Release 7.4

• The docker image used for CI and release builds is now based on
  Debian 12 instead of Ubuntu 18.04.
• macOS: CI and release builds are now generated for the x86_64 and arm64
  targets. 32 bit platforms will require to be compiled from the source.
• smartctl -t short, -t long and -X: NVMe support.
• smartctl -l selftest: NVMe support.
• smartctl -l farm: Prints Seagate's vendor-specific Field Access
  Reliability Metrics (FARM) log for ATA and SCSI drives.
• smartctl -l error: Now also prints an error message for each entry
  of NVMe error information log.
• smartctl -l genstats: Prints SCSI General statistics and performance
  log page.
• smartctl -i and --identify: ACS-4/5/6 enhancements.
• smartctl -c: Added NVMe 2.0 capability flags.
• smartctl -g security: Added ata_security.master_password_id
  to JSON output. Plaintext output shows Master Password ID if set
  to a non-default value.
• smartctl -q noserial: Now also suppresses the output of NVMe Namespace
  IEEE EUI-64.
• smartctl -j: -l error -l selftest JSON output for NVMe devices.
• smartctl -j: Avoid invalid UTF-8 sequences in JSON/YAML strings.
• smartctl -j: Fixed a bogus exception during SCSI JSON output.
• smartctl -j: Renamed JSON element scsi_temperature back to
  temperature (regression).
• smartctl -a: Now suggests -x for ATA devices because -a only
  provides legacy SMART information.
• smartd: No longer issues LOG_CRIT warnings if new entries of NVMe error
  information log do not indicate device problems.
• smartd: Now detects accidental use of smartd_warning script as
  -M exec parameter.
• smartd: No longer writes the Copyright... line to syslog.
• smartd.conf -M always: Sends reminder emails without any delay.
• smartd.conf -M diminishing: Limited email delay to 32 days.
• ATA: Fixed decoding of extended self-test log on big endian hosts.
• ATA: Enhanced LBA range for device types -d jmb39x-q,... and
  -d jms56x,... from 33-62 to 1-255.
• ATA: Device type -d intelliprop,N now fails with a deprecation message.
  Added -d intelliprop,N,force flag to use it anyway.
• ATA/USB: Device type -d usbasm1352r,N for ASMedia ASM1352R USB to SATA
  RAID bridges
• SCSI: Fixed possible corruption issue with the Error Counter and
  Non medium Error log pages.
• SCSI: Added more "Informational Exceptions" strings.
• SCSI: Added initial support for REPORT SUPPORTED OPERATION command.
• SCSI: Initial rework of SCSI debug output.
• NVMe: Added error messages for NVMe status values.
• NVMe: Fixed crash after read of error information log on big endian hosts.
• HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
• update-smart-drivedb: Fixed syntax for sed versions which require
  ; before } or do not support ; at all.
• update-smart-drivedb: Replaced a usually not executed bashism.
• configure: Default for --with-nvme-devicescan is now yes also on
  Darwin and FreeBSD. It is still no on NetBSD only.
• configure: Defines _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 if supported and not predefined.
• configure: No longer fails if libsystemd-dev is installed and
  LDFLAGS=-static is used.
• Compile fix for systems without legacy getdtablesize().
• Pre-releases from SVN snapshots now show "pre-VERSION" in version
  information and smartctl.pre_release=true in JSON output.
• Linux: Device type -d sssraid for 3SNIC RAID controllers.
• Linux: Device type -d marvell now fails with a deprecation message.
  Added -d marvell,force flag to use it anyway.
• Linux: The generic SCSI code now defaults to SG_IO_V3 and does no
  longer fall back to the deprecated SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND
  (but this ioctl is still used for -d 3ware and -d marvell,force).
• Linux smartd: Now prevents systemd unit startup timeout when many
  devices are registered and then initially checked.
• Linux smartd: Systemd no longer reports a service failure if no device
  is present and a -q *nodev0* option is used.
• Solaris SPARC: Dropped legacy ATA support. Dropped configure option
  --with-solaris-sparc-ata.
• Windows: IOCTL_STORAGE_PROTOCOL_COMMAND variant for NVMe self-tests.
• Windows: Installer now defaults to 64-bit executables.
• Windows: No longer prints bogus Local Time if enhanced TZ syntax is used.
• Windows: Workaround to keep backward compatibility with old versions
  of Windows if some versions of MinGW-w64 are used.

