1 2016-09-11, Version 5.6.0
2 * Build system: An option to to avoid building the DF plugin against XFS
3 has been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1878
4 * Build system: Autoconf ≥ 2.60, a C99-capable compiler and pkg-config
5 are now required. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
6 * Build system: Building with "-Werror" is now optional. Thanks to Ruben
8 * Build system: Many compilation issues on non-Linux platforms have been
9 fixed, leading to wider plugin support. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
10 Dagobert Michelsen, Havard Eidnes and Robert Viduya.
11 * Build system: The configuration summary now also ends up in
12 config.log. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
13 * collectd: All command-line options now override global options from
14 the config file. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #366
15 * collectd: A number of unit tests for commonly used functions have been
16 added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
17 * collectd: Plugins start up and read timeouts are now logged. Thanks to
18 Marc Fournier. #1293, #1254
19 * collectd: Support for a timeout has been added to "FLUSH" callbacks.
20 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
21 * collectd: The "-T" command line switch now reports more errors. Thanks
23 * collectd: The max size of value list elements ("DATA_MAX_NAME_LEN")
24 has been doubled and is now configurable at build time. Thanks to Amy
25 Lin, Florian Forster and Radu Brumariu. #1120
26 * Set target: The "MetaData" option has been added. Thanks to Yves
27 Mettier and Kevin Bowling. #1106, #1656, #1913
28 * AMQP, Write_HTTP, Write_Kafka plugins: Support for libyajl < 2 has
29 been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
30 * APC UPS plugin: Parsing of end markers has been fixed. Thanks to
32 * APC UPS plugin: The "PersistentConnection" option has been added.
33 Thanks to Florian Forster #617
34 * ceph, DNS, Exec, IPTables, Ping, turbostat plugins: When running
35 unprivileged, these plugins will now warn about insuffiscient
36 permissions or capabilities(7). Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1530
37 * Chrony plugin: This new plugin collects NTP data from the chrony NTP
38 server. Thanks to Claudius Zingerli. #1548
39 * cpusleep plugin: This new plugin measures time spent by CPU in deep
40 sleep mode. Thanks to Rinigus. #1826
41 * CPU plugin: The "ReportNumCpu" option has been added. Thanks to Fabien
43 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: The new "Statistics" reports
44 various per-HTTP connection timers. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1004
45 * DBI plugin: The "Interval" option has been added to "Database" blocks.
46 Thanks to Michal Bebjak.
47 * Disk plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li,
48 Brad Davis, Ruben Kerfhof and Kevin Bowling.
49 * Empty Counter match: Support for derives has been implemented. Thanks
50 to Florian Forster. #1813
51 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for TabularData and the "PluginName" option
52 have been added. Thanks to David Crane. #1290, #1291
53 * GPS plugin: This new plugin reports the number of sattelites seen by
54 and precision of a GPS receiver. Thanks to Nicolas Jourden. #1346
55 * gRPC plugin: This new client and server plugin allows sending and
56 receiving metrics using the gRPC protocol. Comparable to the UnixSock
57 plugin, but using TCP and TLS. Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Florian
59 * Interface plugin: Reporting dropped packets has been added. Thanks to
61 * Interface plugin: The "ReportInactive" has been added, letting users
62 skip inactive network interfaces. Thanks to Rinigus. #1791
63 * Interface plugin: The new, Solaris-only "UniqueName" option has been
64 added. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam. #1416
65 * Lua plugin: This new language binding allows writing plugins using the
66 Lua programming language. Thanks to Julien Ammous, Florian Forster and
68 * Memory plugin: Reporting of ARC memory on Solaris has been added.
69 Thanks to Brian ONeill.
70 * MQTT plugin: This new plugin sends metrics to and/or receives metrics
71 from an MQTT broker. Thanks to Marc Falzon, Jan-Piet Mens, Nicholas
72 Humfrey and Florian Forster. #805, #1124
73 * MySQL plugin: Connection to the database server can now be done over
74 SSL. Thanks to Brian Lalor. #1256
75 * MySQL plugin: Monitoring slow queries has been added. Thanks to skob.
77 * MySQL plugin: mysql_bpool_pages-flushed has been renamed to
78 mysql_bpool_counters-pages_flushed because the value is cumulative.
79 Thanks to Marek Becka.
80 * MySQL plugin: Support for Galera statistics has been added. Thanks to
81 Rachid Zarouali. #1849
82 * MySQL plugin: Support for InnoDB metrics was improved. Thanks to Aman
84 * MySQL plugin: The "mysql_sort" type has been split into 3 different
85 types. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1592
86 * Network plugin: Decryption error logging has been improved. Thanks to
87 Pavel Rochnyack. #1735
88 * Notify Nagios plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to Nagios as
89 a passive check result. Thanks to Florian Forster.
90 * NTPd plugin: The plugin now detects if the ntp daemon reports
91 nanoseconds instead of microseconds. Thanks to Matwey V. Kornilov.
93 * OpenLDAP plugin: Several connection-related improvements have been
94 made. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1308
95 * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for "simple authentication" has been added.
96 Thanks to Marek Becka. #1087
97 * Ping plugin: The "Size" option has been added, allowing the ICMP data
98 payload size to be configured. Thanks to Witold Baryluk. #1395
99 * PostgreSQL, DBI, Oracle plugins: The new "PluginInstanceFrom" option
100 has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1707
101 * PowerDNS plugin: The recursor metrics have been updated to 3.7.3 and
102 missing rr types have been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
103 * Processes plugin: Counting of context switches was added for Linux.
104 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1036
105 * Processes plugin: Improve reliability of thread counts on Linux.
106 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
107 * Python plugin: Minimal Python version requirement has been bumped to
108 2.6. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1864
109 * Redis plugin: Several additional metrics are now collected. Thanks to
110 Marc Falzon and Matteo Contrini. #1807, #1483
111 * Sensors plugin: The "UseLabels" option has been added. Thanks to
113 * SMART plugin: The new "IgnoreSleepMode" option has been added. Thanks
114 to Scott Talbert. #1770
115 * SMART plugin: The new "UseSerial" option allows identifying devices in
116 a stable way. Thanks to Scott Talbert. #1794
117 * SNMP plugin: The "IpAddress" can now be used for instances. Thanks to
118 Vincent Bernat. #1397
119 * StatsD plugin: Latency calculation histogram is now able to shrink
120 automatically to optimal size. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1622
121 * StatsD plugin: The "CounterSum" option has been added. Thanks to
122 Florian Forster. #929, #1282, #1311
123 * UUID plugin: The plugin now also looks in in smbios system table and
124 "/sys/class/dmi". Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1490
125 * virt plugin: The "PluginInstanceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
126 to Ruben Kerkhof. #1100
127 * Write Graphite plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" option has been added.
