About new release for Nagios

[Yu Watanabe]

Hello Andreas.

Thank you for the reply.

I understood the situation. So, is v 3.2.3 more stable version 
for now?

Thanks,
Yu

Andreas Ericsson さんは書きました:
>On 10/13/2011 07:09 AM, Yu Watanabe wrote:
>> Hello all.
>> 
>> I was curious there will be any new releases coming out in Nagios.
>> I remember there was memory leak in 3.3.1.
>> 
>> Are there any plans for any new releases?
>> 
>
>No, there will never be a new release of Nagios ever again. We've all
>decided to take up knitting and unicorn-breeding instead.
>
>On a more serious note; Ofcourse there will be a new release of Nagios.
>The memory leaks are not very serious and have not yet been merged to
>the Nagios core, so making a new release right now would be stupid. I
>still need more time to fully investigate the pros and cons of the patch
>sent in to handle the memory leak in the notification, for instance. I
>believe the proposed fix either doesn't fix the leak completely or fixes
>it in a bad way that would cause other problems, so I need to run it
>through valgrind a couple of times to first of all see the leak for
>myself and secondly make sure nothing bad happens when the patch is
>applied and there are multiple notifications going out, of which some
>are sent to escalated contacts.
>
>In the meantime, you can restart your Nagios daemon once a year to avoid
>any realworld problems from any potential leaks (although running latest
>svn trunk would fix most of them too, so you could probably get away with
>restarting only ever leapyear or something).
>
>-- 
>Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
>OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
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>
>Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and
>terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war
>on peace.

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