1smartmontools NEWS 2------------------ 3$Id: NEWS 5155 2020-12-30 16:49:18Z chrfranke $ 4 5The most up-to-date version of this file is: 6https://www.smartmontools.org/browser/trunk/smartmontools/NEWS 7 8Date 2020-12-30 9Summary: smartmontools release 7.2 10----------------------------------------------------------- 11- smartctl: New option '--json=y[c]' selects YAML output. 12- smartctl '-i': Prints ATA TRIM and Zoned Device capabilities. 13- smartctl '-j': Fixed 'scsi_grown_defect_list' value. 14- smartctl '-a': Prints SCSI 'Accumulated power on time'. 15- smartctl '-n POWERMODE': SCSI support. 16- smartctl '-s standby,now' and '-s standby,off': SCSI support. 17- smartctl '-c': NVMe 1.4 additions. 18- smartd: Support for staggered self-tests. 19- smartd: No longer writes attribute log if no attributes were read 20 due to standby mode or other error. 21- smartd: Now resolves symlinks before device names are checked for 22 duplicates. 23- smartd: Fixed SMARTD_DEVICETYPE environment variable if DEVICESCAN is 24 used without '-d TYPE'. 25- ATA: Device type '-d jmb39x-q,N' for JMB39x protocol variant used by 26 some QNAP NAS devices. 27- ATA: Device type '-d jms56x,N' for JMS562 USB to SATA RAID bridges. 28- SCSI: Improved heuristics for log subpages of new and very old disks. 29- NVMe: Log transfer size limited to avoid device or kernel crashes. 30- NVMEe/USB: Device type '-d sntrealtek' for Realtek RTL9210 USB to 31 NVMe bridges. 32- update-smart-drivedb: New option '--branch X.Y'. 33- HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database. 34- Dropped support for pre-C99 snprintf(). 35- configure: Dropped option '--without-working-snprintf'. 36- configure: Fixed '-fstack-protector*' detection. 37- Linux: Various fixes of smartd.service file. 38- Darwin: NVMe log support. 39- FreeBSD: Device scan does no longer include T_ENCLOSURE devices. 40- NetBSD: Fixed timeout handling. 41- NetBSD big endian: Fixed ATA register handling. 42- OpenBSD: Fixed timeout handling. 43- Windows: Dropped backward compatibility fixes for very old compilers. 44 45Date 2019-12-30 46Summary: smartmontools release 7.1 47----------------------------------------------------------- 48- smartctl: Fixed bogus exception on unknown form factor value (regression). 49- smartctl '--json=cg': Suppresses extra spaces also in 'g' format. 50- smartctl '-i': ATA ACS-4 and ACS-5 enhancements. 51- smartd: No longer truncates very long device names in warning emails. 52- smartd: No longer skips scheduled tests if system clock has been adjusted 53 to the past. 54- smartd '-A': Attribute logs now use local time instead of UTC. 55- ATA: Device type '-d jmb39x,N' for drives behind JMicron JMB39x RAID port 56 multipliers. 57- SCSI: Workaround for incomplete Log subpages response from some SAS SSDs. 58- HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database. 59- Autodetection of '-d sntjmicron' type for JMicron USB to NVMe bridges. 60- configure: Defines '_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' if supported and not defined. 61- Linux/FreeBSD: Fixed segfault on CCISS transfer sizes > 512 bytes. 62- Linux: Fixed smartd.service 'Type' if libsystemd-dev is not available. 63- Linux: Fixed '/dev/megaraid_sas_ioctl_node' fd leak. 64- Linux: Fixed GPL licensing problem of 'linux_nvme_ioctl.h'. 65- FreeBSD update-smart-drivedb: Now uses 'fetch' as default download tool. 66- FreeBSD big endian: Fixed NVMe access. 67- FreeBSD: Compile fix for FreeBSD 12. 68- NetBSD: Fixed device scan crash on empty name list. 69- NetBSD: Fixed memory leak in device scan. 70- Windows: Fixed log page access via Windows 10 NVMe driver for NVMe 1.2.1+. 71- Windows: Allow drive letters as device names for Windows 10 NVMe driver. 72- Windows: Workround to allow CSMI access to devices behind AMD RAID drivers. 73- Windows: Fixed MinGW options to add relocation info if ASLR is enabled. 74- Windows wtssendmsg: No longer writes '\n' line endings to event log. 75- Windows wtssendmsg: New options '-t' and '-w'. 76 77Date 2018-12-30 78Summary: smartmontools release 7.0 79----------------------------------------------------------- 80- smartctl: New options '-j' and '--json[=giosu]' to enable experimental 81 JSON output mode. Also supports an alternative flat format suitable 82 for grep ('--json=g'). 83- smartctl '-l devstat': Fix for logs with 256 sectors. 84- smartctl '-l error': Prints SCSI Pending Defects log page if supported. 85- smartctl '-H': Prints SCSI Format Status log page if supported. 86- smartctl '-x': Now includes '-l defects'. 87- NVMe/USB: Device type '-d sntjmicron' for NVMe drives behind JMicron USB 88 to NVMe bridges. 89- NVMe: SMART/Health Information and Error Information are always read with 90 broadcast NSID. 91- SCSI: Various improvements for the decoding of log pages. 92- SCSI: Improved handling of READ CAPACITY command. 93- SCSI: Support for SAS host managed drives. 94- New option '-d scsi+TYPE' to disable SAT auto detection for 'aacraid' 95 and 'cciss'. 