1 2016-01-22, Version 5.5.1
2 * Build system: Compilation errors have been avoided by correctly
3 defining package name and version used by autoconf. Thanks to Nathan
5 * Build system: Dependency ordering was fixed to ensure parallel builds
6 work reliably. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias. #1125
7 * Build system: Error messages have been improved and building the unit
8 tests has been fixed on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster and
9 Dagobert Michelsen. #1077
10 * Build system: The move of the "utils_ignorelist" functions has been
11 reverted. This fixes build issues of numerous plugins. Thanks to
12 Benjamin Drung;. #1323
13 * Build system: The fhcount plugin has been restricted to Linux. Thanks
14 to Ruben Kerkhof. #1195
15 * Build system: Detection of header files for the turbostat plugin has
16 been fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1075
17 * collectd: The "LC_NUMERIC" locale is now forced, to prevent issues
18 with some plugins on environments using a comma as decimal separator.
19 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1237
20 * Documentation: Some precisions related to the virt plugin have beed
21 added. Thanks to Wojtek Bocer and Ruben Kerkhof.
22 * Documentation: The CollectdInternalStats documentation has been
23 improved. Thanks to Yves Mettier and Florian Forster.
24 * Battery plugin: A missing Type has been added. Thanks to Marc
26 * Bind plugin: An off-by-one error has been fixed: an index was checked
27 against a wrong variable, which may lead to an out-of-bounds read.
28 Thanks to Michal Humpula. #1123
29 * Ceph plugin: JSON parsing has been refactored to support ceph 10.0.0
30 and fixes several buffer overflows. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1350
31 * CPU plugin: A Mac OS X specific bug has been fixed: the plugin
32 expected an incorrect number of CPU states, resulting in failing read
33 callbacks. This regression was introduced in 5.5.0. Thanks to Robert
35 * Disk plugin: Support for Mac OS X 10.10 has been added. Thanks to
37 * IPC plugin: Support for building with musl-libc has been added. Thanks
38 to Natanael Copa. #1147
39 * Log Logstash plugin: A segfault when using libyajl, version 1 was
40 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #1190
41 * Log Logstash plugin: The timestamp is now ISO 8601 compliant. Thanks
42 to Marc Fournier. #1132
43 * memcached plugin: The Type of the listen-disabled metric was fixed.
44 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1356
45 * MySQL plugin: The Type used by Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_flushed was
46 fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1085
47 * OpenLDAP plugin: A crash when using LDAPI (LDAP-over-IPC) got fixed.
48 Thanks to Marek Becka. #1080
49 * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for Mac OS X has been added. Thanks to Ruben
51 * SMART plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
52 Schüller and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1076
53 * Swap plugin: A regression that would lead to swap usage being reported
54 in kilobytes (instead of bytes) has been fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka.
56 * Varnish plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Ruben
58 * Varnish plugin: Support for versions 3 and 4 has been made more
59 tolerant to minor changes in Varnish point releases. Thanks to Marc
61 * virt plugin: A copy-and-paste mistake in an error message has been
62 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1101
63 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
65 * Write Redis plugin: Dead code has been removed. Thanks to Brian Kelly.
67 * 27 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
68 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
69 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan and clang: Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
70 Florian Forster and Marek Becka.
71 * Collectd::Unixsock: A Perl error got corrected. Thanks to Ciaran Mac
74 2015-05-27, Version 5.5.0
75 * Build system: Ability to make out-of-tree builds has been fixed.
76 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #792
77 * Build system, Disk and Users plugins: Detection and use of libstatgrab
78 ≧ 0.90 has been added. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #445, #795, #806,
80 * Build system, Memory, CPU, TCPConns and Processes plugins: Numerous
81 fixes related to OpenBSD support have been added. Thanks to Landry
82 Breuil. #777, #778, #779, #808
83 * Build system: Plugins now only export "module_register()". Thanks to
85 * Build system: Various cleanups and improvements have been done. Thanks
87 * collectd: Numerous internal changes and improvements to the daemon and
88 the plugin API have been make. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves
89 Ritschard and Alex Petrov. #512, #727
90 * collectd: Numerous spelling mistakes have been corrected in comments
91 and documentation and several error messages have been improved.
92 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Abhinav Upadhyay, Olivier Bazoud, Pierre-Yves
93 Ritschard, Tim Smith, Moshe Zada, Katelyn Perry and Marc Fournier.
94 * collectd: Rules/Targets can now be appended to existing Filter Chains.
95 Thanks to Marc Falzon. #444
96 * collectd: Failing Filter Chains destinations will now log the list of
97 available write targets. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #650, #1043
98 * collectd: Support for process signaling and management by upstart and
99 systemd has been implemented for the Linux platform. Thanks to
100 Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. #798, #811, #814
101 * collectd: The "CollectInternalStats" option has been added. Thanks to
103 * collectd: The daemon source code and dependencies have moved to the
104 "src/daemon/" directory. Thanks to Florian Forster.
105 * collectd: The new "MaxReadInterval" option allows to cap the
106 exponential retry interval of plugins read errors. Thanks to Alexey
107 Remizov and Florian Forster. #713
108 * collectd: The "-P" command-line option now has precedence over the
109 "PIDFile" option. Thanks to Thomas D. #553
110 * collection.cgi: Various data-source related adjustments have been
111 made. Thanks to Fabiano Pires and Sebastian Harl.
112 * libcollectdclient: Now propagates errors when signing / encrypting
113 network packets. Thanks to Florian Forster.
114 * Configuration: Support for unquoted IPv6 addresses has been added.
115 Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #489
116 * Documentation: Various improvements have been done. Thanks to Florian
117 Forster and Marc Fournier.
118 * Examples: the sample C plugin has been updated to the current plugin
119 API. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
120 * Licensing: The following components have been relicensed to the MIT
121 license: the Apple Sensors, Ascent, DBI, E-Mail, Entropy, GenericJMX,
122 gmond, LogFile, nginx, Notify Desktop, NTPd, NUT, olsrd, Perl, Ping,
123 PostgreSQL, Protocols, RouterOS, RRDCacheD, SNMP, StatsD, SysLog,
124 Table, Tail, UnixSock, vmem, VServer, Wireless, Write Riemann and XMMS
125 plugins, the core collectd daemon, the collectdmon, collectd-nagios
126 and collectd-tg utilities, all the Targets and Matches, liboconfig,
127 most of the "utils_*" files and the plugin API.
128 * Tests: A test suite has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
129 * Threshold: The hysteresis calculation has been made more reliable.
