1 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
2 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
3 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
4 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
5 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
6 figuring out a way to make this work.
7 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
8 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
9 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
10 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
11 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
13 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
15 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
16 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
17 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
18 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
19 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
20 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
21 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
22 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
24 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
25 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
26 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
27 an unknown data source type.
28 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
29 packets has been fixed.
30 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
32 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
33 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
34 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
35 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
36 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
37 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
39 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
40 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
41 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
42 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
43 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
44 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
45 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
46 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
47 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
49 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
50 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
51 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
54 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
55 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
56 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
57 Weiskircher for the patch.
58 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
59 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
60 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
61 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
62 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
63 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
64 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
65 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
66 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
67 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
68 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
69 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
70 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
72 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
73 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
74 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
75 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
76 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
77 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
78 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
79 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
80 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
81 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
82 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
83 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
84 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
85 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
86 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
87 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
88 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
89 storage has been added.
90 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
93 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
94 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
95 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
96 an unknown data source type.
98 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
99 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
100 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
101 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
102 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
103 figuring out a way to make this work.
104 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
105 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
106 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
107 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
109 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
111 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
112 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
113 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
114 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
115 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
116 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
118 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
119 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
120 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
121 packets has been fixed.
122 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
123 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
124 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
125 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
126 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
127 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
129 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
130 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
131 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
132 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
133 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
136 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
137 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
138 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
139 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
140 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
141 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
143 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
144 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
145 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
146 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
147 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
148 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
150 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
151 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
152 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
153 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
155 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
156 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
158 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
159 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
160 issues on some platforms.
161 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
162 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
163 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
166 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
167 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
168 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
169 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
170 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
171 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
173 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
174 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
175 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
176 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
177 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
178 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
179 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
180 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
181 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
182 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
183 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
185 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
186 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
187 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
188 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
189 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
190 Aman Gupta for the patch.
191 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
192 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
193 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
194 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
195 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
197 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
198 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
200 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
201 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
202 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
203 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
204 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
205 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
206 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
207 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
208 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
209 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
210 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
211 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
212 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
213 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
215 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
216 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
217 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
218 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
219 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
220 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
222 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
223 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
224 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
225 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
227 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
228 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
229 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
230 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
232 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
233 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
235 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
236 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
237 issues on some platforms.
238 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
239 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
240 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
243 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
244 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
245 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
246 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
247 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
248 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
250 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
251 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
252 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
253 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
254 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
255 Hess for reporting this bug.
256 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
257 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
258 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
259 is linked with the shipped library, too.
260 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
261 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
262 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
263 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
264 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
265 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
266 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
267 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
268 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
269 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
270 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
271 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
272 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
275 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
276 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
278 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
279 Díaz for fixing this bug.
280 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
281 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
282 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
283 for reporting the bug.
284 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
286 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
287 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
288 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
289 libtool 2.2 has been added.
290 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
291 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
292 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
293 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
294 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
296 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
297 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
298 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
299 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
300 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
302 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
303 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
305 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
306 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
307 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
308 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
309 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
310 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
311 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
312 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
313 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
314 Konetzko for the patch.
315 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
316 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
317 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
318 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
319 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
320 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
321 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
322 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
323 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
324 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
325 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
326 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
327 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
328 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
329 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
330 Quiédeville for the patch.
331 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
333 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
334 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
335 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
336 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
337 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
338 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
339 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
340 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
342 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
343 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
344 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
345 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
346 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
347 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
349 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
350 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
351 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
352 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
354 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
355 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
356 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
357 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
358 Hess for reporting this bug.
359 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
360 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
361 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
362 is linked with the shipped library, too.
363 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
364 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
365 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
366 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
367 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
370 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
371 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
372 Díaz for fixing this bug.
373 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
374 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
375 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
376 for reporting the bug.
378 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
379 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
380 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
381 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
382 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
383 providing an OpenBSD system.