96- update-smart-drivedb: New option '-u github'. 97- update-smart-drivedb: New signing key. 98- configure: New options '--with-cxx11-regex' and '--with-libsystemd'. 99- configure: Default for '--with-nvme-devicescan' is now 'yes' on Linux 100 and Windows. 101- configure: Default for '--with-scriptpath' now includes '/usr/local/bin'. 102- configure: Options '-with-initscriptdir=[auto|yes]' are no longer 103 supported. 104- Reworked handling of unaligned LE and BE integers. 105- Dropped various backward compatibility fixes for very old compilers. 106- Replaced GPL header with 'SPDX-License-Identifier' in all source files. 107- HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database. 108- Always use '-d sat' for USB vendor IDs with known SAT support. 109- Linux: Device scan with '-d by-id' scans '/dev/disk/by-id/*' symlinks. 110- Linux: Dropped device scan support for devfs. 111- Linux: Fixed device scan with multiple '-d TYPE' options. 112- Linux: Fixed device scan crash on missing '/proc/devices'. 113- Linux: USB ID detection also for '/dev/sgN'. 114- Linux: Compile fix for systems with musl libc. 115- Linux smartd: Could now run as systemd service with 'Type=notify' set. 116- FreeBSD: NVMe device scanning. 117- FreeBSD: Various compile fixes. 118- NetBSD: Fixed regression in name based device type detection. 119- NetBSD big endian: Fixed regression in ATA code. 120- NetBSD big endian: Fixed byte ordering of ATA IDENTIFY data from USB/SAT 121 drives. 122- Windows: Improved search for actual CSMI port number. 123- Windows: Installer includes VERSIONINFO resource. 124 125Date 2017-11-05 126Summary: smartmontools release 6.6 127----------------------------------------------------------- 128- smartctl '-i' and '--identify': ATA ACS-4 and SATA 3.3 enhancements. 129- smartctl: Control ATA write cache through SCT Feature Control 130 with '-s wcache-sct,ata|on|off[,p]' and '-g wcache-sct'. 131- smartctl: Print ATA Pending Defects log with '-l defects'. 132- smartctl '-s wcreorder,on|off': New persistent flag ',p'. 133- smartctl '-s standby': Prevent temporary drive spinup. 134- smartctl '-n POWERMODE': New parameter to set exit status. 135- smartctl '-g security': ATA Security Level check fixed. 136- smartctl '-l scttemp*': Print minimum supported ERC Time Limit. 137- smartctl '-q noserial': Now also suppresses "SAS address" output. 138- smartctl '-i': Print IEEE EUI-64 of NVMe namespace. 139- smartctl '-c': Print NVMe 1.3 feature flags. 140- smartctl '-A': Print NVMe 1.3 thermal temperature transition 141 statistic. 142- smartctl '-g/s dsn': Get/set ATA DSN. 143- smartd: Uses also device identify information to detect for duplicate 144 devices. 145- smartd '-e dsn' directive: Set ATA DSN. 146- smartd: Improved SCSI/SAS temperature logging. 147- smartd: Silence emails and log messages on open errors of 148 '-d removable' devices. 149- smartd: Exit on device open error unless '-q never' or '-d removable' 150 is specified (regression). 151- update-smart-drivedb: Now authenticates downloaded file with GnuPG. 152- update-smart-drivedb: New options '--trunk', '--no-verify' and 153 '--export-key'. 154- Device type '-d intelliprop,N' for IntelliProp controllers. 155- SCSI: Default timeout increased to 1 minute. 156- configure: New options '--with-gnupg', '--with-scriptpath' and 157 '--with-update-smart-drivedb=X.Y' 158- configure: Checks for C++11 support option and requires 159 '--with[out]-cxx11-option' if option unknown or no C++11 support. 160- HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database. 161- New smartmontools-* mailing list addresses. 162- Man page formatting reworked. 163- Linux: Uses SG_IO V4 API if supported. 164- Linux: Devices behind hpsa driver are no longer detected as regular 165 SCSI devices. 166- Darwin: Initial NVMe support based on undocumented API. 167- FreeBSD: Fix panic on INVARIANTS enabled kernel. 168- FreeBSD: Improve ATA SMART STATUS check for legacy controllers. 169- FreeBSD: Compile fix for FreeBSD-11 and newer. 170- NetBSD: NVMe support. 171- NetBSD: Full 28-bit ATA support. 172- NetBSD: Compile fix. 173- NetBSD: Use a raw disk device file. 174- OpenBSD: Compile fix. 175- OS/2: Support for the OS2AHCI driver, updating source code, 176 adding autoscan support, adding self-test support. 177- Windows: Support for Windows 10 NVMe driver (stornvme.sys). 178- Windows: Fix CSMI access for IRST driver 15.2. 179- Windows smartd: Ability to run PowerShell scripts with '-M exec'. 180- Windows smartd: New PowerShell script to send smartd warning emails 181 without external tools. 182- Windows package: Now provides PDF man pages. 183 184Date 2016-05-07 185Summary: smartmontools release 6.5 186----------------------------------------------------------- 187- Experimental support for NVMe devices on FreeBSD, Linux and Windows. 188- smartctl '-i', '-c', '-H' and '-l error': NVMe support. 189- smartctl '-l nvmelog': New option for NVMe. 190- smartd.conf '-H', '-l error' and '-W': NVMe support. 191- Optional NVMe device scanning support on Linux and Windows. 