2024-10-14: 2.0.6  - Support for DNF5
2024-03-06: 2.0.5  - Fixed a bug with ```--quiet```
2023-06-26: 2.0.4  - Fixed a bug when no $HOME is defined
2022-09-16: 2.0.3  - Fixed RPM dependencies
2022-07-29: 2.0.2  - Improved the documentation of --boot-check
2022-07-21: 2.0.1  - If the kernel version is critical and the updates are only a warning the exit code will be critical
2022-05-12: 2.0.0  - Removed up2date support
2022-03-11: 1.9.2  - Bash completion
2022-01-21: 1.9.1  - Setting the PATH if empty
2022-02-01: 1.9.1  - Removed a test message in the OK output
2022-01-17: 1.9.0  - Adds --assumeyes to allow the import of GPG keys
2021-11-05: 1.8.5  - Skip the kernel checks if the kernel is not installed with RPM
2021-09-02: 1.8.4  - Support for AlmaLinux
2021-08-02: 1.8.3  - Support for Rocky Linux
2021-07-22: 1.8.2  - Forces the default locate to support system with languages different than English
2021-05-19: 1.8.1  - New command line option to write the debugging output to a file
2021-04-15: 1.8.0  - Adds an option to consider security updates 'normal' updates
2021-01-21: 1.7.13 - Support for CentOSPlus kernels
2020-06-19: 1.7.12 - Bug fix (YUM parsing)
2020-06-05: 1.7.11 - Better YUM error handling
2020-02-26: 1.7.9  - Bug fix (YUM parsing)
2019-12-28: 1.7.8  - Uses check_updates -q
2019-12-11: 1.7.7  - Disables foreman protector on Satellite
2019-10-29: 1.7.6  - Added support for Sangoma FreePBX distribution
2019-08-20: 1.7.5  - Bug fix (DNF parsing)
2019-08-05: 1.7.4  - Checks for missing GPG key
2019-06-13: 1.7.3  - RHEL 8 support
2019-05-07: 1.7.2  - Azure CentOS support
2019-02-11: 1.7.1  - Fixed a bug while checking for the security plugin
2018-12-19: 1.7.0  - Added --quiet
2018-11-30: 1.6.25 - Support for adding new types of kernel: kernel-lt, kernel-ml
2018-11-27: 1.6.24 - Removed Nagios::Plugin (deprecated)
2018-06-19: 1.6.23 - Fixed the output about non-security updates
2018-06-13: 1.6.22 - Fixed the package count on YUM systems
2018-05-22: 1.6.21 - Fixed a bug in the processing of YUM output
2017-07-18: 1.6.20 - Support for Perl 5.26
2017-01-03: 1.6.19 - Handles buggy versions of DNF (<2.0.0)
2016-05-30: 1.6.18 - 'yum clean' is optional (introduced in 1.6.17)
2016-05-26: 1.6.17 - Handles "obsolete" packages
2016-04-18: 1.6.16 - Support for aufs kernels
2016-01-20: 1.6.15 - Fixed a bug when comparing kernel versions with 'core'
2016-01-14: 1.6.14 - Fixed a bug when only 'core' kernel packages are installed
2016-01-12: 1.6.13 - Added a --boot-check-warning option
2015-08-28: 1.6.12 - Fixed a bug in the dependencies tests
2015-08-27: 1.6.11 - Initial support for DNF
2014-12-28: 1.6.9  - Fixed a bug for the security plugin check on new RH or Fedora
                     versions
2014-09-21: 1.6.8  - Removed dependency on Sort::Versions
2014-05-23: 1.6.7  - Support for Oracle UEK-kernels and RHEL7
2013-10-10: 1.6.6  - Support openvz kernels
2013-07-15: 1.6.5  - Disabled ePN by default
2013-06-18: 1.6.4  - Handle wide Yum output
2013-05-11: 1.6.3  - Do not print performance data on security updates if Yum
                     security plugin is not installed
2013-03-29: 1.6.2  - Applied a patch adding the possibility to pass arguments
                     to Yum
2012-09-03: 1.6.1  - recognizes PUIAS Lunux
2012-04-15: 1.6.0  - added an option --security-only to ignore non-security
                     related updates
2011-12-04: 1.5.2  - fixed a bug in system detection
2011-12-03: 1.5.1  - applied a patch to support Amazon Linux
2011-10-03: 1.5.0  - fixed a bug which caused -w and -c to be ignored
2011-09-23: 1.4.15 - using /etc/redhat-release instead of /etc/issue
2011-05-25: 1.4.14 - fixed a bug introduced in 1.4.13 (check on closed pipes)
2011-05-24: 1.4.13 - fixed the unit tests on RH systems with old Test::Simple versions
2011-05-24: 1.4.12 - fixed the detection of RH 6 and Scientific Linux Systems
2010-11-18: 1.4.11 - fixed the processing of Xen kernels
2010-11-15: 1.4.10 - fixed the licensing information in the POD documentation
                     and changed the RPM package name to nagios-plugins-check-updates
2010-11-01: 1.4.9  - removed the dependency on version.pm
2010-10-31: 1.4.8  - fixed the license declaration
2010-02-16: 1.4.7  - fixed a problem with a wrong count of updates
2009-12-10: 1.4.6  - man page installed in 1, installation and packaging fixes
2009-12-08: 1.4.5  - fixed a the 'no updates' message on up2date based systems
2009-12-07: 1.4.4  - fixed a bug with SMP kernel version cleanup
2009-12-07: 1.4.3  - fixed a bug with PAE kernel version cleanup
2009-12-07: 1.4.2  - fixed documentation and RPM packaging
2009-12-06: 1.4.1  - fixed licensing and RPM packaging. Fixed the kernel version
                     check on CentOS
2009-12-04: 1.4.0  - checks for security updates if yum-plugin-security
                     is available
2009-11-11: 1.3.4  - fixed a bug that failed to recognize some RH kernels
2009-09-20: 1.3.3  - fixed a bug which prevented a correct detection of
                     Red Hat systems
2009-07-22: 1.3.2  - fixed a bug which gave wrong results on systems with a
                     non-English localizations
2009-06-15: 1.3.1  - support for PAE kernels
2009-05-19: 1.3.0  - --critical and --warnings fixed + extended info (Nagios 3)
2009-04-07: 1.2.3  - RH5 support
2008-12-06: 1.2.1  - fixed a bug occurring while checking the current kernel on
                     kernel-smp machines
2008-12-06: 1.2.1  - fixed a bug occurring while closing program pipes
2008-12-05: 1.2.0  - implemented timeouts and no more dependent on RPM2
2008-11-14: 1.1.2  - fixed a bug with up2date and excluded packages
2008-08-06: 1.1.1  - fixed a problem with version sorting
2008-06-03: 1.1.0  - added an option to enable/disable the check on the running
                     kernel and fixed a bug occurring when yum is set to use
                     a low verbosity
2008-06-03: 1.0.2  - Separated the POD because of ePN issues
2008-05-15: 1.0.1  - Strips the ending architecture from the kernel version
2008-05-08: 1.0.0  - corrected a bug in the kernel version comparison.
                     First stable release
2008-02-21: 0.9.9  - checks if the running kernel is the latest installed
