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If you're upgrading from an earlier version, see the UPGRADING file.
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For a complete and more detailed list of changes, please refer to the
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ChangeLog file.
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Release notes for NUT 2.7.4 - what's new since 2.7.3:
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 - New class of device supported: ATS - Automatic Transfer Switch are now
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   supported in NUT. Eaton ATS are supported, and APC ones should be too. Users
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   are welcomed to test and provide feedback
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 - NUT command and variable naming scheme:
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   * Document battery.charger.status, which will in time replace the historic
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     CHRG and DISCHRG flags published in ups.status
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   * Many extensions to support outlets groups, thresholds / alarms (ambient,
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     input, output, outlet and outlet.group)
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 - support for new devices:
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   AEG PROTECT B / NAS
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   APC ATS AP7724 (should be supported)
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   Asium P700
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   Eaton ATS
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   Eaton 5E 1100iUSB
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   Eaton E Series DX UPS 1-20 kVA
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   Eaton Powerware 9125-5000g
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   Electrys UPS 2500
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   Fideltronic INIGO Viper 1200
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   Legrand Keor Multiplug
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   LYONN CTB-800V
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   Micropower LCD 1000
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   NHS Laser Senoidal 5000VA
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   Sweex model P220
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   TS Shara
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   Various APCUPSD-controlled APC devices
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 - snmp-ups:
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   * Improve automatic detection algorithm
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   * Provide access to Net-SNMP timeout and retries
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   * Proper handling of integer RW variables
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   * Implement support for alarms, through ups.alarm and outlet.n.alarm
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   * Improve log/debug output trace
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   * Fix loss of precision when setting values, using upsrw
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   * Support for outlets group management
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   * Many improvements and simplification
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   * Add support for Tripplite units using IETF mib
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   * Improve communication staleness detection and recovery
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   * Add devices MAC address publication
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   * Register values enumerations, when available
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   * Many improvements and fixes to the SNMP subdriver creation script
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 - Eaton:
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   * 3ph SNMP:
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     Many improvements to Powerware / XUPS MIB, for data and commands
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     Add support for Eaton Power Xpert Gateway UPS Card
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     Improve support for temperature and humidity, including low / high values
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     Alarms handling
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   * ePDU (G2 and G3):
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     Improve support for ambient sensor, including thresholds and dry contacts
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     Outlet groups handling, including data, thresholds, settings and commands
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     Alarms handling
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   * XML/PDC (netxml-ups):
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     Fix Eaton XML published data
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     Add some settings (R/W flags) on ambient thresholds
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 - bcmxcp_usb: improvements for device claiming and multi-packets responses
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 - dummy-ups: allow any variable to be modified
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 - libnutclient: Fix for reads when the socket was closed by NUT server
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 - macosx-ups:
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   * fix for 10.10 (Yosemite), v1.1
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   * gracefully handle disconnection of UPS (return "data stale")
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 - nutdrv_atcl_usb: point to nutdrv_qx (fuji) for 0001:0000
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 - nutdrv_qx:
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   * Add new 'sgs' USB subdriver to support TS Shara units
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   * various improvements and simplification, to the code and documentation
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 - nut-ipmipsu: improve FreeIPMI support
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 - nut-scanner:
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   * Don't depend on development libraries, by looking at some known paths,
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     including the one provided through --libdir, to find the correct libraries
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   * Fix a crash on a 2nd call to libnutscan with SNMP method
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 - powercom: fix the processing of input and output voltage for KIN units
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 - solis:
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   * many improvements and cleanup
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   * resync with end-of-packet character
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   * fixes for Microsol Back-Ups BZ1200-BR
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 - tripplitesu: Fix initialization when tripplite firmware is buggy (for
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   Tripplite SU1000RT2U and possibly more)
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 - usbhid-ups:
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   * various minor improvements
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   * support for Eaton UPS with dual HID report descriptor in HID Parser
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   * handle missing USB strings in APC code
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 - SSL support through Mozilla NSS: Rework the NSS tests to ensure that NSS is
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   actually installed and usable for enabling SSL support in NUT
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 - Augeas support: Augeas lens for ups.conf was updated to add various missing
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   global directives and ups fields
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 - scripts/systemd/nut-server.service.in: Restore systemd relationship since it
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   was preventing upsd from starting whenever one or more drivers, among several,
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   was failing to start
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 - Fix UPower device matching for recent kernels, since hiddev* devices now have
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   class "usbmisc", rather than "usb"
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 - Network protocol information: default to type NUMBER for variables that are
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   not flagged as STRING . This point is subject to improvements or change in
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   the next release 2.7.5.  Refer to docs/net-protocol.txt for more information
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 - As usual, more bugfixes, cleanup and improvements, on both source code
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   and documentation.
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Release notes for NUT 2.7.3 - what's new since 2.7.2:
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 - reverted POWERDOWNFLAG to /etc/killpower as in 2.6.5 (packagers may want to
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   put this in another filesystem, though)
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 - configure/make fixes for ${systemdsystemunitdir}
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 - apcsmart: fix command set parsing for protocol version 4 (e.g. Smart-UPS
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   RT 10000 XL)
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 - upslog: SIGUSR1 forces an immediate log entry
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 - riello_usb/_ser: USB interface claim fix; improved error handling
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 - usbhid-ups: add support for OpenUPS2 (PID: D005), Liebert GXT3 (PID: 0008)
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   APC AP9584 Serial->USB kit (PID: 0000), and some Powercom models
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   (PID: 0001). Fixed scaling for Cyberpower 0764:0501.
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 - USB core: do not call usb_set_altinterface(0) by default
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 - nutdrv_qx: added fabula, fuji USB and Voltronic-QS-HEX subdrivers; add
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   bestups subdriver to supersede the old standalone bestups driver
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 - NUT Monitor: added FreeDesktop AppData file (including screenshots)
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 - renamed udev rules file to 62-nut-usbups.rules (permissions fix)
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 - added AIX packaging
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 - asem: added a driver for the UPS in ASEM PB1300 embedded PCs
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 - solis: updated to support APC Microsol units sold in Brazil
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 - tripplite_usb: updated to use dv/dq charge calculation for all models (also
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   exposes battery_min and battery max as configuration variables); added
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   binary 3005 protocol support (such as for SMART500RT1U)
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 - genericups: better debugging while parsing the cable description flags
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 - all drivers: a new 'synchronous' driver flag is available for very verbose
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   units, such as some ePDUs
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 - Eaton: 
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   * Add support for EnergySaving features for Eaton UPSs (HID USB/SHUT and
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     XCP USB/serial)
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   * Fix and complete Eaton ePDUs G2/G3 support
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   * ABM (Advanced Battery Monitoring) support through battery.charger.status
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     in HID (USB and SHUT), XCP (USB and serial) and SNMP (Powerware XUPS
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     MIB)
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 - support for new devices:
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   APC Back-UPS 1200BR and Back-UPS BZ2200BI-BR (Microsol)
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   ASEM SPA PB1300 UPS
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   Belkin Regulator PRO-USB
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   Cyber Power Systems Value 1500ELCD-RU
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   EUROCASE EA200N 2000VA
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   Fideltronik LUPUS 500
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   Flight Technic & International (FTUPS) FT-1000BS and FT-1000BS(T)
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   Grafenthal PR-3000-HS
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   JAWAN JW-UPSLC02
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   Lacerda New Orion 800VA
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   Mecer ME-1000-WTU
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   NHS Sistemas de Energia Expert C Online 6000/8000/10000
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   NHS Sistemas de Energia Expert S Online 6000/8000/10000
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   Powercom BNT-xxxAP (USB product id: 0001)
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   Rucelf UPOII-3000-96-EL
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   Tripp Lite OMNIVSINT800   
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   Voltronic Power Apex 1KVA and Imperial 1KVA
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Release notes for NUT 2.7.2 - what's new since 2.7.1:
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 - This release is the second interim release of the 2.7 testing series.
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 - libupsclient had undefined references related to functions of libcommon.
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   This issue was reported on Debian (bug #731156) and is now fixed
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 - support for new devices:
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   CABAC UPS-1700DV2
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   Eaton Powerware 3105
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   Emerson Network Power Liebert PSI 1440
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   MicroDowell B.Box LP 500
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   Numeric Digital 800 plus
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   OptiUPS VS 575C
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   Tripp Lite SU10KRT3/1X
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 - FreeDesktop Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) support was removed.
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 - nutdrv_atcl_usb: new driver for 'ATCL FOR UPS'
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 - al175: re-introduced this driver (actually, it was in 2.7.1)
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 - upsdrvctl now provides retry options for upsdrvctl and driver(s)
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 - snmp-ups: add support for XPPC-MIB and Tripp Lite SU10KRT3/1X.
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   Also fix erroneous status in HP/Compaq SNMP MIB (with the most recent HP
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   firmware (1.76) ; improved various MIBs (APC, HP/Compaq, ...) 
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 - nutdrv_qx: add new 'fallback' Q1 subdriver, with minimal 'Q1' support.
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   General improvements on all subdrivers.
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 - mge-shut: partially revert PnP/RTS change, for initializing the
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   communication with the UPS. Note that nut-scanner similar function was
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   not modified however.
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 - FreeBSD DEVD support: generate devd.conf files for USB UPSes
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   This adds a --with-devd-dir=PATH option to ./configure
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 - The NUT website was moved to a standalone website. A separate code
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   repository and source archive are now available.
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 - As usual, more bugfixes, cleanup and improvements, on both source code
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   and documentation.
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Release notes for NUT 2.7.1 - what's new since 2.6.5:
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 - This release is an interim release, part of the testing series, and the
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   first release after the transition from Subversion to Git.
