X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=0ae8eb160c0d213a646f69585077fb0ab7e17622;hb=26ff771b2487cd8e0492f383ecc9b7bf531b3e25;hp=b412807f437ee84e6c2ccc15a658f096c5977eb8;hpb=494386dffbab10af47c08846e6e3fec2b2ae5107;p=collectd.git diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index b412807f..0ae8eb16 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,208 @@ +2013-01-27, Version 5.1.2 + * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris + and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches. + * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages + more frequently than intended. + * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added. + * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to + Ed Schouten for his patch. + * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used + character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault. + * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to + Ed Schouten for his patch. + * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed. + Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing this problem. + * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves + Ritschard for his patch. + * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name. + * write_graphite: A regression which rendered the "SeparateInstances" + and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been fixed. A failed + assertion when using types with many data sources has been fixed. + Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam log files too + much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting the logging + problem. + * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves + Mettier for reporting this bug. + +2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0 + * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved. + Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch. + * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a + per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for + his work. + * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real + looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new + plugin, for example. + * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets + in the binary format has been added. + * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple + value lists into one. + * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON + output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch. + * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to + Thomas Meson for the patch. + * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to + Manuel Rozada for his patch. + * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the + Mac OS X version. + * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't + configured. + * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks + to "Davide Guerri" for the patch. + * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added. + Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch. + * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The + behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to + Johan Kiviniemi for the patches. + * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added. + * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's + packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes + for their work. + * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added. + Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added. + Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches. + * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to + Cosmin Ioiart for the patch. + * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added. + Thanks to biancalana for the patch. + * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan", + "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added. + * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX + version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out + "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch. + * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc + for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch. + +2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2 + * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves + Mettier for his patches. + * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages + more frequently than intended. + * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to + Ed Schouten for his patch. + * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used + character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault. + * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to + Ed Schouten for his patch. + * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name. + * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam + log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting + this problem. + * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves + Mettier for reporting this bug. + +2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1 + * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove + unwanted permission bits. + * collectd: Build issues have been fixed. + * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code + for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures + under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this. + * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes + have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these. + * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources. + Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem. + * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion + correctly. + * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior. + * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to + Fabien Wernli for fixing this. + * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them + reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this. + * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the + "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small + by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10 + seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel + Sanmartin for reporting this problem. + * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous + define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by + Daniel Sutto. + * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of + uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for + reporting these problems. + * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed. + Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue. + * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks + to Sebastian Harl for fixing this. + * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication + errors. + * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been + changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to + "KIvosak" for the patch. + * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to + Chris Lundquist for his patch. + * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved. + * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when + ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure + much faster. + * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert + and Sven Trenkel for fixing this. + * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to + "biancalana" for the fix. + * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a + warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug. + * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been + added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been + added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these + problems. + * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been + fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch. + * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and + later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch. + +2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0 + * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has + been removed. + * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using + "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches. + * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use + the system time rather than the time reported by BIND. + * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been + added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch. + * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics + directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch. + * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in + addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves + Ritschard for his patch. + * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default + ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g. + regex matching. + * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various + states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann + for his patch. + * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been + added. + * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin + Ioiart for his patch. + * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the + Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux. + * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation. + Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch. + * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been + added. + * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to + Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch. + * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added. + * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added. + Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch. + * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel + Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch. + * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to + Aaron Brady for his patch. + * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to + Jérôme Renard for his patches. + * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value + lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch + and Chris Lundquist for their work. + * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value + lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series + database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their + work. + * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to + Aurelien Rougemont for his patches. + * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been + added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch. + 2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove unwanted permission bits. @@ -196,7 +401,7 @@ technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and patience. * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the - license has been changes to LGPLv2.1. + license has been changed to LGPLv2.1. * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The data sets used have been improved. * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to