1 2014-01-26, Version 5.4.1
2 * amqp plugin: Add support for RabbitMQ 0.4.x to avoid compiler
3 warnings. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for implementing this.
4 * apache / network plugins: Improved initialization order hopefully
5 resolved gcrypt initialization problems.
6 * aquaero plugin: The type used to submit fan utilization was fixed.
7 Thanks to Alex Deymo for the patch.
8 * cgroups plugin: A small memory leak was fixed. Checking the existence
9 of a mount option without a value was fixed. More permissive parsing
10 of the cpuacct.stats file fixes support for some versions of Linux.
11 Thanks to Marc Fournier for bug reports and patches.
12 * curl plugin: Fix <Match> blocks without an instance. Thanks to
13 Alexander Golovko for reporting and Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
14 * curl_json plugin: Potentially invalid memory access has been
15 sanitized. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
16 * interface plugin: Fix behavior under FreeBSD 10: Reporting of
17 per-address statistics caused duplicate updates to the same metric.
18 Thanks to demon / @trtrmitya for the patch.
19 * write_graphite plugin: Use TCP to connect to Graphite by default. The
20 default changed from TCP to UDP between 5.3.1 and 5.4.0, which is a
21 regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier for fixing this. Reconnect
22 behavior was improved. Thanks to Michael Hart for his patch.
23 * zfs_arc plugin: Collect "allocated" and "stolen" on FreeBSD only.
25 2013-08-18, Version 5.4.0
26 * collectd: The "LoadPlugin" config option no longer attempts to load
27 plugins twice. If more than one "LoadPlugin" statement or block is
28 encountered, only the first will have any effect.
29 * collectd: The "AutoLoadPlugin" option allows to automatically load
30 plugins for which a configuration is found.
31 * collectd: The "WriteQueueLimitHigh" and "WriteQueueLimitLow" options
32 allow collectd to drop values when under stress, to avoid running out
33 of memory. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patch.
34 * amqp plugin: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
35 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options have been added. Thanks to Laurent
37 * aquaero plugin: This new plugin reads various metrics, e.g. fan
38 speeds and temperatures, from Aquaero 5, a fan and water cooling
39 control panel. Thanks to Alex Deymo for his patch.
40 * curl plugin: The "MeasureResponseCode" option has been added. Thanks
41 to Jan Matějka for his patch.
42 * curl_json plugin: Support for UNIX domain sockets and array wildcards
43 has been added. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
44 * curl_xml plugin: Support for long URLs has been improved.
45 * cgroups plugin: This new plugin collects CPU accounting information
46 for processes in a cgroup. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for his patch.
47 * df plugin: The "ValuesAbsolute" and "ValuesPercentage" options have
48 been added. Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek for the patch.
49 * exec plugin: Do UID / GID lookups before forking. This should prevent
50 a race condition in the NSS library. Thanks to Ceri Storey for the
52 * lvm plugin: This new plugin collects size information from Linux'
53 Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Thanks to Chad Malfait for his work.
54 * memcached plugin: Support for increment and decrement counts has been
55 added. Thanks to Blake Matheny for the patch.
56 * mic plugin: This new plugin collects CPU and memory usage, power
57 consumption and temperatures of Intel's Many-Integrated-Core (MIC)
58 architecture, such as Xeon Phi cards. Thanks to Evan Felix for his
60 * netlink plugin: This plugin has been converted to use the supported
61 "libmnl" library. Thanks to Andreas Henriksson for his patch.
62 * nginx plugin: Collection of accepted and handled connections has been
63 added. Thanks to Patrick Shan for his patch.
64 * sigrok plugin: This new plugin collects metrics from sigrok, a signal
65 processing framework reading various hardware devices, from light
66 meters to spectrum analyzers. Thanks to Bert Vermeulen for his patch.
67 * statsd plugin: This new plugin listens to a UDP socket and reads
68 metrics in the StatsD format.
69 * varnish plugin: Many additional metrics have been added. Thanks to
70 Nick Stenning for his patch.
71 * write_graphite plugin: Support for "UDP" has been added. Thanks to
72 Javier Maestro for his patch.
73 * write_riemann plugin: The "TTLFactor" option has been added.