130 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #581
131 * Threshold: Various fixes and improvements have been made. Thanks to
132 Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #649, #644
133 * AMQP plugin: The "ConnectionRetryDelay" option has been added,
134 allowing to delay reconnection. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam and Marc
136 * AMQP plugin: The "QueueDurable" and "QueueAutoDelete" options have
137 been added, giving control over queue creation and deletion. Thanks to
138 David Blundell and Marc Fournier. #623
139 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx and Write HTTP
140 plugins: Customizing the "User-Agent" field is now possible at
141 compile-time. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #440
142 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx plugins: The
143 connection will be reset if it hasn't completed within the configured
144 "Interval". The new "Timeout" option gives control over this behavior.
145 Thanks to Jan Kundrát and Marc Fournier. #982, #983, #993
146 * Apache, Ascent, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP plugins:
147 Allow usernames and passwords to contain colons if built against
148 libcurl ≧ 7.19.1. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #695, #947
149 * Apache plugin: The "SSLCiphers" option gives control over the
150 encryption algorithms to use with TLS connections. Thanks to Toni
152 * Barometer plugin: This new plugin reads sensor data from various
153 Freescale and Bosch digital barometers. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #69,
155 * Battery plugin: Reporting values as percentages and reporting degraded
156 batteries has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
157 * Battery plugin: Support for reading values from sysfs on Linux has
158 been added. Thanks to Andy Parkins, Nicholas Humfrey, Peter Wu and
159 Florian Forster. #725, #810, #998
160 * Battery plugin: The value for current is no longer supplied unless the
161 battery provides this information. Thanks to Florian Forster.
162 * BIND plugin: Bind's XML v3 API is now supported; Thanks to Victor
163 Berger, Bruno Prémont and Michal Humpula. #742, #847
164 * Ceph plugin: This new plugin collects statistics from the Ceph
165 distributed storage system. Thanks to Dan Ryder, Dennis Zou, Colin
166 McCabe, Sage Weil. #522, #598
167 * ConnTrack plugin: Support for reporting values as percentages as well
168 as legacy conntrack files in "/proc" has been added. Thanks to
169 Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #497, #680
170 * CPU plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages and
171 aggregate values per-state and per-CPU. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
172 Ritschard, Florian Forster, Fabien Wernli, Nicholas Humfrey and
173 Wilfried Goesgens. #499, #516, #639 #734, #812, #802
174 * cURL-JSON plugin: Extracting values from complex JSON structures has
175 been enhanced. Thanks to Jim Radford. #408, #411
176 * cURL-JSON plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-URL basis.
177 Thanks to Stan Sawa. #685
178 * cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, Write HTTP plugins: These plugins now also follow
179 HTTP redirects. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
180 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: HTTP Digest authentication has been
181 implemented. Thanks to Frank Cornelis. #482
182 * DBI, Oracle, PostgreSQL plugins: A "MetadataFrom" parameter has been
183 added which allows to set metadata from database columns. Thanks to
184 Mark Wong. #317, #321
185 * DBI plugin: Querying several databases in parallel is now possible.
186 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #453
187 * Disk plugin: On the Linux platform, disk names can now get looked up
188 in udev with the "UdevNameAttr" option. Thanks to Patrick Mooney. #537
189 * Disk plugin: This plugin now collects several additional I/O-related
190 metrics on the Linux platform. Thanks to Florian Forster and Michael
192 * DRBD plugin: This new plugin reads Linux's Distributed Replicated
193 Block Device (DRBD) statistics. Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #566, #700
194 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: The "PUTNOTIF" command now allows to set
195 metadata on notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #416
196 * fhcount plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used file
197 handles. Thanks to Jiri Tyr. #1009
198 * GenericJMX plugin: A Class Loader for "JMXConnectorFactory" has been
199 added, allowing the plugin to work with JBOSS > 7. Thanks to Alexandre
201 * IPC plugin: This new plugin collects information related to shared
202 memory. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz. #925
203 * Java plugin: Now uses the hostname defined in the configuration file.
204 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #530, #681
205 * Load plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
206 Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #344, #498
207 * Log Logstash plugin: This new plugin writes collectd logs and events
208 as Logstash JSON formatted events. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
210 * LVM plugin: The plugin collects thin pool data volumes size, and no
211 longer reports virtual volumes. Thanks to Benjamin Gilbert. #603
212 * memcached plugin: "listen_disabled_num" are now also reported. Thanks
213 to Matt Cottingham. #622
214 * Memory plugin: Slab memory reporting on the Linux platform has been
215 added. Thanks to Manuel CISSÉ and Marc Fournier. #560, #697
216 * Memory plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
217 Thanks to Jeremy Katz, Florian Forster and Manuel CISSÉ. #501, #511,
219 * Modbus plugin: Selecting between holding and input registers is now
220 possible. Thanks to Jan Vitek. #338
221 * Modbus plugin: Support for accessing devices through an RS-485 serial
222 port has been added. Thanks to Eric Sandeen.
223 * Multimeter plugin: This plugin isn't built by default on the AIX
224 platform anymore. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada. #549, #684
225 * MySQL and PostgreSQL plugins: Passing "127.0.0.1" as a host will now
226 result in the global Hostname being used in metric names. Thanks to
228 * MySQL plugin: InnoDB, Select and Sort statistics collection has been
229 added. Thanks to Wilson Felipe, Marek Becka and Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
230 #248, #621, #699, #824
231 * MySQL plugin: The "Alias" and "ConnectTimeout" options have been
232 added. Thanks to William Tisäter.
233 * Netlink plugin: Support for 64bit netlink counters has been added.
234 Thanks to Marek Becka. #435
235 * Network plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" configuration option has been
236 added. Thanks to John Ferlito. #732
237 * NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4.0 has been implemented. Thanks to Marek
239 * OneWire plugin: Support for more temperature-providing sensor families
240 has been added. Thanks to Tomasz Torcz. #672
241 * OneWire plugin: Support for full OWFS path and more device families
242 has been implemented. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #68
243 * OpenLDAP plugin: This new plugin reads monitoring information from
244 OpenLDAP's "cn=Monitor" subtree. Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum, Marc
245 Fournier and Nicholas Humfrey. #719
246 * OpenVPN plugin: Support for OpenVPN 2.3.0 has been implemented. Thanks
248 * OpenVZ plugin: Various improvements have been made, making the plugin
249 report values like the other collectd plugins do. Thanks to Chris
251 * Perl plugin: A new "listval_filter" method has been added, various
252 internal cleanups and improvements have been made and a test suite has
253 been added. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #728
254 * PostgreSQL plugin: The new "ExpireDelay" option allows skipping older
255 values pending write when the database slows down. Thanks to Stephen
257 * PowerDNS plugin: The plugin was updated for stats from pdns 3.4.3.
258 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #965
259 * Processes plugin: A memory-usage related optimization for low-profile
260 systems has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #652
261 * Python plugin: Support for Python3 has been improved, "ModulePath" is
262 now prepended to "sys.path", and the "get_dataset()" function has been
263 added to the Python API. Thanks to Sven Trenkel and Patrick Browne.
