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-These are release notes for Spong 2.7.6. There are a few new goodies in this 
-release along with a bunch of minor bug fixes. Also with this release I'm 
-switching the format of the Change log.
-
- It's tedious keeping the CHANGES file manually updated along with CVS commits.
-So I have decided to use the CVS log as the new Change Log. Any additional
-commentary or notes will be in the RELEASE notes file.
-
-The major new change are a new safe_exec Perl module for executing external 
-programs. The new module has better cleanup routines. It will do a long way
-to prevent zombies and hung processes.
-
-Another change is the spong-server data_rrd_disk plugin module can now handle
-NT clients. No changes are needed. The new plugin module will recognize the 
-spong-nt-client update and create the RRD databases. Just rerun the spong-rrd
-program to create the new CGI programs.
-
-And there is a new beta spong-client module check_memory. The module is an
-enhanced swap check. It checks both physical memory and virtual memory. Now
-it's limited to using top or the Linux free command.
-
-Stephen L Johnson <sjohnson@monsters.org>

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+For Spong 2.7.7
+
+NEW FEATURES 
+
+TCP Wrappers
+
+Spong Server can now use TCP Wrapper. You can control systems have access to
+the different services that Spong Server listens to. If the Authen::Libwrap
+module is installed then Spong Server will automattically use it.
+
+New module API for Spong Server
+
+    Spong Server now has a new plugin modue API. There are two now module types
+predata and postdata. Predata modules are run before normal processing is done.
+Postdata modules are run after processing. 
+
+    Messages are passed to the modules are passed as hashes. This simplifies
+the API and make it more flexible. And finally all message formats are send to
+each module: status, ack and del-ack.
+
+IMPROVED FEATURES
+
+Spong Network - http module
+
+    The check method (i.e. GET, HEAD) can be specified in the URI line.
+
+Spong Client - vmstat module
+
+    This is a new partially implemented module (only for works in Linux, AIX,
+Solaris and TruUnix64/OSF1). It runs vmstat on the local machine and sends the
+data to the Spong Server.  It's designed to work with the latest version of
+Spong RRD. The data is stored in RRD databases for System Charts.  There are
+parameter check as yet.
+
+Spong Client - logs module
+
+    A new exclude_pattern field has ben added to the logmon check. Log file
+entries can now be filtered more precisely.
+
+Spong Client - disk module
+
+    Coding for the @DFIGNORE field has been changed to allow slashes '/' to be
+specified in the regular expressions.
+
+Spong Message
+
+    Two new features to make sending HTML mail easier.
+
+    There is a new output fieldxs for message templates, DETAILEDHTML. It's the
+detail message field of a status mesage that has been HTML'ize to preserve 
+the ascii formatting.
+
+And the built in email() function now detects if HTML is present in the body
+fields. If present is will add a 'Content-Type: text/html' header to the 
+e-mail message.
+
+