74 * zfs_arc plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li
77 2013-07-13, Version 5.3.1
78 * Documentation: Various fixes.
79 * Configuration: Fix error handling: Errors in included files were
80 ignored, causing configuration mistakes to go unnoticed.
81 * dns plugin: Don't abort when PCAP returns an error.
82 * modbus plugin: The reconnection strategy was improved, fixing a
83 segfault in the libmodbud library. Thanks to Stefan Nickl and
84 Fabien Wernli for their patches.
85 * mysql plugin: The notification about a newly running MySQL slave
86 thread has been fixed. Thanks to Joaquín Cuenca Abela for the patch.
87 * snmp plugin: A build issue has been fixed (C99 mixed declaration).
88 The end-of-tree check has been improved by Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
89 * threshold plugin: Handling of the "Interesting" configuration option
90 has been fixed. Thanks to Björn for the patch.
91 * write_riemann plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Dave
92 Cottlehuber for reporting it.
94 2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0
95 * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include
96 only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
98 * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This
99 improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act
100 as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for
101 reviewing this change and fixing bugs.
102 * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using
103 regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric
104 can now be set via the configuration file.
105 * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented.
106 * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers
107 has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
108 * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks
109 to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
110 * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The
111 "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch.
112 * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to
113 Greg Mason for his patch.
114 * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks
115 to Johan Wirén for his patch.
116 * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication /
117 compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
118 patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work.
119 * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks
120 to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
121 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been
122 implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created
123 asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances.
124 Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code.
125 * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV
126 files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for
128 * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added.
129 * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to
130 Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to
131 Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work.
133 2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2
134 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
135 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
136 Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks
137 to Sebastian Harl for his patch.
138 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
139 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
140 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
141 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
142 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
143 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
144 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
145 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
146 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
147 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
148 Tomas Doran for his patch.
149 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
150 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
151 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
152 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
153 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
154 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
155 * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
156 * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
157 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
158 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
159 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
160 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
161 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
162 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
163 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
166 2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1
167 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris
168 and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches.
169 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
170 more frequently than intended.
171 * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added.
172 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
173 Ed Schouten for his patch.
174 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
175 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
176 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
177 Ed Schouten for his patch.
178 * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed.
179 A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was
180 configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these
182 * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
183 Ritschard for his patch.
184 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
185 * write_graphite plugin: A regression which rendered the
186 "SeparateInstances" and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been
187 fixed. A failed assertion when using types with many data sources
188 has been fixed. Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
189 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
191 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
192 Mettier for reporting this bug.
194 2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0
195 * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved.
196 Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch.
197 * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a
198 per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for
200 * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real
201 looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new
203 * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets
204 in the binary format has been added.
205 * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple
206 value lists into one.
207 * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON
208 output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch.
209 * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to
210 Thomas Meson for the patch.
211 * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to
212 Manuel Rozada for his patch.
213 * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the
215 * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't
217 * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks
218 to "Davide Guerri" for the patch.
219 * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added.
220 Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch.
221 * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The
222 behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to
223 Johan Kiviniemi for the patches.
224 * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added.
225 * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's
226 packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes
228 * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added.
229 Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added.
230 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches.
231 * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
232 Cosmin Ioiart for the patch.
233 * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added.
234 Thanks to biancalana for the patch.
235 * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan",
236 "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added.
237 * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX
238 version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out
239 "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch.
240 * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc
241 for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch.
243 2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3
244 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
245 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
246 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
247 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
248 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
249 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
250 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
251 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
252 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
253 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
254 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
255 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
256 Tomas Doran for his patch.
257 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
258 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
259 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
260 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
261 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
262 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
263 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
264 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
265 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
266 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
267 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
268 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
269 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
272 2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2
273 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves
274 Mettier for his patches.
275 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
276 more frequently than intended.
277 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
278 Ed Schouten for his patch.
279 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
280 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
281 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
282 Ed Schouten for his patch.
283 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
284 * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
285 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
287 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
288 Mettier for reporting this bug.
290 2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1
291 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
292 unwanted permission bits.
293 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
294 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
295 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
296 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
297 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
298 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
299 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
300 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
301 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
303 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
304 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
305 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
306 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
307 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
308 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
309 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
310 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
311 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
312 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
313 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
314 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
316 * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of
317 uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for
318 reporting these problems.
319 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
320 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
321 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
322 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
323 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
325 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
326 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
327 "KIvosak" for the patch.
328 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
329 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
330 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
331 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
332 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
334 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
335 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
336 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
337 "biancalana" for the fix.
338 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
339 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
340 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
341 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
342 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
344 * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been
345 fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch.
346 * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and
347 later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch.
349 2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0
350 * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has
352 * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using
353 "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
354 * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use
355 the system time rather than the time reported by BIND.
356 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been
357 added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch.
358 * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics
359 directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch.
360 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in
361 addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
362 Ritschard for his patch.
363 * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default
364 ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g.
366 * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various
367 states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
369 * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been
371 * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin
372 Ioiart for his patch.
373 * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the
374 Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux.
375 * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation.
376 Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch.
377 * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been
379 * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to
380 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch.
381 * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added.
382 * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added.
383 Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
384 * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel
385 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
386 * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to
387 Aaron Brady for his patch.
388 * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to
389 Jérôme Renard for his patches.
390 * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value
391 lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch
392 and Chris Lundquist for their work.
393 * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value
394 lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series
395 database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their
397 * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to
398 Aurelien Rougemont for his patches.
399 * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been
400 added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
402 2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5
403 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
404 unwanted permission bits.
405 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
406 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
407 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
408 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
409 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
410 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
411 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
412 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
413 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
415 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
416 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
417 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
418 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
419 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
420 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
421 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
422 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
423 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
424 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
425 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
426 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
428 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
429 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
430 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
431 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
432 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
434 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
435 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
436 "KIvosak" for the patch.
437 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
438 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
439 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
440 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
441 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
443 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
444 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
445 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
446 "biancalana" for the fix.
447 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
448 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
449 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
450 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
451 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
454 2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4
455 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
456 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
458 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
459 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
461 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
462 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
463 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
465 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
466 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
468 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
469 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
471 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
472 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
474 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
475 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
477 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
478 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
479 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
480 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
481 runtime has been fixed.
483 2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3
484 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
485 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
486 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
488 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
489 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
490 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
491 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
492 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
493 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
494 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
496 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
498 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
499 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
500 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
501 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
502 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
504 2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2
505 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
506 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
507 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
508 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
510 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
511 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
512 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
513 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
515 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
516 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
517 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
518 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
519 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
520 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
521 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
522 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
523 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
526 2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1
527 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
528 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
529 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
530 to Peter Green for his patch.
531 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
532 McCabe for the patch.
533 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
534 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
535 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
536 code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module.
537 * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts.
538 Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this.
539 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
540 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
541 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
542 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
543 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
544 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
545 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
546 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
547 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
548 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
549 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
550 * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values
551 were submitted as gauge even though they were derives.
552 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
555 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
556 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
557 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
558 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
559 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
560 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
561 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
562 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
564 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
565 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
566 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
567 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
568 added to the collectd client library.
569 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
570 one data source has been changed to "value".
571 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
572 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
573 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
574 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
575 maximum value is unspecified.
576 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
577 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
578 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
579 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
580 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
581 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
582 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
583 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
584 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
585 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
587 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
588 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
590 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
592 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
594 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
595 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
596 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
597 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
599 * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
600 license has been changed to LGPLv2.1.
601 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
602 data sets used have been improved.
603 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
605 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
606 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
607 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
608 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
609 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
610 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
611 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
612 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
613 this separate plugin.
614 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
615 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
616 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
617 Fournier for their contributions.
618 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
620 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
622 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
625 2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9
626 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
627 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
628 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
629 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
630 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
631 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
632 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
633 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
634 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
635 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
636 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
637 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
638 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
639 Tomas Doran for his patch.
640 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
641 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
642 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
643 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
646 2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8
647 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
648 unwanted permission bits.
