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If you're upgrading from an earlier version, see the UPGRADING file.
For a complete and more detailed list of changes, please refer to the
ChangeLog file (generated for release archives), or to the Git version
control history for "live" codebase.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
PLANNED: Release notes for NUT 2.8.3 - what's new since 2.8.2:
https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/milestone/9
- (expected) Dynamic Mapping Files (DMF) feature supported, to allow
the driver binaries to be built once and data mappings to be loaded
and modernized on the fly [Ported from 42ITy project]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
PLANNED: Release notes for NUT 2.8.2 - what's new since 2.8.1:
https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/milestone/10
- (expected) clean-up of libusb API variants support [#300 and follow-ups]
- (expected) CI automation for coding style
- (expected) CI automation for use of data points in drivers that conform
to patterns defined in docs/nut-names.txt
- (expected) Porting of performance and bug fixes from 42ITy project
- (expected) Bug fixes for fallout possible due to "fightwarn" effort in 2.8.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
PLANNED: Release notes for NUT 2.8.1 - what's new since 2.8.0:
https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/milestone/8
- "UPS management protocol", Informational RFC 9271 published
by IETF at https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9271 and the
IANA port number registry was updated accordingly at
https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml?search=3493
(even though this RFC is not formally an Internet Standard)
- Bug fixes for fallout possible due to "fightwarn" effort and other
evolution in NUT v2.8.0 release:
* The `upsdebugx()` and similar methods were converted to macros in #685
to avoid useless data manipulations and requests for logged information,
whose results would be ignored instantly because the debug level is
too low. As issue #1455 and PR #1495 found, in two cases the called
commands did "meaningfully" modify data -- so without debug logs the
program misbehaved. A known regression for `upscode2` driver; might
be or not be a problem with `upsd` driver in NUT v2.8.0 release,
fixed for NUT v2.8.1.
* A table in `cyberpower-mib` (for `snmp-ups` driver) sources was
arranged in NUT v2.8.0 release in a way that precluded the driver
logic from looking at all of its entries. Regression fixed for NUT
v2.8.1 [#1432]
* A change for file-change detection in `dummy-ups` driver for NUT
v2.8.0 release misfired on some platforms. Regression fixed for NUT
v2.8.1 [#1420]
* Fixed building of NUT man pages when just a few drivers are selected
by `configure` script for custom builds [#1467]
* Now that `upsdrvctl` can pass debugging level through to the launched
driver(s), they would by default stay in the foreground. This can
complicate (or simplify, when intentional) the management of service
instances. Now there are explicit `upsdrvctl` options for choosing
this (`-F`/`-B`), although default behavior is retained. Note that
foregrounding and mass-management loop to start all drivers (without
specifying the single device) do not play well together [#1759]
- New `configure --enable-inplace-runtime` option should set default values
for `--sysconfdir`, `--with-user` and `--with-group` options to match an
existing NUT deployment -- for users who are trying if a custom build
of recent codebase solves their practical issues. For "quick tests", a
shortcut operation `./ci_build.sh inplace` was added [#1714]
- We lacked log information about changes of chroot jail (uncommon) and
of UID/GID (everywhere), which makes troubleshooting harder (e.g. lack
of access to config files or USB device nodes). Now we have it [#1694]
- huawei-ups2000 is now known to support more devices, noted in docs and
for auto-detection [#1448, #1684]
- nutdrv_qx updates:
* the `voltronic_qs_protocol` should now accept both "V" (as before)
and newly "H" dialects, which otherwise seem interchangeable [#1623]
- usbhid-ups updates:
* cps-hid subdriver now applies same report descriptor fixing logic to
devices with ProductID 0x0601 as done earlier for 0x0501, to get the
correct output voltage data [#1497]
* apc-hid subdriver now also supports ProductID 0x0004 [#1429]
* the `usbhid-ups` driver should now reconnect if `libusb` returned a
memory allocation error [#1422] (seen as "Can't retrieve Report 0a:
Resource temporarily unavailable"), which can cause practical problems
in the field -- the driver otherwise interpreted the situation as
`ups.status` being `OL OFF` and cut the power supply.
* powercom-hid subdriver: fixed `UPS.Battery.ManufacturerDate` to map
to `battery.mfr.date` (not `battery.date` which is the maintenance
replacement date) [#1644]
- powercom driver should now try harder to refresh data from device [#356]
- NUT for Windows:
* Ability to build NUT for Windows, last tackled with a branch based on
NUT v2.6.5 a decade ago, has been revived with the 2.8.x era codebase [#5].