265 * Redis and Write_Redis plugins: The support library has been switched
266 from credis to hiredis. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz, Victor Seva, Marc
267 Fournier, Johan Bergström, Michael Spiegle and brianpkelly. #296,
268 #464, #475, #799, #1030
269 * Redis plugin: Custom commands can now be used to fetch values stored
270 in Redis. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #816
271 * Redis plugin: Support for passwords up to 512 characters long has been
272 added. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #532
273 * Sensors plugin: Support for lm_sensors' power sensors has been added.
274 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #571
275 * SMART plugin: This new plugin collects SMART statistics from disk
276 drives. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #797
277 * SNMP plugin: A blacklist/whitelist feature can now be used to filter
278 which OIDs to collect. Thanks to Christophe Courtaut. #414
279 * SNMP plugin: SNMPv3 authentication and encryption support has been
280 implemented. Thanks to Michael Pilat. #362
281 * SNMP plugin: Two error messages have been disambiguated. Thanks to
283 * Swap plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
284 Thanks to Jeremy Katz and Florian Forster. #500, #510
285 * Swap plugin: The plugin no longer fails on Linux systems where
286 "SwapCached" isn't exposed by the kernel. Thanks to Florian Forster.
288 * Tail plugin: "GaugeInc" and "GaugeAdd" options have been implemented.
289 Thanks to Andre Ferraz. #673
290 * Tail plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-File basis.
291 Thanks to Tom Leaman. #446
292 * TCPConns plugin: The "AllPortsSummary" option, allowing to summarize
293 all connections, has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #488
294 * TCPConns plugin: Three metrics were renamed on the AIX platform, for
295 the sake of consistency. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #546
296 * Turbostat plugin: This new plugin reads CPU frequency and C-state
297 residency on modern Intel turbo-capable processors. Thanks to Vincent
298 Brillault, Jean Delvare and Nicolas Iooss. #651
299 * UnixSock plugin: The "GETTHRESHOLD" command has been re-added. Thanks
300 to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #674
301 * Varnish plugin: Varnish 4 support has been added, as well as as
302 monitoring metrics only available in Varnish 4. Thanks to Marc
304 * virt plugin: Guests memory usage is now also collected. Thanks to
305 Tiago Carvalho, jazzmes and Zollner Robert.
306 * virt plugin: It is now possible to chose between using guests' name or
307 UUID as plugin_instance. Thanks to Remi Ferrand. #385
308 * virt plugin: The libvirt plugin has been renamed to virt. Thanks to
310 * Write Graphite plugin: When the connection to graphite fails,
311 reconnection attempts are now limited to once per second. Thanks to
312 Florian Forster. #625
313 * Write HTTP plugin: Multi-instance support of this plugin has been
314 improved. The "<URL "url">" block has been deprecated in favor of
315 "<Node "identifier">". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #902
316 * Write HTTP plugin: Several TLS-related configuration options have been
317 added. Thanks to Ingmar Runge. #666
318 * Write HTTP plugin: The "LowSpeedLimit" and "Timeout" options allow to
319 reset slow/stalled network connections. Thanks to loginator17 and Marc
321 * Write HTTP plugin: The size of the payload posted to the HTTP server
322 can now be controlled with the "BufferSize" option. Thanks to Florian
324 * Write Kafka plugin: This new plugin sends data to Apache Kafka, a
325 distributed messaging queue. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard,
326 ciomaire, Vincent Bernat, Marc Fournier. #670, #694, #794, #853, #014
327 * Write Log plugin: This new plugin dispatches collected values to the
328 configured log destination(s). Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #886
329 * Write Riemann plugin: Extra meta strings are now added as attributes
330 in notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #417
331 * Write Riemann plugin: Notification message are now sent to the Riemann
332 server via the description field. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #575
333 * Write Riemann plugin: Support for custom attributes has been added.
334 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #459
335 * Write Riemann plugin: Support had been implemented for sending events
336 to Riemann in batches (when using TCP), and is enabled by default.
337 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #800
338 * Write Riemann plugin: The "EventServicePrefix" option has been added,
339 which adds a prefix to event service names. Thanks to Moshe Zada. #706
340 * Write Riemann plugin: Threshold checks can now be passed down to the
341 Riemann server. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #518
342 * Write Sensu plugin: This new plugin submits values to Sensu, a stream
343 processing and monitoring system. Thanks to Fabrice A. Marie and Marc
344 Fournier. #912, #1001, #1016
345 * Write TSDB plugin: This new plugin sends data to OpenTSDB, a scalable
346 time series database. Thanks to Kevin Bowling, Florian Forster, Dallin
347 Young, Michael Schenck and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #703, #772, #945
348 * ZFS ARC plugin: Support for ZFS-on-Linux has been added. Thanks to
349 Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. #552
350 * Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache Zookeeper
351 "MNTR" command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826
353 2015-02-26, Version 5.4.2
354 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
355 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
356 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
358 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
359 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
360 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
362 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c. Thanks to
364 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
365 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
366 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
367 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
368 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
369 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
370 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
371 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
372 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
373 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
374 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
375 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
376 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
378 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
379 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
380 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
381 * Documentation: Documentation of the "AutoLoadPlugin" option has been
382 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #715
383 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
384 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
385 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
386 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
387 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML and Write HTTP plugins: Call
388 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
390 * cURL and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
391 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
392 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
393 Florian Forster. #663
394 * curl-json: A bug, which triggered when two URLs with a long common
395 prefix were configured, was fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #582
396 * dbi: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been restored.
397 Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
398 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
399 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
400 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
401 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
402 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
403 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
405 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
406 Thanks to Florian Forster.
407 * LogFile and SysLog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
408 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
409 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
410 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
411 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
412 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
413 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
415 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
417 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
418 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
419 * RRDtool and RRDCacheD plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
420 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
421 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
422 Ritschard. #610, #804
423 * statsd: Support for samplerates in timer metrics was added. Thanks
425 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
426 to Florian Forster. #733
427 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
428 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
429 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
431 * lvm: An issue with Volume Groups (VGs) without Logical Volumes (LVs)
432 has been fixed. Thanks to Jan Kundrát.
433 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
434 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
435 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
437 * write_redis: A formatting bug, which resulted in totally unusable
438 numbers being transmitted to Redis, was fixed. Thanks to Marc
440 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
443 2014-01-26, Version 5.4.1
444 * amqp plugin: Add support for RabbitMQ 0.4.x to avoid compiler
445 warnings. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for implementing this.
446 * apache / network plugins: Improved initialization order hopefully
447 resolved gcrypt initialization problems.
448 * aquaero plugin: The type used to submit fan utilization was fixed.
449 Thanks to Alex Deymo for the patch.
450 * cgroups plugin: A small memory leak was fixed. Checking the existence
451 of a mount option without a value was fixed. More permissive parsing
452 of the cpuacct.stats file fixes support for some versions of Linux.
