Nagios 3.0b4 and NDOUtils 1.4b6 Released

Nagios 3.0b4 has been released and can be downloaded from:

	http://www.nagios.org/download

This latest beta release fixed some bugs that were present in beta 3 and 
should help performance with regards to host checks.  Here's the Changelog:

3.0b4 - 09/27/2007
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* New macros: $HOSTGROUPMEMBERS$, $HOSTGROUPNOTES$, $HOSTGROUPNOTESURL$, 
$HOSTGROUPACTIONURL$, $SERVICEGROUPMEMBERS$, $SERVIC
EGROUPNOTES$, $SERVICEGROUPNOTESURL$, $SERVICEGROUPACTIONURL$, 
$CONTACTGROUPALIAS$, $CONTACTGROUPMEMBERS$, $NOTIFICATIONRECIP
IENTS$, $NOTIFICATIONAUTHOR$, $NOTIFICATIONAUTHORNAME$, 
$NOTIFICATIONAUTHORALIAS$, $NOTIFICATIONCOMMENT$
* Removed host/service downtime author/comment macros introduced in 
3.0b2 in favor of more generic $NOTIFICATION...$ macros
* Fix for segfault when cancelling active scheduled host downtime
* Macro code cleanup
* Added on-demand contact and contactgroup macro support
* More complete (but still partial) support for macros in CGIs 
($xNOTES$, $xNOTESURL$, and $xACTIONURL$ macros)
* Fixed bug in config CGI with displaying incorrect notification 
interval for escalations
* Added new 'check' option to init script to verify configuration
* Added custom host and service notifications, with option to force the 
notifications and broadcast them to all contacts
* Fix for on-demand/cached host check statistics
* Fixed bug where null host check command would cause high CPU utilization
* Alias, if not specified, now defaults to object name in host, 
hostgroup, servicegroup, contact, and contactgroup definition
s
* Fixed bug with excluding hosts, services, and contacts with bang (!) 
in object definitions
* Fixed bug in nagiostats with NULL mrtg data arguments printing bogus 
string
* Added custom delimiter option in nagiostats output (useful for CSV output)


NDOUtils 1.4b6 was also released to work with Nagios 3.0b4.  It also 
contains a fix for a bug that was causing NDOUtils 1.4b5 to segfault 
while processing host status/event information.  You can grab the 
NDOUtils addon from:

	http://www.nagios.org/download



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

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