1 2016-07-25, Version 5.5.2
2 * collectd: A division by zero has been fixed in the
3 "plugin_dispatch_multivalue()" function. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
4 * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
5 in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
6 * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
7 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkof.
8 * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
9 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
10 * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
11 more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
12 * DF plugin: A build issue on DragonFlyBSD has been fixed. Thanks to
14 * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
15 This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
17 * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
18 has been fixed. Thanks to ciomaire.
19 * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
20 now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
21 Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
22 * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
23 This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
24 Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
25 * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
26 single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
27 create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
28 * Processes plugin: A compilation error on systems without "regex.h" has
29 been fixed. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
30 * Processes plugin: A memory leak on Solaris has been fixed. Thanks to
32 * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
33 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
34 * Redis plugin: A memory leak in an error handling code path has been
35 fixed. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz.
36 * Redis plugin: The data source type of the expired_keys metric has been
37 corrected to "DERIVE". Thanks to Marc Falzon and Marc Fournier. #1483.
38 * SMART plugin: A build dependency on libudev has been added. Thanks to
39 Pavel Rochnyack. #1724
40 * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
42 * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
43 shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
44 * Write Sensu plugin: A segfault when the Tag was unset has been fixed.
45 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
46 * ZFS ARC plugin: The cache_operation-stolen metric has been removed for
47 FreeBSD 10.2 and later. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1580
49 2016-01-22, Version 5.5.1
50 * Build system: Compilation errors have been avoided by correctly
51 defining package name and version used by autoconf. Thanks to Nathan
53 * Build system: Dependency ordering was fixed to ensure parallel builds
54 work reliably. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias. #1125
55 * Build system: Error messages have been improved and building the unit
56 tests has been fixed on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster and
57 Dagobert Michelsen. #1077
58 * Build system: The move of the "utils_ignorelist" functions has been
59 reverted. This fixes build issues of numerous plugins. Thanks to
60 Benjamin Drung;. #1323
61 * Build system: The fhcount plugin has been restricted to Linux. Thanks
62 to Ruben Kerkhof. #1195
63 * Build system: Detection of header files for the turbostat plugin has
64 been fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1075
65 * collectd: The "LC_NUMERIC" locale is now forced, to prevent issues
66 with some plugins on environments using a comma as decimal separator.
67 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1237
68 * Documentation: Some precisions related to the virt plugin have beed
69 added. Thanks to Wojtek Bocer and Ruben Kerkhof.
70 * Documentation: The CollectdInternalStats documentation has been
71 improved. Thanks to Yves Mettier and Florian Forster.
72 * Battery plugin: A missing Type has been added. Thanks to Marc
74 * Bind plugin: An off-by-one error has been fixed: an index was checked
75 against a wrong variable, which may lead to an out-of-bounds read.
76 Thanks to Michal Humpula. #1123
77 * Ceph plugin: JSON parsing has been refactored to support ceph 10.0.0
78 and fixes several buffer overflows. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1350
79 * CPU plugin: A Mac OS X specific bug has been fixed: the plugin
80 expected an incorrect number of CPU states, resulting in failing read
81 callbacks. This regression was introduced in 5.5.0. Thanks to Robert
83 * Disk plugin: Support for Mac OS X 10.10 has been added. Thanks to
85 * IPC plugin: Support for building with musl-libc has been added. Thanks
86 to Natanael Copa. #1147
87 * Log Logstash plugin: A segfault when using libyajl, version 1 was
88 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #1190
89 * Log Logstash plugin: The timestamp is now ISO 8601 compliant. Thanks
90 to Marc Fournier. #1132
91 * memcached plugin: The Type of the listen-disabled metric was fixed.
92 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1356
93 * MySQL plugin: The Type used by Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_flushed was
94 fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1085
95 * OpenLDAP plugin: A crash when using LDAPI (LDAP-over-IPC) got fixed.
96 Thanks to Marek Becka. #1080
97 * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for Mac OS X has been added. Thanks to Ruben
99 * SMART plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
100 Schüller and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1076
101 * Swap plugin: A regression that would lead to swap usage being reported
102 in kilobytes (instead of bytes) has been fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka.
104 * Varnish plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Ruben
106 * Varnish plugin: Support for versions 3 and 4 has been made more
107 tolerant to minor changes in Varnish point releases. Thanks to Marc
109 * virt plugin: A copy-and-paste mistake in an error message has been
110 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1101
111 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
113 * Write Redis plugin: Dead code has been removed. Thanks to Brian Kelly.
115 * 27 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
116 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
117 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan and clang: Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
118 Florian Forster and Marek Becka.
119 * Collectd::Unixsock: A Perl error got corrected. Thanks to Ciaran Mac
122 2015-05-27, Version 5.5.0
123 * Build system: Ability to make out-of-tree builds has been fixed.
124 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #792
125 * Build system, Disk and Users plugins: Detection and use of libstatgrab
126 ≧ 0.90 has been added. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #445, #795, #806,
128 * Build system, Memory, CPU, TCPConns and Processes plugins: Numerous
129 fixes related to OpenBSD support have been added. Thanks to Landry
130 Breuil. #777, #778, #779, #808
131 * Build system: Plugins now only export "module_register()". Thanks to
133 * Build system: Various cleanups and improvements have been done. Thanks
135 * collectd: Numerous internal changes and improvements to the daemon and
136 the plugin API have been make. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves
137 Ritschard and Alex Petrov. #512, #727
138 * collectd: Numerous spelling mistakes have been corrected in comments
139 and documentation and several error messages have been improved.
140 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Abhinav Upadhyay, Olivier Bazoud, Pierre-Yves
141 Ritschard, Tim Smith, Moshe Zada, Katelyn Perry and Marc Fournier.
142 * collectd: Rules/Targets can now be appended to existing Filter Chains.
143 Thanks to Marc Falzon. #444
144 * collectd: Failing Filter Chains destinations will now log the list of
145 available write targets. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #650, #1043
146 * collectd: Support for process signaling and management by upstart and
147 systemd has been implemented for the Linux platform. Thanks to
148 Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. #798, #811, #814
149 * collectd: The "CollectInternalStats" option has been added. Thanks to
151 * collectd: The daemon source code and dependencies have moved to the
152 "src/daemon/" directory. Thanks to Florian Forster.
153 * collectd: The new "MaxReadInterval" option allows to cap the
154 exponential retry interval of plugins read errors. Thanks to Alexey
155 Remizov and Florian Forster. #713
156 * collectd: The "-P" command-line option now has precedence over the
157 "PIDFile" option. Thanks to Thomas D. #553
158 * collection.cgi: Various data-source related adjustments have been
159 made. Thanks to Fabiano Pires and Sebastian Harl.
160 * libcollectdclient: Now propagates errors when signing / encrypting
161 network packets. Thanks to Florian Forster.
162 * Configuration: Support for unquoted IPv6 addresses has been added.
