1 yyyy-mm-dd, Version 5.0.0
2 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
3 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
4 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
5 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
6 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
7 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
8 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
10 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
11 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
12 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
13 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
14 added to the collectd client library.
15 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
16 one data source has been changed to "value".
17 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
18 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
19 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
20 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
21 maximum value is unspecified.
22 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
23 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
24 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
25 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
26 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
27 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
28 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
29 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
30 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
31 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
33 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
34 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
36 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
38 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
40 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
41 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
42 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
43 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
45 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
46 data sets used have been improved.
47 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
49 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
50 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
51 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
52 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
53 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
54 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
55 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
56 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
58 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
59 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
60 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
61 Fournier for their contributions.
62 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
64 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
66 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
69 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
70 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
71 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
72 the rest of the configuration if possible.
73 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
74 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
75 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
76 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
77 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
78 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
79 configurable timeout value.
80 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
81 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
82 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
83 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
84 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
85 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
86 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
88 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
89 to prevent spamming the logs.
90 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
91 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
92 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
93 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
95 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
97 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
98 Trenkel for the patch.
100 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
101 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
102 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
103 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
104 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
106 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
107 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
108 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
110 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
111 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
112 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
113 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
114 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
115 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
116 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
117 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
118 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
119 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
121 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
122 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
123 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
124 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
125 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
126 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
127 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
129 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
131 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
132 lines from the match.
133 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
134 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
136 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
137 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
139 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
140 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
142 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
143 certain lines from the match.
144 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
145 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
146 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
147 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
148 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
149 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
150 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
151 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
152 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
153 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
154 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
155 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
156 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
157 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
158 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
159 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
160 Sebastian Harl for his work.
161 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
162 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
163 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
164 Sven Trenkel for his work.
165 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
166 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
167 MikroTik devices has been added.
168 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
169 Scraba for his patch.
170 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
171 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
172 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
173 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
174 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
175 Ammous for his patch.
177 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
178 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
179 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
180 the rest of the configuration if possible.
181 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
182 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
183 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
184 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
185 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
186 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
187 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
188 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
189 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
190 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
191 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
192 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
194 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
195 to prevent spamming the logs.
196 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
197 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
198 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
199 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
201 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
202 Trenkel for the patch.
204 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
205 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
206 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
207 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
208 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
210 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
211 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
212 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
213 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
215 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
216 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
217 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
218 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
219 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
220 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
221 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
222 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
223 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
224 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
225 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
226 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
228 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
229 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
230 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
231 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
232 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
233 figuring out a way to make this work.
234 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
235 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
236 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
237 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
238 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
240 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
242 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
243 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
244 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
245 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
246 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
247 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
248 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
249 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
251 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
252 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
253 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
254 an unknown data source type.
255 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
256 packets has been fixed.
257 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
259 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
260 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
261 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
262 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
263 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
264 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
266 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
267 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
268 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
269 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
270 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
271 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
272 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
273 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
274 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
276 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
277 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
278 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
281 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
282 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
283 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
284 Weiskircher for the patch.
285 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
286 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
287 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
288 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
289 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
290 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
291 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
292 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
293 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
294 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
295 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
296 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
297 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
299 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
300 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
301 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
302 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
303 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
304 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
305 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
306 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
307 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
308 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
309 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
310 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
311 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
312 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
313 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
314 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
315 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
316 storage has been added.
317 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
318 value has been added.
320 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
321 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
322 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
323 an unknown data source type.
325 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
326 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
327 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
328 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
329 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
330 figuring out a way to make this work.
331 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
332 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
333 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
334 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
336 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
338 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
339 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
340 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
341 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
342 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
343 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
345 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
346 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
347 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
348 packets has been fixed.
349 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
350 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
351 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
352 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
353 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
354 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
356 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
357 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
358 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
359 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
360 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
363 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
364 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
365 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
366 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
367 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
368 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
370 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
371 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
372 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
373 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
374 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
375 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
377 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
378 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
379 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
380 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
382 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
383 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
385 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
386 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
387 issues on some platforms.
388 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
389 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
390 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
393 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
394 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
395 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
396 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
397 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
398 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
400 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
401 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
402 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
403 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
404 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
405 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
406 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
407 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
408 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
409 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
410 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
412 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
413 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
414 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
415 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
416 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
417 Aman Gupta for the patch.
418 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
419 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
420 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
421 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
422 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
424 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
425 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
427 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
428 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
429 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
430 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
431 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
432 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
433 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
434 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
435 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
436 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
437 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
438 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
439 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
440 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
442 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
443 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
444 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
445 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
446 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
447 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
449 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
450 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
451 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
452 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
454 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
455 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
456 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
457 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
459 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
460 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
462 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
463 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
464 issues on some platforms.
