Release History

1.3.3 (2022-02-07)

  • new: adding support for newer python releases (3.8, 3.9, 3.10)
  • fix: various typos in docstrings (#39, )
  • fix: change use of deprecated upload-dir to upload_dir in setup.cfg (#34)
  • fix: Runtime class now sets None for stdout by default (#24)
  • fix: corrected argument order in several calls to super() (#18)
  • cleanup: many bits of code tidying to eliminate linter warnings

1.3.2 (2019-11-09)

  • Include doc and tests directories in source distribution to support Gentoo package building tests (#22)
  • Update official python support to 2.7, 3.4+ in README

1.3.1 (2019-11-08)

  • Fixed a packaging bug

1.3.0 (2019-11-08)

  • New maintainer/contributor information and project home
  • Updated tests and package metadata for recent Python 3 versions
  • Newer tooling for tests/documentation

1.2.4 (2016-03-12)

  • Add optional keyword parameter verbose to Runtime.guarded(). This parameter allows to set verbose level in the early execution phase (#13).
  • Allow Context.evaluate() return either a Result or ServiceState object. In case the latter is returned, it gets automatically wrapped in a Result object (#6).

1.2.3 (2015-10-30)

  • Fix bug that caused a UnicodeDecodeError when using non-ASCII characters in fmt_metric (#12).
  • Print perfdata always on a single line (even in multi-line mode) to improve compatibility with various monitoring systems (#11).

1.2.2 (2014-05-27)

  • Mention that nagiosplugin also runs with Python 3.4 (no code changes necessary).
  • Make name prefix in status output optional by allowing to assign None to Check.name.
  • Accept bare metric as return value from Resource.probe().
  • Fix bug where Context.describe() was not used to obtain metric description (#13162).

1.2.1 (2014-03-19)

  • Fix build failures with LANG=C (#13140).
  • Remove length limitation of perfdata labels (#13214).
  • Fix formatting of large integers as Metric values (#13287).
  • Range: allow simple numerals as argument to Range() (#12658).
  • Cookie: allow for empty state file specification (#12788).

1.2 (2013-11-08)

  • New Summary.empty method is called if there are no results present (#11593).
  • Improve range violation wording (#11597).
  • Ensure that nagiosplugin install correctly with current setuptools (#12660).
  • Behave and do not attach anything to the root logger.
  • Add debugging topic guide. Explain how to disable the timeout when using pdb (#11592).

1.1 (2013-06-19)

  • Identical to 1.1b1.

1.1b1 (2013-05-28)

  • Made compatible with Python 2.6 (#12297).
  • Tutorial #3: check_users (#11539).
  • Minor documentation improvements.

1.0.0 (2013-02-05)

  • LogTail returns lines as byte strings in Python 3 to avoid codec issues (#11564).
  • LogTail gives a line-based iterator instead of a file object (#11564).
  • Basic API docs for the most important classes (#11612).
  • Made compatible with Python 2.7 (#11533).
  • Made compatible with Python 3.3.

1.0.0b1 (2012-10-29)

  • Improve error reporting for missing contexts.
  • Exit with code 3 if no metrics have been generated.
  • Improve default Summary.verbose() to list all threshold violations.
  • Move main source repository to https://bitbucket.org/gocept/nagiosplugin/ (#11561).

1.0.0a2 (2012-10-26)

  • API docs for the most important classes (#7939).
  • Added two tutorials (#9425).
  • Fix packaging issues.

1.0.0a1 (2012-10-25)

  • Completely reworked API. The new API is not compatible with the old 0.4 API so you must update your plugins.
  • Python 3 support.
  • The Cookie class is now basically a persistent dict and accepts key/value pairs. Cookie are stored as JSON files by default so they can be inspected by the system administrator (#9400).
  • New LogTail class which provides convenient access to constantly growing log files which are eventually rotated.

0.4.5 (2012-06-18)

  • Windows port. nagiosplugin code now runs under pywin32 (#10899).
  • Include examples in egg release (#9901).

0.4.4 (2011-07-18)

Bugfix release to fix issues reported by users.

  • Improve Mac OS X compatibility (#8755).
  • Include examples in distribution (#8555).

0.4.3 (2010-12-17)

  • Change __str__ representation of large numbers to avoid scientific notation.

0.4.2 (2010-10-11)

  • Packaging issues.

0.4.1 (2010-09-21)

  • Fix distribution to install correctly.
  • Documentation: tutorial and topic guides.

0.4 (2010-08-17)

  • Initial public release.