163 Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #489
164 * Documentation: Various improvements have been done. Thanks to Florian
165 Forster and Marc Fournier.
166 * Examples: the sample C plugin has been updated to the current plugin
167 API. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
168 * Licensing: The following components have been relicensed to the MIT
169 license: the Apple Sensors, Ascent, DBI, E-Mail, Entropy, GenericJMX,
170 gmond, LogFile, nginx, Notify Desktop, NTPd, NUT, olsrd, Perl, Ping,
171 PostgreSQL, Protocols, RouterOS, RRDCacheD, SNMP, StatsD, SysLog,
172 Table, Tail, UnixSock, vmem, VServer, Wireless, Write Riemann and XMMS
173 plugins, the core collectd daemon, the collectdmon, collectd-nagios
174 and collectd-tg utilities, all the Targets and Matches, liboconfig,
175 most of the "utils_*" files and the plugin API.
176 * Tests: A test suite has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
177 * Threshold: The hysteresis calculation has been made more reliable.
178 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #581
179 * Threshold: Various fixes and improvements have been made. Thanks to
180 Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #649, #644
181 * AMQP plugin: The "ConnectionRetryDelay" option has been added,
182 allowing to delay reconnection. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam and Marc
184 * AMQP plugin: The "QueueDurable" and "QueueAutoDelete" options have
185 been added, giving control over queue creation and deletion. Thanks to
186 David Blundell and Marc Fournier. #623
187 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx and Write HTTP
188 plugins: Customizing the "User-Agent" field is now possible at
189 compile-time. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #440
190 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx plugins: The
191 connection will be reset if it hasn't completed within the configured
192 "Interval". The new "Timeout" option gives control over this behavior.
193 Thanks to Jan Kundrát and Marc Fournier. #982, #983, #993
194 * Apache, Ascent, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP plugins:
195 Allow usernames and passwords to contain colons if built against
196 libcurl ≧ 7.19.1. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #695, #947
197 * Apache plugin: The "SSLCiphers" option gives control over the
198 encryption algorithms to use with TLS connections. Thanks to Toni
200 * Barometer plugin: This new plugin reads sensor data from various
201 Freescale and Bosch digital barometers. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #69,
203 * Battery plugin: Reporting values as percentages and reporting degraded
204 batteries has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
205 * Battery plugin: Support for reading values from sysfs on Linux has
206 been added. Thanks to Andy Parkins, Nicholas Humfrey, Peter Wu and
207 Florian Forster. #725, #810, #998
208 * Battery plugin: The value for current is no longer supplied unless the
209 battery provides this information. Thanks to Florian Forster.
210 * BIND plugin: Bind's XML v3 API is now supported; Thanks to Victor
211 Berger, Bruno Prémont and Michal Humpula. #742, #847
212 * Ceph plugin: This new plugin collects statistics from the Ceph
213 distributed storage system. Thanks to Dan Ryder, Dennis Zou, Colin
214 McCabe, Sage Weil. #522, #598
215 * ConnTrack plugin: Support for reporting values as percentages as well
216 as legacy conntrack files in "/proc" has been added. Thanks to
217 Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #497, #680
218 * CPU plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages and
219 aggregate values per-state and per-CPU. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
220 Ritschard, Florian Forster, Fabien Wernli, Nicholas Humfrey and
221 Wilfried Goesgens. #499, #516, #639 #734, #812, #802
222 * cURL-JSON plugin: Extracting values from complex JSON structures has
223 been enhanced. Thanks to Jim Radford. #408, #411
224 * cURL-JSON plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-URL basis.
225 Thanks to Stan Sawa. #685
226 * cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, Write HTTP plugins: These plugins now also follow
227 HTTP redirects. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
228 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: HTTP Digest authentication has been
229 implemented. Thanks to Frank Cornelis. #482
230 * DBI, Oracle, PostgreSQL plugins: A "MetadataFrom" parameter has been
231 added which allows to set metadata from database columns. Thanks to
232 Mark Wong. #317, #321
233 * DBI plugin: Querying several databases in parallel is now possible.
234 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #453
235 * Disk plugin: On the Linux platform, disk names can now get looked up
236 in udev with the "UdevNameAttr" option. Thanks to Patrick Mooney. #537
237 * Disk plugin: This plugin now collects several additional I/O-related
238 metrics on the Linux platform. Thanks to Florian Forster and Michael
240 * DRBD plugin: This new plugin reads Linux's Distributed Replicated
241 Block Device (DRBD) statistics. Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #566, #700
242 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: The "PUTNOTIF" command now allows to set
243 metadata on notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #416
244 * fhcount plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used file
245 handles. Thanks to Jiri Tyr. #1009
246 * GenericJMX plugin: A Class Loader for "JMXConnectorFactory" has been
247 added, allowing the plugin to work with JBOSS > 7. Thanks to Alexandre
249 * IPC plugin: This new plugin collects information related to shared
250 memory. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz. #925
251 * Java plugin: Now uses the hostname defined in the configuration file.
252 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #530, #681
253 * Load plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
254 Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #344, #498
255 * Log Logstash plugin: This new plugin writes collectd logs and events
256 as Logstash JSON formatted events. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
258 * LVM plugin: The plugin collects thin pool data volumes size, and no
259 longer reports virtual volumes. Thanks to Benjamin Gilbert. #603
260 * memcached plugin: "listen_disabled_num" are now also reported. Thanks
261 to Matt Cottingham. #622
262 * Memory plugin: Slab memory reporting on the Linux platform has been
263 added. Thanks to Manuel CISSÉ and Marc Fournier. #560, #697
264 * Memory plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
265 Thanks to Jeremy Katz, Florian Forster and Manuel CISSÉ. #501, #511,
267 * Modbus plugin: Selecting between holding and input registers is now
268 possible. Thanks to Jan Vitek. #338
269 * Modbus plugin: Support for accessing devices through an RS-485 serial
270 port has been added. Thanks to Eric Sandeen.
271 * Multimeter plugin: This plugin isn't built by default on the AIX
272 platform anymore. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada. #549, #684
273 * MySQL and PostgreSQL plugins: Passing "127.0.0.1" as a host will now
274 result in the global Hostname being used in metric names. Thanks to
276 * MySQL plugin: InnoDB, Select and Sort statistics collection has been
277 added. Thanks to Wilson Felipe, Marek Becka and Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
278 #248, #621, #699, #824
279 * MySQL plugin: The "Alias" and "ConnectTimeout" options have been
280 added. Thanks to William Tisäter.
281 * Netlink plugin: Support for 64bit netlink counters has been added.
