-yyyy-mm-dd, Version 4.3.0
+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.
+
+2008-04-22, 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
* 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 a special
- executable type for Nagios plugins has been implemented. Also, the
+ * 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.
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
* collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
- * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occured in very-low-
+ * 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.