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   1 lldpd (0.7.15)
   2   * Features:
   3     + Optional features can be configured with "auto" to autodetect if
   4       they are usable. This is the default value for JSON and XML support.
   5     + Ability to send and decode custom/unknown TLV. Thanks to Alexandru
   6       Ardelean.
   7   * Change:
   8     + Modify checksum function. While this should be strictly
   9       equivalent, if you notice CDP packets not accepted anymore, this
  10       change is the first culprit.
  11
  12 lldpd (0.7.14)
  13   * Features:
  14     + Shutdown LLPDU are sent on MSAP change and when lldpd exits.
  15     + When an exact IP is provided as a management pattern, use it
  16       unconditionally.
  17     + Ability to set port ID and description to an arbitrary value,
  18       thanks to Alexandru Ardelean.
  19   * Fix:
  20     + Incorrect boundary check when decoding management address and
  21       protocol identity may lead to lldpd crash when processing
  22       malformed LLDPDU.
  23     + Many edge cases where lldpd was leaving hanging processes after
  24       crashing.
  25
  26 lldpd (0.7.13)
  27   * Fix:
  28     + Unbreak customization of Unix socket path from command line.
  29
  30 lldpd (0.7.12)
  31   * Features:
  32     + Interface pattern, management pattern, system description,
  33       system platform and system hostname can be unconfigured to their
  34       default values.
  35   * Fix:
  36     + Don't complain when parsing a commented line.
  37     + Correctly persist configuration changes for "system interface
  38       promiscuous", "system interface description" "med fast-start
  39       enable", "pause" and "resume".
  40     + Fix listening on bond devices for old kernels (< 2.6.27).
  41
  42 lldpd (0.7.11)
  43   * Features:
  44     + Ship bash and zsh completion.
  45     + Abort when some command-line options are repeated.
  46   * Fix:
  47     + Handle correctly read failures in liblldpctl.
  48
  49 lldpd (0.7.10)
  50   * Features:
  51     + Ability to set promiscuous mode to work around bugs of some
  52       switches encapsulating LLDP frames inside 802.1Q frames.
  53     + JSON support for lldpcli can use json-c instead of jansson,
  54       thanks to Michel Stam.
  55   * Fix:
  56     + Fix checksum computation for Cisco CDP.
  57     + Fix ability to disable LLDP.
  58     + Fix seccomp sandbox, thanks to Patrick McLean.
  59
  60 lldpd (0.7.9)
  61   * Changes:
  62     + Default location for chroot, socket and PID are now configurable
  63       in `./configure`. The default location is based on the value of
  64       `runstatedir` which in turn may be based on the value of
  65       `localstatedir` which defaults to `/usr/local/var`. Therefore,
  66       to get the previous locations, lldpd should be configured with
  67       `./configure --localstatedir=/var`.
  68   * Fixes:
  69     + Fix `configure system bond-slave-src-mac-type local`. Also use
  70       it as default.
  71   * Features:
  72     + Add support for shutdown LLDPU.
  73     + Ability to configure IP management pattern from lldpcli.
  74     + Ability to choose what port ID should be (MAC or interface name).
  75
  76 lldpd (0.7.8)
  77   * Fixes:
  78     + Don't hard-code default values for system name, system
  79       description and port description. When the field is not present,
  80       just don't display it.
  81     + Fix lldpcli behaviour when suid.
  82     + On OSX, don't use p2p0 interfaces: it would break WLAN.
  83     + Fix SNMP support on RHEL.
  84   * Features:
  85     + Android support
  86     + Add the possibility to disable privilege separation (lower
  87       memory consumption, lower security, don't do it).
  88     + Interfaces can now be whitelisted. For example, *,!eth*,!!eth1
  89       is a valid pattern for all interfaces except eth ones, except
  90       eth1. Moreover, on exact match, an matching interface
  91       circumvents most sanity checks (like VLAN handling).
  92     + Ability to override the hostname.
  93
  94 lldpd (0.7.7)
  95   * Features:
  96     + Use a locally administered MAC address or an arbitrary one
  97       instead of null MAC address for bond devices on Linux. This is
  98       configurable through `lldpcli`.
  99     + Add support for "team" driver (alternative to bond devices).
 100     + Preliminary support for DTrace/systemtap.
 101     + Preliminary support for seccomp (for monitor process).
 102     + Setup chroot inside lldpd instead of relying on init script.
 103   * Fixes:
 104     + Various bugs related to fixed point number handling (for
 105       coordinates in LLDP-MED)
 106     + Fix a regression in how MAC address of an enslaved device is
 107       retrieved.
 108
 109 lldpd (0.7.6)
 110   * Features:
 111     + Provide a way to build packages for OSX.
 112     + Add an option to update interface description with neighbor name.
 113   * Fixes:
 114     + Compilation fix for OSX 10.6.
