NEWS

   1 smartmontools NEWS
   2 ------------------
   3 CVS ID: $Id: NEWS,v 1.30 2006/05/19 16:33:33 chrfranke 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 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:
  75 http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/configure.in?r1=1.83&r2=1.84
  76
  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.