465 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
466 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
467 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
470 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
471 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
472 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
473 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
474 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
475 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
477 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
478 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
479 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
480 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
481 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
482 Hess for reporting this bug.
483 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
484 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
485 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
486 is linked with the shipped library, too.
487 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
488 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
489 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
490 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
491 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
492 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
493 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
494 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
495 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
496 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
497 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
498 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
499 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
502 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
503 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
505 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
506 Díaz for fixing this bug.
507 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
508 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
509 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
510 for reporting the bug.
511 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
513 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
514 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
515 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
516 libtool 2.2 has been added.
517 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
518 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
519 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
520 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
521 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
523 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
524 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
525 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
526 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
527 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
529 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
530 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
532 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
533 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
534 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
535 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
536 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
537 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
538 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
539 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
540 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
541 Konetzko for the patch.
542 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
543 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
544 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
545 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
546 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
547 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
548 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
549 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
550 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
551 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
552 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
553 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
554 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
555 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
556 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
557 Quiédeville for the patch.
558 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
560 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
561 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
562 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
563 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
564 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
565 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
566 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
567 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
569 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
570 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
571 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
572 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
573 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
574 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
576 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
577 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
578 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
579 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
581 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
582 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
583 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
584 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
585 Hess for reporting this bug.
586 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
587 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
588 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
589 is linked with the shipped library, too.
590 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
591 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
592 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
593 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
594 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
597 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
598 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
599 Díaz for fixing this bug.
600 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
601 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
602 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
603 for reporting the bug.
605 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
606 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
607 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
608 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
609 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
610 providing an OpenBSD system.
611 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
612 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
613 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
614 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
615 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
617 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
619 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
620 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
621 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
622 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
623 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
625 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
626 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
627 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
629 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
630 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
631 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
632 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
634 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
635 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
636 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
637 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
638 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
639 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
640 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
641 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
642 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
643 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
644 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
645 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
646 initialized, the daemon may crash.
648 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
649 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
650 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
651 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
652 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
653 for finding and fixing most of them.
654 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
655 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
657 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
658 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
659 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
660 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
661 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
662 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
663 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
664 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
665 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
666 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
667 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
669 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
670 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
671 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
672 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
674 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
675 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
676 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
677 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
678 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
679 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
680 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
681 Kuhnle for the patch.
682 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
683 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
684 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
685 MacEachern for the patch.
686 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
687 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
688 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
689 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
690 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
691 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
692 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
693 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
694 select interfaces, too.
695 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
696 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
697 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
699 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
700 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
701 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
702 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
703 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
704 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
705 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
706 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
707 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
708 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
710 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
711 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
712 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
713 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
714 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
715 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
716 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
717 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
719 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
720 been added. Portability fixes.
721 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
722 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
723 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
725 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
728 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
729 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
730 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
731 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
732 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
733 providing an OpenBSD system.
734 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
735 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
737 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
738 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
739 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
740 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
741 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
742 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
744 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
745 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
746 initialized, the daemon may crash.
747 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
749 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
750 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
752 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
753 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
754 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
756 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
757 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
758 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
759 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
761 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
762 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
763 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
764 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
766 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
767 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
768 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
769 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
770 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
771 provide these necessary functions.
772 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
773 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
775 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
776 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
777 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
778 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
780 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
781 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
782 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
783 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
784 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
785 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
787 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
788 invalid configuration options.
789 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
790 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
791 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
793 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
794 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
795 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
796 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
798 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
799 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
800 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
801 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
802 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
803 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
804 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
805 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
807 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
808 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
809 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
810 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
811 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
812 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
813 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
814 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
815 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
816 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
817 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
818 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
820 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
821 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
824 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
825 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
826 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
828 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
829 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
830 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
831 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
832 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
833 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
835 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
836 email, using the `esmtp' library.
837 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
838 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
840 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
841 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
842 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
843 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
845 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
846 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
847 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
848 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
849 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
851 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
852 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
853 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
855 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
856 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
857 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
858 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
860 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
861 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
862 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
863 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
864 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
865 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
866 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
867 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
868 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
869 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
870 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
871 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
873 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
874 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
875 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
877 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
878 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
879 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
880 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
882 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
883 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
884 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
885 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
886 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
887 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
888 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
889 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
891 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
892 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
893 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
894 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
895 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
896 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
897 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
900 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
901 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
902 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
904 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
905 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
907 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
908 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
909 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianess of the
910 architecture collectd is being built on.