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   The last release (2.6.5) is almost a year old. A lot of work has
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   been done, but a good amount remains to achieve 2.8.0 goals.
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   Please read the UPGRADING notes.
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 - Added support for SSL via the Mozilla NSS library, in addition to the
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   existing OpenSSL support.
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 - Added a new driver, nutdrv_qx, for Megatec/Qx devices. This driver will
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   eventually replace the blazer_ser and blazer_usb drivers. In particular, it
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   adds support for Voltronic Power devices.
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 - Increased USB_TIMEOUT to standards-compliant 5.000 seconds in most drivers.
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   This should reduce the number of timeouts on low-speed USB 1.1 devices.
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 - The jNut Java source has been split into a separate GitHub repository.
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 - Added many devices to the HCL. Of particular note are many Tripp Lite USB
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   HID PDC models which were tested against NUT by Tripp Lite.
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 - Reworked some visual elements of the HCL. The output is better tailored for
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   graphical and text-only browsers, but suggestions are welcome for additional
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   accessibility enhancements.
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 - Also increased timeouts and added redundant commands to improve reliability
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   of mge-utalk driver.
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 - Added the apcupsd-ups driver to interoperate with apcupsd installations.
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 - Added documentation on creating subdrivers for snmp-ups and nutdrv_qx.
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 - Added new drivers for the Riello UPS product line (riello_ser/riello_usb).
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 - Many improvements to the BCM/XCP drivers have been merged in. This includes
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   an improved data reception loop, and additional mappings.
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 - Added a few variables to the Powercom HID mappings.
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 - Updated the apcsmart driver, and renamed the previous driver to apcsmart-old.
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 - Fixed the battery percentage calculation in the bestfcom driver.
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 - libnutclient has been added as a C++ alternative to libupsclient.
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 - Packaging files for Solaris and HP-UX (sponsored by Eaton)
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 - Fix shutdown of Eaton HID, using usbhid-ups and mge-shut
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 - usbhid-ups: final fix for APC Back UPS ES.  APC Back UPS ES devices have
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   buggy firmware, and this version does not cause a regression. The max_report
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   variable should be set automatically based on the USB identification values.
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 - nut-scanner: fix crash
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 - IPMI support can handle more different versions of FreeIPMI
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 - Support power supplies scan over the network
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   nut-scanner can now scan for power supplies with IPMI over LAN.
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   This is currently limited to IPMI 1.5 only
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 - Implement a framework to spell check documentation source files,
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   using Aspell. This includes an interactive build target (make
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   spellcheck-interactive), and an automated one (make spellcheck),
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   mainly for QA / Buildbot purpose. Note that a base NUT dictionary
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   is also available (docs/nut.dict), providing a glossary of terms
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   related to power devices and management
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 - Improve systemd integration
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 - snmp-ups: Fixed a crash on outlet management, and added delta_ups MIB
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   support. Also fixed mappings for upsBypassVoltage, upsBypassCurrent, and
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   upsBypassPower in three-phase IETF MIB.
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Release notes for NUT 2.6.5 - what's new since 2.6.4:
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 - This release fixes an important regression in upssched:
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   any upssched.conf command that takes a second argument resulted in
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   a defective frame sent to the parent process. Thus, the command was
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   not executed (report and patch from Oliver Schonefeld)
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 - Website hosting: free NUT from Eaton website hosting
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   NUT website (http://www.networkupstools.org) is no longer hosted by Eaton.
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   Arnaud Quette (NUT project leader) has taken over NUT hosting on his own,
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   to give NUT back some independence.
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   This effort is also part of a logic to stop crediting Eaton for
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   contributions from others (especially Arnaud Quette, as an individual).
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   The new hosting service is located, as for Arnaud's blog
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   (http://arnaud.quette.fr) on Gandi servers, using PaaS. This will allow
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   more flexibility and automation of the release process
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 - macosx-ups: new OS X Power Sources meta-driver
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   Mac OS X provides UPS status information in a format similar to
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   what is shown for laptop batteries. This driver will convert that
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   information into a format compatible with NUT (Charles Lepple).
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 - support for new devices:
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   Eaton ePDU Switched
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   Online Zinto A (USB ID 0x06da:0x0601)
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   REDi Blazer 400VA / 600VA / 800VA
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   UNITEK Alpha650ipF and Alpha650ipE (USB ID 0x0f03:0x0001)
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 - mge-shut driver has been replaced by a new implementation (newmge-shut).
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   In case of issue with this new version, users can revert to oldmge-shut.
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 - First NUT virtualization package: NUT now supports integration with
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   VMware ESXI 5.0, through a native VIB package. This is, for the time
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   being, an external effort from René Garcia (refer to the Download section
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   on NUT website). But work is underway to improve this integration, and
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   include it in the NUT source tree  
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 - IPMI support (nut-ipmipsu driver and nut-scanner): prepare for supporting
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   API changes in upcoming FreeIPMI versions 1.1.x and 1.2.x.
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 - snmp-ups now supports high precision values for APC, and more variables
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 - the NUT variables and commands namespace has been fixed and
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   completed, with the known and used variables that were missing.
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 - more bugfixes, cleanup and improvements, on both source code and
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   documentation.
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Release notes for NUT 2.6.4 - what's new since 2.6.3:
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 - This release Fix an important vulnerability in upsd
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   (CVE-2012-2944: upsd can be remotely crashed)
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   NUT server (upsd), from versions 2.4.0 to 2.6.3, are exposed to
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   crashes when receiving random data from the network.
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   This issue is related to the way NUT parses characters,
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   especially from the network. Non printable characters were missed
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   from strings operation (such as strlen), but still copied to the
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   buffer, causing an overflow.
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   Thus, fix NUT parser, to only allow the subset Ascii charset from
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   Space to ~
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   (Reported by Sebastian Pohle, Alioth bug #313636, CVE-2012-2944)
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   A separate patch, which applies to any faulty version, is also available:
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   http://trac.networkupstools.org/projects/nut/changeset/3633
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   For more information, refer to the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures:
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   http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2944
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 - A static source code analysis has been done by Michal Hlavinka from RedHat,
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   using Coverity (12 issues fixed).
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 - Add new "LIST CLIENTS" and "NETVER" commands to NUT network protocol.
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   "NETVER" allows to retrieve the Network protocol version, while
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   "LIST CLIENTS" provides the list of clients connected to a device.
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   Refer to the developer guide, "Network protocol information" section for
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   more information.
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 - Support of ranges of values for writable variables has been added, to
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   complete the existing enumerated values mechanism. This will start to
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   appear in some drivers soon, beginning with Eaton. Refer to the developer
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   guide, "Creating a new driver..." section for more information.
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 - PyNUT.py has been updated to version 1.2.2, adding support for
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   LIST CLIENTS, FSD, HELP and VER (Rene Martín Rodríguez)
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 - support for new devices:
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   AEG Power Solutions PROTECT HOME
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   more APC SNMP cards
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   ATEK Defensor range
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   all Borri models
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   all COVER ENERGY SA
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   CyberPower OR700LCDRM1U, PR6000LCDRTXL5U and CP1000PFCLCD
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   Dell UPS Network Management Card
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   Dynamix 1000VA USB
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   Eaton Management Card Contact (ref 66104)
 | 
						|
   EVER POWERLINE RT / 11 / 31 and DUO II Pro
 | 
						|
   GE Digital Energy GT Series 1000-3000 VA
 | 
						|
   Gtec models
 | 
						|
   all recent HP serial / USB UPS (G2, G3 and R/T models, ) and HP UPS
 | 
						|
    Management Module
 | 
						|
   Ippon INNOVA RT
 | 
						|
   KOLFF BLACK NOVA
 | 
						|
   Lexis X-power Tigra 1kVA
 | 
						|
   Microline C-Lion Innova
 | 
						|
   Online Yunto YQ450
 | 
						|
   PowerShield Defender 1200VA
 | 
						|
   PowerWalker Online VFI LCD, Line-Interactive VI LCD and Line-Interactive VI
 | 
						|
   Riello Netman Plus 102 SNMP Card
 | 
						|
   Tripp-Lite OMNISMART500 
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - apcsmart has received some fixes to work better on Mac OS X, and in general
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - bcmxcp has improved support for battery status, and better supports
 | 
						|
   PW9120 units
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - bestfortress has improved Best Fortress LI675VA support
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - blazer_ser and blazer_usb now try to automatically estimate high and low
 | 
						|
   voltages, to be able to calculate battery charge ; support for online
 | 
						|
   Innova UPS (T, RT and 3/1 T) has been added ; Best UPS support has been
 | 
						|
   improved, to prepare for superseeding bestups driver
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - bestups has also received some care, though users are encouraged to switch
 | 
						|
   to blazer_ser, since bestups will soon be deprecated.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - newmge-shut has been heavily improved.  However, replacement of the
 | 
						|
   current mge-shut has been postponed to the next release, due to the CVE
 | 
						|
   issue.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - oneac 0.80 improves support for all families of Oneac (EG, ON, OZ and OB),
 | 
						|
   including more data and instant commands (Bill Elliot).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - usbhid-ups: for Eaton devices, ups.start.auto is now automatically adjusted
 | 
						|
   for shutdown.{return,stayoff} to behave as expected ; Liebert firmwares with
 | 
						|
   incorrect exponents have also been addressed.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - snmp-ups now provides support for UPS shutdown, based on usbhid-ups
 | 
						|
   mechanisms (composite commands and fallback). Composite commands are also
 | 
						|
   supported now. This means, for example, that if 'shutdown.return' is not
 | 
						|
   supported, a combination of 'load.off' + 'load.on' may be used ;
 | 
						|
   Actual validity of instant commands is now tested before commands addition ;
 | 
						|
   Eaton/MGE MIB has been cleaned and completed ; 3-phases support has been
 | 
						|
   added to Socomec Netvision MIB ; HP/Compaq MIB has been completed, with
 | 
						|
   thresholds, nominal values and more commands.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - nut-scanner now also has libupsclient has a weak runtime dependency ; more
 | 
						|
   docs and bugfixes have also happened.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Provide an Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW) profile (nut.ufw.profile)
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Riello protocols have been officially published in NUT protocols library:
 | 
						|
   http://www.networkupstools.org/ups-protocols.html#_riello
 | 
						|
 
 | 
						|
 - Duplicate instances of upsd / upsmon are now detected upon startup
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - NUT variables namespace has been completed with missing variables and
 | 
						|
   commands that are already known and standard
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - upslog now comes with a companion file, for logrotate configuration 
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - more devices embed NUT for power protection, now including Thecus NAS range
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - more bugfixes, cleanup and improvements, on both source code and
 | 
						|
   documentation, with a good bunch from Greg A. Woods.
