1 2013-08-18, Version 5.4.0
2 * collectd: The "LoadPlugin" config option no longer attempts to load
3 plugins twice. If more than one "LoadPlugin" statement or block is
4 encountered, only the first will have any effect.
5 * collectd: The "AutoLoadPlugin" option allows to automatically load
6 plugins for which a configuration is found.
7 * collectd: The "WriteQueueLimitHigh" and "WriteQueueLimitLow" options
8 allow collectd to drop values when under stress, to avoid running out
9 of memory. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patch.
10 * amqp plugin: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
11 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options have been added. Thanks to Laurent
13 * aquaero plugin: This new plugin reads various metrics, e.g. fan
14 speeds and temperatures, from Aquaero 5, a fan and water cooling
15 control panel. Thanks to Alex Deymo for his patch.
16 * curl plugin: The "MeasureResponseCode" option has been added. Thanks
17 to Jan Matějka for his patch.
18 * curl_json plugin: Support for UNIX domain sockets and array wildcards
19 has been added. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
20 * curl_xml plugin: Support for long URLs has been improved.
21 * cgroups plugin: This new plugin collects CPU accounting information
22 for processes in a cgroup. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for his patch.
23 * df plugin: The "ValuesAbsolute" and "ValuesPercentage" options have
24 been added. Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek for the patch.
25 * exec plugin: Do UID / GID lookups before forking. This should prevent
26 a race condition in the NSS library. Thanks to Ceri Storey for the
28 * lvm plugin: This new plugin collects size information from Linux'
29 Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Thanks to Chad Malfait for his work.
30 * memcached plugin: Support for increment and decrement counts has been
31 added. Thanks to Blake Matheny for the patch.
32 * mic plugin: This new plugin collects CPU and memory usage, power
33 consumption and temperatures of Intel's Many-Integrated-Core (MIC)
34 architecture, such as Xeon Phi cards. Thanks to Evan Felix for his
36 * netlink plugin: This plugin has been converted to use the supported
37 "libmnl" library. Thanks to Andreas Henriksson for his patch.
38 * nginx plugin: Collection of accepted and handled connections has been
39 added. Thanks to Patrick Shan for his patch.
40 * sigrok plugin: This new plugin collects metrics from sigrok, a signal
41 processing framework reading various hardware devices, from light
42 meters to spectrum analyzers. Thanks to Bert Vermeulen for his patch.
43 * statsd plugin: This new plugin listens to a UDP socket and reads
44 metrics in the StatsD format.
45 * varnish plugin: Many additional metrics have been added. Thanks to
46 Nick Stenning for his patch.
47 * write_graphite plugin: Support for "UDP" has been added. Thanks to
48 Javier Maestro for his patch.
49 * write_riemann plugin: The "TTLFactor" option has been added.
50 * zfs_arc plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li
53 2013-07-13, Version 5.3.1
54 * Documentation: Various fixes.
55 * Configuration: Fix error handling: Errors in included files were
56 ignored, causing configuration mistakes to go unnoticed.
57 * dns plugin: Don't abort when PCAP returns an error.
58 * modbus plugin: The reconnection strategy was improved, fixing a
59 segfault in the libmodbud library. Thanks to Stefan Nickl and
60 Fabien Wernli for their patches.
61 * mysql plugin: The notification about a newly running MySQL slave
62 thread has been fixed. Thanks to Joaquín Cuenca Abela for the patch.
63 * snmp plugin: A build issue has been fixed (C99 mixed declaration).
64 The end-of-tree check has been improved by Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
65 * threshold plugin: Handling of the "Interesting" configuration option
66 has been fixed. Thanks to Björn for the patch.
67 * write_riemann plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Dave
68 Cottlehuber for reporting it.
70 2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0
71 * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include
72 only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
74 * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This
75 improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act
76 as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for
77 reviewing this change and fixing bugs.
78 * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using
79 regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric
80 can now be set via the configuration file.
81 * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented.
