1 2016-07-25, Version 5.5.2
2 * collectd: A division by zero has been fixed in the
3 "plugin_dispatch_multivalue()" function. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
4 * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
5 in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
6 * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
7 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkof.
8 * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
9 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
10 * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
11 more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
12 * DF plugin: A build issue on DragonFlyBSD has been fixed. Thanks to
14 * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
15 This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
17 * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
18 has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
19 * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
20 now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
21 Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
22 * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has
23 been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was
24 ignored. Thanks to @yujokang. #1665
25 * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
26 This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
27 Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
28 * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
29 single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
30 create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
31 * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
32 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
33 * Redis plugin: A memory leak in an error handling code path has been
34 fixed. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz.
35 * Redis plugin: The data source type of the expired_keys metric has been
36 corrected to "DERIVE". Thanks to Marc Falzon and Marc Fournier. #1483.
37 * SMART plugin: A build dependency on libudev has been added. Thanks to
38 Pavel Rochnyack. #1724
39 * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
41 * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
42 shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
43 * Write Sensu plugin: A segfault when the Tag was unset has been fixed.
44 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
45 * ZFS ARC plugin: The cache_operation-stolen metric has been removed for
46 FreeBSD 10.2 and later. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1580
48 2016-01-22, Version 5.5.1
49 * Build system: Compilation errors have been avoided by correctly
50 defining package name and version used by autoconf. Thanks to Nathan
52 * Build system: Dependency ordering was fixed to ensure parallel builds
53 work reliably. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias. #1125
54 * Build system: Error messages have been improved and building the unit
55 tests has been fixed on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster and
56 Dagobert Michelsen. #1077
57 * Build system: The move of the "utils_ignorelist" functions has been
58 reverted. This fixes build issues of numerous plugins. Thanks to
59 Benjamin Drung;. #1323
60 * Build system: The fhcount plugin has been restricted to Linux. Thanks
61 to Ruben Kerkhof. #1195
62 * Build system: Detection of header files for the turbostat plugin has
63 been fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1075
64 * collectd: The "LC_NUMERIC" locale is now forced, to prevent issues
65 with some plugins on environments using a comma as decimal separator.
66 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1237
67 * Documentation: Some precisions related to the virt plugin have beed
68 added. Thanks to Wojtek Bocer and Ruben Kerkhof.
69 * Documentation: The CollectdInternalStats documentation has been
70 improved. Thanks to Yves Mettier and Florian Forster.
71 * Battery plugin: A missing Type has been added. Thanks to Marc
73 * Bind plugin: An off-by-one error has been fixed: an index was checked
74 against a wrong variable, which may lead to an out-of-bounds read.
75 Thanks to Michal Humpula. #1123
76 * Ceph plugin: JSON parsing has been refactored to support ceph 10.0.0
77 and fixes several buffer overflows. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1350
78 * CPU plugin: A Mac OS X specific bug has been fixed: the plugin
79 expected an incorrect number of CPU states, resulting in failing read
80 callbacks. This regression was introduced in 5.5.0. Thanks to Robert
82 * Disk plugin: Support for Mac OS X 10.10 has been added. Thanks to
84 * IPC plugin: Support for building with musl-libc has been added. Thanks
85 to Natanael Copa. #1147
86 * Log Logstash plugin: A segfault when using libyajl, version 1 was
87 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #1190
88 * Log Logstash plugin: The timestamp is now ISO 8601 compliant. Thanks
89 to Marc Fournier. #1132
90 * memcached plugin: The Type of the listen-disabled metric was fixed.
91 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1356
92 * MySQL plugin: The Type used by Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_flushed was
93 fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1085
94 * OpenLDAP plugin: A crash when using LDAPI (LDAP-over-IPC) got fixed.
95 Thanks to Marek Becka. #1080
96 * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for Mac OS X has been added. Thanks to Ruben
98 * SMART plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
99 Schüller and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1076
100 * Swap plugin: A regression that would lead to swap usage being reported
101 in kilobytes (instead of bytes) has been fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka.
103 * Varnish plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Ruben
105 * Varnish plugin: Support for versions 3 and 4 has been made more
106 tolerant to minor changes in Varnish point releases. Thanks to Marc
108 * virt plugin: A copy-and-paste mistake in an error message has been
109 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1101
110 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
112 * Write Redis plugin: Dead code has been removed. Thanks to Brian Kelly.
114 * 27 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
115 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
116 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan and clang: Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
117 Florian Forster and Marek Becka.
118 * Collectd::Unixsock: A Perl error got corrected. Thanks to Ciaran Mac
121 2015-05-27, Version 5.5.0
122 * Build system: Ability to make out-of-tree builds has been fixed.
123 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #792
124 * Build system, Disk and Users plugins: Detection and use of libstatgrab
125 ≧ 0.90 has been added. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #445, #795, #806,
127 * Build system, Memory, CPU, TCPConns and Processes plugins: Numerous
128 fixes related to OpenBSD support have been added. Thanks to Landry
129 Breuil. #777, #778, #779, #808
130 * Build system: Plugins now only export "module_register()". Thanks to
132 * Build system: Various cleanups and improvements have been done. Thanks
134 * collectd: Numerous internal changes and improvements to the daemon and
135 the plugin API have been make. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves
136 Ritschard and Alex Petrov. #512, #727
137 * collectd: Numerous spelling mistakes have been corrected in comments
138 and documentation and several error messages have been improved.
139 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Abhinav Upadhyay, Olivier Bazoud, Pierre-Yves
140 Ritschard, Tim Smith, Moshe Zada, Katelyn Perry and Marc Fournier.
141 * collectd: Rules/Targets can now be appended to existing Filter Chains.
142 Thanks to Marc Falzon. #444
143 * collectd: Failing Filter Chains destinations will now log the list of
144 available write targets. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #650, #1043
145 * collectd: Support for process signaling and management by upstart and
146 systemd has been implemented for the Linux platform. Thanks to
147 Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. #798, #811, #814
148 * collectd: The "CollectInternalStats" option has been added. Thanks to
150 * collectd: The daemon source code and dependencies have moved to the
151 "src/daemon/" directory. Thanks to Florian Forster.
152 * collectd: The new "MaxReadInterval" option allows to cap the
153 exponential retry interval of plugins read errors. Thanks to Alexey
154 Remizov and Florian Forster. #713
155 * collectd: The "-P" command-line option now has precedence over the
156 "PIDFile" option. Thanks to Thomas D. #553
157 * collection.cgi: Various data-source related adjustments have been
158 made. Thanks to Fabiano Pires and Sebastian Harl.
159 * libcollectdclient: Now propagates errors when signing / encrypting
160 network packets. Thanks to Florian Forster.
161 * Configuration: Support for unquoted IPv6 addresses has been added.
162 Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #489
163 * Documentation: Various improvements have been done. Thanks to Florian
164 Forster and Marc Fournier.
165 * Examples: the sample C plugin has been updated to the current plugin
166 API. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
167 * Licensing: The following components have been relicensed to the MIT
168 license: the Apple Sensors, Ascent, DBI, E-Mail, Entropy, GenericJMX,
169 gmond, LogFile, nginx, Notify Desktop, NTPd, NUT, olsrd, Perl, Ping,
170 PostgreSQL, Protocols, RouterOS, RRDCacheD, SNMP, StatsD, SysLog,
171 Table, Tail, UnixSock, vmem, VServer, Wireless, Write Riemann and XMMS
172 plugins, the core collectd daemon, the collectdmon, collectd-nagios
173 and collectd-tg utilities, all the Targets and Matches, liboconfig,
174 most of the "utils_*" files and the plugin API.
175 * Tests: A test suite has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
176 * Threshold: The hysteresis calculation has been made more reliable.
