Octopussy Detailed Changelog

Octopussy 1.0.16

release date: Sat, 03 Jun 2017

• Major Security fixes:
  • Protection against CSRF attacks
  • Cookie Security
  • Password Policy Rules added
• Apache::ASP with Apache 2.4 issue (remote_ip) fixed
• Code cleaning
• Debian package and installation script updated

Octopussy 1.0.14

release date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014

• Bugfix #586, #587 & #588: Fixing read_dir issues
• Code cleaning
• Services ‘ARPWatch’ & ‘Ntp’ updated

Octopussy 1.0.13

release date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014

• Bugfix #583: Fixing octo_parser bugs introduced in Octopussy 1.0.12

Octopussy 1.0.12

release date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014

• Major performance improvement when a lot of octo_parser start at the same time (Issue #576)
• Small security fix on login page
• Huge code cleaning & rebuilding to prepare CPAN integration
• Service ‘Nagios’ updated to handle Nagios3 logs

Octopussy 1.0.11

release date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014

• Bugfix #554: Problem with the ‘mysql –exec’ in postinstall scripts
• Bugfix #557: Fixing the Report Editing issues with columns & columns_name
• Bugfix #565: Add Zulu Time Zone in ISO8601 Datetime regex
• Feature Request #558: Ability to configure a delay between octo_parser starts
• Feature Request #134: Possibility to set only City in Device Location
• Feature Request #576: Big work on reducing IO usage when octo_parser starts
• Turkish translation added
• Work to migrate from Date::Manip to Time::Piece reducing memory usage of octo_logrotate, octo_reporter & octo_scheduler of 3.5 MBytes
• Code cleaning
• Services ‘Ansible’, ‘DragonFly_Mail_Agent’ added
• Services ‘Cisco_Switch’ & ‘Keepalived’ updated

Octopussy 1.0.10

release date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013

• Bugfix #358: no NSCA alerts and octo_parser crash (Can’t store REGEXP bug)
• Bugfix #359: Report Edition is not working with ‘ofc type’ report
• Feature Request #128: One message only for every Jabber alert
• Support Request #77: Fixing Device::Valid_Name function to handle hostname starting with digit(s) (RFC 1123)
• Minor improvement in octo_sender
• octo_tool backup before installation also for INSTALL.sh now
• Start using Devel::Cover reporting to improve test suite

Octopussy 1.0.9

release date: Fri, 24 May 2013

• Bugfix #347: Cannot create messages for logs with bad mail dir
• Bugfix #353: Problem running reports on more than one device
• Bugfixing log compression issues
• Bugfixing Web Interface issues reported on Google+
• Minor bugfixes on octo_parser and Octopussy::Alert
• Fixing major security issues in Web interface
• Improving Web Interface
• Invalid Devicename are not created anymore by octo_dispatcher

Octopussy 1.0.8

release date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013

• Bugfix #314: Fixing the LDAP Users authentication
• Bugfix #320: Logs Viewer issues
• Feature Request #119: No space in msgid
• Feature Request #120: You can click on devicename in ‘Last minute messages box’ to go to ‘Device Dashboard’ page
• Support Request #70: Fixing Maps plugin documentation link
• Bugfixing new Octopussy version checker
• Bugfixing AAT::LDAP minor issue
• LDAP Request now only on user defined fields

Octopussy 1.0.7

release date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013

• 4 Services updated
• New Service ‘IBM_Cognos’ created
• Adding no_trans parameter to AAT:Label (1/2)
• Working on Testing Suite
• Now, you can set Contacts fields from LDAP Contacts fields
• Bugfix #3574577: 500 Internal server error because of unknown translation
• Bugfix #3574616: ‘500 Internal server error’ because of invalid devicename in Device::Parse_Status
• Bugfix #3580468: Alert edition broken
• Bugfix #3584230: Alerts are not sent by XMPP anymore
• Bugfix #328: Report can not be deleted
• Bugfix #179: types.xml updated
• Bugfix #267: Name ‘Win32::Locale::Lexicon’ used only once error messages
• Bugfix #332: Dispatcher stopped
• Bugfix #314: Fixing various LDAP problems
• Bugfix #275: Can’t Save Search Templates
• Bugfixing Servicegroup adding in device_services.asp page
• Fixing minor issues in octo_reporter & octo_scheduler
• Fixing ‘white column’ when there wasn’t Service in device_services.asp page
• Feature Request #1831840: Hide unused Services in Services selector
• Feature Request #3513127: Now you can specify timestamp to start from a specific date in Logs Wizard and also add a new pattern to a service by copy/pasting it
• Feature Request #3517497: Better NET_INTERFACE type