82 * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers
83 has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
84 * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks
85 to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
86 * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The
87 "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch.
88 * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to
89 Greg Mason for his patch.
90 * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks
91 to Johan Wirén for his patch.
92 * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication /
93 compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
94 patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work.
95 * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks
96 to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
97 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been
98 implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created
99 asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances.
100 Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code.
101 * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV
102 files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for
104 * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added.
105 * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to
106 Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to
107 Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work.
109 2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2
110 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
111 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
112 Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks
113 to Sebastian Harl for his patch.
114 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
115 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
116 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
117 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
118 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
119 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
120 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
121 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
122 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
123 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
124 Tomas Doran for his patch.
125 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
126 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
127 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
128 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
129 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
130 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
131 * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
132 * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
133 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
134 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
135 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
136 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
137 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
138 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
139 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
142 2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1
143 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris
144 and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches.
145 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
146 more frequently than intended.
147 * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added.
148 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
149 Ed Schouten for his patch.
150 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
151 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
152 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
153 Ed Schouten for his patch.
154 * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed.
155 A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was
156 configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these
158 * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
159 Ritschard for his patch.
160 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
161 * write_graphite plugin: A regression which rendered the
162 "SeparateInstances" and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been
163 fixed. A failed assertion when using types with many data sources
164 has been fixed. Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
165 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
167 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
168 Mettier for reporting this bug.
170 2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0
171 * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved.
172 Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch.
173 * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a
174 per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for
176 * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real
177 looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new
179 * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets
180 in the binary format has been added.
181 * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple
182 value lists into one.
183 * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON
184 output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch.
185 * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to
186 Thomas Meson for the patch.
187 * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to
188 Manuel Rozada for his patch.
189 * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the
191 * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't
193 * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks
194 to "Davide Guerri" for the patch.
195 * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added.
196 Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch.
197 * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The
198 behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to
199 Johan Kiviniemi for the patches.
200 * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added.
201 * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's
202 packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes
204 * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added.
205 Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added.
206 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches.
207 * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
208 Cosmin Ioiart for the patch.
209 * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added.
210 Thanks to biancalana for the patch.
211 * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan",
212 "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added.
213 * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX
214 version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out
215 "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch.
216 * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc
217 for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch.
219 2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3
220 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
221 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
222 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
223 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
224 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
225 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
226 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
227 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
228 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
229 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
230 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
231 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
232 Tomas Doran for his patch.
233 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
234 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
235 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
236 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
237 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
238 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
239 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
240 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
241 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
242 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
243 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
244 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
245 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
248 2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2
249 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves
250 Mettier for his patches.
251 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
252 more frequently than intended.
253 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
254 Ed Schouten for his patch.
255 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
256 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
257 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
258 Ed Schouten for his patch.
259 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
260 * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
261 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
263 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
264 Mettier for reporting this bug.
266 2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1
267 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
268 unwanted permission bits.
269 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
270 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
271 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
272 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
273 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
274 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
275 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
276 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
277 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
279 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
280 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
281 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
282 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
283 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
284 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
285 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
286 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
287 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
288 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
289 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
290 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
292 * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of
293 uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for
294 reporting these problems.
295 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
296 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
297 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
298 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
299 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
301 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
302 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
303 "KIvosak" for the patch.
304 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
305 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
306 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
307 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
308 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
310 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
311 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
312 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
313 "biancalana" for the fix.
314 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
315 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
316 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
317 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
318 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
320 * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been
321 fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch.
322 * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and
323 later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch.
325 2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0
326 * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has
328 * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using
329 "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
330 * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use
331 the system time rather than the time reported by BIND.
332 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been
333 added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch.
334 * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics
335 directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch.
336 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in
337 addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
338 Ritschard for his patch.
339 * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default
340 ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g.
342 * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various
343 states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
345 * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been
347 * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin
348 Ioiart for his patch.
349 * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the
350 Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux.
351 * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation.
352 Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch.