It is known that at this time some features are not complete, for more
details see https://github.com/orgs/networkupstools/projects/2/views/1
* Cross-builds of NUT for Windows using Linux and MinGW (and many custom
built dependency packages, as documented in `scripts/Windows/README`)
are now regularly tested on NUT CI farm with moderate integration via
custom build script `scripts/Windows/build-mingw-nut.sh` [#1489]
* Semi-native NUT for Windows builds with MSYS2/MinGW x64 environment are
now regularly tested on AppVeyor, with the same `ci_build.sh` script and
`Makefile` checks as used across the board for local developer builds,
Linux/illumos/FreeBSD/OpenBSD/... on dedicated NUT CI farm on Fosshost,
and MacOS on CircleCI [#1552]
- snmp-ups updates:
* Fixed detection for device agents which wrongly return the sysOID value
as a string instead of an OID [#1710]
* IETF MIB mapping updated for data points where negative readings
are invalid [#1558]
* Added SNMP subdriver "apc-epdu-mib" for APC easy PDU support [#1674]
* Added SNMP subdriver "eaton-pdu-nlogic-mib" for nLogic (rebranded Eaton)
support [#1698]
* Added SNMP subdriver "hpe-pdu3-cis-mib" for HPE G2 Metered & Switched PDU
initial "unitary" support (no daisychain support yet); also note that due
to SNMP v1 implementation limitations on this device, you should prefer
SNMP v3 to get both read and write rights [#1713]
* Fixed processing loop for large SNMPv2/SNMPv3 responses where one item
in the middle has a type error [#1682]
* Better manage the slight nuances (especially in ups.status) between
Eaton UPSs, and rename mibs from `pw` to `eaton_pw_nm2`, and from
`pxgx_ups` to `eaton_pxg_ups` [#1715]
* Fixed the long standing "Warning: excessive poll failures" issue, that
was tied to non-existent OIDs, not well handled in some parts of the
driver [#1716]
- The `bestfortress` driver shutdown handling was fixed to use a non-trivial
default timeout [#1820]
- GPIO drivers [#1855]:
* Added a new category of drivers, using GPIO interface to locally connected
devices (currently limited to 2018+ Linux libgpiod, but its architecture
was designed to support more OSes with their equivalents - PRs welcome)
* `generic_gpio_libgpiod` driver using `libgpiod` backend was added
(defaults to be required on Linux, optional on other platforms)
- Added support for `make install` of PyNUT module and NUT-Monitor desktop
application [#1462, #1504]
- Regular CI coverage for NUT codebase enhanced with CircleCI running some
scenarios on MacOS, might add Windows in the future. Fixed some build
issues for MacOS that had crept into NUT v2.8.0 release [#1415, #1421]
- NUT software-only drivers (dummy-ups, clone, clone-outlet) separated from
serial drivers in respective Makefile and configure script options [#1446]
- Fixed support for common USB matching options ("vendor", "device", "bus",
etc.) for `riello_usb` and `richcomm_usb` [#1763] and updated man pages
of all USB drivers using these options to include the same description
[#1766]
- Added an `allow_duplicates` flag for common USB matching options which
may help monitor several related no-name devices (although without knowing
reliably which one is which... better than nothing) [#1756]
- The `nut-scanner` program should now suggest same configuration fields as
those used by common USB matching options in (most of the) drivers, e.g.
adding "device" to the generated configuration section [#1790]
- Stuck drivers that do not react to `SIGTERM` quickly are now retried with
`SIGKILL` [#1424]
- Each driver should now report its `driver.state` to help readers determine
whether it is initializing, reconnecting, or running regular loops [#1767]
- Code which resolves full paths to libraries should now consider the common
environment variable `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` as a preferred possible override
to built-in paths (note that most operating systems advise against setting
this variable unless troubleshooting, although other systems rely on it)
[#805]
- The nut-scanner program was updated to fall back to loading unresolved
library filenames, hoping that `lt_dlopen()` implementation on the current
platform would find library files better [#805]
- Detection of `libltdl` in `configure` script updated with fallback code to
find it on systems that deliver the library to `/usr/local/lib` (e.g. on
FreeBSD) [#1577]
- An explicit `configure --with-nut-scanner` toggle was added, specifically
so that build environments requesting `--with-all` but lack `libltdl` would
abort and require either to install the dependency or explicitly forfeit
the tool (some distro packages missed it quietly in the past) [#1560]
- The `nut-scanner` program should now by default warn about serial numbers
which do not make much sense (are duplicate, empty, all same character, etc)
[#1810]
- Existing openssl-1.1.0 support added for NUT v2.8.0 release was tested to
be sufficient without deprecation warnings for builds against openssl-3.0.x
(but no real-time testing was done yet) [#1547]
- upslog: Added support for logging multiple devices with one call to the
program [#1604]
- Some fixes applied to Solaris/illumos packaging and SMF service support
[#1554, #1564]
- Some fixes for builds on older OSes with less functional default system
shell interpreters - now `autogen.sh` supports a `CONFIG_SHELL` envvar
to inject its value into generated `configure` script [#1736]
* Note that you may have to install additional tools (possibly from
third-party FOSS packaging efforts) to prepare and build the NUT
codebase, and/or prefer non-default system provided implementations
(e.g. to use the XPG4 `grep` with `-E` support on Solaris as detailed
in https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/1736 comments)
* Build environment configuration notes in `docs/config-prereqs.txt` file
refreshed to cover building of current NUT codebase in CentOS 6 [#1804]
and Solaris 8 [#1736, #1738]
- `configure` script, reference init-script and packaging templates updated
to eradicate `@PIDPATH@/nut` ambiguity in favor of `@ALTPIDPATH@` for the
unprivileged processes vs. `@PIDPATH@` for those running as root [#1719]
- `configure` script enhanced: `--with-unmapped-data-points` option allows