192- configure option '--with-nvme-devicescan' to include NVMe in 193 default device scanning result. 194- Device scanning now allows to specify multiple '-d TYPE' options. 195- ATA: Added new POWER MODE values introduced in ATA ACS-2. 196- ATA: SCT commands are no longer issued if ATA Security is locked. 197- SCSI: LB provisioning improvements. 198- SCSI: Fixed GLTSD bit set/cleared info messages. 199- SCSI: Solid State media log page is no longer checked for tapes. 200- SCSI: Improved handling when no tape cartridge in drive. 201- SCSI: Workaround for buggy Seagate firmware. 202- SAT: Improved heuristics to detect bogus sense data from SAT layer. 203- smartd: Fixed crash on missing argument to '-s' directive. 204- update-smart-drivedb: Now uses HTTPS for download by default. 205- update-smart-drivedb: New options to select URL and download tool. 206- update-smart-drivedb: New download tool 'svn'. 207- configure option '--without-update-smart-drivedb' to disable 208 update-smart-drivedb script. 209- configure options '--disable-drivedb', '--enable-savestates', 210 '--enable-attributelog' and '--with-docdir' are no longer supported. 211- autoconf < 2.60 and automake < 1.10 are no longer supported. 212- Drive database file now also includes the DEFAULT setting 213 for each attribute. 214- HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database. 215- Darwin: New support files for package installer. 216 New makefile target 'install-darwin' builds DMG image. 217- Solaris: Auto detection of SATA devices behind SAT layer. 218- Solaris SPARC: Legacy ATA support disabled by default. 219 New configure option '--with-solaris-sparc-ata' enables it. 220 File os_solaris_ata.s is no longer included in source tarball. 221- Windows: Auto detection of USB devices specified by drive letter. 222- Windows: Device scanning does no longer ignore unknown USB devices. 223- Windows: Prevent drive spin up by '-n standby' check. 224- Windows: New application manifests indicating Win 10 support. 225- Windows smartd: '-m [sys]msgbox' is no longer supported. 226- Windows installer: Defaults to 64-bit version on 64-bit Windows. 227- Various code changes suggested by Clang Static Analyser and Cppcheck. 228 229Date 2015-06-04 230Summary: smartmontools release 6.4 231----------------------------------------------------------- 232- Device type '-d usbprolific' for Prolific PL2571/277x USB bridges. 233- SAT: Support for ATA registers returned in fixed format sense data. 234- smartctl '-i' and '--identify': ATA ACS-4 and SATA 3.2 enhancements. 235- smartctl '-l xerror': Support for logs with more than 255 pages. 236- smartctl '-l devstat': Prints ACS-3 DSN flags. 237- smartctl '-l devstat': Read via SMART command if GP log is not 238 available. 239- smartctl '-l scttempsts': Prints SCT SMART STATUS (ACS-4) and 240 vendor specific SCT bytes. 241- configure option '--with-systemdenvfile=auto' as new default. 242- configure options '--disable-drivedb', '--enable-savestates' 243 and '--enable-attributelog' are deprecated. 244- Corresponding '--with-*' options are enhanced accordingly. 245- Configure option '--with-docdir' is deprecated. 246- autoconf < 2.60 and automake < 1.10 are deprecated. 247 (all of the above still work but a warning is printed if used) 248- HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database. 249- Linux: AACRAID fixes, SMART STATUS should work now. 250- Linux: '/dev/megaraid_sas_ioctl_node' fd leak fix. 251- Darwin: '-S' command implemented, '-l devstat' should work now. 252- Cygwin: Compile fix. 253- Windows: Device type '-d aacraid' for AACRAID controllers. 254- Windows: SAT autodetection based on IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY. 255- Windows installer: Fix possible loss of user PATH environment variable. 256 257Date 2014-07-26 258Summary: smartmontools release 6.3 259----------------------------------------------------------- 260- smartctl: Fixed bogus error messages from '-g/-s wcreorder'. 261- smartctl prints ATA form factor. 262- SCSI: Improved support of modern disks (SAS SSDs). 263- SCSI: Fixed sense data noise from old disks. 264- update-smart-drivedb man page. 265- configure option '--with-smartdscriptdir'. 266- configure option '--with-smartdplugindir'. 267- configure option '--with-systemdenvfile'. 268- configure option '--with-working-snprintf'. 269- Removed build time stamps to support reproducible builds. 270- Compile fixes for C++11. 271- HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database. 272- Linux: Support for controllers behind AACRAID driver. 273- Linux: Fixed DEVICESCAN max path count. 274- FreeBSD: Fixed possible crash caused by wrong SCSI error handling. 275- FreeBSD: Compile fix for kFreeBSD. 276- Windows: Reworked CSMI port scanning. 277- QNX: Compile fix. 278 279Date 2013-07-26 280Summary: smartmontools release 6.2 281----------------------------------------------------------- 282- smartctl: Added ATA write cache reordering control using 283 '-g wcreorder' and '-s wcreorder,[on|off]' options. 