Octopussy 1.0.6

release date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012

• octo_tool program updated to handle backups
• References to 8pussy.org have been replaced by octopussy.pm
• Services & Tables updates
• Feature Request #3538049: Ability to change banner image
• Feature Request #3560370: Move and copy of patterns between Services
• Feature Request #3510112: Now LDAP Users have the same preferences/roles than local users
• Bugfixes on Debian packaging update
• Bugfixes for LDAP Contacts & Users
• Bugfix Loglevel/Taxonomy unknown parameter for octo_extractor
• Bugfix #3541753: Removes RRD error messages
• Bugfix #3519341: msgid & taxo stats not in cache anymore when stats are disabled
• Bugfix #3555337: Allow dots in devicename and devicegroupname

Octopussy 1.0.5

release date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012

• Bugfix #3537131: Problem with Device with only ip address after Octopussy 1.0.4 update
• Updates on ‘Valid_Name’ functions and Test Suite

Octopussy 1.0.4

release date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012

• Fixing minor WebUI bugs for ReadOnly users
• Cache clearing feature added to octo_tool program
• Filtering Web pages entries to avoid XSS attacks
• Feature Request #3528557: Bigger Device & Service selector in Alert Creation/Edition Web pages

Octopussy 1.0.3

release date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012

• New program octo_tool added to do simple tasks (for now, service_clone & table_clone)
• Feature Request #3477812: Ability to create an alert when Octopussy receives new unknown logs
• Feature Request #3477752: You can now be redirected to Wizard page or Service page after Message pattern creation
• Feature Request #3428757: You can now enable/disable logs compression in ‘Device Services’ web page
• Feature Request #3416032 (1/2): Fixing the ordering of the status in ‘Alerts Viewer’ page
• Feature Request #3416032 (2/2): ‘Delete from Database’ button added to ‘Alerts Viewer’ page
• Feature Request #3488473: Virtual Hosts added for Device Types/Models
• Feature Request #3416018: Now, you can set mimimum delay between 2 alerts
• Feature Request #3492003: Edit option for contacts
• Bugfix #3485331: Handling invalid Octopussy plugin
• Bugfix #3506010: Manual pages for Octopussy Perl modules were generated with incorrect filename by ‘packaging_from_svn.pl’ script
• Bugfixing the unrefreshed date in ‘Selector_date’
• Bugfixing the missing ‘use AAT::Syslog;’ in Octopussy/Plugin.pm

Octopussy 1.0.2

release date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011

• Translation updates to fix ‘Internal Server Error’
• Bugfix #3439106: Many bugs in Restricted Logs Viewer
• Bugfix #3455262: Fixing octo_logrotate issues
• Bugfix #3452230: Services are now correctly selected in ‘user_restrictions.asp’ page

Octopussy 1.0.1

release date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011

• Cisco_ASA & MySQL Services updates
• Bugfix #3433578: octo_uparser didn’t work since release 1.0rc6
• Bugfixing Translations issues
• Bugfixing missing ‘favicon.ico’ in apache logs

Octopussy 1.0

release date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011

• Mac OS X related Services updates
• ‘Octopussy restart from Web Interface’ feature has been disabled because it was buggy
• Bugfixing ‘– ANY –’ selection in ‘logs_viewer.asp’ page
• Bugfix #3432668: Unable to enable/disable statistics in ‘device_services.asp’ page
• Bugfix #3434572: Bug in Waiting_For_Process_Already_Running function
• Bugfix #3435120: Dispatcher now drops line (and don’t create a new invalid device) if the device name is not valid

