Re: [monit] [Announce] monit 4.10

[Pablo Iranzo Gómez]

        Congratulations to all involved in this release :)

        Regards
        Pablo



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On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Martin Pala wrote:

> The monit 4.10 is available:
>
> Download from: http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/dist/
>
> MD5 checksum:
> 76ca10ba7a3da3736b8540edca16c70a
>
> SHA256 checksum:
> 07f3af466552b370918de1d3b04322f94a223873a64a151d1f3d6c107626f186
>
>
> Change log:    http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/dist/CHANGES.txt
>
>
> This is a new features and bugfix release which has been tested on the
> following platforms:
>
>
>    Debian Lenny           [x86]
>    FreeBSD 6.0            [x86]
>    Mac OS X 10.4.10       [ppc]
>    NetBSD 3.0.1           [x86]
>    OpenBSD 4.1            [x86]
>
>
>
> NEW FEATURES AND FUNCTIONS:
> * Monit from this version on is licensed under GPL version 3
>
> * Added support for SMTP authentication and SSL for sending alerts.
>    Example syntax:
>    - plain athentication:
>      set mailserver
>        smtp.foo.bar username "user" password "hidden"
>    - plain athentication with ssl:
>      set mailserver
>        smtp.foo.bar username "user" password "hidden" using sslv3
>    - plain athentication with tls:
>      set mailserver
>        smtp.foo.bar username "user" password "hidden" using tlsv1
>    Thanks to Thomas Lohmueller for patch.
>
> * Allow to set the location of monirc using 'configure --sysconfdir'
>    option during monit compilation. Thanks to Klaus Heinz for patch.
>
> * Monit now log user actions requested via monit's http interface.
>
> * Monit http interface now use the POST method for forms
>    (change is transparent from the user point of view).
>
> * Monit ICMP echo/ping test now supports 20 echo requests per cycle at
>    maximum.
>
> * When monit identifies the process as zombie, continue the monitoring
>    (formerly monit disabled monitoring of the given service and sent alert
>    since it was considered unmanageable).
>
> * Fixed #21447: Monit now adds a (dummy) Message-id header in alert
>    mails to prevent any spam checkers to accidental filter out monit
>    alerts based on missing message-id.
>
> * Removed C99 particulars from monit code to support non-C99 compilers.
>
> REMOVED FEATURE
> * Removed support for local redirects in the HTTP protocol test. Users
>    must provide the correct path for the resource they want to test.
>
> BUGFIXES:
> * Fixed a possible monit crash on exit if a match rule was used and
>    referred a file containing multiple expressions. Thanks to Stephen
>    Dowdy for report.
>
> * Added patch from Klaus Heinz which fix a problem in the Log module
>    that had monit using an uninitialized mutex after a monitrc reload.
>
> * Fixed a possible crash on monit start when the monit control file
>    contained exec action with argument longer then 256 bytes. Thanks
>    to Stevan Bajic for report.
>
> * Fixed linux 32-bit system CPU usage statistics (the fix in 4.9 was
>    incomplete). If a server had a long/large uptime and high load, the
>    reported CPU usage could be incorrect. Thanks to Aleksander for report.
>
> * Fixed a problem where monit would incorrect display an error in the
>    web interface status page. This could occur if a service had failed,
>    monit had reload and the state of the service had passed just after the
>    reload (for example due to changes of the configuration rules). Thanks to
>    Claus Klein for report and help with the patch.
>
> * Avoid filling the log with "pidfile does not contain a valid pidnumber"
>    entries during debug
>
> * Added patch from Dave Cheney, which fix and reactivate resource testing
>    for Mac OS X Tiger (Darwin 10.4.x).
>
> * Limit the number of consecutive redirects in http protocol test to 64.
>
> * Report as error when the redirect in http protocol test points to itself.
>
> * Fix memory leak when regular expresion is used in monit configuration
>    and monit is reloaded. Thanks to Josh Kelley for patch.
>
> * Allow the "if changed timestamp" test to refer to a non-existing file.
>    This could be useful if the service is monitored in non-active mode
>    and the file is expected to be created later.
>
> * When 'if match' statement was used with the path to the regex file
>    containing more then one line and the exec action was used for this
>    rule, then monit failed to parse the configuration and refused to start.
>    Thanks to Nathan for report.
>
> * contrib/wap.php updated. Thanks to David Fletcher.
>
> * Fixed #21354: Usage of the IMAP Protocol test was impossible due to a
> small
>    typo in the control file parser and the test would fall back to DEFAULT.
>    Thanks to Wolfgang Breyha for reporting the bug.
>
>
>
>
> Finally, a big thanks to ALL who have contributed work and time to
> create this release :)
>
>
>
>
>
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