128 Thanks to Toni Moreno and Florian Forster.
129 * Write HTTP plugin: A KairosDB formatter has been added. Thanks to
130 Aurélien Rougemont. #1809
131 * Write HTTP plugin: Notifications are now handled by this plugin.
132 Thanks to Florian Forster.
133 * Write HTTP plugin: The "LogHttpError" option has been added. Thanks to
135 * Write HTTP plugin: The new "Headers" option allows setting custom HTTP
136 headers in outgoing requests. Thanks to Brandon Arp. #1634
137 * Write Kafka plugin: Key handling has been made more comprehensive and
138 reliable. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Vincent
139 Bernat. #1765, #1695, #1393
140 * Write Redis plugin: The "Database", "MaxSetSize", "Prefix" and
141 "StoreRates" options have been added. Thanks to Brian Kelly and
143 * Write Riemann plugin: The new "BatchFlushTimeout" and "Timeout" option
144 have been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Gergely Nagy.
145 * Write Riemann plugin: This plugin now requires the riemann-c-client
146 library, version 1.6.0+. This adds support for submitting values to
147 Riemann over TLS. Thanks to Gergely Nagy. #986
148 * Write TSDB, Write Sensu, Write Riemann, Write Graphite, Write TSDB
149 plugin: TCP keepalive is now enabled, helping graceful recovery from
150 unclean network disconnections. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1549
151 * XenCPU plugin: This new plugin collects XEN Hypervisor CPU stats.
152 Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1608
153 * ZFS ARC plugin: Several new statistics have been added and a couple of
154 obsolete ones removed. Thanks to Brad Davis, Brian ONeill and Ruben
156 * Zone plugin: This new plugin reads per-zone CPU usage on Solaris.
157 Thanks to Mathijs Mohlmann and Dagobert Michelsen.
159 2016-07-25, Version 5.5.2
160 * collectd: A division by zero has been fixed in the
161 "plugin_dispatch_multivalue()" function. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
162 * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
163 in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
164 * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
165 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkof.
166 * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
167 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
168 * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
169 more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
170 * DF plugin: A build issue on DragonFlyBSD has been fixed. Thanks to
172 * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
173 This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
175 * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
176 has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
177 * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
178 now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
179 Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
180 * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has
181 been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was
182 ignored. Thanks to @yujokang. #1665
183 * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
184 This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
185 Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
186 * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
187 single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
188 create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
189 * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
190 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
191 * Redis plugin: A memory leak in an error handling code path has been
192 fixed. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz.
193 * Redis plugin: The data source type of the expired_keys metric has been
194 corrected to "DERIVE". Thanks to Marc Falzon and Marc Fournier. #1483.
195 * SMART plugin: A build dependency on libudev has been added. Thanks to
196 Pavel Rochnyack. #1724
197 * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
198 Pavel Rochnyack #1703
199 * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
200 shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
201 * Write Sensu plugin: A segfault when the Tag was unset has been fixed.
202 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
203 * ZFS ARC plugin: The cache_operation-stolen metric has been removed for
204 FreeBSD 10.2 and later. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1580
206 2016-01-22, Version 5.5.1
207 * Build system: Compilation errors have been avoided by correctly
208 defining package name and version used by autoconf. Thanks to Nathan
210 * Build system: Dependency ordering was fixed to ensure parallel builds
211 work reliably. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias. #1125
212 * Build system: Error messages have been improved and building the unit
213 tests has been fixed on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster and
214 Dagobert Michelsen. #1077
215 * Build system: The move of the "utils_ignorelist" functions has been
216 reverted. This fixes build issues of numerous plugins. Thanks to
217 Benjamin Drung;. #1323
218 * Build system: The fhcount plugin has been restricted to Linux. Thanks
219 to Ruben Kerkhof. #1195
220 * Build system: Detection of header files for the turbostat plugin has
221 been fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1075
222 * collectd: The "LC_NUMERIC" locale is now forced, to prevent issues
223 with some plugins on environments using a comma as decimal separator.
224 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1237
225 * Documentation: Some precisions related to the virt plugin have beed
226 added. Thanks to Wojtek Bocer and Ruben Kerkhof.
227 * Documentation: The CollectdInternalStats documentation has been
228 improved. Thanks to Yves Mettier and Florian Forster.
229 * Battery plugin: A missing Type has been added. Thanks to Marc
231 * Bind plugin: An off-by-one error has been fixed: an index was checked
232 against a wrong variable, which may lead to an out-of-bounds read.
233 Thanks to Michal Humpula. #1123
234 * Ceph plugin: JSON parsing has been refactored to support ceph 10.0.0
235 and fixes several buffer overflows. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1350
236 * CPU plugin: A Mac OS X specific bug has been fixed: the plugin
237 expected an incorrect number of CPU states, resulting in failing read
238 callbacks. This regression was introduced in 5.5.0. Thanks to Robert
240 * Disk plugin: Support for Mac OS X 10.10 has been added. Thanks to
242 * IPC plugin: Support for building with musl-libc has been added. Thanks
243 to Natanael Copa. #1147
244 * Log Logstash plugin: A segfault when using libyajl, version 1 was
245 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #1190
246 * Log Logstash plugin: The timestamp is now ISO 8601 compliant. Thanks
247 to Marc Fournier. #1132
248 * memcached plugin: The Type of the listen-disabled metric was fixed.
249 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1356
250 * MySQL plugin: The Type used by Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_flushed was
251 fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1085
252 * OpenLDAP plugin: A crash when using LDAPI (LDAP-over-IPC) got fixed.
253 Thanks to Marek Becka. #1080
254 * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for Mac OS X has been added. Thanks to Ruben
256 * SMART plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
257 Schüller and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1076
258 * Swap plugin: A regression that would lead to swap usage being reported
259 in kilobytes (instead of bytes) has been fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka.
261 * Varnish plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Ruben
263 * Varnish plugin: Support for versions 3 and 4 has been made more
264 tolerant to minor changes in Varnish point releases. Thanks to Marc
266 * virt plugin: A copy-and-paste mistake in an error message has been
267 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1101
268 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
270 * Write Redis plugin: Dead code has been removed. Thanks to Brian Kelly.
272 * 27 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
273 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
274 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan and clang: Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
275 Florian Forster and Marek Becka.
276 * Collectd::Unixsock: A Perl error got corrected. Thanks to Ciaran Mac
279 2015-05-27, Version 5.5.0
280 * Build system: Ability to make out-of-tree builds has been fixed.