282 Thanks to Marek Becka. #435
283 * Network plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" configuration option has been
284 added. Thanks to John Ferlito. #732
285 * NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4.0 has been implemented. Thanks to Marek
287 * OneWire plugin: Support for more temperature-providing sensor families
288 has been added. Thanks to Tomasz Torcz. #672
289 * OneWire plugin: Support for full OWFS path and more device families
290 has been implemented. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #68
291 * OpenLDAP plugin: This new plugin reads monitoring information from
292 OpenLDAP's "cn=Monitor" subtree. Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum, Marc
293 Fournier and Nicholas Humfrey. #719
294 * OpenVPN plugin: Support for OpenVPN 2.3.0 has been implemented. Thanks
296 * OpenVZ plugin: Various improvements have been made, making the plugin
297 report values like the other collectd plugins do. Thanks to Chris
299 * Perl plugin: A new "listval_filter" method has been added, various
300 internal cleanups and improvements have been made and a test suite has
301 been added. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #728
302 * PostgreSQL plugin: The new "ExpireDelay" option allows skipping older
303 values pending write when the database slows down. Thanks to Stephen
305 * PowerDNS plugin: The plugin was updated for stats from pdns 3.4.3.
306 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #965
307 * Processes plugin: A memory-usage related optimization for low-profile
308 systems has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #652
309 * Python plugin: Support for Python3 has been improved, "ModulePath" is
310 now prepended to "sys.path", and the "get_dataset()" function has been
311 added to the Python API. Thanks to Sven Trenkel and Patrick Browne.
313 * Redis and Write_Redis plugins: The support library has been switched
314 from credis to hiredis. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz, Victor Seva, Marc
315 Fournier, Johan Bergström, Michael Spiegle and brianpkelly. #296,
316 #464, #475, #799, #1030
317 * Redis plugin: Custom commands can now be used to fetch values stored
318 in Redis. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #816
319 * Redis plugin: Support for passwords up to 512 characters long has been
320 added. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #532
321 * Sensors plugin: Support for lm_sensors' power sensors has been added.
322 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #571
323 * SMART plugin: This new plugin collects SMART statistics from disk
324 drives. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #797
325 * SNMP plugin: A blacklist/whitelist feature can now be used to filter
326 which OIDs to collect. Thanks to Christophe Courtaut. #414
327 * SNMP plugin: SNMPv3 authentication and encryption support has been
328 implemented. Thanks to Michael Pilat. #362
329 * SNMP plugin: Two error messages have been disambiguated. Thanks to
331 * Swap plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
332 Thanks to Jeremy Katz and Florian Forster. #500, #510
333 * Swap plugin: The plugin no longer fails on Linux systems where
334 "SwapCached" isn't exposed by the kernel. Thanks to Florian Forster.
336 * Tail plugin: "GaugeInc" and "GaugeAdd" options have been implemented.
337 Thanks to Andre Ferraz. #673
338 * Tail plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-File basis.
339 Thanks to Tom Leaman. #446
340 * TCPConns plugin: The "AllPortsSummary" option, allowing to summarize
341 all connections, has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #488
342 * TCPConns plugin: Three metrics were renamed on the AIX platform, for
343 the sake of consistency. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #546
344 * Turbostat plugin: This new plugin reads CPU frequency and C-state
345 residency on modern Intel turbo-capable processors. Thanks to Vincent
346 Brillault, Jean Delvare and Nicolas Iooss. #651
347 * UnixSock plugin: The "GETTHRESHOLD" command has been re-added. Thanks
348 to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #674
349 * Varnish plugin: Varnish 4 support has been added, as well as as
350 monitoring metrics only available in Varnish 4. Thanks to Marc
352 * virt plugin: Guests memory usage is now also collected. Thanks to
353 Tiago Carvalho, jazzmes and Zollner Robert.
354 * virt plugin: It is now possible to chose between using guests' name or
355 UUID as plugin_instance. Thanks to Remi Ferrand. #385
356 * virt plugin: The libvirt plugin has been renamed to virt. Thanks to
358 * Write Graphite plugin: When the connection to graphite fails,
359 reconnection attempts are now limited to once per second. Thanks to
360 Florian Forster. #625
361 * Write HTTP plugin: Multi-instance support of this plugin has been
362 improved. The "<URL "url">" block has been deprecated in favor of
363 "<Node "identifier">". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #902
364 * Write HTTP plugin: Several TLS-related configuration options have been
365 added. Thanks to Ingmar Runge. #666
366 * Write HTTP plugin: The "LowSpeedLimit" and "Timeout" options allow to
367 reset slow/stalled network connections. Thanks to loginator17 and Marc
369 * Write HTTP plugin: The size of the payload posted to the HTTP server
370 can now be controlled with the "BufferSize" option. Thanks to Florian
372 * Write Kafka plugin: This new plugin sends data to Apache Kafka, a
373 distributed messaging queue. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard,
374 ciomaire, Vincent Bernat, Marc Fournier. #670, #694, #794, #853, #014
375 * Write Log plugin: This new plugin dispatches collected values to the
376 configured log destination(s). Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #886
377 * Write Riemann plugin: Extra meta strings are now added as attributes
378 in notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #417
379 * Write Riemann plugin: Notification message are now sent to the Riemann
380 server via the description field. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #575
381 * Write Riemann plugin: Support for custom attributes has been added.
382 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #459
383 * Write Riemann plugin: Support had been implemented for sending events
384 to Riemann in batches (when using TCP), and is enabled by default.
385 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #800
386 * Write Riemann plugin: The "EventServicePrefix" option has been added,
387 which adds a prefix to event service names. Thanks to Moshe Zada. #706
388 * Write Riemann plugin: Threshold checks can now be passed down to the
389 Riemann server. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #518
390 * Write Sensu plugin: This new plugin submits values to Sensu, a stream
391 processing and monitoring system. Thanks to Fabrice A. Marie and Marc
392 Fournier. #912, #1001, #1016
393 * Write TSDB plugin: This new plugin sends data to OpenTSDB, a scalable
394 time series database. Thanks to Kevin Bowling, Florian Forster, Dallin
395 Young, Michael Schenck and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #703, #772, #945
396 * ZFS ARC plugin: Support for ZFS-on-Linux has been added. Thanks to
397 Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. #552
398 * Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache Zookeeper
399 "MNTR" command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826
401 2015-02-26, Version 5.4.2
402 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
403 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
404 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
406 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
407 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
408 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
410 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c. Thanks to
412 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
413 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
414 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
415 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
416 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
417 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
418 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
419 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
420 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
421 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
422 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
423 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
424 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
426 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
427 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
428 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
429 * Documentation: Documentation of the "AutoLoadPlugin" option has been
430 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #715
431 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
432 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
433 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
434 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
435 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML and Write HTTP plugins: Call
436 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
438 * cURL and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
439 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
440 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
441 Florian Forster. #663
442 * curl-json: A bug, which triggered when two URLs with a long common
443 prefix were configured, was fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #582
444 * dbi: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been restored.
445 Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
446 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
447 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
448 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
449 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
450 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
451 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
453 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
454 Thanks to Florian Forster.
455 * LogFile and SysLog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
456 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
457 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
458 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
459 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
460 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
461 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
463 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
465 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
466 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
467 * RRDtool and RRDCacheD plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
468 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
469 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
470 Ritschard. #610, #804
471 * statsd: Support for samplerates in timer metrics was added. Thanks
473 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
474 to Florian Forster. #733
475 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
476 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
477 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
479 * lvm: An issue with Volume Groups (VGs) without Logical Volumes (LVs)
480 has been fixed. Thanks to Jan Kundrát.
