This release is a backport of the development version. Many changes
have already been backported previously. Thus it is more a
synchronisation release, though it includes many bugfixes and support
for new models.
- support for new devices: APC Smart-UPS with 6TI firmware; Belkin
Small Enterprise F6C1500-TW-RK; Compaq R3000 XR, R5500 XR; Cyber
Power 550SL, 725SL, 685AVR, 800AVR, 1200AVR, AE550, BC1200 and
many similar models; Eltek; Inform GUARD; Microsol Rhino; Opti-UPS
PowerES 420E; PowerMan RealSmart, BackPro; Powerware PW9315 3-phase;
SOLA 305; Tripp-Lite SMART550USB, SMART2200RMXL2U, OMNI1000LCD,
OMNI900LCD, OMNI650LCD, 1500 LCD, AVR550U; Viewsonic PowerES 420E.
- bcmxcp: added 3-phase support
- megatec: better hardware support, more instant commands
- mge-hid: support more instant commands
- newhidups: fixed APC and Tripp Lite bugs, various memory bugs,
improved report buffering, improved Solaris support, added
'-x explore' option for easy diagnosis of new devices
- solis: shutdown programming, support new cables, Solaris support
- tripplite_usb: updated SMARTPRO support, fixed OL/OB reporting,
better error handling, some memory bugs
- new dummy-ups driver simulator
- added HTML interface for access to CGI scripts
- powerpanel: new driver for CyberPower BC1200 and similar models
Changes since nut-2.0.3:
- The newhidups critical bug (segmentation fault) has been fixed. It has
also received some more care, like buxfixes and new models support and
enhancement for Solaris.
- A bug has been fixed in NUT core to support resuming from suspend-to-disk.
This should also fix other similar issues, like time synchronisation
through the NTP - Network Time Protocol.
- The mge-shut driver now better detects the Low Battery status, support
new models and fixes some wrong status and data. It also fixes some
issue where the UPS wasn't restarting (refer to mge-shut manpage).
- The genericups custom configuration through ups.conf is working again.
- The genericups driver type 22 also support CyberPower 725SL
(and maybe others SL models).
- The new megatec driver, which will replace a bunch of drivers by nut 2.2
(refer to docs/megatec.txt and UPGRADING) has been backported from the
trunk (Development tree). The powermust driver has also received some
attention.
- The new rhino driver was added to support Microsol Rhino UPS hardware
The solis has also been improved for solaris compatibility, and
internal / external shutdown programming. solis can now save external
shutdown programming to ups, and support new cables for solis 3.
- Several fixes and improvements have been made to upsrw, upsset,
cpsups, tripplite_usb and the FAQ.
From UPGRADING:
- users of the following drivers (powermust, blazer, fentonups, mustek,
esupssmart, ippon, sms, masterguard) are encouraged to switch to megatec,
which should replace all these drivers by nut 2.2. For more information,
please refer to doc/megatec.txt
Numerous changes (see NEWS for full list), including:
* Updated support for various UPS models, including porting various
drivers to the 2.0 tree.
* Call varargs functions with "%s" instead of raw strings from config files.
Many changes, including
* various configuation file format changes
* most UPS drivers enhanced
* upsmon/upssched support a lockfile
* chroot jails supported
* various bugfixes
(Refer to http://random.networkupstools.org/source/1.4/new-1.4.1.txt
for more information)
pkg update based on work sent in private email by Daniel Farrugia,
with various fixes by me.
I *really* dislike how newapc changed from supporting INFO_RUNTIME
(runtime in minutes, which is what the UPS actually reports) to
INFO_BATT_RUNTIME (runtime in seconds, which is UPS result * 60),
because the latter is much less useful as a realistic guess (IMHO),
and because this broke my upslog format and ups monitoring stuff
that used '%VAR runtime'.
(Unfortunately, newapc is written in a way which precludes supporting
multiple results from the same 'UPS status code' (in this case
`j'), so we can't support both results at this time. I decided
that INFO_RUNTIME is more useful, because '81' (minutes) is easier
to "use" than '4860' (seconds))
- change from tcp/ip port 3305 to the IANA assigned 3493
- all old-style drivers have been deprecated:
aeg bestfort bestuferrups engetron ipt-anzen
mgeups multilink mustekups optiups sms
toshiba1500 ups-trust425+625 upseyeux
- newvictron renamed to victronups
- newpowercom renamed to powercom, replacing previous powercom
and ups-trust425+625 as well
- upsd.users(5) has changed formats.
NOTE: you need to update your file for upsd(8) to function
- upsmon can reload its configuration on the fly (with '-c reload')
- upsdrvctl can power off UPS's in an orderly fashion
- new drivers:
- tripplite - Tripp-Lite SmartUPS models
- newvictron - IMV/Victron hardware
- bestferrups801-807 - Best FerrUPS 8.01-8.07 firmware
- genericups type 14 - for Online P-series units
- upsdrvctl now waits up to "maxstartdelay" (default 45) seconds for a
driver to start before it gives up and goes to the next entry
(refer to CHANGES in the distribution, or
http://www.exploits.org/nut/release/new-0.45.4.txt
and
http://www.exploits.org/nut/release/new-0.45.5.txt
for a detailed list)
- upsd can reload its config files on the fly.
- 'upsdrvctl status' will check for presence of pid files
- upsd can be stopped with 'upsd -c stop'
- newpowercom driver added
- cyberpower driver added
- more man pages
- various bug fixes
Also replace rc.d scripts with much better ones by Luke Mewburn
<lukem@wasabisystems.com> that were slightly editted by me to have some
minimal functionality on pre-rc.d systems.
notable new features:
- upsdrvctl has more options. You can now say "stop" to stop all drivers, or
"stop <ups>" to stop just one. Also, "start <ups>" to just start one is
now supported.
- lots of man pages
- newapc driver converted to new framework
- new masterguard ups driver
- fentonups driver now recognizes the PowerCom SMK-800A
- bestups driver now does proper locking on the serial port
- sms driver table has been updated, and sms.txt provided to explain this
changes include:
- ups info moved to ups.conf instead of upsd.conf
- unified driver control between ups drivers
- upsmon doesn't run as root by default any more; most of the work is
done by an unprivileged child, with a parent only accepting shutdown
messages
- more model support:
- AEG Proect S. - aeg
- SMS Ltda (Brazillian) - sms
- SOLA 620 - bestups
- Ever UPS - everups
- various other improvements and bugfixes
see http://www.exploits.org/nut/release/new-0.45.1.txt for more details)