Release 7.3

• smartctl: -j: Many additions to the JSON output for SCSI/SAS devices.
• smartctl: -j: JSON output always includes timestamp, regardless of -i.
• smartctl: -i and --identify: ATA ACS-5 enhancements.
• smartctl: -l defects: additionally works for SCSI Pending Defects log
  subpage.
• smartctl: -l envrep: Prints SCSI Environmental Reporting log subpage.
• smartctl: -l scterc[,R,W],p: Gets/sets the persistent power-on values.
• smartctl: -l scterc,reset: Restores to manufacturer's default values.
• smartctl: -l tapedevstat: Prints SCSI Tape Device Statistics log page.
• smartctl: -l tapealert: Prints SCSI Tape Alert log page.
• smartctl: -l zdevstat: Prints SCSI Zoned Block Device Statistics log
  subpage.
• smartctl: -H: No longer checks and clears the SCSI Tape Alert log page
  unless the option is given twice.
• smartctl: -H: No longer sets bit 2 of exit status if ATA attributes are
  available.
• smartctl: -H: Checks new NVME 1.4 status bit.
• smartctl: -n POWERMODE: ATA: Optionally exits immediately if unsupported.
• smartctl: Support for Zoned block device characteristics and statistics.
• smartctl: Various fixes related to SCSI supported log pages and subpages.
• smartd: Fixed code execution vulnerability in conjunction with
  GNU mailutils < 3.13.
• smartd: -u USER[:GROUP]: Runs the warning script as a non-privileged user.
• smartd: --capabilities: No longer suppresses mail notification.
• smartd: --capabilities=mail: Adds capabilities required for exim MTA.
• smartd: -q *nodev0*: Three new options to change the exit status to 0 if
  there are no devices to monitor.
• smartd: -s and -A: Allows one to disable preconfigured files with -.
• smartd: : Fixed handling of multiple email addresses in conjunction with
  plugin scripts. Added new environment variable SMARTD_ADDRESS_ORIG.
• smartd: No longer writes smartd -D output to syslog on syntax error.
• smartd.conf: -c i=N: Allows one to specify device specific check intervals.
• SCSI: Retry on UNIT ATTENTION when fetching capacity.
• NVMe/USB: Device type -d sntasmedia for ASMedia ASM2362 USB to
  NVMe bridges.
• VERSION information in drive database files of all branches.
• smartctl: and smartd print drive database VERSION information.
• HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
• update-smart-drivedb: Now checks VERSION information to prevent downgrades.
• update-smart-drivedb: --force: Overrides the VERSION check.
• update-smart-drivedb: --file and --url: Updates from local files or
  other URLs.
• update-smart-drivedb: -q: Suppresses info messages.
• update-smart-drivedb: Added long option variants for all short options.
• update-smart-drivedb: Prevents dangling gpg-agents and temp directories.
• update-smart-drivedb: --install: Installs runtime drivedb.h from location
  specified by ...
• configure: --with-drivedbinstdir: drivedb.h package install location.
• configure: SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH prevents inclusion of configure arguments
  in executables.
• configure: Check for -fstack-protector now includes the required libs.
• Dropped restriction to C++98, a C++11 compiler is now required.
• Linux: Device scan range enhanced to /dev/sdzz.
• Linux: Fixed access to -d aacraid and -d megaraid devices from smartd
  if --capabilities is used.
• Linux: -d cciss,N is no longer required for non-RAID hpsa devices.
• Darwin: smartctl -s apm,N is now supported.
• OpenBSD: Fixed too short command timeouts.
• OpenBSD: Fixed device name used for autodetection.
• OpenBSD: Fixed SAT autodetection of sd* devices.
• FreeBSD: Added direct access (-d megaraid,N) and scanning for LSI RAID on
  mfi and mrsas controllers.
• Windows: smartd -u restricted: Runs the warning script with a restricted
  access token.
• Windows: New script update-smartd-drivedb.ps1 provides gpg verification
  and replaces update-smartd-drivedb.exe.
• Windows: Disabled -d aacraid support due to unresolved bugs.
  Added -d accraid,...,force flag to try anyway.

