From 27ae1ecbf133d9739767acea7fdc8113fc8034a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Wagner Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 13:05:37 +0100 Subject: Adding 2.3 release notes diff --git a/web/input/news/release-2-3.md b/web/input/news/release-2-3.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..78feb76 --- /dev/null +++ b/web/input/news/release-2-3.md @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +title: Version 2.3 Released +author: Jan Wagner +date: 2020-12-10 +--- + +The Monitoring Plugins Development Team is proud to announce version 2.3 of the +Monitoring Plugins! This release comes with various enhancements and fixes +provided by more than thirty contributors, a highlight might be the inclusion of +`check_curl`. Many thanks to all of you! + + +For the list of notable changes in this release, see below. + +You can get the tarball from our [download page][download]. + +## Enhancements +* `check_dns`: allow 'expected address' (`-a`) to be specified in CIDR notation (IPv4 only). +* `check_dns`: allow for IPv6 RDNS +* `check_dns`: Accept CIDR +* `check_dns`: allow unsorted addresses +* `check_dns`: allow forcing complete match of all addresses +* `check_apt`: add `--only-critical` switch +* `check_apt`: add `-l`/`--list` option to print packages +* `check_file_age`: add range checking +* `check_file_age`: enable to test for maximum file size +* `check_apt`: adding packages-warning option +* `check_load`: Adding top consuming processes option +* `check_http`: Adding Proxy-Authorization and extra headers +* `check_snmp`: make calcualtion of timeout value in help output more clear +* `check_uptime`: new plugin for checking uptime to see how long the system is running +* `check_curl`: `check_http` replacement based on `libcurl` +* `check_http`: Allow user to specify HTTP method after proxy CONNECT +* `check_http`: Add new flag `--show-body`/`-B` to print body +* `check_cluster`: Added data argument validation +* `check_icmp`: Add IPv6 support +* `check_icmp`: Automatically detect IP protocol +* `check_icmp`: emit error if multiple protocol version +* `check_disk`: add support to display inodes usage in perfdata +* `check_hpjd`: Added `-D` option to disable warning on 'out of paper' +* `check_http`: support the `--show-body`/`-B` flag when `--expect` is used +* `check_mysql`: allow mariadbclient to be used +* `check_tcp`: add `--sni` +* `check_dns`: detect unreachable dns service in `nslookup` output + +## Fixes + +* Fix regression where `check_dhcp` was rereading response in a tight loop +* `check_dns`: fix error detection on sles nslookup +* `check_disk_smb`: fix timeout issue +* `check_swap`: repaired `-n` behaviour +* `check_icmp`: Correctly set `address_family` on lookup +* `check_icmp`: Do not overwrite `-4`,`-6` on lookup +* `check_smtp`: initializes n before it is used +* `check_dns`: fix typo in parameter description +* `check_by_ssh`: fix child process leak on timeouts +* `check_mysql`: Allow sockets to be specified to `-H` +* `check_procs`: improve command examples for 'at least' processes +* `check_disk`: include `-P` switch in help +* `check_mailq`: restore accidentially removed options + +[download]: /download.html + + -- cgit v0.10-9-g596f