177 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #581
178 * Threshold: Various fixes and improvements have been made. Thanks to
179 Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #649, #644
180 * AMQP plugin: The "ConnectionRetryDelay" option has been added,
181 allowing to delay reconnection. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam and Marc
183 * AMQP plugin: The "QueueDurable" and "QueueAutoDelete" options have
184 been added, giving control over queue creation and deletion. Thanks to
185 David Blundell and Marc Fournier. #623
186 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx and Write HTTP
187 plugins: Customizing the "User-Agent" field is now possible at
188 compile-time. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #440
189 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx plugins: The
190 connection will be reset if it hasn't completed within the configured
191 "Interval". The new "Timeout" option gives control over this behavior.
192 Thanks to Jan Kundrát and Marc Fournier. #982, #983, #993
193 * Apache, Ascent, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP plugins:
194 Allow usernames and passwords to contain colons if built against
195 libcurl ≧ 7.19.1. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #695, #947
196 * Apache plugin: The "SSLCiphers" option gives control over the
197 encryption algorithms to use with TLS connections. Thanks to Toni
199 * Barometer plugin: This new plugin reads sensor data from various
200 Freescale and Bosch digital barometers. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #69,
202 * Battery plugin: Reporting values as percentages and reporting degraded
203 batteries has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
204 * Battery plugin: Support for reading values from sysfs on Linux has
205 been added. Thanks to Andy Parkins, Nicholas Humfrey, Peter Wu and
206 Florian Forster. #725, #810, #998
207 * Battery plugin: The value for current is no longer supplied unless the
208 battery provides this information. Thanks to Florian Forster.
209 * BIND plugin: Bind's XML v3 API is now supported; Thanks to Victor
210 Berger, Bruno Prémont and Michal Humpula. #742, #847
211 * Ceph plugin: This new plugin collects statistics from the Ceph
212 distributed storage system. Thanks to Dan Ryder, Dennis Zou, Colin
213 McCabe, Sage Weil. #522, #598
214 * ConnTrack plugin: Support for reporting values as percentages as well
215 as legacy conntrack files in "/proc" has been added. Thanks to
216 Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #497, #680
217 * CPU plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages and
218 aggregate values per-state and per-CPU. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
219 Ritschard, Florian Forster, Fabien Wernli, Nicholas Humfrey and
220 Wilfried Goesgens. #499, #516, #639 #734, #812, #802
221 * cURL-JSON plugin: Extracting values from complex JSON structures has
222 been enhanced. Thanks to Jim Radford. #408, #411
223 * cURL-JSON plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-URL basis.
224 Thanks to Stan Sawa. #685
225 * cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, Write HTTP plugins: These plugins now also follow
226 HTTP redirects. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
227 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: HTTP Digest authentication has been
228 implemented. Thanks to Frank Cornelis. #482
229 * DBI, Oracle, PostgreSQL plugins: A "MetadataFrom" parameter has been
230 added which allows to set metadata from database columns. Thanks to
231 Mark Wong. #317, #321
232 * DBI plugin: Querying several databases in parallel is now possible.
233 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #453
234 * Disk plugin: On the Linux platform, disk names can now get looked up
235 in udev with the "UdevNameAttr" option. Thanks to Patrick Mooney. #537
236 * Disk plugin: This plugin now collects several additional I/O-related
237 metrics on the Linux platform. Thanks to Florian Forster and Michael
239 * DRBD plugin: This new plugin reads Linux's Distributed Replicated
240 Block Device (DRBD) statistics. Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #566, #700
241 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: The "PUTNOTIF" command now allows to set
242 metadata on notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #416
243 * fhcount plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used file
244 handles. Thanks to Jiri Tyr. #1009
245 * GenericJMX plugin: A Class Loader for "JMXConnectorFactory" has been
246 added, allowing the plugin to work with JBOSS > 7. Thanks to Alexandre
248 * IPC plugin: This new plugin collects information related to shared
249 memory. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz. #925
250 * Java plugin: Now uses the hostname defined in the configuration file.
251 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #530, #681
252 * Load plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
253 Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #344, #498
254 * Log Logstash plugin: This new plugin writes collectd logs and events
255 as Logstash JSON formatted events. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
257 * LVM plugin: The plugin collects thin pool data volumes size, and no
258 longer reports virtual volumes. Thanks to Benjamin Gilbert. #603
259 * memcached plugin: "listen_disabled_num" are now also reported. Thanks
260 to Matt Cottingham. #622
261 * Memory plugin: Slab memory reporting on the Linux platform has been
262 added. Thanks to Manuel CISSÉ and Marc Fournier. #560, #697
263 * Memory plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
264 Thanks to Jeremy Katz, Florian Forster and Manuel CISSÉ. #501, #511,
266 * Modbus plugin: Selecting between holding and input registers is now
267 possible. Thanks to Jan Vitek. #338
268 * Modbus plugin: Support for accessing devices through an RS-485 serial
269 port has been added. Thanks to Eric Sandeen.
270 * Multimeter plugin: This plugin isn't built by default on the AIX
271 platform anymore. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada. #549, #684
272 * MySQL and PostgreSQL plugins: Passing "127.0.0.1" as a host will now
273 result in the global Hostname being used in metric names. Thanks to
275 * MySQL plugin: InnoDB, Select and Sort statistics collection has been
276 added. Thanks to Wilson Felipe, Marek Becka and Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
277 #248, #621, #699, #824
278 * MySQL plugin: The "Alias" and "ConnectTimeout" options have been
279 added. Thanks to William Tisäter.
280 * Netlink plugin: Support for 64bit netlink counters has been added.
281 Thanks to Marek Becka. #435
282 * Network plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" configuration option has been
283 added. Thanks to John Ferlito. #732
284 * NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4.0 has been implemented. Thanks to Marek
286 * OneWire plugin: Support for more temperature-providing sensor families
287 has been added. Thanks to Tomasz Torcz. #672
288 * OneWire plugin: Support for full OWFS path and more device families
289 has been implemented. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #68
290 * OpenLDAP plugin: This new plugin reads monitoring information from
291 OpenLDAP's "cn=Monitor" subtree. Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum, Marc
292 Fournier and Nicholas Humfrey. #719
293 * OpenVPN plugin: Support for OpenVPN 2.3.0 has been implemented. Thanks
295 * OpenVZ plugin: Various improvements have been made, making the plugin
296 report values like the other collectd plugins do. Thanks to Chris
298 * Perl plugin: A new "listval_filter" method has been added, various
299 internal cleanups and improvements have been made and a test suite has
300 been added. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #728
301 * PostgreSQL plugin: The new "ExpireDelay" option allows skipping older
302 values pending write when the database slows down. Thanks to Stephen
304 * PowerDNS plugin: The plugin was updated for stats from pdns 3.4.3.
305 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #965
306 * Processes plugin: A memory-usage related optimization for low-profile
307 systems has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #652
308 * Python plugin: Support for Python3 has been improved, "ModulePath" is
309 now prepended to "sys.path", and the "get_dataset()" function has been
310 added to the Python API. Thanks to Sven Trenkel and Patrick Browne.
312 * Redis and Write_Redis plugins: The support library has been switched
313 from credis to hiredis. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz, Victor Seva, Marc
314 Fournier, Johan Bergström, Michael Spiegle and brianpkelly. #296,
315 #464, #475, #799, #1030
316 * Redis plugin: Custom commands can now be used to fetch values stored
317 in Redis. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #816
318 * Redis plugin: Support for passwords up to 512 characters long has been
319 added. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #532
320 * Sensors plugin: Support for lm_sensors' power sensors has been added.
321 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #571
322 * SMART plugin: This new plugin collects SMART statistics from disk
323 drives. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #797
324 * SNMP plugin: A blacklist/whitelist feature can now be used to filter
325 which OIDs to collect. Thanks to Christophe Courtaut. #414
326 * SNMP plugin: SNMPv3 authentication and encryption support has been
327 implemented. Thanks to Michael Pilat. #362
328 * SNMP plugin: Two error messages have been disambiguated. Thanks to
330 * Swap plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
331 Thanks to Jeremy Katz and Florian Forster. #500, #510
332 * Swap plugin: The plugin no longer fails on Linux systems where
333 "SwapCached" isn't exposed by the kernel. Thanks to Florian Forster.
