ConMan Release Notes

conman-0.2.1 (2007-05-24):

• Added console script for Sun ILOM.
• Fixed minor issues with existing console scripts.

conman-0.2.0 (2007-05-02):

• Changed project homepage to <http://home.gna.org/conman/>.
• Added support for consoles to be driven by an external process.
• Added console scripts for Cyclades, IBM BladeCenter, IPMI SOL, SSH.
• Added SERVER EXECPATH config directive.
• Added '-F' cmdline opt to daemon for running in the foreground.
• Changed daemon behavior to return fatal errors to shell if possible.
• Sanitized environment variables and closed unneeded fds in child processes.
• Fixed potential deadlock bug in signal handlers.

conman-0.1.9.2 (2006-06-26):

• Fixed bug where a failed telnet connection would segfault the daemon.
• Optimized main I/O polling loop.

conman-0.1.9.1 (2006-05-25):

• Fixed rpm spec file to include sysconfig/defaults file.

conman-0.1.9 (2006-05-25):

• Added support for >1024 (FD_SETSIZE) file descriptors.
• Increased limit for number of open files.
• Decreased startup time by moving hostname resolution to connection attempt.
• Added support to retry connection attempt if hostname resolution fails.
• Replaced '--with-conman-conf' configure opt with use of '--sysconfdir'.
• Enabled tcp-wrappers support by default if possible.
• Fixed potential NULL dereference and resource leaks.
• Rewrote init script.

conman-0.1.8.8 (2003-10-07):

• Changed behavior of timestamp logopt.

conman-0.1.8.7 (2003-10-01):

• Added timestamp logopt to enable timestamping each line of console log.
• Changed sanitize logopt to ignore NULs on newline transition.

conman-0.1.8.6 (2003-07-24):

• Added fallback for determining daemon's pid via use of pidfile.
• Added '-q' cmdline opt to daemon to query daemon's pid.
• Decreased startup time.
• Rewrote init script.

conman-0.1.8.5 (2003-07-13):

• Added support for '%' conversion specifiers.
• Deprecated former '&' specifier.

conman-0.1.8.4 (2003-04-03):

• Fixed init script to properly name RedHat's subsys file lock.

conman-0.1.8.3 (2002-09-04):

• Increased init script ulimit to allow >1024 file descriptors.

conman-0.1.8.2 (2002-08-13):

• Added client escape character for sending raw DEL char via '&D'.

conman-0.1.8.1 (2002-07-15):

• Added telnet connection fix for ECHO and SUPPRESS GO AHEAD requests.

conman-0.1.8 (2002-05-20):

• Added GLOBAL LOG config directive.
• Added SERVER LOGFILE & SERVER SYSLOG config directives.
• Added '-L' cmdline opt for software license.
• Fixed bug where relative-path'd pidfile was not removed at exit.
• Fixed bug where relative-path'd logs were not re-opened on sighup.
• Fixed bug where empty strings were not detected during config parsing.
• Fixed bug where pidfile write was still attempted if its open had failed.
• Updated manpages.