NEWS

   1 smartmontools NEWS
   2 ------------------
   3 $Id: NEWS 3119 2010-06-11 16:21:25Z 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 - Other config entries may precede smartd DEVICESCAN.
  12 - Option '-v' allows to specify byte order of attribute raw value
  13 - configure: New default value for '--with-docdir'.
  14 - Drive database is in a separate source file 'drivedb.h'
  15   which can be downloaded from SVN.
  16 - USB ID info is now included in 'drivedb.h'.
  17 - New script 'update-smart-drivedb'.
  18 - smartd libcap-ng support, option '-C, --capabilities'.
  19 - smartd directive '-l xerror' to check Extended Comprehensive
  20   SMART Error Log.
  21 - smartctl option '-l scterc[,...]' to get/set the
  22   SCT Error Recovery Control time limit.
  23 - smartctl options '--scan, --scan-open'.
  24 - Linux: Add '/dev/sd[a-c][a-z]' to smartd DEVICESCAN.
  25 - Windows: Read 'drivedb.h' and 'smartd.conf' from exe directory.
  26 - Windows: Support for 64-bit executables.
  27 - Windows: Support for cross compilation on Linux.
  28 - Fix regression in smartctl option '-t select,M-N'.
  29 - Fix SCT temperature table commands on big endian CPUs.
  30
  31 Date 2010-01-28
  32 Summary: smartmontools release 5.39.1
  33 -----------------------------------------------------------
  34 - Fix crash on kFreeBSD.
  35 - Fix regression in smartctl option '-q, --quietmode'.
  36 - Fix regression in smartd directive '-l selftest'.
  37 - Linux: Allow smartd 'DEVICESCAN -d sat'.
  38 - Linux: Fix spin-up of SATA drive if '-n standby' is used.
  39 - Windows: Fix parsing of 3ware 'tw_cli' output.
  40
  41 Date 2009-12-09
  42 Summary: smartmontools release 5.39 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
  43 -----------------------------------------------------------
  44 - Sourcecode repository moved from CVS to SVN
  45 - Support for USB devices with Cypress, JMicron and Sunplus USB bridges
  46 - USB device type autodetection for some devices on Linux, Windows and FreeBSD
  47   (http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/Supported_USB-Devices)
  48 - Support for Areca controllers on Linux
  49 - Support for MegaRAID controllers on Linux
  50 - Support for HighPoint RocketRAID controllers on FreeBSD
  51 - Support RAID controllers using /dev/pass devices on FreeBSD
  52 - Support CHECK_POWER_MODE and WRITE_LOG on FreeBSD
  53 - Support for up to 128 devices on 3ware controllers
  54 - smartctl option '-l xerror' to print ATA SMART Extended Comprehensive
  55   Error Log
  56 - smartctl option '-l xselftest' to print ATA SMART Extended Self-test Log
  57 - smartctl option '-l sataphy' to print SATA Phy Event Counters
  58 - smartctl option '-l sasphy' to print SAS device phy information
  59 - smartctl options '-l gplog,...' and '-l smartlog,...' to print any log page
  60 - smartctl option '-x' to print all extended info if available
  61 - smartctl prints SCSI load/unload cycle counts
  62 - Improve display of huge raw values of some SMART attributes
  63 - Option '-d sat+TYPE' to use SAT with controllers which require '-d TYPE'
  64 - Option '-v ID,RAW_FORMAT,ATTR_NAME' to add new vendor specific attributes
  65 - Support for SSD drives using 64-bit raw attributes
  66 - Many additions to drive database
  67 - New simplified syntax for drive database
  68 - Option '-B FILE' to read drive database from a file
  69 - Configure option to add drive database file to distribution
  70 - smartd can now handle attributes 197 and 198 with increasing raw values
  71 - smartd logs changes of self-test execution status
  72 - smartd directive '-n powermode,N' to limit the number of skipped checks
  73 - smartd flag '!' for '-r' and '-R' directives to log changes as critical
  74 - smartd supports scheduled Selective Self-Tests
  75 - Self-tests scheduled during system downtime or disk standby are run after
  76   next startup
  77 - smartd option '-s PREFIX' to store smartd internal state until next startup
  78 - smartd option '-A PREFIX' to log attributes at each check cycle
  79 - Configure options to enable the above by default
  80 - Change to an object oriented interface to access ATA and SCSI devices
  81 - Linux, Win32 and FreeBSD modules migrated to new interface
  82 - Rework of smartd data structures
  83 - Checkin date and SVN revision and optional BUILD_INFO printed in version info
  84 - Better support for GSmartControl on Windows
  85 - SELinux fixes to 3ware device node creation
