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NSCA Changelog

2.10.3 - 2024-08-01

  • Allow NSCA to bind to the loopback address (Imre Jonk)
  • Improved clarity of error when running in the foreground while already running in the background (Griffin Westerman)

2.10.2 - 2022-06-06

  • Fixed exiting with STATE_OK when no packets were successfully sent
  • Added systemd service file
  • Fixed compilation warning

2.10.1 - 2021-10-27

  • Fixed backward compatibility issue with -d in send_nsca (#44)
  • Restored and fixed newline escaping, which was removed in 2.10
  • Added the strict_mode_spoofing directive. See SECURITY for details.

2.10 - 2020-04-02

  • Changed release date to ISO format (yyyy-mm-dd) (John Frickson)
  • Add IPv6 support (Stuart D. Gathman, Miquel van Smoorenburg)
  • Add --quiet mode to send_nsca (Timo Juhani Lindfors)
  • Add --ds to specify block delimiters (for sending multiple checks at once) in send_nsca (Nate Rini)
  • Add legacy_2_7_mode (for sending to nsca 2.7.x) to send_nsca (Adrian Freihofer, Xavier Bachelot)
  • Add foreground mode (Nate Rini)
  • Send errors to stderr, where they belong (Bas Couwenberg / Sean Finney)
  • Fix crashes on ECONNABORTED (Craig Leres)
  • Fix potential buffer overflow (Bas Couwenberg)
  • Spelling fixes (Josh Soref, Lajos Veres, Bas Couwenberg)
  • Removed escape newlines so that long output works (Bryan Heden)

2.9.2 - 2016-12-07

  • Renamed configure.in to configure.ac and added check for sigaction (John Frickson)
  • Replaced all instances of signal() with sigaction() + blocking (John Frickson)
  • Race condition when opening command file (mvela / John Frickson)
  • Fix missing argument in open calls (Xavier Bachelot / John Frickson)
  • NSCA close/POLLNVAL/accept bug causes hang (mib / John Frickson)

2.9.1 - 01/27/2012

  • Applied patch to allow packets arriving with a future time stamp (Daniel Wittenberg)
  • Updated server (nsca) to allow packets with older, smaller packet size (Eric Stanley)

2.9 - 11/04/2011

  • Add config directive to submit directly to checkresults directory (Mike Lindsey)
  • Support multi-line check output with 4000 character limit (Mike Lindsey)

2.8 - 07/07/2009

  • Added --with-log-facility option to control syslog logging (Ryan Ordway and Brian Seklecki)
  • Fixed bug where daemon would segfault if mcrypt library was not initialized before timeout (Holger Weiss)
  • Fixed bug with switching from dump file to command file when running under single mode (Ton Voon)
  • Fix for small memory leak with running as a single process daemon (Daniel)

2.7.2 - 07/03/2007

  • Fixed bug with NSCA daemon eating CPU if child process couldn't accept a connection in multi-process mode (Chris Wilson)

2.7.1 - 01/29/2007

  • Fixed bug that prevented single mode daemon from working properly
  • Added sample scripts for testing functionality to nsca_tests/ (Ton Voon/Altinity)

2.7 - 12/13/2006

  • Fixed crash from malformed command line
  • Updated to config.sub and config.guess to latest from GNU Savannah

2.6 - 04/06/2006

  • Spec file fix
  • Segfault fix in encryption library cleanup
  • Daemon now exits with an error if it can't drop privileges
  • Added chroot support (Sean Finney)
  • Added support for writing a PID file
  • Added support for reloading config files with SIGHUP

2.5 - 01/21/2006

  • Native TCP wrapper support in daemon mode
  • Memory leak fix and cleanup (Mark Ferlatte)
  • Compiler warning fix (David Binderman)
  • max_packet_age=0 will disable packet timestamp checks
  • New config.sub and config.guess for checking local system type

2.4 - 07/23/2003

  • Better support for u_int32_t detection
  • Minor bug fixes

2.3 - 01/26/2003

  • Minor changes to daemon init code
  • Minor Makefile fixes

2.2 - 01/08/2002

  • Hopefully better support for Solaris (u_int32_t)
  • Syntax changes for command line arguments
  • Added support for passive host checks (supported only in Nagios 2.x and later)
  • Added sample xinetd config file (nsca.xinetd)
  • Minor mods and bug fixes

2.1 - 06/10/2002

  • Fix for compiling under Solaris (Scott Cokely)
  • Added setuid/setgid option to config file

2.0 - 02/21/2002

  • Name and version change

1.2.0 - 02/12/2002

  • Compatability between older versions has been broken!
  • Server now sends client IV and timestamp, fixing encryption problems and making it more resistent to "replay" attacks (Ralf Ertzinger)
  • Random IV is now seeded from /dev/urandom instead of time() if possible
  • Added directions on running under xinetd to README
  • Implemented Beej's sendall() to handle incomplete send()s
  • Added single-mode daemon code (David Luyer)
  • Fixed problem with aggregated writes (David Luyer)
  • Better autoconf detection of libmcrypt (Jay McCarthy)
  • Added ability to dump check results to alternate dump file if command file does not exist (i.e. NetSaint is not running)
  • Removed some old crud

1.1.2 - 09/22/2001

  • Added append_to_file option to allow for opening the command file in either write or append mode
  • Explicit integer size in packet structure
  • NULL IV is used for both encryption/decryption. This leaves the daemon open to "replay" attacks, but will disappear in future revisions when IV negotiation between the client and daemon is implemented.

1.1.1 - 04/26/2001

  • Configure script bug fix

1.1.0 - 02/24/2001

  • Added encryption routines (using libmcrypt)
  • Minor code enhancements/cleanups

1.0b3 - 12/21/2000

  • Removed lock file code, as 0.0.7 uses a named pipe
  • Documented aggregated_writes option

1.0b2 - 08/26/2000

  • Added option to use write lock when updating external command file

1.0b1 - 04/17/2000

  • Initial cut