to build SNMP and USB-HID subdrivers with entries discovered by the scripts
which generated them from data walks, but developers did not rename yet
to NUT mappings conforming to `docs/nut-names.txt` standards [#1699]
- PyNUT.py version bumped to 1.5.0 with some improvements:
* `ListClients()` method fixed (was broken in many ways), and is now
CI-tested [#549]
* `DeviceLogin()` method added (mostly as aid to CI-test `ListClients()`
in a practically relevant manner, so far)
- nutclient C++ library:
* added `listDeviceClients()` and `deviceGetClients(dev)` to `Client`
classes, and `Device::getClients()` to match PyNUT capabilities [#549]
- upsclient C library:
* added support for `NUT_QUIET_INIT_SSL` environment variable to hide
the infamous "Init SSL without certificate database" warning [#1662]
- sstate (server state, e.g. upsd) should now "PING" drivers also if they
last reported themselves as "stale" (and might later crash) so their
connections would be terminated if really no longer active [#1626]
- Clarified documentation in codebase according to end-user feedback [#1721,
#1750 and others over time]
- Several fixes for `upsmon` behavior [#1761, #1680...], including new
ability to configure default POWERDOWNFLAG location -- packagers are
encouraged to pick optimal location for their distributions (which
remains mounted at least read-only late in shutdown) and a new optional
POLLFAIL_LOG_THROTTLE_MAX setting [#529, #506]
- Extended Linux systemd support with optional notifications about daemon
state (READY, RELOADING, STOPPING) and watchdog keep-alive messages [#1590]
- Extended Linux systemd units with aliases named after the daemons:
`nut-server.service` as `upsd.service`, and `nut-monitor.service` as
`upsmon.service` (so simple `systemctl reload upsd` can work) [#1777]
- Recipes and `main.c` code were enhanced to produce a `libdummy_mockdrv.la`
helper library during build (not intended to be installed nor distributed),
in order to facilitate creation of test programs which behave like a driver
[#1855]
- Further revision of public headers delivered by NUT was done, particularly
to address lack of common data types (`size_t`, `ssize_t`, `uint16_t`,
`time_t` etc.) in third-party client code that earlier sufficed to only
include NUT headers. Sort of regression by NUT 2.8.0 (note those consumers
still have to re-declare some numeric variable types used) [#1638, #1615]
- The `COPYING` file was updated with licenses and attribution for certain
source code files and blocks coming from the Internet originally [#1758]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Release notes for NUT 2.8.0 - what's new since 2.7.4:
NOTE: Earlier discussions (mailing list threads, GitHub issues, etc.) could
refer to this change set (too long in the making) as NUT 2.7.5.
- New (optional) keywords for configuration files were added,
so existing NUT 2.7.x builds would not accept them if some
deployments switch versions back and forth -- due to this,
semantically the version was bumped to NUT 2.8.x.
- Add support for openssl-1.1.0 (Arjen de Korte)
- libusb-1.0 API support in addition to libusb-0.1 API [#300]
- Add support for `DISABLE_WEAK_SSL=true` in upsd.conf to disable older/weaker
SSL/TLS protocols and ciphers: when NUT is built against relatively recent
versions of OpenSSL or NSS it will be restricted to TLSv1.2 or better.
For least-surprise, currently defaults to `false` and complains in log
[PR #1043]
- Add support for `ALLOW_NO_DEVICE=true` (as an upsd.conf flag or environment
variable passed from caller of the program), to allow starting the data
server initially without any device configurations and reloading it later
to apply config changes on the fly [PR #766]
- Add support for `debug_min=NUM` setting (ups.conf, upsd.conf, upsmon.conf)
to specify the minimum debug verbosity for daemons. This allows "in-vivo"
troubleshooting of service daemons without editing init scripts or service
unit definitions.
- Improve support for upsdrvctl for managing of numerous device configs,
including default "maxretry=3" and a "nowait" option to complete the
"start of everything" mode after triggering the drivers and not waiting
for them to complete initializing. This matters on systems that monitor
from dozens to hundreds of devices.
- Drivers support a new value for `synchronous` setting, which is the
new default now: `auto`. Initially after driver start-up this mode
acts as the older default `off`, but would fall back to `on` in case
the driver fails to send reports to `upsd` by overflowing the socket
buffer in async mode -- so the next connections of this driver uptime
would be synchronized (potentially slower, but safer -- blocking on
writes to the data server). This adaptation would primarily impact
and benefit devices with many (hundreds of) data points, such as
ePDUs and daisy chains. [issue #1309, PR #1315]
- Daemons such as upsd, upsmon, upslog, and device drivers previously
implied that enabled debugging (or upslog to stdout) means foreground
running, otherwise the daemon was always sent to the background.
Now there are explicit options for this (`-F`/`-B`), although default
behavior is retained. This change is used for simplified service unit
definitions.
- Improvements for device discovery or driver "lock-picking", including
general support for:
* "Standalone" mode (`-s` option), to monitor a device which is not
detailed or mentioned in ups.conf
* `NUT_ALTPIDPATH` and `NUT_STATEPATH` environment variables to override
the paths built into the driver binary [PR #473 and #507]
* "Driver data dump" mode (`-d` option), to poll a device for one or
few ('update_count' ) loops, report discovered values (dump the data
tree in upsc-like format), and exit. This complements the `nut-scanner`
for finding and identifying devices.
- support for new devices:
* IBM 6000 VA LCD 4U Rack UPS; 5396-1Kx (USB)
* Phoenix Contact QUINT-UPS model 2320461 (Modbus)
* Tripp-Lite SU3000LCD2UHV (USB; protocol 1330)
* Emerson Avocent PM3000 PDU (SNMP)
* HPE ePDU (SNMP)
- nutdrv_qx: enhanced estimation of remaining battery runtime based
on speed of voltage drop, which varies as they age [PR #1027]
- nutdrv_qx: several subdrivers added or improved, including:
* "snr" subdriver with USB connection, for SNR-UPS-LID-XXXX [PR #1008].