Octopussy 1.0rc6

release date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011

• Many Services added and updated
• Feature Request #3391894: You can now add a ‘Device Filtering Regexp’ to handle only devices you really want
• Feature Request #3428291: Sort Contacts by ‘id’ by default
• Feature Request #3421855: Dynamic DeviceGroup configuration displayed in tooltip when the mouse is over ‘Dynamic’ type
• Bugfix #3411747: Plugin check-octopussy missing use statement
• Bugfix #3418377: Fixing security issues in ‘index.asp’, ‘alerts.asp’, ‘devices.asp’, ‘storages.asp’, ‘alerts_viewer.asp’ & ‘world_statistics.asp’ web pages
• Bugfix #3414351: fixing ‘invalid dirhandle’ messages in octo_logrotate when directory is missing
• Bugfix #3140040: GTalk/XMPP issues
• Bugfix: Fixing XMPP test message sent twice
• Bugfix #3431929: Wrong order between lower/uppercase in Services list
• Bugfix #3412966: Octopussy can now handle Regexp::Assemble failures

Octopussy 1.0rc5

release date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011

• Starting JQueryfication of the Web Interface
• Modification of Debian/Ubuntu apache2.conf file to use Snakeoil SSL Certificate in order to simplify Octopussy installation
• Bugfix #3402213: Fix error message in octo_world_stats
• Bugfix #3391894: Ability to enable/disable ‘Automatic Device Creation’
• Feature Request #3402215: Option to quiet cron tasks
• Minor Bugfixes
• Fixing Debian FHS policy
• Fixing lintian issues

Octopussy 1.0rc4

release date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011

• Now you can choose between Rsyslog and Syslog-ng to receive your logs
• DateTime::Format::Strptime & Term::ProgressBar added to Perl Module Requirements
• Restricted Logs Viewer display bug fixed
• Better octo_pusher
• Now, there is also a form to Create a New Service at the top of the services.asp page
• Updates on 8pussy.org are now daily updated from Subversion repository
• Homepage link added to ‘Top Menu’ in WebGUI

• Fixing Debian 6 installation problem

• Bugfix #3184249: prototype.js added for OpenFlashChart
• Bugfix #3184259: AAT::Schedule::Match replaced by Octopussy::Schedule::Match
• Bugfix #3188874: Sending alerts to multiple recipients or with empty subect/body failed
• Bugfix #3285704: Translations issues with undefined msgid in .po files
• Bugfix #3303598: Msgid statistics in Service divided by 2 because of total
• Bugfix #3087438: Missing _MSG_DEVICEGROUP_ALREADY_EXISTS
• Bugfix #3309458: Filtering in logs viewer is not working with ‘Unknown’

Octopussy 1.0rc3

release date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011

• Better Test Suite

• Code cleanning

• Bugfix #3166138: Fixing major problems with old syslog datetime format
• Bugfix #3176376 & Support Request #3078102: Specific sysctl conf added to raise ‘fs.inotify.max_user_instances’

Octopussy 1.0rc2

release date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011

• Rsyslog UDP/TCP reception now forced in installation scripts

• Now ‘export APACHE_RUN_DIR’ in /usr/sbin/directory (needed for Apache2 configuration in some distribs)

• Bugfix #3160987: Fixing major issue on ISO8601 DateTime Regexp
• Bugfix #3067657: Wrong scheduling matching fixed and Test Suite updated
• Minor Bugfixes

Octopussy 1.0rc1

release date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011

• WARNING: ISO8601 DateTime format migration ! (see ‘ISO8601 DateTime Format Migration’)
• Alerts name are now limited to [-_a-zA-Z0-9] characters
• Contacts id are now limited to [-_a-zA-Z0-9] characters
• Services name are now limited to [-_a-zA-Z0-9] characters
• Better Test Suite

• Minor modifications to fix Debian Lintian errors

• Bugfix: Fixing file rights problems in Debian installation
• Bugfix: Missing translation fixed in AAT_Selector_DateTime_Simple.inc
• Bugfix #3061992: 0GIN% missing in Octopussy logs
• Bugfix #3065906: Bug in Get_Mail_Addresses function in octo_sender
• Bugfix #3064879: Authentication problems after user preferences changes
• Bugfix #3109566: Rsyslog configuration filename changed from ‘octopussy.conf’ to ‘10-octopussy.conf’