  86 - Fix CCISS file descriptor leak on FreeBSD
  87 - Compile fixes for Solaris and FreeBSD
  88 - Use getaddrinfo() instead of gethostbyname() to support IPv6
  89 - C++ Support for QNX Target, already tested for QNX 6.3.2 on x86 and
  90   armle target
  91 - Additional support for Samsung MLC flash drives
  92 - New device type detection algorithm on FreeBSD, not based on filename
  93 - Support for the adaX (ATA on CAM bus) devices on FreeBSD 8.0 and higher
  94
  95 Date 2008-03-10
  96 Summary: smartmontools release 5.38 (STABLE)
  97 --------------------------------------------
  98 This is a stable release of smartmontools.  In addition to changes
  99 below, it includes:
 100  - Libata/Marvell driver devices no longer need explicit '-d' switch
 101  - DEVICESCAN automatically detects libata/marvell driver SATA devices
 102  - Fixed auto-offline/autosave support in FreeBSD
 103  - SAT device type + SCSI generic devices work properly with smartd under Linux
 104  - Many additions to drive database
 105  - More portable autogen/autoconf/automake script set
 106  - Additional Windows IOCTL route to access SMART data
 107  - Some ATA-8 updates
 108  - Smoother CCISS compilation support in Linux
 109  - Dragonfly support
 110  - Fixed some ATA identity byte swap problems on big endian CPUs
 111  - Added support for the QNX operating system
 112  - No-fork option added to smartd
 113  - Improved device scanning and drive type recognition in Windows
 114  - 3ware support for controllers with more disks (32 max)
 115  - Improved Windows installer
 116  - Improved SMART Attribute list and descriptions
 117  - Fix to smartctl return codes
 118  - Fix to scheduled tests on Highpoint RAID controllers
 119  - New samsung firmware bug workaround option
 120  - Auto-offline and Auto-save fixed in Linux + libata
 121  - Solaris: better SCSI support and support for Sun compilers AND gcc
 122  - Fixed and improvements to CCISS support
 123  - More options for SCSI temperature monitoring and history
 124  - Additional command line options for selective self-tests
 125  - Compilation fixes for various platforms.
 126
 127 See CHANGELOG for more details, or smartmontools SVN for still further
 128 details.
 129
 130 Date 2006-12-20
 131 Summary: smartmontools release 5.37 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
 132 -----------------------------------------------------------
 133 This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools.
 134 It includes:
 135
 136 - Many additions to the table of known drives
 137 - SAT (SCSI/ATA Translation) support
 138 - SCSI background scan results log
 139 - smartd -W directive for temperature tracking and warning
 140 - smartctl -n option to check power state
 141 - improved smartd power state logging
 142 - CCISS support under Linux
 143 - HighPoint RocketRAID support under Linux
 144 - 3ware RAID support under Windows
 145 - SPT interface for SCSI devices under Windows
 146 - ATA selective self test under Windows XP/2003
 147 - NSIS installer support for Windows version
 148 - Started move from C to C++
 149 - Various other improvements
 150
 151
 152 Date 2006-04-12
 153 Summary: smartmontools release 5.36 (STABLE)
 154 -----------------------------------------------------------
 155 This is a stable smartmontools release.  The 5.34 version
 156 described just below was never officially released because
 157 Bruce Allen decided to wait until Linux support for
 158 accessing SATA devices through libata was in the official
 159 kernel.org sources.  Changes include:
 160
 161 - Win 2000/XP:ability to cancel drive self-tests
 162 - Additions to the table of known drives
 163 - FreeBSD support for 3ware char device interface and
 164   multiple 3ware cards
 165 - Various cygwin improvements for running as service
 166 - Works 'out of the box' with Linux SATA libata
 167 - smartd option added to list test schedules
 168 - smartctl option added to list part of drive database
 169 - various improvements for SCSI disks and logs
 170
 171
 172 Date 2005-04-19
 173 Summary: smartmontools release 5.34 (STABLE)
 174 -----------------------------------------------------------
 175 This is a stable smartmontools release.  It includes:
 176 - OS/2 and eComStation support
 177 All Platforms:
 178  - Printing of drive family info
 179  - SCSI disks: output size of grown defect list
 180  - Added info about drive family to 'smartctl -i' output.
