NEWS

   1 smartmontools NEWS
   2 ------------------
   3 CVS ID: $Id: NEWS,v 1.33 2008/02/24 20:16:31 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 2008-02-24
   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  - Fixed auto-offline support in FreeBSD
  15  - SAT device type + SCSI generic devices work properly with smartd under Linux
  16  - Many additions to drive database
  17  - More portable autogen/autoconf/automake script set
  18  - Additional Windows IOCTL route to access SMART data
  19  - Some ATA-8 updates
  20  - Smoother CCISS compilation support in Linux
  21  - Dragonfly support
  22  - Fixed some ATA identity byte swap problems on big endian CPUs
  23  - Added support for the QNX operating system
  24  - No-fork option added to smartd
  25  - Improved device scanning and drive type recognition in Windows
  26  - 3ware support for controllers with more disks (32 max)
  27  - Improved Windows installer
  28  - Improved SMART Attribute list and descriptions
  29  - Fix to smartctl return codes
  30  - Fix to scheduled tests on Highpoint RAID controllers
  31  - New samsung firmware bug workaround option
  32  - Auto-offline and Auto-save fixed in Linux + libata
  33  - Solaris: better SCSI support
  34  - Fixed and improvements to CCISS support
  35  - More options for SCSI temperature monitoring and history
  36  - Additional command line options for selective self-tests
  37  - Compilation fixes for various platforms.
  38
  39 See CHANGELOG for more details, or smartmontools CVS for still further
  40 details.
  41
  42 Date 2006-12-20
  43 Summary: smartmontools release 5.37 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
  44 -----------------------------------------------------------
  45 This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools.
  46 It includes:
  47
  48 - Many additions to the table of known drives
  49 - SAT (SCSI/ATA Translation) support
  50 - SCSI background scan results log
  51 - smartd -W directive for temperature tracking and warning
  52 - smartctl -n option to check power state
  53 - improved smartd power state logging
  54 - CCISS support under Linux
  55 - HighPoint RocketRAID support under Linux
  56 - 3ware RAID support under Windows
  57 - SPT interface for SCSI devices under Windows
  58 - ATA selective self test under Windows XP/2003
  59 - NSIS installer support for Windows version
  60 - Started move from C to C++
  61 - Various other improvements
  62
  63
  64 Date 2006-04-12
  65 Summary: smartmontools release 5.36 (STABLE)
  66 -----------------------------------------------------------
  67 This is a stable smartmontools release.  The 5.34 version
  68 described just below was never officially released because
  69 Bruce Allen decided to wait until Linux support for
  70 accessing SATA devices through libata was in the official
  71 kernel.org sources.  Changes include:
  72
  73 - Win 2000/XP:ability to cancel drive self-tests
  74 - Additions to the table of known drives
  75 - FreeBSD support for 3ware char device interface and
  76   multiple 3ware cards
  77 - Various cygwin improvements for running as service
  78 - Works 'out of the box' with Linux SATA libata
  79 - smartd option added to list test schedules
  80 - smartctl option added to list part of drive database
  81 - various improvements for SCSI disks and logs
  82
  83
  84 Date 2005-04-19
  85 Summary: smartmontools release 5.34 (STABLE)
  86 -----------------------------------------------------------
  87 This is a stable smartmontools release.  It includes:
  88 - OS/2 and eComStation support
  89 All Platforms:
  90  - Printing of drive family info
  91  - SCSI disks: output size of grown defect list
  92  - Added info about drive family to 'smartctl -i' output.
  93  - Added option ',q' for smartd '-n' directive to suppress
  94    'skipping checks' message which may spin up laptop disk.
  95  - Added message if smartd '-n' check power mode spins up disk.
  96 Cygwin and Windows:
  97  - Added info about Windows version and service pack to banner line.
  98  - Added support for smartd '-n' directive for Win2000/XP.
  99  - Added support for READ_LOG for WinNT4 also.
 100  - Fixed bug that prevents display of empty logs on Win2000/XP
 101  - Fixed use of cached smart enabled state in 'smartctl -i' output.