Octopussy 0.9.9.9.9

release date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010

• Bugfix in octo_scheduler
• Bugfix on Octopussy::FS::Flie_Ext
• Bugfix #3014851 & Bugfix #3036766: Octopussy::Create_Directory -> Octopussy::FS::Create_Directory
• Bugfix #3015810: Problem in ‘System Configuration’ & ‘Updater’ page
• Bugfix #3018897: chown cannot access ‘2’ problem

• Bugfix #3057572: problem with devicename with ‘_’ in octo_rrd

• Timeout added in AAT::Download::File
• You can now modify user configuration and a user can now be enabled/disabled
• Test suite hugely updated
• Installation of Octopussy on other linux systems has been greatly improved.
• Installation Documentation has been updated (Debian/Ubuntu/CentOS/Fedora).

Octopussy 0.9.9.9.8

release date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010

• A lot of work has been done to reduce memory usage (-40% for parsers)
• A huge Services & Tables update
• Faster Reports for Reports with Plugins
• Better octo_extractor (with Device, Service, Loglevel & Taxonomy validation)
• ProgressBar added for octo_reporter in command line
• Alerts are now sent by octo_sender instead of octo_parser
• Some little changes in Web Interface to improve speed
• Translation files are now in .po format
• Huge Test Suite (280+ tests) has been created to reduce ‘stupid bugs’
• Code cleaning
• Bugfix #2960273: Parses stops due some perl subs missing
• Support Request #2967444: Device Models/Types problem
• Bugfix: Wizard title with ‘[]’ problem
• Bugfix #2976415: Cisco_Pix Service problem
• Bugfix #2991712: Device hasn’t send any logs every 2 seconds

Octopussy 0.9.9.9.6

release date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010

• Bugfix: ‘undefined value within %re_type or olor in Message.pm’ messages
• Bugfix: ‘change service rank - internal server error msg’
• Bugfix: ‘use strict in Plugin.pm’ & ‘pid_param’ error messages
• Bugfix: minor changes in DeviceGroup, Message & Report modules
• Bugfix: octo_parser
• Bugfix: ‘\r\n’ in message creation with Wizard
• Bugfix: 2 minor changes in Web Interface
• Bugfix: missing status in Running Reports in Reports Viewer
• Bugfix #2946434 & Bugfix #2946818: ‘sort uniq’ problem
• Bugfix: Major fix for XML Caching when reading just after writing in AAT::XML.pm
• Bugfix: Remove verbose tar in Octopussy::Configuration.pm
• Bugfix #2948940: Fixes the missing servicename for the 1st message of a service

• Bugfix: ‘' character problem with DAY, DAY_HOUR, DAY_HOUR_MIN, UNIX_TIMESTAMP in Report SQL functions

• Faster Wizard when there is a lot of ‘unknown files’
• Reduce the memory used by octopussy binaries
• Test suite created with more than 120 tests
• MobilePhone list updates
• Major Services updates

Octopussy 0.9.9.9.2

release date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010

• A lot of bugs have been introduced in the last releases (logs viewer/octo_extractor), this release should fix that !

Octopussy 0.9.9.9

release date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010

• Bugfix ‘adding locations does not update’ (Bugfix #2920425)
• Bugfix ‘User properties are not updated’ (Bugfix #2921789)
• Bugfixes on Alerts

Octopussy 0.9.9.8

release date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009

• Major Bufixes in octo_extractor/octo_reporter (Bugfix #2906742,Bugfix #2907323,Bugfix #2915014)
• Bugfix in Alert Creation (Bugfix #2903747 & Bugfix #2906983)
• Code cleaning (Perl Best Practices)

Octopussy 0.9.9.7

release date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009

• Better Logs Wizard (unmatched part of log is now in red) (Feature Request #2901173)
• Minor bugfixes
• Code cleaning (Perl Best Practices)

Octopussy 0.9.9.6

release date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009

• Major speed improvement (4X-5X) for octo_parser & octo_uparser !
• Major Code Cleaning (Perltidy & Perl Best Practices)
• You can now Disable/Enable statistics by Device/Service
• Zabbix_sender available to send Alerts
• You can now specify Host & Service for Nagios NSCA & Zabbix_sender Alerts
• Better Wizard Search Service
• Unclosed file in octo_parser bug fixed (Bugfix #2798302)
• Authenticated LDAP are now supported (Bugfix #2808664)
• Invalid Regexp messages are logged in octo_parser
• Invalid Regexp messages are showed in Service Messages list
• Service Message Statistics are now in this format (xx.x%)

