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4d59bff9 | 3 | CVS ID: $Id: NEWS,v 1.30 2006/05/19 16:33:33 chrfranke 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 2006-04-12 | |
9 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.36 (STABLE) | |
10 | ----------------------------------------------------------- | |
11 | This is a stable smartmontools release. The 5.34 version | |
12 | described just below was never officially released because | |
13 | Bruce Allen decided to wait until Linux support for | |
14 | accessing SATA devices through libata was in the official | |
15 | kernel.org sources. Changes include: | |
16 | ||
17 | - Win 2000/XP:ability to cancel drive self-tests | |
18 | - Additions to the table of known drives | |
19 | - FreeBSD support for 3ware char device interface and | |
20 | multiple 3ware cards | |
21 | - Various cygwin improvements for running as service | |
22 | - Works 'out of the box' with Linux SATA libata | |
23 | - smartd option added to list test schedules | |
24 | - smartctl option added to list part of drive database | |
25 | - various improvements for SCSI disks and logs | |
26 | ||
27 | ||
28 | Date 2005-04-19 | |
29 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.34 (STABLE) | |
30 | ----------------------------------------------------------- | |
31 | This is a stable smartmontools release. It includes: | |
32 | - OS/2 and eComStation support | |
33 | All Platforms: | |
34 | - Printing of drive family info | |
35 | - SCSI disks: output size of grown defect list | |
36 | - Added info about drive family to 'smartctl -i' output. | |
37 | - Added option ',q' for smartd '-n' directive to suppress | |
38 | 'skipping checks' message which may spin up laptop disk. | |
39 | - Added message if smartd '-n' check power mode spins up disk. | |
40 | Cygwin and Windows: | |
41 | - Added info about Windows version and service pack to banner line. | |
42 | - Added support for smartd '-n' directive for Win2000/XP. | |
43 | - Added support for READ_LOG for WinNT4 also. | |
44 | - Fixed bug that prevents display of empty logs on Win2000/XP | |
45 | - Fixed use of cached smart enabled state in 'smartctl -i' output. | |
46 | Windows: | |
47 | - Fixed bug that prevents running smartd as service on WinNT4. | |
48 | ||
49 | ||
50 | Date 2004-9-5 | |
51 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.33 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL) | |
52 | ----------------------------------------------------------- | |
53 | This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools. It includes | |
54 | - support for Darwin/Mac OSX | |
55 | - support for OpenBSD | |
56 | - support for 3ware ATA RAID controllers under FreeBSD | |
57 | - support for 3ware 9500 series SATA RAID controllers under | |
58 | Linux. Use /dev/twa[0-15] devices to access these. | |
59 | - support for 3ware character device interfaces /dev/twe[0-15] | |
60 | under Linux. This allows (for example) Selective Self-tests. | |
61 | - support for Marvell chip-set based SATA controllers under Linux. | |
62 | - smartd mail now works also under Windows (using "Blat" mailer). | |
63 | - smartd can now be run as a Windows service. | |
64 | Please report sucess/failure with these items to the | |
65 | smartmontools-support mailing list. | |
66 | ||
67 | ||
68 | Date 2004-7-5 | |
69 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.32 (STABLE) | |
70 | ----------------------------------------------------------- | |
71 | This is an stable release of smartmontools. | |
72 | Note added 2004/7/7: users building a Solaris/Intel version of the code should | |
73 | modify the 'configure' file, changing "pc-*-solaris*" on line 106 | |
74 | to read "*-pc-solaris*". Reference: | |
4d59bff9 | 75 | http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/configure.in?r1=1.83&r2=1.84 |
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77 | ||
78 | Date: 2004-5-4 | |
79 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.31 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL) | |
80 | ----------------------------------------------------------- | |
81 | This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools. It includes | |
82 | several new features: | |
83 | - Windows smartd daemon | |
84 | - smartd now monitors current and pending sector counts | |
85 | - Support for ATA-7 selective self-test features (Linux/NetBSD only) | |
86 | Please report sucess/failure with this option to the smartmontools-support | |
87 | mailing list. | |
88 | ||
89 | Date: 2004-3-6 | |
90 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.30 (STABLE) | |
91 | -------------------------------------------- | |
92 | This is a stable release of smartmontools: the first stable release | |
93 | since 5.26. | |
94 | - KNOWN BUG (identified/fixed by CF): smartd will segv and crash if | |
95 | the configuration file /etc/smartd.conf contains NO valid entries. | |
96 | This bug was introduced in version 1.259 of smartd.c by BA and | |
97 | is present in smartmontools releases 5.27-5.30 inclusive. This can | |
98 | be fixed by editing line 3165 of smartd.c, and changing: | |
99 | "else if (cfgentries[0]) {" | |
100 | to read: | |
101 | "else if (cfgentries && cfgentries[0]) {" | |
102 | ||
103 | ||
104 | Date: 2004-2-24 | |
105 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.29 (Experimental, not STABLE) | |
106 | -------------------------------------------------------------- | |
107 | This is another experimental release, to replace the 5.27 release that | |
108 | had a damaged configure script. The next stable release will be 5.30 | |
109 | - This release has SCSI support for NetBSD | |
110 | ||
111 | ||
