X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=8112afac7b091938b676a75f11ad2ef51c55f989;hb=7cea19815ba24735e91dde1c08a889960b299b62;hp=c59e112e61e466a2f823635cc536a786473a3ae3;hpb=c7b0f0b0267f2ab7c84eea8306f0a516f5b8f769;p=collectd.git diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index c59e112e..8112afac 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,168 @@ +2014-01-26, Version 5.4.1 + * amqp plugin: Add support for RabbitMQ 0.4.x to avoid compiler + warnings. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for implementing this. + * apache / network plugins: Improved initialization order hopefully + resolved gcrypt initialization problems. + * aquaero plugin: The type used to submit fan utilization was fixed. + Thanks to Alex Deymo for the patch. + * cgroups plugin: A small memory leak was fixed. Checking the existence + of a mount option without a value was fixed. More permissive parsing + of the cpuacct.stats file fixes support for some versions of Linux. + Thanks to Marc Fournier for bug reports and patches. + * curl plugin: Fix blocks without an instance. Thanks to + Alexander Golovko for reporting and Sebastian Harl for fixing this. + * curl_json plugin: Potentially invalid memory access has been + sanitized. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch. + * interface plugin: Fix behavior under FreeBSD 10: Reporting of + per-address statistics caused duplicate updates to the same metric. + Thanks to demon / @trtrmitya for the patch. + * write_graphite plugin: Use TCP to connect to Graphite by default. The + default changed from TCP to UDP between 5.3.1 and 5.4.0, which is a + regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier for fixing this. Reconnect + behavior was improved. Thanks to Michael Hart for his patch. + * zfs_arc plugin: Collect "allocated" and "stolen" on FreeBSD only. + +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. + Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks + to Sebastian Harl for his patch. + * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup. + * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and + write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite + redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences + have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library. + Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches. + * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around + caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks + to Nathan Huff for the patch. + * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to + Tomas Doran for his patch. + * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched. + * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have + been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch. + * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed. + * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks + to Manuel Cissé for his patch. + * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed. + * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed. + * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback. + * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to + "jkrabbe" for the patch. + * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has + been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch. + * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g. + "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his + patch. + 2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches. @@ -75,6 +240,35 @@ * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch. +2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3 + * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and + libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch. + * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup. + * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and + write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite + redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences + have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library. + Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches. + * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around + caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks + to Nathan Huff for the patch. + * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to + Tomas Doran for his patch. + * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched. + * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have + been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch. + * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed. + * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks + to Manuel Cissé for his patch. + * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback. + * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to + "jkrabbe" for the patch. + * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has + been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch. + * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g. + "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his + patch. + 2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches. @@ -428,6 +622,27 @@ * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5 schema. +2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9 + * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and + libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch. + * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and + write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite + redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences + have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library. + Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches. + * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around + caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks + to Nathan Huff for the patch. + * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have + been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch. + * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to + Tomas Doran for his patch. + * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has + been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch. + * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g. + "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his + patch. + 2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove unwanted permission bits. @@ -1441,7 +1656,7 @@ 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 + * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianness 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. @@ -1506,7 +1721,7 @@ 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 + * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianness more reliable. * Various plugins: Fix format strings. * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names