 102 Windows:
 103  - Fixed bug that prevents running smartd as service on WinNT4.
 104
 105
 106 Date 2004-9-5
 107 Summary: smartmontools release 5.33 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
 108 -----------------------------------------------------------
 109 This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools.  It includes
 110  - support for Darwin/Mac OSX
 111  - support for OpenBSD
 112  - support for 3ware ATA RAID controllers under FreeBSD
 113  - support for 3ware 9500 series SATA RAID controllers under
 114    Linux.  Use /dev/twa[0-15] devices to access these.
 115  - support for 3ware character device interfaces /dev/twe[0-15]
 116    under Linux.  This allows (for example) Selective Self-tests.
 117  - support for Marvell chip-set based SATA controllers under Linux.
 118  - smartd mail now works also under Windows (using "Blat" mailer).
 119  - smartd can now be run as a Windows service.
 120 Please report sucess/failure with these items to the
 121 smartmontools-support mailing list.
 122
 123
 124 Date 2004-7-5
 125 Summary: smartmontools release 5.32 (STABLE)
 126 -----------------------------------------------------------
 127 This is an stable release of smartmontools.
 128 Note added 2004/7/7: users building a Solaris/Intel version of the code should
 129 modify the 'configure' file, changing "pc-*-solaris*" on line 106
 130 to read "*-pc-solaris*".  Reference:
 131 http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/configure.in?r1=1.83&r2=1.84
 132
 133
 134 Date: 2004-5-4
 135 Summary: smartmontools release 5.31 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
 136 -----------------------------------------------------------
 137 This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools.  It includes
 138 several new features:
 139 - Windows smartd daemon
 140 - smartd now monitors current and pending sector counts
 141 - Support for ATA-7 selective self-test features (Linux/NetBSD only)
 142   Please report sucess/failure with this option to the smartmontools-support
 143   mailing list.
 144
 145 Date: 2004-3-6
 146 Summary: smartmontools release 5.30 (STABLE)
 147 --------------------------------------------
 148 This is a stable release of smartmontools: the first stable release
 149 since 5.26.
 150 - KNOWN BUG (identified/fixed by CF): smartd will segv and crash if
 151   the configuration file /etc/smartd.conf contains NO valid entries.
 152   This bug was introduced in version 1.259 of smartd.c by BA and
 153   is present in smartmontools releases 5.27-5.30 inclusive. This can
 154   be fixed by editing line 3165 of smartd.c, and changing:
 155   "else if (cfgentries[0]) {"
 156   to read:
 157   "else if (cfgentries && cfgentries[0]) {"
 158
 159
 160 Date: 2004-2-24
 161 Summary: smartmontools release 5.29 (Experimental, not STABLE)
 162 --------------------------------------------------------------
 163 This is another experimental release, to replace the 5.27 release that
 164 had a damaged configure script.  The next stable release will be 5.30
 165 - This release has SCSI support for NetBSD
 166
 167
 168 Date: 2004-2-12
 169 Summary: smartmontools release 5.27 (Experimental, not STABLE)
 170 --------------------------------------------------------------
 171 - WARNING: this release has a broken --prefix=/a/path option to the
 172   configure script.  The consequence is that smartd will not look for the
 173   configuration file (smartd.conf) at the desired location.
 174 - NetBSD support added
 175 - A new Directive (-s) for smartd.conf now enables flexible automatic
 176   scheduled self-testing for both ATA and SCSI devices.