281 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #792
282 * Build system, Disk and Users plugins: Detection and use of libstatgrab
283 ≧ 0.90 has been added. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #445, #795, #806,
285 * Build system, Memory, CPU, TCPConns and Processes plugins: Numerous
286 fixes related to OpenBSD support have been added. Thanks to Landry
287 Breuil. #777, #778, #779, #808
288 * Build system: Plugins now only export "module_register()". Thanks to
290 * Build system: Various cleanups and improvements have been done. Thanks
292 * collectd: Numerous internal changes and improvements to the daemon and
293 the plugin API have been make. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves
294 Ritschard and Alex Petrov. #512, #727
295 * collectd: Numerous spelling mistakes have been corrected in comments
296 and documentation and several error messages have been improved.
297 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Abhinav Upadhyay, Olivier Bazoud, Pierre-Yves
298 Ritschard, Tim Smith, Moshe Zada, Katelyn Perry and Marc Fournier.
299 * collectd: Rules/Targets can now be appended to existing Filter Chains.
300 Thanks to Marc Falzon. #444
301 * collectd: Failing Filter Chains destinations will now log the list of
302 available write targets. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #650, #1043
303 * collectd: Support for process signaling and management by upstart and
304 systemd has been implemented for the Linux platform. Thanks to
305 Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. #798, #811, #814
306 * collectd: The "CollectInternalStats" option has been added. Thanks to
308 * collectd: The daemon source code and dependencies have moved to the
309 "src/daemon/" directory. Thanks to Florian Forster.
310 * collectd: The new "MaxReadInterval" option allows to cap the
311 exponential retry interval of plugins read errors. Thanks to Alexey
312 Remizov and Florian Forster. #713
313 * collectd: The "-P" command-line option now has precedence over the
314 "PIDFile" option. Thanks to Thomas D. #553
315 * collection.cgi: Various data-source related adjustments have been
316 made. Thanks to Fabiano Pires and Sebastian Harl.
317 * libcollectdclient: Now propagates errors when signing / encrypting
318 network packets. Thanks to Florian Forster.
319 * Configuration: Support for unquoted IPv6 addresses has been added.
320 Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #489
321 * Documentation: Various improvements have been done. Thanks to Florian
322 Forster and Marc Fournier.
323 * Examples: the sample C plugin has been updated to the current plugin
324 API. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
325 * Licensing: The following components have been relicensed to the MIT
326 license: the Apple Sensors, Ascent, DBI, E-Mail, Entropy, GenericJMX,
327 gmond, LogFile, nginx, Notify Desktop, NTPd, NUT, olsrd, Perl, Ping,
328 PostgreSQL, Protocols, RouterOS, RRDCacheD, SNMP, StatsD, SysLog,
329 Table, Tail, UnixSock, vmem, VServer, Wireless, Write Riemann and XMMS
330 plugins, the core collectd daemon, the collectdmon, collectd-nagios
331 and collectd-tg utilities, all the Targets and Matches, liboconfig,
332 most of the "utils_*" files and the plugin API.
333 * Tests: A test suite has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
334 * Threshold: The hysteresis calculation has been made more reliable.
335 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #581
336 * Threshold: Various fixes and improvements have been made. Thanks to
337 Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #649, #644
338 * AMQP plugin: The "ConnectionRetryDelay" option has been added,
339 allowing to delay reconnection. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam and Marc
341 * AMQP plugin: The "QueueDurable" and "QueueAutoDelete" options have
342 been added, giving control over queue creation and deletion. Thanks to
343 David Blundell and Marc Fournier. #623
344 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx and Write HTTP
345 plugins: Customizing the "User-Agent" field is now possible at
346 compile-time. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #440
347 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx plugins: The
348 connection will be reset if it hasn't completed within the configured
349 "Interval". The new "Timeout" option gives control over this behavior.
350 Thanks to Jan Kundrát and Marc Fournier. #982, #983, #993
351 * Apache, Ascent, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP plugins:
352 Allow usernames and passwords to contain colons if built against
353 libcurl ≧ 7.19.1. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #695, #947
354 * Apache plugin: The "SSLCiphers" option gives control over the
355 encryption algorithms to use with TLS connections. Thanks to Toni
357 * Barometer plugin: This new plugin reads sensor data from various
358 Freescale and Bosch digital barometers. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #69,
360 * Battery plugin: Reporting values as percentages and reporting degraded
361 batteries has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
362 * Battery plugin: Support for reading values from sysfs on Linux has
363 been added. Thanks to Andy Parkins, Nicholas Humfrey, Peter Wu and
364 Florian Forster. #725, #810, #998
365 * Battery plugin: The value for current is no longer supplied unless the
366 battery provides this information. Thanks to Florian Forster.
367 * BIND plugin: Bind's XML v3 API is now supported; Thanks to Victor
368 Berger, Bruno Prémont and Michal Humpula. #742, #847
369 * Ceph plugin: This new plugin collects statistics from the Ceph
370 distributed storage system. Thanks to Dan Ryder, Dennis Zou, Colin
371 McCabe, Sage Weil. #522, #598
372 * ConnTrack plugin: Support for reporting values as percentages as well
373 as legacy conntrack files in "/proc" has been added. Thanks to
374 Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #497, #680
375 * CPU plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages and
376 aggregate values per-state and per-CPU. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
377 Ritschard, Florian Forster, Fabien Wernli, Nicholas Humfrey and
378 Wilfried Goesgens. #499, #516, #639 #734, #812, #802
379 * cURL-JSON plugin: Extracting values from complex JSON structures has
380 been enhanced. Thanks to Jim Radford. #408, #411
381 * cURL-JSON plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-URL basis.
382 Thanks to Stan Sawa. #685
383 * cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, Write HTTP plugins: These plugins now also follow
384 HTTP redirects. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
385 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: HTTP Digest authentication has been
386 implemented. Thanks to Frank Cornelis. #482
387 * DBI, Oracle, PostgreSQL plugins: A "MetadataFrom" parameter has been
388 added which allows to set metadata from database columns. Thanks to
389 Mark Wong. #317, #321
390 * DBI plugin: Querying several databases in parallel is now possible.
391 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #453
392 * Disk plugin: On the Linux platform, disk names can now get looked up
393 in udev with the "UdevNameAttr" option. Thanks to Patrick Mooney. #537
394 * Disk plugin: This plugin now collects several additional I/O-related
395 metrics on the Linux platform. Thanks to Florian Forster and Michael
397 * DRBD plugin: This new plugin reads Linux's Distributed Replicated
398 Block Device (DRBD) statistics. Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #566, #700
399 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: The "PUTNOTIF" command now allows to set
400 metadata on notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #416
401 * fhcount plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used file
402 handles. Thanks to Jiri Tyr. #1009
403 * GenericJMX plugin: A Class Loader for "JMXConnectorFactory" has been
404 added, allowing the plugin to work with JBOSS > 7. Thanks to Alexandre
406 * IPC plugin: This new plugin collects information related to shared
407 memory. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz. #925
408 * Java plugin: Now uses the hostname defined in the configuration file.
