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<h2>New Features in Apcupsd 3.10.4</h2>
See the list below for the detailed change log. Note, a number of the
details of the changes are only documented in the <b>apcupsd.conf</b>
file, and unfortunately not in much detail.
<p>
The main new features are:
<ul>
<li>Support for USB UPSes on Linux. The killpower feature does not work though
(most likely a kernel "bug").</li>
<li>Support for additional models and cables.</li>
<li>New cable for running BackUPS CS in Smart mode (possibly also the
BackUPS ES).</li>
<li>The old master/slave code must be explicitly enabled with
<b>--enable-master-slave</b> option on the <b>./configure</b>
line. </li>
<li>Different models are now handled by drivers.</li>
<li>NIS code, master/slave code, and the drivers can be individually configured
giving a much smaller memory foot print.</li>
<li>A host of new configuration options to support enabling/disabling drivers
and features.</li>
<li>Support for limiting what subnets the NIS code will listen to using
the new <b>NISIP</b> configuration directive.</li>
<li>SNMP support.</li>
<li>Support for system provided gd libraries.</li>
<li>Source tree reorganization.</li>
</ul>
<p></p>
<P><b>apcupsd</b> is mainly developed under Linux and will compile cleanly
and work under most flavors of Unix as well as many other
operating systems including Windows.
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<P>What to do if you find bugs :</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.29in">send an email to
<a href="mailto:apcupsd-devel@apcupsd.org">apcupsd-devel@apcupsd.org</a>
(Developers mailing list) or go to one of the following sites:
<pre>
<a href="http://www.apcupsd.org">http://www.apcupsd.org</a>
<a href="http://www.sibbald.com/apcupsd">http://www.sibbald.com/apcupsd</a>
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Please be sure to include the version of <b>apcupsd</b> you are
running, your operating system, and a detailed description of your
problem.
<P>Change Log
<pre>
----> Release apcupsd-3.10.4 (21 Jan 2003) (not yet released)
- Added error messages if old master/slave code called.
- Reworked the messages for ./configure --help to be aligned and
clearer for networking and master/slave
- A number of important patches all supplied by Mirko Doelle.
- Moved technotes for 2001 and 2002 into respective directories.
- Created a new kes-3.10.4 file to which I will append if there
are additional changes to 3.10.4. This will reduce the number
of release note files.
Changes submitted this submission:
19Jan03
- Fixed hangs in usb driver startup when could not open port by
releasing the ups structure lock before the Error_abort calls.
Thanks to Mirko Doelle for reporting this.
- Fixed the default path for mkinstalldirs from $(topdir) to
$(topdir)/autoconf. Reported by Mirko.
- Fixed configure.in to always create platform/apccontrol. Previously
it was not being created for Debian. Reported by Mirko.
- Removed Debian specific installation of apccontrol. Reported by
Mirko.
- Implemented code to display the apcupsd events with the most recent
first. Code sent by Mirko, but I modified it slightly.
----> Release apcupsd-3.10.3 (12 Dec 2002)
- Tried to correct problems with Makefiles
- Thanks to David Walser who pointed out where on the Sun, the make
install was doing terrible things -- I found that there was
a missing semicolon in the new Makefile. Before my previous cleanup,
there were actually 4 missing semicolons. Hopefully this
will correct the problem.
- For a second time, David Walser came to the rescue finding the
CGI install problem reported by lots of people. The new code
used "make" instead of $(MAKE) to call the CGI make. Fixed.
Changes submitted this submission:
- Removed Makefile code that creates and sets permission bits on
/tmp $(prefix) and $(exec-prefix)
- Removed all occurrences of -z in the Makefiles (at least that I
found) and replaced them with a more conservative formulation.
- Removed the install-symlinks script that caused some problems
on distributions with blanks in the DISTVER name.
- Added install-symlinks to the suse Makefile.in. This is the
only platform that currently uses it.
----> Release apcupsd-3.10.2 (08 Nov 2002)
- New cable design for BackUPS CS models to run it
in Smart serial mode.
- Corrected a major bug in the smart and net code where the
status word was getting clobbered.