384 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
385 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
386 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
387 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
388 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
390 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
392 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
393 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
394 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
395 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
396 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
398 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
399 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
400 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
402 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
403 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
404 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
405 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
407 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
408 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
409 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
410 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
411 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
412 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
413 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
414 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
415 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
416 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
417 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
418 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
419 initialized, the daemon may crash.
421 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
422 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
423 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
424 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
425 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
426 for finding and fixing most of them.
427 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
428 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
430 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
431 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
432 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
433 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
434 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
435 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
436 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
437 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
438 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
439 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
440 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
442 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
443 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
444 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
445 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
447 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
448 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
449 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
450 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
451 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
452 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
453 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
454 Kuhnle for the patch.
455 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
456 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
457 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
458 MacEachern for the patch.
459 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
460 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
461 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
462 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
463 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
464 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
465 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
466 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
467 select interfaces, too.
468 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
469 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
470 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
472 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
473 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
474 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
475 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
476 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
477 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
478 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
479 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
480 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
481 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
483 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
484 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
485 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
486 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
487 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
488 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
489 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
490 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
492 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
493 been added. Portability fixes.
494 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
495 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
496 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
498 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
501 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
502 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
503 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
504 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
505 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
506 providing an OpenBSD system.
507 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
508 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
510 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
511 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
512 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
513 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
514 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
515 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
517 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
518 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
519 initialized, the daemon may crash.
520 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
522 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
523 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
525 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
526 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
527 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
529 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
530 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
531 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
532 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
534 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
535 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
536 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
537 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
539 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
540 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
541 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
542 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
543 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
544 provide these necessary functions.
545 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
546 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
548 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
549 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
550 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
551 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
553 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
554 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
555 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
556 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
557 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
558 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
560 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
561 invalid configuration options.
562 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
563 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
564 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
566 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
567 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
568 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
569 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
571 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
572 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
573 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
574 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
575 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
576 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
577 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
578 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
580 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
581 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
582 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
583 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
584 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
585 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
586 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
587 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
588 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
589 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
590 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
591 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
593 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
594 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
597 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
598 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
599 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
601 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
602 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
603 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
604 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
605 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
606 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
608 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
609 email, using the `esmtp' library.
610 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
611 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
613 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
614 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
615 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
616 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
618 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
619 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
620 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
621 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
622 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
624 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
625 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
626 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
628 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
629 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
630 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
631 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
633 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
634 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
635 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
636 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
637 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
638 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
639 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
640 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
641 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
642 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
643 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
644 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
646 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
647 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
648 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
650 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
651 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
652 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
653 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
655 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
656 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
657 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
658 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
659 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
660 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
661 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
662 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
664 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
665 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
666 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
667 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
668 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
669 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
670 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
673 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
674 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
675 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
677 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
678 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
680 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
681 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
682 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianess of the
683 architecture collectd is being built on.
684 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
686 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
688 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
689 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
690 values under Solaris.
691 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
692 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
694 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
695 returned by some broken drivers.
697 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
698 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
699 to kyrone for reporting this.
700 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
702 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
704 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
705 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
706 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
707 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
709 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
710 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
711 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
712 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
713 flush its values to disk.
714 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
715 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
716 for each data source.
717 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
719 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
720 page of an Ascent server.
721 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
722 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
723 specific disks has been added.
724 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
725 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
726 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
728 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
729 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
730 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
731 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
732 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
733 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
734 configuration has been decreased.
735 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
736 continuously reading from log files.
737 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
738 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
739 and number of channels.
740 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
741 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
742 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
744 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
745 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
747 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianess more
749 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
750 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
751 again has been applied.
752 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
754 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
755 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
757 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
758 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
759 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
762 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
763 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
764 they are in non-standard paths.
765 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
766 if the libc expects it.
767 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
768 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
770 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
771 using a buffer of static size.
772 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
774 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
775 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
777 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
778 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
779 `Persist' threshold options.