112 | Date: 2004-2-12 | |
113 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.27 (Experimental, not STABLE) | |
114 | -------------------------------------------------------------- | |
115 | - WARNING: this release has a broken --prefix=/a/path option to the | |
116 | configure script. The consequence is that smartd will not look for the | |
117 | configuration file (smartd.conf) at the desired location. | |
118 | - NetBSD support added | |
119 | - A new Directive (-s) for smartd.conf now enables flexible automatic | |
120 | scheduled self-testing for both ATA and SCSI devices. | |
121 | - Solaris now has ATA device support (SPARC only) | |
122 | - A new Directive (-n) for smartd.conf to avoid spinning up disks | |
123 | - Errors when smartd sends mail are now logged to SYSLOG | |
124 | - Solaris smartd mail now works correctly (uses mailx not mail) | |
125 | ||
126 | ||
127 | Date: 2003-11-29 | |
128 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.26 | |
129 | ----------------------------------- | |
130 | This is a stable smartmontools release. The only known problem is | |
131 | that under Solaris, the email features of smartd do not work 'out of | |
132 | the box'. Three workarounds are: | |
133 | [1] use '-M exec mailx' in /etc/smartd.conf | |
134 | [2] in the start script for smartd, put /usr/ucb into PATH before | |
135 | /bin | |
136 | [3] upgrade to release 5.27 or later, or the latest CVS snapshot | |
137 | ||
138 | ||
139 | Date: 2003-11-19 | |
140 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.25 | |
141 | ----------------------------------- | |
142 | This release should not hang when accessing USB devices. It provides | |
143 | smartd SCSI self-test log monitoring for self-test errors, and a | |
144 | larger table of known ATA drives. DEVICESCAN should work correctly | |
145 | even on file systems containing XFS or JFS partitions, and on machines | |
146 | that use devfs, even without traditional links. | |
147 | ||
148 | From this time on, even numbered releases will be 'stable' ones and | |
149 | odd numbered releases (like 5.25) will be unstable/testing/development | |
150 | releases. | |
151 | ||
152 | ||
153 | Date: 2003-10-30 | |
154 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.23 | |
155 | ----------------------------------- | |
156 | This release has one known problem: DEVICESCAN device scanning does | |
157 | not work correctly if the disk with the /dev directory also has XFS | |
158 | or JFS file systems on it. | |
159 | ||
160 | ||
161 | Date: 2003-10-28 | |
162 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.22 | |
163 | ----------------------------------- | |
164 | Replaces flawed 5.21 release: the -T verypermissive option had to be | |
165 | entered as -T verpermissive. First experimental solaris support (SCSI | |
166 | only). This release had a serious flaw: smartd left open file descriptors | |
167 | for devices that it couldn't monitor. | |
168 | ||
169 | ||
170 | Date: 2003-10-14 | |
171 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.21 | |
172 | ----------------------------------- | |
173 | Preliminary support for FreeBSD added to smartmontools. For FreeBSD, | |
174 | ATA support requires a 5.1-CURRENT kernel while SCSI support should | |
175 | work across multiple versions (any that support CAM). | |
176 | ||
177 | ||
178 | Date: 2003-10-04 | |
179 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.20 | |
180 | ----------------------------------- | |
181 | Replaces flawed 5.19 release (which had a zero-length man page | |
182 | smartd.conf.5). | |
183 | ||
184 | ||
185 | Date: 2003-10-03 | |
186 | Summary: smartmontools release 5.19 | |
187 | ----------------------------------- | |
188 | This is the first release of smartmontools based on autoconf/automake. | |
189 | For this reason, it is a very experimental release. Please let us | |
190 | know in particular about documenation errors/omissions, missing or | |
191 | unneccesary files, and similar oversights. The major changes are: | |
192 | [1] installation scripts based on autoconfig/automake | |
193 | [2] ./configure [options] lets you set arbitrary paths | |
194 | [3] supports FHS with ./configure --prefix=/usr/local | |
195 | [4] correct paths are inserted into all man pages, binaries, etc. | |
196 | [5] tarballs and RPMs are now GPG-signed | |
197 | ||
198 | ||
199 | Date: 2003-10-02 11:35 | |
200 | Summary: smartd SEGV | |
201 | -------------------- | |
202 | Some versions of smartd, including smartmontools release 5.1-18, will | |
203 | SEGV if the combination of Directives in /etc/smartd.conf contains | |
204 | -l error | |
205 | AND/OR | |
206 | -l selftest | |
207 | without any Attribute monitoring Directives. This is fixed in 5.19 | |
208 | and above. | |
209 | ||
210 | A good workaround is to add: | |
211 | -o on | |
212 | OR | |
213 | -o off | |
214 | to enable or disable automatic offline data collection. | |
215 | ||
216 | ||
217 | Date: 2002-11-17 07:41 | |
218 | Summary: testunitready bug in smartd | |
219 | ------------------------------------ | |
220 | A bug in smartd prevented functioning on scsi devices. | |
221 | The bug in question only affects smartd users with scsi devices. | |
222 | To see if your version of smartd has the testunitready() bug, do | |
223 | smartd -V | |
224 | If the version of the module smartd.c in a line like: | |
225 | Module: smartd.c revision: 1.66 date: 2002/11/17 | |
226 | has a revision greater than or equal to 1.30, and less than or | |
227 | equal to 1.64, then your version of the code has this problem. | |
228 | ||
229 | This problem affected releases starting with RELEASE_5_0_16 up to and | |
230 | including RELEASE_5_0_43. |