353 * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been
355 * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to
356 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch.
357 * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added.
358 * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added.
359 Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
360 * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel
361 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
362 * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to
363 Aaron Brady for his patch.
364 * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to
365 Jérôme Renard for his patches.
366 * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value
367 lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch
368 and Chris Lundquist for their work.
369 * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value
370 lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series
371 database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their
373 * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to
374 Aurelien Rougemont for his patches.
375 * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been
376 added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
378 2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5
379 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
380 unwanted permission bits.
381 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
382 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
383 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
384 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
385 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
386 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
387 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
388 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
389 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
391 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
392 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
393 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
394 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
395 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
396 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
397 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
398 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
399 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
400 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
401 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
402 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
404 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
405 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
406 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
407 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
408 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
410 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
411 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
412 "KIvosak" for the patch.
413 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
414 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
415 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
416 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
417 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
419 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
420 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
421 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
422 "biancalana" for the fix.
423 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
424 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
425 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
426 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
427 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
430 2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4
431 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
432 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
434 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
435 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
437 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
438 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
439 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
441 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
442 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
444 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
445 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
447 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
448 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
450 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
451 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
453 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
454 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
455 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
456 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
457 runtime has been fixed.
459 2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3
460 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
461 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
462 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
464 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
465 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
466 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
467 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
468 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
469 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
470 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
472 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
474 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
475 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
476 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
477 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
478 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
480 2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2
481 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
482 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
483 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
484 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
486 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
487 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
488 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
489 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
491 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
492 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
493 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
494 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
495 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
496 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
497 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
498 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
499 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
502 2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1
503 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
504 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
505 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
506 to Peter Green for his patch.
507 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
508 McCabe for the patch.
509 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
510 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
511 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
512 code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module.
513 * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts.
514 Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this.
515 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
516 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
517 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
518 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
519 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
520 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
521 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
522 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
523 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
524 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
525 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
526 * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values
527 were submitted as gauge even though they were derives.
528 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
531 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
532 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
533 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
534 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
535 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
536 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
537 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
538 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
540 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
541 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
542 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
543 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
544 added to the collectd client library.
545 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
546 one data source has been changed to "value".
547 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
548 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
549 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
550 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
551 maximum value is unspecified.
552 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
553 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
554 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
555 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
556 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
557 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
558 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
559 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
560 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
561 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
563 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
564 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
566 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
568 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
570 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
571 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
572 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
573 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
575 * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
576 license has been changed to LGPLv2.1.
577 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
578 data sets used have been improved.
579 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
581 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
582 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
583 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
584 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
585 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
586 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
587 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
588 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
589 this separate plugin.
590 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
591 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
592 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
593 Fournier for their contributions.
594 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
596 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
598 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
601 2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9
602 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
603 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
604 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
605 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
606 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
607 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
608 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
609 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
610 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
611 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
612 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
613 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
614 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
615 Tomas Doran for his patch.
616 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
617 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
618 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
619 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
622 2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8
623 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
624 unwanted permission bits.
625 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
626 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
627 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
628 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
629 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
630 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
631 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
632 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
633 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
634 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
635 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
636 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
637 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
638 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
639 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
640 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
642 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
643 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
644 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
646 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
647 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
648 "KIvosak" for the patch.
649 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
650 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
651 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
652 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
653 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
655 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
656 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
657 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
658 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
659 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
660 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
661 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
664 2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7
665 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
666 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
668 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
669 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
671 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
672 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
673 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
675 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
676 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
678 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
679 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
681 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
682 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
684 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
685 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
687 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
688 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
689 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
690 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
691 runtime has been fixed.
693 2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6
694 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
695 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
696 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
698 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
699 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
700 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
701 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
702 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
703 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
704 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
706 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
708 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
709 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
710 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
711 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
712 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
714 2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5
715 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
716 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
717 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
718 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
720 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
721 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
722 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
723 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
725 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
726 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
727 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
728 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
729 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
730 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
731 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
732 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
733 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
736 2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4
737 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
738 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
739 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
740 to Peter Green for his patch.