 | 
						|
 
 | 
						|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | 
						|
Release notes for NUT 2.6.3 - what's new since 2.6.2:
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - nut-scanner is now more portable, and provides more coherent option names.
 | 
						|
   IPMI support has also been added, to discover local power supplies.
 | 
						|
   This version brings weak runtime dependencies in libnutscan, which allows to
 | 
						|
   compile nut-scanner with all options and to run according to the available
 | 
						|
   dependencies (USB, SNMP, IPMI, ...).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - libnutscan now provides pkg-config support and the needed header files are
 | 
						|
   distributed. Some documentation is also available in the developer guide and
 | 
						|
   manual pages have been updated and completed.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - support for new devices: Cyber Power Systems with SNMP RMCARD (100, 201,
 | 
						|
   202 and 301) ; Dynamix 650VA USB ; LDLC UPS-1200D ; Tecnoware UPS ERA LCD
 | 
						|
   0.65 ; Powercom BNT-xxxAP (USB ID 0d9f:0004) ; Various USB devices using
 | 
						|
   UPSilon 2000 software.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - apcsmart has received minor correction.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - bcmxcp_usb now handles disconnection issues and reconnection mechanism.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - blazer_usb enables again inclusion of buggy USB Device and Vendor IDs in
 | 
						|
   udev rules file ; language ID support has been added for USB units from
 | 
						|
   LDLC, Dynamix and other no names.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - nut-ipmipsu has also received some improvements.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - snmp-ups has fixed outlets reported current in aphel_genesisII MIB ;
 | 
						|
   MGE 3 phases handles better low battery condition ; support for Cyber Power
 | 
						|
   Systems with SNMP RMCARD has been added ; support of the newer Eaton ePDUs
 | 
						|
   has been improved.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - upsd doesn't anymore fail to start if at least one of the listening
 | 
						|
   interface is available. This is needed on systems where either IPv4 or IPv6
 | 
						|
   is disabled, and no explicit LISTEN directive has been specified.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Avahi support is now automatically enabled, upon detection
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - jNut (NUT Java interface) adds device discovery support, through a
 | 
						|
   nut-scanner wrapper ; jNutWebAPI, a HTTP/JSON web service interface, has
 | 
						|
   also been added to interact with upsd and nut-scanner.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Base files for HPUX packaging have been added. This is still a work in
 | 
						|
   progress.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Compilation on IBM Aix has been fixed (namespace conflict with ctypes).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - more bugfixes, cleanup and improvements, on both source code and
 | 
						|
   documentation.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | 
						|
Release notes for NUT 2.6.2 - what's new since 2.6.1:
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - NUT can now monitor power supply units (PSU) in servers, through IPMI, using
 | 
						|
   the new experimental 'nut-ipmipsu' driver. Users are encouraged to test it,
 | 
						|
   and send feedback and debug output to the development mailing list.
 | 
						|
   This requires GNU FreeIPMI (0.8.5 or higher) development package or files.
 | 
						|
   Thanks goes to Al Chu, FreeIPMI project leader, for his help during this
 | 
						|
   development.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - NUT now provides a tool, called 'nut-scanner', to discover supported devices,
 | 
						|
   both local and remote. nut-scanner will help to ease the configuration step,
 | 
						|
   and power infrastructure discovery.
 | 
						|
   This development, sponsored by Eaton, supports the following methods:
 | 
						|
   * USB,
 | 
						|
   * SNMP,
 | 
						|
   * XML/HTTP (from Eaton),
 | 
						|
   * NUT servers, using the classic connect or Avahi / mDNS methods.
 | 
						|
   
 | 
						|
   IPMI support will be added in the next release.
 | 
						|
   A separate library, called 'libnutscan', is also available to provide these
 | 
						|
   feature. Future NUT releases will provides binding for the supported
 | 
						|
   languages (Perl, Python and Java).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - NUT now provides a Java interface called 'jNut'.
 | 
						|
   This development, sponsored by Eaton, is currently limited to the client
 | 
						|
   interface. But it will be broaden to device discovery and configuration in
 | 
						|
   the future.
 | 
						|
   For more info, refer to nut/scripts/java/README, or the developer guide
 | 
						|
   (chapter 'Creating new client'). Javadoc documentation is also provided,
 | 
						|
   along with Java archives (.jar) in the Download section. 
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - support for new devices: Eaton 3S ; Cyber Power Systems CP1000AVRLCD ; 
 | 
						|
   various APC models equiped with APC AP9618 management card, including APC
 | 
						|
   Smart-UPS RT XL ;  Orvaldi 750 / 900SP ; POWEREX VI 1000 LED ; PowerWalker
 | 
						|
   VI 850 LCD ; SVEN Power Pro+ series (USB ID ffff:0000).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - A regression has been fixed in udev rules file. This previously caused
 | 
						|
   permission issues to owners of some USB devices.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Avahi support has been added, for NUT mDNS publication, through a static
 | 
						|
   service file (nut/scripts/avahi/nut.service).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - usbhid-ups has had Eaton completion: some features have been improved, such
 | 
						|
   as 'output.voltage.nominal' ; 3S Eco control support has been added, along
 | 
						|
   with battery.runtime.low and end of battery life (life cycle monitoring)
 | 
						|
   support ; new measurements for 5 PX are also supported now (outlet power
 | 
						|
   factor, power, real power and current).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - apcsmart has been updated to support more variables and features ; the
 | 
						|
   previous driver is however still available as 'apcsmart-old', in case of
 | 
						|
   issues.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - bcmxcp now supports per outlet startup and shutdown delays setting ; shutdown
 | 
						|
   delay is also used, when available, for outlet.n.shutdown.return instead of
 | 
						|
   the default 3 seconds.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - snmp-ups.c has a new initialization method, that uses sysObjectID, which is
 | 
						|
   a pointer to the prefered MIB of the device, to detect supported devices.
 | 
						|
   This speeds up even more init stage and should render void the use of 'mib'
 | 
						|
   option. SNMP v3 session initialisation has also been fixed, and Eaton PDU
 | 
						|
   support has been completed.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Initial support has been added for systemd, the System and Service Manager
 | 
						|
   from RedHat.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The chapter 'NUT configuration management with Augeas' of the developer guide
 | 
						|
   has received some completion: a complete Python Augeas example code is now
 | 
						|
   provided.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Finally, after years of dedication to NUT, Arjen de Korte is now retired.
 | 
						|
   Sincere thanks to you Arjen from us all.
 | 
						|
 
 | 
						|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | 
						|
Release notes for NUT 2.6.1 - what's new since 2.6.0:
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the various recent USB regressions have been definitely fixed.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - NUT now propose a variable to expose UPS efficiency (ups.efficiency).
 | 
						|
   Eaton 5 PX already uses it.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the Perl module from Gabor Kiss (rewritten from Kit Peters') is now
 | 
						|
   distributed with NUT source code.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - support for new devices: Eaton Ellipse ECO, Powerware 9140, Eaton 5 PX, and
 | 
						|
   ambient sensor on Eaton ePDU managed ; GE EP series ; Inform Sinus SS 210 ;
 | 
						|
   IPAR Mini Energy ME 800 ; Mustek Yukai PowerMust 1000 USB ; Numeric 3000 SW ;
 | 
						|
   SVEN Power Pro+ series (recent models) ; Vivaldi EA200 LED.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - liebert-esp2: Improved Liebert ESP II support, including UPS shutdown
 | 
						|
   (poweroff), 1 and 3-phase input and output variables, and most
 | 
						|
   input / output / bypass / nominal variables. There is also a fix for the
 | 
						|
   USB to serial cable (Farkas Levente and Spiros Ioannou).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - powercom has improved PowerCom BNT 1500A and BNT-other support, along with
 | 
						|
   driver documentation and code conformance to the NUT rules (Keven L. Ates).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - apcsmart has more improved UPS poweroff support and options (Michal Soltys).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - blazer has also seen some improvements.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - usbhid-ups has completed a bit supported variables for APC and Eaton / MGE.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - on the quality assurance side, Eaton has worked on fixing a few non
 | 
						|
   conformances, like C++ style comments and warnings, using a newly developed
 | 
						|
   verification tool (Prachi Gandhi).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - fix remaining references to LIBSSL_LDFLAGS, instead of LIBSSL_LIBS,
 | 
						|
   which cause unresolved symbol on libupsclient users (Fabrice Coutadeur).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the website has now a better support for Internet Explorer 6.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - graphic illustrations, used for the Features page on the website Features
 | 
						|
   and chapter of the user manual, have been refreshed (courtesy of Eaton).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - more bugfixes, cleanup and improvements, on both source code and
 | 
						|
   documentation.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | 
						|
Release notes for NUT 2.6.0 - what's new since 2.4.3:
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the main focus of this release is the complete documentation revamping,
 | 
						|
   using AsciiDoc. This includes a new website, user manual, developer guide,
 | 
						|
   packager guide and manual pages, available in various formats (single and
 | 
						|
   multiple pages HTML, and PDF at the moment).