284- update-smart-drivedb: Updated for new SVN repository. 285- HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database. 286- Areca RAID support: Fixed possible segfault on empty port. 287- HPT RAID support: Maximum disk number increased to 128. 288- Linux: RHEL 9 compile fixes. 289- FreeBSD: Device scanning now skips port multipliers. 290- Cygwin: 64-bit compile fixes. 291- Windows: Fixed bogus temp file name in smartd_warning.cmd 292 (already included in smartmontools-6.1-2.win32-setup.exe). 293- Windows: smartd service is no longer installed as interactive. 294 295Date 2013-03-16 296Summary: smartmontools release 6.1 297----------------------------------------------------------- 298- smartctl '-l directory': improved output format. 299- smartctl: Fix parsing of '-l select,cont+SIZE' option. 300- smartctl prints ATA Additional Product Id (OEM Id). 301- smartctl '-s/-g wcache' for SCSI devices to control write cache. 302- smartctl '-s/-g rcache' for SCSI devices to control read cache. 303- smartctl prints more info for SCSI devices: media rotation rate, 304 form factor, physical block size, lowest LBA alignement, 305 logical block provisioning, disk protection type 306 and selftest progress status. 307- smartctl '--identify' updated for latest ATA ACS-3 spec. 308- smartd runs /etc/smartd_warning.sh to generate warning emails 309 (Windows: smartd_warning.cmd). 310- smartd '-w PATH' option to specify this executable. 311- smartd '-d ignore' directive. 312- smartd DEVICESCAN ignores devices already specified. 313- smartd: added support for state persistence ('-s') and attribute logging 314 ('-A') for SCSI devices. 315- smartd '-W' directive uses ATA attribute 190 if 194 is missing. 316- Support of larger SCSI defect lists via READ DEFECT(12). 317- Device type '-d usbjmicron,p' for Prolific USB bridges. 318- Many HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database. 319- Linux: Support for SAS disks behind Areca controllers. 320- Linux: Improved support for SATA disks on LSI/Megaraid controllers 321- Linux: disks on MegaRaid controllers are automatically scanned 322- FreeBSD: Support for SAS disks behind Areca controllers. 323- FreeBSD: Enhanced ATA command support for 3ware. 324- FreeBSD: Support for 3ware 9750 (/dev/twsX). 325- FreeBSD: Fixed support for 48-bit ATA commands on legacy controllers 326 with ATACAM driver. 327- FreeBSD: Improved support for SAS/SCSI disks on LSI/Megaraid controllers. 328- Windows: smartd.conf '-M exec' supports path names with spaces. 329- Windows: Tool wtssendmsg.exe to handle smartd.conf '-m console'. 330- Windows: DEVICESCAN now supports up to 128 drives. 331- Windows: smartctl.exe and smartd.exe include VERSIONINFO resource. 332- Windows: smartd.exe includes MESSAGETABLE resource. 333- Windows: syslogevt.exe is no longer provided. 334 335Date 2012-10-10 336Summary: smartmontools release 6.0 337----------------------------------------------------------- 338- option/directive '-F nologdir' and '-F xerrorlba'. 339- smartctl '--identify' option. 340- smartctl prints nominal media rotation rate (ATA). 341- smartctl prints SATA version and speed. 342- smartctl '-l sataphy' works for CD/DVD drives also. 343- smartctl '-x' includes ATA Device Statistics. 344- smartd warning emails include device identify info. 345- smartd '-d' output is flushed to support redirection. 346- HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database. 347- Windows smartd: smartd.conf directives '-m console', 348 '-m active', '-m connected'. 349- Windows: Support for SAS disks behind Areca controllers. 350- Windows: Win9x/ME and NT4 are no longer supported. 351 352Date 2012-06-30 353Summary: smartmontools release 5.43 354----------------------------------------------------------- 355- smartctl options '-g, --get' and '-s, --set' to get/set 356 various ATA settings: AAM, APM, Read look-ahead, Write 357 cache, Security (freeze), Standby mode/timer. 358- smartd directive '-e' to set (most of) the above settings 359 on startup. 360- smartctl options '-f hex' and '-f hex,[id|val]'. 361- smartctl does not start ATA self-test if another test is 362 already running. Override with new option '-t force'. 363- smartctl supports extended self-test polling times 364 greater than 255 minutes. 365- Controller-independent SAT detection: '-d sat,auto[+TYPE]'. 366- smartd.conf DEFAULT directive. 367- Many HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database. 368- Linux and FreeBSD: Support for SATA disks behind Areca SAS 369 RAID controllers and HP Smart Array controllers. 370- Windows: Support for SATA disks behind Areca controllers. 371- Windows smartd: directives '-l offlinests,ns' and 372 '-l selfteststs,ns'. 373- Windows installer: Combined 32-/64-bit support. 374- FreeBSD: fixed crash on SCSI devices with FreeBSD9-RC1 375 376Date 2011-10-20 377Summary: smartmontools release 5.42 378----------------------------------------------------------- 379- smartctl option '-l devstat' (Device Statistics). 