NEWS

   1 lldpd (0.7.12)
   2   * Fix:
   3     + Don't complain when parsing a commented line
   4
   5 lldpd (0.7.11)
   6   * Features:
   7     + Ship bash and zsh completion.
   8     + Abort when some command-line options are repeated.
   9   * Fix:
  10     + Handle correctly read failures in liblldpctl.
  11
  12 lldpd (0.7.10)
  13   * Features:
  14     + Ability to set promiscuous mode to work around bugs of some
  15       switches encapsulating LLDP frames inside 802.1Q frames.
  16     + JSON support for lldpcli can use json-c instead of jansson,
  17       thanks to Michel Stam.
  18   * Fix:
  19     + Fix checksum computation for Cisco CDP.
  20     + Fix ability to disable LLDP.
  21     + Fix seccomp sandbox, thanks to Patrick McLean.
  22
  23 lldpd (0.7.9)
  24   * Changes:
  25     + Default location for chroot, socket and PID are now configurable
  26       in `./configure`. The default location is based on the value of
  27       `runstatedir` which in turn may be based on the value of
  28       `localstatedir` which defaults to `/usr/local/var`. Therefore,
  29       to get the previous locations, lldpd should be configured with
  30       `./configure --localstatedir=/var`.
  31   * Fixes:
  32     + Fix `configure system bond-slave-src-mac-type local`. Also use
  33       it as default.
  34   * Features:
  35     + Add support for shutdown LLDPU.
  36     + Ability to configure IP management pattern from lldpcli.
  37     + Ability to choose what port ID should be (MAC or interface name).
  38
  39 lldpd (0.7.8)
  40   * Fixes:
  41     + Don't hard-code default values for system name, system
  42       description and port description. When the field is not present,
  43       just don't display it.
  44     + Fix lldpcli behaviour when suid.
  45     + On OSX, don't use p2p0 interfaces: it would break WLAN.
  46     + Fix SNMP support on RHEL.
  47   * Features:
  48     + Android support
  49     + Add the possibility to disable privilege separation (lower
  50       memory consumption, lower security, don't do it).
  51     + Interfaces can now be whitelisted. For example, *,!eth*,!!eth1
  52       is a valid pattern for all interfaces except eth ones, except
  53       eth1. Moreover, on exact match, an matching interface
  54       circumvents most sanity checks (like VLAN handling).
  55     + Ability to override the hostname.
  56
  57 lldpd (0.7.7)
  58   * Features:
  59     + Use a locally administered MAC address or an arbitrary one
  60       instead of null MAC address for bond devices on Linux. This is
  61       configurable through `lldpcli`.
  62     + Add support for "team" driver (alternative to bond devices).
  63     + Preliminary support for DTrace/systemtap.
  64     + Preliminary support for seccomp (for monitor process).
  65     + Setup chroot inside lldpd instead of relying on init script.
  66   * Fixes:
  67     + Various bugs related to fixed point number handling (for
  68       coordinates in LLDP-MED)
  69     + Fix a regression in how MAC address of an enslaved device is
  70       retrieved.
  71
  72 lldpd (0.7.6)
  73   * Features:
  74     + Provide a way to build packages for OSX.
  75     + Add an option to update interface description with neighbor name.
  76   * Fixes:
  77     + Compilation fix for OSX 10.6.
  78
  79 lldpd (0.7.5)
  80   * Fixes:
  81     + Segfault while tokenizing in lldpcli.
  82
  83 lldpd (0.7.4)
  84   * Fixes:
  85     + Segfault in lldpcli.
  86     + Memory leak in liblldpctl when using a custom log handler.
  87     + Fix some unaligned memory accesses.
  88     + Fix frame reception on OpenBSD.
  89   * Features:
  90     + Allow to configure hold value from lldpcli (and hence the TTL).
  91     + Allow to configure pattern for valid interfaces from lldpcli.
  92     + Allow to override system description from lldpcli.
  93     + Display the neighbor connected as the process title (or the
  94       number of connected neighbors).
  95
  96 lldpd (0.7.3)
  97   * Features:
  98     + DragonFly BSD support.
  99     + Solaris support (incomplete).
 100     + LLDP-MED fast start support (thanks to Roopa Prabhu).
 101     + Provide global statistics through "show statistics summary"
 102       command (thanks to Roopa Prabhu).