Release 7.2

• smartctl: New option --json=y[c] selects YAML output.
• smartctl: -i: Prints ATA TRIM and Zoned Device capabilities.
• smartctl: -j: Fixed scsi_grown_defect_list value.
• smartctl: -a: Prints SCSI 'Accumulated power on time'.
• smartctl: -n POWERMODE: SCSI support.
• smartctl: -s standby,now and -s standby,off: SCSI support.
• smartctl: -c: NVMe 1.4 additions.
• smartd: Support for staggered self-tests.
• smartd: No longer writes attribute log if no attributes were read
  due to standby mode or other error.
• smartd: Now resolves symlinks before device names are checked for
  duplicates.
• smartd: Fixed SMARTD_DEVICETYPE environment variable if DEVICESCAN is
  used without -d TYPE.
• ATA: Device type -d jmb39x-q,N for JMB39x protocol variant used by
  some QNAP NAS devices.
• ATA: Device type -d jms56x,N for JMS562 USB to SATA RAID bridges.
• SCSI: Improved heuristics for log subpages of new and very old disks.
• NVMe: Log transfer size limited to avoid device or kernel crashes.
• NVMEe/USB: Device type -d sntrealtek for Realtek RTL9210 USB to
  NVMe bridges.
• update-smart-drivedb: New option --branch X.Y.
• HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
• Dropped support for pre-C99 snprintf().
• configure: Dropped option --without-working-snprintf.
• configure: Fixed -fstack-protector* detection.
• Linux: Various fixes of smartd.service file.
• Darwin: NVMe log support.
• FreeBSD: Device scan does no longer include T_ENCLOSURE devices.
• NetBSD: Fixed timeout handling.
• NetBSD big endian: Fixed ATA register handling.
• OpenBSD: Fixed timeout handling.
• Windows: Dropped backward compatibility fixes for very old compilers.

Release 7.1

• smartctl: Fixed bogus exception on unknown form factor value (regression).
• smartctl --json=cg: Suppresses extra spaces also in 'g' format.
• smartctl -i: ATA ACS-4 and ACS-5 enhancements.
• smartd: No longer truncates very long device names in warning emails.
• smartd: No longer skips scheduled tests if system clock has been adjusted
  to the past.
• smartd -A: Attribute logs now use local time instead of UTC.
• ATA: Device type -d jmb39x,N for drives behind JMicron JMB39x RAID port
  multipliers.
• SCSI: Workaround for incomplete Log subpages response from some SAS SSDs.
• HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
• Autodetection of -d sntjmicron type for JMicron USB to NVMe bridges.
• configure: Defines '_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' if supported and not defined.
• Linux/FreeBSD: Fixed segfault on CCISS transfer sizes > 512 bytes.
• Linux: Fixed smartd.service 'Type' if libsystemd-dev is not available.
• Linux: Fixed /dev/megaraid_sas_ioctl_node fd leak.
• Linux: Fixed GPL licensing problem of linux_nvme_ioctl.h.
• FreeBSD update-smart-drivedb: Now uses fetch as default download tool.
• FreeBSD big endian: Fixed NVMe access.
• FreeBSD: Compile fix for FreeBSD 12.
• NetBSD: Fixed device scan crash on empty name list.
• NetBSD: Fixed memory leak in device scan.
• Windows: Fixed log page access via Windows 10 NVMe driver for NVMe 1.2.1+.
• Windows: Allow drive letters as device names for Windows 10 NVMe driver.
• Windows: Workround to allow CSMI access to devices behind AMD RAID drivers.
• Windows: Fixed MinGW options to add relocation info if ASLR is enabled.
• Windows wtssendmsg: No longer writes \n line endings to event log.
• Windows wtssendmsg: New options -t and -w.
   

Release 7.0

7.0 Changelog

• smartctl: New options -j and --json[=giosu] to enable experimental
  JSON output mode. Also supports an alternative flat format suitable
  for grep (--json=g).
• smartctl -l devstat: Fix for logs with 256 sectors.
• smartctl -l error: Prints SCSI Pending Defects log page if supported.
• smartctl -H: Prints SCSI Format Status log page if supported.
• smartctl -x: Now includes -l defects.
• NVMe/USB: Device type -d sntjmicron for NVMe drives behind JMicron USB
  to NVMe bridges.
• NVMe: SMART/Health Information and Error Information are always read with
  broadcast NSID.
• SCSI: Various improvements for the decoding of log pages.
• SCSI: Improved handling of READ CAPACITY command.
• SCSI: Support for SAS host managed drives.
• New option -d scsi+TYPE to disable SAT auto detection for aacraid
  and cciss.
• update-smart-drivedb: New option -u github.
• update-smart-drivedb: New signing key.
• configure: New options --with-cxx11-regex and --with-libsystemd.
• configure: Default for --with-nvme-devicescan is now yes on Linux
  and Windows.
• configure: Default for --with-scriptpath now includes /usr/local/bin.
• configure: Options -with-initscriptdir=[auto\|yes] are no longer
  supported.
• Reworked handling of unaligned LE and BE integers.
• Dropped various backward compatibility fixes for very old compilers.
• Replaced GPL header with 'SPDX-License-Identifier' in all source files.
• HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
• Always use -d sat for USB vendor IDs with known SAT support.
• Linux: Device scan with -d by-id scans /dev/disk/by-id/* symlinks.
• Linux: Dropped device scan support for devfs.
• Linux: Fixed device scan with multiple -d TYPE options.
• Linux: Fixed device scan crash on missing /proc/devices.
• Linux: USB ID detection also for /dev/sgN.
• Linux: Compile fix for systems with musl libc.
• Linux smartd: Could now run as systemd service with Type=notify set.
• FreeBSD: NVMe device scanning.
• FreeBSD: Various compile fixes.
• NetBSD: Fixed regression in name based device type detection.
• NetBSD big endian: Fixed regression in ATA code.
• NetBSD big endian: Fixed byte ordering of ATA IDENTIFY data from USB/SAT
  drives.
• Windows: Improved search for actual CSMI port number.
• Windows: Installer includes VERSIONINFO resource.