409 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #530, #681
410 * Load plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
411 Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #344, #498
412 * Log Logstash plugin: This new plugin writes collectd logs and events
413 as Logstash JSON formatted events. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
415 * LVM plugin: The plugin collects thin pool data volumes size, and no
416 longer reports virtual volumes. Thanks to Benjamin Gilbert. #603
417 * memcached plugin: "listen_disabled_num" are now also reported. Thanks
418 to Matt Cottingham. #622
419 * Memory plugin: Slab memory reporting on the Linux platform has been
420 added. Thanks to Manuel CISSÉ and Marc Fournier. #560, #697
421 * Memory plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
422 Thanks to Jeremy Katz, Florian Forster and Manuel CISSÉ. #501, #511,
424 * Modbus plugin: Selecting between holding and input registers is now
425 possible. Thanks to Jan Vitek. #338
426 * Modbus plugin: Support for accessing devices through an RS-485 serial
427 port has been added. Thanks to Eric Sandeen.
428 * Multimeter plugin: This plugin isn't built by default on the AIX
429 platform anymore. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada. #549, #684
430 * MySQL and PostgreSQL plugins: Passing "127.0.0.1" as a host will now
431 result in the global Hostname being used in metric names. Thanks to
433 * MySQL plugin: InnoDB, Select and Sort statistics collection has been
434 added. Thanks to Wilson Felipe, Marek Becka and Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
435 #248, #621, #699, #824
436 * MySQL plugin: The "Alias" and "ConnectTimeout" options have been
437 added. Thanks to William Tisäter.
438 * Netlink plugin: Support for 64bit netlink counters has been added.
439 Thanks to Marek Becka. #435
440 * Network plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" configuration option has been
441 added. Thanks to John Ferlito. #732
442 * NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4.0 has been implemented. Thanks to Marek
444 * OneWire plugin: Support for more temperature-providing sensor families
445 has been added. Thanks to Tomasz Torcz. #672
446 * OneWire plugin: Support for full OWFS path and more device families
447 has been implemented. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #68
448 * OpenLDAP plugin: This new plugin reads monitoring information from
449 OpenLDAP's "cn=Monitor" subtree. Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum, Marc
450 Fournier and Nicholas Humfrey. #719
451 * OpenVPN plugin: Support for OpenVPN 2.3.0 has been implemented. Thanks
453 * OpenVZ plugin: Various improvements have been made, making the plugin
454 report values like the other collectd plugins do. Thanks to Chris
456 * Perl plugin: A new "listval_filter" method has been added, various
457 internal cleanups and improvements have been made and a test suite has
458 been added. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #728
459 * PostgreSQL plugin: The new "ExpireDelay" option allows skipping older
460 values pending write when the database slows down. Thanks to Stephen
462 * PowerDNS plugin: The plugin was updated for stats from pdns 3.4.3.
463 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #965
464 * Processes plugin: A memory-usage related optimization for low-profile
465 systems has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #652
466 * Python plugin: Support for Python3 has been improved, "ModulePath" is
467 now prepended to "sys.path", and the "get_dataset()" function has been
468 added to the Python API. Thanks to Sven Trenkel and Patrick Browne.
470 * Redis and Write_Redis plugins: The support library has been switched
471 from credis to hiredis. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz, Victor Seva, Marc
472 Fournier, Johan Bergström, Michael Spiegle and brianpkelly. #296,
473 #464, #475, #799, #1030
474 * Redis plugin: Custom commands can now be used to fetch values stored
475 in Redis. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #816
476 * Redis plugin: Support for passwords up to 512 characters long has been
477 added. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #532
478 * Sensors plugin: Support for lm_sensors' power sensors has been added.
479 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #571
480 * SMART plugin: This new plugin collects SMART statistics from disk
481 drives. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #797
482 * SNMP plugin: A blacklist/whitelist feature can now be used to filter
483 which OIDs to collect. Thanks to Christophe Courtaut. #414
484 * SNMP plugin: SNMPv3 authentication and encryption support has been
485 implemented. Thanks to Michael Pilat. #362
486 * SNMP plugin: Two error messages have been disambiguated. Thanks to
488 * Swap plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
489 Thanks to Jeremy Katz and Florian Forster. #500, #510
490 * Swap plugin: The plugin no longer fails on Linux systems where
491 "SwapCached" isn't exposed by the kernel. Thanks to Florian Forster.
493 * Tail plugin: "GaugeInc" and "GaugeAdd" options have been implemented.
494 Thanks to Andre Ferraz. #673
495 * Tail plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-File basis.
496 Thanks to Tom Leaman. #446
497 * TCPConns plugin: The "AllPortsSummary" option, allowing to summarize
498 all connections, has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #488
499 * TCPConns plugin: Three metrics were renamed on the AIX platform, for
500 the sake of consistency. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #546
501 * Turbostat plugin: This new plugin reads CPU frequency and C-state
502 residency on modern Intel turbo-capable processors. Thanks to Vincent
503 Brillault, Jean Delvare and Nicolas Iooss. #651
504 * UnixSock plugin: The "GETTHRESHOLD" command has been re-added. Thanks
505 to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #674
506 * Varnish plugin: Varnish 4 support has been added, as well as as
507 monitoring metrics only available in Varnish 4. Thanks to Marc
509 * virt plugin: Guests memory usage is now also collected. Thanks to
510 Tiago Carvalho, jazzmes and Zollner Robert.
511 * virt plugin: It is now possible to chose between using guests' name or
512 UUID as plugin_instance. Thanks to Remi Ferrand. #385
513 * virt plugin: The libvirt plugin has been renamed to virt. Thanks to
515 * Write Graphite plugin: When the connection to graphite fails,
516 reconnection attempts are now limited to once per second. Thanks to
517 Florian Forster. #625
518 * Write HTTP plugin: Multi-instance support of this plugin has been
519 improved. The "<URL "url">" block has been deprecated in favor of
520 "<Node "identifier">". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #902
521 * Write HTTP plugin: Several TLS-related configuration options have been
522 added. Thanks to Ingmar Runge. #666
523 * Write HTTP plugin: The "LowSpeedLimit" and "Timeout" options allow to
524 reset slow/stalled network connections. Thanks to loginator17 and Marc
526 * Write HTTP plugin: The size of the payload posted to the HTTP server
527 can now be controlled with the "BufferSize" option. Thanks to Florian
529 * Write Kafka plugin: This new plugin sends data to Apache Kafka, a
530 distributed messaging queue. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard,
531 ciomaire, Vincent Bernat, Marc Fournier. #670, #694, #794, #853, #014
532 * Write Log plugin: This new plugin dispatches collected values to the
533 configured log destination(s). Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #886
534 * Write Riemann plugin: Extra meta strings are now added as attributes
535 in notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #417
536 * Write Riemann plugin: Notification message are now sent to the Riemann
537 server via the description field. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #575
538 * Write Riemann plugin: Support for custom attributes has been added.