Octopussy 0.9.9.4

release date: Mon, 18 May 2009

• dispatcher bugs fixed (Bugfix #2787361, Bugfix #2791070, Bugfix #2792199)
• cron.daily logrotate bug fixed (Bugfix #2790071)
• Apache2 Installation bug fixed (Bugfix #2790082)
• Rsyslog Installation bug fixed (Bugfix #2790769)

Octopussy 0.9.9.3

release date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009

• Syslog-ng replaced by Rsyslog
• /etc/init.d/octopussy is now LSB compliant
• Better Debian installation
• Minor Bugfixes/Improvements

Octopussy 0.9.9.2

release date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009

• Better reports with Open Flash Chart !
• RRD taxonomy bug fixed (Bugfix #2659959)
• Minor Bugfixes/Improvements

Octopussy 0.9.9.1

release date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009

• Major Bug discovered & fixed in octo_dispatcher (no more logs were handled by Octopussy ! :()

Octopussy 0.9.9

release date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009

• New feature: Logs Availability Viewer
• Now, you can ‘replay’ logs with octo_replay !
• Before, you can only set log retention duration by Device, now, you can set it by Device/Service
• Logs Viewer now with Loglevel, Taxonomy & MsgID filtering
• Bugfix #2509315: now /usr/sbin/octo_* require to be launched by Octopussy user
• So Many Bugfixes…

Octopussy 0.9.8.8

release date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008

• Major bugfix on octo_dispatcher ! (Bugfix #2343806)
• Bugfix the apache2 restart bug (Bugfix #2304276)
• You can now limit the number of minutes to search for restricted users
• Minor WebUI improvements

Octopussy 0.9.8.7

release date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008

• Wget replaced by LWP
• Major Bugfixes in octo_parser & octo_uparser
• Bugfixes all the bugs introduced in the last 2 releases (Taxonomy::List)
• Bugfixes for Perl 5.10 support
• IT & PT Translations updated

Octopussy 0.9.8.6

release date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008

• Bugfix the RRDTool bug (Bugfix #2293036) introduced in last release
• Bugfix ‘the number of alerts always 0’ bug (SR ID: 2272569)
• ‘REGEXP’ reserved word is now 100% Perl Regexp ( () [] are working now) (Bugfix #2284493)
• Services updates in order to work with the updated ‘REGEXP’ reserved word

Octopussy 0.9.8.5

release date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008

• Loglevel added in Logs Viewer & Reporter
• Selector for Services, Loglevel & Taxonomy are fully dynamic now
• Better/Easier Report SQL Query Configurator (except for WHERE clause)
• Minor bugfix on octo_world_stats
• Code cleaning

Octopussy 0.9.8.4

release date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008

• Octopussy World Stats
• New type PID (NUMBER type with no MIN,MAX,AVG,SUM functions)
• Bugfix on Report Edition (Bugfix #1835898)
• Lot of major & minor bugfixes
• Code cleaning

Octopussy 0.9.8.1

release date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008

• Fixes bugs introduced by 0.9.8
• Code cleaning

Octopussy 0.9.8

release date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008

• Possibility to move to First/Last Service in Device Services List
• Possibility to move to First/Last Message in Service Messages List
• ‘10 seconds step’ logging feature added
• Dispatcher doesn’t update RRD files anymore, a new process has been created for that, octo_rrd
• Major Bugfixes (Bugfix #2033700, Bugfix #2033938)
• Bugfixes in Logs Viewer (Bugfix #2067498)
• Services updates

Octopussy 0.9.7.6

release date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008

• ‘Running Reports List’ feature added
• Minor Bugfixes

Octopussy 0.9.7.4

release date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008

• Really better communication between WebUI & octo_reporter & octo_extractor
• Minor Bugfixes