Release 6.6

Changelog

• smartctl -i and --identify: ATA ACS-4 and SATA 3.3 enhancements.
• smartctl: Control ATA write cache through SCT Feature Control
  with -s wcache-sct,ata|on|off[,p] and -g wcache-sct.
• smartctl: Print ATA Pending Defects log with -l defects.
• smartctl -s wcreorder,on|off: New persistent flag ,p.
• smartctl -s standby: Prevent temporary drive spinup.
• smartctl -n POWERMODE: New parameter to set exit status.
• smartctl -g security: ATA Security Level check fixed.
• smartctl -l scttemp*: Print minimum supported ERC Time Limit.
• smartctl -q noserial: Now also suppresses "SAS address" output.
• smartctl -i: Print IEEE EUI-64 of NVMe namespace.
• smartctl -c: Print NVMe 1.3 feature flags.
• smartctl -A: Print NVMe 1.3 thermal temperature transition
  statistic.
• smartctl -g/s dsn: Get/set ATA DSN.
• smartd: Uses also device identify information to detect for duplicate
  devices.
• smartd -e dsn directive: Set ATA DSN.
• smartd: Improved SCSI/SAS temperature logging.
• smartd: Silence emails and log messages on open errors of
  -d removable devices.
• smartd: Exit on device open error unless -q never or -d removable
  is specified (regression).
• update-smart-drivedb: Now authenticates downloaded file with GnuPG.
• update-smart-drivedb: New options --trunk, --no-verify and
  --export-key.
• Device type -d intelliprop,N for IntelliProp controllers.
• SCSI: Default timeout increased to 1 minute.
• configure: New options --with-gnupg, --with-scriptpath and
  --with-update-smart-drivedb=X.Y
• configure: Checks for C++11 support option and requires
  --with[out]-cxx11-option if option unknown or no C++11 support.
• HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
• New smartmontools-* mailing list addresses.
• Man page formatting reworked.
• Linux: Uses SG_IO V4 API if supported.
• Linux: Devices behind hpsa driver are no longer detected as regular
  SCSI devices.
• Darwin: Initial NVMe support based on undocumented API.
• FreeBSD: Fix panic on INVARIANTS enabled kernel.
• FreeBSD: Improve ATA SMART STATUS check for legacy controllers.
• FreeBSD: Compile fix for FreeBSD-11 and newer.
• NetBSD: NVMe support.
• NetBSD: Full 28-bit ATA support.
• NetBSD: Compile fix.
• NetBSD: Use a raw disk device file.
• OpenBSD: Compile fix.
• OS/2: Support for the OS2AHCI driver, updating source code,
  adding autoscan support, adding self-test support.
• Windows: Support for Windows 10 NVMe driver (stornvme.sys).
• Windows: Fix CSMI access for IRST driver 15.2.
• Windows smartd: Ability to run PowerShell scripts with -M exec.
• Windows smartd: New PowerShell script to send smartd warning emails
  without external tools.
• Windows package: Now provides PDF man pages.