 181  - Added option ',q' for smartd '-n' directive to suppress
 182    'skipping checks' message which may spin up laptop disk.
 183  - Added message if smartd '-n' check power mode spins up disk.
 184 Cygwin and Windows:
 185  - Added info about Windows version and service pack to banner line.
 186  - Added support for smartd '-n' directive for Win2000/XP.
 187  - Added support for READ_LOG for WinNT4 also.
 188  - Fixed bug that prevents display of empty logs on Win2000/XP
 189  - Fixed use of cached smart enabled state in 'smartctl -i' output.
 190 Windows:
 191  - Fixed bug that prevents running smartd as service on WinNT4.
 192
 193
 194 Date 2004-9-5
 195 Summary: smartmontools release 5.33 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
 196 -----------------------------------------------------------
 197 This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools.  It includes
 198  - support for Darwin/Mac OSX
 199  - support for OpenBSD
 200  - support for 3ware ATA RAID controllers under FreeBSD
 201  - support for 3ware 9500 series SATA RAID controllers under
 202    Linux.  Use /dev/twa[0-15] devices to access these.
 203  - support for 3ware character device interfaces /dev/twe[0-15]
 204    under Linux.  This allows (for example) Selective Self-tests.
 205  - support for Marvell chip-set based SATA controllers under Linux.
 206  - smartd mail now works also under Windows (using "Blat" mailer).
 207  - smartd can now be run as a Windows service.
 208 Please report sucess/failure with these items to the
 209 smartmontools-support mailing list.
 210
 211
 212 Date 2004-7-5
 213 Summary: smartmontools release 5.32 (STABLE)
 214 -----------------------------------------------------------
 215 This is an stable release of smartmontools.
 216 Note added 2004/7/7: users building a Solaris/Intel version of the code should
 217 modify the 'configure' file, changing "pc-*-solaris*" on line 106
 218 to read "*-pc-solaris*".  Reference:
 219 http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/configure.in?r1=1.83&r2=1.84
 220
 221
 222 Date: 2004-5-4
 223 Summary: smartmontools release 5.31 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
 224 -----------------------------------------------------------
 225 This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools.  It includes
 226 several new features:
 227 - Windows smartd daemon
 228 - smartd now monitors current and pending sector counts
 229 - Support for ATA-7 selective self-test features (Linux/NetBSD only)
 230   Please report sucess/failure with this option to the smartmontools-support
 231   mailing list.
 232
 233 Date: 2004-3-6
 234 Summary: smartmontools release 5.30 (STABLE)
 235 --------------------------------------------
 236 This is a stable release of smartmontools: the first stable release
 237 since 5.26.
 238 - KNOWN BUG (identified/fixed by CF): smartd will segv and crash if
 239   the configuration file /etc/smartd.conf contains NO valid entries.
 240   This bug was introduced in version 1.259 of smartd.c by BA and
 241   is present in smartmontools releases 5.27-5.30 inclusive. This can
 242   be fixed by editing line 3165 of smartd.c, and changing:
 243   "else if (cfgentries[0]) {"
 244   to read:
 245   "else if (cfgentries && cfgentries[0]) {"
 246
 247
 248 Date: 2004-2-24
 249 Summary: smartmontools release 5.29 (Experimental, not STABLE)
 250 --------------------------------------------------------------
 251 This is another experimental release, to replace the 5.27 release that
 252 had a damaged configure script.  The next stable release will be 5.30
 253 - This release has SCSI support for NetBSD
 254
 255
 256 Date: 2004-2-12
 257 Summary: smartmontools release 5.27 (Experimental, not STABLE)
 258 --------------------------------------------------------------
 259 - WARNING: this release has a broken --prefix=/a/path option to the
 260   configure script.  The consequence is that smartd will not look for the
 261   configuration file (smartd.conf) at the desired location.
 262 - NetBSD support added
 263 - A new Directive (-s) for smartd.conf now enables flexible automatic
 264   scheduled self-testing for both ATA and SCSI devices.
