Nagios release schedule

[Andreas Ericsson]

Michael Henry wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>    I have just downloaded Nagios and am in the process of configuring,
> but whilst looking for plugins to download I noticed that the most
> recent
> plugin package is more than a year old!
> 

Not really. The most recent CVS snapshot is available at 
http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/snapshot. It's quite stable, but I 
strongly suggest that you run ./configure with the --disable-nls option.

> The latest plugin package is labeled "1.4.0alpha1". From this I would
> assume, and the release notes confirm, that these plugins are not
> suitable for production use. Is this correct?
> 

Yes. The latest snapshot is quite stable though.

> I ask because the fact that this is the most recent package implies
> that it has been found stable enough that a bugfix-release was not
> necessary.
> 

Not quite stable, I'm afraid. It is, after all a great many programs 
that are supposed to run on a great variety of platforms. Bugs are 
inevitable, even if they are only portability bugs.

The snapshot plugins (from link posted above) should work more or less 
properly though.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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