X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=b0a997c53ac1a74bc39470bdd243f853fa095c9f;hb=09147a2c9dde2e04e660409e7a5ac0eb09604b07;hp=fb555602e9998dc0e28c25b322f99603c0218bb8;hpb=ba2ee9aec4c0454eed8f29b4c6ce96c6fc372346;p=collectd.git diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index fb555602..b0a997c5 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,1015 @@ +2015-05-27, Version 5.5.0 + * Build system: Ability to make out-of-tree builds has been fixed. + Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #792 + * Build system, Disk and Users plugins: Detection and use of libstatgrab + ≧ 0.90 has been added. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #445, #795, #806, + #807, #908 + * Build system, Memory, CPU, TCPConns and Processes plugins: Numerous + fixes related to OpenBSD support have been added. Thanks to Landry + Breuil. #777, #778, #779, #808 + * Build system: Plugins now only export "module_register()". Thanks to + Florian Forster. + * Build system: Various cleanups and improvements have been done. Thanks + to Marc Fournier. + * collectd: Numerous internal changes and improvements to the daemon and + the plugin API have been make. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves + Ritschard and Alex Petrov. #512, #727 + * collectd: Numerous spelling mistakes have been corrected in comments + and documentation and several error messages have been improved. + Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Abhinav Upadhyay, Olivier Bazoud, Pierre-Yves + Ritschard, Tim Smith, Moshe Zada, Katelyn Perry and Marc Fournier. + * collectd: Rules/Targets can now be appended to existing Filter Chains. + Thanks to Marc Falzon. #444 + * collectd: Failing Filter Chains destinations will now log the list of + available write targets. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #650, #1043 + * collectd: Support for process signaling and management by upstart and + systemd has been implemented for the Linux platform. Thanks to + Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. #798, #811, #814 + * collectd: The "CollectInternalStats" option has been added. Thanks to + Yves Mettier. #691 + * collectd: The daemon source code and dependencies have moved to the + "src/daemon/" directory. Thanks to Florian Forster. + * collectd: The new "MaxReadInterval" option allows to cap the + exponential retry interval of plugins read errors. Thanks to Alexey + Remizov and Florian Forster. #713 + * collectd: The "-P" command-line option now has precedence over the + "PIDFile" option. Thanks to Thomas D. #553 + * collection.cgi: Various data-source related adjustments have been + made. Thanks to Fabiano Pires and Sebastian Harl. + * libcollectdclient: Now propagates errors when signing / encrypting + network packets. Thanks to Florian Forster. + * Configuration: Support for unquoted IPv6 addresses has been added. + Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #489 + * Documentation: Various improvements have been done. Thanks to Florian + Forster and Marc Fournier. + * Examples: the sample C plugin has been updated to the current plugin + API. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. + * Licensing: The following components have been relicensed to the MIT + license: the Apple Sensors, Ascent, DBI, E-Mail, Entropy, GenericJMX, + gmond, LogFile, nginx, Notify Desktop, NTPd, NUT, olsrd, Perl, Ping, + PostgreSQL, Protocols, RouterOS, RRDCacheD, SNMP, StatsD, SysLog, + Table, Tail, UnixSock, vmem, VServer, Wireless, Write Riemann and XMMS + plugins, the core collectd daemon, the collectdmon, collectd-nagios + and collectd-tg utilities, all the Targets and Matches, liboconfig, + most of the "utils_*" files and the plugin API. + * Tests: A test suite has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. + * Threshold: The hysteresis calculation has been made more reliable. + Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #581 + * Threshold: Various fixes and improvements have been made. Thanks to + Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #649, #644 + * AMQP plugin: The "ConnectionRetryDelay" option has been added, + allowing to delay reconnection. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam and Marc + Fournier. #833 + * AMQP plugin: The "QueueDurable" and "QueueAutoDelete" options have + been added, giving control over queue creation and deletion. Thanks to + David Blundell and Marc Fournier. #623 + * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx and Write HTTP + plugins: Customizing the "User-Agent" field is now possible at + compile-time. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #440 + * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx plugins: The + connection will be reset if it hasn't completed within the configured + "Interval". The new "Timeout" option gives control over this behavior. + Thanks to Jan Kundrát and Marc Fournier. #982, #983, #993 + * Apache, Ascent, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP plugins: + Allow usernames and passwords to contain colons if built against + libcurl ≧ 7.19.1. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #695, #947 + * Apache plugin: The "SSLCiphers" option gives control over the + encryption algorithms to use with TLS connections. Thanks to Toni + Moreno. #946 + * Barometer plugin: This new plugin reads sensor data from various + Freescale and Bosch digital barometers. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #69, + #693 + * Battery plugin: Reporting values as percentages and reporting degraded + batteries has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. + * Battery plugin: Support for reading values from sysfs on Linux has + been added. Thanks to Andy Parkins, Nicholas Humfrey, Peter Wu and + Florian Forster. #725, #810, #998 + * Battery plugin: The value for current is no longer supplied unless the + battery provides this information. Thanks to Florian Forster. + * BIND plugin: Bind's XML v3 API is now supported; Thanks to Victor + Berger, Bruno Prémont and Michal Humpula. #742, #847 + * Ceph plugin: This new plugin collects statistics from the Ceph + distributed storage system. Thanks to Dan Ryder, Dennis Zou, Colin + McCabe, Sage Weil. #522, #598 + * ConnTrack plugin: Support for reporting values as percentages as well + as legacy conntrack files in "/proc" has been added. Thanks to + Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #497, #680 + * CPU plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages and + aggregate values per-state and per-CPU. Thanks to Pierre-Yves + Ritschard, Florian Forster, Fabien Wernli, Nicholas Humfrey and + Wilfried Goesgens. #499, #516, #639 #734, #812, #802 + * cURL-JSON plugin: Extracting values from complex JSON structures has + been enhanced. Thanks to Jim Radford. #408, #411 + * cURL-JSON plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-URL basis. + Thanks to Stan Sawa. #685 + * cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, Write HTTP plugins: These plugins now also follow + HTTP redirects. Thanks to Marc Fournier. + * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: HTTP Digest authentication has been + implemented. Thanks to Frank Cornelis. #482 + * DBI, Oracle, PostgreSQL plugins: A "MetadataFrom" parameter has been + added which allows to set metadata from database columns. Thanks to + Mark Wong. #317, #321 + * DBI plugin: Querying several databases in parallel is now possible. + Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #453 + * Disk plugin: On the Linux platform, disk names can now get looked up + in udev with the "UdevNameAttr" option. Thanks to Patrick Mooney. #537 + * Disk plugin: This plugin now collects several additional I/O-related + metrics on the Linux platform. Thanks to Florian Forster and Michael + Schenck. #705, #759 + * DRBD plugin: This new plugin reads Linux's Distributed Replicated + Block Device (DRBD) statistics. Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #566, #700 + * Exec, UnixSock plugins: The "PUTNOTIF" command now allows to set + metadata on notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #416 + * fhcount plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used file + handles. Thanks to Jiri Tyr. #1009 + * GenericJMX plugin: A Class Loader for "JMXConnectorFactory" has been + added, allowing the plugin to work with JBOSS > 7. Thanks to Alexandre + Moutot. #452 + * IPC plugin: This new plugin collects information related to shared + memory. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz. #925 + * Java plugin: Now uses the hostname defined in the configuration file. + Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #530, #681 + * Load plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages. + Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #344, #498 + * Log Logstash plugin: This new plugin writes collectd logs and events + as Logstash JSON formatted events. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. + #360 + * LVM plugin: The plugin collects thin pool data volumes size, and no + longer reports virtual volumes. Thanks to Benjamin Gilbert. #603 + * memcached plugin: "listen_disabled_num" are now also reported. Thanks + to Matt Cottingham. #622 + * Memory plugin: Slab memory reporting on the Linux platform has been + added. Thanks to Manuel CISSÉ and Marc Fournier. #560, #697 + * Memory plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages. + Thanks to Jeremy Katz, Florian Forster and Manuel CISSÉ. #501, #511, + #559 + * Modbus plugin: Selecting between holding and input registers is now + possible. Thanks to Jan Vitek. #338 + * Modbus plugin: Support for accessing devices through an RS-485 serial + port has been added. Thanks to Eric Sandeen. + * Multimeter plugin: This plugin isn't built by default on the AIX + platform anymore. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada. #549, #684 + * MySQL and PostgreSQL plugins: Passing "127.0.0.1" as a host will now + result in the global Hostname being used in metric names. Thanks to + Jeremy Katz. #441 + * MySQL plugin: InnoDB, Select and Sort statistics collection has been + added. Thanks to Wilson Felipe, Marek Becka and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. + #248, #621, #699, #824 + * MySQL plugin: The "Alias" and "ConnectTimeout" options have been + added. Thanks to William Tisäter. + * Netlink plugin: Support for 64bit netlink counters has been added. + Thanks to Marek Becka. #435 + * Network plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" configuration option has been + added. Thanks to John Ferlito. #732 + * NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4.0 has been implemented. Thanks to Marek + Becka. #550 + * OneWire plugin: Support for more temperature-providing sensor families + has been added. Thanks to Tomasz Torcz. #672 + * OneWire plugin: Support for full OWFS path and more device families + has been implemented. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #68 + * OpenLDAP plugin: This new plugin reads monitoring information from + OpenLDAP's "cn=Monitor" subtree. Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum, Marc + Fournier and Nicholas Humfrey. #719 + * OpenVPN plugin: Support for OpenVPN 2.3.0 has been implemented. Thanks + to Ed Okerson. #252 + * OpenVZ plugin: Various improvements have been made, making the plugin + report values like the other collectd plugins do. Thanks to Chris + Lundquist. #264 + * Perl plugin: A new "listval_filter" method has been added, various + internal cleanups and improvements have been made and a test suite has + been added. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #728 + * PostgreSQL plugin: The new "ExpireDelay" option allows skipping older + values pending write when the database slows down. Thanks to Stephen + O'Dor. #593 + * PowerDNS plugin: The plugin was updated for stats from pdns 3.4.3. + Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #965 + * Processes plugin: A memory-usage related optimization for low-profile + systems has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #652 + * Python plugin: Support for Python3 has been improved, "ModulePath" is + now prepended to "sys.path", and the "get_dataset()" function has been + added to the Python API. Thanks to Sven Trenkel and Patrick Browne. + #890, #751, #771 + * Redis and Write_Redis plugins: The support library has been switched + from credis to hiredis. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz, Victor Seva, Marc + Fournier, Johan Bergström, Michael Spiegle and brianpkelly. #296, + #464, #475, #799, #1030 + * Redis plugin: Custom commands can now be used to fetch values stored + in Redis. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #816 + * Redis plugin: Support for passwords up to 512 characters long has been + added. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #532 + * Sensors plugin: Support for lm_sensors' power sensors has been added. + Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #571 + * SMART plugin: This new plugin collects SMART statistics from disk + drives. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #797 + * SNMP plugin: A blacklist/whitelist feature can now be used to filter + which OIDs to collect. Thanks to Christophe Courtaut. #414 + * SNMP plugin: SNMPv3 authentication and encryption support has been + implemented. Thanks to Michael Pilat. #362 + * SNMP plugin: Two error messages have been disambiguated. Thanks to + Sergey. #939, #952 + * Swap plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages. + Thanks to Jeremy Katz and Florian Forster. #500, #510 + * Swap plugin: The plugin no longer fails on Linux systems where + "SwapCached" isn't exposed by the kernel. Thanks to Florian Forster. + #733 + * Tail plugin: "GaugeInc" and "GaugeAdd" options have been implemented. + Thanks to Andre Ferraz. #673 + * Tail plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-File basis. + Thanks to Tom Leaman. #446 + * TCPConns plugin: The "AllPortsSummary" option, allowing to summarize + all connections, has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #488 + * TCPConns plugin: Three metrics were renamed on the AIX platform, for + the sake of consistency. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #546 + * Turbostat plugin: This new plugin reads CPU frequency and C-state + residency on modern Intel turbo-capable processors. Thanks to Vincent + Brillault, Jean Delvare and Nicolas Iooss. #651 + * UnixSock plugin: The "GETTHRESHOLD" command has been re-added. Thanks + to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #674 + * Varnish plugin: Varnish 4 support has been added, as well as as + monitoring metrics only available in Varnish 4. Thanks to Marc + Fournier. #618, #783 + * virt plugin: Guests memory usage is now also collected. Thanks to + Tiago Carvalho, jazzmes and Zollner Robert. + * virt plugin: It is now possible to chose between using guests' name or + UUID as plugin_instance. Thanks to Remi Ferrand. #385 + * virt plugin: The libvirt plugin has been renamed to virt. Thanks to + Florian Forster. + * Write Graphite plugin: When the connection to graphite fails, + reconnection attempts are now limited to once per second. Thanks to + Florian Forster. #625 + * Write HTTP plugin: Multi-instance support of this plugin has been + improved. The "" block has been deprecated in favor of + "". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #902 + * Write HTTP plugin: Several TLS-related configuration options have been + added. Thanks to Ingmar Runge. #666 + * Write HTTP plugin: The "LowSpeedLimit" and "Timeout" options allow to + reset slow/stalled network connections. Thanks to loginator17 and Marc + Fournier. #752, #985 + * Write HTTP plugin: The size of the payload posted to the HTTP server + can now be controlled with the "BufferSize" option. Thanks to Florian + Forster. #722 + * Write Kafka plugin: This new plugin sends data to Apache Kafka, a + distributed messaging queue. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard, + ciomaire, Vincent Bernat, Marc Fournier. #670, #694, #794, #853, #014 + * Write Log plugin: This new plugin dispatches collected values to the + configured log destination(s). Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #886 + * Write Riemann plugin: Extra meta strings are now added as attributes + in notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #417 + * Write Riemann plugin: Notification message are now sent to the Riemann + server via the description field. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #575 + * Write Riemann plugin: Support for custom attributes has been added. + Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #459 + * Write Riemann plugin: Support had been implemented for sending events + to Riemann in batches (when using TCP), and is enabled by default. + Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #800 + * Write Riemann plugin: The "EventServicePrefix" option has been added, + which adds a prefix to event service names. Thanks to Moshe Zada. #706 + * Write Riemann plugin: Threshold checks can now be passed down to the + Riemann server. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #518 + * Write Sensu plugin: This new plugin submits values to Sensu, a stream + processing and monitoring system. Thanks to Fabrice A. Marie and Marc + Fournier. #912, #1001, #1016 + * Write TSDB plugin: This new plugin sends data to OpenTSDB, a scalable + time series database. Thanks to Kevin Bowling, Florian Forster, Dallin + Young, Michael Schenck and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #703, #772, #945 + * ZFS ARC plugin: Support for ZFS-on-Linux has been added. Thanks to + Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. #552 + * Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache Zookeeper + "MNTR" command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826 + +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. + * 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. + A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was + configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these + problems. + * 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 plugin: 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. + +2013-04-08, 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. + * 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. + * 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. + * 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. + +2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4 + * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang + for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables + plugin under Gentoo. + * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has + been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this + issue. + * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed. + * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7. + * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis + Opter for his patch. + * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was + truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the + patch. + * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This + was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an + endless loop. + * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been + added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his + patch. + * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and + write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this + bug. + * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has + been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and + then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value. + * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD + runtime has been fixed. + +2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3 + * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables + plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the + version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for + his patch. + * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the + DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to + Jonathan Nieder for his patch. + * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file + handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch. + * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the + "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie + Roos for his patch. + * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has + been fixed. + * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been + fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch. + * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus" + interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such + as bonding pseudo-devices as well. + +2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2 + * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't + follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch! + * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can + occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius + for his patch. + * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These + pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch + to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for + high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for + their patches. + * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks + to Fabien Wernli for his patch. + * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin + and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such + as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could + have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name. + Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem. + * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling. + * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel + for fixing this bug! + +2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1 + * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks + to Rafal Lesniak for his patch. + * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks + to Peter Green for his patch. + * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin + McCabe for the patch. + * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type + instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been + added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial + code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module. + * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts. + Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this. + * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc. + * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code + assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer + true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this. + * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been + added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch. + * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing + spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this. + * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter. + Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks + to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this. + * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values + were submitted as gauge even though they were derives. + * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike + Flisher for the fix. + 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default. * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to @@ -43,7 +1055,7 @@ 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 @@ -68,6 +1080,166 @@ * 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. + * 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. + * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior. + * 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. + * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed. + Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue. + * 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. + * 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. + +2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7 + * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang + for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables + plugin under Gentoo. + * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has + been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this + issue. + * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed. + * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7. + * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis + Opter for his patch. + * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was + truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the + patch. + * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This + was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an + endless loop. + * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been + added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his + patch. + * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and + write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this + bug. + * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has + been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and + then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value. + * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD + runtime has been fixed. + +2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6 + * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables + plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the + version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for + his patch. + * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the + DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to + Jonathan Nieder for his patch. + * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file + handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch. + * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the + "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie + Roos for his patch. + * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has + been fixed. + * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been + fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch. + * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus" + interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such + as bonding pseudo-devices as well. + +2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5 + * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't + follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch! + * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can + occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius + for his patch. + * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These + pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch + to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for + high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for + their patches. + * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks + to Fabien Wernli for his patch. + * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin + and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such + as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could + have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name. + Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem. + * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling. + * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel + for fixing this bug! + +2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4 + * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks + to Rafal Lesniak for his patch. + * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks + to Peter Green for his patch. + * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin + McCabe for the patch. + * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type + instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been + added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial + code. + * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc. + * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code + assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer + true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this. + * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been + added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch. + * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing + spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this. + * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter. + Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks + to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this. + * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike + Flisher for the fix. + 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to @@ -942,7 +2114,7 @@ 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. @@ -1007,7 +2179,7 @@ 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