Big Sister - RELEASE NOTES-0.98b6

- Big Sister 0.98 beta 6 Release Notes

## Big Sister 0.98 beta 6 Release Notes

      An early release of the forthcoming official Big Sister
    docu is included together with a (yet incomplete) set of
    man pages.

      With the new default skin "techie" we get rid of the old
    rather ugly default look. Existing installations: Please
    use "%skin static_lamps,techie" and "%Logskin static_lamps,
    techie" in bb-display.cfg to benefit from the new look.

      Moved "etherport" and "ntp" implementation over to the new
    style sensors.

      Removed forcing local host name transformation into lower
    case. WARNING: This might be a problem for administrators
    running Big Sister on machines with mixed-case or uppercase
    names. Anyway, since it is more consistent we decided to take
    this step.

      The detailed test status page now includes a history of
    recent status changes.

      The history CGI lets you choose detail level of status
    information, now.

      Introduced "%Autojoin pattern" in order to allow adding hosts
    to groups by pattern selection.

      Introduced %Itemgroup and %select_items statement in order to
    have a means for selecting, which columns should appear in a
    table.

      Introduced %select_names statement allowing us to select
    rows appearing in a table by name (pattern matching).

      Added %Section statement. A "%Section" is a subtitle in the
    contents frame.

      Fixed the "bbd" crashing bug, also fixed a little
    incompatibility of the "tcp" based tests with Linux Kernel
    >=2.4.21.