453 Thanks to Marc Fournier for bug reports and patches.
454 * curl plugin: Fix <Match> blocks without an instance. Thanks to
455 Alexander Golovko for reporting and Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
456 * curl_json plugin: Potentially invalid memory access has been
457 sanitized. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
458 * interface plugin: Fix behavior under FreeBSD 10: Reporting of
459 per-address statistics caused duplicate updates to the same metric.
460 Thanks to demon / @trtrmitya for the patch.
461 * write_graphite plugin: Use TCP to connect to Graphite by default. The
462 default changed from TCP to UDP between 5.3.1 and 5.4.0, which is a
463 regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier for fixing this. Reconnect
464 behavior was improved. Thanks to Michael Hart for his patch.
465 * zfs_arc plugin: Collect "allocated" and "stolen" on FreeBSD only.
467 2013-08-18, Version 5.4.0
468 * collectd: The "LoadPlugin" config option no longer attempts to load
469 plugins twice. If more than one "LoadPlugin" statement or block is
470 encountered, only the first will have any effect.
471 * collectd: The "AutoLoadPlugin" option allows to automatically load
472 plugins for which a configuration is found.
473 * collectd: The "WriteQueueLimitHigh" and "WriteQueueLimitLow" options
474 allow collectd to drop values when under stress, to avoid running out
475 of memory. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patch.
476 * amqp plugin: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
477 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options have been added. Thanks to Laurent
479 * aquaero plugin: This new plugin reads various metrics, e.g. fan
480 speeds and temperatures, from Aquaero 5, a fan and water cooling
481 control panel. Thanks to Alex Deymo for his patch.
482 * curl plugin: The "MeasureResponseCode" option has been added. Thanks
483 to Jan Matějka for his patch.
484 * curl_json plugin: Support for UNIX domain sockets and array wildcards
485 has been added. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
486 * curl_xml plugin: Support for long URLs has been improved.
487 * cgroups plugin: This new plugin collects CPU accounting information
488 for processes in a cgroup. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for his patch.
489 * df plugin: The "ValuesAbsolute" and "ValuesPercentage" options have
490 been added. Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek for the patch.
491 * exec plugin: Do UID / GID lookups before forking. This should prevent
492 a race condition in the NSS library. Thanks to Ceri Storey for the
494 * lvm plugin: This new plugin collects size information from Linux'
495 Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Thanks to Chad Malfait for his work.
496 * memcached plugin: Support for increment and decrement counts has been
497 added. Thanks to Blake Matheny for the patch.
498 * mic plugin: This new plugin collects CPU and memory usage, power
499 consumption and temperatures of Intel's Many-Integrated-Core (MIC)
500 architecture, such as Xeon Phi cards. Thanks to Evan Felix for his
502 * netlink plugin: This plugin has been converted to use the supported
503 "libmnl" library. Thanks to Andreas Henriksson for his patch.
504 * nginx plugin: Collection of accepted and handled connections has been
505 added. Thanks to Patrick Shan for his patch.
506 * sigrok plugin: This new plugin collects metrics from sigrok, a signal
507 processing framework reading various hardware devices, from light
508 meters to spectrum analyzers. Thanks to Bert Vermeulen for his patch.
509 * statsd plugin: This new plugin listens to a UDP socket and reads
510 metrics in the StatsD format.
511 * varnish plugin: Many additional metrics have been added. Thanks to
512 Nick Stenning for his patch.
513 * write_graphite plugin: Support for "UDP" has been added. Thanks to
514 Javier Maestro for his patch.
515 * write_riemann plugin: The "TTLFactor" option has been added.
516 * zfs_arc plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li
519 2015-02-26, Version 5.3.2
520 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
521 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
522 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
524 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
525 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
526 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
528 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c Thanks to
530 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
531 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
532 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
533 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
534 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
535 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
536 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
537 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
538 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
539 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
540 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
541 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
542 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
544 * Documentation: The synopsis of the threshold has been fixed. Thanks
546 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
547 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
548 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
549 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
550 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
551 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
552 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
553 * csv: A regression which would lead to the "DataDir" option to be
554 ignored has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada.
555 * curl, curl-json, curl-xml and write_http plugins: Call
556 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
558 * curl and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
559 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
560 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
561 Florian Forster. #663
562 * dbi plugin: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been
563 restored. Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
564 * exec, unixsock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
565 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
566 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
567 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
569 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
570 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
571 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
572 Thanks to Florian Forster.
573 * logfile and syslog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
574 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
575 * memcached: Connecting to a UNIX socket has been fixed. Thanks to Jim
577 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
578 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
579 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
580 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
581 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
583 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
585 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
586 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
587 * replace and set targets: Fix error message. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
589 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: Honor the "DataDir" config option;
590 this fixes a regression. Thanks to Florian Forster. #380
591 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
592 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
593 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
594 Ritschard. #610, #804
595 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
596 to Florian Forster. #733
597 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
598 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
599 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
601 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
602 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
603 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
605 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
608 2013-07-13, Version 5.3.1
609 * Documentation: Various fixes.
610 * Configuration: Fix error handling: Errors in included files were
611 ignored, causing configuration mistakes to go unnoticed.
612 * dns plugin: Don't abort when PCAP returns an error.
613 * modbus plugin: The reconnection strategy was improved, fixing a
614 segfault in the libmodbud library. Thanks to Stefan Nickl and
615 Fabien Wernli for their patches.
616 * mysql plugin: The notification about a newly running MySQL slave
617 thread has been fixed. Thanks to Joaquín Cuenca Abela for the patch.
618 * snmp plugin: A build issue has been fixed (C99 mixed declaration).
619 The end-of-tree check has been improved by Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
620 * threshold plugin: Handling of the "Interesting" configuration option
621 has been fixed. Thanks to Björn for the patch.
622 * write_riemann plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Dave
623 Cottlehuber for reporting it.
625 2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0
626 * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include
627 only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
629 * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This
630 improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act
631 as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for
632 reviewing this change and fixing bugs.
633 * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using
634 regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric
635 can now be set via the configuration file.
636 * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented.
637 * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers
638 has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
639 * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks
640 to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
641 * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The
642 "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch.
643 * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to
644 Greg Mason for his patch.
645 * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks
646 to Johan Wirén for his patch.
647 * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication /
648 compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
649 patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work.
650 * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks
651 to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
652 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been
653 implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created
654 asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances.
655 Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code.
656 * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV
657 files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for
659 * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added.
660 * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to
661 Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to
662 Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work.
664 2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2
665 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
666 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
667 Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks
668 to Sebastian Harl for his patch.
669 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
670 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
671 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
672 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
673 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
674 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
675 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
676 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
677 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
678 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
679 Tomas Doran for his patch.
680 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
681 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
682 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
683 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
684 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
685 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
686 * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
687 * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
688 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
689 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
690 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
691 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
692 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
693 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
694 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
697 2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1
698 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris
699 and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches.
700 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
701 more frequently than intended.
702 * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added.
703 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
704 Ed Schouten for his patch.
705 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
706 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
707 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
708 Ed Schouten for his patch.
709 * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed.
710 A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was
711 configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these
713 * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
714 Ritschard for his patch.
715 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
716 * write_graphite plugin: A regression which rendered the
717 "SeparateInstances" and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been
718 fixed. A failed assertion when using types with many data sources
719 has been fixed. Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
720 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
722 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
723 Mettier for reporting this bug.
725 2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0
726 * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved.
727 Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch.
728 * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a
729 per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for
731 * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real
732 looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new
734 * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets
735 in the binary format has been added.
736 * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple
737 value lists into one.
738 * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON
739 output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch.
740 * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to
741 Thomas Meson for the patch.
742 * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to
743 Manuel Rozada for his patch.
744 * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the
746 * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't
748 * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks
749 to "Davide Guerri" for the patch.
750 * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added.
751 Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch.
752 * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The
753 behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to
754 Johan Kiviniemi for the patches.
755 * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added.
756 * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's
757 packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes
759 * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added.
760 Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added.
761 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches.
762 * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
763 Cosmin Ioiart for the patch.
764 * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added.
765 Thanks to biancalana for the patch.
766 * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan",
767 "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added.
768 * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX
769 version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out
770 "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch.
771 * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc
772 for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch.
774 2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3
775 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
776 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
777 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
778 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
779 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
780 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
781 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
782 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
783 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
784 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
785 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
786 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
787 Tomas Doran for his patch.
788 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
789 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
790 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
791 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
792 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
793 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
794 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
795 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
796 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
797 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
798 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
799 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
800 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
803 2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2
804 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves
805 Mettier for his patches.
806 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
807 more frequently than intended.
808 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
809 Ed Schouten for his patch.
810 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
811 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
812 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
813 Ed Schouten for his patch.
814 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
815 * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
816 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
818 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
819 Mettier for reporting this bug.
821 2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1
822 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
823 unwanted permission bits.
824 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
825 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
826 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
827 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
828 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
829 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
830 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
831 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
832 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
834 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
835 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
836 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
837 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
838 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
839 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
840 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
841 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
842 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
843 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
844 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
845 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
847 * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of
848 uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for
849 reporting these problems.
850 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
851 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
852 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
853 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
854 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
856 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
857 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
858 "KIvosak" for the patch.
859 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
860 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
861 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
862 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
863 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
865 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
866 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
867 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
868 "biancalana" for the fix.
869 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
870 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
871 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
872 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
873 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
875 * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been
876 fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch.
877 * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and
878 later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch.
880 2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0
881 * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has
883 * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using
884 "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
885 * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use
886 the system time rather than the time reported by BIND.
887 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been
888 added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch.
889 * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics
890 directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch.
891 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in
892 addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
893 Ritschard for his patch.
894 * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default
895 ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g.
897 * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various
898 states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
900 * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been
902 * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin
903 Ioiart for his patch.
904 * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the
905 Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux.
906 * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation.
907 Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch.
908 * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been
910 * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to
911 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch.
912 * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added.
913 * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added.
914 Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
915 * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel
916 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
917 * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to
918 Aaron Brady for his patch.
919 * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to
920 Jérôme Renard for his patches.
921 * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value
922 lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch
923 and Chris Lundquist for their work.
924 * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value
925 lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series
926 database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their
928 * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to
929 Aurelien Rougemont for his patches.
930 * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been
931 added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
933 2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5
934 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
935 unwanted permission bits.
936 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
937 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
938 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
939 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
940 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
941 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
942 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
943 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
944 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
946 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
947 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
948 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
949 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
950 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
951 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
952 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
953 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
954 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
955 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
956 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
957 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
959 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
960 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
961 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
962 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
963 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
965 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
966 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
967 "KIvosak" for the patch.
968 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
969 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
970 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
971 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
972 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
974 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
975 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
976 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
977 "biancalana" for the fix.
978 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
979 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
980 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
981 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
982 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
985 2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4
986 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
987 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
989 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
990 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
992 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
993 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
994 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
996 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
997 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
999 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1000 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1002 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1003 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1005 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1006 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1008 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1009 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1010 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1011 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1012 runtime has been fixed.
1014 2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3
1015 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1016 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1017 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1019 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1020 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1021 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1022 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1023 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1024 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1025 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1027 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1029 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1030 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1031 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1032 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1033 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1035 2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2
1036 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1037 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1038 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1039 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1041 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1042 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1043 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1044 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1046 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1047 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1048 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1049 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1050 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1051 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1052 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1053 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1054 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1055 for fixing this bug!
1057 2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1
1058 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1059 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1060 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1061 to Peter Green for his patch.
1062 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1063 McCabe for the patch.
1064 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1065 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1066 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1067 code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module.
1068 * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts.
1069 Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this.
1070 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1071 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1072 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1073 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1074 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1075 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1076 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1077 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1078 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1079 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1080 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1081 * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values
1082 were submitted as gauge even though they were derives.
1083 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1084 Flisher for the fix.
1086 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
1087 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
1088 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
1089 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
1090 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
1091 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
1092 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
1093 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
1095 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
1096 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
1097 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
1098 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
1099 added to the collectd client library.
1100 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
1101 one data source has been changed to "value".
1102 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
1103 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
1104 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
1105 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
1106 maximum value is unspecified.
1107 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
1108 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
1109 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1110 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1111 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1112 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
1113 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
1114 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
1115 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
1116 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
1118 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1119 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
1120 "Connection" blocks.
1121 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
1123 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
1125 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
1126 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
1127 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
1128 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
1130 * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
1131 license has been changed to LGPLv2.1.
1132 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
1133 data sets used have been improved.
1134 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
1136 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1137 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1138 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
1139 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
1140 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
1141 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
1142 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
1143 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
1144 this separate plugin.
1145 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
1146 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
1147 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
1148 Fournier for their contributions.
1149 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
1151 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
1153 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
1156 2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9
1157 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1158 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1159 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1160 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1161 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1162 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1163 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1164 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1165 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1166 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1167 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1168 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1169 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1170 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1171 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1172 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1173 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1174 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1177 2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8
1178 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1179 unwanted permission bits.
1180 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1181 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1182 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1183 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1184 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1185 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1186 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1187 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1188 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1189 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1190 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1191 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1192 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1193 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1194 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1195 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1197 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1198 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1199 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1201 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1202 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1203 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1204 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1205 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1206 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1207 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1208 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1210 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1211 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1212 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1213 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1214 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1215 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1216 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1219 2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7
1220 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1221 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1222 plugin under Gentoo.