741 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
742 McCabe for the patch.
743 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
744 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
745 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
747 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
748 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
749 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
750 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
751 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
752 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
753 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
754 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
755 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
756 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
757 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
758 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
761 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
762 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
763 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
765 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
766 percentage calculation has been fixed.
767 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
769 * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
770 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
771 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
772 * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
773 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
775 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
776 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
779 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
780 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
781 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
782 the rest of the configuration if possible.
783 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
784 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
785 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
786 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
787 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
788 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
789 configurable timeout value.
790 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
791 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
792 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
793 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
794 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
795 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
796 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
798 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
799 to prevent spamming the logs.
800 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
801 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
802 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
803 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
805 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
807 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
808 Trenkel for the patch.
810 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
811 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
812 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
813 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
814 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
816 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
817 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
818 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
820 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
821 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
822 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
823 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
824 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
825 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
826 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
827 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
828 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
829 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
831 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
832 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
833 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
834 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
835 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
836 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
837 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
839 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
841 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
842 lines from the match.
843 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
844 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
846 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
847 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
849 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
850 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
852 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
853 certain lines from the match.
854 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
855 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
856 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
857 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
858 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
859 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
860 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
861 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
862 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
863 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
864 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
865 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
866 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
867 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
868 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
869 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
870 Sebastian Harl for his work.
871 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
872 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
873 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
874 Sven Trenkel for his work.
875 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
876 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
877 MikroTik devices has been added.
878 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
879 Scraba for his patch.
880 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
881 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
882 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
883 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
884 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
885 Ammous for his patch.
887 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
888 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
889 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
891 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
892 percentage calculation has been fixed.
893 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
895 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
896 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
897 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
899 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
900 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
903 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
904 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
905 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
906 the rest of the configuration if possible.
907 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
908 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
909 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
910 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
911 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
912 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
913 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
914 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
915 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
916 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
917 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
918 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
920 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
921 to prevent spamming the logs.
922 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
923 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
924 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
925 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
927 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
928 Trenkel for the patch.
930 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
931 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
932 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
933 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
934 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
936 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
937 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
938 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
939 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
941 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
942 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
943 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
944 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
945 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
946 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
947 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
948 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
949 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
950 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
951 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
952 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
954 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
955 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
956 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
957 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
958 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
959 figuring out a way to make this work.
960 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
961 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
962 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
963 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
964 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
966 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
968 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
969 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
970 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
971 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
972 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
973 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
974 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
975 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
977 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
978 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
979 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
980 an unknown data source type.
981 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
982 packets has been fixed.
983 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
985 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
986 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
987 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
988 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
989 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
990 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
992 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
993 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
994 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
995 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
996 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
997 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
998 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
999 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1000 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1002 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
1003 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
1004 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
1007 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
1008 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
1009 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
1010 Weiskircher for the patch.
1011 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
1012 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1013 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
1014 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
1015 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
1016 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
1017 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
1018 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
1019 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
1020 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
1021 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
1022 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
1023 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
1025 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
1026 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
1027 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
1028 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
1029 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
1030 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1031 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
1032 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1033 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
1034 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
1035 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
1036 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
1037 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
1038 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
1039 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
1040 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1041 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
1042 storage has been added.
1043 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
1044 value has been added.
1046 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
1047 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
1048 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1049 an unknown data source type.
1051 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
1052 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
1053 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1054 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
1055 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
1056 figuring out a way to make this work.
1057 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
1058 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
1059 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
1060 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
1062 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
1064 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
1065 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
1066 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
1067 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
1068 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
1069 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1071 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1072 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1073 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1074 packets has been fixed.
1075 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
1076 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
1077 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
1078 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
1079 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
1080 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1082 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
1083 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
1084 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
1085 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1086 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1089 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
1090 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
1091 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
1092 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
1093 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
1094 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
1096 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
1097 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
1098 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
1099 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
1100 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
1101 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
1103 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
1104 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
1105 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
1106 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
1108 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
1109 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
1111 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
1112 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
1113 issues on some platforms.