481 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
482 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
483 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
485 * write_redis: A formatting bug, which resulted in totally unusable
486 numbers being transmitted to Redis, was fixed. Thanks to Marc
488 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
491 2014-01-26, Version 5.4.1
492 * amqp plugin: Add support for RabbitMQ 0.4.x to avoid compiler
493 warnings. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for implementing this.
494 * apache / network plugins: Improved initialization order hopefully
495 resolved gcrypt initialization problems.
496 * aquaero plugin: The type used to submit fan utilization was fixed.
497 Thanks to Alex Deymo for the patch.
498 * cgroups plugin: A small memory leak was fixed. Checking the existence
499 of a mount option without a value was fixed. More permissive parsing
500 of the cpuacct.stats file fixes support for some versions of Linux.
501 Thanks to Marc Fournier for bug reports and patches.
502 * curl plugin: Fix <Match> blocks without an instance. Thanks to
503 Alexander Golovko for reporting and Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
504 * curl_json plugin: Potentially invalid memory access has been
505 sanitized. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
506 * interface plugin: Fix behavior under FreeBSD 10: Reporting of
507 per-address statistics caused duplicate updates to the same metric.
508 Thanks to demon / @trtrmitya for the patch.
509 * write_graphite plugin: Use TCP to connect to Graphite by default. The
510 default changed from TCP to UDP between 5.3.1 and 5.4.0, which is a
511 regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier for fixing this. Reconnect
512 behavior was improved. Thanks to Michael Hart for his patch.
513 * zfs_arc plugin: Collect "allocated" and "stolen" on FreeBSD only.
515 2013-08-18, Version 5.4.0
516 * collectd: The "LoadPlugin" config option no longer attempts to load
517 plugins twice. If more than one "LoadPlugin" statement or block is
518 encountered, only the first will have any effect.
519 * collectd: The "AutoLoadPlugin" option allows to automatically load
520 plugins for which a configuration is found.
521 * collectd: The "WriteQueueLimitHigh" and "WriteQueueLimitLow" options
522 allow collectd to drop values when under stress, to avoid running out
523 of memory. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patch.
524 * amqp plugin: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
525 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options have been added. Thanks to Laurent
527 * aquaero plugin: This new plugin reads various metrics, e.g. fan
528 speeds and temperatures, from Aquaero 5, a fan and water cooling
529 control panel. Thanks to Alex Deymo for his patch.
530 * curl plugin: The "MeasureResponseCode" option has been added. Thanks
531 to Jan Matějka for his patch.
532 * curl_json plugin: Support for UNIX domain sockets and array wildcards
533 has been added. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
534 * curl_xml plugin: Support for long URLs has been improved.
535 * cgroups plugin: This new plugin collects CPU accounting information
536 for processes in a cgroup. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for his patch.
537 * df plugin: The "ValuesAbsolute" and "ValuesPercentage" options have
538 been added. Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek for the patch.
539 * exec plugin: Do UID / GID lookups before forking. This should prevent
540 a race condition in the NSS library. Thanks to Ceri Storey for the
542 * lvm plugin: This new plugin collects size information from Linux'
543 Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Thanks to Chad Malfait for his work.
544 * memcached plugin: Support for increment and decrement counts has been
545 added. Thanks to Blake Matheny for the patch.
546 * mic plugin: This new plugin collects CPU and memory usage, power
547 consumption and temperatures of Intel's Many-Integrated-Core (MIC)
548 architecture, such as Xeon Phi cards. Thanks to Evan Felix for his
550 * netlink plugin: This plugin has been converted to use the supported
551 "libmnl" library. Thanks to Andreas Henriksson for his patch.
552 * nginx plugin: Collection of accepted and handled connections has been
553 added. Thanks to Patrick Shan for his patch.
554 * sigrok plugin: This new plugin collects metrics from sigrok, a signal
555 processing framework reading various hardware devices, from light
556 meters to spectrum analyzers. Thanks to Bert Vermeulen for his patch.
557 * statsd plugin: This new plugin listens to a UDP socket and reads
558 metrics in the StatsD format.
559 * varnish plugin: Many additional metrics have been added. Thanks to
560 Nick Stenning for his patch.
561 * write_graphite plugin: Support for "UDP" has been added. Thanks to
562 Javier Maestro for his patch.
563 * write_riemann plugin: The "TTLFactor" option has been added.
564 * zfs_arc plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li
567 2015-02-26, Version 5.3.2
568 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
569 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
570 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
572 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
573 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
574 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
576 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c Thanks to
578 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
579 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
580 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
581 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
582 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
583 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
584 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
585 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
586 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
587 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
588 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
589 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
590 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
592 * Documentation: The synopsis of the threshold has been fixed. Thanks
594 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
595 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
596 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
597 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
598 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
599 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
600 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
601 * csv: A regression which would lead to the "DataDir" option to be
602 ignored has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada.
603 * curl, curl-json, curl-xml and write_http plugins: Call
604 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
606 * curl and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
607 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
608 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
609 Florian Forster. #663
610 * dbi plugin: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been
611 restored. Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
612 * exec, unixsock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
613 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
614 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
615 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
617 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
618 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
619 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
620 Thanks to Florian Forster.
621 * logfile and syslog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
622 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
623 * memcached: Connecting to a UNIX socket has been fixed. Thanks to Jim
625 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
626 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
627 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
628 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
629 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
631 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
633 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
634 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
635 * replace and set targets: Fix error message. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
637 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: Honor the "DataDir" config option;
638 this fixes a regression. Thanks to Florian Forster. #380
639 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
640 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
641 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
642 Ritschard. #610, #804
643 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
644 to Florian Forster. #733
645 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
646 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
647 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
649 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
650 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
651 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
653 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
656 2013-07-13, Version 5.3.1
657 * Documentation: Various fixes.
658 * Configuration: Fix error handling: Errors in included files were
659 ignored, causing configuration mistakes to go unnoticed.
660 * dns plugin: Don't abort when PCAP returns an error.
661 * modbus plugin: The reconnection strategy was improved, fixing a
662 segfault in the libmodbud library. Thanks to Stefan Nickl and
663 Fabien Wernli for their patches.
664 * mysql plugin: The notification about a newly running MySQL slave
665 thread has been fixed. Thanks to Joaquín Cuenca Abela for the patch.
666 * snmp plugin: A build issue has been fixed (C99 mixed declaration).
667 The end-of-tree check has been improved by Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
668 * threshold plugin: Handling of the "Interesting" configuration option
669 has been fixed. Thanks to Björn for the patch.
670 * write_riemann plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Dave
671 Cottlehuber for reporting it.
673 2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0
674 * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include
675 only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
677 * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This
678 improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act
679 as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for
680 reviewing this change and fixing bugs.
681 * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using
682 regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric
683 can now be set via the configuration file.
684 * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented.
685 * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers
686 has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
687 * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks
688 to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
689 * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The
690 "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch.