649 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
650 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
651 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
652 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
653 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
654 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
655 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
656 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
657 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
658 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
659 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
660 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
661 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
662 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
663 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
664 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
666 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
667 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
668 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
670 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
671 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
672 "KIvosak" for the patch.
673 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
674 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
675 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
676 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
677 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
679 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
680 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
681 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
682 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
683 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
684 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
685 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
688 2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7
689 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
690 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
692 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
693 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
695 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
696 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
697 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
699 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
700 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
702 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
703 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
705 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
706 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
708 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
709 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
711 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
712 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
713 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
714 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
715 runtime has been fixed.
717 2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6
718 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
719 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
720 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
722 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
723 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
724 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
725 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
726 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
727 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
728 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
730 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
732 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
733 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
734 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
735 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
736 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
738 2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5
739 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
740 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
741 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
742 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
744 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
745 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
746 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
747 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
749 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
750 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
751 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
752 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
753 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
754 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
755 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
756 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
757 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
760 2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4
761 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
762 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
763 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
764 to Peter Green for his patch.
765 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
766 McCabe for the patch.
767 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
768 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
769 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
771 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
772 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
773 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
774 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
775 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
776 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
777 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
778 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
779 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
780 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
781 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
782 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
785 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
786 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
787 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
789 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
790 percentage calculation has been fixed.
791 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
793 * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
794 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
795 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
796 * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
797 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
799 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
800 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
803 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
804 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
805 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
806 the rest of the configuration if possible.
807 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
808 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
809 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
810 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
811 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
812 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
813 configurable timeout value.
814 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
815 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
816 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
817 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
818 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
819 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
820 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
822 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
823 to prevent spamming the logs.
824 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
825 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
826 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
827 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
829 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
831 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
832 Trenkel for the patch.
834 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
835 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
836 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
837 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
838 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
840 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
841 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
842 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
844 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
845 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
846 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
847 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
848 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
849 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
850 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
851 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
852 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
853 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
855 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
856 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
857 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
858 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
859 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
860 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
861 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
863 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
865 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
866 lines from the match.
867 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
868 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
870 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
871 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
873 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
874 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
876 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
877 certain lines from the match.
878 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
879 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
880 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
881 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
882 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
883 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
884 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
885 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
886 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
887 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
888 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
889 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
890 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
891 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
892 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
893 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
894 Sebastian Harl for his work.
895 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
896 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
897 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
898 Sven Trenkel for his work.
899 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
900 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
901 MikroTik devices has been added.
902 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
903 Scraba for his patch.
904 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
905 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
906 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
907 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
908 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
909 Ammous for his patch.
911 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
912 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
913 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
915 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
916 percentage calculation has been fixed.
917 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
919 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
920 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
921 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
923 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
924 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
927 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
928 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
929 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
930 the rest of the configuration if possible.
931 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
932 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
933 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
934 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
935 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
936 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
937 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
938 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
939 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
940 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
941 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
942 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
944 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
945 to prevent spamming the logs.
946 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
947 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
948 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
949 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
951 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
952 Trenkel for the patch.
954 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
955 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
956 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
957 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
958 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
960 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
961 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
962 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
963 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
965 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
966 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
967 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
968 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
969 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
970 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
971 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
972 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
973 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
974 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
975 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
976 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
978 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
979 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
980 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
981 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
982 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
983 figuring out a way to make this work.
984 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
985 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
986 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
987 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
988 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
990 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
992 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
993 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
994 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
995 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
996 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
997 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
998 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
999 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1001 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1002 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1003 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1004 an unknown data source type.
1005 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1006 packets has been fixed.
1007 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
1009 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
1010 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
1011 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
1012 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
1013 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
1014 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1016 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
1017 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
1018 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
1019 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
1020 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
1021 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
1022 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
1023 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1024 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1026 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
1027 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
1028 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
1031 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
1032 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
1033 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
1034 Weiskircher for the patch.
1035 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
1036 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1037 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
1038 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
1039 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
1040 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
1041 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
1042 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
1043 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
1044 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
1045 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
1046 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
1047 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
1049 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
1050 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
1051 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
1052 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
1053 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
1054 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1055 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
1056 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1057 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
1058 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
1059 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
1060 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
1061 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
1062 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
1063 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
1064 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1065 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
1066 storage has been added.
