1.5.2 - May 18 2026

Bugfixes:

• Discarded-qualifiers errors in string searching functions (#531)

1.5.1 - Mar 19 2026

Breaking changes:

• Due to object structure changes, it is recommended to recompile any NEB modules

Features:

• new attribute 'check_timeout' on host and service structs, overrides the global host / service check timeouts. (#525)

Bugfixes:

• fix memory corruption in mkstr caused by integer overflow (#527)

1.5.0 - Feb 03 2026

Breaking changes:

• Due to object structure changes, it is recommended to recompile any NEB modules
  when upgrading to 1.5.0

Features:

• use timeval for last_update - this affects the host and service structs and could be a breaking change for NEB module developers. (#516)
• improve eventloop runtime performance (#519)

Changed:

• During startup, ensure downtimes are loaded before updating status (#502)
• rpm spec: add provides for user / group (#520)
• rpm: fix lto-no-text-in-archive (#515)
• rpm: do not install INSTALL file (#515)
• debian: remove obsolete dependency

Bugfixes:

• fix memory leak when using service parents (514)
• fix pending service dependencies (#509)
• skip over dependencies when the current time is not within the time period (#511)
• fix a theoretical root privilege escalation (CVE-2016-9566) as naemon does not start as root user by default (#507)

Features:

• trim spaces from list of templates (#500)
• add support for configurable relative configuration paths (#491)
• postpone check until check period starts (#490)

Changed:

• make ascii control characters in object names illegal (#499)
• improve config parser performance (#488)
• launch command worker earlier (#470)
• remove backslashes before semicolons (#495)
• trim whitespace at end of plugin output (#495)

Bugfixes:

• fix handling performance data (#501)

1.4.3 - Nov 19 2024

Features:

• add global notifications handler (#477)
• add external command to add log entries (#477)
• add hint of previous object when duplicate detection fails (#479)
• add options to keep services running as long as they are up (#459)
• add problem timestamps and duration (#447)

Changed:

• clean up output of naemon -V (#484)
• change problem_id and notification_id to uuids (#362)
• change service parents suppressing only normal notifcations (#446)

Bugfixes:

• fix leaking object.cache file references (#462)
• fix host not being in hard state with max_check_attempts=1 (#473)
• throw config errors if boolean values cannot be parsed (#478)
• fix retrieving comments after deleting first (#474)
• fix rpm installation race condition (#456)
• fix resetting modified_attributes (#449)

1.4.2 - Jan 03 2024

Features:

• remove size limit on external command argument length
• performance improvements when having lots of comments
• respawn dead core worker

Changed:

• write objects.precache into a tmp file first
• increased CURRENT_NEB_API_VERSION to 6 (neb modules need to be rebuild)

Bugfixes:

• fix build error on fedora
• fix latency calculation having negative value sometimes

Features:

• none

Changed:

• use /run/naemon instead of /var/run/naemon (#410)

Bugfixes:

• fix bashisms in scripts (#407)
• fix fg: no job control output (#405)
• fix memory leak in cmd parser (#404)
• fix closing worker filehandles (#401)

Breaking changes:

• Due to object structure changes, it is recommended to recompile any NEB modules
  when upgrading to 1.4.0

Features:

• Support for expiring acknowledgements

Changed:

• Improvements to Debian packaging, including multiarch installs

Bugfixes:

• Fix a crash for external command: CHANGE_CONTACT_HOST_NOTIFICATION_TIMEPERIOD
• Fix a crash for external command: CHANGE_HOST_CHECK_TIMEPERIOD

Changed:

• change homepage url to https://www.naemon.io

Bugfixes:

• fix running commands containing tilde sign
• improve updating last_update attribute

1.3.0 - Nov 03 2021

Features:

• new vault broker api
• secure environment variables

Changed:

• none

Bugfixes:

• none