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• 2026-10-08: Development and issue tracking have moved to ​GitHub. New tickets can no longer be created in this Trac instance; please report problems and add drive database entries as ​GitHub issues. Existing Trac tickets will be migrated to GitHub; this Trac instance remains available.
• 2024-11-26: ​Alexander Shaduri released ​version 2.0.1 of GSmartControl (a graphical user interface for smartctl).
• 2024-01-03: Project Trac and Wiki upgraded to the latest 1.6 version.
• 2023-09-16: The CI builds at ​builds.smartmontools.org are now reproducible if the same ​SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, build recipes and toolchains are used.
• 2023-08-01: We released ​version 7.4 of Smartmontools. See the NEWS file and the ticket report to get a summary of the changes and new features.
• 2023-06-30: CI builds (​builds.smartmontools.org) for macOS now support arm64 and x86_64 architectures, i386 requires build from source. This will also be the case for future release builds.
• 2022-10-10: 20th anniversary of smartmontools first release - see also smartmontools history.
• 2022-02-28: We released ​version 7.3 of Smartmontools.
• 2022-02-04: Alexander Shaduri released ​version 1.1.4 of GSmartControl (a graphical user interface for smartctl).
• 2021-10-23: There is a security issue if smartd is used conjunction with GNU mailutils < 3.13. See ticket #1535 for details and various possible fixes.
• 2020-12-30: We released ​version 7.2 of Smartmontools.
• 2019-12-30: We released ​version 7.1 of Smartmontools.
• 2019-12-01: Smartmontools website migrated to the new server.
• 2018-12-30: We released ​version 7.0 of Smartmontools.
• 2018-10-17: In the past we offered daily builds on ​builds.smartmontools.org. Now we do automated builds on every commit to the repository.
• 2018-03-04: For multiple days now ​Sourceforge is very unstable. Our downloads and SVN ​are affected by their outages. Please use our ​github mirror and ​download from there (github) if you are experiencing any issues.
• 2017-11-12: Alexander Shaduri released ​version 1.1.3 of GSmartControl (a graphical user interface for smartctl). Available for Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X and Windows.
• 2017-11-05: We released ​version 6.6 of Smartmontools.
• 2017-10-10: 15th anniversary of smartmontools first release :-) If you want to know more about the roots see our article about smartmontools history
• 2017-09-25: Alexander Shaduri released ​version 1.1.1 of GSmartControl (a graphical user interface for smartctl). Available for Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X and Windows.
• 2017-09-07: Alexander Shaduri released ​version 1.1.0 of GSmartControl (a graphical user interface for smartctl). Available for Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X and Windows.
• 2017-07-30: Our mailing lists moved from sourceforge to JPBerlin. (!) Please subscribe on the new mailing lists.
• 2017-07-21: Alexander Shaduri released ​version 1.0.2 of GSmartControl (a graphical user interface for smartctl). Available for Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X and Windows.
• 2017-05-11: Alexander Shaduri released ​version 0.9.0 of GSmartControl (a graphical user interface for smartctl). Available for Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X and Windows.
• 2017-04-11: We moved the Bad block HOWTO for smartmontools from the svn repository to the Trac wiki. So it is open now for your contributions of further recipes, case studies and comments.
• 2016-05-07: We released ​version 6.5 of Smartmontools.
• 2016-04-09: We added basic support for ​NVMe devices to smartmontools for Windows. See NVMe wiki page for further info.
• 2016-03-20: We added basic support for ​NVMe devices to smartmontools on Linux and FreeBSD. See NVMe wiki page for further info.
• 2015-10-10: Our new website ​builds.smartmontools.org provides daily builds from smartmontools SVN trunk.
• 2015-06-04: We released ​version 6.4 of Smartmontools.
• 2014-08-19: The ​HDD Guardian project released HDD Guardian 0.6.1 (a graphical user interface for smartctl). Available only for Windows.
• 2014-07-26: We released ​version 6.3 of Smartmontools.