1114 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
1115 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1116 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
1117 descriptor handling.
1119 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
1120 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
1121 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
1122 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
1123 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
1124 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
1126 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
1127 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
1128 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
1129 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1130 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
1131 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
1132 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1133 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
1134 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
1135 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
1136 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
1138 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
1139 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
1140 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
1141 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
1142 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
1143 Aman Gupta for the patch.
1144 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
1145 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
1146 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
1147 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
1148 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
1150 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
1151 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
1153 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
1154 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
1155 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1156 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
1157 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
1158 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
1159 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
1160 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1161 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
1162 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
1163 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
1164 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
1165 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
1166 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
1168 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
1169 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
1170 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
1171 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
1172 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
1173 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
1175 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
1176 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
1177 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
1178 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
1180 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
1181 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
1182 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
1183 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
1185 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
1186 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
1188 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
1189 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
1190 issues on some platforms.
1191 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
1192 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1193 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
1194 descriptor handling.
1196 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
1197 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
1198 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1199 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
1200 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
1201 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
1203 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
1204 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
1205 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
1206 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
1207 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
1208 Hess for reporting this bug.
1209 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
1210 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
1211 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
1212 is linked with the shipped library, too.
1213 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
1214 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
1215 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
1216 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
1217 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
1218 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
1219 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
1220 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
1221 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
1222 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
1223 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
1224 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
1225 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1228 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
1229 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
1231 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
1232 Díaz for fixing this bug.
1233 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
1234 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
1235 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
1236 for reporting the bug.
1237 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
1239 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
1240 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
1241 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
1242 libtool 2.2 has been added.
1243 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
1244 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
1245 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
1246 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
1247 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
1249 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
1250 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
1251 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
1252 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
1253 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
1255 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
1256 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1258 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
1259 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
1260 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
1261 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
1262 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
1263 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
1264 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1265 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
1266 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
1267 Konetzko for the patch.
1268 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
1269 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
1270 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
1271 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
1272 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
1273 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
1274 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
1275 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
1276 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
1277 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
1278 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
1279 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
1280 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1281 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
1282 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
1283 Quiédeville for the patch.
1284 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
1286 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
1287 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
1288 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
1289 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
1290 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
1291 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
1292 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
1293 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
1295 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
1296 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
1297 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
1298 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
1299 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
1300 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
1302 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
1303 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
1304 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
1305 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
1307 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
1308 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
1309 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
1310 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
1311 Hess for reporting this bug.
1312 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
1313 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
1314 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
1315 is linked with the shipped library, too.
1316 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
1317 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
1318 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
1319 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
1320 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1323 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
1324 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
1325 Díaz for fixing this bug.
1326 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
1327 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
1328 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
1329 for reporting the bug.
1331 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
1332 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
1333 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
1334 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
1335 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
1336 providing an OpenBSD system.
1337 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
1338 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
1339 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
1340 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
1341 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
1343 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
1345 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
1346 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
1347 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
1348 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1349 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
1351 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
1352 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
1353 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1355 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
1356 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
1357 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
1358 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
1360 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
1361 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
1362 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
1363 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
1364 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
1365 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
1366 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
1367 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
1368 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
1369 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
1370 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
1371 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
1372 initialized, the daemon may crash.
1374 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
1375 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
1376 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
1377 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
1378 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
1379 for finding and fixing most of them.
1380 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
1381 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
1383 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
1384 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
1385 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
1386 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
1387 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1388 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
1389 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
1390 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
1391 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
1392 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
1393 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
1395 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
1396 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
1397 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
1398 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
1400 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
1401 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
1402 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
1403 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
1404 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
1405 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
1406 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
1407 Kuhnle for the patch.
1408 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
1409 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
1410 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
1411 MacEachern for the patch.
1412 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
1413 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
1414 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
1415 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
1416 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
1417 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
1418 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
1419 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
1420 select interfaces, too.
