ANNOUNCE: NSCA-ng 1.1

[Holger Weiß]

Today, I released NSCA-ng 1.1.  Debian packages and the source tarball
can be downloaded from:

        https://www.nsca-ng.org/

NSCA-ng is a drop-in replacement for NSCA that allows for submitting
passive check results, downtimes, and many other commands to Nagios.  It
uses TLS encryption and shared-secret authentication with per-client
passwords, as well as fine-grained authorization control.

Version 1.1 is a minor release that adds some improvements and fixes,
including the following:

- Add chroot(2) support to the server.
- Let the server accept `hosts' patterns in `authorize' sections.
  They're syntactic sugar for allowing host checks to be submitted
  (analogous to the `services' patterns for service check submissions).
- Let the client ignore empty input lines.  This fixes some corner cases
  where NSCA-ng's client didn't accept the same input as the client
  provided with the original NSCA package.
- Add the `-e' client option, which allows for specifying a delimiter to
  use instead of the ASCII ETB character for separating check results.
- Let the `invoke_check' script (provided in the `contrib' directory of
  the source tarball) survive plugin return codes other than zero.  This
  should make the script slightly more useful :-)

Thanks go to Stuart Henderson for adding the chroot(2) support, to Mirko
Tasler for spotting the bug in the `invoke_check' script, and to
everyone else who provided feedback.

Have a nice weekend!

Holger

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