X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=c50ae2a9dbf50e1137135417008a411d8a54b93b;hb=25c2a62280fcc4cd47875b719549c7eeb581392e;hp=0b7daea670143b7aec7c4958d1544ba3fb324b98;hpb=8be9c73cc216609a54a1b997aad8a3d646a0a43f;p=collectd.git diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 0b7daea6..c50ae2a9 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,239 @@ +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. + +2010-07-09, 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. + * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of + VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch. + * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources. + * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an + incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically + indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly + again. + * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field. + * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace. + * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building + debugging output. + +2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0 + * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the + number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik + Weiskircher for the patch. + * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has + been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch. + * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks + to Aman Gupta for the patch. + * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been + added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch. + * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and + “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application. + * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from + mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch. + * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers. + Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch. + * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has + been implemented. + * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”. + Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch. + * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics + has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch. + * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device" + have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. + * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to + Andrés J. Díaz for the patch. + * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter + into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting + language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work. + * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and + wireless registration statistics from RouterOS. + * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk, + interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to + Manuel Sanmartin for his patches. + * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant + storage has been added. + * 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 + incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically + indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly + again. + 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java headers, because it's a GNU extension.