-2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
+2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
+ * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
+ number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
+ Weiskircher for the patch.
+ * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
+ been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
+ * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
+ to Aman Gupta for the patch.
+ * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
+ added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
+ * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
+ “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
+ * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
+ mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
+ * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
+ Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
+ * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
+ been implemented.
+ * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
+ Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
+ * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
+ has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
+ * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
+ have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
+ * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
+ Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
+ * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
+ into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
+ language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
+ * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
+ wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
+ * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
+ interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
+ Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
+ * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
+ storage has been added.
+ * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
+ value has been added.
+
+2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
+ * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
+ fixed.
+ * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
+ * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
+ issues on some platforms.
+ * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
+ Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
+ * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
+ descriptor handling.
+2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
* collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
* tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
+ * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
+ used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
* write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
+2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
+ * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
+ fixed.
+ * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
+ * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
+ issues on some platforms.
+ * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
+ Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
+ * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
+ descriptor handling.
+
+2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
+ * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
+ code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
+ * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
+ This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
+ old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
+ Díaz for the patch.
+ * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
+ * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
+ to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
+ * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
+ possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
+ Hess for reporting this bug.
+ * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
+ Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
+ updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
+ is linked with the shipped library, too.
+ * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
+ forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
+ forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
+ during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
+ * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
+ to Alan Pevec for the patch.
+ * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
+ value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
+ gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
+ been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
+ * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
+ socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
+ incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
+ for his patches.
+
2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
* Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
bindings.
* uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
+2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
+ * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
+ This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
+ old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
+ Díaz for the patch.
+ * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
+ to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
+ * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
+ possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
+ Hess for reporting this bug.
+ * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
+ Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
+ updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
+ is linked with the shipped library, too.
+ * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
+ to Alan Pevec for the patch.
+ * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
+ socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
+ incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
+ for his patches.
+
2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
* collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
Díaz for fixing this bug.
2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
* Collecting CPU statistics now
-2004-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
+2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
* collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
and the like..
* The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
-2004-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
+2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
* Nothing really useful to say ;)
-2004-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
+2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
* The following modules are provided:
* Load average
* Ping time
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