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2014-11-20, Version 1.8.0:
* oping, noping: Average and standard deviation have been removed from the status output, which show median and 95th percentile instead. The percentile can be chosen with the "-P" option. * noping: The additional graph types "histogram" and "boxplot" have been added, which can be selected with the "-g" option. 2014-09-25, Version 1.7.0: * oping, noping: The new -Z option allows the exit status to indicate the number of failing hosts. Thanks to Barak Pearlmutter for the patch. * noping: The ability to print a "prettyping" style graph has been added. Thanks to Antoine Beaupré for his work! * src/liboping.c: Build issues on Solaris have been fixed. Thanks Scott Severtson for the fix! * Build system: Creation and installation of a pkg-config file has been added. Thanks to Barak Pearlmutter for the patch. 2012-01-31, Version 1.6.2: * Build system: Setting capabilities and the set-UID bit has been made more fault-tolerant, so that it will work with Debian's fakeroot(1) utility. * src/liboping.c: Fixed a compiler warning about an non-static format string. Thanks to Brian Edwards for pointing this out. * src/liboping.c: Fixed compilation under Mac OS X and Solaris. Thanks to Clayton O'Neill for his patch. 2011-03-06, Version 1.6.1: * Build system: If "make install" is executed as root, the CAP_NET_RAW capability is added to the binary (on Linux) or the set-UID bit is set (other Unixes). * src/oping.c: Fix compiler warnings which may abort the build. Thanks to James Bromberger for reporting the problem. * noping: Compatibility with ncurses 5.8 has been fixed. Thanks to Gaetan Bisson for his patch. 2011-01-26, Version 1.6.0: * liboping: Improve timing of received network packets using SO_TIMESTAMP if available. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his patch. 2010-11-17, Version 1.5.1: * oping, noping: Alias for the “Voice Admit” DSCP has been added. * src/oping.c, src/liboping.c: Compiler warnings / errors have been fixed. Thanks to James Bromberger for reporting one of them. 2010-10-27, Version 1.5.0: * src/liboping.c: The possibility to set the QoS byte of outgoing IPv4 and IPv6 packets and read the byte from incoming packets has been added. Thanks to Vladimir Melnikov for his patch. * oping, noping: Add the ability to configure the QoS field on the command line. If either the QoS field of outgoing or incoming packets is non-standard, the QoS byte of incoming packets will be printed. * liboping: The library has been relicensed under the LGPL 2.1. 2010-06-13, Version 1.4.0: * noping: A new front-end to liboping, using the ncurses library, has been added. The new command line application displays ping statistics online and highlights aberrant round-trip times. 2009-12-20, Version 1.3.4: * src/liboping.c: When one file descriptor was in an error state, the select(2) loop would run indefinitely. Error handling has been improved so the loop ends gracefully now in this case. * src/liboping.c: Drop privileges before reading files if supported by the system. This way files are opened using the user's original privileges when using the “-f” option. * Net::Oping: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the Perl bindings. Thanks to Fredrik Soderblom for his patch. 2009-09-29, Version 1.3.3: * oping: Disable the “-f” option if the real and effective user IDs don't match. If that is the case the program is probably running SetUID and should not read foreign files. Unfortunately, dropping privileges before reading the file is not possible, because they are required for opening raw sockets. Reading from STDIN using “-f -” is still possible. Thanks to Steve Kemp for reporting this issue as Debian bug #548684. 2009-07-27, Version 1.3.2: * src/oping.h: Remove `HAVE_*_H' macros for system headers. Those macros should not be used in system wide installed header files. Thanks to Sebastian for fixing this. 2009-07-20, Version 1.3.1 * src/liboping.c: Fix too eager argument validation that prevented the library to work as documented. Thanks to Sebastian for catching this bug. 2009-07-18, Version 1.3.0 * oping: Documentation and messages have been improved. * oping: Support for the `-D' command line option has been added. Using this new option, the outgoing network device can be set. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. * src/liboping.c: The value of the `received TTL' information after missing packets has been corrected. * src/liboping.c: A bug when matching received packets to configured hosts has been fixed. This regression was introduced after 1.0, we believe. