[Nagios-announce] Nagios Core 4.0.8 Release Candidate 1 Available

[Eric M. <emi...@na...>]

Nagios Core 4.0.8rc1, a First Release Candidate of Nagios Core 4.0.8, 
has just been posted for wider testing and can be downloaded from 
http://nagios.org/download

This version of Nagios Core incorporates many improvements, notably:
* JSON API output is better aligned with the standard, and output size 
limits have been lifted.
* Check scheduling has been modified to prevent bunching checks at the 
start of their timeperiod.
* Auto-rescheduling of checks has been reimplemented. This can be 
enabled by setting auto_reschedule_checks=1 in nagios.cfg, and adjusted 
by setting auto_rescheduling_interval and auto_rescheduling_window as 
described in the Core 4 Documentation: 
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/4/en/configmain.html#auto_reschedule_checks. 
Auto-rescheduling smoothes the check schedule as it changes over time, 
and together with the previous improvements, helps to give a more 
uniform system load.
* Core workers handle variable assignments at the start of simple 
commands that otherwise don't require a subshell, eliminating the need 
for most uses of env.


Thanks to all who reported bugs, contributed patches, and helped test 
the updated code. The Changelog is below.

4.0.8rc1 - 08/06/2014
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ENHANCEMENTS
* Removed 8 kB string size limitation in JSON CGIs (Eric Stanley)
* Re-implemented auto-rescheduling of checks (Eric Mislivec)
* Avoid bunching of checks delayed due to timeperiod constraints (Eric 
Stanley)
* Limit the number of autocalculated core workers to not spawn too many 
on large systems (Eric Mislivec, Janice Singh)

FIXES
* Fixed segfault in archive JSON CGI when plugin output was empty (Eric 
Stanley)
* Fixed several possibilities for buffer overflow (Eric Mislivec, 
Dirkjan Bussink)
* Fixed Tracker #582, #626: Handle VAR=VAL assignments at the start of 
simple commands (Eric Mislivec, Phil Randal)
* Corrected worker communication protocol documentation (Phil Mayers)
* Fixed init script to leave config test log in a better location, let 
sysconfig override init script variables, and not remove nagios.cmd when 
attempting to start with another instance running (Eric Mislivec, Robin 
Kearney)
* Fixed Tracker #361: Downtime notifications not displayed properly 
(Andrew Widdersheim)

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Eric Mislivec
Application Developer
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