Anons79 Mini Shell

1.15 / 22-Dec-2015

 - Fix: XML output had extra commas, broken since previous version
 - Fix: unintended shared pointer modification in mosecs() sometimes resulted
   in wrong month name to be shown for the current month
 - Fix: possible buffer overflow in /proc/net/dev parsing, requires corrupted
   content in /proc/net/dev or use of address sanitizer (found by Hanno Böck)
 - Use ANSI escape codes in -l and -tr modes for cursor location manipulation
   instead of printing backspaces, hide cursor while output is active
 - Improve database import robustness
 - Improve support for Asian UTF-8 date strings
 - Replace hand written Makefiles with Autotools
 - Add --alwaysadd parameter to daemon for allowing automatic addition of
   interfaces even if the database directory was populated during startup


1.14 / 26-Apr-2015

 - Fix: JSON output syntax during first day of newly created databases
   (pull request by Stefan Merettig)
 - Fix: field padding when using UTF-8 locale
 - Add optional mode parameter to --json and --xml for limiting the output
   to only selected information


1.13 / 18-Jan-2015

 - Fix: getgroup() test in Debian GNU/kFreeBSD (patch by Felix Geyer)
 - Fix: struct if_data usage after freeifaddrs() call in BSD
 - Dynamic unit selection in hourly output instead of being fixed to KiB
 - New options in image output (vnstati)
     * -nl / --nolegend for hiding the rx/tx legend
     * --altdate for using alternative date and time text location
     * --headertext for using custom text string in image header section
 - Add legend to hourly output image
 - Add option for content alignment and page background color to vnstat.cgi
 - Document keyword value ranges in configuration file man page
 - Import Makefile improvements from OpenBSD
   (pull requests by Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse)
 - Automatic interface bandwidth detection, BandwidthDetection in config,
   default fallback value MaxBandwidth changed from 100 to 1000
 - JSON output (--json), vnstat-json.cgi and vnstat-json.php examples
   provided in the 'examples' directory
 - Drop support for over 10 year old database formats (versions 1.0 - 1.2)


1.12 / 30-Aug-2014

 - Fix: Memory allocation when zero interfaces are available, also lo needed
   to be missing in order to trigger this leak
 - Fix: Rebuild total indexing (thanks to William Epp for reporting this)
 - Fix: Some error situations could leave database file open until the end
   of command execution
 - Fix: Live traffic meter occasionally showing higher minimum than average
   in end statistics (Debian Bug #687812)
 - Fix: Setting locale when none is specified in config (Debian Bug #606397)
 - Fix: Cppcheck findings (may fix Debian Bug #692330)
 - Improve traffic meter output accuracy
 - Add tests and debug compilation target
 - Remove use of -D parameter in Makefile install commands in order to
   improve cross-compilation support
 - Set CFLAGS in Makefiles only when not already defined
 - Add support for database import from text file (--importdb)
   (based on patch by Tilmann Bubeck)
 - Rename --dumpdb to --exportdb
 - Add example systemd service file
 - Add example launchd plist file for OS X
 - Use ISO YYYY-MM-DD date format timestamps if logfile is used
 - Improve daemon startup prints
 - Add parameters for changing daemon process user and group
 - Add example upstart job configuration file (thanks to Cameron Norman)
 - Create database, pid and log dirs during daemon startup if necessary
 - Update ownership of database, log and pid files if needed during daemon
   startup if started as root and configured to change process user and group
 - Remove cron update related example files and documentation, the cron
   update method should be considered as deprecated
 - --create parameter for database creation


1.11 / 1-Jun-2011

 - Fix: Memory allocation was miscalculated when creating interface list from
   /sys/class/net when /proc/net/dev wasn't available which in turn could
   crash the daemon
 - Fix: Daemon database cache could remain empty after a -HUP signal
 - Fix: Don't make temp directory in vnstat.cgi writable for everyone
 - Import GNU/kFreeBSD support from Debian
   (#608963, patch by Mats Erik Andersson)
 - Remove usage of GNU only '-D' option for install for BSD in Makefile
 - The daemon now automatically creates databases for available interfaces
   if no databases are found during startup


1.10 / 2-Jan-2010

 - Fix: Buffer overflow was possible in hourly image output when RateUnit=1
   and HourlyRate=1
 - Fix: Minor memory leak was possible in the handling of HUP signal in daemon
 - Fix: Graphical elements weren't correctly aligned in summary image
   when header wasn't visible (-nh)
 - Fix: --delete didn't work
 - Possibility to merge statistics from several databases and save
   the end result to a new database (--mergesaved)
 - Added validation of database cache in daemon in order to be more robust
   in case of system memory corruption
 - Support for --style to -l (live mode)
 - Alternative print mode to -l (live mode) with optional parameter
 - Present options and elements in man pages in alphabetical order
 - Code cleanup


1.9 / 12-Sep-2009

 - Fix: TrafficlessDays configuration option was enabled when set to zero
   when it should have been disabled
 - Fix: MonthRotate setting was getting ignored for the first month if
   the database is created when day of month < MonthRotate value
 - Configurable summary layout in image output (1.7 <> 1.8 layouts)
 - --oneline, a simple parseable one line output
 - --transparent for setting image background transparency from the
   command line
 - --delete for deleting databases and stopping monitoring, doesn't require
   restarting the daemon
 - A database write can be configure to occur after interface status changes
 - Different database write interval can be configure to be used when
   all monitored interfaces are offline
 - Better configurability for the content of outputs, including a narrow
   output for space limited terminals (OutputStyle and --style)
 - Code cleanup
 - New configuration file settings:
   OutputStyle, SummaryLayout, SummaryRate, SaveOnStatusChange,
   OfflineSaveInterval