691 * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to
692 Greg Mason for his patch.
693 * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks
694 to Johan Wirén for his patch.
695 * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication /
696 compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
697 patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work.
698 * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks
699 to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
700 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been
701 implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created
702 asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances.
703 Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code.
704 * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV
705 files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for
707 * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added.
708 * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to
709 Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to
710 Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work.
712 2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2
713 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
714 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
715 Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks
716 to Sebastian Harl for his patch.
717 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
718 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
719 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
720 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
721 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
722 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
723 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
724 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
725 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
726 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
727 Tomas Doran for his patch.
728 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
729 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
730 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
731 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
732 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
733 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
734 * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
735 * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
736 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
737 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
738 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
739 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
740 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
741 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
742 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
745 2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1
746 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris
747 and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches.
748 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
749 more frequently than intended.
750 * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added.
751 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
752 Ed Schouten for his patch.
753 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
754 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
755 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
756 Ed Schouten for his patch.
757 * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed.
758 A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was
759 configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these
761 * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
762 Ritschard for his patch.
763 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
764 * write_graphite plugin: A regression which rendered the
765 "SeparateInstances" and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been
766 fixed. A failed assertion when using types with many data sources
767 has been fixed. Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
768 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
770 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
771 Mettier for reporting this bug.
773 2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0
774 * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved.
775 Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch.
776 * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a
777 per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for
779 * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real
780 looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new
782 * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets
783 in the binary format has been added.
784 * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple
785 value lists into one.
786 * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON
787 output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch.
788 * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to
789 Thomas Meson for the patch.
790 * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to
791 Manuel Rozada for his patch.
792 * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the
794 * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't
796 * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks
797 to "Davide Guerri" for the patch.
798 * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added.
799 Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch.
800 * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The
801 behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to
802 Johan Kiviniemi for the patches.
803 * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added.
804 * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's
805 packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes
807 * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added.
808 Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added.
809 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches.
810 * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
811 Cosmin Ioiart for the patch.
812 * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added.
813 Thanks to biancalana for the patch.
814 * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan",
815 "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added.
816 * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX
817 version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out
818 "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch.
819 * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc
820 for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch.
822 2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3
823 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
824 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
825 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
826 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
827 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
828 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
829 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
830 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
831 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
832 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
833 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
834 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
835 Tomas Doran for his patch.
836 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
837 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
838 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
839 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
840 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
841 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
842 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
843 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
844 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
845 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
846 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
847 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
848 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
851 2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2
852 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves
853 Mettier for his patches.
854 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
855 more frequently than intended.
856 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
857 Ed Schouten for his patch.
858 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
859 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
860 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
861 Ed Schouten for his patch.
862 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
863 * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
864 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
866 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
867 Mettier for reporting this bug.
869 2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1
870 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
871 unwanted permission bits.
872 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
873 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
874 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
875 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
876 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
877 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
878 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
879 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
880 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
882 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
883 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
884 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
885 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
886 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
887 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
888 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
889 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
890 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
891 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
892 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
893 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
895 * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of
896 uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for
897 reporting these problems.
898 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
899 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
900 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
901 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
902 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
904 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
905 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
906 "KIvosak" for the patch.
907 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
908 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
909 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
910 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
911 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
913 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
914 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
915 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
916 "biancalana" for the fix.
917 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
918 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
919 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
920 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
921 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
923 * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been
924 fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch.
925 * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and
926 later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch.
928 2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0
929 * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has
931 * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using
932 "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
933 * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use
934 the system time rather than the time reported by BIND.
935 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been
936 added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch.
937 * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics
938 directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch.
939 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in
940 addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
941 Ritschard for his patch.
942 * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default
943 ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g.
945 * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various
946 states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
948 * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been
950 * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin
951 Ioiart for his patch.
952 * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the
953 Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux.
954 * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation.
955 Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch.
956 * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been
958 * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to
959 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch.
960 * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added.
961 * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added.
962 Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
963 * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel
964 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
965 * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to
966 Aaron Brady for his patch.
967 * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to
968 Jérôme Renard for his patches.
969 * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value
970 lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch
971 and Chris Lundquist for their work.
972 * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value
973 lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series
974 database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their
976 * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to
977 Aurelien Rougemont for his patches.
978 * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been
979 added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
981 2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5
982 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
983 unwanted permission bits.
984 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
985 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
986 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
987 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
988 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
989 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
990 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
991 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
992 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
994 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
995 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
996 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
997 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
998 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
999 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1000 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1001 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1002 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1003 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1004 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1005 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1007 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1008 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1009 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
1010 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1011 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1013 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1014 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1015 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1016 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1017 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1018 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1019 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1020 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1022 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1023 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1024 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
1025 "biancalana" for the fix.
1026 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1027 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1028 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1029 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1030 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1033 2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4
1034 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1035 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1036 plugin under Gentoo.
1037 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1038 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1040 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1041 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1042 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1043 Opter for his patch.
1044 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1045 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1047 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1048 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1050 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1051 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1053 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1054 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1056 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1057 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1058 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1059 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1060 runtime has been fixed.
1062 2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3
1063 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1064 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1065 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1067 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1068 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1069 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1070 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1071 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1072 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1073 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1075 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1077 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1078 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1079 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1080 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1081 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1083 2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2
1084 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1085 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1086 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1087 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1089 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1090 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1091 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1092 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1094 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1095 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1096 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1097 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1098 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1099 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1100 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1101 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1102 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1103 for fixing this bug!
1105 2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1
1106 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1107 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1108 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1109 to Peter Green for his patch.
1110 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1111 McCabe for the patch.
1112 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1113 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1114 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1115 code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module.
1116 * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts.
1117 Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this.
1118 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1119 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1120 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1121 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1122 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1123 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1124 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1125 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1126 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1127 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1128 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1129 * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values
1130 were submitted as gauge even though they were derives.
1131 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1132 Flisher for the fix.
1134 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
1135 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
1136 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
1137 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
1138 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
1139 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
1140 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
1141 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
1143 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
1144 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
1145 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
1146 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
1147 added to the collectd client library.
1148 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
1149 one data source has been changed to "value".
1150 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
1151 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
1152 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
1153 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
1154 maximum value is unspecified.
1155 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
1156 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
1157 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1158 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1159 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1160 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
1161 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
1162 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
1163 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
1164 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
1166 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1167 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
1168 "Connection" blocks.
1169 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
1171 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
1173 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
1174 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
1175 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
1176 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
1178 * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
1179 license has been changed to LGPLv2.1.
1180 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
1181 data sets used have been improved.
1182 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
1184 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1185 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1186 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
1187 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
1188 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
1189 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
1190 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
1191 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
1192 this separate plugin.
1193 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
1194 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
1195 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
1196 Fournier for their contributions.
1197 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
1199 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
1201 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
1204 2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9
1205 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1206 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1207 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1208 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1209 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1210 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1211 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1212 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1213 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1214 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1215 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1216 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1217 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1218 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1219 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1220 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1221 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1222 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1225 2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8
1226 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1227 unwanted permission bits.