335 * Tail plugin: "GaugeInc" and "GaugeAdd" options have been implemented.
336 Thanks to Andre Ferraz. #673
337 * Tail plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-File basis.
338 Thanks to Tom Leaman. #446
339 * TCPConns plugin: The "AllPortsSummary" option, allowing to summarize
340 all connections, has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #488
341 * TCPConns plugin: Three metrics were renamed on the AIX platform, for
342 the sake of consistency. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #546
343 * Turbostat plugin: This new plugin reads CPU frequency and C-state
344 residency on modern Intel turbo-capable processors. Thanks to Vincent
345 Brillault, Jean Delvare and Nicolas Iooss. #651
346 * UnixSock plugin: The "GETTHRESHOLD" command has been re-added. Thanks
347 to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #674
348 * Varnish plugin: Varnish 4 support has been added, as well as as
349 monitoring metrics only available in Varnish 4. Thanks to Marc
351 * virt plugin: Guests memory usage is now also collected. Thanks to
352 Tiago Carvalho, jazzmes and Zollner Robert.
353 * virt plugin: It is now possible to chose between using guests' name or
354 UUID as plugin_instance. Thanks to Remi Ferrand. #385
355 * virt plugin: The libvirt plugin has been renamed to virt. Thanks to
357 * Write Graphite plugin: When the connection to graphite fails,
358 reconnection attempts are now limited to once per second. Thanks to
359 Florian Forster. #625
360 * Write HTTP plugin: Multi-instance support of this plugin has been
361 improved. The "<URL "url">" block has been deprecated in favor of
362 "<Node "identifier">". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #902
363 * Write HTTP plugin: Several TLS-related configuration options have been
364 added. Thanks to Ingmar Runge. #666
365 * Write HTTP plugin: The "LowSpeedLimit" and "Timeout" options allow to
366 reset slow/stalled network connections. Thanks to loginator17 and Marc
368 * Write HTTP plugin: The size of the payload posted to the HTTP server
369 can now be controlled with the "BufferSize" option. Thanks to Florian
371 * Write Kafka plugin: This new plugin sends data to Apache Kafka, a
372 distributed messaging queue. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard,
373 ciomaire, Vincent Bernat, Marc Fournier. #670, #694, #794, #853, #014
374 * Write Log plugin: This new plugin dispatches collected values to the
375 configured log destination(s). Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #886
376 * Write Riemann plugin: Extra meta strings are now added as attributes
377 in notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #417
378 * Write Riemann plugin: Notification message are now sent to the Riemann
379 server via the description field. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #575
380 * Write Riemann plugin: Support for custom attributes has been added.
381 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #459
382 * Write Riemann plugin: Support had been implemented for sending events
383 to Riemann in batches (when using TCP), and is enabled by default.
384 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #800
385 * Write Riemann plugin: The "EventServicePrefix" option has been added,
386 which adds a prefix to event service names. Thanks to Moshe Zada. #706
387 * Write Riemann plugin: Threshold checks can now be passed down to the
388 Riemann server. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #518
389 * Write Sensu plugin: This new plugin submits values to Sensu, a stream
390 processing and monitoring system. Thanks to Fabrice A. Marie and Marc
391 Fournier. #912, #1001, #1016
392 * Write TSDB plugin: This new plugin sends data to OpenTSDB, a scalable
393 time series database. Thanks to Kevin Bowling, Florian Forster, Dallin
394 Young, Michael Schenck and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #703, #772, #945
395 * ZFS ARC plugin: Support for ZFS-on-Linux has been added. Thanks to
396 Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. #552
397 * Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache Zookeeper
398 "MNTR" command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826
400 2016-07-26, Version 5.4.3
401 * Build system: A deprecation warning has been removed. Thanks to
403 * Build system: An ordering issue when build the AMQP plugin was
404 corrected. Thanks to Shahul Hameed.
405 * Build system: Building the gmond plugin against recent libganglia
406 versions has been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1129
407 * Build system: "collectd-tg" now builds on AIX. Thanks to Manuel Luis
408 Sanmartín Rozada. #542
409 * Build system: "version-gen.sh" portablility was improved. Thanks to
410 Marc Fournier and Ruben Kerkhof.
411 * Build system: Compiling utils_dns.c on Solaris has beed fixed. Thanks
412 to Yves Mettier, Dagobert Michelsen and Florian Forster. #348
413 * Build system: Default JDK detection got improved. Thanks to Ruben
414 Kerkhof and Marc Fournier.
415 * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
416 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
417 * Build system: notify_email build options got corrected to make it
418 build on non-GNU libc systems. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
419 * Build system: Protobuf building and logging has been improved. Thanks
421 * Build system: The "make distcheck" target was fixed to properly handle
422 java build artifacts. Thanks to Florian Forster.
423 * Build system: The configure script got fixed to work properly when
424 called with "CC="gcc -Wall -Werror"" . Thanks to Marc Fournier.
425 * Build system: The configure script will now fail if pkg-config isn't
426 available. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
427 * Build system: The users plugin now builds properly on Solaris when
428 libstatgrab is available. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #1061
429 * Build system: Various fixes have been done to improve library
430 detection on FreeBSD. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
431 * collectd2html: Several perl errors have been corrected. Thanks to Ruud
433 * collectd: A global gauge format-string is now used to avoid loss of
434 precision. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1039
435 * collectd: A race condition at plugin initialization time was fixed.
436 Thanks to Jan Andres. #1316
437 * collectd: Autoloading now properly sets plugin context, allowing
438 plugins to determine the interval. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1069
439 * collectd: Empty "Plugin" blocks are now supported by the configuration
440 file parser. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1035
441 * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
442 in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
443 * collectd: Writing to a closed TCP socket is now properly handled.
444 Thanks to Tamás Földesi. #1104
445 * Documentation: iptables plugin: IPv6 configuration option has been
446 added to the collectd.conf(5) manpage. Thanks to 'Marc Fournier''.
448 * AMQP plugin: The plugin was fixed to build against librabbitmq 0.6.0.
449 Thanks to Remi Collet. #1008
450 * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
451 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
452 * Apache plugin: The plugin was extended to parse the whole response,
453 required to support Apache versions greater than 2.4.17. Thanks to
454 Marc Fournier and Florian Forster. #1170, #1343
455 * APC UPS plugin: Log messages are now prefixed with the plugin name.
456 Thanks to Sergey. #1329
457 * Bind plugin: The type_instance now gets properly sanitized. Thanks to
459 * CPU plugin: Error messages on MacOSX have been improved. Thanks to
461 * cURL plugin: A typo in an error message got corrected. Thanks to Marc
463 * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
464 more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
465 * DF plugin: An bug preventing filesystems which don't report inodes
466 such as btrfs has been corrected. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1096
467 * DF plugin: Duplicate entries are no longer reported twice. Thanks to
468 Stefan Brüns and Florian Forster. #1402
469 * DF plugin: Legacy code for skipping "rootfs" mount points has been
470 removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1402
471 * DF plugin: Legacy references to the "ReportReserved" option have been
472 removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
473 * DF plugin: Reading the mtab now uses a reentrant function when
474 possible. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1163
475 * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
476 This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
478 * Exec plugin: A file descriptor leak when the plugin is configured to
479 run as a non-existing user was corrected. Thanks to Gautam BT and Marc
481 * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
482 has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
483 * Interface plugin: Documentation about regular expressions in the
484 ignore list has been added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski.
485 * IRQ plugin: The "FIQ" line is now skipped as it doesn't contain any
486 counter. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #971
487 * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
488 now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
489 Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
490 * MongoDB plugin: A memory leak has been fixed and some adaptations to
491 the current API of the mongo-c-driver have been made. Thanks to
492 Florian Forster. #956
493 * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has
494 been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was ignored.
495 Thanks to @yujokang. #1665
496 * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
497 This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
498 Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
499 * Network plugin: The TimeToLive option handling was made more robust.