 265 - Solaris now has ATA device support (SPARC only)
 266 - A new Directive (-n) for smartd.conf to avoid spinning up disks
 267 - Errors when smartd sends mail are now logged to SYSLOG
 268 - Solaris smartd mail now works correctly (uses mailx not mail)
 269
 270
 271 Date: 2003-11-29
 272 Summary: smartmontools release 5.26
 273 -----------------------------------
 274 This is a stable smartmontools release.  The only known problem is
 275 that under Solaris, the email features of smartd do not work 'out of
 276 the box'.  Three workarounds are:
 277   [1] use '-M exec mailx' in /etc/smartd.conf
 278   [2] in the start script for smartd, put /usr/ucb into PATH before
 279       /bin
 280   [3] upgrade to release 5.27 or later, or the latest CVS snapshot
 281
 282
 283 Date: 2003-11-19
 284 Summary: smartmontools release 5.25
 285 -----------------------------------
 286 This release should not hang when accessing USB devices. It provides
 287 smartd SCSI self-test log monitoring for self-test errors, and a
 288 larger table of known ATA drives.  DEVICESCAN should work correctly
 289 even on file systems containing XFS or JFS partitions, and on machines
 290 that use devfs, even without traditional links.
 291
 292 From this time on, even numbered releases will be 'stable' ones and
 293 odd numbered releases (like 5.25) will be unstable/testing/development
 294 releases.
 295
 296
 297 Date: 2003-10-30
 298 Summary: smartmontools release 5.23
 299 -----------------------------------
 300 This release has one known problem: DEVICESCAN device scanning does
 301 not work correctly if the disk with the /dev directory also has XFS
 302 or JFS file systems on it.
 303
 304
 305 Date: 2003-10-28
 306 Summary: smartmontools release 5.22
 307 -----------------------------------
 308 Replaces flawed 5.21 release: the -T verypermissive option had to be
 309 entered as -T verpermissive. First experimental solaris support (SCSI
 310 only).  This release had a serious flaw: smartd left open file descriptors
 311 for devices that it couldn't monitor.
 312
 313
 314 Date: 2003-10-14
 315 Summary: smartmontools release 5.21
 316 -----------------------------------
 317 Preliminary support for FreeBSD added to smartmontools.  For FreeBSD,
 318 ATA support requires a 5.1-CURRENT kernel while SCSI support should
 319 work across multiple versions (any that support CAM).
 320
 321
 322 Date: 2003-10-04
 323 Summary: smartmontools release 5.20
 324 -----------------------------------
 325 Replaces flawed 5.19 release (which had a zero-length man page
 326 smartd.conf.5).
 327
 328
 329 Date: 2003-10-03
 330 Summary: smartmontools release 5.19
 331 -----------------------------------
 332 This is the first release of smartmontools based on autoconf/automake.
 333 For this reason, it is a very experimental release.  Please let us
 334 know in particular about documenation errors/omissions, missing or
 335 unneccesary files, and similar oversights.  The major changes are:
 336  [1]  installation scripts based on autoconfig/automake
 337  [2] ./configure [options] lets you set arbitrary paths
 338  [3] supports FHS with ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
 339  [4] correct paths are inserted into all man pages, binaries, etc.
 340  [5] tarballs and RPMs are now GPG-signed
 341
 342
 343 Date: 2003-10-02 11:35
 344 Summary: smartd SEGV
 345 --------------------
 346 Some versions of smartd, including smartmontools release 5.1-18, will
 347 SEGV if the combination of Directives in /etc/smartd.conf contains
 348 -l error
 349 AND/OR
 350 -l selftest
 351 without any Attribute monitoring Directives.  This is fixed in 5.19
 352 and above.
 353
 354 A good workaround is to add:
 355 -o on
 356 OR
 357 -o off
 358 to enable or disable automatic offline data collection.
 359
 360
 361 Date: 2002-11-17 07:41
 362 Summary: testunitready bug in smartd
 363 ------------------------------------
 364 A bug in smartd prevented functioning on scsi devices.
 365 The bug in question only affects smartd users with scsi devices.
 366 To see if your version of smartd has the testunitready() bug, do
 367 smartd -V
 368 If the version of the module smartd.c in a line like:
 369 Module: smartd.c revision: 1.66 date: 2002/11/17
 370 has a revision greater than or equal to 1.30, and less than or
 371 equal to 1.64, then your version of the code has this problem.
 372
 373 This problem affected releases starting with RELEASE_5_0_16 up to and
 374 including RELEASE_5_0_43.