Note that end-users should reference explicitly the `snr` subdriver
in their `ups.conf` settings because of USB chip using the same
values of VendorID/ProductID as fabula_subdriver, fuji_subdriver,
and krauler_subdriver.
* "hunnox" subdriver, as a dialect of earlier "fabula" [PR #638]
adds support for Hunnox HNX-850 with USB connection and reported to work
for Powercool, Iron Guardian, ARES devices and possibly many others from
discussions linking to the pull request which introduced the driver.
* "phoenixtec" subdriver for Masterguard A and E series, device series
A700/1000/2000/3000(-19) and E40/60/100(-19). [PR #975]
* "ablerex" subdriver provided by the OEM vendor, note that it replaces
"krauler_subdriver" as default handler for VID:PID 0xffff:0x0000
[PR #1135]
* Legrand HID defined and handled by "krauler_subdriver" by default
[PR #1075, issue #616]
* add new "armac" subdriver, tested with Armac R/2000I/PSW, but should
support other UPSes that work with "PowerManagerII" software from
Richcomm Technologies from around 2004-2005 [PR #1239, issue #1238]
- microsol-apc (starting at version 0.68 as derived from solis 0.67):
adding support for newer APC Back-UPS BR hardware, such as
APC Back-UPS BZ1500, BZ2200BI and BZ2200I [PR #994]
- pijuice: added new i2c bus driver for PiJuice HAT, a battery UPS module
for the Raspberry Pi systems [PR #730]
- huawei-ups2000: added new driver for USB (Linux 5.12+ so far) and Serial
RS-232 Modbus device support of Huawei UPS2000/2000A (1kVA-3kVA) series,
and possibly some related FSP UPS models. [PR #954]
- socomec_jbus: added new driver for modbus-based JBUS protocol over serial
RS-232 for Socomec UPS (tested with a DIGYS 3/3 15kVA model, working
on Linux x86-64 and Raspberry Pi 3 ARM). [PR #1313]
- adelsystem_cbi: added new driver for ADELSYSTEM CBI2801224A, an all-in-one
12/24Vdc DC-UPS, which supports the modbus RTU communication protocol
[PR #1282]
- generic_modbus: added new driver for TCP and Serial Modbus device support.
The driver has been tested against PULS UPS (model UB40.241) via
MOXA ioLogikR1212 (RS485) and ioLogikE1212 (TCP/IP), and configuration
allows to map custom registers and addresses to NUT events [PR #1052]
- genericups: added support for FTTx battery backup devices, and new signal
type mappings for the contact closure pins interpretation (RB for replace
battery, BYPASS for disconnected battery, and "none" or NULL for signals
to ignore) [PR #1061]
- add devices to HCL/DDL:
* APC Back-UPS CS (USB)
* CPS CP1500EPFCLCD (USB)
* CPS EC350G, EC750G (USB)
* CPS PR2200LCDRT2U (SNMP)
* Eaton ATS 16 and 30 (SNMP)
* Eaton 5E2200VA (USB)
* Eaton 9PX Split Phase 6/8/10 kVA (XML/USB/SHUT)
* Eaton 9PX (XML/USB/SHUT)
* Eaton Ellipse PRO 650 VA (USB)
* Ippon Back Comfo Pro II 650/850/1050 (USB)
* Numeric Digital 800 (USB)
* Opti-UPS PS1500E (USB)
* Powercool 350VA to 1600VA (USB)
- C++11 support in nutclient library and cppunit tests
- Added C++ testing mock for TcpClient class (nutclientmem/MemClientStub:
data stored in local memory) [PR #1034]
- Dual Python 2 and 3 compatibility in development scripts; ability to
run build activities and resulting built NUT programs on systems that
do not have a binary named "python" [PR #1115 and some before it]
- Added Russian translation for NUT-Monitor GUI client [PR #806]
- Separated NUT-Monitor UI into two applications, NUT-Monitor-py2gtk2 and
NUT-Monitor-py3qt5, suitable for two generations of Python ecosystem
with their great differences; `NUT-Monitor` name is retained for wrapper
script which calls one of these, such that the current system can execute
[PRs #1310, #1354]
- Various USB driver families: expanded device-matching with "device" in
addition to "bus" and generic USB fields. This is needed to support
multiple attached devices that seem identical by other fields (e.g.