1223 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1224 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1226 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1227 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1228 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1229 Opter for his patch.
1230 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1231 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1233 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1234 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1236 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1237 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1239 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1240 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1242 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1243 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1244 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1245 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1246 runtime has been fixed.
1248 2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6
1249 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1250 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1251 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1253 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1254 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1255 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1256 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1257 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1258 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1259 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1261 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1263 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1264 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1265 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1266 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1267 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1269 2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5
1270 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1271 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1272 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1273 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1275 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1276 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1277 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1278 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1280 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1281 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1282 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1283 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1284 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1285 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1286 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1287 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1288 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1289 for fixing this bug!
1291 2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4
1292 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1293 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1294 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1295 to Peter Green for his patch.
1296 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1297 McCabe for the patch.
1298 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1299 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1300 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1302 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1303 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1304 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1305 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1306 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1307 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1308 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1309 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1310 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1311 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1312 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1313 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1314 Flisher for the fix.
1316 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
1317 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1318 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
1320 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
1321 percentage calculation has been fixed.
1322 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
1324 * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
1325 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
1326 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
1327 * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
1328 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
1329 error handling case.
1330 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
1331 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
1334 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
1335 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
1336 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
1337 the rest of the configuration if possible.
1338 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
1339 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
1340 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
1341 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
1342 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
1343 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
1344 configurable timeout value.
1345 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
1346 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
1347 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1348 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
1349 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
1350 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
1351 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1353 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1354 to prevent spamming the logs.
1355 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1356 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1357 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1358 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1360 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
1362 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1363 Trenkel for the patch.
1365 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
1366 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1367 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1368 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
1369 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
1371 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
1372 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
1373 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
1375 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
1376 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
1377 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
1378 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
1379 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
1380 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
1381 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
1382 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
1383 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
1384 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
1386 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
1387 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
1388 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
1389 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
1390 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
1391 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
1392 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
1394 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
1396 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
1397 lines from the match.
1398 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
1399 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
1401 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
1402 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
1403 Malek for the patch.
1404 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
1405 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
1407 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
1408 certain lines from the match.
1409 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
1410 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
1411 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
1412 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
1413 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
1414 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
1415 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
1416 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
1417 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
1418 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
1419 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
1420 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
1421 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
1422 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
1423 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
1424 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
1425 Sebastian Harl for his work.
1426 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
1427 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
1428 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
1429 Sven Trenkel for his work.
1430 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
1431 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
1432 MikroTik devices has been added.
1433 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
1434 Scraba for his patch.
1435 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
1436 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
1437 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
1438 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
1439 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
1440 Ammous for his patch.
1442 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
1443 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1444 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
1446 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
1447 percentage calculation has been fixed.
1448 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
1450 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
1451 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
1452 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
1453 error handling case.
1454 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
1455 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
1458 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
1459 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
1460 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
1461 the rest of the configuration if possible.
1462 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
1463 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
1464 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
1465 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
1466 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
1467 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
1468 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
1469 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1470 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
1471 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
1472 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
1473 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1475 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1476 to prevent spamming the logs.
1477 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1478 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1479 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1480 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1482 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1483 Trenkel for the patch.
1485 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
1486 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1487 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1488 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
1489 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
1491 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
1492 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
1493 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
1494 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
1496 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
1497 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
1498 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
1499 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
1500 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
1501 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
1502 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
1503 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
1504 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
1505 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
1506 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
1507 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
1509 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
1510 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
1511 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1512 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
1513 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
1514 figuring out a way to make this work.
1515 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
1516 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
1517 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
1518 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
1519 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
1521 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
1523 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
1524 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
1525 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
1526 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
1527 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
1528 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
1529 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
1530 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1532 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1533 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1534 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1535 an unknown data source type.
1536 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1537 packets has been fixed.
1538 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
1540 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
1541 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
1542 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
1543 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
1544 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
1545 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1547 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
1548 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
1549 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
1550 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
1551 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
1552 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
1553 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
1554 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1555 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1557 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
1558 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
1559 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
1562 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
1563 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
1564 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
1565 Weiskircher for the patch.
1566 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
1567 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1568 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
1569 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
1570 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
1571 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
1572 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
1573 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
1574 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
1575 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
1576 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
1577 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
1578 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
1580 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
1581 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
1582 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
1583 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
1584 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
1585 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1586 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
1587 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1588 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
1589 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
1590 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
1591 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
1592 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
1593 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
1594 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
1595 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1596 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
1597 storage has been added.
1598 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
1599 value has been added.
1601 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
1602 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
1603 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1604 an unknown data source type.
1606 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
1607 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
1608 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1609 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
1610 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
1611 figuring out a way to make this work.
1612 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
1613 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
1614 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
1615 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
1617 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
1619 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
1620 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
1621 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
1622 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
1623 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
1624 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1626 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1627 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1628 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1629 packets has been fixed.
1630 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
1631 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
1632 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
1633 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
1634 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
1635 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1637 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
1638 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
1639 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
1640 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1641 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1644 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
1645 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
1646 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
1647 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
1648 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
1649 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
1651 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
1652 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
1653 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
1654 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
1655 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
1656 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
1658 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
1659 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
1660 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
1661 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
1663 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
1664 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
1666 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
1667 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
1668 issues on some platforms.
1669 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
1670 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1671 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
1672 descriptor handling.
1674 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
1675 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
1676 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
1677 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
1678 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
1679 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
1681 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
1682 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
1683 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
1684 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1685 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
1686 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
1687 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1688 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
1689 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
1690 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
1691 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
1693 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
1694 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
1695 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
1696 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
1697 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
1698 Aman Gupta for the patch.
1699 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
1700 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
1701 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
1702 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
1703 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
1705 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
1706 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
1708 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
1709 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
1710 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1711 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
1712 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
1713 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
1714 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
1715 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1716 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
1717 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
1718 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
1719 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
1720 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
1721 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
1723 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
1724 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
1725 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
1726 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
1727 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
1728 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
1730 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
1731 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
1732 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
1733 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
1735 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
1736 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
1737 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
1738 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
1740 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
1741 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
1743 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
1744 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
1745 issues on some platforms.
1746 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
1747 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1748 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
1749 descriptor handling.
1751 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
1752 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
1753 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1754 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
1755 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
1756 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
1758 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
1759 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
1760 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
1761 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
1762 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
1763 Hess for reporting this bug.
1764 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
1765 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
1766 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
1767 is linked with the shipped library, too.
1768 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
1769 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
1770 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
1771 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
1772 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
1773 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
1774 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
1775 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
1776 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
1777 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
1778 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
1779 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
1780 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1783 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
1784 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
1786 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
1787 Díaz for fixing this bug.
1788 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
1789 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
1790 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
1791 for reporting the bug.
1792 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
1794 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
1795 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
1796 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
1797 libtool 2.2 has been added.
