X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=3c8128a8f9da52a5caecb8b949c6dfea9c6ecde0;hb=204cf4f8f68cadeac474a75584f27b7339aca4c4;hp=78cfff4e15a6a0efe69092653db5f04063efd0d7;hpb=d11c1f68458465f1c9dcfd0396704b7fba7d5804;p=collectd.git diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 78cfff4e..3c8128a8 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,111 @@ +2013-08-18, Version 5.4.0 + * collectd: The "LoadPlugin" config option no longer attempts to load + plugins twice. If more than one "LoadPlugin" statement or block is + encountered, only the first will have any effect. + * collectd: The "AutoLoadPlugin" option allows to automatically load + plugins for which a configuration is found. + * collectd: The "WriteQueueLimitHigh" and "WriteQueueLimitLow" options + allow collectd to drop values when under stress, to avoid running out + of memory. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patch. + * amqp plugin: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and + "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options have been added. Thanks to Laurent + for the patch. + * aquaero plugin: This new plugin reads various metrics, e.g. fan + speeds and temperatures, from Aquaero 5, a fan and water cooling + control panel. Thanks to Alex Deymo for his patch. + * curl plugin: The "MeasureResponseCode" option has been added. Thanks + to Jan Matějka for his patch. + * curl_json plugin: Support for UNIX domain sockets and array wildcards + has been added. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch. + * curl_xml plugin: Support for long URLs has been improved. + * cgroups plugin: This new plugin collects CPU accounting information + for processes in a cgroup. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for his patch. + * df plugin: The "ValuesAbsolute" and "ValuesPercentage" options have + been added. Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek for the patch. + * exec plugin: Do UID / GID lookups before forking. This should prevent + a race condition in the NSS library. Thanks to Ceri Storey for the + patch. + * lvm plugin: This new plugin collects size information from Linux' + Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Thanks to Chad Malfait for his work. + * memcached plugin: Support for increment and decrement counts has been + added. Thanks to Blake Matheny for the patch. + * mic plugin: This new plugin collects CPU and memory usage, power + consumption and temperatures of Intel's Many-Integrated-Core (MIC) + architecture, such as Xeon Phi cards. Thanks to Evan Felix for his + work. + * netlink plugin: This plugin has been converted to use the supported + "libmnl" library. Thanks to Andreas Henriksson for his patch. + * nginx plugin: Collection of accepted and handled connections has been + added. Thanks to Patrick Shan for his patch. + * sigrok plugin: This new plugin collects metrics from sigrok, a signal + processing framework reading various hardware devices, from light + meters to spectrum analyzers. Thanks to Bert Vermeulen for his patch. + * statsd plugin: This new plugin listens to a UDP socket and reads + metrics in the StatsD format. + * varnish plugin: Many additional metrics have been added. Thanks to + Nick Stenning for his patch. + * write_graphite plugin: Support for "UDP" has been added. Thanks to + Javier Maestro for his patch. + * write_riemann plugin: The "TTLFactor" option has been added. + * zfs_arc plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li + for his patch. + +2013-07-13, Version 5.3.1 + * Documentation: Various fixes. + * Configuration: Fix error handling: Errors in included files were + ignored, causing configuration mistakes to go unnoticed. + * dns plugin: Don't abort when PCAP returns an error. + * modbus plugin: The reconnection strategy was improved, fixing a + segfault in the libmodbud library. Thanks to Stefan Nickl and + Fabien Wernli for their patches. + * mysql plugin: The notification about a newly running MySQL slave + thread has been fixed. Thanks to Joaquín Cuenca Abela for the patch. + * snmp plugin: A build issue has been fixed (C99 mixed declaration). + The end-of-tree check has been improved by Pierre-Yves Ritschard. + * threshold plugin: Handling of the "Interesting" configuration option + has been fixed. Thanks to Björn for the patch. + * write_riemann plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Dave + Cottlehuber for reporting it. + +2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0 + * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include + only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his + patch. + * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This + improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act + as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for + reviewing this change and fixing bugs. + * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using + regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric + can now be set via the configuration file. + * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented. + * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers + has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch. + * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks + to Dan Fandrich for his patch. + * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The + "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch. + * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to + Greg Mason for his patch. + * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks + to Johan Wirén for his patch. + * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication / + compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his + patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work. + * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks + to Sebastian Harl for his patches. + * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been + implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created + asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances. + Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code. + * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV + files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for + his patch. + * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added. + * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to + Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to + Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work. + 2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.