1228 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1229 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1230 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1231 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1232 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1233 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1234 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1235 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1236 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1237 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1238 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1239 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1240 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1241 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1242 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1243 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1245 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1246 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1247 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1249 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1250 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1251 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1252 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1253 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1254 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1255 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1256 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1258 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1259 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1260 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1261 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1262 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1263 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1264 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1267 2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7
1268 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1269 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1270 plugin under Gentoo.
1271 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1272 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1274 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1275 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1276 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1277 Opter for his patch.
1278 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1279 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1281 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1282 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1284 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1285 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1287 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1288 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1290 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1291 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1292 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1293 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1294 runtime has been fixed.
1296 2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6
1297 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1298 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1299 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1301 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1302 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1303 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1304 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1305 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1306 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1307 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1309 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1311 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1312 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1313 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1314 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1315 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1317 2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5
1318 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1319 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1320 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1321 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1323 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1324 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1325 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1326 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1328 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1329 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1330 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1331 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1332 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1333 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1334 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1335 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1336 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1337 for fixing this bug!
1339 2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4
1340 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1341 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1342 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1343 to Peter Green for his patch.
1344 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1345 McCabe for the patch.
1346 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1347 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1348 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1350 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1351 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1352 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1353 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1354 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1355 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1356 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1357 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1358 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1359 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1360 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1361 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1362 Flisher for the fix.
1364 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
1365 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1366 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
1368 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
1369 percentage calculation has been fixed.
1370 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
1372 * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
1373 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
1374 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
1375 * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
1376 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
1377 error handling case.
1378 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
1379 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
1382 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
1383 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
1384 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
1385 the rest of the configuration if possible.
1386 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
1387 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
1388 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
1389 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
1390 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
1391 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
1392 configurable timeout value.
1393 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
1394 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
1395 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1396 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
1397 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
1398 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
1399 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1401 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1402 to prevent spamming the logs.
1403 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1404 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1405 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1406 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1408 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
1410 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1411 Trenkel for the patch.
1413 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
1414 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1415 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1416 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
1417 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
1419 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
1420 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
1421 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
1423 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
1424 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
1425 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
1426 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
1427 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
1428 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
1429 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
1430 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
1431 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
1432 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
1434 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
1435 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
1436 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
1437 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
1438 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
1439 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
1440 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
1442 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
1444 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
1445 lines from the match.
1446 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
1447 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
1449 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
1450 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
1451 Malek for the patch.
1452 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
1453 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
1455 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
1456 certain lines from the match.
1457 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
1458 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
1459 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
1460 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
1461 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
1462 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
1463 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
1464 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
1465 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
1466 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
1467 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
1468 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
1469 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
1470 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
1471 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
1472 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
1473 Sebastian Harl for his work.
1474 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
1475 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
1476 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
1477 Sven Trenkel for his work.
1478 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
1479 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
1480 MikroTik devices has been added.
1481 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
1482 Scraba for his patch.
1483 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
1484 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
1485 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
1486 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
1487 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
1488 Ammous for his patch.
1490 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
1491 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1492 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
1494 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
1495 percentage calculation has been fixed.
1496 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
1498 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
1499 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
1500 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
1501 error handling case.
1502 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
1503 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
1506 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
1507 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
1508 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
1509 the rest of the configuration if possible.
1510 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
1511 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
1512 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
1513 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
1514 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
1515 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
1516 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
1517 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1518 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
1519 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
1520 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
1521 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1523 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1524 to prevent spamming the logs.
1525 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1526 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1527 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1528 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1530 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1531 Trenkel for the patch.
1533 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
1534 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1535 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1536 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
1537 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
1539 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
1540 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
1541 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
1542 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
1544 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
1545 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
1546 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
1547 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
1548 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
1549 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
1550 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
1551 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
1552 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
1553 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
1554 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
1555 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
1557 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
1558 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
1559 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1560 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
1561 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
1562 figuring out a way to make this work.
1563 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
1564 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
1565 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
1566 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
1567 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
1569 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
1571 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
1572 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
1573 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
1574 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
1575 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
1576 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
1577 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
1578 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1580 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1581 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1582 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1583 an unknown data source type.
1584 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1585 packets has been fixed.
1586 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
1588 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
1589 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
1590 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
1591 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
1592 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
1593 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1595 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
1596 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
1597 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
1598 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
1599 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
1600 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
1601 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
1602 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1603 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1605 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
1606 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
1607 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
1610 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
1611 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
1612 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
1613 Weiskircher for the patch.
1614 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
1615 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1616 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
1617 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
1618 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
1619 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
1620 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
1621 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
1622 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
1623 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
1624 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
1625 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
1626 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
1628 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
1629 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
1630 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
1631 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
1632 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
1633 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1634 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
1635 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1636 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
1637 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
1638 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
1639 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
1640 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
1641 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
1642 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
1643 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1644 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
1645 storage has been added.
1646 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
1647 value has been added.
1649 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
1650 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
1651 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1652 an unknown data source type.
1654 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
1655 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
1656 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1657 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
1658 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
1659 figuring out a way to make this work.
1660 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
1661 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
1662 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
1663 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
1665 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
1667 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
1668 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
1669 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
1670 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
1671 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
1672 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1674 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1675 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1676 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1677 packets has been fixed.
1678 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
1679 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
1680 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
1681 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
1682 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
1683 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1685 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
1686 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
1687 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
1688 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1689 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1692 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
1693 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
1694 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
1695 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
1696 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
1697 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
1699 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
1700 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
1701 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
1702 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
1703 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
1704 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
1706 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
1707 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
1708 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
1709 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
1711 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
1712 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
1714 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
1715 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
1716 issues on some platforms.
1717 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
1718 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1719 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
1720 descriptor handling.
1722 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
1723 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
1724 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
1725 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
1726 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
1727 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
1729 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
1730 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
1731 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
1732 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1733 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
1734 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
1735 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1736 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
1737 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
1738 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
1739 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
1741 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
1742 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
1743 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
1744 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
1745 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
1746 Aman Gupta for the patch.
1747 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
1748 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
1749 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
1750 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
1751 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
1753 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
1754 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
1756 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
1757 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
1758 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1759 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
1760 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
1761 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
1762 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
1763 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1764 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
1765 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
1766 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
1767 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
1768 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
1769 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
1771 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
1772 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
1773 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
1774 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
1775 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
1776 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
1778 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
1779 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
1780 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
1781 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
1783 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
1784 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
1785 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
1786 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
1788 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
1789 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
1791 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
1792 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
1793 issues on some platforms.
1794 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
1795 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1796 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
1797 descriptor handling.
1799 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
1800 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
1801 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1802 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
1803 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
1804 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
1806 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
1807 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
1808 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
1809 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
1810 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
1811 Hess for reporting this bug.
1812 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
1813 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
1814 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
1815 is linked with the shipped library, too.
