File Release Notes and Changelog
Notes:
This release fixes some of the known issues including a
buffer overflow issue (CVE-2009-0241). It also includes
support for metric spoofing, similar to gmetric, from a
metric module.
Changes:
The following is the list of bug fixes and enhancements to the current release:
* gmond/gmetad: Sync-up the default values for the cluster section of gmond with the default
gmond.conf so that a cluster name will always be present. The gmetad code can not handle a
host with no associated cluster, therefore the gmond code must always include a cluster XML tag. Bug #200
* gmond: Add an 'enabled' directive to the module section so that a module can easily be enabled
or disabled through the configuration file
* gmond: reformat memory metrics to match pre 3.1 style (REGRESSION)
* gmond: -r support for transforming 2.5 configurations (REGRESSION)
* gmond: add boolean option to 'allow_extra_data' generation (BUG199)
* gmond: include localhost in translated (-r) trusted_hosts from 2.5
* gmetad: skip unresponsive sources (BUG92)
* gmetad: CVE-2009-0241: buffer overflow in interactive port (BUG223)
* libganglia: mcast_if support in gmond (BUG140)
* web: add boolean option for using hostname without domainname for graphs
* web: add host atrributes into metric list (BUG30)
* web: metric group enhancements for host view (BUG203)
* web: add option for configurable number of columns in cluster view (BUG194)
* web: make number of metric columns in host view configurable (BUG194)
* Allow both a C and python module to create a metric that will spoof a specific host. This provides
the same spoofing functionality as gmetric but through a metric module. It is done by adding
SPOOF_HOST and SPOOF_NAME as extra metadata to the metric description
* gmond: mod_python support for versions older than 2.3 or newer than 2.4
* mod_python: Change the way that the python module path is added to better support the
Solaris platform. It is also a cleaner way to add the python path programatically rather than
altering the PYTHON_PATH environment variable.
* gmetric: Support the short commandline parameter format when spoofing a heartbeat metric. (Regression fix from 3.0.x)