539 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #459
540 * Write Riemann plugin: Support had been implemented for sending events
541 to Riemann in batches (when using TCP), and is enabled by default.
542 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #800
543 * Write Riemann plugin: The "EventServicePrefix" option has been added,
544 which adds a prefix to event service names. Thanks to Moshe Zada. #706
545 * Write Riemann plugin: Threshold checks can now be passed down to the
546 Riemann server. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #518
547 * Write Sensu plugin: This new plugin submits values to Sensu, a stream
548 processing and monitoring system. Thanks to Fabrice A. Marie and Marc
549 Fournier. #912, #1001, #1016
550 * Write TSDB plugin: This new plugin sends data to OpenTSDB, a scalable
551 time series database. Thanks to Kevin Bowling, Florian Forster, Dallin
552 Young, Michael Schenck and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #703, #772, #945
553 * ZFS ARC plugin: Support for ZFS-on-Linux has been added. Thanks to
554 Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. #552
555 * Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache Zookeeper
556 "MNTR" command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826
558 2016-07-26, Version 5.4.3
559 * Build system: A deprecation warning has been removed. Thanks to
561 * Build system: An ordering issue when build the AMQP plugin was
562 corrected. Thanks to Shahul Hameed.
563 * Build system: Building the gmond plugin against recent libganglia
564 versions has been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1129
565 * Build system: "collectd-tg" now builds on AIX. Thanks to Manuel Luis
566 Sanmartín Rozada. #542
567 * Build system: "version-gen.sh" portablility was improved. Thanks to
568 Marc Fournier and Ruben Kerkhof.
569 * Build system: Compiling utils_dns.c on Solaris has beed fixed. Thanks
570 to Yves Mettier, Dagobert Michelsen and Florian Forster. #348
571 * Build system: Default JDK detection got improved. Thanks to Ruben
572 Kerkhof and Marc Fournier.
573 * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
574 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
575 * Build system: notify_email build options got corrected to make it
576 build on non-GNU libc systems. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
577 * Build system: Protobuf building and logging has been improved. Thanks
579 * Build system: The "make distcheck" target was fixed to properly handle
580 java build artifacts. Thanks to Florian Forster.
581 * Build system: The configure script got fixed to work properly when
582 called with "CC="gcc -Wall -Werror"" . Thanks to Marc Fournier.
583 * Build system: The configure script will now fail if pkg-config isn't
584 available. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
585 * Build system: The users plugin now builds properly on Solaris when
586 libstatgrab is available. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #1061
587 * Build system: Various fixes have been done to improve library
588 detection on FreeBSD. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
589 * collectd2html: Several perl errors have been corrected. Thanks to Ruud
591 * collectd: A global gauge format-string is now used to avoid loss of
592 precision. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1039
593 * collectd: A race condition at plugin initialization time was fixed.
594 Thanks to Jan Andres. #1316
595 * collectd: Autoloading now properly sets plugin context, allowing
596 plugins to determine the interval. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1069
597 * collectd: Empty "Plugin" blocks are now supported by the configuration
598 file parser. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1035
599 * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
600 in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
601 * collectd: Writing to a closed TCP socket is now properly handled.
602 Thanks to Tamás Földesi. #1104
603 * Documentation: iptables plugin: IPv6 configuration option has been
604 added to the collectd.conf(5) manpage. Thanks to 'Marc Fournier''.
606 * AMQP plugin: The plugin was fixed to build against librabbitmq 0.6.0.
607 Thanks to Remi Collet. #1008
608 * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
609 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
610 * Apache plugin: The plugin was extended to parse the whole response,
611 required to support Apache versions greater than 2.4.17. Thanks to
612 Marc Fournier and Florian Forster. #1170, #1343
613 * APC UPS plugin: Log messages are now prefixed with the plugin name.
614 Thanks to Sergey. #1329
615 * Bind plugin: The type_instance now gets properly sanitized. Thanks to
617 * CPU plugin: Error messages on MacOSX have been improved. Thanks to
619 * cURL plugin: A typo in an error message got corrected. Thanks to Marc
621 * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
622 more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
623 * DF plugin: An bug preventing filesystems which don't report inodes
624 such as btrfs has been corrected. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1096
625 * DF plugin: Duplicate entries are no longer reported twice. Thanks to
626 Stefan Brüns and Florian Forster. #1402
627 * DF plugin: Legacy code for skipping "rootfs" mount points has been
628 removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1402
629 * DF plugin: Legacy references to the "ReportReserved" option have been
630 removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
631 * DF plugin: Reading the mtab now uses a reentrant function when
632 possible. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1163
633 * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
634 This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
636 * Exec plugin: A file descriptor leak when the plugin is configured to
637 run as a non-existing user was corrected. Thanks to Gautam BT and Marc
639 * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
640 has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
641 * Interface plugin: Documentation about regular expressions in the
642 ignore list has been added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski.
643 * IRQ plugin: The "FIQ" line is now skipped as it doesn't contain any
644 counter. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #971
645 * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
646 now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
647 Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
648 * MongoDB plugin: A memory leak has been fixed and some adaptations to
649 the current API of the mongo-c-driver have been made. Thanks to
650 Florian Forster. #956
651 * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has
652 been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was ignored.
653 Thanks to @yujokang. #1665
654 * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
655 This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
656 Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
657 * Network plugin: The TimeToLive option handling was made more robust.
658 Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #654
659 * NTPd plugin: Documentation about the required "mode 7" has been added.
660 Thanks to Jakub Jankowski.
661 * NTPd plugin: Reporting of "time_offset-loop" was corrected to match
662 the values from ntpq/ntpdc. Thanks to Pierre Fersing and Florian
664 * OpenVPN plugin: The plugin was fixe to avoid signaling an error when
665 no clients were connected. Thanks to Florian Forster. #731
666 * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
667 single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
668 create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
669 * PF plugin and DNS plugin: These plugins have been fixed to build
670 properly on OpenBSD again. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
671 * Processes plugin: A compilation error on systems without "regex.h" has
672 been fixed. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
673 * Processes plugin: A memory leak on Solaris has been fixed. Thanks to
675 * Processes plugin and Swap plugin: These plugins have been corrected to
676 also work inside FreeBSD jails. Thanks to biancalana. #1019
677 * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
678 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
679 * Processes plugin: Process counting on the FreeBSD and OpenBSD
680 platforms has been fixed. Thanks to Herve COMMOWICK. #1298
681 * Processes plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly on Solaris.
682 Thanks to Jan Andres. #919
683 * Python plugin: A double-free bug got fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel.