1421 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
1422 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
1423 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
1425 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
1426 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
1427 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
1428 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
1429 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
1430 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1431 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
1432 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
1433 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
1434 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
1436 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
1437 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
1438 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
1439 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
1440 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
1441 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
1442 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
1443 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
1445 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
1446 been added. Portability fixes.
1447 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
1448 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
1449 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
1451 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
1454 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
1455 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
1456 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
1457 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
1458 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
1459 providing an OpenBSD system.
1460 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
1461 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
1463 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
1464 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
1465 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
1466 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
1467 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1468 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
1470 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
1471 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
1472 initialized, the daemon may crash.
1473 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
1475 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
1476 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
1478 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
1479 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
1480 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
1482 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
1483 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
1484 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
1485 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
1487 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
1488 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
1489 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
1490 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
1492 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
1493 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
1494 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
1495 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
1496 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
1497 provide these necessary functions.
1498 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
1499 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
1501 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
1502 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
1503 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
1504 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
1506 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
1507 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
1508 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
1509 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
1510 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
1511 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
1513 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
1514 invalid configuration options.
1515 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
1516 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
1517 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
1519 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
1520 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
1521 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
1522 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
1524 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
1525 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
1526 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
1527 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
1528 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
1529 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
1530 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
1531 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
1533 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
1534 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
1535 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
1536 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
1537 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
1538 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
1539 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
1540 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
1541 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
1542 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
1543 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
1544 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
1546 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
1547 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
1550 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
1551 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
1552 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
1554 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
1555 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
1556 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
1557 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
1558 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
1559 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
1561 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
1562 email, using the `esmtp' library.
1563 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
1564 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
1566 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
1567 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
1568 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
1569 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
1571 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
1572 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
1573 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
1574 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
1575 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
1577 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
1578 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
1579 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
1581 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
1582 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
1583 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
1584 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
1586 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
1587 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
1588 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
1589 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
1590 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
1591 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
1592 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
1593 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
1594 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
1595 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
1596 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
1597 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
1599 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
1600 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
1601 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
1603 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
1604 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
1605 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
1606 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
1608 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
1609 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
1610 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
1611 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
1612 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
1613 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
1614 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
1615 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
1617 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
1618 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
1619 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
1620 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
1621 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
1622 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
1623 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
1626 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
1627 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
1628 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
1630 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
1631 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
1633 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
1634 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
1635 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianess of the
1636 architecture collectd is being built on.
1637 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
1639 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
1641 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
1642 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
1643 values under Solaris.
1644 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
1645 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
1647 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
1648 returned by some broken drivers.
1650 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
1651 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
1652 to kyrone for reporting this.
1653 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
1655 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
1657 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
1658 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
1659 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
1660 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
1662 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
1663 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
1664 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
1665 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
1666 flush its values to disk.
1667 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
1668 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
1669 for each data source.
1670 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
1672 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
1673 page of an Ascent server.
1674 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1675 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
1676 specific disks has been added.
1677 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1678 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
1679 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
1681 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
1682 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
1683 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
1684 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
1685 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
1686 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
1687 configuration has been decreased.
1688 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
1689 continuously reading from log files.
1690 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
1691 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
1692 and number of channels.
1693 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1694 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
1695 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
1697 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
1698 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
1700 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianess more
1702 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
1703 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
1704 again has been applied.
1705 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
1707 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
1708 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
1710 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
1711 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
1712 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
1715 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
1716 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
1717 they are in non-standard paths.
1718 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
1719 if the libc expects it.
1720 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1721 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
1723 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
1724 using a buffer of static size.
1725 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
1727 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1728 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
1730 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
1731 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
1732 `Persist' threshold options.
1733 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
1734 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
1735 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
1736 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
1737 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
1739 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
1740 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
1742 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
1743 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
1744 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
1745 cross-platform compatibility.
