X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=95a3e71e5156a84ee594503332b4afec0dd93e3f;hb=fadd1df67243af6d0d4f58b10b21755ee1f433d6;hp=74c5ccbacece0241fc0e6c5551638fe260b4fccd;hpb=7e504c50768c77d78003e1e27afe6f9f81a85b85;p=collectd.git diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 74c5ccba..95a3e71e 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,270 @@ +yyyy-mm-dd, Version 5.0.0 + * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default. + * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to + allow a higher accuracy than one second. + * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands + to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad + Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code. + * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as + critical). + * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic + compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to + stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general. + * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been + added to the collectd client library. + * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly + one data source has been changed to "value". + * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to + "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but + plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of + course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the + maximum value is unspecified. + * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data + from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code. + * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. + Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel + Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch. + * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added. + Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch. + * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to + the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4. + * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from + "dnstop". + * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. + * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to + "Connection" blocks. + * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been + removed. + * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface + value. + * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks + to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch. + * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization + 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. + * 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 + 1452 bytes. + * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. + * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. + * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key- + value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code. + * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory + statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical + memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches. + * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into + this separate plugin. + * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added. + * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from + Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc + Fournier for their contributions. + * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value + store. + * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant + alternatives. + * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5 + schema. + +2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2 + * Documentation: Various documentation fixes. + * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with + the rest of the configuration if possible. + * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases + read functions may not have been called as often as requested. + * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been + fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX. + Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch. + * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the + configurable timeout value. + * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data + sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to + Sebastian Harl for the patch. + * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading + JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed. + * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function. + Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel + for the patch. + * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order + to prevent spamming the logs. + * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed. + * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that + it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch. + * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating + RRD files. + * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been + fixed. + * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven + Trenkel for the patch. + +2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1 + * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed. + * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to + Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch. + * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has + been improved. + * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been + removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this. + * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has + been added. + * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a + struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this. + * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks + have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not + configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches. + * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been + increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been + fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks! + * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above + have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes. + +2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0 + * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames" + fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret + the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work. + * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a + "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking + code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the + patch. + * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers") + has been added. + * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain + lines from the match. + * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL + and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for + his work. + * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include + "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav + Malek for the patch. + * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the + severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for + his patch. + * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude + certain lines from the match. + * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from + Modbus-TCP enabled devices. + * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the + interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast + traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work. + * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers" + options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of + multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work. + * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the + Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and + webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work. + * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts + address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks + to Stefan Völkel for the patch. + * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The + plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to + Sebastian Harl for his work. + * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes + has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch. + * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to + Sven Trenkel for his work. + * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used + and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from + MikroTik devices has been added. + * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin + Scraba for his patch. + * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain + lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch. + * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to + Paul Sadauskas for his patch. + * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien + Ammous for his patch. + +2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4 + * Documentation: Various documentation fixes. + * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with + the rest of the configuration if possible. + * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases + read functions may not have been called as often as requested. + * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been + fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX. + Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch. + * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data + sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to + Sebastian Harl for the patch. + * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading + JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed. + * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function. + Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel + for the patch. + * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order + to prevent spamming the logs. + * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed. + * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that + it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch. + * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating + RRD files. + * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven + Trenkel for the patch. + +2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3 + * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed. + * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to + Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches. + * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has + been improved. + * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed. + * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been + removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this. + * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has + been added. + * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a + struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this. + * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks + have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not + configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches. + * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to + Thorsten von Eicken for the patch. + * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been + increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been + fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks! + * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above + have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes. + +2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2 + * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been + added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches. + * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has + been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for + figuring out a way to make this work. + * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR. + * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed. + Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error. + * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added; + the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg + for the patch. + * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one + file fails. + * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has + been fixed for Apache 2.*. + * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly. + Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug. + * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag + is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails. + * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a + warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for + the work-around. + * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file. + Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch. + * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with + an unknown data source type. + * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network + packets has been fixed. + * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status + files. + * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in + this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem. + * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been + fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out. + * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to + be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch. + 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes. * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins. @@ -52,6 +319,42 @@ * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary value has been added. +2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5 + * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR. + * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with + an unknown data source type. + +2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4 + * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been + added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches. + * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has + been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for + figuring out a way to make this work. + * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed. + Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error. + * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added; + the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg + for the patch. + * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one + file fails. + * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has + been fixed for Apache 2.*. + * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag + is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails. + * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a + warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for + the work-around. + * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file. + Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch. + * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network + packets has been fixed. + * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in + this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem. + * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been + fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out. + * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to + be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch. + 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes. * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an