same vendor, same model, same USB bus, and no serial number) [PR #974]
- Various USB driver families: Improved HID parsing for byte-stream to
number conversions on different CPU architectures [PR #1024]
- Various USB HID driver families: added support for composite devices
utilizing interface greater than 0 for the UPS interface [PR #1044]
- usbhid-ups:
* added generic framework for fixing Report Descriptors which can be
used for different manufacturers by adding code to the appropriate
subdriver rather than polluting the main code with UPS specific
exceptions, and applied fixes for known mistakes in (some releases
of firmware for) CyberPower CPS*EPFCLCD [issue #439, PR #1245]
* added `onlinedischarge` option for UPSes that report `OL+DISCHRG`
when wall power is lost [PR #811]
* changed detection of VendorID 0x06da handling of which is claimed
by Liebert/Phoenixtec HID historically, and MGE HID (for AEG PROTECT
NAS UPSes) since NUT 2.7.4, so that the higher-priority MGE subdriver
would not grab each and all of the devices exposing that ID [PR #1357]
* CPS HID: add input.frequency and output.frequency
* OpenUPS2: only check OEM Information string once (fewer log messages)
* Liebert GXT4 USB VID:PID [10AF:0000]
* add battery voltage and input/output transfer voltage and frequency
in Liebert/Phoenixtec HID mapping, to support PowerWalker VFI 2000 TGS
better [PR #564, issue #560]
* add a little delay between multicommands [PR #1228]
* fix Eaton/MGE mapping for beeper handling
* add IBM USB VID
* add deep battery test for CyberPower OL3000RMXL2U
* report the libusb version used
* fixed CPU architecture dependent bitmask math issues, causing wrong
numbers interpreted from wire protocol data in Big-Endian LP64 builds
(SPARC64, s390x, etc.) [issue #1023, PRs #1024, #1040, #1055, #1226]
* add Delta UPS Amplon R Series, tested on R1K and R3K model [PR #987]
* add Delta Minuteman UPS VID/PID [PR #1230, issues #555 and #1227]
* add AMETEK Powervar UPM [PR #733]
* add Tripplite AVR750U (ProductID 0x3024) [PR #963]
* add Arduino HID device support with new arduino-hid subdriver [PR #1044]
* add new salicru-hid subdriver, tested with Salicru SPS Home 850 VA
[PR #1199, issue #732]
* add new ever-hid subdriver to support EVER UPS devices (Sinline RT Series,
Sinline RT XL Series, ECO PRO AVR CDS Series) [PR #431]
* add ability to set `battery.mfr.date` for APC HID UPS [PR #1318]
- usbhid-ups / mge-shut: compute a realpower output load approximation for
Eaton UPS when the needed data is not present
- snmp-ups:
* APC ePDU MIB support
* add `input.phase.shift` variable
* add configurable write-able `ondelay` (`ups.delay.start`) and `offdelay`
(`ups.delay.shutdown`) as timeticks support [PR #276]
* outlet groups
* fix the rounding / truncation of some values
* add outlet.N.name for Eaton ePDU
* add input.bypass.frequency for Eaton 3ph
* fix support for Eaton 2-phase ("split phase") UPS
* add flag to list currently loaded MIB-to-NUT mappings
* fix input.L2.voltage on Eaton G2/G3 PDU
* update Eaton Aphel Revelation MIB
* support Raritan Dominion PX2 PDU
* support Emerson Avocent PM3000 PDU
* improve ALARM flag handling
* add firmware version for new HPE Network card
* add ups.load, battery.charge, input.{voltage,frequency} and output.voltage
for CyberPower, as well as shutdown and other instant commands
* several rounds of updates for Eaton devices, including new ATS and ePDU
hardware families
* fixed bit mask values for flags to surely use different numbers behind
logical items (inevitably changing some of those macro symbols) [PR #1180]
- snmp-ups and nut-scanner should now support more SNMPv3 Auth and Priv
protocols, as available at NUT build time [PRs #1165, #1172]
- nut-scanner: various improvements, including:
* detection of libraries at runtime
* tracing information
* limiting parallelism (thread count) [PRs #1158, #1164]
- nut-ipmipsu: improve FreeIPMI support to build cleanly against older and
newer FreeIPMI versions [PR #1179]
- the powerpanel driver now also supports CyberPower OR1500LCDRTXL2U with
serial cable [PR #538]
- powercom driver: implement `nobt` config parameter to skip battery check
on initialization/startup [PR #1256]
- netxml-ups:
* Report calibration status
* Fix for erroneous battery info (MGEXML/0.30) [PR #1069]
- solis: various improvements and fixes
- liebert-esp2: Correct battery V scaling, update docs, implement split-phase
unit support [PR #412]
- tripplite: the "Tripp-Lite SmartUPS driver" as tested with SMART2200NET
learned to discover the firmware generation and some device features,
and in particular to manage power separately on one or two outlet groups
[PR #1048]
- tripplite_usb: updated to recognize the "3005" protocol [PR #584]
- libnutclient: introduce getDevicesVariableValues() to improve performances
when querying many devices (up to 15 times faster)
- nut-driver-enumerator: introduced a script for Linux systemd and
Solaris/illumos SMF to inspect current NUT configuration in ups.conf
file and generate service management instances for each currently
tracked power device. Also introduced services to monitor the NUT
configuration and react to editions of this file, mostly intended
for deployments that do massive monitoring of dynamically changing
farms of power devices.
- Fix File descriptors leaks by upsmon and upssched (SELinux errors)
- systemd support improvements:
* POWEROFF_WAIT
* reload support for upsd
* Deliver systemd-tmpfiles config to pre-create runtime locations
[PR #1037 for Issue #1030]
* Update units with SyslogIdentifier=%N for better logging [PR #1054]
- upsrw: display the variable type beside ENUM / RANGE
- Added `PROTVER` as alias to `NETVER` to report the protocol version in use.
Note that NUT codebase itself does not use this value and handles commands
and reported errors individually [issue #1347]
- Implement status tracking for instant commands (instcmd) and variables
settings (setvar): this allows to get the actual execution status from the
driver, and is available in libraries and upscmd / upsrw [PR #659]
- Add support for extra parameter for instant commands, both in library and
in upscmd
- dummy-ups can now specify `mode` as a driver argument, and separates the
notion of `dummy-once` (new default for `*.dev` files that do not change)
vs. `dummy-loop` (legacy default for `*.seq` and others) [issue #1385]
- new protocol variables:
* `input.phase.shift`
* `outlet.N.name`
* `outlet.N.type`
* `battery.voltage.cell.max`, `battery.voltage.cell.min`
* `battery.temperature.cell.max`, `battery.temperature.cell.min`
* `battery.status`
* `battery.capacity.nominal`
* `battery.date.maintenance` (and clarified purpose of `battery.date`)
* `battery.packs.external` (and clarified purpose of `battery.packs`)
* `experimental.*` namespace introduced [PR #1046] to facilitate
introduction of NUT drivers and their data points for which we do
not yet have concepts, or which the original driver contributors
did not map well per suitable NUT standards: this allows to balance
having those drivers available in the project vs. least surprise
for when the explicitly experimental names are changed to something
stable and standardized.
* Proposed to track Date and Time values (still as "opaque strings")
preferably in representations compatible to ISO-8601/RFC-3339 [PR #1076]
(standards update; changes to actual codebase to be applied in the future)
** New routine to convert a US formatted date string "MM/DD/YYYY" to an
ISO 8601 Calendar date "YYYY-MM-DD" was added to snmp-ups.c [PR #1078]
- Master/Slave terminology was deprecated in favor of Primary/Secondary
modes of `upsmon` client:
* Respective keywords in the configuration files (`upsd.users` and
`upsmon.conf`) are supported as backwards-compatible settings,
but the obsoleted values are no longer documented.
* Protocol keyword support was similarly updated, with `upsmon` now
first trying to elevate privileges with `PRIMARY <ups>` request,
and falling back to `MASTER <ups>` just in case it talks to an
older build of an `upsd` server.
* For the principle of least surprise, NUT codebase still exposes the
`net_master()` (as handler for `MASTER` net command) in header and
C code for the sake of existing linked binaries, and returns the
`OK MASTER-GRANTED` line to the older client that invoked it.
* Newly introduced `net_primary()` (as handler for `PRIMARY` net command)
calls the exact same application logic, but returns `OK PRIMARY-GRANTED`
line to the client.
* Python binding updated to handle both cases, as the only found in-tree
protocol consumer of the full-line text.
* For more details see issue #840 and several pull requests referenced
from it, and discussions on NUT mailing lists.
- Build fixes:
* In general, numerous fixes were applied to ensure portability and avoid
warnings (fixing a number of real bugs that caused them); CI was extended
to keep the codebase free of those types of warnings which we have got
rid of, requiring builds to succeed cleanly in several dozen combinations
of compiler versions, C standard revisions (C99 upwards, though on many
OSes with GNU99+ extensions), operating systems and CPU architectures.
* Public CI introduced to automatically test every contribution (PR) and
resulting increment of main NUT codebase, including Travis CI and LGTM.com
services, and a Jenkins farm on virtual hardware donated by Fosshost.org;
this augments testing earlier provided for some branches by Buildbot.
* Added cppunit testing with valgrind for the C++ client library
* Make targets added for shell script syntax checks for helper and service
scripts
* Make targets added for spellcheck and for maintenance of the dictionary,
including incremental spellcheck to only parse recently edited text files
* The AsciiDoc detection has been reworked to allow NUT to be built from
source without requiring asciidoc/a2x (using pre-built man pages from
the distribution tarball, for instance)
* Makefile contents rearranged for more resilient out-of-tree and in-tree
builds beside those made from the root workspace directory
* Makefiles are tested with GNU Make and BSD Make to ensure portable recipes
* More use of `pkg-config` to detect dependencies at configure time, as
well as fail-safe detection of presence of pkg-config (and its macros)
to survive and build without it too
* "slibtool" pedantic nuances now supported, allowing an alternative to
GNU libtool
* Build scripts updated to remove obsoleted calls to cleanly work with
autoconf-2.70 releases in 2020 (also works with 2.69 which was the
earlier release since 2012)
* Dynamic library loading used in certain programs and use-cases improved,
especially for 64-bit vs 32-bit builds on multiple-bitness OSes
* Logging routines like `upsdebugx()` were refactored as macros so there
is slightly less overhead when logging is disabled [PRs #685 and #1100]
* Numerous classes of compilation warnings eradicated, many of those being
potential issues with implicit data type conversions and varied numeric
type width, signedness, string buffer size, uninitialized variables or
structure fields; some more in progress
* Several logical errors found and fixed during this walk over codebase.
* Cases where compilers were overly zealous and particular code was written
the way wit was intentionally, including some comparisons that help with
different-bitness builds but indeed seem superfluous in a certain single
bitness, were commented and encased in pragmas to disable the warnings
* Basic coding style (indentations, lack of trailing white space) applied
per developer guide, but not automatically enforced/checked yet.
- Due to changes needed to resolve build warnings, mostly about mismatching
data types for some variables, some structure definitions and API signatures
of several routines had to be changed for argument types, return types,
or both. Primarily this change concerns internal implementation details
(may impact update of NUT forks with custom drivers using those), but a
few changes also happened in header files installed for builds configured
`--with-dev` and so may impact `upsclient` and `nutclient` (C++) consumers.
At the very least, binaries for those consumers should be rebuilt to remain
stable with NUT 2.8.0 and not mismatch int-type sizes and other arguments.
- As usual, more bugfixes, cleanup and improvements, on both source code
and documentation.
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Release notes for NUT 2.7.4 - what's new since 2.7.3:
- New class of device supported: ATS - Automatic Transfer Switch are now
supported in NUT. Eaton ATS are supported, and APC ones should be too. Users
are welcomed to test and provide feedback
- NUT command and variable naming scheme:
* Document battery.charger.status, which will in time replace the historic
CHRG and DISCHRG flags published in ups.status
* Many extensions to support outlets groups, thresholds / alarms (ambient,
input, output, outlet and outlet.group)
- support for new devices:
AEG PROTECT B / NAS
APC ATS AP7724 (should be supported)
Asium P700
Eaton ATS
Eaton 5E 1100iUSB
Eaton E Series DX UPS 1-20 kVA
Eaton Powerware 9125-5000g
Electrys UPS 2500
Fideltronic INIGO Viper 1200
Legrand Keor Multiplug
LYONN CTB-800V
Micropower LCD 1000
NHS Laser Senoidal 5000VA
Sweex model P220
TS Shara
Various APCUPSD-controlled APC devices
- snmp-ups:
* Improve automatic detection algorithm
* Provide access to Net-SNMP timeout and retries
* Proper handling of integer RW variables
* Implement support for alarms, through ups.alarm and outlet.n.alarm
* Improve log/debug output trace
* Fix loss of precision when setting values, using upsrw
* Support for outlets group management
* Many improvements and simplification
* Add support for Tripplite units using IETF mib
* Improve communication staleness detection and recovery
* Add devices MAC address publication
* Register values enumerations, when available
* Many improvements and fixes to the SNMP subdriver creation script
- Eaton:
* 3ph SNMP:
Many improvements to Powerware / XUPS MIB, for data and commands
Add support for Eaton Power Xpert Gateway UPS Card
Improve support for temperature and humidity, including low / high values
Alarms handling
* ePDU (G2 and G3):
Improve support for ambient sensor, including thresholds and dry contacts
Outlet groups handling, including data, thresholds, settings and commands
Alarms handling
* XML/PDC (netxml-ups):
Fix Eaton XML published data
Add some settings (R/W flags) on ambient thresholds
- bcmxcp_usb: improvements for device claiming and multi-packets responses
- dummy-ups: allow any variable to be modified
- libnutclient: Fix for reads when the socket was closed by NUT server
- macosx-ups:
* fix for 10.10 (Yosemite), v1.1
* gracefully handle disconnection of UPS (return "data stale")
- nutdrv_atcl_usb: point to nutdrv_qx (fuji) for 0001:0000
- nutdrv_qx:
* Add new 'sgs' USB subdriver to support TS Shara units
* various improvements and simplification, to the code and documentation
- nut-ipmipsu: improve FreeIPMI support
- nut-scanner:
* Don't depend on development libraries, by looking at some known paths,
including the one provided through --libdir, to find the correct libraries
* Fix a crash on a 2nd call to libnutscan with SNMP method
- powercom: fix the processing of input and output voltage for KIN units
- solis:
* many improvements and cleanup
* resync with end-of-packet character
* fixes for Microsol Back-Ups BZ1200-BR
- tripplitesu: Fix initialization when tripplite firmware is buggy (for
Tripplite SU1000RT2U and possibly more)
- usbhid-ups:
* various minor improvements
* support for Eaton UPS with dual HID report descriptor in HID Parser
* handle missing USB strings in APC code
- SSL support through Mozilla NSS: Rework the NSS tests to ensure that NSS is
actually installed and usable for enabling SSL support in NUT
- Augeas support: Augeas lens for ups.conf was updated to add various missing
global directives and ups fields
- scripts/systemd/nut-server.service.in: Restore systemd relationship since it
was preventing upsd from starting whenever one or more drivers, among several,
was failing to start
- Fix UPower device matching for recent kernels, since hiddev* devices now have
class "usbmisc", rather than "usb"
- Network protocol information: default to type NUMBER for variables that are
not flagged as STRING . This point is subject to improvements or change in
the next release 2.7.5. Refer to docs/net-protocol.txt for more information
- As usual, more bugfixes, cleanup and improvements, on both source code
and documentation.
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Release notes for NUT 2.7.3 - what's new since 2.7.2:
- reverted POWERDOWNFLAG to /etc/killpower as in 2.6.5 (packagers may want to
put this in another filesystem, though)
- configure/make fixes for ${systemdsystemunitdir}
- apcsmart: fix command set parsing for protocol version 4 (e.g. Smart-UPS
RT 10000 XL)
- upslog: SIGUSR1 forces an immediate log entry
- riello_usb/_ser: USB interface claim fix; improved error handling
- usbhid-ups: add support for OpenUPS2 (PID: D005), Liebert GXT3 (PID: 0008)
APC AP9584 Serial->USB kit (PID: 0000), and some Powercom models
(PID: 0001). Fixed scaling for Cyberpower 0764:0501.
- USB core: do not call usb_set_altinterface(0) by default
- nutdrv_qx: added fabula, fuji USB and Voltronic-QS-HEX subdrivers; add
bestups subdriver to supersede the old standalone bestups driver
- NUT Monitor: added FreeDesktop AppData file (including screenshots)
- renamed udev rules file to 62-nut-usbups.rules (permissions fix)
- added AIX packaging
- asem: added a driver for the UPS in ASEM PB1300 embedded PCs
- solis: updated to support APC Microsol units sold in Brazil
- tripplite_usb: updated to use dv/dq charge calculation for all models (also
exposes battery_min and battery max as configuration variables); added
binary 3005 protocol support (such as for SMART500RT1U)
- genericups: better debugging while parsing the cable description flags
- all drivers: a new 'synchronous' driver flag is available for very verbose
units, such as some ePDUs
- Eaton:
* Add support for EnergySaving features for Eaton UPSs (HID USB/SHUT and
XCP USB/serial)
* Fix and complete Eaton ePDUs G2/G3 support
* ABM (Advanced Battery Monitoring) support through battery.charger.status
in HID (USB and SHUT), XCP (USB and serial) and SNMP (Powerware XUPS
MIB)
- support for new devices:
APC Back-UPS 1200BR and Back-UPS BZ2200BI-BR (Microsol)
ASEM SPA PB1300 UPS
Belkin Regulator PRO-USB
Cyber Power Systems Value 1500ELCD-RU
EUROCASE EA200N 2000VA
Fideltronik LUPUS 500
Flight Technic & International (FTUPS) FT-1000BS and FT-1000BS(T)
Grafenthal PR-3000-HS
JAWAN JW-UPSLC02
Lacerda New Orion 800VA
Mecer ME-1000-WTU
NHS Sistemas de Energia Expert C Online 6000/8000/10000
NHS Sistemas de Energia Expert S Online 6000/8000/10000
Powercom BNT-xxxAP (USB product id: 0001)
Rucelf UPOII-3000-96-EL
Tripp Lite OMNIVSINT800
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:
- This release is the second interim release of the 2.7 testing series.