 115
 116 lldpd (0.7.5)
 117   * Fixes:
 118     + Segfault while tokenizing in lldpcli.
 119
 120 lldpd (0.7.4)
 121   * Fixes:
 122     + Segfault in lldpcli.
 123     + Memory leak in liblldpctl when using a custom log handler.
 124     + Fix some unaligned memory accesses.
 125     + Fix frame reception on OpenBSD.
 126   * Features:
 127     + Allow to configure hold value from lldpcli (and hence the TTL).
 128     + Allow to configure pattern for valid interfaces from lldpcli.
 129     + Allow to override system description from lldpcli.
 130     + Display the neighbor connected as the process title (or the
 131       number of connected neighbors).
 132
 133 lldpd (0.7.3)
 134   * Features:
 135     + DragonFly BSD support.
 136     + Solaris support (incomplete).
 137     + LLDP-MED fast start support (thanks to Roopa Prabhu).
 138     + Provide global statistics through "show statistics summary"
 139       command (thanks to Roopa Prabhu).
 140   * Fixes:
 141     + Fix IPv4/IPv6 address discovery in Linux.
 142
 143 lldpd (0.7.2)
 144   * Features
 145     + lldpd can be configured through /etc/lldpd.conf and
 146       /etc/lldpd.d. All commands accepted by lldpcli are accepted.
 147     + Lock BPF interfaces before handing them to chrooted process on
 148       BSD.
 149     + Limit the number of neighbors for each port to 4 (per protocol).
 150     + Force CDPv2 protocol with argument `-ccc`.
 151     + Provide port statistics through "show statistics" command
 152       (thanks to Roopa Prabhu).
 153   * Fixes:
 154     + Driver whitelisting is done before checking if an interface has
 155       a lower interface in Linux.
 156     + Expire remote ports and chassis in a timely manner.
 157
 158 lldpd (0.7.1)
 159   * Features
 160     + Mac OS X support, sponsored by Xcloud, Mac cloud server hosting
 161       provider. http://xcloud.me/
 162     + Upstart and systemd support.
 163     + Remove Unix socket when there is no process listening.
 164
 165 lldpd (0.7.0)
 166   * Global changes:
 167     + FreeBSD support.
 168     + OpenBSD support.
 169     + NetBSD support.
 170     + Detect interface changes.
 171     + CLI for lldpctl: lldpcli.
 172   * Other features:
 173     + Allow to disable LLDP protocol (with `-ll`). In this case, the
 174       first enabled protocol will be used when no neighbor is detected.
 175     + Allow to filter debug logs using tokens. Add more debug logs.
 176     + lldpctl can now output JSON.
 177     + Use netlink to gather interface information on Linux.
 178     + Don't use ioctl for bridges anymore on Linux. The configure
 179       option `--enable-oldies` allow to reenable their uses for
 180       systems not supporting sysfs.
 181
 182 lldpd (0.6.1)
 183   * Features:
 184     + Provide liblldpctl.so, a library to interface with lldpd. The
 185       documentation is provided through Doxygen. See src/lib/lldpctl.h
 186       which contains all the exported functions.
 187     + Make lldpctl uses liblldpctl.so.
 188     + Add a "watch" option to lldpctl to monitor neighbor changes.
 189     + Add the possibility to display the current configuration of
 190       lldpd with lldpctl. Also add the possibility to reset the
 191       current transmit delay.
 192
 193 lldpd (0.6)
 194   * Features:
 195     + Allow lldpctl to display hidden ports.
 196     + Add a switch to specify interfaces to use to get chassis ID.
 197     + Support for multiple management addresses and IPv6 management
 198       addresses. Contributed by João Valverde.
 199   * Global changes:
 200     + Switch to libevent. See README.md for details.
 201     + Partial rewrite of the SNMP part. Less code.
 202     + Unit tests for SNMP.
 203     + Major rewrite of the protocol between lldpd and lldpctl. Less
 204       code.
 205   * Fixes:
 206     + Several small SNMP fixes (discovered by unit tests).
 207
 208 lldpd (0.5.7)
 209  * Fixes:
 210     + Configure issue with NetSNMP and some linkers
 211     + Fix infinite loop for the receive part: on certain conditions,
 212       lldpd will stop sending packets and stop updating local data.
 213
 214 lldpd (0.5.6)
 215   * Features:
 216     + Send and receive native VLAN TLV with CDP
 217     + Add a whitelist for some drivers (currently: dsa and veth)
 218   * Fixes:
 219     + Compilation issues with NetSNMP 5.7 (and with earlier versions too)
 220     + Small optimization of BPF filter
 221
 222 lldpd (0.5.5)
 223   * Features:
 224     + Support for PPVID and PI Dot1 TLV, thanks to Shuah Khan.
 225     + Extend whitelist with possibility to blacklist.
 226   * Fixes:
 227     + Key/value output was incorrect when a dot was present in
 228       interface names. This is fixed but it is preferable to use XML
 229       output since the parsing is more difficult in this case.