 177 - Solaris now has ATA device support (SPARC only)
 178 - A new Directive (-n) for smartd.conf to avoid spinning up disks
 179 - Errors when smartd sends mail are now logged to SYSLOG
 180 - Solaris smartd mail now works correctly (uses mailx not mail)
 181
 182
 183 Date: 2003-11-29
 184 Summary: smartmontools release 5.26
 185 -----------------------------------
 186 This is a stable smartmontools release.  The only known problem is
 187 that under Solaris, the email features of smartd do not work 'out of
 188 the box'.  Three workarounds are:
 189   [1] use '-M exec mailx' in /etc/smartd.conf
 190   [2] in the start script for smartd, put /usr/ucb into PATH before
 191       /bin
 192   [3] upgrade to release 5.27 or later, or the latest CVS snapshot
 193
 194
 195 Date: 2003-11-19
 196 Summary: smartmontools release 5.25
 197 -----------------------------------
 198 This release should not hang when accessing USB devices. It provides
 199 smartd SCSI self-test log monitoring for self-test errors, and a
 200 larger table of known ATA drives.  DEVICESCAN should work correctly
 201 even on file systems containing XFS or JFS partitions, and on machines
 202 that use devfs, even without traditional links.
 203
 204 From this time on, even numbered releases will be 'stable' ones and
 205 odd numbered releases (like 5.25) will be unstable/testing/development
 206 releases.
 207
 208
 209 Date: 2003-10-30
 210 Summary: smartmontools release 5.23
 211 -----------------------------------
 212 This release has one known problem: DEVICESCAN device scanning does
 213 not work correctly if the disk with the /dev directory also has XFS
 214 or JFS file systems on it.
 215
 216
 217 Date: 2003-10-28
 218 Summary: smartmontools release 5.22
 219 -----------------------------------
 220 Replaces flawed 5.21 release: the -T verypermissive option had to be
 221 entered as -T verpermissive. First experimental solaris support (SCSI
 222 only).  This release had a serious flaw: smartd left open file descriptors
 223 for devices that it couldn't monitor.
 224
 225
 226 Date: 2003-10-14
 227 Summary: smartmontools release 5.21
 228 -----------------------------------
 229 Preliminary support for FreeBSD added to smartmontools.  For FreeBSD,
 230 ATA support requires a 5.1-CURRENT kernel while SCSI support should
 231 work across multiple versions (any that support CAM).
 232
 233
 234 Date: 2003-10-04
 235 Summary: smartmontools release 5.20
 236 -----------------------------------
 237 Replaces flawed 5.19 release (which had a zero-length man page
 238 smartd.conf.5).
 239
 240
 241 Date: 2003-10-03
 242 Summary: smartmontools release 5.19
 243 -----------------------------------
 244 This is the first release of smartmontools based on autoconf/automake.
 245 For this reason, it is a very experimental release.  Please let us
 246 know in particular about documenation errors/omissions, missing or
 247 unneccesary files, and similar oversights.  The major changes are:
 248  [1]  installation scripts based on autoconfig/automake
 249  [2] ./configure [options] lets you set arbitrary paths
 250  [3] supports FHS with ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
 251  [4] correct paths are inserted into all man pages, binaries, etc.
 252  [5] tarballs and RPMs are now GPG-signed
 253
 254
 255 Date: 2003-10-02 11:35
 256 Summary: smartd SEGV
 257 --------------------
 258 Some versions of smartd, including smartmontools release 5.1-18, will
 259 SEGV if the combination of Directives in /etc/smartd.conf contains
 260 -l error
 261 AND/OR
 262 -l selftest
 263 without any Attribute monitoring Directives.  This is fixed in 5.19
 264 and above.
 265
 266 A good workaround is to add:
 267 -o on
 268 OR
 269 -o off
 270 to enable or disable automatic offline data collection.
 271
 272
 273 Date: 2002-11-17 07:41
 274 Summary: testunitready bug in smartd
 275 ------------------------------------
 276 A bug in smartd prevented functioning on scsi devices.
 277 The bug in question only affects smartd users with scsi devices.
 278 To see if your version of smartd has the testunitready() bug, do
 279 smartd -V
 280 If the version of the module smartd.c in a line like:
 281 Module: smartd.c revision: 1.66 date: 2002/11/17
 282 has a revision greater than or equal to 1.30, and less than or
 283 equal to 1.64, then your version of the code has this problem.
 284
 285 This problem affected releases starting with RELEASE_5_0_16 up to and
 286 including RELEASE_5_0_43.