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HW PROBE 1.6

Released on Sep 21, 2021.

In this release we have properly tested and fixed support for almost all *BSD systems, expanded support for more Linux systems, implemented probing of HP Smart Array and improved decorating of possibly significant data in collected logs.

LHWM — Linux/BSD Hardware Monitoring feature is publicly available.

Changes since 1.6 BETA:

New Features

  • Support for HP Smart Array
  • Introduced 'fixed' status of the device
  • Improve decorating of possibly significant data in logs
  • Automatically generate and upload report by using systemd timer
  • Display size of unknown RAM module(s) as extra device in the list
  • Add outgoing http/https proxy support
  • Identify Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie and Ubuntu Mate
  • Probe for ofwdump (BSD)
  • Probe for sndstat (BSD)
  • Collect system build number (BSD)
  • Support for helloSystem
  • Probe for neofetch
  • Identify OPNsense, TrueNAS, XigmaNAS, ArisbluBSD and LibertyBSD (BSD)
  • Identify FFS filesystem (BSD)
  • Identify wm (BSD)
  • Collect pkg_info -qP on OpenBSD (BSD)
  • Probe for getprop (Android)
  • Identifying of video driver (BSD)
  • Identifying of LMDE and CryptoDATA
  • Probe for /var/log/messages if dmesg output is incomplete
  • Probe for drm_info
  • Probe for /var/run/dmesg.boot (BSD)
  • Identify Trinity and Unity DEs
  • Identify more Synaptics fingerprint readers
  • Add -show-dmesg option
  • Detect computer form-factor on OpenBSD

Bug Fixes

  • Final fixes for LHWM — Linux/BSD Hardware Monitoring
  • Do not probe for systemctl by default
  • Disable automatic upload if no arguments are passed
  • Fix identifying of partition scheme
  • Fix identifying of LightDM
  • Fix identifying of OS version
  • Fix identifying of drives and batteries
  • Fix decorating of MMC s/n (BSD)
  • Decorate user name in systemctl log
  • Fix identifying of GhostBSD version
  • Fix identifying of memory modules, drives and monitors
  • Fix identifying of processor microarchitecture
  • Fix identifying of small memory modules
  • Fix identifying of notebook computer type (BSD)
  • Fix counting of NICs (BSD)
  • Fix identifying of computer form-factor
  • Fix identifying of DE
  • Fix identifying of HWaddr
  • Fix identifying of Synaptics fingerprint readers
  • Fix decorating of UUID in efibootmgr log
  • Fix identifying of computer type
  • Fix identifying of Linux distribution
  • Fix identifying of CD-ROMs
  • Fix identifying of CPU model
  • Change memory modules IDs
  • Update list of processor microarchitectures
  • Fix collector of Xorg log
  • Fix identifying of window managers (BSD)
  • Do not hang on empty floppy drives (BSD)
  • Fix probe of acpidump (BSD)
  • Fix anonymization of audit log in dmesg
  • Fix anonymization of grub.cfg
  • Fix anonymization of private paths
  • Fix identifying of PhoenixOS, siduction and NixOS
  • Add -m option to inxi probe
  • Fix identifying of Devuan
  • Fix identifying of video driver (BSD)
  • Hide private strings in ifconfig (BSD)
  • Fix status of network devices
  • Do not handle large boot logs
  • Fix collecting of SMART attributes from NVMe drives (BSD)
  • Fix identifying of NomadBSD
  • Do not require hwstat and lscpu on unknown BSD systems
  • Do not require dmidecode on non-x86 systems (pfSense)
  • Identify kind of network device properly (BSD)
  • Fix -save option to make a probe first
  • Fix identifying of motherboard
  • Fix identifying of graphics card
  • Set status of webcam to default if driver is missed (BSD)
  • Identify CPU by sysctl (BSD)
  • Identify partitioning scheme by fdisk (BSD)

Other

  • Added Debian 11 Live images with hw-probe preinstalled
  • Update install instructions for Linux and BSD

HW PROBE 1.6 BETA

Released on May 29, 2020 (0e0162f).

In this release we add support for BSD systems (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly, MidnightBSD, GhostBSD, NomadBSD, FreeNAS, pfSense, OS108, etc.), improve identification of hardware devices on board and fix several security issues in collected logs.

