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Everyone!

	Cacti 0.8.7 Beta 3 and Spine (renamed Cactid) 0.8.7 Beta 3 are
available for download on the forums.  No registration required to
download.  Please check it out, if you find any bugs, please submit a
bug report at http://www.cacti.net/bugs.php .

Download the Betas at: http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=23326

Thanks you all for your support!

Tony Roman
Cacti Developer

Everyone!

	Cacti 0.8.7 Beta 2 is available for download on the forums.  No
registration required to download.  Please check it out, if you find any
bugs, please submit a bug report at http://www.cacti.net/bugs.php .

Download the Beta at: http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=23196

Thanks you all for your support!

Tony Roman
Cacti Developer

Two things to announce in the world of Cacti!!!

One...

	Cacti 0.8.7 Beta 1 is available for download on the forums.  No
registration required to download.  Please check it out, if you find any
bugs, please submit a bug report at http://www.cacti.net/bugs.php .

Download the Beta at: http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=23161


Two...

	We have updated the Development Road Map for Cacti.
	Check it out at http://www.cacti.net/roadmap.php


Thanks you all for your support!

Tony Roman
Cacti Developer

All,

You will find a new Beta of Cactid at the link below. This beta is the 
predecessor to the last release of Cactid for Cacti 0.8.6x branch. This 
version of Cactid will be able to launch at least 10k host threads per 
minute. This feature alone will allow Cactid to now scale to several 
thousand hosts during any 5 minute poll cycle. Another major feature of 
this version is the return to providing an execution environment for 
each script launched. If you prefer the prior method, that required the 
complete path to every script binary, use "./configure --help" and you 
fill find a configure option to return to the Cactid 0.8.6g versions 
behavior.

http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?p=109762#109762

NOTE: The next version of Cacti will require a new version of Cactid 
that will not be compatible with the 0.8.6x branch version of Cactid. 
Therefore, I wanted to address several outstanding bugs prior to it's 
release for people who will not be able to upgrade to 0.8.7 right away. 
I have attached the ChangeLog for the last two releases below for reference.

Please provide your feedback, in the forums.

Regards,

Larry Adams
aka TheWitness

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The Cacti Group – cactid

0.8.6j
-bug#0000879/0000872: cactid doesn't always report error messages before 
dying
-bug#0000856: Slight documentation change
-bug#0000861: Downed Host Detection on non-SNMP devices wrong
-bug#0000886: SNMP Ping to Utilize The snmpgetnext instead of snmpget
-bug#0000889: Use configure script's sysconfdir variable for placement 
of cactid.conf
-bug#0000929: Cactid with setuid root falls back to UDP after first host
-bug#0000939: cactid use custom hostname, snmp_community,snmp_username 
and snmp_password in datasource
-bug#0000940: Increasing BUFSIZE in cactid.h will still not allow longer 
output from scripts
-bug#0000951: Cactid SNMP polling does not strip enum values
-bug#0000960: cactid truncating responses from scripts to 511 characters
-bug#0000987: cactid can't use a socket unix
-bug: By default, Cygwin can not handle large quantities of running 
scripts, therefore, limit to 20
-bug: Increase the number of file descriptors in Cygwin to 512, 64 does 
not work for large systems.
-bug: If the system is out of resources when trying to fork(), retry 
three more times
-bug: Use vfork instead of fork. It's more efficient with resources.
-bug: Cactid Script Server would not work with cgi version of php. Now 
it does.
-bug: Changes in SNMP Community from poller item to poller item were not 
being considered.
-bug: Restore meaningful notices when running from command line
-feature: Allow users to use the traditional popen instead of nifty if 
required.
-feature: Properly support INNODB database engine in MySQL

0.8.6i
-bug: Only output as much as MySQL can handle in 1 insert
-bug: Faulty Script Server shutdown was causing race condition
-bug: Allow ICMP or UDP ping to work if host begins with either "TCP:" 
or "UDP:"
-bug: Change assert logging to HIGH to more closely match cmd.php
-bug: Allow Cactid to make on 64bit x86 Platforms - thanks to Reuben 
Farrelly
-bug: Changing syntax from "insert into to replace into" for reindex inserts
-bug: Don't perform a reindex a check for a data query if you already 
have to reindex
-bug: Make sure to log FATAL to stderr
-bug: Do not re-index a host if the re-index value is a "No Such 
Instance" result.
-bug#0000682: Allow storing of each hosts polling start time
-bug#0000691: Cactid fails with custom snmp port
-bug#0000699: Tick counts not being detected
-bug#0000706: Cactid didn't start PHP scripts when host didn't answer 
SNMP (but icmp is ok)
-bug#0000710: cactid.conf doesn't allow for no mysql password
-bug#0000716: Don't attempt to save output for a host if there is none.
-bug#0000717: Allow numeric double results to start with '+', '-', '.'
-bug#0000724: cactid truncate script command when reindex
-bug#0000736: Solaris 8 : Alarm Clock message
-bug#0000745: cactid: search path for mysql and snmp does not include 
/usr/pkg
-bug#0000748: cactid doesn't handle special charectors
-bug#0000749: Cactid 0.8.6g won't accept special characters from data 
template
-bug#0000750: poller doesn't check for snmp if udp ping fails
-bug#0000752: Problem with OID truncation with cactid
-bug: add kstat checking for Net-SNMP v5.3.x
-bug: get more intelegent. move cactid.conf.dist to /etc during install
-feature: add Net-SNMP Library vs. Header check prior to execution
-feature: enabled signal handling in cactid