+2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
+ * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
+ * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
+ descriptor leak.
+ * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
+ * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
+
+2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
+ * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
+ * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianess of the
+ architecture collectd is being built on.
+ * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
+ of disks.
+ * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
+ through 19991005.
+ * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
+ cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
+ values under Solaris.
+ * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
+ * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
+ function.
+ * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
+ returned by some broken drivers.
+
+2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
+ * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
+ to kyrone for reporting this.
+ * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
+ threshold checking.
+ * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
+ daemon.
+ * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
+ initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
+ * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bounce array access. Thanks to
+ René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
+
+2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
+ * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
+ * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
+ exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
+ flush its values to disk.
+ * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
+ source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
+ for each data source.
+ * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
+ peer verification.
+ * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
+ page of an Ascent server.
+ * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
+ * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
+ specific disks has been added.
+ * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
+ * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
+ sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
+ interface.
+ * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
+ plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
+ provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
+ * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
+ authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
+ * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
+ configuration has been decreased.
+ * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
+ continuously reading from log files.
+ * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
+ TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
+ and number of channels.
+ * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
+ * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
+ about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
+
+2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
+ * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
+ library.
+ * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianess more
+ reliable.
+ * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
+ * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
+ again has been applied.
+ * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
+ descriptor leak.
+ * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
+ * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
+ under Solaris.
+ * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
+ * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
+ * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
+ added.
+
+2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
+ * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
+ they are in non-standard paths.
+ * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
+ if the libc expects it.
+ * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
+ * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
+ using them.
+ * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
+ using a buffer of static size.
+ * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
+ the program.
+ * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
+ * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
+
+2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
+ * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
+ `Persist' threshold options.
+ * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
+ * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
+ * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
+ * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
+ * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
+
+2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
+ * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
+ * network plugin:
+ + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
+ alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
+ + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
+ cross-platform compatibility.
+ * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
+ * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
+ * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
+
2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
* collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
Technology group for this plugin.
+2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
+ * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
+ they are in non-standard paths.
+ * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
+ if the libc expects it.
+ * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
+ * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
+ using them.
+ * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
+ using a buffer of static size.
+ * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
+ the program.
+ * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
+ * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
+
+2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
+ * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
+ * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
+ * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
+ * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
+
2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
* apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
* exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
the data into text files rather than RRD files.
2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
- * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
+ * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
* Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
- * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
+ * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
* The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think