911 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
913 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
915 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
916 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
917 values under Solaris.
918 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
919 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
921 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
922 returned by some broken drivers.
924 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
925 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
926 to kyrone for reporting this.
927 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
929 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
931 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
932 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
933 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
934 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
936 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
937 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
938 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
939 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
940 flush its values to disk.
941 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
942 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
943 for each data source.
944 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
946 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
947 page of an Ascent server.
948 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
949 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
950 specific disks has been added.
951 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
952 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
953 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
955 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
956 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
957 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
958 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
959 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
960 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
961 configuration has been decreased.
962 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
963 continuously reading from log files.
964 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
965 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
966 and number of channels.
967 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
968 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
969 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
971 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
972 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
974 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianess more
976 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
977 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
978 again has been applied.
979 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
981 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
982 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
984 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
985 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
986 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
989 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
990 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
991 they are in non-standard paths.
992 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
993 if the libc expects it.
994 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
995 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
997 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
998 using a buffer of static size.
999 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
1001 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1002 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
1004 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
1005 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
1006 `Persist' threshold options.
1007 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
1008 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
1009 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
1010 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
1011 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
1013 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
1014 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
1016 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
1017 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
1018 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
1019 cross-platform compatibility.
1020 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
1021 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
1022 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
1024 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
1025 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
1026 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
1027 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
1028 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
1029 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
1031 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
1032 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
1033 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
1034 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
1035 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
1036 wants to add custom type definitions.
1037 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
1038 entire directories and shell wildcards.
1039 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
1040 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
1041 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
1042 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
1043 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
1044 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
1045 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
1046 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
1047 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
1048 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
1049 domain name lookups in this plugin.
1050 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
1051 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
1052 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
1053 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
1054 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
1055 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
1056 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
1057 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
1058 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
1059 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
1060 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
1061 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
1062 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
1063 Technology group for this plugin.
1065 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
1066 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
1067 they are in non-standard paths.
1068 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
1069 if the libc expects it.
1070 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1071 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
1073 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
1074 using a buffer of static size.
1075 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
1077 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1078 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
1080 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
1081 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
1082 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
1083 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
1084 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
1086 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
1087 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
1088 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
1090 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
1091 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
1092 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
1093 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
1094 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
1095 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
1096 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
1097 cross-platform compatibility.
1098 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
1099 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
1100 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
1101 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
1103 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
1104 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
1105 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
1106 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
1107 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
1109 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
1110 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
1111 of the libsensors library.
1113 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
1114 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
1115 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
1117 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
1118 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1121 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
1122 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
1123 enabled on the host.
1124 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
1126 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
1127 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
1128 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
1129 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
1130 definitions separate from the host definitions.
1131 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
1132 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
1133 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
1134 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
1135 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
1136 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
1137 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
1138 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
1139 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
1140 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
1141 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
1142 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
1143 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
1144 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
1145 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
1146 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
1147 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
1148 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
1149 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
1150 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
1151 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
1153 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
1154 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
1155 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
1156 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
1157 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
1159 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
1160 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
1162 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
1163 of the libsensors library.
1165 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
1166 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
1167 it's in a non-standard location.
1168 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
1169 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
1170 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
1171 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
1172 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
1173 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
1175 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
1176 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
1178 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
1179 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
1181 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
1182 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
1183 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1184 noise quality as percentage.
1185 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
1186 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
1187 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
1188 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
1189 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
1190 support for the `timeticks' type.
1192 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
1193 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
1194 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
1195 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
1197 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
1198 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
1199 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
1201 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
1202 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
1203 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
1204 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
1206 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
1207 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
1208 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
1209 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
1211 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
1212 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
1213 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
1214 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
1215 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
1216 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
1217 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
1218 to not block data collection.
1219 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
1220 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
1221 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
1223 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
1224 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
1225 of music played with xmms.
1227 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
1228 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
1229 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1230 noise quality as percentage.
1231 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
1233 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
1234 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
1235 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
1236 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
1238 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
1239 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
1240 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
1241 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
1243 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
1244 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
1246 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
1247 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
1248 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
1249 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
1250 (i. e. without quotes).
1251 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
1252 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
1253 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
1255 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
1256 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
1257 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
1258 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
1260 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
1261 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
1262 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
1265 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
1266 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
1268 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
1269 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1270 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
1271 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1272 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
1273 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1274 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
1276 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
1277 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
1278 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
1279 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
1280 initialized correctly.
1281 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
1283 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
1284 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
1285 they're given in numerically form.
1287 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
1288 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
1289 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
1292 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
1293 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
1294 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
1295 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
1296 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
1297 thread-safe functions from now on.