1798 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
1799 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
1800 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
1801 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
1802 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
1804 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
1805 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
1806 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
1807 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
1808 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
1810 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
1811 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1813 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
1814 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
1815 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
1816 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
1817 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
1818 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
1819 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1820 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
1821 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
1822 Konetzko for the patch.
1823 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
1824 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
1825 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
1826 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
1827 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
1828 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
1829 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
1830 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
1831 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
1832 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
1833 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
1834 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
1835 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1836 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
1837 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
1838 Quiédeville for the patch.
1839 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
1841 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
1842 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
1843 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
1844 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
1845 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
1846 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
1847 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
1848 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
1850 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
1851 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
1852 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
1853 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
1854 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
1855 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
1857 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
1858 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
1859 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
1860 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
1862 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
1863 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
1864 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
1865 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
1866 Hess for reporting this bug.
1867 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
1868 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
1869 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
1870 is linked with the shipped library, too.
1871 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
1872 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
1873 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
1874 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
1875 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1878 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
1879 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
1880 Díaz for fixing this bug.
1881 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
1882 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
1883 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
1884 for reporting the bug.
1886 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
1887 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
1888 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
1889 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
1890 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
1891 providing an OpenBSD system.
1892 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
1893 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
1894 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
1895 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
1896 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
1898 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
1900 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
1901 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
1902 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
1903 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1904 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
1906 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
1907 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
1908 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1910 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
1911 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
1912 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
1913 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
1915 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
1916 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
1917 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
1918 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
1919 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
1920 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
1921 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
1922 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
1923 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
1924 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
1925 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
1926 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
1927 initialized, the daemon may crash.
1929 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
1930 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
1931 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
1932 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
1933 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
1934 for finding and fixing most of them.
1935 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
1936 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
1938 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
1939 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
1940 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
1941 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
1942 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1943 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
1944 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
1945 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
1946 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
1947 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
1948 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
1950 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
1951 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
1952 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
1953 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
1955 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
1956 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
1957 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
1958 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
1959 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
1960 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
1961 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
1962 Kuhnle for the patch.
1963 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
1964 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
1965 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
1966 MacEachern for the patch.
1967 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
1968 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
1969 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
1970 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
1971 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
1972 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
1973 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
1974 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
1975 select interfaces, too.
1976 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
1977 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
1978 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
1980 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
1981 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
1982 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
1983 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
1984 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
1985 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1986 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
1987 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
1988 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
1989 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
1991 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
1992 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
1993 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
1994 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
1995 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
1996 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
1997 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
1998 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
2000 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
2001 been added. Portability fixes.
2002 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
2003 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
2004 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
2006 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
2009 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
2010 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2011 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2012 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2013 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2014 providing an OpenBSD system.
2015 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
2016 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2018 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
2019 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2020 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2021 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2022 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2023 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2025 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2026 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2027 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2028 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2030 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
2031 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
2033 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
2034 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2035 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
2037 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2038 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2039 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
2040 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
2042 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
2043 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2044 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2045 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2047 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2048 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2049 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
2050 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
2051 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
2052 provide these necessary functions.
2053 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2054 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
2056 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
2057 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2058 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2059 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
2061 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2062 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2063 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2064 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2065 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2066 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2068 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
2069 invalid configuration options.
2070 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2071 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2072 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2074 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
2075 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2076 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2077 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2079 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2080 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2081 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2082 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2083 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2084 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2085 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2086 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2088 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2089 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2090 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
2091 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
2092 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2093 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2094 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2095 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
2096 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
2097 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
2098 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
2099 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
2101 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2102 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2105 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
2106 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
2107 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
2109 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
2110 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
2111 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
2112 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
2113 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
2114 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
2116 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
2117 email, using the `esmtp' library.
2118 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
2119 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
2121 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
2122 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
2123 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
2124 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
2126 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
2127 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
2128 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
2129 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
2130 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
2132 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
2133 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
2134 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
2136 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
2137 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2138 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2139 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2141 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2142 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2143 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2144 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
2145 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2146 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2147 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2148 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2149 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2150 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2151 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2152 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2154 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2155 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2156 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2158 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
2159 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2160 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2161 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2163 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2164 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2165 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2166 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2167 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2168 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2169 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2170 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2172 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2173 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2174 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2175 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2176 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2177 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2178 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2181 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
2182 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
2183 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2185 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2186 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
2188 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
2189 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
2190 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianness of the
2191 architecture collectd is being built on.
2192 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
2194 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
2196 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
2197 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
2198 values under Solaris.
2199 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
2200 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
2202 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
2203 returned by some broken drivers.
2205 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
2206 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
2207 to kyrone for reporting this.
2208 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
2210 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
2212 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
2213 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
2214 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
2215 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
2217 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
2218 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
2219 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
2220 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
2221 flush its values to disk.
2222 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
2223 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
2224 for each data source.
2225 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
2227 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
2228 page of an Ascent server.
2229 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2230 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
2231 specific disks has been added.
2232 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2233 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
2234 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
2236 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
2237 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
2238 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
2239 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
2240 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
2241 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
2242 configuration has been decreased.
2243 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
2244 continuously reading from log files.
2245 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
2246 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
2247 and number of channels.
2248 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2249 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
2250 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
2252 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
2253 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
2255 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianness more
2257 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
2258 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
2259 again has been applied.
2260 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2262 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2263 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
2265 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2266 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2267 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
2270 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
2271 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2272 they are in non-standard paths.
2273 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2274 if the libc expects it.
2275 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2276 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2278 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2279 using a buffer of static size.
2280 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2282 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2283 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2285 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
2286 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
2287 `Persist' threshold options.
2288 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
2289 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2290 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2291 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2292 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2294 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
2295 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2297 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2298 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2299 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2300 cross-platform compatibility.
2301 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2302 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2303 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2305 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
2306 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
2307 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
2308 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
2309 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
2310 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
2312 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
2313 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
2314 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
2315 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
2316 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
2317 wants to add custom type definitions.
2318 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
2319 entire directories and shell wildcards.
2320 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
2321 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
2322 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
2323 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
2324 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
2325 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
2326 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
2327 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
2328 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
2329 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
2330 domain name lookups in this plugin.
2331 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
2332 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
2333 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
2334 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
2335 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
2336 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
2337 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
2338 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
2339 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
2340 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
2341 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
2342 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
2343 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
2344 Technology group for this plugin.
2346 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
2347 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2348 they are in non-standard paths.
2349 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2350 if the libc expects it.
2351 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2352 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2354 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2355 using a buffer of static size.
2356 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2358 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2359 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2361 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
2362 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2363 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2364 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2365 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2367 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
2368 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
2369 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2371 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
2372 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
2373 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
2374 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
2375 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2376 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2377 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2378 cross-platform compatibility.
2379 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2380 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
2381 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2382 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2384 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
2385 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
2386 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
2387 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
2388 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2390 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
2391 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
2392 of the libsensors library.
