-2009-02-15, Version 4.6.0
+2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
+ * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
+ Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
+ * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
+ improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
+ * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
+ tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
+ * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
+ Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
+ Konetzko for the patch.
+ * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
+ multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
+ * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
+ making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
+ * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
+ memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
+ Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
+ * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
+ has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
+ * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
+ added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
+ * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
+ Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
+ * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
+ * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
+ Quiédeville for the patch.
+ * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
+ has been added.
+ * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
+ about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
+ * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
+ plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
+ * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
+ structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
+ * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
+ from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
+ plugin.
+ * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
+ information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
+ * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
+ deviation of round-trip times has been added.
+ * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
+ uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
+
+2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
+ * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
+ OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
+ for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
+ Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
+ providing an OpenBSD system.
+ * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
+ * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
+ interval.
+ * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
+ * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
+ Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
+ * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
+ Tomasz Pala for the patch.
+ * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
+ the patch.
+ * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
+ is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
+ initialized, the daemon may crash.
+ * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
+
+2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
+ * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
+ * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
+ * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
+ added.
+ * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
+ name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
+ Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
+ * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
+ sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
+ is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
+ * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
+ primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
+ * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
+ * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
+ * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
+ is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
+ initialized, the daemon may crash.
+
+2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
+ * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
+ * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
+ * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
+ * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
+ for finding and fixing most of them.
+ * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
+ faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
+
+2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
* collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
* collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
* collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
- * libcollectdclient: A library which abstract communication with the
+ * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
* regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
expressions.
statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
* cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
- sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD).
+ sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
+ example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
+ Kuhnle for the patch.
* csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
* perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
have been added.
+ * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
+ * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
+ * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
+ allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
* postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
been added.
- * processes plugin: Stacksize of virtual memory usage statistics have
- been addded. Portability fixes.
+ * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
+ been added. Portability fixes.
* rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
features.
+ * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
+ added.
+
+2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
+ * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
+ not available.
+ * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
+ * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
+ * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
+ patch.
+ * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
+ faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
+ * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
+ code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
* build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
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