27 - Improved device scanning and drive type recognition in Windows
28 - 3ware support for controllers with more disks (32 max)
29 - Improved Windows installer
30 - Improved SMART Attribute list and descriptions
31 - Fix to smartctl return codes
32 - Fix to scheduled tests on Highpoint RAID controllers
33 - New samsung firmware bug workaround option
34 - Auto-offline and Auto-save fixed in Linux + libata
35 - Solaris: better SCSI support and support for Sun compilers AND gcc
36 - Fixed and improvements to CCISS support
37 - More options for SCSI temperature monitoring and history
38 - Additional command line options for selective self-tests
39 - Compilation fixes for various platforms.
41 See CHANGELOG for more details, or smartmontools CVS for still further
45 Summary: smartmontools release 5.37 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
46 -----------------------------------------------------------
47 This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools.
50 - Many additions to the table of known drives
51 - SAT (SCSI/ATA Translation) support
52 - SCSI background scan results log
53 - smartd -W directive for temperature tracking and warning
54 - smartctl -n option to check power state
55 - improved smartd power state logging
56 - CCISS support under Linux
57 - HighPoint RocketRAID support under Linux
58 - 3ware RAID support under Windows
59 - SPT interface for SCSI devices under Windows
60 - ATA selective self test under Windows XP/2003
61 - NSIS installer support for Windows version
62 - Started move from C to C++
63 - Various other improvements
67 Summary: smartmontools release 5.36 (STABLE)
68 -----------------------------------------------------------
69 This is a stable smartmontools release. The 5.34 version
70 described just below was never officially released because
71 Bruce Allen decided to wait until Linux support for
72 accessing SATA devices through libata was in the official
73 kernel.org sources. Changes include:
75 - Win 2000/XP:ability to cancel drive self-tests
76 - Additions to the table of known drives
77 - FreeBSD support for 3ware char device interface and
79 - Various cygwin improvements for running as service
80 - Works 'out of the box' with Linux SATA libata
81 - smartd option added to list test schedules
82 - smartctl option added to list part of drive database
83 - various improvements for SCSI disks and logs
87 Summary: smartmontools release 5.34 (STABLE)
88 -----------------------------------------------------------
89 This is a stable smartmontools release. It includes:
90 - OS/2 and eComStation support
92 - Printing of drive family info
93 - SCSI disks: output size of grown defect list
94 - Added info about drive family to 'smartctl -i' output.
95 - Added option ',q' for smartd '-n' directive to suppress
96 'skipping checks' message which may spin up laptop disk.
97 - Added message if smartd '-n' check power mode spins up disk.
99 - Added info about Windows version and service pack to banner line.
100 - Added support for smartd '-n' directive for Win2000/XP.
101 - Added support for READ_LOG for WinNT4 also.
102 - Fixed bug that prevents display of empty logs on Win2000/XP
103 - Fixed use of cached smart enabled state in 'smartctl -i' output.
105 - Fixed bug that prevents running smartd as service on WinNT4.
109 Summary: smartmontools release 5.33 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
110 -----------------------------------------------------------
111 This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools. It includes
112 - support for Darwin/Mac OSX
113 - support for OpenBSD
114 - support for 3ware ATA RAID controllers under FreeBSD
115 - support for 3ware 9500 series SATA RAID controllers under
116 Linux. Use /dev/twa[0-15] devices to access these.
117 - support for 3ware character device interfaces /dev/twe[0-15]
118 under Linux. This allows (for example) Selective Self-tests.
119 - support for Marvell chip-set based SATA controllers under Linux.
120 - smartd mail now works also under Windows (using "Blat" mailer).
121 - smartd can now be run as a Windows service.
122 Please report sucess/failure with these items to the
123 smartmontools-support mailing list.
127 Summary: smartmontools release 5.32 (STABLE)
128 -----------------------------------------------------------
129 This is an stable release of smartmontools.
130 Note added 2004/7/7: users building a Solaris/Intel version of the code should
131 modify the 'configure' file, changing "pc-*-solaris*" on line 106
132 to read "*-pc-solaris*". Reference:
133 http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/configure.in?r1=1.83&r2=1.84
137 Summary: smartmontools release 5.31 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
138 -----------------------------------------------------------
139 This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools. It includes
140 several new features:
141 - Windows smartd daemon
142 - smartd now monitors current and pending sector counts
143 - Support for ATA-7 selective self-test features (Linux/NetBSD only)
144 Please report sucess/failure with this option to the smartmontools-support
148 Summary: smartmontools release 5.30 (STABLE)
149 --------------------------------------------
150 This is a stable release of smartmontools: the first stable release
152 - KNOWN BUG (identified/fixed by CF): smartd will segv and crash if
153 the configuration file /etc/smartd.conf contains NO valid entries.
