1 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
2 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
3 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
4 the rest of the configuration if possible.
5 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
6 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
7 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
8 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
9 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
10 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
11 configurable timeout value.
12 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
13 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
14 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
15 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
16 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
17 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
18 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
20 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
21 to prevent spamming the logs.
22 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
23 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
24 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
25 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
26 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
28 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
29 Trenkel for the patch.
31 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
32 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
33 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
34 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
35 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
37 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
38 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
39 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
41 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
42 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
43 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
44 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
45 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
46 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
47 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
48 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
49 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
50 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
52 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
53 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
54 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
55 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
56 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
57 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
58 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
60 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
62 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
64 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
65 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
67 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
68 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
70 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
71 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
73 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
74 certain lines from the match.
75 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
76 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
77 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
78 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
79 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
80 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
81 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
82 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
83 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
84 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
85 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
86 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
87 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
88 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
89 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
90 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
91 Sebastian Harl for his work.
92 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
93 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
94 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
95 Sven Trenkel for his work.
96 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
97 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
98 MikroTik devices has been added.
99 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
100 Scraba for his patch.
101 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
102 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
103 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
104 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
105 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
106 Ammous for his patch.
108 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
109 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
110 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
111 the rest of the configuration if possible.
112 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
113 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
114 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
115 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
116 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
117 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
118 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
119 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
120 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
121 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
122 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
123 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
125 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
126 to prevent spamming the logs.
127 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
128 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
129 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
130 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
132 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
133 Trenkel for the patch.
135 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
136 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
137 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
138 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
139 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
141 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
142 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
143 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
144 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
146 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
147 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
148 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
149 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
150 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
151 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
152 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
153 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
154 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
155 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
156 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
157 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
159 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
160 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
161 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
162 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
163 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
164 figuring out a way to make this work.
165 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
166 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
167 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
168 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
169 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
171 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
173 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
174 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
175 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
176 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
177 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
178 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
179 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
180 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
182 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
183 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
184 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
185 an unknown data source type.
186 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
187 packets has been fixed.
188 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
190 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
191 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
192 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
193 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
194 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
195 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
197 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
198 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
199 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
200 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
201 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
202 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
203 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
204 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
205 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
207 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
208 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
209 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
212 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
213 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
214 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
215 Weiskircher for the patch.
216 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
217 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
218 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
219 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
220 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
221 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
222 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
223 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
224 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
225 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
226 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
227 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
228 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
230 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
231 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
232 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
233 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
234 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
235 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
236 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
237 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
238 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
239 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
240 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
241 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
242 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
243 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
244 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
245 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
246 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
247 storage has been added.
248 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
249 value has been added.
251 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
252 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
253 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
254 an unknown data source type.
256 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
257 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
258 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
259 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
260 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
261 figuring out a way to make this work.
262 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
263 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
264 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
265 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
267 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
269 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
270 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
271 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
272 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
273 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
274 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
276 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
277 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
278 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
279 packets has been fixed.
280 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
281 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
282 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
283 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
284 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
285 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
287 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
288 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
289 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
290 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
291 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
294 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
295 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
296 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
297 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
298 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
299 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
301 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
302 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
303 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
304 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
305 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
306 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
308 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
309 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
310 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
311 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
313 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
314 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
316 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
317 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
318 issues on some platforms.
319 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
320 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
321 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
324 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
325 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
326 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
327 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
328 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
329 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
331 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
332 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
333 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
334 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
335 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
336 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
337 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
338 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
339 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
340 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
341 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
343 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
344 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
345 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
346 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
347 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
348 Aman Gupta for the patch.
349 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
350 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
351 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
352 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
353 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
355 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
356 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
358 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
359 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
360 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
361 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
362 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
363 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
364 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
365 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
366 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
367 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
368 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
369 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
370 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
371 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
373 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
374 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
375 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
376 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
377 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
378 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
380 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
381 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
382 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
383 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
385 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
386 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
387 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
388 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
390 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
391 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
393 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
394 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
395 issues on some platforms.
396 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
397 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
398 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
401 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
402 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
403 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
404 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
405 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
406 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
408 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
409 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
410 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
411 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
412 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
413 Hess for reporting this bug.
414 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
415 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
416 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
417 is linked with the shipped library, too.
418 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
419 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
420 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
421 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
422 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
423 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
424 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
425 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
426 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
427 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
428 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
429 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
430 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
433 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
434 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
436 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
437 Díaz for fixing this bug.
438 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
439 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
440 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
441 for reporting the bug.