1746 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
1747 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
1748 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
1750 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
1751 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
1752 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
1753 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
1754 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
1755 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
1757 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
1758 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
1759 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
1760 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
1761 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
1762 wants to add custom type definitions.
1763 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
1764 entire directories and shell wildcards.
1765 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
1766 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
1767 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
1768 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
1769 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
1770 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
1771 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
1772 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
1773 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
1774 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
1775 domain name lookups in this plugin.
1776 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
1777 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
1778 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
1779 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
1780 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
1781 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
1782 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
1783 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
1784 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
1785 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
1786 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
1787 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
1788 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
1789 Technology group for this plugin.
1791 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
1792 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
1793 they are in non-standard paths.
1794 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
1795 if the libc expects it.
1796 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1797 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
1799 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
1800 using a buffer of static size.
1801 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
1803 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1804 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
1806 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
1807 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
1808 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
1809 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
1810 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
1812 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
1813 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
1814 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
1816 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
1817 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
1818 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
1819 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
1820 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
1821 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
1822 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
1823 cross-platform compatibility.
1824 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
1825 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
1826 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
1827 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
1829 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
1830 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
1831 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
1832 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
1833 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
1835 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
1836 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
1837 of the libsensors library.
1839 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
1840 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
1841 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
1843 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
1844 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1847 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
1848 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
1849 enabled on the host.
1850 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
1852 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
1853 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
1854 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
1855 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
1856 definitions separate from the host definitions.
1857 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
1858 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
1859 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
1860 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
1861 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
1862 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
1863 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
1864 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
1865 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
1866 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
1867 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
1868 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
1869 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
1870 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
1871 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
1872 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
1873 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
1874 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
1875 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
1876 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
1877 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
1879 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
1880 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
1881 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
1882 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
1883 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
1885 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
1886 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
1888 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
1889 of the libsensors library.
1891 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
1892 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
1893 it's in a non-standard location.
1894 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
1895 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
1896 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
1897 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
1898 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
1899 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
1901 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
1902 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
1904 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
1905 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
1907 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
1908 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
1909 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1910 noise quality as percentage.
1911 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
1912 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
1913 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
1914 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
1915 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
1916 support for the `timeticks' type.
1918 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
1919 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
1920 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
1921 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
1923 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
1924 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
1925 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
1927 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
1928 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
1929 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
1930 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
1932 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
1933 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
1934 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
1935 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
1937 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
1938 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
1939 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
1940 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
1941 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
1942 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
1943 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
1944 to not block data collection.
1945 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
1946 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
1947 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
1949 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
1950 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
1951 of music played with xmms.
1953 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
1954 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
1955 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1956 noise quality as percentage.
1957 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
1959 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
1960 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
1961 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
1962 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
1964 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
1965 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
1966 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
1967 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
1969 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
1970 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
1972 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
1973 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
1974 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
1975 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
1976 (i. e. without quotes).
1977 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
1978 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
1979 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
1981 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
1982 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
1983 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
1984 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
1986 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
1987 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
1988 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
1991 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
1992 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
1994 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
1995 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1996 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
1997 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1998 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
1999 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2000 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
2002 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
2003 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
2004 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
2005 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
2006 initialized correctly.
2007 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
2009 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
2010 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
2011 they're given in numerically form.
2013 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
2014 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
2015 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
2018 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
2019 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
2020 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
2021 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
2022 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
2023 thread-safe functions from now on.
2024 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
2025 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
2026 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
2028 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
2029 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
2030 write to increase IO-performance.
2031 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
2032 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
2033 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
2034 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
2035 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
2037 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
2038 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
2039 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
2041 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
2042 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
2043 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
2044 or STDOUT or STDERR.
2045 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
2046 system's syslog daemon.
2047 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
2048 entropy currently being available to the system.
2049 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
2050 back values provided by the forked processes.
2051 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
2052 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
2054 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
2055 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
2056 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
2057 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
2058 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
2059 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
2060 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
2061 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
2062 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
2064 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
2065 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2066 noise quality as percentage.