380- smartctl option '-l ssd' (SSD endurance indicator). 381- smartd logs identify information of each SCSI/SAS device. 382- smartd resends warning emails if problem reappears. 383- smartd directives '-l offlinests' and '-l selfteststs'. 384- Many HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database. 385- Platform-specific man pages. 386- smartd.8 man page no longer includes smartd.conf.5. 387- FreeBSD: Compilation fixes. 388- FreeBSD: Support for Areca controllers. 389- FreeBSD: Fix '-l scterc' support. 390- FreeBSD: Support for 48-bit ATA commands. 391- Linux: Support for Areca controllers enhanced. 392- Windows installer: UAC support. 393- Windows: update-smart-drivedb /S(ilent) option. 394- Windows: improved USB ID detection. 395 396Date 2011-06-09 397Summary: smartmontools release 5.41 398----------------------------------------------------------- 399- Failed self-tests outdated by a newer successful extended 400 self-test are no longer reported as errors. 401- Support for ATA Long Logical/Physical Sectors (LLS/LPS). 402- 'smartctl --scan-open' can create a draft smartd.conf. 403- smartctl prints World Wide Name (WWN) of ATA device. 404- smartctl option '-f brief' to select new attribute output 405 format which includes more flags and fits in 80 columns. 406- smartd logs identify information and WWN of each ATA device. 407- smartd logs warning from drive database if present. 408- smartd logs changes of offline data collection status. 409- smartd directive '-l scterc,READTIME,WRITETIME'. 410- smartd preserves last scheduled selective self-tests span. 411- 'smartd.service' file for systemd. 412- configure option '--with-systemdsystemunitdir' 413- configure option '--with-exampledir'. 414- configure searches for init.d or rc.d directory. 415- 'make install' does no longer overwrite an existing 416 smartd.conf file. 417- 'update-smart-drivedb' does no longer require GNU sed. 418- Many HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database. 419- Linux USB autodetection: Enable '-d sat,16' for newer kernels. 420- Linux megaraid: Fix segfault on non-data SCSI commands. 421- Linux megaraid: Fix pass-through of non-data ATA commands. 422- FreeBSD: Use 'fetch' in 'update-smart-drivedb'. 423- OpenBSD: Use 'ftp' in 'update-smart-drivedb'. 424- OpenBSD: Workaround for shell bug. 425- OpenBSD: Fix DEVICESCAN for OpenBSD >= 4.8. 426- Windows: Experimental support for Intel ICHxR RAID. 427- Windows: DEVICESCAN includes USB devices. 428- Windows: Faster USB ID detection. 429- Windows: update-smart-drivedb tool. 430- Windows installer: Option '/SO component,...'. 431- Windows: Fix smartd warning email truncation on Win7. 432- Windows installer: Fix shortcut removal on Vista/Win7. 433- Windows: Add missing quotes in smartctl-run.bat and 434 smartd-run.bat 435 436Date 2010-10-16 437Summary: smartmontools release 5.40 438----------------------------------------------------------- 439- Other config entries may precede smartd DEVICESCAN. 440- Option '-v' allows to specify byte order of attribute raw value 441- configure: New default value for '--with-docdir'. 442- configure: '--enable-drivedb' is now the default. 443- Improved support for Intel SSDs. 444- Improved support for SandForce based SSDs. 445- Drive database is in a separate source file 'drivedb.h' 446 which can be downloaded from SVN. 447- USB ID info is now included in 'drivedb.h'. 448- Many additions to drive database. 449- New script 'update-smart-drivedb'. 450- smartd libcap-ng support, option '-C, --capabilities'. 451- smartd directive '-l xerror' to check Extended Comprehensive 452 SMART Error Log. 453- smartctl option '-l scterc[,...]' to get/set the 454 SCT Error Recovery Control time limit. 455- smartctl option '-t vendor,N'. 456- smartctl options '--scan, --scan-open'. 457- Linux: Add '/dev/sd[a-c][a-z]' to smartd DEVICESCAN. 458- Linux: Support SATA drives on LSI 3ware 9750 controllers. 459- Windows: Read 'drivedb.h' and 'smartd.conf' from exe directory. 460- Windows: Support for 64-bit executables. 461- Windows: Support for cross compilation on Linux. 462- Fix regression in smartctl option '-t select,M-N'. 463- Fix SCT temperature table commands on big endian CPUs. 464- Fix regression in smartd SMARTD_DEVICE and SMARTD_DEVICETYPE 465 environment variables. 466 467Date 2010-01-28 468Summary: smartmontools release 5.39.1 469----------------------------------------------------------- 470- Fix crash on kFreeBSD. 471- Fix regression in smartctl option '-q, --quietmode'. 472- Fix regression in smartd directive '-l selftest'. 473- Linux: Allow smartd 'DEVICESCAN -d sat'. 474- Linux: Fix spin-up of SATA drive if '-n standby' is used. 475- Windows: Fix parsing of 3ware 'tw_cli' output. 