685 * RRDtool plugin: A race condition leading to corrupt RRD file creation
686 has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1031
687 * SNMP plugin: The "Gauge32" signedness was corrected to match RFC1902.
688 Thanks to Nathan Ward. #1325
689 * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
690 Pavel Rochnyack #1703
691 * StatsD plugin: A memory leak was corrected. Thanks to Florian Forster.
693 * StatsD plugin: A symbol lookup error was fixed by properly linking the
694 plugin against libm. Thanks to Florian Forster.
695 * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Support for including values above
696 1000 in percentile calculation has been added. Thanks to Yoga
698 * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Two division by zero error conditions
699 have been corrected. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #655
700 * StatsD plugin: Counters absolute counts are now also reported. Thanks
701 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1311
702 * StatsD plugin: The plugin now emits NaN values when no timer event is
703 recorded. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1038, #1039
704 * StatsD plugin: The plugin was corrected to avoid crashing when
705 negative timer values are submitted. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1131
706 * Tail CSV plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly with multiple
707 "Collect" options and a bug got fixed when no "TimeFrom" is specified.
708 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada and Florian Forster. #1032
709 * TCPConns plugin: A memory leak was fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster.
711 * TCPConns plugin: An bug causing collectd to enter an inifinite loop on
712 OpenBSD was fixed. Thanks to Landry Breuil. #1094
713 * Threshold plugin: Threshold configuration blocks can now be defined in
714 different files. Thanks to Michael Salmon. #551
715 * vmem plugin: Support for pgsteal in recent Linux kernels has been
716 added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski. #1307
717 * vmem plugin: The DSType for nr_dirtied and nr_written was corrected to
718 report a derive. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1072
719 * Write Graphite plugin: Error handling when submitting metrics to the
720 server is now more robust. Thanks to Sam Pointer. #1364
721 * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
722 shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
723 * Write Redis plugin: Multi-Valued key was made easier to parse by
724 adding a "|" character as a delimiter. Thanks to brianpkelly and
725 Florian Forster. #1070
726 * Write Redis plugin: The timestamp format was corrected. Thanks to
728 * ZFS ARC plugin: The plugin was will not emit warning about missing
729 "l2_size" stats anymore. Thanks to Jan Andres. #919
730 * 152 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
731 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
732 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan, clang and gcc-6: Thanks to Ruben
733 Kerkhof, Florian Forster, Marc Fournier, Corey Kosak, Laurent,
734 Claudius Zingerli and Fabien Wernli.
736 2015-02-26, Version 5.4.2
737 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
738 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
739 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
741 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
742 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
743 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
745 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c. Thanks to
747 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
748 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
749 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
750 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
751 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
752 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
753 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
754 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
755 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
756 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
757 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
758 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
759 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
761 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
762 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
763 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
764 * Documentation: Documentation of the "AutoLoadPlugin" option has been
765 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #715
766 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
767 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
768 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
769 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
770 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML and Write HTTP plugins: Call
771 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
773 * cURL and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
774 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
775 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
776 Florian Forster. #663
777 * curl-json: A bug, which triggered when two URLs with a long common
778 prefix were configured, was fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #582
779 * dbi: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been restored.
780 Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
781 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
782 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
783 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
784 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
785 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
786 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
788 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
789 Thanks to Florian Forster.
790 * LogFile and SysLog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
791 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
792 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
793 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
794 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
795 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
796 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
798 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
800 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
801 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
802 * RRDtool and RRDCacheD plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
803 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
804 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
805 Ritschard. #610, #804
806 * statsd: Support for samplerates in timer metrics was added. Thanks
808 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
809 to Florian Forster. #733
810 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
811 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
812 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
814 * lvm: An issue with Volume Groups (VGs) without Logical Volumes (LVs)
815 has been fixed. Thanks to Jan Kundrát.
816 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
817 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
818 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
820 * write_redis: A formatting bug, which resulted in totally unusable
821 numbers being transmitted to Redis, was fixed. Thanks to Marc
823 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
826 2014-01-26, Version 5.4.1
827 * amqp plugin: Add support for RabbitMQ 0.4.x to avoid compiler
828 warnings. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for implementing this.
829 * apache / network plugins: Improved initialization order hopefully
830 resolved gcrypt initialization problems.
831 * aquaero plugin: The type used to submit fan utilization was fixed.
832 Thanks to Alex Deymo for the patch.
833 * cgroups plugin: A small memory leak was fixed. Checking the existence
834 of a mount option without a value was fixed. More permissive parsing
835 of the cpuacct.stats file fixes support for some versions of Linux.
836 Thanks to Marc Fournier for bug reports and patches.
837 * curl plugin: Fix <Match> blocks without an instance. Thanks to
838 Alexander Golovko for reporting and Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
839 * curl_json plugin: Potentially invalid memory access has been
840 sanitized. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
841 * interface plugin: Fix behavior under FreeBSD 10: Reporting of
842 per-address statistics caused duplicate updates to the same metric.
843 Thanks to demon / @trtrmitya for the patch.
844 * write_graphite plugin: Use TCP to connect to Graphite by default. The
845 default changed from TCP to UDP between 5.3.1 and 5.4.0, which is a
846 regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier for fixing this. Reconnect
847 behavior was improved. Thanks to Michael Hart for his patch.
848 * zfs_arc plugin: Collect "allocated" and "stolen" on FreeBSD only.
850 2013-08-18, Version 5.4.0
851 * collectd: The "LoadPlugin" config option no longer attempts to load
852 plugins twice. If more than one "LoadPlugin" statement or block is
853 encountered, only the first will have any effect.
854 * collectd: The "AutoLoadPlugin" option allows to automatically load
855 plugins for which a configuration is found.
856 * collectd: The "WriteQueueLimitHigh" and "WriteQueueLimitLow" options
857 allow collectd to drop values when under stress, to avoid running out
858 of memory. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patch.
859 * amqp plugin: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
860 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options have been added. Thanks to Laurent
862 * aquaero plugin: This new plugin reads various metrics, e.g. fan
863 speeds and temperatures, from Aquaero 5, a fan and water cooling
864 control panel. Thanks to Alex Deymo for his patch.
865 * curl plugin: The "MeasureResponseCode" option has been added. Thanks
866 to Jan Matějka for his patch.
867 * curl_json plugin: Support for UNIX domain sockets and array wildcards
868 has been added. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
869 * curl_xml plugin: Support for long URLs has been improved.
870 * cgroups plugin: This new plugin collects CPU accounting information
871 for processes in a cgroup. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for his patch.
872 * df plugin: The "ValuesAbsolute" and "ValuesPercentage" options have
873 been added. Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek for the patch.