500 Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #654
501 * NTPd plugin: Documentation about the required "mode 7" has been added.
502 Thanks to Jakub Jankowski.
503 * NTPd plugin: Reporting of "time_offset-loop" was corrected to match
504 the values from ntpq/ntpdc. Thanks to Pierre Fersing and Florian
506 * OpenVPN plugin: The plugin was fixe to avoid signaling an error when
507 no clients were connected. Thanks to Florian Forster. #731
508 * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
509 single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
510 create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
511 * PF plugin and DNS plugin: These plugins have been fixed to build
512 properly on OpenBSD again. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
513 * Processes plugin: A compilation error on systems without "regex.h" has
514 been fixed. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
515 * Processes plugin: A memory leak on Solaris has been fixed. Thanks to
517 * Processes plugin and Swap plugin: These plugins have been corrected to
518 also work inside FreeBSD jails. Thanks to biancalana. #1019
519 * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
520 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
521 * Processes plugin: Process counting on the FreeBSD and OpenBSD
522 platforms has been fixed. Thanks to Herve COMMOWICK. #1298
523 * Processes plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly on Solaris.
524 Thanks to Jan Andres. #919
525 * Python plugin: A double-free bug got fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel.
527 * RRDtool plugin: A race condition leading to corrupt RRD file creation
528 has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1031
529 * SNMP plugin: The "Gauge32" signedness was corrected to match RFC1902.
530 Thanks to Nathan Ward. #1325
531 * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
532 Pavel Rochnyack #1703
533 * StatsD plugin: A memory leak was corrected. Thanks to Florian Forster.
535 * StatsD plugin: A symbol lookup error was fixed by properly linking the
536 plugin against libm. Thanks to Florian Forster.
537 * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Support for including values above
538 1000 in percentile calculation has been added. Thanks to Yoga
540 * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Two division by zero error conditions
541 have been corrected. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #655
542 * StatsD plugin: Counters absolute counts are now also reported. Thanks
543 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1311
544 * StatsD plugin: The plugin now emits NaN values when no timer event is
545 recorded. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1038, #1039
546 * StatsD plugin: The plugin was corrected to avoid crashing when
547 negative timer values are submitted. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1131
548 * Tail CSV plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly with multiple
549 "Collect" options and a bug got fixed when no "TimeFrom" is specified.
550 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada and Florian Forster. #1032
551 * TCPConns plugin: A memory leak was fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster.
553 * TCPConns plugin: An bug causing collectd to enter an inifinite loop on
554 OpenBSD was fixed. Thanks to Landry Breuil. #1094
555 * Threshold plugin: Threshold configuration blocks can now be defined in
556 different files. Thanks to Michael Salmon. #551
557 * vmem plugin: Support for pgsteal in recent Linux kernels has been
558 added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski. #1307
559 * vmem plugin: The DSType for nr_dirtied and nr_written was corrected to
560 report a derive. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1072
561 * Write Graphite plugin: Error handling when submitting metrics to the
562 server is now more robust. Thanks to Sam Pointer. #1364
563 * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
564 shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
565 * Write Redis plugin: Multi-Valued key was made easier to parse by
566 adding a "|" character as a delimiter. Thanks to brianpkelly and
567 Florian Forster. #1070
568 * Write Redis plugin: The timestamp format was corrected. Thanks to
570 * ZFS ARC plugin: The plugin was will not emit warning about missing
571 "l2_size" stats anymore. Thanks to Jan Andres. #919
572 * 152 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
573 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
574 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan, clang and gcc-6: Thanks to Ruben
575 Kerkhof, Florian Forster, Marc Fournier, Corey Kosak, Laurent,
576 Claudius Zingerli and Fabien Wernli.
578 2015-02-26, Version 5.4.2
579 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
580 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
581 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
583 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
584 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
585 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
587 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c. Thanks to
589 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
590 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
591 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
592 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
593 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
594 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
595 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
596 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
597 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
598 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
599 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
600 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
601 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
603 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
604 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
605 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
606 * Documentation: Documentation of the "AutoLoadPlugin" option has been
607 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #715
608 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
609 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
610 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
611 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
612 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML and Write HTTP plugins: Call
613 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
615 * cURL and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
616 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
617 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
618 Florian Forster. #663
619 * curl-json: A bug, which triggered when two URLs with a long common
620 prefix were configured, was fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #582
621 * dbi: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been restored.
622 Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
623 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
624 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
625 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
626 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
627 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
628 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
630 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
631 Thanks to Florian Forster.
632 * LogFile and SysLog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
633 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
634 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
635 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
636 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
637 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
638 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
640 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
642 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
643 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
644 * RRDtool and RRDCacheD plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
645 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
646 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
647 Ritschard. #610, #804
648 * statsd: Support for samplerates in timer metrics was added. Thanks
650 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
651 to Florian Forster. #733
652 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
653 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
654 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
656 * lvm: An issue with Volume Groups (VGs) without Logical Volumes (LVs)
657 has been fixed. Thanks to Jan Kundrát.
658 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
659 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
660 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
662 * write_redis: A formatting bug, which resulted in totally unusable
663 numbers being transmitted to Redis, was fixed. Thanks to Marc
665 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
668 2014-01-26, Version 5.4.1
669 * amqp plugin: Add support for RabbitMQ 0.4.x to avoid compiler
670 warnings. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for implementing this.
671 * apache / network plugins: Improved initialization order hopefully
672 resolved gcrypt initialization problems.
673 * aquaero plugin: The type used to submit fan utilization was fixed.
674 Thanks to Alex Deymo for the patch.
675 * cgroups plugin: A small memory leak was fixed. Checking the existence
676 of a mount option without a value was fixed. More permissive parsing
677 of the cpuacct.stats file fixes support for some versions of Linux.
678 Thanks to Marc Fournier for bug reports and patches.
679 * curl plugin: Fix <Match> blocks without an instance. Thanks to
680 Alexander Golovko for reporting and Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
681 * curl_json plugin: Potentially invalid memory access has been
682 sanitized. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
683 * interface plugin: Fix behavior under FreeBSD 10: Reporting of
684 per-address statistics caused duplicate updates to the same metric.
685 Thanks to demon / @trtrmitya for the patch.
686 * write_graphite plugin: Use TCP to connect to Graphite by default. The
687 default changed from TCP to UDP between 5.3.1 and 5.4.0, which is a
688 regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier for fixing this. Reconnect
689 behavior was improved. Thanks to Michael Hart for his patch.
690 * zfs_arc plugin: Collect "allocated" and "stolen" on FreeBSD only.
692 2013-08-18, Version 5.4.0
693 * collectd: The "LoadPlugin" config option no longer attempts to load
694 plugins twice. If more than one "LoadPlugin" statement or block is
695 encountered, only the first will have any effect.
696 * collectd: The "AutoLoadPlugin" option allows to automatically load
697 plugins for which a configuration is found.
698 * collectd: The "WriteQueueLimitHigh" and "WriteQueueLimitLow" options
699 allow collectd to drop values when under stress, to avoid running out
700 of memory. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patch.
701 * amqp plugin: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
702 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options have been added. Thanks to Laurent
704 * aquaero plugin: This new plugin reads various metrics, e.g. fan
705 speeds and temperatures, from Aquaero 5, a fan and water cooling
706 control panel. Thanks to Alex Deymo for his patch.
707 * curl plugin: The "MeasureResponseCode" option has been added. Thanks
708 to Jan Matějka for his patch.
709 * curl_json plugin: Support for UNIX domain sockets and array wildcards
710 has been added. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
711 * curl_xml plugin: Support for long URLs has been improved.
712 * cgroups plugin: This new plugin collects CPU accounting information
713 for processes in a cgroup. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for his patch.
714 * df plugin: The "ValuesAbsolute" and "ValuesPercentage" options have
715 been added. Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek for the patch.