476 477Date 2009-12-09 478Summary: smartmontools release 5.39 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL) 479----------------------------------------------------------- 480- Sourcecode repository moved from CVS to SVN 481- Support for USB devices with Cypress, JMicron and Sunplus USB bridges 482- USB device type autodetection for some devices on Linux, Windows and FreeBSD 483 (http://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Supported_USB-Devices) 484- Support for Areca controllers on Linux 485- Support for MegaRAID controllers on Linux 486- Support for HighPoint RocketRAID controllers on FreeBSD 487- Support RAID controllers using /dev/pass devices on FreeBSD 488- Support CHECK_POWER_MODE and WRITE_LOG on FreeBSD 489- Support for up to 128 devices on 3ware controllers 490- smartctl option '-l xerror' to print ATA SMART Extended Comprehensive 491 Error Log 492- smartctl option '-l xselftest' to print ATA SMART Extended Self-test Log 493- smartctl option '-l sataphy' to print SATA Phy Event Counters 494- smartctl option '-l sasphy' to print SAS device phy information 495- smartctl options '-l gplog,...' and '-l smartlog,...' to print any log page 496- smartctl option '-x' to print all extended info if available 497- smartctl prints SCSI load/unload cycle counts 498- Improve display of huge raw values of some SMART attributes 499- Option '-d sat+TYPE' to use SAT with controllers which require '-d TYPE' 500- Option '-v ID,RAW_FORMAT,ATTR_NAME' to add new vendor specific attributes 501- Support for SSD drives using 64-bit raw attributes 502- Many additions to drive database 503- New simplified syntax for drive database 504- Option '-B FILE' to read drive database from a file 505- Configure option to add drive database file to distribution 506- smartd can now handle attributes 197 and 198 with increasing raw values 507- smartd logs changes of self-test execution status 508- smartd directive '-n powermode,N' to limit the number of skipped checks 509- smartd flag '!' for '-r' and '-R' directives to log changes as critical 510- smartd supports scheduled Selective Self-Tests 511- Self-tests scheduled during system downtime or disk standby are run after 512 next startup 513- smartd option '-s PREFIX' to store smartd internal state until next startup 514- smartd option '-A PREFIX' to log attributes at each check cycle 515- Configure options to enable the above by default 516- Change to an object oriented interface to access ATA and SCSI devices 517- Linux, Win32 and FreeBSD modules migrated to new interface 518- Rework of smartd data structures 519- Checkin date and SVN revision and optional BUILD_INFO printed in version info 520- Better support for GSmartControl on Windows 521- SELinux fixes to 3ware device node creation 522- Fix CCISS file descriptor leak on FreeBSD 523- Compile fixes for Solaris and FreeBSD 524- Use getaddrinfo() instead of gethostbyname() to support IPv6 525- C++ Support for QNX Target, already tested for QNX 6.3.2 on x86 and 526 armle target 527- Additional support for Samsung MLC flash drives 528- New device type detection algorithm on FreeBSD, not based on filename 529- Support for the adaX (ATA on CAM bus) devices on FreeBSD 8.0 and higher 530 531Date 2008-03-10 532Summary: smartmontools release 5.38 (STABLE) 533-------------------------------------------- 534This is a stable release of smartmontools. In addition to changes 535below, it includes: 536 - Libata/Marvell driver devices no longer need explicit '-d' switch 537 - DEVICESCAN automatically detects libata/marvell driver SATA devices 538 - Fixed auto-offline/autosave support in FreeBSD 539 - SAT device type + SCSI generic devices work properly with smartd under Linux 540 - Many additions to drive database 541 - More portable autogen/autoconf/automake script set 542 - Additional Windows IOCTL route to access SMART data 543 - Some ATA-8 updates 544 - Smoother CCISS compilation support in Linux 545 - Dragonfly support 546 - Fixed some ATA identity byte swap problems on big endian CPUs 547 - Added support for the QNX operating system 548 - No-fork option added to smartd 549 - Improved device scanning and drive type recognition in Windows 550 - 3ware support for controllers with more disks (32 max) 551 - Improved Windows installer 552 - Improved SMART Attribute list and descriptions 553 - Fix to smartctl return codes 554 - Fix to scheduled tests on Highpoint RAID controllers 555 - New samsung firmware bug workaround option 556 - Auto-offline and Auto-save fixed in Linux + libata 557 - Solaris: better SCSI support and support for Sun compilers AND gcc 558 - Fixed and improvements to CCISS support 559 - More options for SCSI temperature monitoring and history 560 - Additional command line options for selective self-tests 561 - Compilation fixes for various platforms. 562 563See CHANGELOG for more details, or smartmontools SVN for still further 564details. 