 103   * Fixes:
 104     + Fix IPv4/IPv6 address discovery in Linux.
 105
 106 lldpd (0.7.2)
 107   * Features
 108     + lldpd can be configured through /etc/lldpd.conf and
 109       /etc/lldpd.d. All commands accepted by lldpcli are accepted.
 110     + Lock BPF interfaces before handing them to chrooted process on
 111       BSD.
 112     + Limit the number of neighbors for each port to 4 (per protocol).
 113     + Force CDPv2 protocol with argument `-ccc`.
 114     + Provide port statistics through "show statistics" command
 115       (thanks to Roopa Prabhu).
 116   * Fixes:
 117     + Driver whitelisting is done before checking if an interface has
 118       a lower interface in Linux.
 119     + Expire remote ports and chassis in a timely manner.
 120
 121 lldpd (0.7.1)
 122   * Features
 123     + Mac OS X support, sponsored by Xcloud, Mac cloud server hosting
 124       provider. http://xcloud.me/
 125     + Upstart and systemd support.
 126     + Remove Unix socket when there is no process listening.
 127
 128 lldpd (0.7.0)
 129   * Global changes:
 130     + FreeBSD support.
 131     + OpenBSD support.
 132     + NetBSD support.
 133     + Detect interface changes.
 134     + CLI for lldpctl: lldpcli.
 135   * Other features:
 136     + Allow to disable LLDP protocol (with `-ll`). In this case, the
 137       first enabled protocol will be used when no neighbor is detected.
 138     + Allow to filter debug logs using tokens. Add more debug logs.
 139     + lldpctl can now output JSON.
 140     + Use netlink to gather interface information on Linux.
 141     + Don't use ioctl for bridges anymore on Linux. The configure
 142       option `--enable-oldies` allow to reenable their uses for
 143       systems not supporting sysfs.
 144
 145 lldpd (0.6.1)
 146   * Features:
 147     + Provide liblldpctl.so, a library to interface with lldpd. The
 148       documentation is provided through Doxygen. See src/lib/lldpctl.h
 149       which contains all the exported functions.
 150     + Make lldpctl uses liblldpctl.so.
 151     + Add a "watch" option to lldpctl to monitor neighbor changes.
 152     + Add the possibility to display the current configuration of
 153       lldpd with lldpctl. Also add the possibility to reset the
 154       current transmit delay.
 155
 156 lldpd (0.6)
 157   * Features:
 158     + Allow lldpctl to display hidden ports.
 159     + Add a switch to specify interfaces to use to get chassis ID.
 160     + Support for multiple management addresses and IPv6 management
 161       addresses. Contributed by João Valverde.
 162   * Global changes:
 163     + Switch to libevent. See README.md for details.
 164     + Partial rewrite of the SNMP part. Less code.
 165     + Unit tests for SNMP.
 166     + Major rewrite of the protocol between lldpd and lldpctl. Less
 167       code.
 168   * Fixes:
 169     + Several small SNMP fixes (discovered by unit tests).
 170
 171 lldpd (0.5.7)
 172  * Fixes:
 173     + Configure issue with NetSNMP and some linkers
 174     + Fix infinite loop for the receive part: on certain conditions,
 175       lldpd will stop sending packets and stop updating local data.
 176
 177 lldpd (0.5.6)
 178   * Features:
 179     + Send and receive native VLAN TLV with CDP
 180     + Add a whitelist for some drivers (currently: dsa and veth)
 181   * Fixes:
 182     + Compilation issues with NetSNMP 5.7 (and with earlier versions too)
 183     + Small optimization of BPF filter
 184
 185 lldpd (0.5.5)
 186   * Features:
 187     + Support for PPVID and PI Dot1 TLV, thanks to Shuah Khan.
 188     + Extend whitelist with possibility to blacklist.
 189   * Fixes:
 190     + Key/value output was incorrect when a dot was present in
 191       interface names. This is fixed but it is preferable to use XML
 192       output since the parsing is more difficult in this case.
 193     + Only grab DMI information once. Only uses DMI for x86 platform.
 194     + Padding issues with socket protocol. This introduces a change in
 195       the socket protocol!
 196     + Fix a segfault when neither /etc/os-release nor lsb_release
 197       are available.
 198
 199 lldpd (0.5.4)
 200   * Features:
 201     + Get OS information from /etc/os-release if available. Patch from
 202       Michael Tremer.
 203     + Add a flag to specify which interfaces lldpd should listen to.
