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

What's new in this release

FIXES

Plugin check_pressure

• Display values per second regardless of the delay, and ensure the delta of "some" is calculated correctly.
• Thanks to Christian Bryn (epleterte) for reporting and fixing a typo in the git clone command.

Package creation

• Fix Debian packages creation.

ENHANCEMENTS / CHANGES

Libraries

• lib/netinfo: fix a LGTM static analyzer alert.

Packages

Release updates:

• Add Debian 11 and drop Debian 8,
• Add Fedora 35 and drop Fedora 32,
• Add Linux Alpine 3.15 and drop version 3.12.

What's new in this release

FIXES

Plugin check_temperature

• Do not display thermal ranges if -t|--thermal_zone in not set at command-line.

ENHANCEMENTS

Plugin check_temperature

• Improve the output message by adding the thermal device when available;
• List also the devices that display a temperature of 0°C to be more consistent with the tool 'sensors';
• Improve the help message;
• New command-line option -l|--list for displyaing the all the thermal sensors reported by the kernel.

Package creation

• Update the list of supported platforms by adding Alpine 3.13 and 3.14 and Fedora 34;
• Several improvements to the Debian packaging (thanks to Vincent Olivert-Riera for the PR);
• Build Debian multi-packages instead of a single package providing all binary plugins. This will permit these plugins to cohexist with the Nagios native ones.

Test framework

• Switch to the latest stable OSes in GitHub workflow.

Documentation

• Update the documentation for linking against procps-ng newlib;
• Thanks to Christian Bryn (epleterte) for reporting and fixing a typo in the git clone command.