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for noticing and fixing this bug. * src/liboping.c: Support for the `PING_OPT_DEVICE' option has been added. This option can be used to set the outgoing network device. Thanks to Sebastian for his patch. 2009-07-15, Version 1.2.0 * `oping': Implement the `-f' command line option to read hostnames from a file (or STDIN). * src/liboping.c: No longer export `sstrerror'. 2009-04-05, Version 1.1.2 * liboping.c: A NULL-pointer dereference has been fixed in the IPv4 code. This led to a segmentation fault when an ICMPv4 paket could not be associated with any host. This usually happened when one or more hosts were unreachable for some time. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for discovering the problem and finding a way to reproduce it. 2009-03-23, Version 1.1.1 * liboping.c: Use libxnet when available. The `normal' version of `recvmsg' does not provide the `auxiliary data' on some or all versions of Solaris. 2009-03-15, Version 1.1.0 * liboping.c: Eliminate the use of `strerror' and use `strerror_r' instead, removing the (hopefully) last thread-unsafe function. * liboping.c: Provide the TTL of received IP packets. * oping.c: Allow setting of the TTL using the `-t' command line option. 2009-02-17, Version 1.0.0 * oping.h: Provide the OPING_VERSION to easily determine the library's version at compile time. * liboping.c: Fixed an off-by-one error in `ping_iterator_get_info': When determining the buffer size to hold the hostname, the function would return one byte too little. * liboping.c: Fix an incorrect assertion in `ping_timeval_add'. Thanks to Alex Brooks for reporting the issue. * liboping.c: Make sure `EAI_SYSTEM' is defined at compile time. Although specified by POSIX, Cygwin apparently doesn't have it. * liboping.c: Add compatibility code for AIX. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch. * liboping.c: Store and possibly return the host name as provided by the user. * liboping.c: The number of timed out packets is now counted and can be retrieved with `ping_iterator_get_info'. * Perl bindings: The Net::Oping Perl package has been added to bindings/ and is built along with liboping. 2007-03-27, Version 0.3.5 * liboping.c: Close the filedescriptor in `ping_free', not `ping_host_remove'. Thanks to Esteban Sanchez for submitting this patch. * oping.h: Include <sys/types.h> so that `size_t' is defined. Thanks to Alex Brooks for pointing this out. * oping.h: Use `extern "C"' when being used with C++. Thanks to Alex Brooks for pointing this out. 2006-12-01, Version 0.3.4 * Fixes a bug in `ping_host_remove': Due to an incorrect hostname checking the wrong host would be removed. 2006-07-16, Version 0.3.3 * `sendto(2)' now catches `EHOSTUNREACH' and `ENETUNREACH' if they're defined. 2006-07-13, Version 0.3.2 * `oping' now drops root privileges as soon as possible. * `liboping' now contains an `soname' and a version. 2006-07-09, Version 0.3.1 * Removed `libltdl' from the distribution since it's not used. * More nonsense has been removed from the build system. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for pointing it out :) 2006-07-09, Version 0.3.0 * The ability to set the source address from which the packets originate has been added to the library and the oping application. 2006-07-16, Version 0.2.3 * `sendto(2)' now catches `EHOSTUNREACH' and `ENETUNREACH' if they're defined. 2006-06-05, Version 0.2.2 * The `oping' application didn't exit if no hosts could be resolved. This release fixes it's behavior. 2006-06-01, Version 0.2.1 * Fix the behavior for non GNU-Linux systems. liboping tried to `bind(2)' to the raw-socket it uses to send ICMP packets. Apparently (decided by majority vote ;) this is not the right thing to do. GNU/Linux never complained about it, but works find without the bind. Other operating systems don't work at all with the bind. * Build fixes for non-GNU/Linux platforms: Mac OS X doesn't define `size_t' as `unsigned int' and therefore needs casting and FreeBSD needs to have `sys/types.h' included before `netinet/*.h' 2006-05-29, Version 0.2.0 * It's now possible to set the data to be send to the remote host and to get the data received from the host. * The `oping' binary now calculates the standard deviation. Also, it displays the number of byes that were received and other output changes. * Hosts are now returned in the same order as they were added by `ping_host_add'. This is not guaranteed, but makes `oping' prettier. 2006-05-12, Version 0.1.1 * A bug in the library has been fixed: When the sequence got higher than 2^16 the counter in the packets wrapped around, but the internal counter didn't, causing the library to ignore all further ICMP packets. This affected both, ICMPv4 and ICMPv6. 2006-05-08, Version 0.1.0 * Initial release. |