New Features

  • Support for BSD systems (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly, MidnightBSD, GhostBSD, NomadBSD, FreeNAS, pfSense, OS108, etc.)
  • Dual license: LGPL-2.1-or-later or BSD-4-Clause
  • Probe for monitor DDC by ddcutil
  • Probe for display manager
  • Probe for locale language
  • Support for edid-decode 2020
  • Improve identifying of RAM modules
  • Improve identifying of hard drives
  • Improve identifying of Synaptics fingerprint readers
  • Improve identifying of drives
  • Improve identifying of OS
  • Improve identifying of computer type
  • Improve identifying of monitor model
  • Improve identifying of DE and display server
  • Handle (fix) large probes in a local .tmp_XXX directory instead of /tmp

Bug Fixes

  • Fix security issues in df and dmesg
  • Hide partial UUIDs in logs
  • Hide private strings in efibootmgr and systemctl logs
  • Fix identifying of hard drive size
  • Fix identifying of MMC drives
  • Do not parse inappropriate X11 logs to identify graphics card status
  • Fix identifying of OS in Flatpak probes (Chrome OS, Elementary, Fedora and CentOS)
  • Fix identifying of unknown mobile broadband devices
  • Hide more UUIDs
  • Fix leak of username in audit dmesg log, Xorg log and systemctl log
  • Make sure hostname is removed from Xorg log
  • Fix duplicated PCI devices by SysFS ID
  • Identify vendor of NVMe drives properly
  • Fix IDs of unknown SSD drives
  • Hide /snap/XXX paths
  • Hide UUIDs in efibootmgr
  • Fix Dockerfile

Other

  • Update install instructions
  • AppImage: add ddcutil, update edid-decode
  • Flatpak: add developer_name to appdata
  • Use sudo -E to make probes to preserve DE name
  • AppImage: always use built-in smartctl and ddcutil
  • Identify probes via termux
  • Snap&Flatpak: speedup build
  • Snap&Flatpak: update acpica to 20200110 and hwinfo to 21.68

HW PROBE 1.5

Released on Jan 15, 2020 (200fbb5).

In this release we significantly improved anonymization of probes, added quick run-time tests for several devices and implemented more detailed identification of hardware devices on board.

Summary: significantly better anonymization of probes, support for MegaRAID and Adaptec RAID, simple run-time tests for memory/HDD/CPU, enabling/disabling of particular probes, better identification of devices/statuses, importing probes by inventory ID, identification of hardware/OS properties, hardware monitoring (Beta), support for universal packages.

New Features

  • Add LHWM options (Linux Hardware Monitoring) - COMING SOON!
  • Support for MegaRAID (collect SMART attributes of all connected drives)
  • Options to enable/disable logs in addition to current log level
  • Added simple tests for memory, HDD and CPU
  • Measure speed of all drives by default if -check-hdd option is specified
  • Use sudo -E to preserve environment variables
  • Improve anonymization of logs
  • Hash all UUIDs
  • Do not save uploaded data locally by default
  • Clarify privacy policy
  • Add -limit-check-hdd option to limit number of drives to check
  • Add -minimal/-maximal options to easily change logging level
  • Add -confirm-upload-of-hashed-ids alias for -upload option
  • Import probes by inventory ID
  • Require Email to generate inventory ID
  • Display platform devices (for phones, routers, etc.)
  • Display MMC drives
  • Display real number of equal devices on board
  • Probe for MegaRAID (by storcli, megacli and megactl)
  • Probe for Adaptec RAID (by arcconf)
  • Probe for /lib/firmware in the maximal log-level mode
  • Collect df -Th
  • Collect hddtemp
  • Collect bundle-list on Clear Linux OS
  • Collect packages list on Slackware and Solus
  • Collect DE name, display server and system language
  • Collect systemd-analyze summary
  • Collect nvme smart-log
  • Collect EDID if edid-decode is not installed
  • Collect output of opensc-tool for chipcards
  • Collect Xorg.0.log in XWayland (latest Ubuntu)
  • Collect /var/log/gpu-manager.log
  • Collect /etc/system-release if available
  • Collect /etc/lsb-release if available
  • Identify filesystem
  • Identify monitor(s) by X11 log if proprietary driver is used
  • Identify DE and display server
  • Identify kind of network controllers
  • Identify monitor ratio by resolution if physical size is missed
  • Identify pixel density of a monitor
  • Identify microarch and microcode of CPU
  • Identify video memory size
  • Identify total space and used space
  • Identify screen area and ratio
  • Identify subvendor and submodel
  • Identify status of a battery
  • Identify boot mode (EFI or BIOS)
  • Identify nomodeset
  • Identify total and used RAM
  • Identify dual boot
  • Identify CPU op-modes
  • Identify OpenVZ, Pop!_OS and KDE neon distributions
  • Identify MX Linux properly
  • Identify RAM vendor by JEDEC id
  • Identify RAM vendor by model prefix
  • Identify SecureBoot by dmesg
  • Identify form-factor by hard drive model
  • Identify status of network devices properly
  • Identify status for more device types
  • Improve identifying of RAM modules, hard drives, monitors, batteries, scanners, DVB cards and fingerprint readers
  • Improve identifying of computer type and form-factor
  • Improve identifying of SoC vendor and model
  • Improve identifying of hard drives
  • Improve identifying of monitors
  • Improve identifying of RAM modules
  • Count NICs and monitors
  • Count sockets, cores and threads
  • Get missed hard drive size from lsblk
  • Guess drive kind if missed
  • Support for more Synaptics fingerprint readers
  • Recursively apply status of device to low-level devices
  • Detect status of devices: graphics cards, wifi cards, ethernet cards, bluetooth cards, sound cards, modems, storage controllers, monitors and batteries
  • Detect status for more devices: chipcards, fingerprint readers, card readers, dvb cards, web cameras and tv cards
  • Allow to run from STDIN and w/o any options
  • sudo is not required for importing of probes anymore
  • Extend list of invalid MAC addresses
  • Improve output of -show option
  • Added -show-devices option
  • Access tokens are obsolete
  • Print devices list in JSON
  • Show probe log by a new option
  • Add -save option to make offline probes
  • Send probe by libwww-perl in case of curl failure