 | 
						|
   Be sure to check the --with-doc configure option help, and
 | 
						|
   docs/configure.txt for more information.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Add Augeas support, to provide easy NUT configuration management, through
 | 
						|
   tools and development APIs. For more information, refer to the developer
 | 
						|
   guide, or scripts/augeas/README in the source directory.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - support for new devices: APC 5G; Eaton PowerWare 5119 RM (smart mode using
 | 
						|
   upscode2 driver), Eaton Best Ferrups (using older ConnectUPS card),
 | 
						|
   Eaton 9395 (serial interface), Eaton ConnectUPS X / BD / E Slot;
 | 
						|
   HP T1000 INTL, HP T1500 INTL, HP T750 G2, HP R1500 G2 INTL; iDowell iBox UPS;
 | 
						|
   Tripp Lite SmartOnline SU1000XLA, Tripp Lite Smart1000LCD, and some
 | 
						|
   more USB/HID devices IDs; CyberPower CP1500AVRLCD and CP1350AVRLCD;
 | 
						|
   PowerWalker Line-Interactive VI 1400 ; Rocketfish RF-1000VA / RF-1025VA.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - usbhid-ups has better support for shutting down APC SmartUPS RM series,
 | 
						|
   and finally fix the "buffer size" issue, which was breaking some
 | 
						|
   devices data retrieval, or truncating some data on others.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - snmp-ups now support SNMP v3 and its security parameters. IETF MIB support
 | 
						|
   has also been extended.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - fix dummy-ups simulation driver status handling bug, and add the
 | 
						|
   capability to remove exposed variables on the fly.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the belkin driver now support control commands and status reporting
 | 
						|
   for beeper and battery test.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the powerpanel driver supports more older CyberPower units.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - mge-utalk, upscode2, blazer and liebert-esp2 have also received some
 | 
						|
   care, and been improved.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - NUT-Monitor and the PyNUT client module have been updated to 1.3,
 | 
						|
   adding more features like automatic connection to the first local device
 | 
						|
   and i18n support.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - improve configure time dependencies checking and processing.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - improve older Unix systems support (HP-UX, Aix, ...) for missing functions.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - refresh and improve USB helper files (udev and UPower).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - more generation automation: the ChangeLog file is now generated
 | 
						|
   automatically at distribution time, along with the files needed for
 | 
						|
   the website hardware compatibility list.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - SSL support has also received some improvements.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - tcp-wrapper now allows hostnames in /etc/hosts.allow too (not only IPv4
 | 
						|
   and/or IPv6 addresses).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - many bugfixes, cleanup and improvements.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | 
						|
Release notes for NUT 2.4.3 - what's new since 2.4.2:
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - this is a bugfix release that only solves the regression on IPv6 activation.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | 
						|
Release notes for NUT 2.4.2 - what's new since 2.4.1:
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the general USB support has been vastly improved, including many bug
 | 
						|
   fixes, better OS support, new features and devices.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - NUT now talks to Solar Controller Devices with the new ivtscd driver.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the snmp-ups driver supports more PDU, with a smaller disk footprint.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - apcsmart supports more older SmartUPS and Matrix units.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the bestfortress driver is resurrected.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the virtual driver has been renamed to 'clone'.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the netxml-ups driver has received some care.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - various debugging and development improvements have been done, around
 | 
						|
   driver output; dummy-ups with more interaction and scripting and the
 | 
						|
   device-recorder.sh script.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the build system has received many bugfixes and improvements.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the UPower (previously known as DeviceKit-power) rules file is now
 | 
						|
   generated by NUT.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - support for new devices: Apollo 1000A and 1000F; various Baytech RPC; old
 | 
						|
   Best Power Fortress; Cyber Power Systems PR3000E, CP 1500C and OR2200LCDRM2U;
 | 
						|
   all the new Dell UPS range (serial, USB and network); Eaton E Series NV and
 | 
						|
   DX UPS, and Powerware 9130; older HP T500 and T750, newer T750 INTL (USB) and
 | 
						|
   R1500 G2 (serial); Inform Informer Compact 1000VA; many serial and USB
 | 
						|
   devices from Ippon, like Back Comfo Pro, Smart Power Pro and Smart Winner;
 | 
						|
   IVT SCD series; Liebert GXT2-3000RT230 and PowerSure PSA; Mustek PowerMust
 | 
						|
   424 / 636 / 848 USB; all new PowerCOM USB devices with HID PDC interface;
 | 
						|
   Tripp-Lite INTERNETOFFICE700, SMART700USB and ECO550UPS; UPSonic DS-800
 | 
						|
   (USB).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | 
						|
Release notes for NUT 2.4.1 - what's new since 2.4.0:
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the microdowell driver has appeared to support various MicroDowell Enterprise
 | 
						|
   units (see the "new devices" list below).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - support for new devices: MicroDowell Enterprise B8, B10, N8, N11, N15, N20,
 | 
						|
   N22, N30, N40, N50, N60 and HiBox ST.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - NUT-Monitor now better handles the ups.status field, and has switched to
 | 
						|
   version 1.1.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the situation of the build toolchain has been fixed, with regard to the
 | 
						|
   "make clean" target and the wrongly removed generated USB files. This brokes
 | 
						|
   further configure call. 
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | 
						|
Release notes for NUT 2.4.0 - what's new since 2.2.2:
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - preliminary support for Power Distribution Units (PDUs): NUT now support
 | 
						|
   PDUs, either natively (ie using NUT snmp-ups driver), or through a binding to
 | 
						|
   the Powerman daemon. The list of supported PDUs is already quite long,
 | 
						|
   including: Eaton ePDUs (Managed and Monitored), some Aphel models, some
 | 
						|
   Raritan PDUs, and the whole list of Powerman supported devices:
 | 
						|
   http://powerman.sourceforge.net/supported.html
 | 
						|
 
 | 
						|
 - support for new devices: the various PDUs cited above, Chloride Desk Power
 | 
						|
   650, Cyber Power Systems Value 400E/600E/800E (USB models), Delta GES602N,
 | 
						|
   Digitus DN-170020, the whole Eaton ranges (mostly composed of MGE Office
 | 
						|
   Protection Systems and Powerware units) including BladeUPS, Forza Power
 | 
						|
   Technologies SL-1001, HP PowerTrust 2997A, HP R/T 2200 G2, Infosec XP 1000
 | 
						|
   and XP 500, Ippon Back Power Pro (serial and USB), Kebo 1200D/D Series,
 | 
						|
   Liebert PowerSure Personal XT, MGE Office Protection Systems Protection
 | 
						|
   Station, Neus 400va and 600va, Phasak 400VA and 600VA, Plexus 500VA, Powercom
 | 
						|
   Black Knight PRO / King PRO and Imperial, PowerKinetics BlackOut Buster,
 | 
						|
   Sweex 1000 USB, UNITEK Alpha 500, WinPower CPM-800.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - NUT now embeds Python client support through the PyNUTClient module and the
 | 
						|
   NUT-Monitor application. Both are from David Goncalves, and are still
 | 
						|
   available from http://www.lestat.st.
 | 
						|
   For more information, refer to scripts/python/README.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the dummy-ups driver now support a "repeater" mode. This allows it to act as
 | 
						|
   a NUT client, and to forward data. This can be useful for supervision and
 | 
						|
   load sharing purposes.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - tcp-wrappers support has been added to the upsd server, to grant users access
 | 
						|
   by source IP for commands that require to be logged into the server. This
 | 
						|
   replaces the previous internal implementation (ACL in upsd.conf).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the nut.conf file has been introduced to standardize startup configuration
 | 
						|
   across the various systems.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - NUT now ships a bash completion function for 'upsc' command
 | 
						|
   (scripts/misc/nut.bash_completion). Simply copy it to /etc/bash_completion.d
 | 
						|
 
 | 
						|
 - many internal changes to improve maintenability, while lowering the
 | 
						|
   maintenance cost (thus allowing developers to focus on what matters: the
 | 
						|
   code!). Examples of this are:
 | 
						|
   - the USB information automatic extraction to generate the various USB helper
 | 
						|
     files,
 | 
						|
   - the upsdrv_info_t structure to track more driver information, and remove
 | 
						|
     the need for the upsdrv_banner() function
 | 
						|
   - common USB code refactoring, as it is done for the serial functions.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - tons of bugfixes, cleanup and improvements to make NUT stronger than ever!
