1 2010-10-27, Version 1.5.0:
2 * src/liboping.c: The possibility to set the QoS byte of outgoing IPv4
3 and IPv6 packets and read the byte from incoming packets has been
4 added. Thanks to Vladimir Melnikov for his patch.
5 * oping, noping: Add the ability to configure the QoS field on the
6 command line. If either the QoS field of outgoing or incoming
7 packets is non-standard, the QoS byte of incoming packets will be
9 * liboping: The library has been relicensed under the LGPL 2.1.
11 2010-06-13, Version 1.4.0:
12 * noping: A new front-end to liboping, using the ncurses library, has
13 been added. The new command line application displays ping
14 statistics online and highlights aberrant round-trip times.
16 2009-12-20, Version 1.3.4:
17 * src/liboping.c: When one file descriptor was in an error state, the
18 select(2) loop would run indefinitely. Error handling has been
19 improved so the loop ends gracefully now in this case.
20 * src/liboping.c: Drop privileges before reading files if supported by
21 the system. This way files are opened using the user's original
22 privileges when using the “-f” option.
23 * Net::Oping: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the Perl bindings.
24 Thanks to Fredrik Soderblom for his patch.
26 2009-09-29, Version 1.3.3:
27 * oping: Disable the “-f” option if the real and effective user IDs
28 don't match. If that is the case the program is probably running
29 SetUID and should not read foreign files. Unfortunately, dropping
30 privileges before reading the file is not possible, because they are
31 required for opening raw sockets.
33 Reading from STDIN using “-f -” is still possible.
35 Thanks to Steve Kemp for reporting this issue as Debian bug #548684.
37 2009-07-27, Version 1.3.2:
38 * src/oping.h: Remove `HAVE_*_H' macros for system headers. Those
39 macros should not be used in system wide installed header files.
40 Thanks to Sebastian for fixing this.
42 2009-07-20, Version 1.3.1
43 * src/liboping.c: Fix too eager argument validation that prevented the
44 library to work as documented. Thanks to Sebastian for catching this
47 2009-07-18, Version 1.3.0
48 * oping: Documentation and messages have been improved.
49 * oping: Support for the `-D' command line option has been added.
50 Using this new option, the outgoing network device can be set.
51 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
52 * src/liboping.c: The value of the `received TTL' information after
53 missing packets has been corrected.
54 * src/liboping.c: A bug when matching received packets to configured
55 hosts has been fixed. This regression was introduced after 1.0, we
56 believe. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for noticing and fixing this bug.
57 * src/liboping.c: Support for the `PING_OPT_DEVICE' option has been
58 added. This option can be used to set the outgoing network device.
59 Thanks to Sebastian for his patch.
61 2009-07-15, Version 1.2.0
62 * `oping': Implement the `-f' command line option to read hostnames
63 from a file (or STDIN).
64 * src/liboping.c: No longer export `sstrerror'.
66 2009-04-05, Version 1.1.2
67 * liboping.c: A NULL-pointer dereference has been fixed in the IPv4
68 code. This led to a segmentation fault when an ICMPv4 paket could
69 not be associated with any host. This usually happened when one or
70 more hosts were unreachable for some time. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for
71 discovering the problem and finding a way to reproduce it.
73 2009-03-23, Version 1.1.1
74 * liboping.c: Use libxnet when available. The `normal' version of
75 `recvmsg' does not provide the `auxiliary data' on some or all
78 2009-03-15, Version 1.1.0
79 * liboping.c: Eliminate the use of `strerror' and use `strerror_r'
80 instead, removing the (hopefully) last thread-unsafe function.
81 * liboping.c: Provide the TTL of received IP packets.
82 * oping.c: Allow setting of the TTL using the `-t' command line
85 2009-02-17, Version 1.0.0
86 * oping.h: Provide the OPING_VERSION to easily determine the library's
87 version at compile time.
88 * liboping.c: Fixed an off-by-one error in `ping_iterator_get_info':
89 When determining the buffer size to hold the hostname, the function
90 would return one byte too little.
91 * liboping.c: Fix an incorrect assertion in `ping_timeval_add'. Thanks
92 to Alex Brooks for reporting the issue.
93 * liboping.c: Make sure `EAI_SYSTEM' is defined at compile time.
94 Although specified by POSIX, Cygwin apparently doesn't have it.
95 * liboping.c: Add compatibility code for AIX. Thanks to Doug
96 MacEachern for the patch.
97 * liboping.c: Store and possibly return the host name as provided by
99 * liboping.c: The number of timed out packets is now counted and can
100 be retrieved with `ping_iterator_get_info'.
101 * Perl bindings: The Net::Oping Perl package has been added to
102 bindings/ and is built along with liboping.
104 2007-03-27, Version 0.3.5
105 * liboping.c: Close the filedescriptor in `ping_free', not
106 `ping_host_remove'. Thanks to Esteban Sanchez for submitting this
108 * oping.h: Include <sys/types.h> so that `size_t' is defined. Thanks
109 to Alex Brooks for pointing this out.
110 * oping.h: Use `extern "C"' when being used with C++. Thanks to Alex
111 Brooks for pointing this out.
113 2006-12-01, Version 0.3.4
114 * Fixes a bug in `ping_host_remove': Due to an incorrect hostname
115 checking the wrong host would be removed.
117 2006-07-16, Version 0.3.3
118 * `sendto(2)' now catches `EHOSTUNREACH' and `ENETUNREACH' if they're
121 2006-07-13, Version 0.3.2
122 * `oping' now drops root privileges as soon as possible.
123 * `liboping' now contains an `soname' and a version.
125 2006-07-09, Version 0.3.1
126 * Removed `libltdl' from the distribution since it's not used.
127 * More nonsense has been removed from the build system. Thanks to
128 Sebastian Harl for pointing it out :)
130 2006-07-09, Version 0.3.0
131 * The ability to set the source address from which the packets
132 originate has been added to the library and the oping application.
134 2006-07-16, Version 0.2.3
135 * `sendto(2)' now catches `EHOSTUNREACH' and `ENETUNREACH' if they're
138 2006-06-05, Version 0.2.2
139 * The `oping' application didn't exit if no hosts could be resolved.
140 This release fixes it's behavior.
142 2006-06-01, Version 0.2.1
143 * Fix the behavior for non GNU-Linux systems. liboping tried to
144 `bind(2)' to the raw-socket it uses to send ICMP packets. Apparently
145 (decided by majority vote ;) this is not the right thing to do.
146 GNU/Linux never complained about it, but works find without the bind.
147 Other operating systems don't work at all with the bind.
148 * Build fixes for non-GNU/Linux platforms: Mac OS X doesn't define
149 `size_t' as `unsigned int' and therefore needs casting and FreeBSD
150 needs to have `sys/types.h' included before `netinet/*.h'
152 2006-05-29, Version 0.2.0
153 * It's now possible to set the data to be send to the remote host and
154 to get the data received from the host.
155 * The `oping' binary now calculates the standard deviation. Also, it
156 displays the number of byes that were received and other output
158 * Hosts are now returned in the same order as they were added by
159 `ping_host_add'. This is not guaranteed, but makes `oping' prettier.
161 2006-05-12, Version 0.1.1
162 * A bug in the library has been fixed: When the sequence got higher
163 than 2^16 the counter in the packets wrapped around, but the
164 internal counter didn't, causing the library to ignore all further
165 ICMP packets. This affected both, ICMPv4 and ICMPv6.
167 2006-05-08, Version 0.1.0