780 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
781 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
782 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
783 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
784 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
786 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
787 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
789 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
790 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
791 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
792 cross-platform compatibility.
793 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
794 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
795 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
797 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
798 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
799 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
800 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
801 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
802 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
804 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
805 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
806 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
807 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
808 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
809 wants to add custom type definitions.
810 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
811 entire directories and shell wildcards.
812 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
813 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
814 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
815 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
816 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
817 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
818 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
819 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
820 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
821 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
822 domain name lookups in this plugin.
823 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
824 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
825 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
826 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
827 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
828 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
829 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
830 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
831 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
832 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
833 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
834 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
835 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
836 Technology group for this plugin.
838 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
839 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
840 they are in non-standard paths.
841 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
842 if the libc expects it.
843 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
844 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
846 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
847 using a buffer of static size.
848 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
850 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
851 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
853 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
854 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
855 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
856 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
857 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
859 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
860 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
861 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
863 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
864 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
865 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
866 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
867 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
868 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
869 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
870 cross-platform compatibility.
871 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
872 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
873 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
874 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
876 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
877 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
878 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
879 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
880 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
882 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
883 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
884 of the libsensors library.
886 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
887 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
888 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
890 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
891 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
894 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
895 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
897 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
899 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
900 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
901 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
902 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
903 definitions separate from the host definitions.
904 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
905 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
906 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
907 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
908 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
909 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
910 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
911 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
912 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
913 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
914 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
915 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
916 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
917 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
918 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
919 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
920 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
921 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
922 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
923 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
924 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
926 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
927 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
928 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
929 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
930 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
932 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
933 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
935 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
936 of the libsensors library.
938 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
939 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
940 it's in a non-standard location.
941 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
942 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
943 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
944 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
945 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
946 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
948 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
949 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
951 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
952 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
954 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
955 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
956 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
957 noise quality as percentage.
958 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
959 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
960 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
961 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
962 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
963 support for the `timeticks' type.
965 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
966 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
967 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
968 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
970 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
971 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
972 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
974 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
975 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
976 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
977 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
979 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
980 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
981 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
982 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
984 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
985 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
986 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
987 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
988 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
989 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
990 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
991 to not block data collection.
992 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
993 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
994 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
996 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
997 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
998 of music played with xmms.
1000 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
1001 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
1002 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1003 noise quality as percentage.
1004 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
1006 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
1007 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
1008 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
1009 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
1011 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
1012 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
1013 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
1014 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
1016 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
1017 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
1019 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
1020 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
1021 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
1022 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
1023 (i. e. without quotes).
1024 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
1025 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
1026 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
1028 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
1029 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
1030 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
1031 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
1033 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
1034 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
1035 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
1038 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
1039 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
1041 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
1042 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1043 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
1044 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1045 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
1046 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1047 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
1049 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
1050 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
1051 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
1052 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
1053 initialized correctly.
1054 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
1056 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
1057 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
1058 they're given in numerically form.
1060 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
1061 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
1062 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
1065 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
1066 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
1067 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
1068 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
1069 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
1070 thread-safe functions from now on.
1071 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
1072 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
1073 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
1075 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
1076 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
1077 write to increase IO-performance.
1078 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
1079 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
1080 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
1081 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
1082 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
1084 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
1085 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
1086 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
1088 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
1089 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
1090 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
1091 or STDOUT or STDERR.
1092 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
1093 system's syslog daemon.
1094 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
1095 entropy currently being available to the system.
1096 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
1097 back values provided by the forked processes.
1098 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
1099 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
1101 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
1102 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
1103 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
1104 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
1105 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
1106 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
1107 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
1108 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
1109 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
1111 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
1112 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1113 noise quality as percentage.
1115 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
1116 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
1118 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
1119 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
1120 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
1121 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
1122 were accounted as `zombies'.
