Apcupsd-3.14 RPM Release Notes
17 Jan 2010
D. Scott Barninger
<barninger at fairfieldcomputers dot com>

Release 3.14.8-1

These release notes detail changes in the rpm packages. Please 
see the release notes in the tarball or on sourceforge for other changes.

******************
* Platform Notes *
******************

Packages provided for this release:

Red Hat EL4, EL5
SuSE 11.0, 11.1, 11.2
Fedora 10

Packaging support for Red Hat 7, 8 & 9 and earlier Fedora Core, Mandriva & 
SuSE releases remains in the source rpm:

--define "build_rh7 1"
--define "build_rh8 1"
--define "build_rh9 1"
--define "build_fedora_core 1"
--define "build_rhel3 1"
--define "build_rhel4 1"
--define "build_suse 1"
--define "build_mdk 1"

*******************
* New SNMP driver *
*******************

This release includes a new SNMP driver that does not depend on the net-snmp
package. In apcupsd.conf, the existing "UPSTYPE snmp" will use the new driver 
and "UPSTYPE netsnmp" will use the old one. For the time being packages are
built with both drivers. If you have a problem with the new driver you can
revert to the old by editing apcupsd.conf. The old driver and the net-snmp
dependency will be removed in future releases.

*******************
* Upgrade restart *
*******************

Upgrades are now detected and the daemon restarted automatically (no, really now).

**********************
* PowerFlute Support *
**********************

PowerFlute support has been removed due to it's being removed in the base code.

****************************
* USB Support Now Standard *
****************************

USB support is now standard. The apcupsd-std and apcupsd-usb packages are now
obsoleted and replaced by package apcupsd. Serial port users may refer to the
manual to configure for serial port UPS units. Upgrades, of course, will not
overwrite your current config file.

****************************************
* CGI Programs Now Packaged Separately *
****************************************

The CGI monitoring programs are now packaged separately in apcupsd-multimon. The 
cgi programs will install to the distribution appropriate apache directory and 
the configuration files in /etc/apcupsd are installed with appropriate ownership 
for the distribution.

*****************************
* New Gnome Monitor Package *
*****************************

The new Gnome based monitoring tool is now packaged as apcupsd-gapcmon. This
requires Gtk2 >= 2.4. Enable this with --define "build_gapcmon 1"

*******************************
* net-snmp build switch added *
*******************************

To build the snmp driver, enable with --define "build_snmp 1". Released binary 
packages are built with this enabled.

**************************
* Changelog since 3.12.4 *
**************************

* Sun Jan 10 2010 Adam Kropelin <akropel1 at rochester.rr.com>
- changes for new snmp driver
* Sat Aug 01 2009 D. Scott Barninger <barninger at fairfieldcomputers.com>
- fix restart on upgrade using $1 variable. remove previously commented out code
* Sat May 16 2009 D. Scott Barninger <barninger at fairfieldcomputers.com>
- comment out latex build
* Fri May 15 2009 Adam Kropelin <akropel1 at rochester.rr.com>
- changes for new user manual location and format
* Sat May 31 2008 D. Scott Barninger <barninger at fairfieldcomputers.com>
- add check for upgrade and restart daemon
* Sun May 11 2008 Adam Kropelin <akropel1 at rochester.rr.com>
- remove powerflute
* Sun Feb 03 2008 D. Scott Barninger <barninger at fairfieldcomputers.com>
- add debug package to strip suse
* Sat Nov 17 2007 D. Scott Barninger <barninger at fairfieldcomputers.com>
- add hal policy file
* Sat Nov 10 2007 D. Scott Barninger <barninger at fairfieldcomputers.com>
- SuSE 10.3 replaces tetex with texlive-latex package
* Sun May 27 2007 Adam Kropelin <akropel1 at rochester.rr.com>
- add support for rhel5
* Sun Jan 28 2007 D. Scott Barninger <barninger at fairfieldcomputers.com>
- remove /etc/apcupsd/masterconnect and mastertimeout files
* Sat Jan 27 2007 D. Scott Barninger <barninger at fairfieldcomputers.com>
- add snmp build
- fix location of Requires for base package
* Sun Jan 21 2007 D. Scott Barninger <barninger at fairfieldcomputers.com>
- correct gapcmon dependancies
* Sat Jan 20 2007 D. Scott Barninger <barninger at fairfieldcomputers.com>
- restructure for 3.14 release
- merge std and ups packages
- remove --enable-pthreads and --enable-master-slave
- add --enable-pcnet
- break out multimon into separate package
- add gapcmon package