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | 
						|
Release notes for NUT 2.2.2 - what's new since 2.2.1:
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - support for new devices: APC BACK-UPS XS LCD, Atlantis Land,
 | 
						|
   Mustek Powermust Office 650, Oneac XAU models, Powerware PW5115 and
 | 
						|
   PW9120 (USB), Nitram Elite 2005
 | 
						|
 
 | 
						|
 - Integrated Power Management (NUT HAL integration) has reached a
 | 
						|
   major milestone: it is now the most advanced UPS integration into
 | 
						|
   Power Management layer known in existing OSs. It has received many
 | 
						|
   corrections and improvements, and allows to PowerOff the UPS at the
 | 
						|
   end of a power cycle (which is the most important feature, not
 | 
						|
   supported on other systems).
 | 
						|
   The various files are now installed into the correct location.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the usbhid-ups driver has received attention. Most notably, the
 | 
						|
   shutdown handling has been reworked, and support for MGE UPS SYSTEMS
 | 
						|
   3 phases units has been added.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - snmp-ups now supports MGE* Environment Sensor (ref 66 846).
 | 
						|
   The ambient.temperature reporting has also been fixed for units
 | 
						|
   other than APC.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the netxml-ups driver has appeared to support MGE* network HTTP/XML
 | 
						|
   cards.
 | 
						|
 
 | 
						|
 - NUT now distributes by default the shared version of libupsclient
 | 
						|
   (version 1.0.0), and use this for the provided clients (upsmon, upsc,
 | 
						|
   upsrw, upscmd). This is part of an effort to reduce NUT's footprint,
 | 
						|
   both on disk and in memory.
 | 
						|
 
 | 
						|
 - powerpanel has reach a new step toward the replacement of nitram and
 | 
						|
   cpsups drivers. The final step is scheduled for NUT 2.4.
 | 
						|
 
 | 
						|
 - many changes, cleanup and fixes to the NUT core and various drivers.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | 
						|
Release notes for NUT 2.2.1 - what's new since 2.2.0:
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - support for new devices: all MGE Office Protection Systems units,
 | 
						|
   Advice TopGuard 2000, Belkin F6H375-USB, Dynamix UPS1700D, Effekta RM2000MH,
 | 
						|
   Jageson Technology Jasuny USPS, Powercom SMK-1500A and SXL-1500A,
 | 
						|
   PowerWalker Line-Interactive VI 400/800 and 600, Powerware 9110,
 | 
						|
   UNITEK Alpha 2600, UPSonic CXR1000, some vintage serial APC UPSs.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the usbhid-ups driver has been improved, and fixed in many areas, through
 | 
						|
   a backport of the development (trunk) version.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the udev rules, for Linux hotplug support of the USB UPSs, has been
 | 
						|
   updated to support kernel newer than 2.6.22.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the megatec and megatec_usb drivers have also been backported from the
 | 
						|
   development (trunk) version.
 | 
						|
   
 | 
						|
 - the client development files have also received some care:
 | 
						|
   the upsclient pkg-config file has been fixed, and the upsclient.h
 | 
						|
   file allows older NUT clients to continue using the UPSCONN structure.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | 
						|
Release notes for NUT 2.2.0 - what's new since 2.0.5:
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The new build infrastructure, using automake, is now used.
 | 
						|
   This has major impact on the compilation and installation procedures,
 | 
						|
   and thus on the NUT packaging.
 | 
						|
   For more information, refer to UPGRADING and packaging/debian/ for
 | 
						|
   an example of migration.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - NUT now provides support for FreeDesktop Hardware Abstraction Layer
 | 
						|
   (HAL) which brings full Plug And Play experience to USB UPS owners.
 | 
						|
   For more information, refer to docs/nut-hal.txt.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - support for new devices: Ablerex 625L, ActivePower 400VA, 2000VA;
 | 
						|
   Belkin Home Office F6H350-SER, F6H500-SER, F6H650-SER; Belkin Office
 | 
						|
   Series F6C550-AVR; Belkin Universal UPS F6C100-UNV (USB), F6C1100-UNV
 | 
						|
   (USB), F6C1200-UNV (USB), F6H350deUNV (serial), F6H350ukUNV (serial),
 | 
						|
   F6H650ukUNV (serial); Compaq R3000h; Cyber Power Systems PR2200;
 | 
						|
   Dynex DX-800U; Geek Squad GS1285U; Krauler UP-M500VA; Mecer ME-2000;
 | 
						|
   MGE UPS SYSTEMS Ellipse MAX; Online Zinto D; PowerTech SMK-800; SVEN
 | 
						|
   Power Pro+ series, Power Smart RM 2000; Tripp-Lite SmartOnline
 | 
						|
   SU1500RTXL2ua, smart2200RMXL2U.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - added IPv6 support,
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the newmge-shut driver has appeared. This one uses the same HID core
 | 
						|
   as usbhid-ups, but communicate over a serial link. It will eventually
 | 
						|
   replace the current mge-shut driver.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - client commands (upsc, upsrw and upscmd): hostname is now optional,
 | 
						|
   and defaults to "localhost"
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - many drivers have been improved and have received bug fixes:
 | 
						|
   powerpanel, megatec, megatec_usb, safenet, tripplite_usb, gamatronic,
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the hotplug and udev scripts, in charge of setting the right
 | 
						|
   permissions on the USB devices, are now installed automatically
 | 
						|
   when appropriate.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - more generally, the NUT core and documentation, including the manpages,
 | 
						|
   have been improved and updated.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | 
						|
Release notes for NUT 2.0.5 - what's new since 2.0.4:
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 This release is a backport of the development version.  Many changes
 | 
						|
 have already been backported previously.  Thus it is more a
 | 
						|
 synchronisation release, though it includes many bugfixes and support
 | 
						|
 for new models.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - support for new devices: APC Smart-UPS with 6TI firmware; Belkin
 | 
						|
   Small Enterprise F6C1500-TW-RK; Compaq R3000 XR, R5500 XR; Cyber
 | 
						|
   Power 550SL, 725SL, 685AVR, 800AVR, 1200AVR, AE550; Eltek; Inform
 | 
						|
   GUARD; Microsol Rhino; Opti-UPS PowerES 420E; PowerMan RealSmart,
 | 
						|
   BackPro; Powerware PW9315 3-phase; SOLA 305; Tripp-Lite
 | 
						|
   SMART550USB, SMART2200RMXL2U, OMNI1000LCD, OMNI900LCD, OMNI650LCD,
 | 
						|
   1500 LCD, AVR550U; Viewsonic PowerES 420E.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - bcmxcp: added 3-phase support
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - megatec: better hardware support, more instant commands
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - mge-hid: support more instant commands
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - newhidups: fixed APC and Tripp Lite bugs, various memory bugs,
 | 
						|
   improved report buffering, improved Solaris support, added
 | 
						|
   '-x explore' option for easy diagnosis of new devices
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - solis: shutdown programming, support new cables, Solaris support
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - tripplite_usb: updated SMARTPRO support, fixed OL/OB reporting, 
 | 
						|
   better error handling, some memory bugs
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - new dummy-ups driver simulator
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - added HTML interface for access to CGI scripts
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | 
						|
Release notes for NUT 2.0.4 - what's new since 2.0.3:
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The newhidups critical bug (segmentation fault) has been fixed. It has
 | 
						|
   also received some more care, like buxfixes and new models support and
 | 
						|
   enhancement for Solaris.
 | 
						|
   [Peter Selinger and Arnaud Quette]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - A bug has been fixed in NUT core to support resuming from suspend-to-disk.
 | 
						|
   This should also fix other similar issues, like time synchronisation
 | 
						|
   through the NTP - Network Time Protocol.
 | 
						|
   [Arjen de Korte]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The mge-shut driver now better detects the Low Battery status, support
 | 
						|
   new models and fixes some wrong status and data. It also fixes some
 | 
						|
   issue where the UPS wasn't restarting (refer to mge-shut manpage).
 | 
						|
   [Arnaud Quette]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The genericups custom configuration through ups.conf is working again
 | 
						|
   [Arjen de Korte]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The genericups driver type 22 also support CyberPower 725SL
 | 
						|
   (and maybe others SL models)
 | 
						|
   [David Kaufman]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The new megatec driver, which will replace a bunch of drivers by nut 2.2
 | 
						|
   (refer to docs/megatec.txt and UPGRADING) has been backported from the
 | 
						|
   trunk (Development tree). The powermust driver has also received some
 | 
						|
   attention.
 | 
						|
   [Carlos Rodrigues]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The new rhino driver was added to support Microsol Rhino UPS hardware
 | 
						|
   The solis has also been improved for solaris compatibility, and
 | 
						|
   internal / external shutdown programming. solis can now save external
 | 
						|
   shutdown programming to ups, and support new cables for solis 3
 | 
						|
   [Silvino B. Magalhães]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Several fixes and improvements have been made to upsrw, upsset,
 | 
						|
   cpsups, tripplite_usb and the FAQ.
 | 
						|
   [Arjen de Korte and Charles Lepple]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | 
						|
Release notes for NUT 2.0.3 - what's new since 2.0.2:
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The recent and major newhidups changes have been backported from the
 | 
						|
   Development tree. It now:
 | 
						|
   - supports models from MGE UPS SYSTEMS, APC and Belkin. Mustek and Unitek
 | 
						|
     units are also recognized for development purpose,
 | 
						|
   - handles better device reopening, after a disconnection,
 | 
						|
   - handles multiple devices, with several parameters to find the right UPS.
 | 
						|
   [Peter Selinger, Charles Lepple and Arnaud Quette]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The bcmxcp_usb driver has been added to support Powerware USB units.
 | 
						|
   [Wolfgang Ocker and Kjell Claesson]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The tripplite_usb driver has been added to support Tripp Lite USB units.
 | 
						|
   [Charles Lepple]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The sec driver is back as gamatronic
 | 
						|
   [Gamatronic, Nadav Moskovitch]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The genericups driver has received official care from Gamatronic
 | 
						|
   to add support for the Gamatronic UPS with alarm interface.
 | 
						|
   [Gamatronic, Nadav Moskovitch]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The powermust driver now supports Soyntec Sekury C 500 and C 800 units.
 | 
						|
   [Hanno Borns]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The mge-shut driver has received a bit of attention too, and enhance
 | 
						|
   ups.model retrieval for some specific case (release 0.65)
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The drivers don't change to the "statepath" directory anymore at
 | 
						|
   initialisation time if called using -k. This avoid unneeded
 | 
						|
   failure to poweroff the UPS if /var is already unmounted.
