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If you're upgrading from an earlier version, see the UPGRADING file.
For a complete list of changes, please refer to the ChangeLog file.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Release notes for NUT 2.6.5 - what's new since 2.6.4:
- This release Fix an important regression in upssched:
any upssched.conf command that takes a second argument resulted in
a defective frame sent to the parent process. Thus, the command was
not executed (report and patch from Oliver Schonefeld)
- Website hosting: free NUT from Eaton website hosting
NUT website (http://www.networkupstools.org) is no more hosted by Eaton.
Arnaud Quette (NUT project leader) has taken over NUT hosting on his own,
to give NUT back some independance.
This effort is also part of a logic to stop crediting Eaton for
contributions from others (especially Arnaud Quette, as an individual).
The new hosting service is located, as for Arnaud's blog
(http://arnaud.quette.fr) on Gandi servers, using PaaS. This will allow
more flexibility and automation of the release process
- macosx-ups: new OS X Power Sources meta-driver
Mac OS X provides UPS status information in a format similar to
what is shown for laptop batteries. This driver will convert that
information into a format compatible with NUT (Charles Lepple).
- support for new devices:
Eaton ePDU Switched
Online Zinto A (USB ID 0x06da:0x0601)
REDi Blazer 400VA / 600VA / 800VA
UNITEK Alpha650ipF and Alpha650ipE (USB ID 0x0f03:0x0001)
- mge-shut driver has been replaced by a new implementation (newmge-shut).
In case of issue with this new version, users can revert to oldmge-shut.
- First NUT virtualization package: NUT now supports integration with
VMware ESXI 5.0, through a native VIB package. This is, for the time
being, an external effort from René Garcia (refer to the Download section
on NUT website). But work is underway to improve this integration, and
include it in the NUT source tree
- IPMI support (nut-ipmipsu driver and nut-scanner): prepare for supporting
API changes in upcoming FreeIPMI versions 1.1.x and 1.2.x.
- snmp-ups now supports high precision values for APC, and more variables
- the NUT variables and commands namespace has been fixed and
completed, with the known and used variables that were missing.
- more bugfixes, cleanup and improvements, on both source code and
documentation.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Release notes for NUT 2.6.4 - what's new since 2.6.3:
- This release Fix an important vulnerability in upsd
(CVE-2012-2944: upsd can be remotely crashed)
NUT server (upsd), from versions 2.4.0 to 2.6.3, are exposed to
crashes when receiving random data from the network.
This issue is related to the way NUT parses characters,
especially from the network. Non printable characters were missed
from strings operation (such as strlen), but still copied to the
buffer, causing an overflow.
Thus, fix NUT parser, to only allow the subset Ascii charset from
Space to ~
(Reported by Sebastian Pohle, Alioth bug #313636, CVE-2012-2944)
A separate patch, which applies to any faulty version, is also available:
http://trac.networkupstools.org/projects/nut/changeset/3633
For more information, refer to the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2944
- A static source code analysis has been done by Michal Hlavinka from RedHat,
using Coverity (12 issues fixed).
- Add new "LIST CLIENTS" and "NETVER" commands to NUT network protocol.
"NETVER" allows to retrieve the Network protocol version, while
"LIST CLIENTS" provides the list of clients connected to a device.
Refer to the developer guide, "Network protocol information" section for
more information.
- Support of ranges of values for writable variables has been added, to
complete the existing enumerated values mechanism. This will start to
appear in some drivers soon, beginning with Eaton. Refer to the developer
guide, "Creating a new driver..." section for more information.
- PyNUT.py has been updated to version 1.2.2, adding support for
LIST CLIENTS, FSD, HELP and VER (Rene Martín Rodríguez)
- support for new devices:
AEG Power Solutions PROTECT HOME
more APC SNMP cards
ATEK Defensor range
all Borri models
all COVER ENERGY SA
CyberPower OR700LCDRM1U, PR6000LCDRTXL5U and CP1000PFCLCD
Dell UPS Network Management Card
Dynamix 1000VA USB
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 heavilly 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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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]
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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.
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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]
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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]
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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