[Announce] Monit 5.6

[Martin Pala]

Hi, everyone!

We have just released Monit 5.6 You can download the new release from:

http://mmonit.com/monit/download/

Release information:
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IMPROVEMENTS:

* SMTP AUTH LOGIN support added (allows to use the SMTP authentication with MS Exchange).

* favicon.ico added to the HTTP interface.

BUGFIXES:

* If an undefined checksum test was used and the file did not exist on Monit start, Monit would return an error.

* If the configuration file ended with a comment but with no trailing LF character, Monit would return syntax error.

* If a service timed out after too many restarts and alert was used as the action, then the Timeout flag remained set even if the service recovered.

* SmartOS zone system memory usage report fix.

* Escape mail messages properly for sending via SMTP.

* Escape XML messages properly.

* Compilation: fix the configure script to support default compiler paths when searching for OpenSSL (fixes library search on multi-architecture  platforms like Debian and Ubuntu).

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If you have questions, comments or any other feedback about this release, please reply to this post.


Best regards from the Monit team