716 * exec plugin: Do UID / GID lookups before forking. This should prevent
717 a race condition in the NSS library. Thanks to Ceri Storey for the
719 * lvm plugin: This new plugin collects size information from Linux'
720 Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Thanks to Chad Malfait for his work.
721 * memcached plugin: Support for increment and decrement counts has been
722 added. Thanks to Blake Matheny for the patch.
723 * mic plugin: This new plugin collects CPU and memory usage, power
724 consumption and temperatures of Intel's Many-Integrated-Core (MIC)
725 architecture, such as Xeon Phi cards. Thanks to Evan Felix for his
727 * netlink plugin: This plugin has been converted to use the supported
728 "libmnl" library. Thanks to Andreas Henriksson for his patch.
729 * nginx plugin: Collection of accepted and handled connections has been
730 added. Thanks to Patrick Shan for his patch.
731 * sigrok plugin: This new plugin collects metrics from sigrok, a signal
732 processing framework reading various hardware devices, from light
733 meters to spectrum analyzers. Thanks to Bert Vermeulen for his patch.
734 * statsd plugin: This new plugin listens to a UDP socket and reads
735 metrics in the StatsD format.
736 * varnish plugin: Many additional metrics have been added. Thanks to
737 Nick Stenning for his patch.
738 * write_graphite plugin: Support for "UDP" has been added. Thanks to
739 Javier Maestro for his patch.
740 * write_riemann plugin: The "TTLFactor" option has been added.
741 * zfs_arc plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li
744 2015-02-26, Version 5.3.2
745 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
746 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
747 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
749 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
750 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
751 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
753 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c Thanks to
755 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
756 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
757 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
758 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
759 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
760 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
761 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
762 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
763 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
764 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
765 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
766 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
767 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
769 * Documentation: The synopsis of the threshold has been fixed. Thanks
771 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
772 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
773 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
774 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
775 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
776 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
777 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
778 * csv: A regression which would lead to the "DataDir" option to be
779 ignored has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada.
780 * curl, curl-json, curl-xml and write_http plugins: Call
781 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
783 * curl and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
784 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
785 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
786 Florian Forster. #663
787 * dbi plugin: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been
788 restored. Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
789 * exec, unixsock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
790 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
791 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
792 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
794 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
795 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
796 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
797 Thanks to Florian Forster.
798 * logfile and syslog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
799 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
800 * memcached: Connecting to a UNIX socket has been fixed. Thanks to Jim
802 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
803 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
804 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
805 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
806 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
808 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
810 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
811 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
812 * replace and set targets: Fix error message. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
814 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: Honor the "DataDir" config option;
815 this fixes a regression. Thanks to Florian Forster. #380
816 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
817 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
818 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
819 Ritschard. #610, #804
820 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
821 to Florian Forster. #733
822 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
823 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
824 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
826 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
827 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
828 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
830 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
833 2013-07-13, Version 5.3.1
834 * Documentation: Various fixes.
835 * Configuration: Fix error handling: Errors in included files were
836 ignored, causing configuration mistakes to go unnoticed.
837 * dns plugin: Don't abort when PCAP returns an error.
838 * modbus plugin: The reconnection strategy was improved, fixing a
839 segfault in the libmodbud library. Thanks to Stefan Nickl and
840 Fabien Wernli for their patches.
841 * mysql plugin: The notification about a newly running MySQL slave
842 thread has been fixed. Thanks to Joaquín Cuenca Abela for the patch.
843 * snmp plugin: A build issue has been fixed (C99 mixed declaration).
844 The end-of-tree check has been improved by Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
845 * threshold plugin: Handling of the "Interesting" configuration option
846 has been fixed. Thanks to Björn for the patch.
847 * write_riemann plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Dave
848 Cottlehuber for reporting it.
850 2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0
851 * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include
852 only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
854 * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This
855 improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act
856 as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for
857 reviewing this change and fixing bugs.
858 * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using
859 regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric
860 can now be set via the configuration file.
861 * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented.
862 * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers
863 has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
864 * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks
865 to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
866 * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The
867 "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch.
868 * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to
869 Greg Mason for his patch.
870 * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks
871 to Johan Wirén for his patch.
872 * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication /
873 compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
874 patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work.
875 * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks
876 to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
877 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been
878 implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created
879 asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances.
880 Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code.
881 * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV
882 files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for
884 * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added.
885 * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to
886 Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to
887 Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work.
889 2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2
890 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
891 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
892 Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks
893 to Sebastian Harl for his patch.
894 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
895 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
896 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
897 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
898 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
899 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
900 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
901 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
902 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
903 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
904 Tomas Doran for his patch.
905 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
906 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
907 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
908 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
909 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
910 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
911 * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
912 * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
913 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
914 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
915 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
916 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
917 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
918 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
919 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
922 2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1
923 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris
924 and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches.
925 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
926 more frequently than intended.
927 * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added.
928 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
929 Ed Schouten for his patch.
930 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
931 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
932 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
933 Ed Schouten for his patch.
934 * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed.
935 A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was
936 configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these
938 * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
939 Ritschard for his patch.
940 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
941 * write_graphite plugin: A regression which rendered the
942 "SeparateInstances" and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been
943 fixed. A failed assertion when using types with many data sources
944 has been fixed. Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
945 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
947 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
948 Mettier for reporting this bug.
950 2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0
951 * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved.
952 Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch.
953 * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a
954 per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for
956 * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real
957 looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new
959 * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets
960 in the binary format has been added.
961 * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple
962 value lists into one.
963 * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON
964 output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch.
965 * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to
966 Thomas Meson for the patch.
967 * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to
968 Manuel Rozada for his patch.
969 * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the
971 * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't
973 * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks
974 to "Davide Guerri" for the patch.
975 * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added.
976 Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch.
977 * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The
978 behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to
979 Johan Kiviniemi for the patches.
980 * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added.
981 * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's
982 packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes
984 * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added.
985 Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added.
986 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches.
987 * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
988 Cosmin Ioiart for the patch.
989 * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added.
990 Thanks to biancalana for the patch.
991 * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan",
992 "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added.
993 * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX
994 version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out
995 "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch.
996 * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc
997 for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch.
999 2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3
1000 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1001 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1002 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
1003 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1004 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1005 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1006 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1007 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1008 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1009 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1010 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1011 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1012 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1013 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
1014 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1015 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1016 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
1017 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
1018 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
1019 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
1020 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
1021 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
1022 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1023 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1024 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1025 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1028 2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2
1029 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves
1030 Mettier for his patches.
1031 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
1032 more frequently than intended.
1033 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1034 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1035 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
1036 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
1037 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1038 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1039 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
1040 * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
1041 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
1043 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
1044 Mettier for reporting this bug.
1046 2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1
1047 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1048 unwanted permission bits.
1049 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1050 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1051 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1052 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1053 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1054 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1055 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
1056 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
1057 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
1059 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1060 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
1061 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
1062 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1063 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1064 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1065 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1066 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1067 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1068 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1069 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1070 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1072 * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of
1073 uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for
1074 reporting these problems.
1075 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1076 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1077 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
1078 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1079 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1081 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1082 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1083 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1084 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1085 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1086 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1087 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1088 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1090 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1091 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1092 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
1093 "biancalana" for the fix.
1094 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1095 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1096 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1097 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1098 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1100 * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been
1101 fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch.
1102 * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and
1103 later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch.
1105 2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0
1106 * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has
1108 * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using
1109 "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
1110 * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use
1111 the system time rather than the time reported by BIND.
1112 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been
1113 added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch.
1114 * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics
1115 directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch.
1116 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in
1117 addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
1118 Ritschard for his patch.
1119 * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default
1120 ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g.
1122 * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various
1123 states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
1125 * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been
1127 * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin
1128 Ioiart for his patch.
1129 * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the
1130 Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux.
1131 * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation.
1132 Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch.
1133 * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been
1135 * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to
1136 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch.
1137 * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added.
1138 * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added.