2068 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
2069 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2071 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
2072 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
2073 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
2074 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
2075 were accounted as `zombies'.
2077 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
2078 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
2081 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
2082 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
2083 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
2085 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
2086 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
2087 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
2088 segfault with some libcs.
2090 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
2091 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
2092 under Solaris again.
2093 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
2095 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
2096 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
2098 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
2099 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
2100 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
2101 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
2102 write init.d-scripts for it.
2103 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
2104 caused problems every now and then.
2105 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
2106 filesystem types or devices.
2107 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
2108 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
2110 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
2111 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
2112 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
2113 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
2114 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
2115 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
2116 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
2117 segment size and pagefaults.
2118 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
2119 queries multimeters.
2120 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
2121 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
2122 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
2124 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
2125 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
2126 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
2127 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
2129 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
2130 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
2131 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
2132 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
2135 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
2136 * The sample config file has been improved.
2137 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
2138 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
2139 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
2140 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
2142 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
2143 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
2144 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
2146 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
2147 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
2149 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
2150 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
2151 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
2152 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
2154 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
2155 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
2156 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
2157 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
2158 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
2159 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
2160 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
2161 with a test environment :)
2162 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
2165 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
2166 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
2167 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
2169 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
2170 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
2171 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
2173 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
2174 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
2175 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
2177 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
2178 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
2180 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
2181 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
2182 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
2183 approximately 7.6 days.
2185 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
2186 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
2187 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
2188 approximately 7.6 days.
2190 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
2191 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
2193 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
2195 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
2197 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
2198 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
2199 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
2200 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
2201 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
2203 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
2204 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
2205 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
2206 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
2207 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
2208 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
2209 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
2210 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
2212 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
2213 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
2214 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
2215 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
2217 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
2218 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
2219 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
2221 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
2222 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
2223 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
2225 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
2226 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
2227 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
2230 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
2231 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
2232 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
2234 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
2235 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
2236 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
2237 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
2239 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
2240 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
2241 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
2243 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
2244 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
2246 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
2247 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
2249 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
2250 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
2252 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
2253 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
2255 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
2256 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
2257 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
2258 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
2259 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
2260 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
2261 address and/or port than localhost.
2262 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
2263 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
2264 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
2265 be set in the configfile.
2267 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
2268 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
2269 client mode. This released fixes this.
2271 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
2272 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
2273 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
2276 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
2277 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
2279 * A `df' plugin has been added.
2280 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
2281 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
2282 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
2284 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
2285 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
2286 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
2289 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
2290 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
2291 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
2293 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
2294 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
2295 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
2296 currently logged in users.
2297 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
2298 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
2299 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
2300 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
2302 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
2303 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
2304 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
2305 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
2306 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
2307 with the `-c' argument.
2308 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
2309 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
2310 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
2311 Barcellos for this patch.
2313 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
2314 * New modules have been added:
2315 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
2316 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
2317 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
2318 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
2320 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
2321 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
2323 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
2324 between polls up to one day.
2325 * The init.d files have been improved.
2326 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
2328 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
2329 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
2330 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
2332 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
2333 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
2334 multicast) has been added.
2335 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
2336 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
2337 to be linked against an external library.
2338 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
2339 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
2341 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
2342 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
2344 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
2345 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
2346 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
2347 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
2348 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
2349 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
2350 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
2351 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
2352 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
2355 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
2356 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
2358 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
2360 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
2361 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
2363 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
2364 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
2365 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
2366 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
2368 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
2369 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
2370 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
2372 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
2373 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
2374 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
2375 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
2376 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
2377 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
2378 statistics will not work.
2380 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
2381 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
2382 weird strings as disk-names..
2384 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
2385 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
2386 about the disks and partitions.
2388 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
2389 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
2390 and/or kernel versions.
2392 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
2393 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
2394 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
2396 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
2397 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
2398 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
2400 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
2401 * Collecting CPU statistics now
2403 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
2404 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
2406 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
2408 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
2409 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
2411 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
2412 * The following modules are provided:
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