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