442 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
444 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
445 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
446 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
447 libtool 2.2 has been added.
448 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
449 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
450 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
451 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
452 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
454 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
455 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
456 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
457 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
458 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
460 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
461 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
463 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
464 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
465 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
466 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
467 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
468 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
469 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
470 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
471 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
472 Konetzko for the patch.
473 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
474 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
475 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
476 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
477 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
478 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
479 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
480 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
481 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
482 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
483 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
484 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
485 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
486 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
487 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
488 Quiédeville for the patch.
489 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
491 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
492 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
493 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
494 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
495 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
496 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
497 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
498 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
500 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
501 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
502 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
503 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
504 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
505 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
507 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
508 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
509 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
510 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
512 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
513 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
514 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
515 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
516 Hess for reporting this bug.
517 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
518 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
519 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
520 is linked with the shipped library, too.
521 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
522 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
523 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
524 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
525 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
528 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
529 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
530 Díaz for fixing this bug.
531 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
532 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
533 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
534 for reporting the bug.
536 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
537 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
538 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
539 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
540 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
541 providing an OpenBSD system.
542 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
543 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
544 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
545 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
546 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
548 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
550 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
551 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
552 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
553 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
554 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
556 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
557 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
558 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
560 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
561 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
562 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
563 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
565 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
566 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
567 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
568 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
569 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
570 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
571 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
572 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
573 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
574 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
575 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
576 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
577 initialized, the daemon may crash.
579 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
580 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
581 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
582 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
583 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
584 for finding and fixing most of them.
585 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
586 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
588 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
589 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
590 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
591 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
592 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
593 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
594 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
595 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
596 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
597 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
598 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
600 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
601 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
602 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
603 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
605 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
606 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
607 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
608 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
609 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
610 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
611 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
612 Kuhnle for the patch.
613 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
614 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
615 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
616 MacEachern for the patch.
617 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
618 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
619 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
620 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
621 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
622 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
623 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
624 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
625 select interfaces, too.
626 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
627 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
628 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
630 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
631 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
632 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
633 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
634 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
635 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
636 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
637 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
638 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
639 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
641 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
642 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
643 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
644 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
645 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
646 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
647 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
648 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
650 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
651 been added. Portability fixes.
652 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
653 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
654 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
656 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
659 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
660 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
661 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
662 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
663 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
664 providing an OpenBSD system.
665 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
666 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
668 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
669 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
670 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
671 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
672 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
673 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
675 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
676 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
677 initialized, the daemon may crash.
678 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
680 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
681 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
683 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
684 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
685 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
687 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
688 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
689 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
690 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
692 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
693 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
694 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
695 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
697 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
698 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
699 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
700 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
701 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
702 provide these necessary functions.
703 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
704 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
706 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
707 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
708 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
709 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
711 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
712 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
713 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
714 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
715 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
716 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
718 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
719 invalid configuration options.
720 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
721 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
722 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
724 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
725 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
726 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
727 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
729 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
730 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
731 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
732 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
733 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
734 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
735 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
736 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
738 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
739 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
740 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
741 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
742 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
743 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
744 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
745 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
746 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
747 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
748 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
749 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
751 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
752 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
755 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
756 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
757 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
759 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
760 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
761 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
762 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
763 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
764 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
766 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
767 email, using the `esmtp' library.
768 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
769 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
771 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
772 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
773 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
774 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
776 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
777 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
778 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
779 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
780 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
782 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
783 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
784 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
786 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
787 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
788 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
789 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
791 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
792 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
793 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
794 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
795 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
796 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
797 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
798 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
799 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
800 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
801 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
802 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
804 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
805 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
806 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
808 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
809 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
810 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
811 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
813 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
814 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
815 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
816 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
817 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
818 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
819 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
820 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
822 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
823 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
824 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
825 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
826 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
827 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
828 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
831 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
832 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
833 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
835 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
836 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
838 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
839 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
840 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianess of the
841 architecture collectd is being built on.
842 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
844 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
846 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
847 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
848 values under Solaris.
849 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
850 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
852 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
853 returned by some broken drivers.
855 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
856 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
857 to kyrone for reporting this.
858 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
860 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
862 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
863 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
864 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
865 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
867 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
868 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
869 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
870 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
871 flush its values to disk.
