Cluster SSH Changelog

What's new in Cluster SSH 3.27

Sep 25, 2009
  • This release fixes an annoying bug where unresolvable hostnames stopped the program from running, and adds in some new features (a customizable send menu that can now automatically tear-off, and display of available clusters in the 'Add Host' window).

New in Cluster SSH 3.26 (Jun 3, 2009)

  • Allow user to set a different ConnectTimeout and -o string (Tony Mancill)
  • Fix warning from 'mandb' (Tony Mancill)
  • Continue connecting to unresolvable hosts (debian bug 499935) (Tony Mancill)
  • Correct bug with unset default ports (Tony Mancill)
  • Rearrange pod documentation to remove extraenous comment (Tony Mancill)
  • Cope better with IPv6 addresses
  • Fix bug with passing arguments from command line to comms method binary
  • Rework defaultport code
  • Add new "-a 'command'" option for running a command in each terminal
  • Fix bug with some host lookups failing
  • Set window hints on terminals slightly differently to help with tiling
  • Reserve 5 pixels on top and left hand side of terminals for better tiling
  • Increase reserve of screen from bottom from 40 pixels to 60
  • Better notes in docs for screen/terminal reserving
  • Minor fixup to docs formatting
  • Correct pasting mechanism into control window
  • Allow use of long options (swap Getopt::Std to Getopt::Long)
  • Remove deprecated '-i' option
  • Deprecate -d and -D, replaced with --debug
  • Allow for configurable max number of hosts within hosts menu before
  • starting a new column - see .csshrc doc for "max_host_menu_items".
  • This is until Tk allows for scrollable menus
  • Amend default key_addhost from 'Control-plus' to 'Control-Shift-plus'
  • Add in a 'default' cluster tag, used when no tags provided on command line
  • Fix Alt-n pasting in a resolved hostname instead of the connection hostname
  • Disabled unmapping code until such time as a better way of doing it exists
  • - this is due to virtual desktop change triggering a retile

New in Cluster SSH 3.25 (Mar 26, 2009)

  • Add patch from David F. Skoll for adding colour to terminals
  • Apply fix from Bogdan Pintea for DNS failing to resolve IPs
  • Allow the configuration files to be symlinks (debian bug 518196)
  • Add an 'EXAMPLES' section to the cssh documentation
  • List options alphabetically in documentation
  • Apply patch from Gerfried Fuchs/Tony Mancill for ports on the command li

New in Cluster SSH 3.24 (Nov 14, 2008)

  • Do not attempt to re-resolve IP addresses
  • Apply patch from Dan Wallis - Add '-C < file >' command to load in specific config file - Typo correct in pod - Cope with random/strange config files better
  • Correct some minor typos
  • Create the .csshrc file if it doesnt already exist and amend pod
  • Amend host menu items to be a little more descriptive
  • Remove 'Catpure Terminal' from Hosts menu as it doesnt do anything useful