1.8 / 1-Aug-2009

 - Fix: OpenBSD print issues (was: ' used for formatting in sprintf)
 - Fix: Monthly estimate for February during a leap year was wrong
 - Fix: 'make install' didn't install the config file is $(DESTDIR) was used
 - Traffic of current and previous months added to summary
 - Increased accuracy of monthly estimate calculation
 - Traffic rates can be made visible and the shown unit is configurable
   as bits or bytes
 - New summary layout in image output
 - Image output can have the background color set as transparent
 - Possibility to merge data from several interfaces to one output with
   interface1+interface2 syntax
 - -s / --sync parameter added to daemon
 - --dbdir and --locale parameters added
 - Outputs now use system locale by default and formatting of dates follow
   the locale setting unless configured otherwise
 - New configuration file settings:
   ShowRate, RateUnit, TrafficlessDays, HourlyRate, TransparentBg


1.7 / 12-Apr-2009

 - Fix: Timezone changes shouldn't cause a flood of errors anymore
 - Fix: Statvfs used instead of statfs for BSD compatibility
   (Thanks to Mark Mitchell for pointing this out)
 - Fix: Makefile didn't properly support LDFLAGS and -lm was misplaced
 - Fix: MonthRotate value in config wasn't used
 - Fix: Unreadable configuration file doesn't cause a segmentation fault
 - Fix: /proc/net/dev parser didn't see the difference between eth10 and eth1
 - Fix: Updating a database from two of more processes at the same time
   was able to sometimes cause data loss
 - Fix: Estimates are calculated based on last database update
 - Fix: Each interface update had a possibility of losing 1023 bytes of
   traffic at most due to improper rounding
   (Thanks to Michael Berlin for suggesting a suitable correction)
 - Daemon support as alternative for cron based updates
 - PNG image output (hourly rate based on patch by Sergio Ammirata)
 - XML output
 - BSD support
 - Diskspace check can be disabled from configuration file
 - IEC standard prefixes (KiB/MiB/GiB/TiB)
 - List of available interfaces if wrong of unavailable interface is selected


1.6 / 1-Jan-2008

 - Fix: Segmentation fault when environment variable "HOME" wasn't defined,
   this broke most CGI and PHP scripts that used vnStat
 - Support for /sys/class/net/* if /proc/net/dev is unavailable
 - Config file parser redesigned
 - --config parameter for selecting config file
 - Consistent exit status for all operations (0 for success, 1 for error)
 - Improved file locking
 - Man page restrictions paragraph updated
 - Minor non-visible fixes and code cleanup


1.5 / 3-Dec-2007

 - Fix: compile time warnings solved
 - Fix: kernel test is now more verbose
 - Fix: more informative error messages
 - Fix: possible division by zero for traffic estimates right after midnight
 - Fix: interface names longer than 6 chars (patch by Jan Schmidle)
 - Realtime transfer rate mode
 - Automatic 32bit/64bit counter detection
 - Config file support
 - Internal database backups and locking
 - More visuals in outputs
 - Adaptive units (kB, MB, GB, TB)
 - Possibility to sync counters without counting traffic
 - Maximum bandwidth of interfaces can be set


1.4 / 26-Mar-2004

 - Fix: major output problems when compiled with some compilers
        (thanks to DukePyrolator for reporting this bug and
         Juha / vlu for testing the patch)
 - Fix: month rotation if database isn't updated every day
 - Minor non-visible fixes and code cleanup


1.3 / 8-Mar-2004

 - Fix: support for 64bit counters
 - Fix: 'yesterday' was showing 01.01. with new databases
 - Fix: free space warning changed from 1% to 1MB
 - Fix: minor security exploit
 - A man page has been included
 - Hourly output with textgraphical view
 - kBs are visible when traffic is under 1000 MB
 - Webpage moved to http://humdi.net/vnstat/
 - Minor visual updates


1.2 / 7-Oct-2003

 - Changed file paths to conform with FHS (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/)
      /usr/local/bin/vnstat -> /usr/bin/vnstat
      /var/spool/vnstat -> /var/lib/vnstat
 - Added FAQ
 - Included sample scripts for pppd users
 - Support for 64bit counters in /proc/net/dev
   (Thanks to Stephan van Hienen for the test account)
 - Actual date is shown if the previous day in the database isn't
   yesterday
 - Weekly and last 7 days traffic can be shown.
   (Thanks to Derk-Jan Hartman for the suggestion)
 - Average kB/s meter
 - --testkernel fixed
 - Documentation for --dumpdb included in the README


1.1 / 13-Jul-2003

 - Support for multiple interfaces
 - Date checking (update shouldn't be before previous update)
 - New database structure
 - Possibility to change date output format
 - Test tool for faulty kernels
 - Parseable output
 - Better support for ppp/dsl users
 - Free diskspace check
 - Possibility to change month rotation day (like 25. instead of 1.)
 - Daily/monthly traffic estimation


22-Nov-2002

 - Renamed the cron script file that would be installed to /etc/cron.d
   from vnstat.cron to vnstat because debian systems didn't execute scripts
   containing dots (Thanks to frangen / Simo Salminen for this note)


1.0 / 23-Sep-2002

 - Initial public release