[monit] [Announce] monit 5.0 beta6

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

Monit 5.0 beta6 is now available:

Download from: http://mmonit.com/monit/dist/beta/monit-5.0_beta6.tar.gz

MD5 checksum:    a4d9224d08f885b46b418ede0fad592e
SHA256 checksum:  
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Change log:      http://mmonit.com/monit/dist/beta/CHANGES.txt

This is a new features and bugfix release which has been tested on the  
following platforms:

CentOS 4.7             [x86]
CentOS 5.2             [x86]
Debian 4.0             [x86]
Fedora 9               [x86]
FreeBSD 6.3            [x86 + x64]
FreeBSD 7.0            [x86 + x64]
Mac OS X 10.5.6        [x86 + ppc]
NetBSD 4.0             [x86]
OpenBSD 4.1            [x86]
Solaris 10             [sparc]
OpenSolaris            [sparc]
Ubuntu 8.04            [x64]


Release plan:
-------------

This is the last planned beta release before Monit is released in  
January (2009) along with M/Monit. A RC candidate may be release medio  
January. For those sharp eyed of you wondering when we released beta  
5, the answer is that it was never released. We jumped straight to  
beta 6 with this release to align the beta version scheme with M/Monit  
to make all these beta releases less confusing and use the same  
version number.


Contact:
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If you have questions or comments about this release, please send them  
to this mailing list.


Changes in this release:
------------------------


NEW FEATURES AND FUNCTIONS:
* Monit now generates a unique id on first start and store the
  id in a permanent file. This id is used in protocol
  communication between Monit and M/Monit to pair a Monit
  instance with it's host entry in M/Monit. By default the id
  file is placed in $HOME/.monit.id. The location can be
  changed by using the set idfile statement, for example:
    set idfile /var/monit.id

BUGFIXES:
* Allow localhost as a value for the host header in the http
  protocol test instead of setting an empty host header and
  let the http server decide

* The 'if changed checksum ...' test can now be used even if a
  monitored file doesn't exist at monit startup. Thanks to Joe
  Shang for report.

* If both event handlers (M/Monit and mail alerts) temporarily
  failed at once and event queue was enabled, events will be
  stored in the queue and delivered in the next cycle.
  However, a bug caused delivery to be retried for every cycle
  for both handlers if just one of them was recovered. Monit
  could then deliver the same message multiple times until
  both handlers recovered. The problem is now fixed and only
  one copy of the event is sent even if only one handler
  recovered.


** Merry Christmas and the best wishes for a happy new year! **


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