872 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
873 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
874 for each data source.
875 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
877 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
878 page of an Ascent server.
879 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
880 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
881 specific disks has been added.
882 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
883 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
884 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
886 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
887 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
888 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
889 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
890 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
891 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
892 configuration has been decreased.
893 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
894 continuously reading from log files.
895 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
896 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
897 and number of channels.
898 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
899 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
900 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
902 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
903 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
905 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianess more
907 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
908 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
909 again has been applied.
910 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
912 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
913 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
915 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
916 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
917 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
920 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
921 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
922 they are in non-standard paths.
923 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
924 if the libc expects it.
925 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
926 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
928 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
929 using a buffer of static size.
930 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
932 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
933 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
935 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
936 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
937 `Persist' threshold options.
938 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
939 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
940 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
941 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
942 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
944 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
945 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
947 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
948 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
949 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
950 cross-platform compatibility.
951 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
952 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
953 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
955 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
956 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
957 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
958 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
959 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
960 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
962 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
963 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
964 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
965 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
966 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
967 wants to add custom type definitions.
968 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
969 entire directories and shell wildcards.
970 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
971 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
972 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
973 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
974 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
975 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
976 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
977 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
978 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
979 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
980 domain name lookups in this plugin.
981 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
982 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
983 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
984 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
985 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
986 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
987 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
988 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
989 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
990 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
991 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
992 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
993 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
994 Technology group for this plugin.
996 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
997 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
998 they are in non-standard paths.
999 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
1000 if the libc expects it.
1001 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1002 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
1004 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
1005 using a buffer of static size.
1006 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
1008 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1009 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
1011 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
1012 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
1013 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
1014 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
1015 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
1017 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
1018 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
1019 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
1021 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
1022 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
1023 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
1024 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
1025 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
1026 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
1027 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
1028 cross-platform compatibility.
1029 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
1030 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
1031 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
1032 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
1034 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
1035 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
1036 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
1037 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
1038 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
1040 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
1041 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
1042 of the libsensors library.
1044 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
1045 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
1046 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
1048 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
1049 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1052 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
1053 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
1054 enabled on the host.
1055 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
1057 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
1058 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
1059 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
1060 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
1061 definitions separate from the host definitions.
1062 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
1063 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
1064 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
1065 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
1066 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
1067 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
1068 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
1069 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
1070 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
1071 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
1072 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
1073 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
1074 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
1075 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
1076 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
1077 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
1078 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
1079 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
1080 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
1081 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
1082 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
1084 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
1085 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
1086 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
1087 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
1088 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
1090 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
1091 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
1093 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
1094 of the libsensors library.
1096 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
1097 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
1098 it's in a non-standard location.
1099 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
1100 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
1101 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
1102 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
1103 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
1104 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
1106 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
1107 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
1109 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
1110 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
1112 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
1113 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
1114 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1115 noise quality as percentage.
1116 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
1117 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
1118 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
1119 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
1120 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
1121 support for the `timeticks' type.
1123 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
1124 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
1125 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
1126 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
1128 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
1129 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
1130 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
1132 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
1133 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
1134 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
1135 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
1137 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
1138 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
1139 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
1140 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
1142 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
1143 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
1144 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
1145 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
1146 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
1147 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
1148 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
1149 to not block data collection.
1150 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
1151 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
1152 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
1154 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
1155 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
1156 of music played with xmms.
1158 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
1159 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
1160 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1161 noise quality as percentage.
1162 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
1164 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
1165 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
1166 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
1167 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
1169 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
1170 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
1171 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
1172 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
1174 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
1175 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
1177 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
1178 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
1179 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
1180 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
1181 (i. e. without quotes).
1182 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
1183 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
1184 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
1186 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
1187 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
1188 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
1189 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
1191 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
1192 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
1193 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
1196 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
1197 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
1199 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
1200 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1201 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
1202 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1203 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
1204 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1205 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
1207 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
1208 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
1209 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
1210 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
1211 initialized correctly.
1212 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
1214 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
1215 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
1216 they're given in numerically form.
1218 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
1219 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
1220 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
1223 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
1224 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
1225 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
1226 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
1227 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
1228 thread-safe functions from now on.
1229 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
1230 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
1231 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
1233 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
1234 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
1235 write to increase IO-performance.
1236 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
1237 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
1238 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
1239 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
1240 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
1242 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
1243 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
1244 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
1246 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
1247 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
1248 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
1249 or STDOUT or STDERR.