1816 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
1817 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
1818 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
1819 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
1820 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
1821 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
1822 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
1823 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
1824 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
1825 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
1826 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
1827 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
1828 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1831 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
1832 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
1834 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
1835 Díaz for fixing this bug.
1836 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
1837 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
1838 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
1839 for reporting the bug.
1840 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
1842 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
1843 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
1844 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
1845 libtool 2.2 has been added.
1846 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
1847 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
1848 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
1849 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
1850 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
1852 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
1853 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
1854 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
1855 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
1856 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
1858 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
1859 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1861 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
1862 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
1863 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
1864 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
1865 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
1866 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
1867 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1868 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
1869 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
1870 Konetzko for the patch.
1871 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
1872 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
1873 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
1874 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
1875 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
1876 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
1877 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
1878 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
1879 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
1880 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
1881 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
1882 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
1883 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1884 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
1885 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
1886 Quiédeville for the patch.
1887 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
1889 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
1890 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
1891 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
1892 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
1893 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
1894 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
1895 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
1896 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
1898 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
1899 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
1900 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
1901 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
1902 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
1903 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
1905 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
1906 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
1907 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
1908 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
1910 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
1911 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
1912 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
1913 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
1914 Hess for reporting this bug.
1915 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
1916 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
1917 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
1918 is linked with the shipped library, too.
1919 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
1920 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
1921 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
1922 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
1923 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1926 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
1927 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
1928 Díaz for fixing this bug.
1929 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
1930 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
1931 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
1932 for reporting the bug.
1934 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
1935 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
1936 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
1937 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
1938 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
1939 providing an OpenBSD system.
1940 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
1941 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
1942 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
1943 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
1944 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
1946 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
1948 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
1949 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
1950 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
1951 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1952 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
1954 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
1955 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
1956 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1958 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
1959 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
1960 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
1961 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
1963 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
1964 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
1965 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
1966 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
1967 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
1968 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
1969 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
1970 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
1971 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
1972 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
1973 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
1974 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
1975 initialized, the daemon may crash.
1977 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
1978 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
1979 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
1980 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
1981 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
1982 for finding and fixing most of them.
1983 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
1984 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
1986 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
1987 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
1988 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
1989 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
1990 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1991 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
1992 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
1993 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
1994 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
1995 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
1996 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
1998 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
1999 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
2000 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
2001 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
2003 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
2004 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
2005 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
2006 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
2007 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
2008 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
2009 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
2010 Kuhnle for the patch.
2011 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
2012 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
2013 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
2014 MacEachern for the patch.
2015 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
2016 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
2017 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
2018 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
2019 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
2020 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
2021 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
2022 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
2023 select interfaces, too.
2024 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
2025 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
2026 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
2028 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
2029 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
2030 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
2031 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
2032 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
2033 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2034 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
2035 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
2036 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
2037 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
2039 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
2040 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
2041 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
2042 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
2043 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
2044 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
2045 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
2046 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
2048 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
2049 been added. Portability fixes.
2050 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
2051 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
2052 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
2054 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
2057 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
2058 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2059 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2060 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2061 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2062 providing an OpenBSD system.
2063 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
2064 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2066 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
2067 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2068 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2069 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2070 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2071 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2073 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2074 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2075 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2076 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2078 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
2079 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
2081 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
2082 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2083 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
2085 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2086 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2087 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
2088 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
2090 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
2091 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2092 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2093 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2095 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2096 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2097 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
2098 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
2099 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
2100 provide these necessary functions.
2101 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2102 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
2104 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
2105 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2106 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2107 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
2109 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2110 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2111 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2112 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2113 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2114 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2116 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
2117 invalid configuration options.
2118 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2119 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2120 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2122 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
2123 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2124 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2125 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2127 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2128 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2129 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2130 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2131 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2132 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2133 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2134 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2136 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2137 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2138 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
2139 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
2140 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2141 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2142 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2143 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
2144 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
2145 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
2146 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
2147 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
2149 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2150 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2153 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
2154 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
2155 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
2157 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
2158 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
2159 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
2160 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
2161 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
2162 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
2164 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
2165 email, using the `esmtp' library.
2166 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
2167 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
2169 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
2170 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
2171 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
2172 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
2174 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
2175 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
2176 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
2177 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
2178 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
2180 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
2181 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
2182 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
2184 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
2185 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2186 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2187 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2189 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2190 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2191 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2192 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
2193 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2194 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2195 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2196 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2197 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2198 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2199 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2200 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2202 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2203 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2204 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2206 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
2207 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2208 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2209 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2211 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2212 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2213 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2214 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2215 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2216 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2217 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2218 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2220 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2221 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2222 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2223 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2224 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2225 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2226 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2229 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
2230 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
2231 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2233 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2234 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
2236 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
2237 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
2238 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianness of the
2239 architecture collectd is being built on.
2240 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
2242 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
2244 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
2245 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
2246 values under Solaris.
2247 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
2248 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
2250 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
2251 returned by some broken drivers.
2253 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
2254 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
2255 to kyrone for reporting this.
2256 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
2258 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
2260 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
2261 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
2262 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
2263 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
2265 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
2266 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
2267 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
2268 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
2269 flush its values to disk.
2270 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
2271 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
2272 for each data source.
2273 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
2275 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
2276 page of an Ascent server.
2277 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2278 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
2279 specific disks has been added.
2280 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2281 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
2282 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
2284 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
2285 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
2286 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
2287 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
2288 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
2289 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
2290 configuration has been decreased.
2291 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
2292 continuously reading from log files.
2293 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
2294 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
2295 and number of channels.
2296 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2297 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
2298 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
2300 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
2301 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
2303 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianness more
2305 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
2306 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
2307 again has been applied.
2308 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2310 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2311 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
2313 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2314 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2315 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
2318 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
2319 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2320 they are in non-standard paths.
2321 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2322 if the libc expects it.
2323 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2324 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2326 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2327 using a buffer of static size.
2328 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2330 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2331 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2333 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
2334 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
2335 `Persist' threshold options.
2336 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
2337 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2338 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2339 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2340 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2342 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
2343 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2345 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2346 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2347 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2348 cross-platform compatibility.
2349 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2350 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2351 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2353 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
2354 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
2355 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
2356 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
2357 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
2358 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
2360 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
2361 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
2362 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
2363 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
2364 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
2365 wants to add custom type definitions.
2366 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
2367 entire directories and shell wildcards.
2368 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
2369 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
2370 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
2371 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
2372 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
2373 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
2374 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
2375 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
2376 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
2377 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
2378 domain name lookups in this plugin.
2379 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
2380 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
2381 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
2382 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
2383 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
2384 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
2385 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
2386 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
2387 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
2388 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
2389 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
2390 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
2391 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
2392 Technology group for this plugin.
2394 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
2395 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2396 they are in non-standard paths.
2397 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2398 if the libc expects it.
2399 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2400 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2402 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2403 using a buffer of static size.
2404 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2406 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2407 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2409 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
2410 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2411 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2412 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2413 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2415 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
2416 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
2417 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2419 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
2420 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
2421 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
2422 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
2423 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2424 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2425 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2426 cross-platform compatibility.
