-yyyy-mm-dd, Version 4.2.0
+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.
+ * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
+ means that you can configure threshold values for each data
+ instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
+ created.
+ * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
+ full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
+ es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
+ * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
+ This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
+ wants to add custom type definitions.
+ * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
+ entire directories and shell wildcards.
+ * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
+ terminates and automatically restarts it again.
+ * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
+ rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
+ * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
+ ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
+ * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
+ disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
+ * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
+ * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
+ domain name lookups in this plugin.
+ * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
+ threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
+ been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
+ Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
+ pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
+ * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
+ identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
+ may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
+ more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
+ Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
+ * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
+ CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
+ 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.
+ * network plugin:
+ + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
+ and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
+ problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
+ overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
+ + 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.
+ * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
+ * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
+ * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
+
+2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
+ * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
+ the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
+ Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
+ * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
+
+2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
+ * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
+ of the libsensors library.
+
+2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
+ * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
+ when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
+ this.
+ * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
+ incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
+ for fixing this.
+
+2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
+ * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
+ enabled on the host.
+ * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
+
+2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
* collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
definitions separate from the host definitions.
+ * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
+ (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
+ destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
+ * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
+ daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
+ system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
+ * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
+ nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
* perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
- * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
- certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
- to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
- many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
+ * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
+ be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
* snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
- option allows to add arbitary prefixes to the type-instance.
- * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
- (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
- destination).
- * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
- be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
- * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
- daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
- system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
+ option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
+ * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
+ certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
+ to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
+ many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
+
+2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
+ * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
+ the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
+ Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
+ * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
+
+2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
+ * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
+ memory situations.
+ * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
+ of the libsensors library.
+
+2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
+ * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
+ it's in a non-standard location.
+ * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
+ `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
+ * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
+ * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
+ a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
+ * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
* collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
projects / collectd.git / blobdiff