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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>