What's new in this release (Apr 1st, 2024)

FIXES

Build

• configure: do not silently ignore missing libcurl and libvarlink.

Libraries

• lib/netinfo-private: don't enforce nl_pid. Thanks to Yuri Konotopov (nE0sIghT) for reporting and solving this problem in containerised environments.
• lib/netinfo-private: fix a Clang 17 warning.

Plugin check_users

• check_users: fix an issue related to the Y2038 Unix bug.
• check_cpufreq: wrong factor in check_cpufreq for -G. Thanks to Grischa Zengel (ggzengel) for the bug report.

Tests

• fix tests tslibxstrton_sizetollint and tslibpressure on 32-bit architectures.

ENHANCEMENTS / CHANGES

Package creation

• Add Fedora 39 and drop support for Fedora 36.
• Add Linux Alpine 3.18 and 3.19 and drop support for Linux Alpine 3.14-3.16.
• Add Rocky Linux distribution.
• Fix build of debian packages.

GitHub workflows

• Enable systemd library requirement in the GitHub workflow.
• Update Linux releases for tests execution in the GitHub workflows.

Full Changelog: v32...v33

What's new in this release (Jan 25th, 2024)

FIXES

Build

• configure: do not silently ignore missing libcurl and libvarlink.

Libraries

• lib/netinfo-private: don't enforce nl_pid. Thanks to Yuri Konotopov (nE0sIghT) for reporting and solving this problem in containerised environments.
• lib/netinfo-private: fix a Clang 17 warning.

Plugin check_users

• check_users: fix an issue related to the Y2038 Unix bug.
• check_cpufreq: wrong factor in check_cpufreq for -G. Thanks to Grischa Zengel (ggzengel) for the bug report.

ENHANCEMENTS / CHANGES

Package creation

• Add Fedora 39 and drop support for Fedora 36.
• Add Linux Alpine 3.18 and 3.19 and drop support for Linux Alpine 3.14-3.16.
• Add Rocky Linux distribution.
• Fix build of debian packages.

GitHub workflows

• Enable systemd library requirement in the GitHub workflow.
• Update Linux releases for tests execution in the GitHub workflows.

What's new in nagios-plugins-linux version 31

FIXES

Libraries

• lib/container_docker_memory: fix an issue reported by clang-analyzer.
• Make sure sysfs is mounted in the plugins that require it.

ENHANCEMENTS / CHANGES

Plugin check_filecount

• New plugin check_filecount that returns the number of files found in one or more directories.

Plugin check_memory

• check_memory: support new units kiB/MiB/GiB. Feature asked by mdicss. See the discussion #120.

contrib/icinga2/CheckCommands.conf

• Contribution from Lorenz RincewindsHat: add icinga2 command configurations.

Build

• configure: ensure libprocps is v4.0.0 or better if the experimental option --enable-libprocps is passed to configure.

Test framework

• Add some unit tests for lib/xstrton.
• New unit tests tslibfiles_{filecount,hiddenfile,size}.

Package creation

• Add Linux Alpine 3.16 and remove version 3.13.
• Do not package experimental plugins in the rpm nagios-plugins-linux-all.
• Add Fedora 36 and drop Fedora 33 support.
• CentOS 8 died a premature death at the end of 2021. Add packages for CentOS Stream 8 and 9.

GitHub workflows

• Build the Nagios Plugins Linux on the LTS Ubuntu versions only. The version 21 seems dead.
• Add build tests for all the supported oses.
• Update the os versions used in tests.
• CentOS 8 died a premature death at the end of 2021. Remove it from the list of test oses.
• Add CodeQL analysis