1 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
2 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
3 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
4 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
6 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
7 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
8 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
9 approximately 7.6 days.
11 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
12 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
14 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
16 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
18 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
19 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
20 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
21 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
22 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
24 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
25 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
26 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
27 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `hearbeat'
28 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
29 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
30 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
31 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
33 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
34 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
35 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
36 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
38 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
39 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
40 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
42 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
43 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
44 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
46 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
47 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
48 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
51 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
52 * Fixes for building collectd unter FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
53 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
55 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
56 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
57 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
58 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
60 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
61 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
62 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thankt to Sebastian for
64 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
65 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
67 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
68 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
70 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
71 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
73 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
74 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
76 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
77 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
78 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
79 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
80 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
81 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
82 address and/or port than localhost.
83 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
84 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
85 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
86 be set in the configfile.
88 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
89 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
90 client mode. This released fixes this.
92 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
93 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
94 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
97 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
98 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
100 * A `df' plugin has been added.
101 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
102 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
103 occured, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
105 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
106 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
107 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
110 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
111 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
112 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
114 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
115 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
116 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
117 currently logged in users.
118 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
119 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
120 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
121 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
123 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
124 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
125 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
126 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
127 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
128 with the `-c' argument.
129 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
130 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
131 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
132 Barcellos for this patch.
134 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
135 * New modules have been added:
136 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
137 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
138 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
139 * The the memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
141 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
142 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
144 * If reading from hddtemp failes collectd will increase the time
145 between polls up to one day.
146 * The init.d files have been improved.
147 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
149 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
150 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
151 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
153 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
154 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
155 multicast) has been added.
156 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
157 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
158 to be linked against an external library.
159 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
160 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
162 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
163 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
165 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
166 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
167 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
168 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If privided under Linux IRQ and
169 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
170 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
171 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
172 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
173 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
176 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
177 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
179 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update failes.
181 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
182 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
184 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
185 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
186 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
187 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
189 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
190 aren't neccessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
191 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
193 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
194 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
195 collected unter Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
196 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
197 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added unter contrib/museum
198 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
199 statistics will not work.
201 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
202 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
203 weird strings as disk-names..
205 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
206 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
207 about the disks and partitions.
209 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
210 * The meminfo mofule has been changed to work with more platforms
211 and/or kernel versions.
213 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
214 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
215 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
217 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
218 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
219 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
221 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
222 * Collecting CPU statistics now
224 2004-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
225 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
227 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
229 2004-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
230 * Nothing really usefull to say ;)
232 2004-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
233 * The following modules are provided: