NEWS

   1 smartmontools NEWS
   2 ------------------
   3 CVS ID: $Id: NEWS,v 1.35 2008/03/10 10:44:30 ballen4705 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 2008-03-10
   9 Summary: smartmontools release 5.38 (STABLE)
  10 --------------------------------------------
  11 This is a stable release of smartmontools.  In addition to changes
  12 below, it includes:
  13
  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
  21  - Some ATA-8 updates
  22  - Smoother CCISS compilation support in Linux
  23  - Dragonfly support
  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.
  40
  41 See CHANGELOG for more details, or smartmontools CVS for still further
  42 details.
  43
  44 Date 2006-12-20
  45 Summary: smartmontools release 5.37 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
  46 -----------------------------------------------------------
  47 This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools.
  48 It includes:
  49
  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
  64
  65
  66 Date 2006-04-12
  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:
  74
  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
  78   multiple 3ware cards
  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
  84
  85
  86 Date 2005-04-19
  87 Summary: smartmontools release 5.34 (STABLE)
  88 -----------------------------------------------------------
  89 This is a stable smartmontools release.  It includes:
  90 - OS/2 and eComStation support
  91 All Platforms:
  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.
  98 Cygwin and Windows:
  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.
 104 Windows:
 105  - Fixed bug that prevents running smartd as service on WinNT4.
 106
 107
 108 Date 2004-9-5
 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.
 124
 125
 126 Date 2004-7-5
 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
 134
 135
 136 Date: 2004-5-4
 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
 145   mailing list.
 146
 147 Date: 2004-3-6
 148 Summary: smartmontools release 5.30 (STABLE)
 149 --------------------------------------------
 150 This is a stable release of smartmontools: the first stable release
 151 since 5.26.
 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]) {"
 158   to read:
 159   "else if (cfgentries && cfgentries[0]) {"
 160
 161
 162 Date: 2004-2-24
 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
 168
 169
 170 Date: 2004-2-12
 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)
 183
 184
 185 Date: 2003-11-29
 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
 193       /bin
 194   [3] upgrade to release 5.27 or later, or the latest CVS snapshot
 195
 196
 197 Date: 2003-11-19
 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.
 205
 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
 208 releases.
 209
 210
 211 Date: 2003-10-30
 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.
 217
 218
 219 Date: 2003-10-28
 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.
 226
 227
 228 Date: 2003-10-14
 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).
 234
 235
 236 Date: 2003-10-04
 237 Summary: smartmontools release 5.20
 238 -----------------------------------
 239 Replaces flawed 5.19 release (which had a zero-length man page
 240 smartd.conf.5).
 241
 242
 243 Date: 2003-10-03
 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
 255
 256
 257 Date: 2003-10-02 11:35
 258 Summary: smartd SEGV
 259 --------------------
 260 Some versions of smartd, including smartmontools release 5.1-18, will
 261 SEGV if the combination of Directives in /etc/smartd.conf contains
 262 -l error
 263 AND/OR
 264 -l selftest
 265 without any Attribute monitoring Directives.  This is fixed in 5.19
 266 and above.
 267
 268 A good workaround is to add:
 269 -o on
 270 OR
 271 -o off
 272 to enable or disable automatic offline data collection.
 273
 274
 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
 281 smartd -V
 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.
 286
 287 This problem affected releases starting with RELEASE_5_0_16 up to and
 288 including RELEASE_5_0_43.