2394 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
2395 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
2396 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
2398 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
2399 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2402 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
2403 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
2404 enabled on the host.
2405 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2407 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
2408 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
2409 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
2410 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
2411 definitions separate from the host definitions.
2412 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
2413 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
2414 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
2415 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
2416 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
2417 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
2418 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
2419 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
2420 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
2421 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
2422 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
2423 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
2424 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
2425 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
2426 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
2427 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
2428 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
2429 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
2430 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
2431 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
2432 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
2434 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
2435 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
2436 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
2437 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
2438 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2440 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
2441 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
2443 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
2444 of the libsensors library.
2446 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
2447 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
2448 it's in a non-standard location.
2449 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
2450 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
2451 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
2452 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
2453 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
2454 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2456 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
2457 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
2459 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
2460 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
2462 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
2463 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
2464 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2465 noise quality as percentage.
2466 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
2467 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
2468 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
2469 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
2470 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
2471 support for the `timeticks' type.
2473 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
2474 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
2475 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
2476 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
2478 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
2479 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
2480 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
2482 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
2483 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
2484 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
2485 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
2487 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
2488 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
2489 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
2490 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
2492 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
2493 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
2494 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
2495 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
2496 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
2497 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
2498 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
2499 to not block data collection.
2500 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
2501 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
2502 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
2504 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
2505 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
2506 of music played with xmms.
2508 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
2509 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
2510 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2511 noise quality as percentage.
2512 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
2514 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
2515 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
2516 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
2517 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
2519 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
2520 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
2521 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
2522 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
2524 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
2525 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
2527 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
2528 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
2529 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
2530 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
2531 (i. e. without quotes).
2532 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
2533 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
2534 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2536 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
2537 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
2538 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
2539 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
2541 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
2542 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
2543 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
2546 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
2547 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
2549 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
2550 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2551 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
2552 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2553 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
2554 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2555 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
2557 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
2558 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
2559 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
2560 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
2561 initialized correctly.
2562 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
2564 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
2565 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
2566 they're given in numerically form.
2568 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
2569 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
2570 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
2573 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
2574 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
2575 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
2576 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
2577 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
2578 thread-safe functions from now on.
2579 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
2580 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
2581 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
2583 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
2584 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
2585 write to increase IO-performance.
2586 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
2587 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
2588 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
2589 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
2590 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
2592 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
2593 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
2594 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
2596 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
2597 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
2598 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
2599 or STDOUT or STDERR.
2600 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
2601 system's syslog daemon.
2602 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
2603 entropy currently being available to the system.
2604 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
2605 back values provided by the forked processes.
2606 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
2607 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
2609 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
2610 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
2611 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
2612 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
2613 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
2614 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
2615 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
2616 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
2617 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
2619 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
2620 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2621 noise quality as percentage.
2623 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
2624 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2626 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
2627 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
2628 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
2629 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
2630 were accounted as `zombies'.
2632 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
2633 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
2636 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
2637 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
2638 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
2640 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
2641 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
2642 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
2643 segfault with some libcs.
2645 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
2646 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
2647 under Solaris again.
2648 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
2650 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
2651 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
2653 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
2654 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
2655 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
2656 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
2657 write init.d-scripts for it.
2658 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
2659 caused problems every now and then.
2660 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
2661 filesystem types or devices.
2662 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
2663 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
2665 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
2666 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
2667 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
2668 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
2669 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
2670 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
2671 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
2672 segment size and pagefaults.
2673 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
2674 queries multimeters.
2675 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
2676 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
2677 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
2679 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
2680 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
2681 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
2682 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
2684 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
2685 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
2686 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
2687 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
2690 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
2691 * The sample config file has been improved.
2692 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
2693 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
2694 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
2695 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
2697 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
2698 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
2699 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
2701 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
2702 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
2704 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
2705 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
2706 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
2707 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
2709 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
2710 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
2711 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
2712 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
2713 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
2714 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
2715 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
2716 with a test environment :)
2717 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
2720 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
2721 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
2722 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
2724 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
2725 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
2726 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
2728 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
2729 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
2730 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
2732 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
2733 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
2735 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
2736 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
2737 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
2738 approximately 7.6 days.
2740 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
2741 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
2742 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
2743 approximately 7.6 days.
2745 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
2746 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
2748 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
2750 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
2752 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
2753 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
2754 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
2755 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
2756 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
2758 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
2759 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
2760 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
2761 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
2762 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
2763 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
2764 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
2765 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
2767 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
2768 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
2769 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
2770 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
2772 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
2773 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
2774 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
2776 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
2777 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
2778 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
2780 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
2781 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
2782 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
2785 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
2786 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
2787 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
2789 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
2790 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
2791 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
2792 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
2794 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
2795 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
2796 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
2798 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
2799 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
2801 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
2802 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
2804 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
2805 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
2807 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
2808 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
2810 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
2811 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
2812 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
2813 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
2814 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
2815 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
2816 address and/or port than localhost.
2817 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
2818 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
2819 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
2820 be set in the configfile.
2822 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
2823 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
2824 client mode. This released fixes this.
2826 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
2827 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
2828 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
2831 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
2832 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
2834 * A `df' plugin has been added.
2835 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
2836 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
2837 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
2839 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
2840 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
2841 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
2844 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
2845 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
2846 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
2848 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
2849 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
2850 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
2851 currently logged in users.
2852 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
2853 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
2854 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
2855 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
2857 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
2858 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
2859 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
2860 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
2861 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
2862 with the `-c' argument.
2863 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
2864 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
2865 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
2866 Barcellos for this patch.
2868 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
2869 * New modules have been added:
2870 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
2871 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
2872 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
2873 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
2875 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
2876 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
2878 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
2879 between polls up to one day.
2880 * The init.d files have been improved.
2881 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
2883 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
2884 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
2885 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
2887 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
2888 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
2889 multicast) has been added.
2890 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
2891 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
2892 to be linked against an external library.
2893 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
2894 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
2896 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
2897 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
2899 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
2900 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
2901 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
2902 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
2903 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
2904 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
2905 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
2906 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
2907 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
2910 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
2911 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
2913 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
2915 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
2916 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
2918 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
2919 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
2920 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
2921 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
2923 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
2924 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
2925 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
2927 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
2928 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
2929 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
2930 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
2931 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
2932 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
2933 statistics will not work.
2935 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
2936 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
2937 weird strings as disk-names..
2939 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
2940 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
2941 about the disks and partitions.
2943 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
2944 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
2945 and/or kernel versions.
2947 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
2948 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
2949 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
2951 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
2952 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
2953 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
2955 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
2956 * Collecting CPU statistics now
2958 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
2959 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
2961 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
2963 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
2964 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
2966 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
2967 * The following modules are provided:
projects / collectd.git / blob