1250 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
1251 system's syslog daemon.
1252 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
1253 entropy currently being available to the system.
1254 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
1255 back values provided by the forked processes.
1256 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
1257 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
1259 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
1260 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
1261 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
1262 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
1263 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
1264 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
1265 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
1266 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
1267 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
1269 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
1270 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1271 noise quality as percentage.
1273 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
1274 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
1276 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
1277 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
1278 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
1279 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
1280 were accounted as `zombies'.
1282 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
1283 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
1286 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
1287 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
1288 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
1290 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
1291 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
1292 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
1293 segfault with some libcs.
1295 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
1296 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
1297 under Solaris again.
1298 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
1300 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
1301 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
1303 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
1304 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
1305 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
1306 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
1307 write init.d-scripts for it.
1308 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
1309 caused problems every now and then.
1310 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
1311 filesystem types or devices.
1312 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
1313 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
1315 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
1316 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
1317 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
1318 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
1319 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
1320 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
1321 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
1322 segment size and pagefaults.
1323 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
1324 queries multimeters.
1325 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
1326 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
1327 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
1329 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
1330 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
1331 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
1332 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
1334 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
1335 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
1336 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
1337 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
1340 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
1341 * The sample config file has been improved.
1342 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
1343 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
1344 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
1345 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
1347 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
1348 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
1349 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
1351 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
1352 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
1354 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
1355 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
1356 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
1357 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
1359 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
1360 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
1361 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
1362 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
1363 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
1364 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
1365 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
1366 with a test environment :)
1367 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
1370 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
1371 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
1372 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
1374 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
1375 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
1376 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
1378 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
1379 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
1380 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
1382 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
1383 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
1385 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
1386 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1387 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1388 approximately 7.6 days.
1390 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
1391 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1392 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1393 approximately 7.6 days.
1395 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
1396 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
1398 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
1400 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
1402 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
1403 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
1404 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
1405 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
1406 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
1408 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
1409 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
1410 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
1411 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
1412 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
1413 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
1414 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
1415 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
1417 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
1418 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
1419 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
1420 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
1422 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
1423 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
1424 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
1426 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
1427 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
1428 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
1430 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
1431 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
1432 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
1435 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
1436 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
1437 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
1439 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
1440 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
1441 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
1442 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
1444 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
1445 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
1446 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
1448 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
1449 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
1451 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
1452 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
1454 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
1455 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
1457 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
1458 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
1460 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
1461 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
1462 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
1463 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
1464 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
1465 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
1466 address and/or port than localhost.
1467 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
1468 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
1469 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
1470 be set in the configfile.
1472 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
1473 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
1474 client mode. This released fixes this.
1476 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
1477 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
1478 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
1481 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
1482 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
1484 * A `df' plugin has been added.
1485 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
1486 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
1487 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
1489 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
1490 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
1491 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
1494 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
1495 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
1496 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
1498 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
1499 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
1500 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
1501 currently logged in users.
1502 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
1503 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
1504 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
1505 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
1507 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
1508 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
1509 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
1510 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
1511 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
1512 with the `-c' argument.
1513 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
1514 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
1515 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
1516 Barcellos for this patch.
1518 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
1519 * New modules have been added:
1520 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
1521 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
1522 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
1523 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
1525 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
1526 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
1528 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
1529 between polls up to one day.
1530 * The init.d files have been improved.
1531 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
1533 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
1534 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
1535 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
1537 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
1538 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
1539 multicast) has been added.
1540 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
1541 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
1542 to be linked against an external library.
1543 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
1544 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
1546 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
1547 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
1549 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
1550 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
1551 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
1552 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
1553 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
1554 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
1555 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
1556 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
1557 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
1560 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
1561 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
1563 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
1565 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
1566 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
1568 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
1569 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
1570 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
1571 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
1573 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
1574 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
1575 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
1577 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
1578 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
1579 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
1580 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
1581 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
1582 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
1583 statistics will not work.
1585 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
1586 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
1587 weird strings as disk-names..
1589 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
1590 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
1591 about the disks and partitions.
1593 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
1594 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
1595 and/or kernel versions.
1597 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
1598 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
1599 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
1601 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
1602 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
1603 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
1605 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
1606 * Collecting CPU statistics now
1608 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
1609 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
1611 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
1613 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
1614 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
1616 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
1617 * The following modules are provided:
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