1067 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
1068 value has been added.
1070 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
1071 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
1072 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1073 an unknown data source type.
1075 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
1076 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
1077 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1078 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
1079 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
1080 figuring out a way to make this work.
1081 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
1082 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
1083 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
1084 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
1086 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
1088 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
1089 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
1090 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
1091 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
1092 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
1093 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1095 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1096 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1097 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1098 packets has been fixed.
1099 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
1100 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
1101 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
1102 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
1103 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
1104 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1106 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
1107 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
1108 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
1109 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1110 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1113 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
1114 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
1115 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
1116 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
1117 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
1118 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
1120 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
1121 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
1122 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
1123 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
1124 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
1125 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
1127 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
1128 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
1129 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
1130 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
1132 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
1133 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
1135 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
1136 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
1137 issues on some platforms.
1138 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
1139 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1140 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
1141 descriptor handling.
1143 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
1144 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
1145 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
1146 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
1147 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
1148 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
1150 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
1151 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
1152 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
1153 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1154 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
1155 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
1156 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1157 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
1158 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
1159 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
1160 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
1162 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
1163 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
1164 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
1165 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
1166 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
1167 Aman Gupta for the patch.
1168 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
1169 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
1170 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
1171 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
1172 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
1174 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
1175 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
1177 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
1178 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
1179 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1180 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
1181 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
1182 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
1183 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
1184 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1185 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
1186 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
1187 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
1188 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
1189 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
1190 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
1192 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
1193 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
1194 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
1195 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
1196 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
1197 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
1199 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
1200 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
1201 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
1202 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
1204 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
1205 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
1206 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
1207 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
1209 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
1210 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
1212 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
1213 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
1214 issues on some platforms.
1215 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
1216 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1217 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
1218 descriptor handling.
1220 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
1221 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
1222 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1223 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
1224 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
1225 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
1227 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
1228 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
1229 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
1230 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
1231 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
1232 Hess for reporting this bug.
1233 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
1234 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
1235 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
1236 is linked with the shipped library, too.
1237 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
1238 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
1239 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
1240 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
1241 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
1242 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
1243 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
1244 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
1245 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
1246 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
1247 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
1248 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
1249 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1252 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
1253 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
1255 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
1256 Díaz for fixing this bug.
1257 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
1258 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
1259 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
1260 for reporting the bug.
1261 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
1263 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
1264 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
1265 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
1266 libtool 2.2 has been added.
1267 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
1268 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
1269 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
1270 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
1271 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
1273 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
1274 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
1275 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
1276 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
1277 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
1279 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
1280 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1282 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
1283 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
1284 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
1285 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
1286 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
1287 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
1288 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1289 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
1290 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
1291 Konetzko for the patch.
1292 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
1293 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
1294 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
1295 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
1296 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
1297 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
1298 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
1299 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
1300 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
1301 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
1302 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
1303 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
1304 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1305 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
1306 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
1307 Quiédeville for the patch.
1308 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
1310 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
1311 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
1312 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
1313 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
1314 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
1315 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
1316 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
1317 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
1319 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
1320 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
1321 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
1322 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
1323 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
1324 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
1326 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
1327 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
1328 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
1329 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
1331 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
1332 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
1333 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
1334 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
1335 Hess for reporting this bug.
1336 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
1337 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
1338 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
1339 is linked with the shipped library, too.
1340 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
1341 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
1342 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
1343 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
1344 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1347 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
1348 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
1349 Díaz for fixing this bug.
1350 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
1351 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
1352 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
1353 for reporting the bug.
1355 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
1356 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
1357 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
1358 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
1359 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
1360 providing an OpenBSD system.
1361 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
1362 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
1363 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
1364 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
1365 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
1367 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
1369 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
1370 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
1371 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
1372 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1373 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
1375 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
1376 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
1377 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1379 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
1380 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
1381 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
1382 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
1384 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
1385 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
1386 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
1387 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
1388 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
1389 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
1390 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
1391 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
1392 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
1393 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
1394 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
1395 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
1396 initialized, the daemon may crash.
1398 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
1399 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
1400 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
1401 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
1402 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
1403 for finding and fixing most of them.