565 566Date 2006-12-20 567Summary: smartmontools release 5.37 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL) 568----------------------------------------------------------- 569This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools. 570It includes: 571 572- Many additions to the table of known drives 573- SAT (SCSI/ATA Translation) support 574- SCSI background scan results log 575- smartd -W directive for temperature tracking and warning 576- smartctl -n option to check power state 577- improved smartd power state logging 578- CCISS support under Linux 579- HighPoint RocketRAID support under Linux 580- 3ware RAID support under Windows 581- SPT interface for SCSI devices under Windows 582- ATA selective self test under Windows XP/2003 583- NSIS installer support for Windows version 584- Started move from C to C++ 585- Various other improvements 586 587 588Date 2006-04-12 589Summary: smartmontools release 5.36 (STABLE) 590----------------------------------------------------------- 591This is a stable smartmontools release. The 5.34 version 592described just below was never officially released because 593Bruce Allen decided to wait until Linux support for 594accessing SATA devices through libata was in the official 595kernel.org sources. Changes include: 596 597- Win 2000/XP:ability to cancel drive self-tests 598- Additions to the table of known drives 599- FreeBSD support for 3ware char device interface and 600 multiple 3ware cards 601- Various cygwin improvements for running as service 602- Works 'out of the box' with Linux SATA libata 603- smartd option added to list test schedules 604- smartctl option added to list part of drive database 605- various improvements for SCSI disks and logs 606 607 608Date 2005-04-19 609Summary: smartmontools release 5.34 (STABLE) 610----------------------------------------------------------- 611This is a stable smartmontools release. It includes: 612- OS/2 and eComStation support 613All Platforms: 614 - Printing of drive family info 615 - SCSI disks: output size of grown defect list 616 - Added info about drive family to 'smartctl -i' output. 617 - Added option ',q' for smartd '-n' directive to suppress 618 'skipping checks' message which may spin up laptop disk. 619 - Added message if smartd '-n' check power mode spins up disk. 620Cygwin and Windows: 621 - Added info about Windows version and service pack to banner line. 622 - Added support for smartd '-n' directive for Win2000/XP. 623 - Added support for READ_LOG for WinNT4 also. 624 - Fixed bug that prevents display of empty logs on Win2000/XP 625 - Fixed use of cached smart enabled state in 'smartctl -i' output. 626Windows: 627 - Fixed bug that prevents running smartd as service on WinNT4. 628 629 630Date 2004-9-5 631Summary: smartmontools release 5.33 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL) 632----------------------------------------------------------- 633This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools. It includes 634 - support for Darwin/Mac OSX 635 - support for OpenBSD 636 - support for 3ware ATA RAID controllers under FreeBSD 637 - support for 3ware 9500 series SATA RAID controllers under 638 Linux. Use /dev/twa[0-15] devices to access these. 639 - support for 3ware character device interfaces /dev/twe[0-15] 640 under Linux. This allows (for example) Selective Self-tests. 641 - support for Marvell chip-set based SATA controllers under Linux. 642 - smartd mail now works also under Windows (using "Blat" mailer). 643 - smartd can now be run as a Windows service. 644Please report sucess/failure with these items to the 645smartmontools-support mailing list. 646 647 648Date 2004-7-5 649Summary: smartmontools release 5.32 (STABLE) 650----------------------------------------------------------- 651This is an stable release of smartmontools. 652Note added 2004/7/7: users building a Solaris/Intel version of the code should 653modify the 'configure' file, changing "pc-*-solaris*" on line 106 654to read "*-pc-solaris*". Reference: 655http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/configure.in?r1=1.83&r2=1.84 656 657 658Date: 2004-5-4 659Summary: smartmontools release 5.31 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL) 660----------------------------------------------------------- 661This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools. It includes 662several new features: 663- Windows smartd daemon 664- smartd now monitors current and pending sector counts 665- Support for ATA-7 selective self-test features (Linux/NetBSD only) 666 Please report sucess/failure with this option to the smartmontools-support 667 mailing list. 668 669Date: 2004-3-6 670Summary: smartmontools release 5.30 (STABLE) 671-------------------------------------------- 672This is a stable release of smartmontools: the first stable release 673since 5.26. 674- KNOWN BUG (identified/fixed by CF): smartd will segv and crash if 675 the configuration file /etc/smartd.conf contains NO valid entries. 