874 * exec plugin: Do UID / GID lookups before forking. This should prevent
875 a race condition in the NSS library. Thanks to Ceri Storey for the
877 * lvm plugin: This new plugin collects size information from Linux'
878 Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Thanks to Chad Malfait for his work.
879 * memcached plugin: Support for increment and decrement counts has been
880 added. Thanks to Blake Matheny for the patch.
881 * mic plugin: This new plugin collects CPU and memory usage, power
882 consumption and temperatures of Intel's Many-Integrated-Core (MIC)
883 architecture, such as Xeon Phi cards. Thanks to Evan Felix for his
885 * netlink plugin: This plugin has been converted to use the supported
886 "libmnl" library. Thanks to Andreas Henriksson for his patch.
887 * nginx plugin: Collection of accepted and handled connections has been
888 added. Thanks to Patrick Shan for his patch.
889 * sigrok plugin: This new plugin collects metrics from sigrok, a signal
890 processing framework reading various hardware devices, from light
891 meters to spectrum analyzers. Thanks to Bert Vermeulen for his patch.
892 * statsd plugin: This new plugin listens to a UDP socket and reads
893 metrics in the StatsD format.
894 * varnish plugin: Many additional metrics have been added. Thanks to
895 Nick Stenning for his patch.
896 * write_graphite plugin: Support for "UDP" has been added. Thanks to
897 Javier Maestro for his patch.
898 * write_riemann plugin: The "TTLFactor" option has been added.
899 * zfs_arc plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li
902 2015-02-26, Version 5.3.2
903 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
904 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
905 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
907 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
908 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
909 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
911 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c Thanks to
913 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
914 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
915 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
916 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
917 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
918 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
919 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
920 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
921 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
922 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
923 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
924 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
925 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
927 * Documentation: The synopsis of the threshold has been fixed. Thanks
929 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
930 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
931 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
932 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
933 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
934 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
935 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
936 * csv: A regression which would lead to the "DataDir" option to be
937 ignored has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada.
938 * curl, curl-json, curl-xml and write_http plugins: Call
939 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
941 * curl and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
942 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
943 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
944 Florian Forster. #663
945 * dbi plugin: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been
946 restored. Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
947 * exec, unixsock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
948 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
949 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
950 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
952 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
953 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
954 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
955 Thanks to Florian Forster.
956 * logfile and syslog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
957 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
958 * memcached: Connecting to a UNIX socket has been fixed. Thanks to Jim
960 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
961 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
962 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
963 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
964 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
966 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
968 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
969 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
970 * replace and set targets: Fix error message. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
972 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: Honor the "DataDir" config option;
973 this fixes a regression. Thanks to Florian Forster. #380
974 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
975 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
976 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
977 Ritschard. #610, #804
978 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
979 to Florian Forster. #733
980 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
981 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
982 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
984 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
985 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
986 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
988 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
991 2013-07-13, Version 5.3.1
992 * Documentation: Various fixes.
993 * Configuration: Fix error handling: Errors in included files were
994 ignored, causing configuration mistakes to go unnoticed.
995 * dns plugin: Don't abort when PCAP returns an error.
996 * modbus plugin: The reconnection strategy was improved, fixing a
997 segfault in the libmodbud library. Thanks to Stefan Nickl and
998 Fabien Wernli for their patches.
999 * mysql plugin: The notification about a newly running MySQL slave
1000 thread has been fixed. Thanks to Joaquín Cuenca Abela for the patch.
1001 * snmp plugin: A build issue has been fixed (C99 mixed declaration).
1002 The end-of-tree check has been improved by Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
1003 * threshold plugin: Handling of the "Interesting" configuration option
1004 has been fixed. Thanks to Björn for the patch.
1005 * write_riemann plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Dave
1006 Cottlehuber for reporting it.
1008 2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0
1009 * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include
1010 only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
1012 * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This
1013 improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act
1014 as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for
1015 reviewing this change and fixing bugs.
1016 * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using
1017 regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric
1018 can now be set via the configuration file.
1019 * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented.
1020 * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers
1021 has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
1022 * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks
1023 to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
1024 * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The
1025 "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch.
1026 * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to
1027 Greg Mason for his patch.
1028 * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks
1029 to Johan Wirén for his patch.
1030 * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication /
1031 compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
1032 patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work.
1033 * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks
1034 to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
1035 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been
1036 implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created
1037 asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances.
1038 Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code.
1039 * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV
1040 files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for
1042 * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added.
1043 * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to
1044 Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to
1045 Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work.
1047 2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2
1048 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1049 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1050 Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks
1051 to Sebastian Harl for his patch.
1052 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
1053 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1054 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1055 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1056 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1057 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1058 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1059 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1060 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1061 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1062 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1063 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
1064 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1065 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1066 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
1067 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
1068 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
1069 * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
1070 * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
1071 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
1072 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
1073 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
1074 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1075 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1076 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1077 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1080 2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1
1081 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris
1082 and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches.
1083 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
1084 more frequently than intended.
1085 * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added.
1086 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1087 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1088 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
1089 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
1090 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1091 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1092 * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed.
1093 A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was
1094 configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these
1096 * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
1097 Ritschard for his patch.
1098 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
1099 * write_graphite plugin: A regression which rendered the
1100 "SeparateInstances" and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been
1101 fixed. A failed assertion when using types with many data sources
1102 has been fixed. Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
1103 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
1104 the logging problem.
1105 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
1106 Mettier for reporting this bug.
1108 2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0
1109 * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved.
1110 Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch.
1111 * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a
1112 per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for
1114 * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real
1115 looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new
1116 plugin, for example.
1117 * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets
1118 in the binary format has been added.
1119 * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple
1120 value lists into one.
1121 * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON
1122 output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch.
1123 * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to
1124 Thomas Meson for the patch.
1125 * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to
1126 Manuel Rozada for his patch.
1127 * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the
1129 * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't
1131 * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks
1132 to "Davide Guerri" for the patch.
1133 * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added.
1134 Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch.
1135 * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The
1136 behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to
1137 Johan Kiviniemi for the patches.
1138 * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added.
1139 * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's
1140 packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes
1142 * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added.
1143 Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added.
1144 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches.
1145 * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
1146 Cosmin Ioiart for the patch.
1147 * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added.
1148 Thanks to biancalana for the patch.
1149 * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan",
1150 "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added.
1151 * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX
1152 version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out
1153 "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch.
1154 * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc
1155 for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch.
1157 2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3
1158 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1159 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1160 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
1161 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1162 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1163 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1164 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1165 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1166 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1167 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1168 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1169 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1170 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1171 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
1172 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1173 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1174 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
1175 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
1176 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
1177 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
1178 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
1179 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
1180 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1181 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1182 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1183 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1186 2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2
1187 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves
1188 Mettier for his patches.
1189 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
1190 more frequently than intended.
