NEWS

smartmontools NEWS
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CVS ID: $Id: NEWS,v 1.37 2009/06/18 20:17:53 chrfranke Exp $

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Date <Not released yet, please try current CVS>
Summary: smartmontools release 5.39 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
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- Support for USB devices with Cypress, JMicron and Sunplus USB bridges
- USB device type autodetection for some devices on Linux and Windows
  (http://smartmontools.wiki.sourceforge.net/overview_USB-Support)
- Support for Areca controllers on Linux
- Support for MegaRAID controllers on Linux
- Support for HighPoint RocketRAID controllers on FreeBSD
- Support RAID controllers using /dev/pass devices on FreeBSD
- Support CHECK_POWER_MODE and WRITE_LOG on FreeBSD
- Support for up to 128 devices on 3ware controllers
- smartctl option '-l xerror' to print ATA SMART Extended Comprehensive
  Error Log
- smartctl option '-l xselftest' to print ATA SMART Extended Self-test Log
- smartctl option '-l sataphy' to print SATA Phy Event Counters
- smartctl options '-l gplog,...' and '-l smartlog,...' to print any log page
- smartctl prints SCSI load/unload cycle counts
- Improve display of huge raw values of some SMART attributes
- Option '-d sat+TYPE' to use SAT with controllers which require '-d TYPE'
- Many additions to drive database
- New simplified syntax for drive database
- Option '-B FILE' to read drive database from a file
- Configure option to add drive database file to distribution
- smartd can now handle attributes 197 and 198 with increasing raw values
- smartd logs changes of self-test execution status
- smartd directive '-n powermode,N' to limit the number of skipped checks
- smartd supports scheduled Selective Self-Tests
- Self-tests scheduled during downtime are run after next startup
- Option '-s PREFIX' to store smartd internal state until next startup
- Configure option to enable the above by default
- Change to an object oriented interface to access ATA and SCSI devices
- Linux and Win32 modules migrated to new interface
- Rework of smartd data structures
- CVS checkin date/time and optional BUILD_INFO printed in version info
- Better support for gSmartControl on Windows
- SELinux fixes to 3ware device node creation
- Fix CCISS file descriptor leak on FreeBSD
- Compile fixes for Solaris and FreeBSD
- Use getaddrinfo() instead of gethostbyname() to support IPv6
- C++ Support for QNX Target, already tested for QNX 6.3.2 on x86 and
  armle target


Date 2008-03-10
Summary: smartmontools release 5.38 (STABLE)
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This is a stable release of smartmontools.  In addition to changes
below, it includes:
 - Libata/Marvell driver devices no longer need explicit '-d' switch
 - DEVICESCAN automatically detects libata/marvell driver SATA devices 
 - Fixed auto-offline/autosave support in FreeBSD
 - SAT device type + SCSI generic devices work properly with smartd under Linux
 - Many additions to drive database
 - More portable autogen/autoconf/automake script set
 - Additional Windows IOCTL route to access SMART data
 - Some ATA-8 updates
 - Smoother CCISS compilation support in Linux
 - Dragonfly support
 - Fixed some ATA identity byte swap problems on big endian CPUs
 - Added support for the QNX operating system
 - No-fork option added to smartd
 - Improved device scanning and drive type recognition in Windows