Nagios 2.7 Released, Updates on Nagios 3.x Development

In case you didn't notice, Nagios 2.7 was released this weekend.  The 
new release fixes several bugs present in the 2.6 release, so I would 
recommend that everyone upgrade.

You can download Nagios 2.7 from http://www.nagios.org/download/

The biggest fix is for a likely segfault that could occur when scheduled 
downtime entries are manually removed/deleted before their expiration 
time.  In this instance, Nagios would/should segfault, so I changed the 
way downtime expiration was handled a bit to hopefully fix the problem.

Here's the Changelog since 2.6:

2.7 - 01/19/2007
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* p1.pl now sets environment var (NAGIOS_PLUGIN) to indicate patch of 
plugin that is executing
* Updated nagiostats with new MRTG vars for tracking buffer usage
* Added sample MRTG config file
* Minor patches to availability and status CGIs
* Minor documentation updates
* Fix for segfault during expiration or deletion of scheduled downtime
* Fix for scheduling immediate service check through WAP interface
* Fix for leading whitespace before comments in object config files


Also of note, the new 2.7 release breaks earlier releases of the 
NDOUtils addon, so I posted a new release (1.4b2) of NDOUtils as well. 
The new beta version of NDOUtils can be obtained from the Nagios 
download page mentioned above.

A quick note about Nagios 3.x development...

There are a few coding changes that I still need to make before Nagios 3 
hits an alpha release.  I am currently in the process of updating the 
documentation, which is proving to be not-so-fun, as I am reviewing and 
rewriting almost every section of docs.  Once I document enough of the 
new changes that have been made since the Nagios 2.x fork, I'll post a 
message to the nagios-devel list and start making alpha releases 
available for early testers.  This may happen as early as the end of 
February, but I'm not making any promises. :-)


Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.nagios.org

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