1139 Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1140 * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1141 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1142 * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to
1143 Aaron Brady for his patch.
1144 * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to
1145 Jérôme Renard for his patches.
1146 * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value
1147 lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch
1148 and Chris Lundquist for their work.
1149 * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value
1150 lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series
1151 database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their
1153 * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to
1154 Aurelien Rougemont for his patches.
1155 * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been
1156 added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1158 2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5
1159 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1160 unwanted permission bits.
1161 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1162 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1163 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1164 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1165 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1166 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1167 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
1168 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
1169 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
1171 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1172 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
1173 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
1174 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1175 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1176 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1177 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1178 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1179 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1180 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1181 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1182 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1184 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1185 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1186 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
1187 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1188 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1190 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1191 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1192 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1193 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1194 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1195 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1196 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1197 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1199 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1200 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1201 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
1202 "biancalana" for the fix.
1203 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1204 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1205 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1206 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1207 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1210 2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4
1211 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1212 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1213 plugin under Gentoo.
1214 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1215 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1217 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1218 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1219 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1220 Opter for his patch.
1221 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1222 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1224 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1225 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1227 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1228 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1230 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1231 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1233 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1234 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1235 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1236 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1237 runtime has been fixed.
1239 2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3
1240 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1241 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1242 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1244 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1245 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1246 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1247 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1248 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1249 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1250 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1252 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1254 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1255 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1256 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1257 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1258 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1260 2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2
1261 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1262 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1263 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1264 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1266 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1267 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1268 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1269 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1271 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1272 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1273 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1274 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1275 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1276 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1277 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1278 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1279 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1280 for fixing this bug!
1282 2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1
1283 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1284 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1285 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1286 to Peter Green for his patch.
1287 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1288 McCabe for the patch.
1289 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1290 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1291 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1292 code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module.
1293 * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts.
1294 Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this.
1295 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1296 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1297 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1298 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1299 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1300 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1301 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1302 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1303 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1304 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1305 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1306 * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values
1307 were submitted as gauge even though they were derives.
1308 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1309 Flisher for the fix.
1311 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
1312 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
1313 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
1314 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
1315 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
1316 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
1317 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
1318 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
1320 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
1321 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
1322 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
1323 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
1324 added to the collectd client library.
1325 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
1326 one data source has been changed to "value".
1327 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
1328 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
1329 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
1330 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
1331 maximum value is unspecified.
1332 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
1333 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
1334 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1335 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1336 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1337 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
1338 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
1339 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
1340 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
1341 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
1343 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1344 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
1345 "Connection" blocks.
1346 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
1348 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
1350 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
1351 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
1352 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
1353 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
1355 * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
1356 license has been changed to LGPLv2.1.
1357 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
1358 data sets used have been improved.
1359 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
1361 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1362 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1363 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
1364 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
1365 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
1366 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
1367 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
1368 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
1369 this separate plugin.
1370 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
1371 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
1372 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
1373 Fournier for their contributions.
1374 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
1376 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
1378 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
1381 2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9
1382 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1383 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1384 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1385 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1386 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1387 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1388 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1389 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1390 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1391 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1392 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1393 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1394 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1395 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1396 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1397 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1398 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1399 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1402 2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8
1403 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1404 unwanted permission bits.
1405 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1406 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1407 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1408 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1409 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1410 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1411 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1412 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1413 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1414 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1415 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1416 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1417 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1418 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1419 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1420 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1422 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1423 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1424 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1426 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1427 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1428 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1429 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1430 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1431 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1432 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1433 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1435 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1436 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1437 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1438 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1439 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1440 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1441 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1444 2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7
1445 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1446 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1447 plugin under Gentoo.
1448 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1449 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1451 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1452 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1453 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1454 Opter for his patch.
1455 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1456 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1458 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1459 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1461 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1462 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1464 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1465 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1467 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1468 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1469 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1470 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1471 runtime has been fixed.
1473 2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6
1474 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1475 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1476 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1478 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1479 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1480 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1481 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1482 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1483 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1484 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1486 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1488 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1489 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1490 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1491 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1492 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1494 2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5
1495 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1496 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1497 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1498 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1500 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1501 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1502 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1503 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1505 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1506 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1507 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1508 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1509 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1510 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1511 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1512 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1513 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1514 for fixing this bug!
1516 2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4
1517 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1518 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1519 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1520 to Peter Green for his patch.
1521 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1522 McCabe for the patch.
1523 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1524 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1525 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1527 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1528 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1529 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1530 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1531 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1532 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1533 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1534 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1535 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1536 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1537 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1538 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1539 Flisher for the fix.
1541 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
1542 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1543 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
1545 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
1546 percentage calculation has been fixed.
1547 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
1549 * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
1550 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
1551 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
1552 * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
1553 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
1554 error handling case.
1555 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
1556 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
1559 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
1560 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
1561 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
1562 the rest of the configuration if possible.
1563 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
1564 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
1565 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
1566 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
1567 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
1568 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
1569 configurable timeout value.
1570 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
1571 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
1572 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1573 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
1574 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
1575 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
1576 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1578 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1579 to prevent spamming the logs.
1580 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1581 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1582 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1583 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1585 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
1587 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1588 Trenkel for the patch.
1590 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
1591 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1592 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1593 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
1594 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
1596 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
1597 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
1598 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
1600 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
1601 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
1602 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
1603 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
1604 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
1605 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
1606 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
1607 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
1608 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
1609 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
1611 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
1612 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
1613 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
1614 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
1615 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
1616 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
1617 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
1619 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
1621 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
1622 lines from the match.
1623 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
1624 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
1626 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
1627 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
1628 Malek for the patch.
1629 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
1630 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
1632 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
1633 certain lines from the match.
1634 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
1635 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
1636 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
1637 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
1638 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
1639 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
1640 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
1641 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
1642 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
1643 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
1644 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
1645 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
1646 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
1647 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
1648 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
1649 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
1650 Sebastian Harl for his work.
1651 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
1652 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
1653 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
1654 Sven Trenkel for his work.
1655 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
1656 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
1657 MikroTik devices has been added.
1658 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
1659 Scraba for his patch.
1660 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
1661 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
1662 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
1663 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
1664 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
1665 Ammous for his patch.
1667 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
1668 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1669 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
1671 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
1672 percentage calculation has been fixed.
1673 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
1675 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
1676 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
1677 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
1678 error handling case.
1679 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
1680 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
1683 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
1684 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
1685 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
1686 the rest of the configuration if possible.
1687 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
1688 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
1689 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
1690 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
1691 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
1692 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
1693 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
1694 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1695 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
1696 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
1697 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
1698 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1700 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1701 to prevent spamming the logs.
1702 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1703 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1704 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1705 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1707 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1708 Trenkel for the patch.
1710 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
1711 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1712 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1713 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
1714 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
1716 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
1717 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
1718 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
1719 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
1721 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
1722 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
1723 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
1724 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
1725 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
1726 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
1727 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
1728 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
1729 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
1730 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
1731 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
1732 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
1734 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
1735 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
1736 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1737 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
1738 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
1739 figuring out a way to make this work.
1740 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
1741 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
1742 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
1743 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
1744 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
1746 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
1748 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
1749 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
1750 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
1751 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
1752 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
1753 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
1754 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
1755 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1757 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1758 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1759 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1760 an unknown data source type.
1761 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1762 packets has been fixed.
1763 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
1765 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
1766 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
1767 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
1768 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
1769 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
1770 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1772 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
1773 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
1774 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
1775 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
1776 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
1777 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
1778 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
1779 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1780 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1782 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
1783 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
1784 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
1787 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
1788 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
1789 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
1790 Weiskircher for the patch.
1791 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
1792 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1793 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
1794 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
1795 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
1796 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
1797 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
1798 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
1799 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
1800 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
1801 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
1802 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
1803 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
1805 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
1806 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
1807 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
1808 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
1809 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
1810 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1811 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
1812 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1813 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
1814 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
1815 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
1816 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
1817 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
1818 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
1819 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
1820 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1821 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
1822 storage has been added.
