1 2010-06-13, Version 1.4.0:
2 * noping: A new front-end to liboping, using the ncurses library, has
3 been added. The new command line application displays ping
4 statistics online and highlights aberrant round-trip times.
6 2009-12-20, Version 1.3.4:
7 * src/liboping.c: When one file descriptor was in an error state, the
8 select(2) loop would run indefinitely. Error handling has been
9 improved so the loop ends gracefully now in this case.
10 * src/liboping.c: Drop privileges before reading files if supported by
11 the system. This way files are opened using the user's original
12 privileges when using the “-f” option.
13 * Net::Oping: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the Perl bindings.
14 Thanks to Fredrik Soderblom for his patch.
16 2009-09-29, Version 1.3.3:
17 * oping: Disable the “-f” option if the real and effective user IDs
18 don't match. If that is the case the program is probably running
19 SetUID and should not read foreign files. Unfortunately, dropping
20 privileges before reading the file is not possible, because they are
21 required for opening raw sockets.
23 Reading from STDIN using “-f -” is still possible.
25 Thanks to Steve Kemp for reporting this issue as Debian bug #548684.
27 2009-07-27, Version 1.3.2:
28 * src/oping.h: Remove `HAVE_*_H' macros for system headers. Those
29 macros should not be used in system wide installed header files.
30 Thanks to Sebastian for fixing this.
32 2009-07-20, Version 1.3.1
33 * src/liboping.c: Fix too eager argument validation that prevented the
34 library to work as documented. Thanks to Sebastian for catching this
37 2009-07-18, Version 1.3.0
38 * oping: Documentation and messages have been improved.
39 * oping: Support for the `-D' command line option has been added.
40 Using this new option, the outgoing network device can be set.
41 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
42 * src/liboping.c: The value of the `received TTL' information after
43 missing packets has been corrected.
44 * src/liboping.c: A bug when matching received packets to configured
45 hosts has been fixed. This regression was introduced after 1.0, we
46 believe. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for noticing and fixing this bug.
47 * src/liboping.c: Support for the `PING_OPT_DEVICE' option has been
48 added. This option can be used to set the outgoing network device.
49 Thanks to Sebastian for his patch.
51 2009-07-15, Version 1.2.0
52 * `oping': Implement the `-f' command line option to read hostnames
53 from a file (or STDIN).
54 * src/liboping.c: No longer export `sstrerror'.
56 2009-04-05, Version 1.1.2
57 * liboping.c: A NULL-pointer dereference has been fixed in the IPv4
58 code. This led to a segmentation fault when an ICMPv4 paket could
59 not be associated with any host. This usually happened when one or
60 more hosts were unreachable for some time. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for
61 discovering the problem and finding a way to reproduce it.
63 2009-03-23, Version 1.1.1
64 * liboping.c: Use libxnet when available. The `normal' version of
65 `recvmsg' does not provide the `auxiliary data' on some or all
68 2009-03-15, Version 1.1.0
69 * liboping.c: Eliminate the use of `strerror' and use `strerror_r'
70 instead, removing the (hopefully) last thread-unsafe function.
71 * liboping.c: Provide the TTL of received IP packets.
72 * oping.c: Allow setting of the TTL using the `-t' command line
75 2009-02-17, Version 1.0.0
76 * oping.h: Provide the OPING_VERSION to easily determine the library's
77 version at compile time.
78 * liboping.c: Fixed an off-by-one error in `ping_iterator_get_info':
79 When determining the buffer size to hold the hostname, the function
80 would return one byte too little.
81 * liboping.c: Fix an incorrect assertion in `ping_timeval_add'. Thanks
82 to Alex Brooks for reporting the issue.
83 * liboping.c: Make sure `EAI_SYSTEM' is defined at compile time.
84 Although specified by POSIX, Cygwin apparently doesn't have it.
85 * liboping.c: Add compatibility code for AIX. Thanks to Doug
86 MacEachern for the patch.
87 * liboping.c: Store and possibly return the host name as provided by
89 * liboping.c: The number of timed out packets is now counted and can
90 be retrieved with `ping_iterator_get_info'.
91 * Perl bindings: The Net::Oping Perl package has been added to
92 bindings/ and is built along with liboping.
94 2007-03-27, Version 0.3.5
95 * liboping.c: Close the filedescriptor in `ping_free', not
96 `ping_host_remove'. Thanks to Esteban Sanchez for submitting this
98 * oping.h: Include <sys/types.h> so that `size_t' is defined. Thanks
99 to Alex Brooks for pointing this out.
100 * oping.h: Use `extern "C"' when being used with C++. Thanks to Alex
101 Brooks for pointing this out.
103 2006-12-01, Version 0.3.4
104 * Fixes a bug in `ping_host_remove': Due to an incorrect hostname
105 checking the wrong host would be removed.
107 2006-07-16, Version 0.3.3
108 * `sendto(2)' now catches `EHOSTUNREACH' and `ENETUNREACH' if they're
111 2006-07-13, Version 0.3.2
112 * `oping' now drops root privileges as soon as possible.
113 * `liboping' now contains an `soname' and a version.
115 2006-07-09, Version 0.3.1
116 * Removed `libltdl' from the distribution since it's not used.
117 * More nonsense has been removed from the build system. Thanks to
118 Sebastian Harl for pointing it out :)
120 2006-07-09, Version 0.3.0
121 * The ability to set the source address from which the packets
122 originate has been added to the library and the oping application.
124 2006-07-16, Version 0.2.3
125 * `sendto(2)' now catches `EHOSTUNREACH' and `ENETUNREACH' if they're
128 2006-06-05, Version 0.2.2
129 * The `oping' application didn't exit if no hosts could be resolved.
130 This release fixes it's behavior.
132 2006-06-01, Version 0.2.1
133 * Fix the behavior for non GNU-Linux systems. liboping tried to
134 `bind(2)' to the raw-socket it uses to send ICMP packets. Apparently
135 (decided by majority vote ;) this is not the right thing to do.
136 GNU/Linux never complained about it, but works find without the bind.
137 Other operating systems don't work at all with the bind.
138 * Build fixes for non-GNU/Linux platforms: Mac OS X doesn't define
139 `size_t' as `unsigned int' and therefore needs casting and FreeBSD
140 needs to have `sys/types.h' included before `netinet/*.h'
142 2006-05-29, Version 0.2.0
143 * It's now possible to set the data to be send to the remote host and
144 to get the data received from the host.
145 * The `oping' binary now calculates the standard deviation. Also, it
146 displays the number of byes that were received and other output
148 * Hosts are now returned in the same order as they were added by
149 `ping_host_add'. This is not guaranteed, but makes `oping' prettier.
151 2006-05-12, Version 0.1.1
152 * A bug in the library has been fixed: When the sequence got higher
153 than 2^16 the counter in the packets wrapped around, but the
154 internal counter didn't, causing the library to ignore all further
155 ICMP packets. This affected both, ICMPv4 and ICMPv6.
157 2006-05-08, Version 0.1.0