========================================================================= Release Notes for PowerMan version 2.3.9 25 Feb 2011 ========================================================================= * Add MIB support to snmppower. * Add eaton-epdu-blue-switched.dev [Paul Anderson]. ========================================================================= Release Notes for PowerMan version 2.3.8 24 Feb 2011 ========================================================================= * Add support for SNMP power controllers via 'snmppower' helper. * Add SNMP dev files for 8-port APC, 8-port Baytech, and 20 port Eaton Revelation PDU. ========================================================================= Release Notes for PowerMan version 2.3.7 04 Nov 2010 ========================================================================= * Add support for APC 7900 revision 3 firmware [Py Watson] * Internal automake cleanup. ========================================================================= Release Notes for PowerMan version 2.3.6 12 Aug 2010 ========================================================================= * Convert several internal buffers from static to dynamic to address overflow in query output [chaos bugzilla 1009] * Add support for Appro Greenblade [Trent D'Hooge]. * Add support for APC 7920 [Manfred Gruber]. * Add Support for ranged beacon on/off device scripts, and beacon support for ipmipower [Al Chu]. ========================================================================= Release Notes for PowerMan version 2.3.5 17 Apr 2009 ========================================================================= * Deprecated undocumented powerman.conf port directive. * Added powerman.conf listen directive to configure which interfaces and ports the server listens on. Make the default localhost:10101. * Add support for HP integrated power control devices [Bjorn Helgaas] * Add support for Sun LOM. * Misc. documentation improvements * Add heartbeat STONITH plugin. ========================================================================= Release Notes for PowerMan version 2.3.4 09 Feb 2009 ========================================================================= * Fix powerman-controlling-powerman config so that status command is fast for large configs again. * Fix "bashfun" device script and add regression test. * Various changes coming from Debian audit [Arnaud Quette]. ========================================================================= Release Notes for PowerMan version 2.3.1 01 Dec 2008 ========================================================================= * Initial powerman client API. * Run the powerman daemon (and all coprocesses) as 'daemon' by default instead of root. To override, set USER=root or other user in /etc/sysconfig/powerman. * New man pages for httppower, plmpower, libpowerman, vpcd. * Include vpcd in the dist. * Various changes coming from Debian audit [Arnaud Quette]. ========================================================================= Release Notes for PowerMan version 2.3 12 Nov 2008 ========================================================================= * Make init script work on Solaris. * IPv6 support. * Include example powerman.conf file (/etc/powerman/powerman.conf.example) * Added support for Cyclades PM20, PM42. ========================================================================= Release Notes for PowerMan version 2.2 27 Aug 2008 ========================================================================= * Send a SIGINT to coprocesses rather than just closing file descriptors during powermand shutdown. This is required to terminate an ssh client running in coprocess mode. * Make it possible to only define the _ranged version of scripts. Scripts are selected using the following precedence: _all, _ranged, singlet. * Drop "soft power status" support. This allowed iceboxes to detect whether a node was powered up or not, independently of plug state. * [ipmipower] Drop _all and singlet version of scripts. * [ilom] Revised Sun Integrated Lights Out Management support to work over ssh and serial. Dropped shared console/serial "ilom-inline" support. * [icebox3] Now supports both v3 and v4 Ice Box. Users of icebox4 should change their device types to icebox3 in powerman.conf. * [plmpower] Added support for controlling Insteon/X10 devices via SmartLabs PLM 2412S. * [hp3488] Added support for modular GPIB-based HP 3488A switch/control unit via gpib-utils project. * [ics8064] Added support for VXI-11-based ICS 8064 16-port relay unit via gpib-utils project. * [powerman] Improved efficiency of powerman-controlling-powerman configurations, when one powerman controls a subset of the plugs of another powerman through the use of _ranged scripts. * Enhanced integrated test suite. Note: tests all pass on AIX now. ========================================================================= Release Notes for PowerMan version 