 204
 205 lldpd (0.5.3)
 206   * Fixes:
 207     + Allow root to change configuration of lldpd when lldpctl has suid set.
 208   * Features:
 209     + Handle Dot3 POE-MDI TLV (802.3af and 802.3at).
 210     + Allow to set Dot3 POE-MDI from lldpctl.
 211
 212 lldpd (0.5.2)
 213   * Features:
 214     + More flexible smart mode and new default. Manual page has been updated.
 215     + Add a "receive-only" mode with "-r" switch.
 216
 217 lldpd (0.5.1)
 218   * Features:
 219     + Allow to force a protocol even when no peer for this protocol is
 220       detected.
 221     + Add a smart mode that allows to discard bogus port information,
 222       for example CDP packets that are flooded through a switch that
 223       does not support CDP.
 224     + Allow to set LLDP-MED network policy from lldpctl, thanks to a patch from
 225       Philipp Kempgen.
 226     + Allow to set LLDP-MED POE-MDI from lldpctl.
 227     + Add a summary of available options in "lldpd -h" and "lldpctl -h",
 228       thanks to a patch from Jorge Boncompte.
 229     + Add a new output (keyvalue) for lldpctl.
 230     + Listen on VLAN using an appropriate BPF filter, VLAN
 231       decapsulation. Older "listen on vlan" feature is discarded. See
 232       README for more information on the new feature.
 233     + Use output of lsb_release if available for system description.
 234
 235   * Fixes:
 236     + Ignore interface with no queue. It should filter out interfaces
 237       like "vnet0" that would fail if we try to send something on them.
 238     + Don't check CDP checksums (not really a fix but it appears that
 239       Cisco checksum have some difficult corner cases).
 240
 241 lldpd (0.5.0)
 242
 243   * Features:
 244     + lldpd can now handle several systems on the same port. This
 245       modification also allows to speak to a switch using CDP and LLDP
 246       for example.
 247     + The way that lldpd gathers information for each port has been
 248       abstracted. This should allow to support more systems (BSD for
 249       examples) or switch cores in the future. Sending/receive support
 250       is also abstracted.
 251     + Add "-k" switch to avoid to emit too much information on running
 252       kernel.
 253     + Support of ifAlias with kernel >= 2.6.28
 254     + Lot of portability stuff. lldpd can now be compiled on RHEL
 255       2.1. Still Linux-only though.
 256     + Add an option to specify AgentX socket (-X).
 257     + Add some unit tests
 258     + lldpctl has been reworked; it is now able to output data in XML
 259       format for easier parsing. Patches were provided by Andreas
 260       Hofmeister.
 261
 262   * Bug fixes:
 263     + Fix EDP VLAN handling
 264     + Silent warnings about bridge stuff.
 265     + Copy /etc/localtime into chroot before starting lldpd daemon to
 266       ensure correct timestamps for logs.
 267
 268 lldpd (0.4.1)
 269
 270   * Fix EDP handling when there is no VLAN
 271   * Fix CDP version to not always be 1
 272   * Misc fix:
 273      + incorrect number of arguments for a LLOG_INFO call
 274      + fix SNMP last change in case this change occurs before start time
 275
 276 lldpd (0.4)
 277
 278   * Rewrite of packet builder and parser to be able to cope with
 279     architecture that cannot do unaligned read. For decoder, we don't
 280     cast structures any more since they can be unaligned. For encoder,
 281     we use memcpy through the use of macro that build packets step by
 282     step.
 283
 284 lldpd (0.3.2)
 285
 286   * Fix LLDP-MED support
 287
 288 lldpd (0.3.1)
 289
 290   * Misc fixes, including memory leaks
 291
 292 lldpd (0.3)
 293
 294   * Initial support of LLDP-MED
 295   * Fix for bridge detection (don't send bridge ioctl on random interfaces)
 296   * For bonded devices, get the real hardware address. For inactive
 297     slaves, transmit using a random MAC address.
 298
 299 lldpd (0.2.1)
 300
 301   * Fix a syntax error in manual page
 302   * Fix open() calls
 303
 304 lldpd (0.2)
 305
 306   * Add privilege separation
 307   * Add FDP support
 308   * Support CDP encapsulated into native VLAN
 309   * Various fixes
 310
 311 lldpd (0.1)
 312
 313   * Initial release