X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=84e25b83f3e1a19b69d223f980703a288aca99cf;hb=7f3cfaf93d1dec3eece0be995b10202f7f61bb50;hp=c59e112e61e466a2f823635cc536a786473a3ae3;hpb=9706a2064c099666f24ba2fa8576629fc97310cd;p=collectd.git diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index c59e112e..84e25b83 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,347 @@ +2015-02-26, Version 5.4.2 + * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford, + KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc + Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326, + #373, #653, #828 + * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()" + function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs. + * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc + Fournier and @NsLib. + * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c. Thanks to + Wilfried Goesgens. + * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the + "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster. + * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write + failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. + * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed. + Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo. + * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and + Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam. + * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain + targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. + * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has + been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907 + * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc + Fournier. + * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and + "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented. + Thanks to Marc Fournier. + * Documentation: Documentation of the "AutoLoadPlugin" option has been + improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #715 + * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects + has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535 + * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed. + Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22 + * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML and Write HTTP plugins: Call + "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to + Jeremy Katz. + * cURL and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average, + minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start + of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to + Florian Forster. #663 + * curl-json: A bug, which triggered when two URLs with a long common + prefix were configured, was fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #582 + * dbi: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been restored. + Thanks to Florian Forster. #950 + * Exec, UnixSock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the + "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477 + * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been + fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114 + * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's + representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín + Rozada. + * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths. + Thanks to Florian Forster. + * LogFile and SysLog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a + misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. + * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added. + Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632 + * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been + improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627 + * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian + Forster. #716 + * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to + Yoga Ramalingam. + * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a + double. Thanks to Justin Burnham. + * RRDtool and RRDCacheD plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files + has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661 + * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves + Ritschard. #610, #804 + * statsd: Support for samplerates in timer metrics was added. Thanks + to John Leach. #461 + * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks + to Florian Forster. #733 + * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been + added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. + * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben + Kerkhof. + * lvm: An issue with Volume Groups (VGs) without Logical Volumes (LVs) + has been fixed. Thanks to Jan Kundrát. + * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks + to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. + * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc + Fournier. #821 + * write_redis: A formatting bug, which resulted in totally unusable + numbers being transmitted to Redis, was fixed. Thanks to Marc + Fournier. + * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to + John-John Tedro. + +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. + +2015-02-26, Version 5.3.2 + * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford, + KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc + Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326, + #373, #653, #828 + * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()" + function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs. + * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc + Fournier and @NsLib. + * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c Thanks to + Wilfried Goesgens. + * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the + "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster. + * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write + failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. + * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed. + Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo. + * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and + Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam. + * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain + targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. + * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has + been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907 + * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc + Fournier. + * Documentation: The synopsis of the threshold has been fixed. Thanks + to Fabien Wernli. + * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and + "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented. + Thanks to Marc Fournier. + * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects + has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535 + * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed. + Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22 + * csv: A regression which would lead to the "DataDir" option to be + ignored has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada. + * curl, curl-json, curl-xml and write_http plugins: Call + "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to + Jeremy Katz. + * curl and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average, + minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start + of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to + Florian Forster. #663 + * dbi plugin: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been + restored. Thanks to Florian Forster. #950 + * exec, unixsock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the + "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477 + * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's + representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín + Rozada. + * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been + fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114 + * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths. + Thanks to Florian Forster. + * logfile and syslog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a + misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. + * memcached: Connecting to a UNIX socket has been fixed. Thanks to Jim + Radford. + * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added. + Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632 + * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been + improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627 + * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian + Forster. #716 + * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to + Yoga Ramalingam. + * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a + double. Thanks to Justin Burnham. + * replace and set targets: Fix error message. Thanks to Marc Fournier. + #448 + * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: Honor the "DataDir" config option; + this fixes a regression. Thanks to Florian Forster. #380 + * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files + has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661 + * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves + Ritschard. #610, #804 + * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks + to Florian Forster. #733 + * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been + added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. + * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben + Kerkhof. + * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks + to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. + * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc + Fournier. #821 + * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to + John-John Tedro. + +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 +419,35 @@ * 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 +801,27 @@ * 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.