1 2009-09-29, Version 1.3.3:
2 * oping: Disable the â-fâ option if the real and effective user IDs
3 don't match. If that is the case the program is probably running
4 SetUID and should not read foreign files. Unfortunately, dropping
5 privileges before reading the file is not possible, because they are
6 required for opening raw sockets.
8 Reading from STDIN using â-f -â is still possible.
10 Thanks to Steve Kemp for reporting this issue as Debian bug #548684.
12 2009-07-27, Version 1.3.2:
13 * src/oping.h: Remove `HAVE_*_H' macros for system headers. Those
14 macros should not be used in system wide installed header files.
15 Thanks to Sebastian for fixing this.
17 2009-07-20, Version 1.3.1
18 * src/liboping.c: Fix too eager argument validation that prevented the
19 library to work as documented. Thanks to Sebastian for catching this
22 2009-07-18, Version 1.3.0
23 * oping: Documentation and messages have been improved.
24 * oping: Support for the `-D' command line option has been added.
25 Using this new option, the outgoing network device can be set.
26 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
27 * src/liboping.c: The value of the `received TTL' information after
28 missing packets has been corrected.
29 * src/liboping.c: A bug when matching received packets to configured
30 hosts has been fixed. This regression was introduced after 1.0, we
31 believe. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for noticing and fixing this bug.
32 * src/liboping.c: Support for the `PING_OPT_DEVICE' option has been
33 added. This option can be used to set the outgoing network device.
34 Thanks to Sebastian for his patch.
36 2009-07-15, Version 1.2.0
37 * `oping': Implement the `-f' command line option to read hostnames
38 from a file (or STDIN).
39 * src/liboping.c: No longer export `sstrerror'.
41 2009-04-05, Version 1.1.2
42 * liboping.c: A NULL-pointer dereference has been fixed in the IPv4
43 code. This led to a segmentation fault when an ICMPv4 paket could
44 not be associated with any host. This usually happened when one or
45 more hosts were unreachable for some time. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for
46 discovering the problem and finding a way to reproduce it.
48 2009-03-23, Version 1.1.1
49 * liboping.c: Use libxnet when available. The `normal' version of
50 `recvmsg' does not provide the `auxiliary data' on some or all
53 2009-03-15, Version 1.1.0
54 * liboping.c: Eliminate the use of `strerror' and use `strerror_r'
55 instead, removing the (hopefully) last thread-unsafe function.
56 * liboping.c: Provide the TTL of received IP packets.
57 * oping.c: Allow setting of the TTL using the `-t' command line
60 2009-02-17, Version 1.0.0
61 * oping.h: Provide the OPING_VERSION to easily determine the library's
62 version at compile time.
63 * liboping.c: Fixed an off-by-one error in `ping_iterator_get_info':
64 When determining the buffer size to hold the hostname, the function
65 would return one byte too little.
66 * liboping.c: Fix an incorrect assertion in `ping_timeval_add'. Thanks
67 to Alex Brooks for reporting the issue.
68 * liboping.c: Make sure `EAI_SYSTEM' is defined at compile time.
69 Although specified by POSIX, Cygwin apparently doesn't have it.
70 * liboping.c: Add compatibility code for AIX. Thanks to Doug
71 MacEachern for the patch.
72 * liboping.c: Store and possibly return the host name as provided by
74 * liboping.c: The number of timed out packets is now counted and can
75 be retrieved with `ping_iterator_get_info'.
76 * Perl bindings: The Net::Oping Perl package has been added to
77 bindings/ and is built along with liboping.
79 2007-03-27, Version 0.3.5
80 * liboping.c: Close the filedescriptor in `ping_free', not
81 `ping_host_remove'. Thanks to Esteban Sanchez for submitting this
83 * oping.h: Include <sys/types.h> so that `size_t' is defined. Thanks
84 to Alex Brooks for pointing this out.
85 * oping.h: Use `extern "C"' when being used with C++. Thanks to Alex
86 Brooks for pointing this out.
88 2006-12-01, Version 0.3.4
89 * Fixes a bug in `ping_host_remove': Due to an incorrect hostname
90 checking the wrong host would be removed.
92 2006-07-16, Version 0.3.3
93 * `sendto(2)' now catches `EHOSTUNREACH' and `ENETUNREACH' if they're
96 2006-07-13, Version 0.3.2
97 * `oping' now drops root privileges as soon as possible.
98 * `liboping' now contains an `soname' and a version.
100 2006-07-09, Version 0.3.1
101 * Removed `libltdl' from the distribution since it's not used.
102 * More nonsense has been removed from the build system. Thanks to
103 Sebastian Harl for pointing it out :)
105 2006-07-09, Version 0.3.0
106 * The ability to set the source address from which the packets
107 originate has been added to the library and the oping application.
109 2006-07-16, Version 0.2.3
110 * `sendto(2)' now catches `EHOSTUNREACH' and `ENETUNREACH' if they're
113 2006-06-05, Version 0.2.2
114 * The `oping' application didn't exit if no hosts could be resolved.
115 This release fixes it's behavior.
117 2006-06-01, Version 0.2.1
118 * Fix the behavior for non GNU-Linux systems. liboping tried to
119 `bind(2)' to the raw-socket it uses to send ICMP packets. Apparently
120 (decided by majority vote ;) this is not the right thing to do.
121 GNU/Linux never complained about it, but works find without the bind.
122 Other operating systems don't work at all with the bind.
123 * Build fixes for non-GNU/Linux platforms: Mac OS X doesn't define
124 `size_t' as `unsigned int' and therefore needs casting and FreeBSD
125 needs to have `sys/types.h' included before `netinet/*.h'
127 2006-05-29, Version 0.2.0
128 * It's now possible to set the data to be send to the remote host and
129 to get the data received from the host.
130 * The `oping' binary now calculates the standard deviation. Also, it
131 displays the number of byes that were received and other output
133 * Hosts are now returned in the same order as they were added by
134 `ping_host_add'. This is not guaranteed, but makes `oping' prettier.
136 2006-05-12, Version 0.1.1
137 * A bug in the library has been fixed: When the sequence got higher
138 than 2^16 the counter in the packets wrapped around, but the
139 internal counter didn't, causing the library to ignore all further
140 ICMP packets. This affected both, ICMPv4 and ICMPv6.
142 2006-05-08, Version 0.1.0