 | 
						|
   [Gaspar Bakos]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The belkinunv driver now supports Belkin F6C1100-UNV
 | 
						|
   [Dave Breiland]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The isbmex driver has been upgraded to version 0.05, which fixes
 | 
						|
   various errors in formulas, add shutdown capability and revert
 | 
						|
   back baudrate to B9600 (instead of B2400), as it broke the
 | 
						|
   communication
 | 
						|
   [Ricardo Martinezgarza]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The support of Sysgration UPGUARDS Pro650 in fentonups has
 | 
						|
   been fixed
 | 
						|
   [Simon J. Rowe]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The packaging files for Red Hat have received various fixes
 | 
						|
   [Thomas Jarosch]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The solis driver has been fixed to avoid a naming colision and
 | 
						|
   compile on Solaris
 | 
						|
   [Paweł Kierdelewicz]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The snmp-ups driver has corrected the problem when exposing
 | 
						|
   certain time data.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | 
						|
Release notes for NUT 2.0.2 - what's new since 2.0.1:
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - the newhidups USB driver has been improved a lot and is no more
 | 
						|
   experimental. It also now has a basic APC support, which will
 | 
						|
   soon replace the legacy hidups driver.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The mge-utalk driver has improved its support for old units.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The mge-shut driver has been improved for restart/shutdown
 | 
						|
   sequences which was previously blocking the serial port.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The general MGE support has been added Pulsar EXtreme C / EX RT,
 | 
						|
   Comet EX RT, Pulsar SV, Pulsar PSX, Ellipse Office and NOVA AVR USB.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The genericups driver now supports Generic RUPS 2000, AEC MiniGuard
 | 
						|
   UPS 700 (using Megatec M2501 cable), and Powerware 3110.
 | 
						|
   [Nick Barnes, Paul Andreassen]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The powermust driver now supports SquareOne Power QP1000, Mustek
 | 
						|
   PowerMust 1400VA Plus and 2000VA USB.
 | 
						|
   [Carlos Rodrigues]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The fentonups driver has been enhanced and now supports Sysgration
 | 
						|
   UPGUARDS Pro650.
 | 
						|
   [Michel Bouissou, Simon J. Rowe]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The cpsups driver now supports MicroDowell B.Box BP 500/750/1000/1500.
 | 
						|
   [Armin Diehl]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The snmp-ups driver now supports Socomec SNMP devices (Netvision MIB),
 | 
						|
   and Powerware ConnectUPS SNMP cards.
 | 
						|
   [Thanos Chatziathanassiou, Olli Salvia]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The bcmxcp driver is back with support for Powerware UPSs.
 | 
						|
   [Tore Øpetveit, Kjell Claesson]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The cyberpower driver now supports CyberPower 1000AVR.
 | 
						|
   [Dave Huang]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The new solis driver supports Microsol units: Solis 1.0, 1.5,
 | 
						|
   2.0 and 3.0.
 | 
						|
   [Silvino B. Magalhaes]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The apcsmart driver has fixed APC600 support.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The etapro driver fixes brokeness due to ser_get_line use 
 | 
						|
   [Marek Michalkiewicz]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The new upscode2 driver supports Fiskars, Compaq and Powerware
 | 
						|
   devices.
 | 
						|
   [Niels Baggesen, Havard Lygre]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The tripplite driver has fixed a battery charge bug
 | 
						|
   [Cedric Tefft]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | 
						|
Release notes for NUT 2.0.1 - what's new since 2.0.0:
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The bestuferrups driver has been forked into the new bestfcom driver
 | 
						|
   which has better handling of the inverter status alarm messages and
 | 
						|
   more.
 | 
						|
   [Kent Hill]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Mustek UPS support returns with two drivers which have overlapping
 | 
						|
   coverage: mustek and powermust.
 | 
						|
   [powermust: Carlos Rodrigues, mustek: Martin Hajduch]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Additional CyberPower Systems hardware is supported with the new
 | 
						|
   cpsups driver.  Three recognized models are the CPS1500AVR,
 | 
						|
   CPS1100VA, and OP500TE.
 | 
						|
   [Walt Holman, Brad Sawatzky]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The genericups driver can now generate staleness warnings in
 | 
						|
   specific cases where the UPS provides a way to test for its
 | 
						|
   presence.  See the "CON" setting in ups.conf for more details.
 | 
						|
   [stan / saticed.me.uk]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Documentation for monitoring a Back-UPS RS 500 on a system without
 | 
						|
   USB ports has been added to the cables directory.
 | 
						|
   [Martin Edlman]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The everups driver now supports types 73-76 (NET 700/1000/1400/500-DPC)
 | 
						|
   [hunter]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The new metasys driver supports Meta System models: Line, 
 | 
						|
   HF Millennium, HF Top Line, ECO Network, ECO, Ally HF, Megaline
 | 
						|
   [BlaXwan]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The ippon driver now allows user-defined settings for the delay
 | 
						|
   before switching off, and the delay before powering on.
 | 
						|
   [Yuri Elizarov]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The victronups driver is now at version 0.1.9, which adds many
 | 
						|
   instant commands: calibration control, battery and front panel tests,
 | 
						|
   and bypass control.
 | 
						|
   [Gert Lynge]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The tripplite driver has recieved a major overhaul to bring it up to 
 | 
						|
   working condition for the 2.0 tree, including code cleanups, several
 | 
						|
   new variables, commands, and user-definable parameters.  See
 | 
						|
   ChangeLog for more.
 | 
						|
   [Nicholas J Kain]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The mge-utalk driver has been upgraded to version 0.81, which fixes
 | 
						|
   the lack of read-write variables and loss of sync on models which
 | 
						|
   don't support restoring settings.
 | 
						|
   [Arnaud Quette]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The Micro Ferrups model RE is now supported by the bestuferrups
 | 
						|
   driver.  The driver will also now read the ambient temperature and
 | 
						|
   will no longer constantly report the data as stale.
 | 
						|
   [Tim Thompson]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The fentonups driver's init sequence has been reworked to work better
 | 
						|
   with some hardware, including a fix to the parser code.
 | 
						|
   [MLH]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - A workaround has been added to the hidups driver to avoid variables
 | 
						|
   which are stuck by calling HIDIOCINITREPORT in every poll.
 | 
						|
   [Stuart D. Gathman]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - SOLA 610 UPS hardware and others which do not support the ID command
 | 
						|
   may now be monitored by the bestups driver after forcing ID= in
 | 
						|
   ups.conf.
 | 
						|
   [Jason White]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - "pollinterval" is now available via driver.parameter for consistency.
 | 
						|
   [Arnaud Quette]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The mge-shut and newhidups drivers, along with the supporting
 | 
						|
   hidparser/libhid code have received many updates, including lowering
 | 
						|
   USB bandwidth consumption, driver unbinding (only in Linux), code
 | 
						|
   cleanups, and more which can be seen in the ChangeLog file.
 | 
						|
   [Arnaud Quette]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The fentonups driver now recognizes several more Megatec protocol
 | 
						|
   units: 
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
   SuperPower HP360, Hope-550	[Denis Zaika]
 | 
						|
   Unitek Alpha 1000is		[Antoine Cuvellard]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Some variables like uc_sigmask were renamed to avoid clashes with
 | 
						|
   symbols on systems like HP/UX.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - All man pages have been reworked to switch literal "-" characters to
 | 
						|
   hyphens or "\-" as appropriate.
 | 
						|
   [Shaul Karl]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - upssched's CANCEL events were broken following the change to
 | 
						|
   text-based socket messages in 1.5 and have been fixed.
 | 
						|
   [Steven Schoch] 
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Calls to varargs functions with raw strings from the config files
 | 
						|
   without an intervening "%s" have been fixed in upsmon, upssched,
 | 
						|
   snmp-ups and upsd.
 | 
						|
   [Ulf Harnhammar]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | 
						|
Release notes for NUT 2.0.0 - what's new since 1.4.x:
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The new naming scheme for variables and commands (introduced in 1.4)
 | 
						|
   is now mandatory.  The 1.4 tree supported both the old (STATUS) and
 | 
						|
   the new (ups.status) as a transitional release, and now that time is
 | 
						|
   over.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
   This means that 2.0 is generally smaller than 1.4 code, since the
 | 
						|
   interim compatibility hacks have been removed.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - New serial handling code has been added, with greatly simplified
 | 
						|
   operations.  The old mess involving repeated calls to sigaction, 
 | 
						|
   alarm, and read has been condensed to a select-read loop. 
