Nagios v4.0.8 Release Notes

Release Date: 2014-12-08 // over 9 years ago
  • ✨ ENHANCEMENTS

    • ✂ Removed 8 kB string size limitation in JSON CGIs (Eric Stanley)
    • ⏱ Re-implemented auto-rescheduling of checks (Eric Mislivec)
    • Avoid bunching of checks delayed due to timeperiod constraints (Eric Stanley)
    • 👷 Limit the number of autocalculated core workers to not spawn too many on large systems (Eric Mislivec, Janice Singh)

    🛠 FIXES

    • ✂ Removed quotes from numeric duration values in JSON CGIs (Eric Stanley)
    • 🛠 Fixed escaping in JSON CGIs so all required characters are escaped, and in the correct order (Eric Stanley)
    • 🛠 Fixed segfault in archive JSON CGI when plugin output was empty (Eric Stanley)
    • 🛠 Fixed several possibilities for buffer overflow (Eric Mislivec, Dirkjan Bussink)
    • 🛠 Fixed Tracker #582, #626: Handle VAR=VAL assignments at the start of simple commands (Eric Mislivec, Phil Randal)
    • 🛠 Fixed Tracker #630: Recognize '<' and '>' as redirection operators (Eric Mislivec)
    • 📚 Corrected worker communication protocol documentation (Phil Mayers)
    • 🛠 Fixed init script to leave config test log in a better location, let sysconfig override init script variables, and not remove nagios.cmd when attempting to start with another instance running (Eric Mislivec, Robin Kearney)
    • 🛠 Fixed Tracker #361: Downtime notifications not displayed properly (Andrew Widdersheim)