1404 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
1405 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
1407 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
1408 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
1409 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
1410 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
1411 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1412 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
1413 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
1414 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
1415 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
1416 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
1417 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
1419 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
1420 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
1421 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
1422 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
1424 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
1425 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
1426 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
1427 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
1428 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
1429 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
1430 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
1431 Kuhnle for the patch.
1432 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
1433 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
1434 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
1435 MacEachern for the patch.
1436 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
1437 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
1438 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
1439 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
1440 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
1441 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
1442 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
1443 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
1444 select interfaces, too.
1445 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
1446 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
1447 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
1449 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
1450 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
1451 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
1452 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
1453 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
1454 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1455 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
1456 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
1457 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
1458 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
1460 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
1461 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
1462 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
1463 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
1464 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
1465 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
1466 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
1467 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
1469 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
1470 been added. Portability fixes.
1471 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
1472 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
1473 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
1475 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
1478 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
1479 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
1480 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
1481 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
1482 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
1483 providing an OpenBSD system.
1484 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
1485 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
1487 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
1488 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
1489 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
1490 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
1491 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1492 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
1494 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
1495 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
1496 initialized, the daemon may crash.
1497 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
1499 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
1500 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
1502 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
1503 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
1504 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
1506 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
1507 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
1508 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
1509 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
1511 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
1512 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
1513 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
1514 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
1516 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
1517 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
1518 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
1519 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
1520 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
1521 provide these necessary functions.
1522 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
1523 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
1525 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
1526 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
1527 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
1528 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
1530 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
1531 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
1532 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
1533 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
1534 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
1535 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
1537 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
1538 invalid configuration options.
1539 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
1540 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
1541 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
1543 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
1544 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
1545 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
1546 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
1548 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
1549 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
1550 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
1551 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
1552 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
1553 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
1554 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
1555 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
1557 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
1558 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
1559 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
1560 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
1561 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
1562 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
1563 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
1564 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
1565 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
1566 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
1567 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
1568 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
1570 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
1571 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
1574 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
1575 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
1576 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
1578 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
1579 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
1580 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
1581 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
1582 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
1583 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
1585 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
1586 email, using the `esmtp' library.
1587 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
1588 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
1590 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
1591 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
1592 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
1593 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
1595 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
1596 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
1597 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
1598 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
1599 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
1601 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
1602 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
1603 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
1605 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
1606 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
1607 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
1608 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
1610 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
1611 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
1612 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
1613 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
1614 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
1615 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
1616 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
1617 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
1618 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
1619 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
1620 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
1621 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
1623 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
1624 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
1625 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
1627 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
1628 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
1629 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
1630 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
1632 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
1633 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
1634 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
1635 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
1636 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
1637 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
1638 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
1639 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
1641 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
1642 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
1643 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
1644 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
1645 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
1646 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
1647 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
1650 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
1651 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
1652 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
1654 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
1655 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
1657 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
1658 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
1659 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianness of the
1660 architecture collectd is being built on.
1661 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
1663 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
1665 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
1666 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
1667 values under Solaris.
1668 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
1669 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
1671 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
1672 returned by some broken drivers.
1674 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
1675 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
1676 to kyrone for reporting this.
1677 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
1679 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
1681 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
1682 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
1683 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
1684 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
1686 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
1687 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
1688 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
1689 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
1690 flush its values to disk.
1691 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
1692 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
1693 for each data source.
1694 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
1696 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
1697 page of an Ascent server.
1698 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1699 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
1700 specific disks has been added.
1701 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1702 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
1703 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
1705 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
1706 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
1707 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
1708 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
1709 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
1710 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
1711 configuration has been decreased.
1712 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
1713 continuously reading from log files.
1714 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
1715 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
1716 and number of channels.
1717 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1718 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
1719 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
1721 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
1722 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
1724 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianness more
1726 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
1727 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
1728 again has been applied.
1729 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
1731 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
1732 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
1734 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
1735 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
1736 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
1739 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
1740 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
1741 they are in non-standard paths.
1742 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
1743 if the libc expects it.
1744 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1745 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
1747 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
1748 using a buffer of static size.