676 This bug was introduced in version 1.259 of smartd.c by BA and 677 is present in smartmontools releases 5.27-5.30 inclusive. This can 678 be fixed by editing line 3165 of smartd.c, and changing: 679 "else if (cfgentries[0]) {" 680 to read: 681 "else if (cfgentries && cfgentries[0]) {" 682 683 684Date: 2004-2-24 685Summary: smartmontools release 5.29 (Experimental, not STABLE) 686-------------------------------------------------------------- 687This is another experimental release, to replace the 5.27 release that 688had a damaged configure script. The next stable release will be 5.30 689- This release has SCSI support for NetBSD 690 691 692Date: 2004-2-12 693Summary: smartmontools release 5.27 (Experimental, not STABLE) 694-------------------------------------------------------------- 695- WARNING: this release has a broken --prefix=/a/path option to the 696 configure script. The consequence is that smartd will not look for the 697 configuration file (smartd.conf) at the desired location. 698- NetBSD support added 699- A new Directive (-s) for smartd.conf now enables flexible automatic 700 scheduled self-testing for both ATA and SCSI devices. 701- Solaris now has ATA device support (SPARC only) 702- A new Directive (-n) for smartd.conf to avoid spinning up disks 703- Errors when smartd sends mail are now logged to SYSLOG 704- Solaris smartd mail now works correctly (uses mailx not mail) 705 706 707Date: 2003-11-29 708Summary: smartmontools release 5.26 709----------------------------------- 710This is a stable smartmontools release. The only known problem is 711that under Solaris, the email features of smartd do not work 'out of 712the box'. Three workarounds are: 713 [1] use '-M exec mailx' in /etc/smartd.conf 714 [2] in the start script for smartd, put /usr/ucb into PATH before 715 /bin 716 [3] upgrade to release 5.27 or later, or the latest CVS snapshot 717 718 719Date: 2003-11-19 720Summary: smartmontools release 5.25 721----------------------------------- 722This release should not hang when accessing USB devices. It provides 723smartd SCSI self-test log monitoring for self-test errors, and a 724larger table of known ATA drives. DEVICESCAN should work correctly 725even on file systems containing XFS or JFS partitions, and on machines 726that use devfs, even without traditional links. 727 728From this time on, even numbered releases will be 'stable' ones and 729odd numbered releases (like 5.25) will be unstable/testing/development 730releases. 731 732 733Date: 2003-10-30 734Summary: smartmontools release 5.23 735----------------------------------- 736This release has one known problem: DEVICESCAN device scanning does 737not work correctly if the disk with the /dev directory also has XFS 738or JFS file systems on it. 739 740 741Date: 2003-10-28 742Summary: smartmontools release 5.22 743----------------------------------- 744Replaces flawed 5.21 release: the -T verypermissive option had to be 745entered as -T verpermissive. First experimental solaris support (SCSI 746only). This release had a serious flaw: smartd left open file descriptors 747for devices that it couldn't monitor. 748 749 750Date: 2003-10-14 751Summary: smartmontools release 5.21 752----------------------------------- 753Preliminary support for FreeBSD added to smartmontools. For FreeBSD, 754ATA support requires a 5.1-CURRENT kernel while SCSI support should 755work across multiple versions (any that support CAM). 756 757 758Date: 2003-10-04 759Summary: smartmontools release 5.20 760----------------------------------- 761Replaces flawed 5.19 release (which had a zero-length man page 762smartd.conf.5). 763 764 765Date: 2003-10-03 766Summary: smartmontools release 5.19 767----------------------------------- 768This is the first release of smartmontools based on autoconf/automake. 769For this reason, it is a very experimental release. Please let us 770know in particular about documenation errors/omissions, missing or 771unneccesary files, and similar oversights. The major changes are: 772 [1] installation scripts based on autoconfig/automake 773 [2] ./configure [options] lets you set arbitrary paths 774 [3] supports FHS with ./configure --prefix=/usr/local 775 [4] correct paths are inserted into all man pages, binaries, etc. 776 [5] tarballs and RPMs are now GPG-signed 777 778 779Date: 2003-10-02 11:35 780Summary: smartd SEGV 781-------------------- 782Some versions of smartd, including smartmontools release 5.1-18, will 783SEGV if the combination of Directives in /etc/smartd.conf contains 784-l error 785AND/OR 786-l selftest 787without any Attribute monitoring Directives. This is fixed in 5.19 788and above. 789 790A good workaround is to add: 791-o on 792OR 793-o off 794to enable or disable automatic offline data collection. 795 796 797Date: 2002-11-17 07:41 798Summary: testunitready bug in smartd 799------------------------------------ 800A bug in smartd prevented functioning on scsi devices. 801The bug in question only affects smartd users with scsi devices. 802To see if your version of smartd has the testunitready() bug, do 803smartd -V 804If the version of the module smartd.c in a line like: 805Module: smartd.c revision: 1.66 date: 2002/11/17 806has a revision greater than or equal to 1.30, and less than or 807equal to 1.64, then your version of the code has this problem. 808 809This problem affected releases starting with RELEASE_5_0_16 up to and 810including RELEASE_5_0_43. 811