1823 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
1824 value has been added.
1826 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
1827 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
1828 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1829 an unknown data source type.
1831 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
1832 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
1833 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1834 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
1835 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
1836 figuring out a way to make this work.
1837 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
1838 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
1839 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
1840 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
1842 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
1844 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
1845 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
1846 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
1847 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
1848 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
1849 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1851 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1852 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1853 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1854 packets has been fixed.
1855 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
1856 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
1857 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
1858 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
1859 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
1860 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1862 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
1863 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
1864 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
1865 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1866 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1869 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
1870 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
1871 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
1872 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
1873 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
1874 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
1876 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
1877 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
1878 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
1879 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
1880 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
1881 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
1883 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
1884 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
1885 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
1886 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
1888 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
1889 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
1891 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
1892 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
1893 issues on some platforms.
1894 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
1895 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1896 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
1897 descriptor handling.
1899 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
1900 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
1901 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
1902 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
1903 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
1904 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
1906 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
1907 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
1908 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
1909 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1910 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
1911 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
1912 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1913 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
1914 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
1915 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
1916 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
1918 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
1919 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
1920 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
1921 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
1922 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
1923 Aman Gupta for the patch.
1924 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
1925 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
1926 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
1927 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
1928 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
1930 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
1931 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
1933 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
1934 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
1935 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1936 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
1937 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
1938 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
1939 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
1940 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1941 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
1942 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
1943 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
1944 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
1945 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
1946 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
1948 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
1949 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
1950 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
1951 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
1952 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
1953 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
1955 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
1956 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
1957 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
1958 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
1960 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
1961 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
1962 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
1963 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
1965 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
1966 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
1968 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
1969 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
1970 issues on some platforms.
1971 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
1972 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1973 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
1974 descriptor handling.
1976 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
1977 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
1978 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1979 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
1980 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
1981 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
1983 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
1984 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
1985 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
1986 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
1987 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
1988 Hess for reporting this bug.
1989 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
1990 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
1991 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
1992 is linked with the shipped library, too.
1993 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
1994 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
1995 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
1996 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
1997 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
1998 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
1999 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
2000 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
2001 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
2002 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
2003 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
2004 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
2005 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2008 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
2009 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
2011 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
2012 Díaz for fixing this bug.
2013 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
2014 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
2015 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
2016 for reporting the bug.
2017 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
2019 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
2020 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
2021 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
2022 libtool 2.2 has been added.
2023 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
2024 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
2025 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
2026 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
2027 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
2029 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
2030 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
2031 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
2032 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
2033 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
2035 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
2036 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2038 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
2039 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
2040 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
2041 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
2042 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
2043 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
2044 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2045 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
2046 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
2047 Konetzko for the patch.
2048 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
2049 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
2050 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
2051 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
2052 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
2053 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
2054 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
2055 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
2056 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
2057 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
2058 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
2059 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
2060 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2061 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
2062 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
2063 Quiédeville for the patch.
2064 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
2066 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
2067 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
2068 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
2069 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
2070 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
2071 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
2072 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
2073 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
2075 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
2076 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
2077 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
2078 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
2079 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
2080 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
2082 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
2083 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
2084 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
2085 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
2087 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
2088 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
2089 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
2090 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
2091 Hess for reporting this bug.
2092 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
2093 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
2094 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
2095 is linked with the shipped library, too.
2096 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
2097 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
2098 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
2099 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
2100 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2103 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
2104 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
2105 Díaz for fixing this bug.
2106 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
2107 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
2108 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
2109 for reporting the bug.
2111 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
2112 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2113 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2114 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2115 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2116 providing an OpenBSD system.
2117 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
2118 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
2119 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
2120 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
2121 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
2123 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2125 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2126 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2127 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2128 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2129 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2131 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2132 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
2133 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2135 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
2136 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
2137 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
2138 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
2140 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
2141 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
2142 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
2143 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
2144 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
2145 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
2146 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
2147 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
2148 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
2149 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
2150 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2151 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2152 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2154 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
2155 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
2156 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2157 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
2158 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
2159 for finding and fixing most of them.
2160 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2161 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2163 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
2164 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
2165 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
2166 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
2167 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2168 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
2169 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
2170 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
2171 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
2172 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
2173 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
2175 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
2176 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
2177 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
2178 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
2180 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
2181 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
2182 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
2183 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
2184 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
2185 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
2186 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
2187 Kuhnle for the patch.
2188 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
2189 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
2190 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
2191 MacEachern for the patch.
2192 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
2193 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
2194 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
2195 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
2196 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
2197 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
2198 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
2199 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
2200 select interfaces, too.
2201 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
2202 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
2203 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
2205 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
2206 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
2207 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
2208 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
2209 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
2210 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2211 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
2212 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
2213 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
2214 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
2216 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
2217 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
2218 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
2219 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
2220 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
2221 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
2222 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
2223 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
2225 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
2226 been added. Portability fixes.
2227 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
2228 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
2229 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
2231 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
2234 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
2235 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2236 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2237 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2238 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2239 providing an OpenBSD system.
2240 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
2241 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2243 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
2244 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2245 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2246 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2247 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2248 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2250 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2251 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2252 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2253 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2255 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
2256 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
2258 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
2259 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2260 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
2262 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2263 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2264 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
2265 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
2267 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
2268 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2269 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2270 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2272 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2273 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2274 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
2275 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
2276 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
2277 provide these necessary functions.
2278 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2279 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
2281 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
2282 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2283 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2284 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
2286 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2287 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2288 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2289 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2290 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2291 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2293 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
2294 invalid configuration options.
2295 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2296 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2297 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2299 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
2300 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2301 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2302 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2304 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2305 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2306 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2307 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2308 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2309 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2310 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2311 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2313 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2314 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2315 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
2316 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
2317 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2318 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2319 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2320 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
2321 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
2322 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
2323 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
2324 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
2326 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2327 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2330 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
2331 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
2332 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
2334 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
2335 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
2336 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
2337 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
2338 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
2339 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
2341 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
2342 email, using the `esmtp' library.
2343 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
2344 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
2346 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
2347 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
2348 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
2349 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
2351 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
2352 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
2353 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
2354 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
2355 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
2357 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
2358 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
2359 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
2361 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
2362 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2363 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2364 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2366 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2367 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2368 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2369 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
2370 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2371 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2372 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2373 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2374 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2375 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2376 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2377 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2379 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2380 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2381 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2383 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
2384 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2385 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2386 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2388 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2389 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2390 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2391 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2392 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2393 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2394 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2395 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2397 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2398 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2399 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2400 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2401 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2402 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2403 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2406 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
2407 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
2408 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2410 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2411 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
2413 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
2414 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
2415 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianness of the
2416 architecture collectd is being built on.
2417 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
2419 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
2421 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
2422 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
2423 values under Solaris.
2424 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
2425 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
2427 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
2428 returned by some broken drivers.
2430 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
2431 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
2432 to kyrone for reporting this.
2433 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
2435 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
2437 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
2438 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
2439 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
2440 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
2442 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
2443 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
2444 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
2445 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
2446 flush its values to disk.
2447 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
2448 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
2449 for each data source.
2450 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
2452 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
2453 page of an Ascent server.
2454 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2455 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
2456 specific disks has been added.
2457 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2458 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
2459 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
2461 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
2462 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
2463 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
2464 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
2465 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
2466 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
2467 configuration has been decreased.
2468 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
2469 continuously reading from log files.
2470 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
2471 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
2472 and number of channels.
2473 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2474 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
2475 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
2477 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
2478 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
2480 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianness more
2482 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
2483 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
2484 again has been applied.
2485 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2487 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2488 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
2490 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2491 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2492 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
2495 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
2496 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2497 they are in non-standard paths.
2498 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2499 if the libc expects it.
2500 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2501 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2503 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2504 using a buffer of static size.
2505 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2507 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2508 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2510 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
2511 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
2512 `Persist' threshold options.