1298 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
1299 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
1300 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
1302 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
1303 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
1304 write to increase IO-performance.
1305 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
1306 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
1307 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
1308 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
1309 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
1311 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
1312 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
1313 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
1315 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
1316 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
1317 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
1318 or STDOUT or STDERR.
1319 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
1320 system's syslog daemon.
1321 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
1322 entropy currently being available to the system.
1323 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
1324 back values provided by the forked processes.
1325 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
1326 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
1328 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
1329 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
1330 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
1331 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
1332 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
1333 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
1334 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
1335 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
1336 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
1338 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
1339 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1340 noise quality as percentage.
1342 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
1343 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
1345 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
1346 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
1347 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
1348 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
1349 were accounted as `zombies'.
1351 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
1352 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
1355 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
1356 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
1357 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
1359 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
1360 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
1361 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
1362 segfault with some libcs.
1364 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
1365 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
1366 under Solaris again.
1367 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
1369 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
1370 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
1372 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
1373 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
1374 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
1375 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
1376 write init.d-scripts for it.
1377 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
1378 caused problems every now and then.
1379 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
1380 filesystem types or devices.
1381 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
1382 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
1384 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
1385 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
1386 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
1387 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
1388 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
1389 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
1390 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
1391 segment size and pagefaults.
1392 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
1393 queries multimeters.
1394 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
1395 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
1396 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
1398 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
1399 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
1400 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
1401 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
1403 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
1404 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
1405 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
1406 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
1409 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
1410 * The sample config file has been improved.
1411 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
1412 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
1413 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
1414 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
1416 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
1417 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
1418 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
1420 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
1421 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
1423 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
1424 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
1425 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
1426 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
1428 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
1429 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
1430 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
1431 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
1432 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
1433 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
1434 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
1435 with a test environment :)
1436 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
1439 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
1440 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
1441 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
1443 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
1444 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
1445 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
1447 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
1448 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
1449 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
1451 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
1452 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
1454 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
1455 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1456 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1457 approximately 7.6 days.
1459 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
1460 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1461 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1462 approximately 7.6 days.
1464 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
1465 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
1467 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
1469 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
1471 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
1472 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
1473 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
1474 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
1475 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
1477 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
1478 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
1479 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
1480 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
1481 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
1482 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
1483 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
1484 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
1486 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
1487 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
1488 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
1489 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
1491 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
1492 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
1493 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
1495 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
1496 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
1497 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
1499 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
1500 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
1501 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
1504 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
1505 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
1506 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
1508 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
1509 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
1510 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
1511 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
1513 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
1514 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
1515 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
1517 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
1518 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
1520 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
1521 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
1523 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
1524 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
1526 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
1527 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
1529 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
1530 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
1531 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
1532 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
1533 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
1534 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
1535 address and/or port than localhost.
1536 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
1537 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
1538 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
1539 be set in the configfile.
1541 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
1542 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
1543 client mode. This released fixes this.
1545 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
1546 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
1547 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
1550 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
1551 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
1553 * A `df' plugin has been added.
1554 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
1555 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
1556 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
1558 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
1559 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
1560 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
1563 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
1564 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
1565 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
1567 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
1568 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
1569 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
1570 currently logged in users.
1571 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
1572 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
1573 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
1574 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
1576 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
1577 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
1578 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
1579 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
1580 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
1581 with the `-c' argument.
1582 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
1583 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
1584 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
1585 Barcellos for this patch.
1587 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
1588 * New modules have been added:
1589 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
1590 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
1591 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
1592 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
1594 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
1595 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
1597 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
1598 between polls up to one day.
1599 * The init.d files have been improved.
1600 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
1602 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
1603 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
1604 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
1606 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
1607 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
1608 multicast) has been added.
1609 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
1610 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
1611 to be linked against an external library.
1612 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
1613 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
1615 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
1616 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
1618 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
1619 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
1620 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
1621 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
1622 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
1623 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
1624 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
1625 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
1626 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
1629 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
1630 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
1632 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
1634 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
1635 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
1637 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
1638 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
1639 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
1640 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
1642 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
1643 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
1644 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
1646 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
1647 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
1648 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
1649 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
1650 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
1651 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
1652 statistics will not work.
1654 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
1655 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
1656 weird strings as disk-names..
1658 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
1659 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
1660 about the disks and partitions.
1662 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
1663 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
1664 and/or kernel versions.
1666 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
1667 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
1668 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
1670 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
1671 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
1672 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
1674 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
1675 * Collecting CPU statistics now
1677 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
1678 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
1680 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
1682 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
1683 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
1685 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
1686 * The following modules are provided:
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