 230     + Only grab DMI information once. Only uses DMI for x86 platform.
 231     + Padding issues with socket protocol. This introduces a change in
 232       the socket protocol!
 233     + Fix a segfault when neither /etc/os-release nor lsb_release
 234       are available.
 235
 236 lldpd (0.5.4)
 237   * Features:
 238     + Get OS information from /etc/os-release if available. Patch from
 239       Michael Tremer.
 240     + Add a flag to specify which interfaces lldpd should listen to.
 241
 242 lldpd (0.5.3)
 243   * Fixes:
 244     + Allow root to change configuration of lldpd when lldpctl has suid set.
 245   * Features:
 246     + Handle Dot3 POE-MDI TLV (802.3af and 802.3at).
 247     + Allow to set Dot3 POE-MDI from lldpctl.
 248
 249 lldpd (0.5.2)
 250   * Features:
 251     + More flexible smart mode and new default. Manual page has been updated.
 252     + Add a "receive-only" mode with "-r" switch.
 253
 254 lldpd (0.5.1)
 255   * Features:
 256     + Allow to force a protocol even when no peer for this protocol is
 257       detected.
 258     + Add a smart mode that allows to discard bogus port information,
 259       for example CDP packets that are flooded through a switch that
 260       does not support CDP.
 261     + Allow to set LLDP-MED network policy from lldpctl, thanks to a patch from
 262       Philipp Kempgen.
 263     + Allow to set LLDP-MED POE-MDI from lldpctl.
 264     + Add a summary of available options in "lldpd -h" and "lldpctl -h",
 265       thanks to a patch from Jorge Boncompte.
 266     + Add a new output (keyvalue) for lldpctl.
 267     + Listen on VLAN using an appropriate BPF filter, VLAN
 268       decapsulation. Older "listen on vlan" feature is discarded. See
 269       README for more information on the new feature.
 270     + Use output of lsb_release if available for system description.
 271
 272   * Fixes:
 273     + Ignore interface with no queue. It should filter out interfaces
 274       like "vnet0" that would fail if we try to send something on them.
 275     + Don't check CDP checksums (not really a fix but it appears that
 276       Cisco checksum have some difficult corner cases).
 277
 278 lldpd (0.5.0)
 279
 280   * Features:
 281     + lldpd can now handle several systems on the same port. This
 282       modification also allows to speak to a switch using CDP and LLDP
 283       for example.
 284     + The way that lldpd gathers information for each port has been
 285       abstracted. This should allow to support more systems (BSD for
 286       examples) or switch cores in the future. Sending/receive support
 287       is also abstracted.
 288     + Add "-k" switch to avoid to emit too much information on running
 289       kernel.
 290     + Support of ifAlias with kernel >= 2.6.28
 291     + Lot of portability stuff. lldpd can now be compiled on RHEL
 292       2.1. Still Linux-only though.
 293     + Add an option to specify AgentX socket (-X).
 294     + Add some unit tests
 295     + lldpctl has been reworked; it is now able to output data in XML
 296       format for easier parsing. Patches were provided by Andreas
 297       Hofmeister.
 298
 299   * Bug fixes:
 300     + Fix EDP VLAN handling
 301     + Silent warnings about bridge stuff.
 302     + Copy /etc/localtime into chroot before starting lldpd daemon to
 303       ensure correct timestamps for logs.
 304
 305 lldpd (0.4.1)
 306
 307   * Fix EDP handling when there is no VLAN
 308   * Fix CDP version to not always be 1
 309   * Misc fix:
 310      + incorrect number of arguments for a LLOG_INFO call
 311      + fix SNMP last change in case this change occurs before start time
 312
 313 lldpd (0.4)
 314
 315   * Rewrite of packet builder and parser to be able to cope with
 316     architecture that cannot do unaligned read. For decoder, we don't
 317     cast structures any more since they can be unaligned. For encoder,
 318     we use memcpy through the use of macro that build packets step by
 319     step.
 320
 321 lldpd (0.3.2)
 322
 323   * Fix LLDP-MED support
 324
 325 lldpd (0.3.1)
 326
 327   * Misc fixes, including memory leaks
 328
 329 lldpd (0.3)
 330
 331   * Initial support of LLDP-MED
 332   * Fix for bridge detection (don't send bridge ioctl on random interfaces)
 333   * For bonded devices, get the real hardware address. For inactive
 334     slaves, transmit using a random MAC address.
 335
 336 lldpd (0.2.1)
 337
 338   * Fix a syntax error in manual page
 339   * Fix open() calls
 340
 341 lldpd (0.2)
 342
 343   * Add privilege separation
 344   * Add FDP support
 345   * Support CDP encapsulated into native VLAN
 346   * Various fixes
 347
 348 lldpd (0.1)
 349
 350   * Initial release