Octopussy 0.9.7

release date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008

• Major Bugfix on AAT::XML module
• Taxonomy selection added in Logs Viewer
• Linux Inotify ‘feature’ added to octo_parser ! (no more waste of time between dispatcher & parser)
• Italian translation (not complete) added (thanks to Giuliano Natali)

Octopussy 0.9.6.6

release date: Wed, 28 May 2008

• ‘Devices list filtering’ feature added (Feature Request #1841748)
• ‘check new Octopussy version’ feature added (Feature Request #1732808)
• ‘octo_extractor uses too much memory’ bug fixed (Bugfix #1968031)
• Major Bugfixes on dynamic selector for Devices/Services
• Some work on Web Interface
• So many bugfixes

Octopussy 0.9.6.2

release date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008

• Major Bugfixes on Logs Viewer
• Major Bugfixes on Backup
• Bugfix the wizard bug (Bugfix #1951515)
• ‘Search Templates administration’ feature added
• ‘Search Templates removing in Logs Viewer’ feature added

Octopussy 0.9.6

release date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008

• ServiceGroup feature added (you can now add a list of services to one device in one shot)
• Bugfix to disable deletion of last admin user
• Bugfix on Selector_DateTime_Simple (for hour & min < 10)
• Bugfixes on Logs Viewer

Octopussy 0.9.5.8

release date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008

• ‘Reload Required’ feature added (Parser are not reloaded anymore when you move Service or Message)
• Really Better Logs Viewer
• Parsers now stop cleanly
• Bugfix on Logs sort (with unsorted month)
• Lot of Bugfixes
• Major Security fix !

Octopussy 0.9.5.4

release date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008

• Alerts with Regexp(Include/Exclude)
• Backup/Restore configuration feature added
• Menu Configuration added (Icons&Text, IconsOnly, TextOnly)
• New Types: Bytes & User_Agent (with specific plugins)
• Russian translation (not complete) added (thanks to Andrew Pantyukhin)
• Lot of Bugfixes

Octopussy 0.9.5

release date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008

• Migration to Apache2
• Better Logs Viewer with Ajax
• Included Help/Documentation
• Reducing number of Tables -> Global report easier
• Min & Max SQL functions added to Reports
• Yearly Stats added
• Services Added/Updated
• Report ProgressBar in Ajax now
• A lot of Minor Bugfixes

Octopussy 0.9.4.8

release date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007

• Report XML output added
• In Wizard, now you can check if unknown logs match Service that don’t belong to Device
• Device Type is no more used for Logs Directories (Code Cleaner)
• Bugfix for specific chars in Alerts msgs, Contacts & Wizard msgs
• Bugfixes in Report Scheduler
• Bugfixes in octo_logrotate
• Code Cleaning

Octopussy 0.9.4.4

release date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007

• You can now specify type (line or stack) and step (N minutes) to RRD Graph
• RRD Taxonomy Graph for each device are now generated only when needed (lower load from octo_logrotate)
• Code Cleaning (All AAT data is now in /usr/share/aat/ directory)
• Bugfix on RRD Graph Report Edition
• Lot of Bugfixes in installation scripts & documentation

Octopussy 0.9.4

release date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007

• Storages used space now on main page
• Handling User Restrictions (by Device/Service/ALert/Report)
• Detection of Devices that don’t send logs for n minutes
• Simple Datetime Selector (current/last hour/day/week/month/year) added
• Code cleaning and documentation

Octopussy 0.9.3.8

release date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007

• Bugfix of device with status ‘Stopped’ that restarted after Octopussy restart
• Major Bugfix on Report Scheduler
• Global Performance improvment by ‘nicing’ Octopussy programs (pusher, scheduler, uparser, rrdgraph)
• Message fields can now be inserted in Alert messages
• WebUI - Service logos added in Services list
• First Mac OS X System/Kernel messages created

Octopussy 0.9.3.4

release date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007

• Major BugFixes on Alerts Viewer
• Major Bugfix on octo_alerter introduced in last release
• Reports now in PDF (with htmldoc)

Octopussy 0.9.3.1

release date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007

• Portuguese translation added (thanks to Rafael Henrique Vieira)
• Bugfix on ‘Total Events on Last minute’
• Bugfix on Report Scheduler
• Bugfix for Creation of Report with only one field

