After finally nailing a very nasty bug earlier this week, I've prepared the first release-candidate of Hobbit 4.0.5 - you'll find it at http://www.hswn.dk/beta/hobbit-4.0.5RC1.tar.gz
I expect it to remain in the RC-state for about a week, and then a release is planned for the last week of July.
This fixes a number of bugs, some rather serious in that they could cause the Hobbit daemon to crash and thereby disable all of your monitoring. This in itself should make everyone consider upgrading.
A number of performance tweaks have been added, so for large installations (including mine), Hobbit and especially hobbitd_alert now uses significantly less CPU time than before.
Finally, Craig Cook - maintainer of the LARRD package - politely requested that Hobbit did not refer to LARRD since there are differences between what Hobbit and LARRD does. (And Hobbit doesn't use any LARRD code). So to avoid confusion, I've cleaned up all references to LARRD in Hobbit. This means that some stuff had to be renamed: The hobbitd_larrd program is now hobbitd_rrd, the "LARRD:" tag in bb-hosts is now "TRENDS:", and the LARRDCOLUMN and GRAPHS settings in hobbitserver.cfg changed to TRENDSCOLUMN and TEST2RRD respectively. These changes will all either happen automatically when you install the new version, or - in the case of the LARRD: tag - the old name will still be recognized.
The detailed log of changes is included below. Let me know if I broke anything.
Regards, Henrik