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
   This change allows drivers which don't do any serial communications
 | 
						|
   at all (hidups, snmp-ups) to drop that baggage, so they are a bit
 | 
						|
   smaller when compiled.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The drivers now recognize "chroot=' and 'user=' in the global section
 | 
						|
   of ups.conf.  This means you don't have to use -r and -u when
 | 
						|
   starting upsdrvctl.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - upsmon now supports the -K argument to check for the presence of the
 | 
						|
   POWERDOWNFLAG file.  If it exists and contains the magic string, then
 | 
						|
   upsmon will exit(EXIT_SUCCESS).  Otherwise, it will
 | 
						|
   exit(EXIT_FAILURE).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
   This feature can be used to simplify shutdown scripts, since now you
 | 
						|
   don't have to keep the script in sync with the upsmon.conf.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Many small things like signed value comparisons, int vs. size_t and
 | 
						|
   proper use of const/struct were fixed throughout the source.  These
 | 
						|
   were mostly for correctness, but a few potential bugs involving very
 | 
						|
   big or very small numbers were fixed at the same time.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The access control system in upsd.conf has been reworked and
 | 
						|
   simplified.  Since access levels have become meaningless in recent
 | 
						|
   releases, the new system is just ACCEPT <acl> or REJECT <acl>.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
   If you are upgrading from a previous version of the software, you
 | 
						|
   will have to edit your upsd.conf to use this method.  See
 | 
						|
   the UPGRADING file for more details.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The build process now halts when make fails in one of the
 | 
						|
   subdirectories.
 | 
						|
   [Petter Reinholdtsen, Charles Lepple]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Helper data for using upsclient via pkgconfig is now created if
 | 
						|
   pkgconfig is detected when configure runs.
 | 
						|
   [Arnaud Quette]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The polling interval in drivers may now be set with 'pollinterval'
 | 
						|
   in ups.conf.
 | 
						|
   [Gabriel Faber]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Blazer UPS equipment is now supported with the blazer driver.
 | 
						|
   [Phil Hutton]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Energizer USB UPS hardware is now supported on Linux with a new
 | 
						|
   experimental driver.
 | 
						|
   [Viktor T. Toth]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The newhidups driver has been merged as the first step towards
 | 
						|
   portable USB UPS support.  This will eventually replace the old 
 | 
						|
   Linux-only hidups driver.  The newhidups driver is tagged
 | 
						|
   experimental since it is under active development.
 | 
						|
   [Arnaud Quette, Charles Lepple]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The newapc driver has been renamed to apcsmart, replacing the old
 | 
						|
   driver with that name. If you used the newapc driver, be sure to  
 | 
						|
   delete the old binary and fix your ups.conf.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The apcsmart driver now supports asynchronous notification data
 | 
						|
   from the hardware, which means it can wake up as soon as something
 | 
						|
   happens.  This affects the OL/OB/LB/RB data in ups.status, and
 | 
						|
   generally reduces the latency in dispatching status changes by a few
 | 
						|
   seconds.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The apcsmart driver can now support quirky hardware which does not
 | 
						|
   provide the usual listing of valid command characters.  This feature
 | 
						|
   is necessary to monitor new models like the APC CS 350 and old ones
 | 
						|
   like the Matrix 5000.  It also now has sdtype=4 to handle the strange
 | 
						|
   shutdown behavior on the CS series.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The belkin driver now works around broken firmware version 001,
 | 
						|
   avoiding a lengthy delay at startup.  It also implements the shutdown
 | 
						|
   sequence differently, and should actually work on more hardware now.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The bestups driver has been slowed down to play nicer with the
 | 
						|
   hardware, and is much more reliable as a result.  Among other things,
 | 
						|
   it should always detect the UPS on the first try, meaning no more
 | 
						|
   "dot dot dot" when it starts.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The cyberpower driver is no longer tagged experimental, and now
 | 
						|
   supports powering off the load.  It also supports battery tests via
 | 
						|
   instcmds.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Effekta MT 2000 RM hardware is now supported by the fentonups driver.
 | 
						|
   [christoph moar]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The new safenet driver supports UPS hardware that uses the protocol
 | 
						|
   of the same name.  This includes models from many manufacturers,
 | 
						|
   including Fairstone, Fenton, Gemini, Powerwell, Repotec, Soltec and
 | 
						|
   Sweex.  See the README or driver.list for the full details.
 | 
						|
   [Arjen de Korte]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The genericups driver now has type 20 to monitor the Powerware 5119
 | 
						|
   RM.  See http://lists.exploits.org/ups/Oct2003/00052.html.
 | 
						|
   [Daniel Thompson]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The belkinunv driver has been added to allow monitoring Belkin
 | 
						|
   Universal UPS hardware.
 | 
						|
   [Peter Selinger]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Cyber Power Systems 1100AVR hardware which has a different protocol
 | 
						|
   than the existing binary type (supported by 'cyberpower') is now
 | 
						|
   supported by the experimental cyberpower1100 driver.
 | 
						|
   [Walt Holman]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - upsdrvctl now returns success or failure information in the exit
 | 
						|
   code.  Any failure during a requested operation will result in a
 | 
						|
   nonzero value (specifically EXIT_FAILURE).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | 
						|
Release notes for NUT 1.4.0 - what's new since 1.2.x:
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The drivers and upsd now communicate over Unix domain sockets instead
 | 
						|
   of state files, shared memory, or state files with mmap.  This change
 | 
						|
   makes many things possible, including the new dynamic variable and
 | 
						|
   command naming scheme described below.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
   There is a new development tool called sockdebug in the server
 | 
						|
   directory for debugging driver-server communications on the sockets.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The old static variable scheme has been replaced by a new dynamic
 | 
						|
   implementation.  Vague names have been turned into meaningful names
 | 
						|
   that fit into an organized system.  UTILITY is now input.voltage.
 | 
						|
   OUTVOLT is now output.voltage.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
   This also applies to the names of instant commands.  BTEST1 is
 | 
						|
   test.battery.start, and BTEST0 is test.battery.stop.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
   The old names are still supported for compatibility with older
 | 
						|
   clients.  This compatibility mode will be maintained throughout
 | 
						|
   the 1.4 series, and will be gone by the release of 2.0.  Users
 | 
						|
   with older clients are encouraged to upgrade their software
 | 
						|
   during this time.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The network protocol has been expanded to handle these new names.
 | 
						|
   Older functions which only apply to the old names will continue to
 | 
						|
   be supported through the 1.4 series.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The drivers and server (upsd) can now change their user ids and
 | 
						|
   chroot themselves with the new -u and -r arguments.  This lets you
 | 
						|
   create a "chroot jail" with the bare minimum components.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
   This technique is used to provide a higher degree of security.  If
 | 
						|
   someone exploited upsd to get a shell somehow, they would be stuck
 | 
						|
   in the jail.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - upssched now explicitly confirms reception of timer commands before
 | 
						|
   exiting.  This was done to avoid a race where one process would
 | 
						|
   exit right when another one was starting.  The second one would 
 | 
						|
   believe its command had been handled when it had been lost.   
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - upslog has been reworked to use standard getopt parsing to provide
 | 
						|
   the monitoring settings.  The old way of specifying arguments is
 | 
						|
   still supported for backwards compatibility.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
   upslog has also been changed to only parse the format string once,
 | 
						|
   rather than doing it every time through the loop.  This should 
 | 
						|
   provide a minuscule drop in CPU utilization. 
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Usernames are now required in upsmon and upsd.  This means that you
 | 
						|
   must add a username to your MONITOR lines in upsmon.conf and then
 | 
						|
   create a matching user in upsd.users.  
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
   Installations from the 1.2 era probably already use usernames, so
 | 
						|
   this mostly affects those from 1.0 and before.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Drivers are now pinged regularly by upsd when they aren't posting
 | 
						|
   updates about the UPS status.  This provides another check in the
 | 
						|
   data validation process.  If upsd fails to get a response within
 | 
						|
   a few seconds, the UPS will be marked stale.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - A few minor memory leaks were discovered with valgrind and squashed.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - upsstats now reuses connections to upsd when cycling through multiple
 | 
						|
   entries in the hosts.conf.  This makes things a bit faster and
 | 
						|
   avoids some of the noise in the syslog.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
   This only applies to entries that are adjacent.  To take advantage
 | 
						|
   of this feature, you may have to rearrange them.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	MONITOR ups-1@host-1 ...
 | 
						|
	MONITOR ups-1@host-2 ...
 | 
						|
	MONITOR ups-2@host-2 ...
 | 
						|
	MONITOR ups-3@host-3 ...
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
   Connection reuse for nonadjacent entries may be considered in the
 | 
						|
   future.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - upsd now warns about insecure configuration files at startup.
 | 
						|
   These files (upsd.conf, upsd.users, and the certfile) should
 | 
						|
   only be readable by upsd.  Never make them world-readable.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The programs no longer print "shutting down" when they are just
 | 
						|
   exiting.  This was changed to avoid confusion about the term, since
 | 
						|
   "shutting down" has a special meaning in UPS software.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Signal handlers no longer do any significant amount of work.  Some of
 | 
						|
   the programs used to do numerous things in there, raising concerns
 | 
						|
   about reentrancy.  They now set flags and allow the main loop to do 
 | 
						|
   the actual work from there.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - A bug in upsmon where NOTIFYFLAG settings could be ignored was fixed.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Group handling has been changed.  configure no longer accepts
 | 
						|
   --with-group, and the programs no longer setgid() to a hardcoded
 | 
						|
   value.  They now setgid() to the primary group of whatever the 
 | 
						|
   user value may be.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
   This may be compiled in with --with-user as before, and many programs
 | 
						|
   accept -u to override it at runtime.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The state path is no longer created during 'make install'.  Users
 | 
						|
   are now expected to create it themselves.  This removes a lot of
 | 
						|
   evil complexity from the build and install sequences.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - upsd no longer implements the DROP access command, as it
 | 
						|
   could confuse the clients by getting them out of sync.  DROP is now
 | 
						|
   implemented as DENY, which sends an error message.  If you use DROP,
 | 
						|
   you should change it to DENY rather than relying on this
 | 
						|
   compatibility measure.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The belkin driver no longer reports OFF and OL at the same time.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The bestups driver no longer sleeps during polls, which makes it
 | 
						|
   more responsive to things like instant commands.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The cyberpower driver now has much better hardware detection code
 | 
						|
   and no longer freezes at startup under some conditions.  It also now
 | 
						|
   supports the shutdown function.  Instant commands for shutdowns and
 | 
						|
   battery tests were also added.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The dummyups testing driver has been removed.  The dummycons testing
 | 
						|
   driver can do everything that dummyups once did and much more.  