Bug Fixes

  • Fix analysis of Adaptec RAID
  • Fix identifying of hardware ID (ignore USB network controllers)
  • Fix identifying of graphics drivers
  • Fix identifying of SecureBoot
  • Fix identifying of video card status
  • Fix identifying of processor model
  • Fix identifying of unknown RAM modules
  • Fix identifying of operability status for desktop graphics cards and USB wireless cards
  • Fix identifying of monitor resolution
  • Fix identifying of OS name
  • Fix identifying of product name
  • Fix identifying of device drivers in use
  • Fix identifying of vendor/model for desktops and servers
  • Detect status of graphics cards properly if Xorg log is not available
  • Fix status of bridge devices
  • Fix status of network cards in case of multiple ethernet interfaces
  • Fix status of secondary graphics cards
  • Fix status of graphics cards on Gentoo
  • Fix counting of duplicated devices on board
  • Fix collecting of Xorg.0.log, xorg.conf and xorg.conf.d configs
  • Fix EDID parser
  • Fix motherboard naming
  • Fix naming of unknown memory modules
  • Fix IDs of unknown memory modules and batteries
  • Do not display batteries of peripheral devices
  • Remove avahi, lsinitrd, pstree and top from maximal log level
  • Probe for fstab in the default log level on ROSA Linux
  • Fix error handling in the -fix option
  • Do not try to run smartctl on cdroms
  • Move fstab log from the default logging level to maximal
  • Move modinfo to the maximal log level
  • Move alsactl to maximal logging level
  • Move sensors, cpuid, cpuinfo and lscpu to minimal set of logs
  • Move findmnt and mount to maximal set of logs
  • Do not collect pstree and numactl by default
  • Move sensors, meminfo, cpuid and cpuinfo probes up
  • Hide inet6 addr in ifconfig and ip outputs
  • Hide lvm volume groups in boot.log, lsblk and dev
  • Hide paths in grub config
  • Hide comments in fstab
  • Hide local paths in df, lsblk, findmnt, mount, fstab and boot.log
  • Hide IPs in dmesg, df, findmnt, mount and fstab
  • Hide labels in lsblk output
  • Hide hostname in dmesg output
  • Hide all serial strings in the output of hwinfo and usb-devices
  • Skip hiding of commonly used terms
  • Security fixes in dmesg, xorg.log, dev, systemctl, systemd-analyze, fdisk and lsblk logs
  • Decorate occasional hostname in boot.log
  • Decorate LABEL in fstab
  • Fix incompatibility with Perl 5.8
  • Fix incomplete lspci/lsusb reports
  • Fix probes offline view
  • Move hwinfo --framebuffer probe to maximal log level
  • Remove hwinfo --zip probe
  • Do not remove small lsblk and efibootmgr logs
  • Fix minimal logging level
  • Remove spec chars from boot.log
  • Truncate large boot.log (F29, Ubuntu 18)
  • Drop curl --http1.0 option
  • Compress probes by xz -9
  • Run mcelog on x86* only
  • Clear modinfo output
  • Compacting of modinfo log
  • Truncate large logs
  • Properly detect hwaddr
  • Clear empty logs
  • Use IO::Interface if ip and ifconfig commands are not available
  • Use POSIX::uname if uname command is not available
  • Do not use POSIX module
  • Do not dump lspci/lsusb errors
  • Remove spec chars from device names
  • Rename -get-inventory-id option to -generate-inventory
  • Fix glxgears test
  • Fix collected packages list on Arch Linux
  • Order the list of installed RPM packages