Octopussy 0.9.3

release date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007

• ‘Storages’ feature added (you can now decide where to store logs by Device/Service)
• Categories added in Report Viwer
• Possibility to Remove Reports for 1 month
• RRD files removed after Device/Service removed
• Tooltip in Reports Viewer to show an abstract of the Report

Octopussy 0.9.2.4

release date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007

• Improvements of octo_parser/octo_uparser (faster & lower load)
• Change Reserved Word ‘CONSTANT’ by ‘REGEXP’
• Migration Apache::ASP Toolkit continued (all system stuff is now handled by AAT)
• Cleaned last release debugging messages
• Add ‘Check Connection’ feature to the System Configuration Panel
• Lot of Bugfixes

Octopussy 0.9.2

release date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007

• Start Apache::ASP Toolkit migration
• Better WebUI with new Icons (mix of Tango, Futurosoft & Crystal Project)
• Live syntax checker on Wizard
• Lot of Bugfixes on alerts handling
• Add choise of DB Type in System COnfiguration
• Fix the bug of the Unknown messages not reparsed in Wizard
• Minor Bugfixes (Bugfix #1721184, Bugfix #1757568)
• Now users.xml are not overwritten anymore in Debian installation

Octopussy 0.9.1.3

release date: Thu, 10 May 2007

• Fix 3 bugs in non-debian installation
• Fix the Logs Wizard problem again (Bugfix #1712057)
• Minor WebUI improvements

Octopussy 0.9.1.2

release date: Wed, 09 May 2007

• Fix the Logs Wizard problem (Bugfix #1712057)

Octopussy 0.9.1.1

release date: Wed, 02 May 2007

• Fix the librrd0 problem on Debian Etch

Octopussy 0.9.1

release date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007

• Bugs with XML/utf8 fixed (Bugfix #1708864), Octopussy is now fully utf8 !
• WebUI improvements
• Bugfixes on logs viewer, updater, reporter & scheduler
• Device Dashboard Page with Device Taxonomy RRD Graph

Octopussy 0.9.0.8

release date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007

• Alerts handle Repetition/Duration
• Online Update for Translations added.

Octopussy 0.9.0.6

release date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007

• RRDTool Graph used for Reports !
• Basic Reports are now available
• Online Update for Basic Reports added.
• Minor Bugfixes

Octopussy 0.9.0.2

release date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007

• Improve ‘LogsFiles’ function which improve extractor/reporter speed
• Add Proxy Configuration to get Octopussy updates
• Bugfix on Sending Alerts
• Bugfix on New Device Detection

Octopussy 0.9

release date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007

• Lot of Minor Bugfixes
• Code Cleaning
• You can now submit your Service/Table to support directly from the WebUI
• Stop/Start/Pause device functionality
• Tooltips

Octopussy 0.8.9.9

release date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007

• Major Bugfix on Report SQL Request creation
• Bugfix on sending Alerts vi email/IM
• Spanish translation updated (thanks to Victor Barahona)

Octopussy 0.8.9.8

release date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007

• Major Bugfix on installation script (Forum Question #1622659)
• Major Bugfixes on memory usage which improve global performance
• In Wizard, now you can delete one minute of unknown logs in one click

Octopussy 0.8.9.6

release date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006

• Web Interface Enhancements
• Minor Bugfixes
• Code Cleaning

Octopussy 0.8.9.5

release date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006

• Web Interface Enhancements
• Lots of minor bugfixes/features enhancements
• Code Cleaning

Octopussy 0.8.9

release date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006

• Device Footprint functionality added (Octopussy can now determine Device Type & Model, and set Services with New Device log lines)
• Plugins can now be applied in Input (before SQL insert) or Output (after SQL query)
• RRDTool integration
• Lot of Bugfixes/Enhancements

Octopussy 0.8.8

release date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006

• Online Update (on 8pussy.org) for Octopussy Services & Tables added !
• octo_pusher (octo_dispatcher for non-syslog devices) added !
• Updated Web Interface buttons with The Tango Desktop Project icons
• Many Minor Bugfixes

Octopussy 0.8.7.4

release date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006

• Minor Bugfixes & Feature enhancements

Octopussy 0.8.7

release date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006

• Lot of Bugfixes on installation !

