1.8
Important Python-related news:
- REMOVED SUPPORT FOR Python 2.6
- LAST RELEASE TO SUPPORT 2.7
- Support Python 3
Important security news:
- CHANGED REMOTE MONITOR PROTOCOL (security fix)
Everything else:
- Add JSON logger
- Add 46elks SMS alerter
- Add PushBullet alerter
- Add Telegram alerter
- Add Notification Center alerter (for macOS)
- Add systemd unit monitor
- Add Home Automation monitor
- Add MQTT logger
- Improve Slack alerter's configurability
- Add basic HTTP Auth and timeouts to HTTP monitor
- Verify SSL certificates by defaults
- Add notification groups
- Add support for environment variables in config values and section names
- Add tests
- Add sample docker configurations
- Use Pipenv for requirements management
- Added example startup scripts including a Windows Service
- Improved logging output (to stdout, not the Logger class)
- IPv6 support for network Logger
- DB Loggers now auto-create the database/table as needed, and can update schema version
- Email Logger now supports multiple addresses
- DNS Monitor now supports multivalue responses
- Use JSON format for remote monitor protocol; more secure than pickle