2513 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
2514 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2515 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2516 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2517 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2519 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
2520 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2522 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2523 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2524 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2525 cross-platform compatibility.
2526 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2527 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2528 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2530 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
2531 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
2532 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
2533 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
2534 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
2535 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
2537 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
2538 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
2539 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
2540 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
2541 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
2542 wants to add custom type definitions.
2543 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
2544 entire directories and shell wildcards.
2545 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
2546 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
2547 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
2548 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
2549 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
2550 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
2551 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
2552 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
2553 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
2554 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
2555 domain name lookups in this plugin.
2556 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
2557 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
2558 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
2559 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
2560 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
2561 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
2562 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
2563 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
2564 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
2565 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
2566 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
2567 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
2568 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
2569 Technology group for this plugin.
2571 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
2572 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2573 they are in non-standard paths.
2574 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2575 if the libc expects it.
2576 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2577 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2579 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2580 using a buffer of static size.
2581 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2583 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2584 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2586 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
2587 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2588 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2589 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2590 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2592 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
2593 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
2594 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2596 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
2597 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
2598 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
2599 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
2600 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2601 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2602 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2603 cross-platform compatibility.
2604 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2605 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
2606 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2607 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2609 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
2610 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
2611 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
2612 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
2613 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2615 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
2616 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
2617 of the libsensors library.
2619 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
2620 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
2621 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
2623 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
2624 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2627 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
2628 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
2629 enabled on the host.
2630 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2632 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
2633 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
2634 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
2635 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
2636 definitions separate from the host definitions.
2637 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
2638 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
2639 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
2640 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
2641 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
2642 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
2643 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
2644 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
2645 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
2646 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
2647 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
2648 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
2649 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
2650 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
2651 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
2652 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
2653 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
2654 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
2655 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
2656 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
2657 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
2659 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
2660 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
2661 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
2662 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
2663 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2665 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
2666 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
2668 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
2669 of the libsensors library.
2671 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
2672 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
2673 it's in a non-standard location.
2674 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
2675 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
2676 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
2677 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
2678 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
2679 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2681 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
2682 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
2684 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
2685 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
2687 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
2688 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
2689 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2690 noise quality as percentage.
2691 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
2692 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
2693 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
2694 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
2695 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
2696 support for the `timeticks' type.
2698 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
2699 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
2700 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
2701 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
2703 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
2704 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
2705 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
2707 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
2708 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
2709 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
2710 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
2712 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
2713 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
2714 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
2715 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
2717 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
2718 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
2719 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
2720 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
2721 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
2722 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
2723 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
2724 to not block data collection.
2725 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
2726 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
2727 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
2729 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
2730 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
2731 of music played with xmms.
2733 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
2734 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
2735 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2736 noise quality as percentage.
2737 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
2739 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
2740 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
2741 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
2742 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
2744 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
2745 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
2746 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
2747 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
2749 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
2750 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
2752 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
2753 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
2754 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
2755 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
2756 (i. e. without quotes).
2757 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
2758 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
2759 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2761 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
2762 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
2763 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
2764 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
2766 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
2767 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
2768 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
2771 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
2772 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
2774 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
2775 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2776 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
2777 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2778 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
2779 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2780 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
2782 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
2783 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
2784 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
2785 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
2786 initialized correctly.
2787 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
2789 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
2790 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
2791 they're given in numerically form.
2793 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
2794 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
2795 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
2798 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
2799 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
2800 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
2801 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
2802 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
2803 thread-safe functions from now on.
2804 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
2805 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
2806 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
2808 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
2809 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
2810 write to increase IO-performance.
2811 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
2812 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
2813 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
2814 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
2815 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
2817 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
2818 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
2819 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
2821 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
2822 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
2823 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
2824 or STDOUT or STDERR.
2825 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
2826 system's syslog daemon.
2827 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
2828 entropy currently being available to the system.
2829 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
2830 back values provided by the forked processes.
2831 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
2832 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
2834 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
2835 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
2836 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
2837 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
2838 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
2839 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
2840 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
2841 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
2842 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
2844 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
2845 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2846 noise quality as percentage.
2848 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
2849 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2851 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
2852 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
2853 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
2854 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
2855 were accounted as `zombies'.
2857 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
2858 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
2861 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
2862 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
2863 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
2865 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
2866 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
2867 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
2868 segfault with some libcs.
2870 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
2871 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
2872 under Solaris again.
2873 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
2875 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
2876 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
2878 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
2879 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
2880 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
2881 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
2882 write init.d-scripts for it.
2883 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
2884 caused problems every now and then.
2885 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
2886 filesystem types or devices.
2887 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
2888 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
2890 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
2891 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
2892 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
2893 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
2894 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
2895 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
2896 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
2897 segment size and pagefaults.
2898 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
2899 queries multimeters.
2900 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
2901 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
2902 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
2904 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
2905 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
2906 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
2907 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
2909 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
2910 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
2911 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
2912 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
2915 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
2916 * The sample config file has been improved.
2917 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
2918 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
2919 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
2920 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
2922 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
2923 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
2924 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
2926 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
2927 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
2929 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
2930 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
2931 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
2932 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
2934 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
2935 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
2936 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
2937 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
2938 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
2939 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
2940 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
2941 with a test environment :)
2942 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
2945 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
2946 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
2947 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
2949 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
2950 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
2951 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
2953 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
2954 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
2955 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
2957 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
2958 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
2960 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
2961 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
2962 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
2963 approximately 7.6 days.
2965 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
2966 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
2967 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
2968 approximately 7.6 days.
2970 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
2971 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
2973 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
2975 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
2977 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
2978 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
2979 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
2980 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
2981 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
2983 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
2984 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
2985 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
2986 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
2987 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
2988 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
2989 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
2990 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
2992 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
2993 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
2994 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
2995 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
2997 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
2998 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
2999 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
3001 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
3002 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
3003 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
3005 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
3006 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
3007 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
3010 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
3011 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
3012 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
3014 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
3015 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
3016 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
3017 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
3019 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
3020 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
3021 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
3023 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
3024 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
3026 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
3027 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
3029 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
3030 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
3032 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
3033 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
3035 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
3036 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
3037 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
3038 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
3039 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
3040 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
3041 address and/or port than localhost.
3042 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
3043 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
3044 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
3045 be set in the configfile.
3047 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
3048 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
3049 client mode. This released fixes this.
3051 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
3052 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
3053 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
3056 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
3057 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
3059 * A `df' plugin has been added.
3060 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
3061 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
3062 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
3064 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
3065 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
3066 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
3069 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
3070 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
3071 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
3073 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
3074 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
3075 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
3076 currently logged in users.
3077 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
3078 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
3079 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
3080 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
3082 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
3083 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
3084 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
3085 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
3086 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
3087 with the `-c' argument.
3088 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
3089 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
3090 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
3091 Barcellos for this patch.
3093 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
3094 * New modules have been added:
3095 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
3096 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
3097 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
3098 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
3100 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
3101 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
3103 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
3104 between polls up to one day.
3105 * The init.d files have been improved.
3106 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
3108 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
3109 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
3110 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
3112 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
3113 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
3114 multicast) has been added.
3115 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
3116 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
3117 to be linked against an external library.
3118 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
3119 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
3121 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
3122 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
3124 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
3125 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
3126 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
3127 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
3128 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
3129 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
3130 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
3131 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
3132 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
3135 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
3136 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
3138 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
3140 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
3141 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
3143 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
3144 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
3145 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
3146 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
3148 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
3149 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
3150 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3152 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
3153 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
3154 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
3155 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
3156 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
3157 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
3158 statistics will not work.
3160 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
3161 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
3162 weird strings as disk-names..
3164 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
3165 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
3166 about the disks and partitions.
3168 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
3169 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
3170 and/or kernel versions.
3172 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
3173 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
3174 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
3176 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
3177 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
3178 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
3180 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
3181 * Collecting CPU statistics now
3183 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
3184 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
3186 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
3188 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
3189 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
3191 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
3192 * The following modules are provided:
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