Octopussy 0.8.6.2

release date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006

• Dynamic Alerts edition added.
• Disabled OpenDocument Export because installation problems in v0.8.6

Octopussy 0.8.6

release date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006

• Reports exporting methods (mail/ftp/scp) added to Scheduler
• Remove empty directories with octo_logrotate
• Remove logfiles exceeding logrotate limit with octo_logrotate
• Handling logs directories & files when changing device type fixed
• Code Cleaning
• Minor Bugfixes

Octopussy 0.8.5

release date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006

• Version 0.8.4 was completely buggy, this is the fixed version !
• Modified Plugin Architecture (see ‘Plugin Howto’)
• Minor bugfixes

Octopussy 0.8.4

release date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006

• Bugfix on octo_dispatcher when no NTP sync !
• TimePeriods functionality added
• Dynamic Alerts with TimePeriod added
• Reports exporting methods added (by mail/ftp/scp)
• Dispatcher & Parser improvments
• Bugfix (Headers fields in Report)

Octopussy 0.8.2

release date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006

• Bugfixes (removing logs in wizard & empty msgs for alerts)
• Data from reports can now be handled by external plugins !

Octopussy 0.8

release date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006

• Bugfixes
• Add ‘date_time’ fields in Alerts -> Better sort in Alerts Tracker Interface
• Export logs in ‘txt’ & ‘csv’ file format

Octopussy 0.7.9.9

release date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006

• “System Configuration” Interface for DB, LDAP, Jabber, SMTP configuration
• “Message Matching Statictics” in Service
• Users LDAP Authentication is now working

Octopussy 0.7.9.8

release date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006

• LDAP powered for contacts & users (users can’t connect with LDAP yet)
• Alerts Notifications can be sent via sendxmpp (Jabber)

Octopussy 0.7.9.6

release date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006

• Web Page for Messages filtering (Service, Log Level, Taxonomy, Table)

Octopussy 0.7.9.4

release date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006

• Alerts Creation via Web Interface

Octopussy 0.7.9.2

release date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006

• Modification for SMTP & Alerts configuration

Octopussy 0.7.9

release date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006

• Bugfixes in octo_reporter
• Bugfixes in octo_scheduler
• Clear empty directories with octo_logrotate
• Dynamic Devicegroups

Octopussy 0.7.8

• Bugfixes
• Code cleaning
• Logs Viewer & Reporter faster
• New Services

Octopussy 0.7.75

release date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006

• Bugfixes
• WebUI really faster than before
• First Debian Packaging

Octopussy 0.7.7

• Now works with syslog-ng ! (should fix logrotate problems)

Octopussy 0.7.6

• Bugfixes & improvements

Octopussy 0.7.5

• Added checks for table & fields in message when creating/modifying message
• Added checks for space in tablenames (substituted by ‘_’)
• Added checks for uniq msgids
• Maps can redirect to alerts

Octopussy 0.7.4

• Bugfixes
• Added Maps functionality

Octopussy 0.7.2

• Explicit msg_id for service messages
• Added “LIMIT” functionality in Report
• Added Predefined Taxonomy in Report
• Added “versioning” (yyyymmddxxxx) in services

Octopussy 0.7

• Bugfixes/WebUI improvements
• Lot of new Services/messages
• Enabled “message removing” in Wizard
• Added “Report sort order (ascending/descending)”
• Bugfix for “nested quantifiers errors” in Wizard
• Incoming & Unknown messages now divided in 2 specific directories

Octopussy 0.6.4

release date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006

• Bugfixes
• Calendar added
• Locations added

Octopussy 0.6

release date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006

• Logrotate & Scheduler full functionality
• javascript code for dynamic device/service selector

Octopussy 0.5.6

release date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006

• A lot of bugfixes
• Logrotate functionality added

Octopussy 0.5.2

release date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005

• Some code cleaning
• Some minor changes on File Hierarchy
• Added user rights checkings before any Add/Modify/Remove action
• Added Dialog Boxes !

Octopussy 0.5

release date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005

• A lot of improvements & new features since 0.4 version !

Octopussy 0.4

release date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005

• First Public Release