- libupsclient had undefined references related to functions of libcommon.
This issue was reported on Debian (bug #731156) and is now fixed
- support for new devices:
CABAC UPS-1700DV2
Eaton Powerware 3105
Emerson Network Power Liebert PSI 1440
MicroDowell B.Box LP 500
Numeric Digital 800 plus
OptiUPS VS 575C
Tripp Lite SU10KRT3/1X
- FreeDesktop Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) support was removed.
- nutdrv_atcl_usb: new driver for 'ATCL FOR UPS'
- al175: re-introduced this driver (actually, it was in 2.7.1)
- upsdrvctl now provides retry options for upsdrvctl and driver(s)
- snmp-ups: add support for XPPC-MIB and Tripp Lite SU10KRT3/1X.
Also fix erroneous status in HP/Compaq SNMP MIB (with the most recent HP
firmware (1.76) ; improved various MIBs (APC, HP/Compaq, ...)
- nutdrv_qx: add new 'fallback' Q1 subdriver, with minimal 'Q1' support.
General improvements on all subdrivers.
- mge-shut: partially revert PnP/RTS change, for initializing the
communication with the UPS. Note that nut-scanner similar function was
not modified however.
- FreeBSD DEVD support: generate devd.conf files for USB UPSes
This adds a --with-devd-dir=PATH option to ./configure
- The NUT website was moved to a standalone website. A separate code
repository and source archive are now available.
- As usual, more bugfixes, cleanup and improvements, on both source code
and documentation.
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Release notes for NUT 2.7.1 - what's new since 2.6.5:
- This release is an interim release, part of the testing series, and the
first release after the transition from Subversion to Git.
The last release (2.6.5) is almost a year old. A lot of work has
been done, but a good amount remains to achieve 2.8.0 goals.
Please read the UPGRADING notes.
- Added support for SSL via the Mozilla NSS library, in addition to the
existing OpenSSL support.
- Added a new driver, nutdrv_qx, for Megatec/Qx devices. This driver will
eventually replace the blazer_ser and blazer_usb drivers. In particular, it
adds support for Voltronic Power devices.
- Increased USB_TIMEOUT to standards-compliant 5.000 seconds in most drivers.
This should reduce the number of timeouts on low-speed USB 1.1 devices.
- The jNut Java source has been split into a separate GitHub repository.
- Added many devices to the HCL. Of particular note are many Tripp Lite USB
HID PDC models which were tested against NUT by Tripp Lite.
- Reworked some visual elements of the HCL. The output is better tailored for
graphical and text-only browsers, but suggestions are welcome for additional
accessibility enhancements.
- Also increased timeouts and added redundant commands to improve reliability
of mge-utalk driver.
- Added the apcupsd-ups driver to interoperate with apcupsd installations.
- Added documentation on creating subdrivers for snmp-ups and nutdrv_qx.
- Added new drivers for the Riello UPS product line (riello_ser/riello_usb).
- Many improvements to the BCM/XCP drivers have been merged in. This includes
an improved data reception loop, and additional mappings.
- Added a few variables to the Powercom HID mappings.
- Updated the apcsmart driver, and renamed the previous driver to apcsmart-old.
- Fixed the battery percentage calculation in the bestfcom driver.
- libnutclient has been added as a C++ alternative to libupsclient.
- Packaging files for Solaris and HP-UX (sponsored by Eaton)
- Fix shutdown of Eaton HID, using usbhid-ups and mge-shut
- usbhid-ups: final fix for APC Back UPS ES. APC Back UPS ES devices have
buggy firmware, and this version does not cause a regression. The max_report
variable should be set automatically based on the USB identification values.
- nut-scanner: fix crash
- IPMI support can handle more different versions of FreeIPMI
- Support power supplies scan over the network
nut-scanner can now scan for power supplies with IPMI over LAN.
This is currently limited to IPMI 1.5 only
- Implement a framework to spell check documentation source files,
using Aspell. This includes an interactive build target (make
spellcheck-interactive), and an automated one (make spellcheck),
mainly for QA / Buildbot purpose. Note that a base NUT dictionary
is also available (docs/nut.dict), providing a glossary of terms
related to power devices and management
- Improve systemd integration
- snmp-ups: Fixed a crash on outlet management, and added delta_ups MIB
support. Also fixed mappings for upsBypassVoltage, upsBypassCurrent, and
upsBypassPower in three-phase IETF MIB.
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Release notes for NUT 2.6.5 - what's new since 2.6.4:
- This release fixes 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