2427 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2428 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
2429 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2430 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2432 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
2433 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
2434 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
2435 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
2436 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2438 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
2439 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
2440 of the libsensors library.
2442 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
2443 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
2444 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
2446 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
2447 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2450 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
2451 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
2452 enabled on the host.
2453 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2455 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
2456 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
2457 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
2458 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
2459 definitions separate from the host definitions.
2460 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
2461 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
2462 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
2463 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
2464 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
2465 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
2466 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
2467 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
2468 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
2469 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
2470 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
2471 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
2472 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
2473 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
2474 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
2475 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
2476 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
2477 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
2478 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
2479 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
2480 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
2482 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
2483 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
2484 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
2485 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
2486 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2488 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
2489 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
2491 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
2492 of the libsensors library.
2494 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
2495 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
2496 it's in a non-standard location.
2497 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
2498 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
2499 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
2500 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
2501 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
2502 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2504 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
2505 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
2507 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
2508 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
2510 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
2511 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
2512 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2513 noise quality as percentage.
2514 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
2515 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
2516 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
2517 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
2518 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
2519 support for the `timeticks' type.
2521 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
2522 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
2523 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
2524 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
2526 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
2527 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
2528 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
2530 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
2531 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
2532 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
2533 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
2535 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
2536 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
2537 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
2538 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
2540 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
2541 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
2542 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
2543 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
2544 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
2545 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
2546 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
2547 to not block data collection.
2548 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
2549 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
2550 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
2552 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
2553 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
2554 of music played with xmms.
2556 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
2557 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
2558 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2559 noise quality as percentage.
2560 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
2562 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
2563 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
2564 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
2565 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
2567 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
2568 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
2569 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
2570 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
2572 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
2573 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
2575 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
2576 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
2577 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
2578 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
2579 (i. e. without quotes).
2580 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
2581 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
2582 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2584 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
2585 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
2586 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
2587 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
2589 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
2590 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
2591 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
2594 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
2595 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
2597 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
2598 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2599 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
2600 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2601 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
2602 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2603 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
2605 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
2606 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
2607 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
2608 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
2609 initialized correctly.
2610 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
2612 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
2613 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
2614 they're given in numerically form.
2616 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
2617 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
2618 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
2621 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
2622 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
2623 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
2624 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
2625 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
2626 thread-safe functions from now on.
2627 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
2628 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
2629 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
2631 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
2632 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
2633 write to increase IO-performance.
2634 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
2635 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
2636 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
2637 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
2638 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
2640 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
2641 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
2642 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
2644 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
2645 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
2646 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
2647 or STDOUT or STDERR.
2648 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
2649 system's syslog daemon.
2650 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
2651 entropy currently being available to the system.
2652 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
2653 back values provided by the forked processes.
2654 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
2655 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
2657 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
2658 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
2659 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
2660 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
2661 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
2662 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
2663 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
2664 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
2665 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
2667 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
2668 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2669 noise quality as percentage.
2671 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
2672 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2674 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
2675 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
2676 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
2677 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
2678 were accounted as `zombies'.
2680 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
2681 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
2684 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
2685 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
2686 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
2688 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
2689 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
2690 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
2691 segfault with some libcs.
2693 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
2694 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
2695 under Solaris again.
2696 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
2698 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
2699 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
2701 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
2702 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
2703 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
2704 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
2705 write init.d-scripts for it.
2706 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
2707 caused problems every now and then.
2708 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
2709 filesystem types or devices.
2710 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
2711 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
2713 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
2714 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
2715 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
2716 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
2717 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
2718 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
2719 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
2720 segment size and pagefaults.
2721 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
2722 queries multimeters.
2723 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
2724 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
2725 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
2727 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
2728 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
2729 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
2730 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
2732 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
2733 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
2734 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
2735 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
2738 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
2739 * The sample config file has been improved.
2740 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
2741 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
2742 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
2743 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
2745 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
2746 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
2747 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
2749 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
2750 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
2752 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
2753 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
2754 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
2755 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
2757 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
2758 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
2759 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
2760 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
2761 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
2762 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
2763 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
2764 with a test environment :)
2765 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
2768 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
2769 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
2770 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
2772 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
2773 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
2774 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
2776 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
2777 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
2778 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
2780 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
2781 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
2783 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
2784 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
2785 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
2786 approximately 7.6 days.
2788 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
2789 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
2790 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
2791 approximately 7.6 days.
2793 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
2794 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
2796 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
2798 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
2800 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
2801 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
2802 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
2803 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
2804 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
2806 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
2807 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
2808 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
2809 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
2810 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
2811 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
2812 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
2813 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
2815 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
2816 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
2817 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
2818 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
2820 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
2821 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
2822 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
2824 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
2825 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
2826 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
2828 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
2829 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
2830 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
2833 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
2834 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
2835 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
2837 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
2838 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
2839 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
2840 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
2842 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
2843 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
2844 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
2846 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
2847 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
2849 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
2850 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
2852 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
2853 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
2855 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
2856 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
2858 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
2859 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
2860 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
2861 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
2862 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
2863 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
2864 address and/or port than localhost.
2865 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
2866 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
2867 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
2868 be set in the configfile.
2870 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
2871 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
2872 client mode. This released fixes this.
2874 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
2875 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
2876 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
2879 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
2880 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
2882 * A `df' plugin has been added.
2883 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
2884 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
2885 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
2887 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
2888 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
2889 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
2892 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
2893 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
2894 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
2896 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
2897 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
2898 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
2899 currently logged in users.
2900 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
2901 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
2902 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
2903 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
2905 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
2906 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
2907 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
2908 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
2909 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
2910 with the `-c' argument.
2911 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
2912 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
2913 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
2914 Barcellos for this patch.
2916 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
2917 * New modules have been added:
2918 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
2919 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
2920 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
2921 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
2923 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
2924 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
2926 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
2927 between polls up to one day.
2928 * The init.d files have been improved.
2929 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
2931 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
2932 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
2933 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
2935 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
2936 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
2937 multicast) has been added.
2938 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
2939 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
2940 to be linked against an external library.
2941 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
2942 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
2944 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
2945 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
2947 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
2948 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
2949 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
2950 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
2951 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
2952 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
2953 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
2954 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
2955 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
2958 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
2959 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
2961 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
2963 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
2964 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
2966 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
2967 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
2968 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
2969 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
2971 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
2972 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
2973 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
2975 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
2976 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
2977 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
2978 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
2979 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
2980 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
2981 statistics will not work.
2983 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
2984 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
2985 weird strings as disk-names..
2987 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
2988 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
2989 about the disks and partitions.
2991 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
2992 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
2993 and/or kernel versions.
2995 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
2996 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
2997 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
2999 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
3000 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
3001 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
3003 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
3004 * Collecting CPU statistics now
3006 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
3007 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
3009 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
3011 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
3012 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
3014 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
3015 * The following modules are provided:
projects / collectd.git / blob