1749 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
1751 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1752 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
1754 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
1755 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
1756 `Persist' threshold options.
1757 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
1758 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
1759 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
1760 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
1761 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
1763 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
1764 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
1766 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
1767 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
1768 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
1769 cross-platform compatibility.
1770 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
1771 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
1772 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
1774 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
1775 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
1776 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
1777 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
1778 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
1779 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
1781 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
1782 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
1783 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
1784 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
1785 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
1786 wants to add custom type definitions.
1787 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
1788 entire directories and shell wildcards.
1789 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
1790 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
1791 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
1792 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
1793 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
1794 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
1795 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
1796 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
1797 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
1798 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
1799 domain name lookups in this plugin.
1800 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
1801 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
1802 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
1803 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
1804 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
1805 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
1806 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
1807 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
1808 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
1809 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
1810 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
1811 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
1812 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
1813 Technology group for this plugin.
1815 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
1816 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
1817 they are in non-standard paths.
1818 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
1819 if the libc expects it.
1820 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1821 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
1823 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
1824 using a buffer of static size.
1825 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
1827 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1828 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
1830 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
1831 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
1832 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
1833 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
1834 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
1836 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
1837 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
1838 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
1840 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
1841 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
1842 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
1843 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
1844 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
1845 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
1846 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
1847 cross-platform compatibility.
1848 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
1849 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
1850 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
1851 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
1853 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
1854 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
1855 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
1856 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
1857 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
1859 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
1860 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
1861 of the libsensors library.
1863 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
1864 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
1865 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
1867 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
1868 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1871 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
1872 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
1873 enabled on the host.
1874 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
1876 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
1877 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
1878 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
1879 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
1880 definitions separate from the host definitions.
1881 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
1882 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
1883 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
1884 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
1885 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
1886 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
1887 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
1888 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
1889 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
1890 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
1891 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
1892 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
1893 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
1894 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
1895 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
1896 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
1897 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
1898 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
1899 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
1900 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
1901 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
1903 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
1904 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
1905 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
1906 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
1907 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
1909 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
1910 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
1912 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
1913 of the libsensors library.
1915 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
1916 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
1917 it's in a non-standard location.
1918 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
1919 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
1920 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
1921 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
1922 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
1923 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
1925 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
1926 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
1928 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
1929 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
1931 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
1932 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
1933 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1934 noise quality as percentage.
1935 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
1936 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
1937 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
1938 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
1939 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
1940 support for the `timeticks' type.
1942 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
1943 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
1944 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
1945 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
1947 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
1948 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
1949 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
1951 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
1952 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
1953 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
1954 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
1956 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
1957 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
1958 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
1959 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
1961 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
1962 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
1963 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
1964 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
1965 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
1966 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
1967 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
1968 to not block data collection.
1969 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
1970 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
1971 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
1973 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
1974 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
1975 of music played with xmms.
1977 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
1978 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
1979 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1980 noise quality as percentage.
1981 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
1983 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
1984 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
1985 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
1986 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
1988 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
1989 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
1990 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
1991 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
1993 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
1994 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
1996 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
1997 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
1998 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
1999 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
2000 (i. e. without quotes).
2001 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
2002 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
2003 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2005 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
2006 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
2007 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
2008 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
2010 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
2011 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
2012 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
2015 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
2016 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
2018 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
2019 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2020 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
2021 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2022 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
2023 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2024 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
2026 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
2027 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
2028 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
2029 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
2030 initialized correctly.
2031 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
2033 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
2034 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
2035 they're given in numerically form.
2037 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
2038 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
2039 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
2042 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
2043 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
2044 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
2045 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
2046 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
2047 thread-safe functions from now on.
2048 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
2049 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
2050 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
2052 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
2053 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
2054 write to increase IO-performance.
2055 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
2056 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
2057 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
2058 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
2059 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
2061 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
2062 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
2063 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
2065 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
2066 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
2067 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
2068 or STDOUT or STDERR.
2069 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
2070 system's syslog daemon.
2071 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
2072 entropy currently being available to the system.
2073 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
2074 back values provided by the forked processes.
2075 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
2076 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
2078 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
2079 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
2080 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
2081 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
2082 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
2083 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
2084 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
2085 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
2086 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
2088 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
2089 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2090 noise quality as percentage.
2092 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
2093 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2095 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
2096 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
2097 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
2098 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
2099 were accounted as `zombies'.
2101 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
2102 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
2105 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
2106 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
2107 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
2109 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
2110 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
2111 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
2112 segfault with some libcs.
2114 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
2115 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
2116 under Solaris again.
2117 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
2119 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
2120 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
2122 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
2123 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
2124 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
2125 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
2126 write init.d-scripts for it.
2127 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
2128 caused problems every now and then.
2129 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
2130 filesystem types or devices.
2131 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
2132 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
2134 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
2135 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
2136 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
2137 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
2138 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
2139 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
2140 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
2141 segment size and pagefaults.
2142 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
2143 queries multimeters.
2144 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
2145 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
2146 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
2148 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
2149 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
2150 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
2151 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
2153 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
2154 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
2155 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
2156 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
2159 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
2160 * The sample config file has been improved.
2161 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
2162 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
2163 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
2164 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
2166 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
2167 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
2168 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
2170 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
2171 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
2173 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
2174 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
2175 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
2176 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
2178 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
2179 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
2180 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
2181 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
2182 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
2183 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
2184 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
2185 with a test environment :)
2186 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
2189 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
2190 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
2191 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
2193 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
2194 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
2195 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
2197 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
2198 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
2199 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
2201 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
2202 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
2204 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
2205 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
2206 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
2207 approximately 7.6 days.
2209 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
2210 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
2211 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
2212 approximately 7.6 days.
2214 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
2215 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
2217 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
2219 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
2221 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
2222 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
2223 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
2224 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
2225 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
2227 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
2228 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
2229 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
2230 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
2231 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
2232 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
2233 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
2234 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
2236 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
2237 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
2238 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
2239 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
2241 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
2242 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
2243 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
2245 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
2246 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
2247 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
2249 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
2250 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
2251 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
2254 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
2255 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
2256 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
2258 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
2259 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
2260 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
2261 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
2263 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
2264 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
2265 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
2267 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
2268 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
2270 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
2271 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
2273 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
2274 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
2276 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
2277 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
2279 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
2280 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
2281 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
2282 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
2283 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
2284 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
2285 address and/or port than localhost.
2286 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
2287 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
2288 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
2289 be set in the configfile.
2291 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
2292 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
2293 client mode. This released fixes this.
2295 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
2296 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
2297 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
2300 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
2301 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
2303 * A `df' plugin has been added.
2304 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
2305 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
2306 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
2308 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
2309 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
2310 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
2313 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
2314 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
2315 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
2317 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
2318 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
2319 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
2320 currently logged in users.
2321 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
2322 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
2323 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
2324 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
2326 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
2327 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
2328 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
2329 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
2330 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
2331 with the `-c' argument.
2332 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
2333 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
2334 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
2335 Barcellos for this patch.
2337 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
2338 * New modules have been added:
2339 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
2340 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
2341 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
2342 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
2344 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
2345 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
2347 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
2348 between polls up to one day.
2349 * The init.d files have been improved.
2350 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
2352 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
2353 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
2354 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
2356 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
2357 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
2358 multicast) has been added.
2359 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
2360 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
2361 to be linked against an external library.
2362 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
2363 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
2365 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
2366 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
2368 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
2369 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
2370 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
2371 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
2372 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
2373 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
2374 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
2375 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
2376 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
2379 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
2380 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
2382 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
2384 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
2385 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
2387 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
2388 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
2389 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
2390 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
2392 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
2393 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
2394 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
2396 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
2397 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
2398 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
2399 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
2400 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
2401 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
2402 statistics will not work.
2404 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
2405 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
2406 weird strings as disk-names..
2408 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
2409 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
2410 about the disks and partitions.
2412 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
2413 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
2414 and/or kernel versions.
2416 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
2417 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
2418 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
2420 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
2421 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
2422 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
2424 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
2425 * Collecting CPU statistics now
2427 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
2428 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
2430 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
2432 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
2433 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
2435 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
2436 * The following modules are provided:
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