Other

  • Add install instructions for Alpine, Arch Linux, blackPanther OS, CentOS 6/7/8, Debian, Fedora, Manjaro, openSUSE, OpenVZ 7, Puppy Linux and RHEL 6/7/8.
  • Improve install instructions for Ubuntu, Manjaro, Gentoo and Puppy
  • Update Dockerfile
  • Support for old tgz compressed probes
  • Protect dmesg log
  • Remove error messages from dmidecode log
  • Support for the new Perl inxi
  • Added -high-compress option for better compression of archive
  • Added -hwinfo-path option
  • Code review by H.Merijn Brand - Tux

HW PROBE 1.4

Released on Apr 14, 2018 (3a59093).

Most significant change in this release is the anonymization of probes on the client-side. Previously "private data" (like IPs, MACs, serials, hostname, username, etc.) was removed on the server-side. But now you do not have to worry how server will handle your "private data", since it's not uploaded at all. You can now upload probes from any computers and servers w/o the risk of security leak.

Summary: improved privacy, faster probing, probe USB drives, probe MegaRAID, probe via sudo, improved detection of hardware, Deb package.

New Features

  1. Remove private information from probe (hostname, IPs, MACs, serials, etc.) on the client side
  2. Up to 3 times faster probing of hardware
  3. Allow to run the tool via sudo
  4. Improved detection of LCD monitors, motherboards and drives
  5. Collect SMART info from drives connected by USB
  6. Initial support for probing drives in MegaRAID
  7. Collect info about MMC controllers
  8. Get EDID hex dump from xrandr output
  9. Added Debian/Ubuntu package
  10. Collecting logs in C locale
  11. Added -identify-monitor and -fix-edid private options
  12. Probe for mcelog, slabtop, cpuid and /proc/scsi
  13. Added probe of packages list on Arch by pacman
  14. Improved lsblk and iostat probes
  15. Print warning if X11-related logs are not collected
  16. Renamed -group option to -inventory-id
  17. Renamed -get-group option to -get-inventory-id
  18. Update Docker image to Alpine 3.7
  19. Require perl-Digest-SHA
  20. Change license to LGPL-2.1+

Bug Fixes

  1. Fixed glxgears test
  2. Do not read monitor vendor names from pnp.ids file
  3. Remove empty logs from probes
  4. Fixed detection of HWid
  5. Fixed notebook model names
  6. Do not probe for blkid (use lsblk instead)
  7. Do not probe for mount (use findmnt instead)

HW PROBE 1.3

Released on Dec 3, 2017 (d192aee).

New Features

  1. Docker image for HW Probe to run anywhere
  2. Detecting NVMe drives
  3. Create offline collections of probes with -import option
  4. Collecting logs in C.UTF-8 locale
  5. Added probes: vulkaninfo, iostat, vainfo, uptime, memtester, cpuinfo, i2cdetect, numactl and lsinitrd
  6. Made -dump-acpi and -decode-acpi public options
  7. Improved support for Alpine Linux

Bug Fixes

  1. Fixed detection of computer vendor/model
  2. Fixed detection of HWid
  3. Fixed collecting of X11 logs
  4. Fixed xdpyinfo probe

HW PROBE 1.2

Released on Mar 9, 2017 (c5f178b).

  1. Use ip addr command to detect hwaddr if ifconfig command is not available
  2. Fixed hdparm and smartctl logs

HW PROBE 1.1

Released on Sep 28, 2016 (144b0b7).

  1. Use secure HTTPS connection to upload probes
  2. Detect release of a Linux distribution
  3. Detect real Mac-address
  4. Carefully detect devices on board

HW PROBE 1.0

Released on Nov 29, 2015 (4db41d1).

This is a first public release of the tool, that was used internally for testing hardware compatibility of Linux distributions since 2014.