154 This bug was introduced in version 1.259 of smartd.c by BA and
155 is present in smartmontools releases 5.27-5.30 inclusive. This can
156 be fixed by editing line 3165 of smartd.c, and changing:
157 "else if (cfgentries[0]) {"
159 "else if (cfgentries && cfgentries[0]) {"
163 Summary: smartmontools release 5.29 (Experimental, not STABLE)
164 --------------------------------------------------------------
165 This is another experimental release, to replace the 5.27 release that
166 had a damaged configure script. The next stable release will be 5.30
167 - This release has SCSI support for NetBSD
171 Summary: smartmontools release 5.27 (Experimental, not STABLE)
172 --------------------------------------------------------------
173 - WARNING: this release has a broken --prefix=/a/path option to the
174 configure script. The consequence is that smartd will not look for the
175 configuration file (smartd.conf) at the desired location.
176 - NetBSD support added
177 - A new Directive (-s) for smartd.conf now enables flexible automatic
178 scheduled self-testing for both ATA and SCSI devices.
179 - Solaris now has ATA device support (SPARC only)
180 - A new Directive (-n) for smartd.conf to avoid spinning up disks
181 - Errors when smartd sends mail are now logged to SYSLOG
182 - Solaris smartd mail now works correctly (uses mailx not mail)
186 Summary: smartmontools release 5.26
187 -----------------------------------
188 This is a stable smartmontools release. The only known problem is
189 that under Solaris, the email features of smartd do not work 'out of
190 the box'. Three workarounds are:
191 [1] use '-M exec mailx' in /etc/smartd.conf
192 [2] in the start script for smartd, put /usr/ucb into PATH before
194 [3] upgrade to release 5.27 or later, or the latest CVS snapshot
198 Summary: smartmontools release 5.25
199 -----------------------------------
200 This release should not hang when accessing USB devices. It provides
201 smartd SCSI self-test log monitoring for self-test errors, and a
202 larger table of known ATA drives. DEVICESCAN should work correctly
203 even on file systems containing XFS or JFS partitions, and on machines
204 that use devfs, even without traditional links.
206 From this time on, even numbered releases will be 'stable' ones and
207 odd numbered releases (like 5.25) will be unstable/testing/development
212 Summary: smartmontools release 5.23
213 -----------------------------------
214 This release has one known problem: DEVICESCAN device scanning does
215 not work correctly if the disk with the /dev directory also has XFS
216 or JFS file systems on it.
220 Summary: smartmontools release 5.22
221 -----------------------------------
222 Replaces flawed 5.21 release: the -T verypermissive option had to be
223 entered as -T verpermissive. First experimental solaris support (SCSI
224 only). This release had a serious flaw: smartd left open file descriptors
225 for devices that it couldn't monitor.
229 Summary: smartmontools release 5.21
230 -----------------------------------
231 Preliminary support for FreeBSD added to smartmontools. For FreeBSD,
232 ATA support requires a 5.1-CURRENT kernel while SCSI support should
233 work across multiple versions (any that support CAM).
237 Summary: smartmontools release 5.20
238 -----------------------------------
239 Replaces flawed 5.19 release (which had a zero-length man page
244 Summary: smartmontools release 5.19
245 -----------------------------------
246 This is the first release of smartmontools based on autoconf/automake.
247 For this reason, it is a very experimental release. Please let us
248 know in particular about documenation errors/omissions, missing or
249 unneccesary files, and similar oversights. The major changes are:
250 [1] installation scripts based on autoconfig/automake
251 [2] ./configure [options] lets you set arbitrary paths
252 [3] supports FHS with ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
253 [4] correct paths are inserted into all man pages, binaries, etc.
254 [5] tarballs and RPMs are now GPG-signed
257 Date: 2003-10-02 11:35
260 Some versions of smartd, including smartmontools release 5.1-18, will
261 SEGV if the combination of Directives in /etc/smartd.conf contains
265 without any Attribute monitoring Directives. This is fixed in 5.19
268 A good workaround is to add:
272 to enable or disable automatic offline data collection.
275 Date: 2002-11-17 07:41
276 Summary: testunitready bug in smartd
277 ------------------------------------
278 A bug in smartd prevented functioning on scsi devices.
279 The bug in question only affects smartd users with scsi devices.
280 To see if your version of smartd has the testunitready() bug, do
282 If the version of the module smartd.c in a line like:
283 Module: smartd.c revision: 1.66 date: 2002/11/17
284 has a revision greater than or equal to 1.30, and less than or
285 equal to 1.64, then your version of the code has this problem.
287 This problem affected releases starting with RELEASE_5_0_16 up to and
288 including RELEASE_5_0_43.