 | 
						|
   dummycons is also now built by default for easier testing.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The newapc driver has been reworked to take advantage of the new
 | 
						|
   internal driver state functions.  Some variables without an obvious
 | 
						|
   purpose were dropped.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The newapc driver now sends all five bytes when using sdtype 1.
 | 
						|
   Previously it didn't send the entire string, and it didn't work.
 | 
						|
   [Don Lewis]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The hidups driver has been expanded to allow for setting variables,
 | 
						|
   a shutdown sequence, and more.
 | 
						|
   [Arnaud Quette]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The mge-utalk driver had trouble establishing communications in 
 | 
						|
   some cases due to the RTS line being set.  This has been fixed.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
   The mge-shut driver has been added to the tree, and has replaced
 | 
						|
   the older mge-ellipse driver.
 | 
						|
   [Arnaud Quette, Philippe Marzouk]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Outlet-level control has been defined in the variable tree, and will
 | 
						|
   be added to drivers where the hardware supports it.  This can be
 | 
						|
   used to shut down some components earlier than others to prolong
 | 
						|
   your runtime on battery.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
   This is supported in the mge-shut driver now, and may show up in
 | 
						|
   others before long.
 | 
						|
   [Arnaud Quette]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - KIN-2200AP hardware is now recognized by the powercom driver.  
 | 
						|
   This change may also support other KIN-xxxxAP equipment.
 | 
						|
   [Preston A. Elder]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The 1.1kVA UPS is now supported by the bestuferrups driver.  This
 | 
						|
   driver was also changed to allow easy addition of more models
 | 
						|
   in the future.
 | 
						|
   [Bob Apodaca]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The fentonups driver can now handle devices which implement the
 | 
						|
   "I" detection differently, and now supports the Giant/WELI 500
 | 
						|
   as a result.
 | 
						|
   [Joon Guillen]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The serial number of the UPS being monitored can now be specified
 | 
						|
   with serial= in ups.conf in the genericups driver.
 | 
						|
   [Shaul Karl]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The newapc driver now sends ESC to break out of menus when the
 | 
						|
   initial detection fails.  Some new APC models have interactive menus
 | 
						|
   on the serial port, and the driver couldn't handle them before.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The snmp-ups driver now reports ambient temperature and humidity
 | 
						|
   data for APC equipment.  It also now supports the shutdown.reboot and
 | 
						|
   shutdown.reboot.graceful commands.
 | 
						|
   [Dmitry Frolov]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The list of supported variables and commands in the snmp-ups driver
 | 
						|
   has been expanded.
 | 
						|
   [Arnaud Quette, J.W. Hoogervorst]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Various drivers now report bypass mode with the BYP status word.
 | 
						|
   [Arnaud Quette]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Energy Sistem equipment is now supported with the esupssmart driver.
 | 
						|
   [Antonio Trujillo Coronado]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The Tripp-Lite SU series (SmartOnline) is supported with the new
 | 
						|
   tripplitesu driver.
 | 
						|
   [Allan Hessenflow]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The HP PowerTrust A2994A is now recognized by the hp driver.
 | 
						|
   [Jan Sporbeck]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Many drivers were cleaned up to perform basic sanity checks on the
 | 
						|
   status data before using it.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - An explicit cleanup function has been added to the driver core to
 | 
						|
   ensure that all dynamic resources are freed before exiting.  This
 | 
						|
   is part of the larger process to check for memory leaks and other
 | 
						|
   bad things.
 | 
						|
   [Arnaud Quette]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - upsd now provides variable descriptions from an auxiliary file.
 | 
						|
   This file is optional, which allows for a smaller memory footprint.
 | 
						|
   It can also be edited for localization or other customizations.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - upsimage and upsstats can now render BATTVOLT data.
 | 
						|
   [Andrew R. Ghali]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - String handling has been cleaned up throughout the tree.  Calls to
 | 
						|
   functions like strcpy and strcat were either replaced with other
 | 
						|
   (range-checking) functions or were rewritten to avoid it.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Many compile-time defaults may now be overridden at runtime.  In
 | 
						|
   the environment NUT_CONFPATH and NUT_STATEPATH may be used.
 | 
						|
   upsdrvctl has been changed to execve to pass these along to the
 | 
						|
   drivers.  ups.conf now supports driverpath=, and upsd.conf supports
 | 
						|
   DATAPATH.
 | 
						|
   [Bryan Henderson]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The configure --with-gd switches now actually do something useful
 | 
						|
   when gd has been installed outside the default search directories.
 | 
						|
   [Patrik Schindler]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The inline keyword is now handled properly on systems which do not
 | 
						|
   support it or have it specified as another name.  This was breaking
 | 
						|
   compiles on some systems.
 | 
						|
   [Petter Reinholdtsen]  
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | 
						|
Release notes for NUT 1.2.2 - what's new since 1.2.1:
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The snmp-ups driver has been upgraded and expanded.  It now supports
 | 
						|
   multiple MIBs, meaning it can handle RFC 1628, APCC, and MGE
 | 
						|
   equipment.  You can pick the right one with "mibs=" in ups.conf.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
   Support for setting variable and instant commands is also available.
 | 
						|
   [Arnaud Quette and Dmitry Frolov]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The powernet driver has been upgraded.  It now supports more
 | 
						|
   variables, has cleaner logging, and may now be considered stable.
 | 
						|
   [Dmitry Frolov]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The hidups driver now supports physical port IDs.  This avoids most
 | 
						|
   of the problems where the hiddev* names can jump around too easily.
 | 
						|
   It will now stay in the same place as long as you keep it plugged
 | 
						|
   into the same physical port.  See the ChangeLog file for more details.
 | 
						|
   [David Brownell]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The hidups driver now also supports the MFR variable on APC
 | 
						|
   Back-UPS ES equipment.
 | 
						|
   [Jonathan A. Davis]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The sms driver has been updated to version 0.70.
 | 
						|
   [Marcio Gomes]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The bestups driver now recognizes Best Power Axxium Rackmount
 | 
						|
   equipment.
 | 
						|
   [Ales Casar]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The liebert driver now uses O_NONBLOCK, and should now work
 | 
						|
   consistently on OpenBSD as a result.
 | 
						|
   [Alex Cichowski]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The liebert driver also now uses debouncing logic on the status
 | 
						|
   lines.  It was possible to get false readings that would start a 
 | 
						|
   shutdown or just annoy users with excessive onbatt/online notify
 | 
						|
   messages.  The new code forces the status to settle down for 3 polls
 | 
						|
   before accepting the new value.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
   This means that very short power events may not be detected.  The
 | 
						|
   alternative is having your machine shut down just because it decided
 | 
						|
   to wiggle over to OB LB for a few seconds.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - upsmon has had the disconnect logic fixed so the "communications
 | 
						|
   lost" (COMMBAD) notify will actually go out when the connection
 | 
						|
   fails.
 | 
						|
   [Steve Monett]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - upssched now uses a lock file to prevent a race where two could
 | 
						|
   start at the same time.  The second upssched would "win", and the
 | 
						|
   first one would be unreachable.  This had the side-effect of not
 | 
						|
   being able to cancel timers on the first one.	
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
   If you use upssched, you must define the LOCKFN directive when
 | 
						|
   upgrading to this version, or it will not work.
 | 
						|
   [Gaspar Bakos]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The packaging and scripts for Red Hat systems have been updated.
 | 
						|
   [Antonino Albanese]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - upsd is now a bit more lenient about access levels in the
 | 
						|
   'numlogins' check, which is what caused the problem in upsmon
 | 
						|
   (next item).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - upsmon no longer gets stuck in slavesync() when upsd is configured
 | 
						|
   to drop certain queries.  This usually happened at the worst
 | 
						|
   possible time: in the middle of a shutdown.
 | 
						|
   [John David Garza]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The upsclient functions now do more sanity checking on data from
 | 
						|
   upsd so a short read won't return garbage to the callers.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - upsset now works properly with ENUM/VARTYPE values for multiple
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						|
   UPSes on a single upsd.
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   [Dmitry Frolov]
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 - Various portability fixes for building on SGI were applied.
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						|
   [Andrea Suatoni]
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 - upsd no longer tries to reference a deleted client structure if the
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						|
   client disconnects at the wrong time.  Previously, it tried to use
 | 
						|
   that pointer after the sendback() function had already failed on 
 | 
						|
   write and deleted the client.  This could cause upsd to segfault
 | 
						|
   depending on what areas were accessed.
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						|
   [Patrik Schindler]
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Release notes for NUT 1.2.1 - what's new since 1.2.0:
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 | 
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 - The sms driver is back, with support for Microlink Manager III
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						|
   hardware. [Marcio Gomes]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Fideltronik Ares Series hardware is now supported as genericups type
 | 
						|
   19.  [Tomek Orzechowski and Arkadiusz Mikiewicz]
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 | 
						|
 - The drivers no longer silently drop instant commands or set commands
 | 
						|
   from upsd that happen to get fragmented in transit.
 | 
						|
   [linux@horizon.com]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - The old multilink driver is back with a new name: liebert.  It
 | 
						|
   supports Liebert UPStation GXE hardware with the contact-closure
 | 
						|
   cable.  This is currently an experimental driver as there is no
 | 
						|
   way to power down the load.   
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - configure now picks up the right flags for gd automatically if gd
 | 
						|
   2.0.8 or higher is installed.  This greatly simplifies the CGI build
 | 
						|
   process for most users.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
 - Shutdowns on FreeBSD using the genericups driver should work again.
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						|
   [Petri Riihikallio]
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