Changes submitted this submission:
- A few days ago, slither_man sent me an email with some
information on how to run a BackUPS CS in smart mode with
a serial cable. He found the information by assuming that
the UPS supported Smart mode and through trial and error.
Well, it works!!!!!!! Amazing!!!! Thanks slither_man.
- Documentation for new CUSTOM-RJ54 cable that can be constructed
from the end of an ethernet cable and a DB9F connector.
- Changed all the MAIL instances in shell scripts into APCUPSD_MAIL.
This helps keep separated the apcupsd specific shell variables from
the generic $MAIL shell variable that points to the user's mailbox:
riccardo@ao:~> echo $MAIL
/var/spool/mail/riccardo
riccardo@ao:~>
An user reported that ./configure script transformed internal $MAIL
executable program into her mailbox path. This may happen if the
configure suite is broken (thing that I don't want to check further).
That said, APCUPSD_MAIL now should always correctly point to the
system default mail client program.
- Made so that error_cleanup is a generic function called by the
generic error handlers. Now if you want specific error_cleanup
you don't need to write also specific error handlers, provided
that error_cleanup don't accept parameters (i.e.
specific_error_cleanup(void)) but if you want to have a specific
error_cleanup with parameters you _must_ also write specific
error_exit and error_out into which you will call the specific
error_cleanup with parameters.
- Made so that error_exit and error_out are generic handlers that
can be assigned, if needed, to specific handlers by the main() of
each program. If not, the Error* routines will use the generic
versions in apclib.a.
- Fixed wrong "true" usage in powerflute.
- Cleaned up the terminate() functions.
- Made DeviceVendor part of snmp DEVICE case insensitive.
----> Release apcupsd-3.10.1 (16 Sep 2002)
- Fixed a filling error with USB status dword.
- Fixed autoconf check and dependances of -lpanel,etc with -lncurses.
- Made more portable the apccontrol external scripts when calling the
mailer (subject is now in the echo lines instead of relying on the
presence of a -s switch on the mailer).
- Added gentoo platform.
- Added DESTDIR variable for platform packaging.
- Fixed a off-by-one problem in events table.
- Conditional compilation of old and new network code. Old network code
disabled by default while new network code enabled by default.
- Removed old src/apcnet.c.old, old implementation of old networking.
----> Release apcupsd-3.10.0 (28 Jul 2002)
- Added documentation for SNMP UPSes. Documented the use of
--kill-on-powerfail switch during shutdown.
- SuSE 8.0 is now supported.
- Added forward declaration of inet_pton and localtime_r when they
are extraobj.
- Added inet_pton function. Implementation from Internet Software
Consortium.
- Made sp_flags private to the dumb driver.
- Can't SET/CLEAR multiple flags: do them one by one. Fixed this
bug in SNMP driver.
- Added 127A and 128A cables support for dumb UPSes.
- Implemented killpower for PowerNet MIB.
- Implemented the SNMP driver for APC's PowerNet MIB.
- Restructured UPSINFO so that now all the flags are contained
into the Status bitmap.
- *BSD should compile cleanly again.
- Source tree is now under CVS revision control.
- Added support for listening on specific IP addresses/subnets in
NIS server, from Troy.
- Doc updates, from Kern.
----> Release apcupsd-3.9.9 (18 May 2002)
- Applied final Kern's patch.
- Added a little program 'devicedbg' to help in debugging device
drivers with gdb. To compile, 'make devicedbg' in src/.
- Cygwin platform added (reorganized old cygwin files).
- Darwin platform added.
- compile line is 'gcc -c -g -O2 -I../include apcaction.c'.
- reviewed all the platform makefiles.
- use system libgd, searching for include files in system include dirs.
- in case system does not have libgd, uses provided libgd.
- put gd1.2 into master's contrib directory and a message if gd1.2
is not present into src/gd1.2 (like default distribution will not)
is issued at configure time to get gd1.2 from contrib and extract it
into the src/ directory. Re-run config and all will be good and happy.
- Sources reorganization.
- Mandrake platform added.
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