1124 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
1125 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
1128 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
1129 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
1130 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
1132 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
1133 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
1134 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
1135 segfault with some libcs.
1137 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
1138 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
1139 under Solaris again.
1140 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
1142 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
1143 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
1145 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
1146 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
1147 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
1148 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
1149 write init.d-scripts for it.
1150 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
1151 caused problems every now and then.
1152 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
1153 filesystem types or devices.
1154 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
1155 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
1157 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
1158 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
1159 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
1160 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
1161 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
1162 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
1163 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
1164 segment size and pagefaults.
1165 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
1166 queries multimeters.
1167 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
1168 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
1169 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
1171 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
1172 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
1173 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
1174 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
1176 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
1177 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
1178 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
1179 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
1182 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
1183 * The sample config file has been improved.
1184 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
1185 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
1186 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
1187 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
1189 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
1190 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
1191 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
1193 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
1194 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
1196 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
1197 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
1198 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
1199 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
1201 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
1202 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
1203 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
1204 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
1205 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
1206 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
1207 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
1208 with a test environment :)
1209 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
1212 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
1213 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
1214 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
1216 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
1217 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
1218 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
1220 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
1221 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
1222 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
1224 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
1225 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
1227 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
1228 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1229 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1230 approximately 7.6 days.
1232 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
1233 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1234 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1235 approximately 7.6 days.
1237 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
1238 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
1240 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
1242 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
1244 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
1245 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
1246 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
1247 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
1248 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
1250 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
1251 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
1252 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
1253 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
1254 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
1255 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
1256 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
1257 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
1259 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
1260 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
1261 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
1262 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
1264 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
1265 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
1266 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
1268 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
1269 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
1270 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
1272 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
1273 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
1274 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
1277 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
1278 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
1279 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
1281 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
1282 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
1283 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
1284 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
1286 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
1287 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
1288 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
1290 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
1291 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
1293 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
1294 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
1296 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
1297 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
1299 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
1300 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
1302 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
1303 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
1304 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
1305 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
1306 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
1307 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
1308 address and/or port than localhost.
1309 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
1310 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
1311 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
1312 be set in the configfile.
1314 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
1315 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
1316 client mode. This released fixes this.
1318 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
1319 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
1320 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
1323 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
1324 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
1326 * A `df' plugin has been added.
1327 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
1328 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
1329 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
1331 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
1332 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
1333 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
1336 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
1337 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
1338 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
1340 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
1341 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
1342 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
1343 currently logged in users.
1344 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
1345 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
1346 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
1347 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
1349 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
1350 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
1351 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
1352 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
1353 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
1354 with the `-c' argument.
1355 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
1356 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
1357 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
1358 Barcellos for this patch.
1360 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
1361 * New modules have been added:
1362 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
1363 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
1364 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
1365 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
1367 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
1368 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
1370 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
1371 between polls up to one day.
1372 * The init.d files have been improved.
1373 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
1375 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
1376 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
1377 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
1379 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
1380 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
1381 multicast) has been added.
1382 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
1383 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
1384 to be linked against an external library.
1385 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
1386 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
1388 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
1389 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
1391 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
1392 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
1393 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
1394 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
1395 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
1396 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
1397 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
1398 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
1399 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
1402 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
1403 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
1405 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
1407 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
1408 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
1410 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
1411 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
1412 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
1413 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
1415 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
1416 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
1417 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
1419 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
1420 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
1421 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
1422 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
1423 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
1424 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
1425 statistics will not work.
1427 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
1428 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
1429 weird strings as disk-names..
1431 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
1432 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
1433 about the disks and partitions.
1435 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
1436 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
1437 and/or kernel versions.
1439 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
1440 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
1441 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
1443 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
1444 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
1445 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
1447 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
1448 * Collecting CPU statistics now
1450 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
1451 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
1453 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
1455 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
1456 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
1458 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
1459 * The following modules are provided:
projects / collectd.git / blob