2.1 18 Jun 2008 ========================================================================= * Client overhaul. * [apcpdu3] Fix intermittent query failures. * Fixed off by one bug in server that allowed some delays in dev scripts to take longer than programmed. * Use raw mode in pipe (|&) connections to avoid local tty echo. * Run server in /var/run/powerman rather than /etc/powerman. Create this directory if it doesn't exist. * Enhanced integrated test suite. Note: all tests do not currently pass on AIX. ========================================================================= Release Notes for PowerMan version 2.0 01 Jun 2008 ========================================================================= * Autoconf/automake integration. * Integrated test suite. * Portability to Solaris, AIX, and OS/X. * Support for selecting power control targets using genders (-g option). * Cleanup and refactoring. ========================================================================= Release Notes for PowerMan version 1.0.32 24 Jan 2008 ========================================================================= * Support for new apc firmware (apcpdu3.dev) [Trent D'Hooge] * Added httppower utility for interfacing to power controllers that are exclusively web-based. * Support for Digital Loggers, Inc. power controllers. * Support for APPRO power controller. ========================================================================= Release Notes for PowerMan version 1.0.31 20 Oct 2007 ========================================================================= (Includes changes in 1.0.29 and 1.0.30) * Support SUN ILOM inline with serial console, i.e. device "ilom25" "ilom-inline" "/usr/bin/conman -Q -j ilc25 |&" * Handle config files with embedded carriage returns [Trent D'Hooge and Todd Heer]. * Ipmipower device script tuning [Al Chu]. * Minor build/packaging tweaks for building under mock, etc. ========================================================================= Release Notes for PowerMan version 1.0.28 07 May 2007 ========================================================================= * Increase "cycle" delays from 2s to 4s on all devices that implement cycle as an explicit on,delay,off. ========================================================================= Release Notes for PowerMan version 1.0.27 24 Apr 2007 ========================================================================= * Add heartbeat stonith module. * Fix bug in baytech-rpc28-nc device support that affected plugs > 10. ========================================================================= Release Notes for PowerMan version 1.0.26 21 Dec 2006 ========================================================================= * Support 8-port APC AP7900 and likely AP7901, AP7920, and AP7921. [Martin Petersen] * Work around a bug that causes baytech rpc3's to resturn some plugs as status "unknown" on login timeout/reconnect. * Add ranged power control support for faster power control w/ ipmipower. ========================================================================= Release Notes for PowerMan version 1.0.25 16 Aug 2006 ========================================================================= * Support newer baytech RPC-3 firmware. * Support icebox v4 [Jarod Wilson] ========================================================================= Release Notes for PowerMan version 1.0.24 30 May 2006 ========================================================================= * Telnet state machine now works with Digi terminal server in telnet mode and logs ignored telnet option requests. * Several powerman.conf examples are now included in the RPM doc area. * Handle expansion of suffixed host ranges, e.g. "[00-26]p" [Mark Grondona] * Fix minor memory leaks and unchecked function return values found by Coverity. * New powerman.dev(5) man page documenting device file syntax. * Support serial device baud rates up to 460800 baud if system does. * Minor tweaks to spec file for Fedora Extras [Ben Woodard]. * Fix for broken P0|P1 in Rackable Phantom 4.0 firmware (phantom4.dev). * Add support for IBM BladeCenter chassis (ibmbladecenter.dev) [Robin Goldstone]. * Add support for ComputerBoards CB7050 (cb-7050.dev). * Add support for Cyclades PM10 (cyclades-pm10.dev) [Trent D'Hooge]. ========================================================================= Release Notes for PowerMan version 1.0.23 16 Feb 2006 ========================================================================= * Fix for compilation on Fedora Core 4 [Ben Woodard]. * Spec file changes for Fedora Extras submission [Ben Woodard]. ========================================================================= PowerMan version 1.0.22 12 Oct 2005 ========================================================================= * Bug fix for powerman -T dumps core on x86_64 [Thayne Harbaugh] * Add support for 24-port APC Switched Rack PDU (apcpdu.dev) [Makia Minnich].