• 2014-06-05: As ​sourceforge will retire Trac as hosted app, we moved our wiki and ticket tracker to this server. Many thanks to Alex Samorukov who made this possible! :-)
• 2014-04-12: GSmartControl home page has been moved from ​BerliOS to ​SourceForge due to planned closure of the BerliOS Developer Portal.
• 2013-07-26: We released ​version 6.2 of Smartmontools.
• 2013-06-29: The home page of the alternative Smartmontools for Windows Package was moved to a ​new location. This package by Ozy de Jong provides user friendly support for smartd configuration and unattended setup.
• 2013-06-04: Due to ​sourceforge platform upgrades, the smartmontools SVN repository was moved to a ​new location. See the ​new code browser for sample checkout commands.
• 2013-03-16: We released ​version 6.1 of Smartmontools.
• 2012-10-27: Ozy de Jong released an alternative installer for smartmontools on Windows. It provides user friendly support for smartd configuration and unattended setup.
• 2012-10-10: Ten years after the first version of Smartmontools, we released ​version 6.0 of Smartmontools.
• 2012-08-12: Alexander Shaduri released ​version 0.8.7 of GSmartControl (a graphical user interface for smartctl). Available for Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X and Windows.
• 2012-06-30: We released ​version 5.43 of Smartmontools.
• 2012-05-30: We added experimental support for SATA drives behind an Areca SATA/SAS controller on Windows. Thanks to Areca for providing this patch.
• 2012-05-22: The ​OS-X-SAT-SMART-Driver provides access to SMART data for SAT capable USB and Firewire devices on Mac OS X. This works with existing smartmontools releases. See ticket #25 for further details.
• 2011-10-20: We released ​version 5.42 of Smartmontools.
• 2011-06-09: We released ​version 5.41 of Smartmontools.
• 2011-02-04: We added experimental support for disks behind Intel Matrix RAID driver on Windows.
• 2011-01-26: Intel released ​Firmware update 2CV102M3 for Intel X18-M/X25-M/X25-V G2 (34nm) SSDs. Changes include improvements to SMART attributes and a fix for possible drive hangs when reading SMART self-test log.
• 2010-12-09: Samsung released an ​important firmware patch for HD155UI and HD204UI. WARNING: Do not use smartmontools or hdparm with these drives unless this patch is already installed. Drives manufactured December 2010 or later are not affected. See this page for details.
• 2010-12-02: Samsung confirmed the problem. A firmware update for the HD204UI is under development.
• 2010-11-24: WARNING: Using smartctl with Samsung F4 EcoGreen drives may result in write errors and bad blocks. Do not use smartmontools with these drives! Thanks to German c't magazine for this info.
• 2010-11-08: The software collection DVD from German ​c't magazine 24/2010 includes smartmontools 5.40-1 and GSmartControl 0.8.5-4 for Windows.
• 2010-10-16: We released ​version 5.40 of Smartmontools.
• 2010-09-01: We added the ability to display and clear the timed workload attributes of Intel X25 SSDs.
• 2010-08-20: We added support for SSDs with SandForce controller. Only a few drive models are detected for now.
• 2010-04-27: We added a new SVN branch RELEASE_5_39_DRIVEDB with a drivedb.h file that can be used to update the drive database of smartmontools 5.39 and 5.39.1.
• 2010-01-28: We released ​version 5.39.1 of Smartmontools.
• 2009-12-09: We released ​version 5.39 of Smartmontools.
• 2009-09-12: This wiki became our official homepage now. We hope you like it :-)
• 2009-09-11: Because Sourceforge removed the product Wikispace, our wiki has moved to this new Trac.
• 2009-07-16: We moved our CVS-Repository to Subversion. If built from trunk, the first line of smartmontools output now reports the SVN revision date and number.
• 2009-03-23: Experimental support for Sunplus USB bridges is available with new option -d usbsunplus, for JMicron USB bridges with option -d usbjmicron.
• 2008-09-23: Thanks to contributor Jordan Hargrave, smartmontools now supports MegaRAID controllers. Use -d megaraid,N to inspect disk N behind the controller.

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Smartmontools (and content in this wiki) are published under ​GNU GPL.