New Features in Apcupsd 3.10.4

See the list below for the detailed change log. Note, a number of the details of the changes are only documented in the apcupsd.conf file, and unfortunately not in much detail.

The main new features are:

apcupsd 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.

What to do if you find bugs :

send an email to apcupsd-devel at apcupsd.org (Developers mailing list) or go to one of the following sites:

http://www.apcupsd.org
http://www.sibbald.com/apcupsd
Please be sure to include the version of apcupsd you are running, your operating system, and a detailed description of your problem.

Change Log

----> 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 at ao:~> echo $MAIL
        /var/spool/mail/riccardo
        riccardo at 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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