MD5

MD5 (smartmontools-6.6-1.dmg) = 3cb2a739967bd11c7a424fd33a8053b4
MD5 (smartmontools-6.6-1.win32-setup.exe) = f3abb6e80c758594d66b58939b751dd1
MD5 (smartmontools-6.6.tar.gz) = 9ae2c6e7131cd2813edcc65cbe5f223f

Release 6.5

Changelog

• Experimental support for NVMe devices on FreeBSD, Linux and Windows.
• smartctl '-i', '-c', '-H' and '-l error': NVMe support.
• smartctl '-l nvmelog': New option for NVMe.
• smartd.conf '-H', '-l error' and '-W': NVMe support.
• Optional NVMe device scanning support on Linux and Windows.
• configure option '--with-nvme-devicescan' to include NVMe in
  default device scanning result.
• Device scanning now allows to specify multiple '-d TYPE' options.
• ATA: Added new POWER MODE values introduced in ATA ACS-2.
• ATA: SCT commands are no longer issued if ATA Security is locked.
• SCSI: LB provisioning improvements.
• SCSI: Fixed GLTSD bit set/cleared info messages.
• SCSI: Solid State media log page is no longer checked for tapes.
• SCSI: Improved handling when no tape cartridge in drive.
• SCSI: Workaround for buggy Seagate firmware.
• SAT: Improved heuristics to detect bogus sense data from SAT layer.
• smartd: Fixed crash on missing argument to '-s' directive.
• update-smart-drivedb: Now uses HTTPS for download by default.
• update-smart-drivedb: New options to select URL and download tool.
• update-smart-drivedb: New download tool 'svn'.
• configure option '--without-update-smart-drivedb' to disable
  update-smart-drivedb script.
• configure options '--disable-drivedb', '--enable-savestates',
  '--enable-attributelog' and '--with-docdir' are no longer supported.
• autoconf < 2.60 and automake < 1.10 are no longer supported.
• Drive database file now also includes the DEFAULT setting
  for each attribute.
• HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
• Darwin: New support files for package installer.
  New makefile target 'install-darwin' builds DMG image.
• Solaris: Auto detection of SATA devices behind SAT layer.
• Solaris SPARC: Legacy ATA support disabled by default.
  New configure option '--with-solaris-sparc-ata' enables it.
  File os_solaris_ata.s is no longer included in source tarball.
• Windows: Auto detection of USB devices specified by drive letter.
• Windows: Device scanning does no longer ignore unknown USB devices.
• Windows: Prevent drive spin up by '-n standby' check.
• Windows: New application manifests indicating Win 10 support.
• Windows smartd: '-m [sys]msgbox' is no longer supported.
• Windows installer: Defaults to 64-bit version on 64-bit Windows.
• Various code changes suggested by Clang Static Analyser and Cppcheck.

Release 6.4

• Device type '-d usbprolific' for Prolific PL2571/277x USB bridges.
• SAT: Support for ATA registers returned in fixed format sense data.
• smartctl '-i' and '--identify': ATA ACS-4 and SATA 3.2 enhancements.
• smartctl '-l xerror': Support for logs with more than 255 pages.
• smartctl '-l devstat': Prints ACS-3 DSN flags.
• smartctl '-l devstat': Read via SMART command if GP log is not
  available.
• smartctl '-l scttempsts': Prints SCT SMART STATUS (ACS-4) and
  vendor specific SCT bytes.
• configure option '--with-systemdenvfile=auto' as new default.
• configure options '--disable-drivedb', '--enable-savestates'
  and '--enable-attributelog' are deprecated.
• Corresponding '--with-*' options are enhanced accordingly.
• Configure option '--with-docdir' is deprecated.
• autoconf < 2.60 and automake < 1.10 are deprecated.
  (all of the above still work but a warning is printed if used)
• HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
• Linux: AACRAID fixes, SMART STATUS should work now.
• Linux: '/dev/megaraid_sas_ioctl_node' fd leak fix.
• Darwin: '-S' command implemented, '-l devstat' should work now.
• Cygwin: Compile fix.
• Windows: Device type '-d aacraid' for AACRAID controllers.
• Windows: SAT autodetection based on IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY.
• Windows installer: Fix possible loss of user PATH environment variable.

Release 6.3

• smartctl: Fixed bogus error messages from '-g/-s wcreorder'.
• smartctl prints ATA form factor.
• SCSI: Improved support of modern disks (SAS SSDs).
• SCSI: Fixed sense data noise from old disks.
• update-smart-drivedb man page.
• configure option '--with-smartdscriptdir'.
• configure option '--with-smartdplugindir'.
• configure option '--with-systemdenvfile'.
• configure option '--with-working-snprintf'.
• Removed build time stamps to support reproducible builds.
• Compile fixes for C++11.
• HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
• Linux: Support for controllers behind AACRAID driver.
• Linux: Fixed DEVICESCAN max path count.
• FreeBSD: Fixed possible crash caused by wrong SCSI error handling.
• FreeBSD: Compile fix for kFreeBSD.
• Windows: Reworked CSMI port scanning.
• QNX: Compile fix.