1191 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1192 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1193 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
1194 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
1195 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1196 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1197 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
1198 * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
1199 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
1201 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
1202 Mettier for reporting this bug.
1204 2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1
1205 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1206 unwanted permission bits.
1207 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1208 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1209 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1210 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1211 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1212 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1213 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
1214 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
1215 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
1217 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1218 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
1219 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
1220 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1221 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1222 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1223 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1224 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1225 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1226 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1227 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1228 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1230 * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of
1231 uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for
1232 reporting these problems.
1233 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1234 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1235 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
1236 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1237 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1239 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1240 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1241 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1242 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1243 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1244 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1245 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1246 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1248 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1249 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1250 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
1251 "biancalana" for the fix.
1252 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1253 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1254 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1255 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1256 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1258 * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been
1259 fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch.
1260 * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and
1261 later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch.
1263 2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0
1264 * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has
1266 * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using
1267 "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
1268 * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use
1269 the system time rather than the time reported by BIND.
1270 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been
1271 added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch.
1272 * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics
1273 directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch.
1274 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in
1275 addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
1276 Ritschard for his patch.
1277 * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default
1278 ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g.
1280 * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various
1281 states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
1283 * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been
1285 * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin
1286 Ioiart for his patch.
1287 * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the
1288 Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux.
1289 * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation.
1290 Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch.
1291 * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been
1293 * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to
1294 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch.
1295 * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added.
1296 * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added.
1297 Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1298 * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1299 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1300 * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to
1301 Aaron Brady for his patch.
1302 * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to
1303 Jérôme Renard for his patches.
1304 * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value
1305 lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch
1306 and Chris Lundquist for their work.
1307 * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value
1308 lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series
1309 database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their
1311 * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to
1312 Aurelien Rougemont for his patches.
1313 * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been
1314 added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1316 2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5
1317 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1318 unwanted permission bits.
1319 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1320 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1321 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1322 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1323 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1324 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1325 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
1326 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
1327 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
1329 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1330 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
1331 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
1332 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1333 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1334 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1335 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1336 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1337 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1338 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1339 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1340 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1342 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1343 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1344 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
1345 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1346 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1348 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1349 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1350 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1351 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1352 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1353 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1354 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1355 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1357 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1358 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1359 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
1360 "biancalana" for the fix.
1361 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1362 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1363 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1364 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1365 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1368 2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4
1369 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1370 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1371 plugin under Gentoo.
1372 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1373 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1375 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1376 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1377 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1378 Opter for his patch.
1379 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1380 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1382 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1383 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1385 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1386 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1388 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1389 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1391 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1392 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1393 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1394 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1395 runtime has been fixed.
1397 2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3
1398 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1399 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1400 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1402 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1403 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1404 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1405 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1406 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1407 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1408 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1410 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1412 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1413 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1414 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1415 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1416 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1418 2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2
1419 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1420 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1421 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1422 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1424 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1425 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1426 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1427 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1429 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1430 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1431 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1432 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1433 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1434 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1435 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1436 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1437 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1438 for fixing this bug!
1440 2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1
1441 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1442 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1443 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1444 to Peter Green for his patch.
1445 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1446 McCabe for the patch.
1447 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1448 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1449 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1450 code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module.
1451 * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts.
1452 Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this.
1453 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1454 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1455 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1456 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1457 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1458 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1459 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1460 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1461 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1462 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1463 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1464 * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values
1465 were submitted as gauge even though they were derives.
1466 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1467 Flisher for the fix.
1469 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
1470 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
1471 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
1472 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
1473 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
1474 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
1475 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
1476 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
1478 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
1479 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
1480 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
1481 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
1482 added to the collectd client library.
1483 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
1484 one data source has been changed to "value".
1485 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
1486 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
1487 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
1488 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
1489 maximum value is unspecified.
1490 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
1491 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
1492 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1493 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1494 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1495 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
1496 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
1497 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
1498 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
1499 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
1501 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1502 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
1503 "Connection" blocks.
1504 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
1506 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
1508 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
1509 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
1510 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
1511 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
1513 * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
1514 license has been changed to LGPLv2.1.
1515 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
1516 data sets used have been improved.
1517 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
1519 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1520 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1521 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
1522 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
1523 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
1524 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
1525 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
1526 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
1527 this separate plugin.
1528 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
1529 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
1530 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
1531 Fournier for their contributions.
1532 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
1534 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
1536 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
1539 2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9
1540 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1541 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1542 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1543 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1544 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1545 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1546 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1547 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1548 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1549 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1550 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1551 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1552 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1553 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1554 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1555 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1556 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1557 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1560 2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8
1561 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1562 unwanted permission bits.
1563 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1564 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1565 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1566 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1567 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1568 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1569 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1570 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1571 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1572 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1573 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1574 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1575 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1576 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1577 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1578 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1580 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1581 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1582 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1584 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1585 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1586 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1587 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1588 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1589 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1590 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1591 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1593 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1594 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1595 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1596 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1597 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1598 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1599 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1602 2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7
1603 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1604 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1605 plugin under Gentoo.
1606 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1607 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1609 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1610 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1611 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1612 Opter for his patch.
1613 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1614 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1616 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1617 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1619 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1620 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1622 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1623 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1625 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1626 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1627 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1628 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1629 runtime has been fixed.
1631 2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6
1632 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1633 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1634 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1636 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1637 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1638 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1639 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1640 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1641 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1642 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1644 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1646 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1647 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1648 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1649 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1650 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1652 2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5
1653 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1654 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1655 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1656 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1658 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1659 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1660 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1661 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1663 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1664 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1665 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1666 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1667 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1668 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1669 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1670 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1671 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1672 for fixing this bug!
1674 2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4
1675 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1676 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1677 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1678 to Peter Green for his patch.
1679 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1680 McCabe for the patch.
1681 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1682 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1683 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1685 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1686 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1687 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1688 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1689 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1690 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1691 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1692 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1693 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1694 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1695 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1696 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1697 Flisher for the fix.
1699 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
1700 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1701 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
1703 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
1704 percentage calculation has been fixed.
1705 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
1707 * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
1708 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
1709 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
1710 * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
1711 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
1712 error handling case.
1713 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
1714 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
1717 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
1718 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
1719 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
1720 the rest of the configuration if possible.
1721 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
1722 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
1723 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
1724 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
1725 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
1726 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
1727 configurable timeout value.
1728 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
1729 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
1730 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1731 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
1732 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
1733 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
1734 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1736 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1737 to prevent spamming the logs.
1738 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1739 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1740 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1741 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1743 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
1745 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1746 Trenkel for the patch.
1748 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
1749 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1750 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1751 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
1752 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
1754 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
1755 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
1756 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
1758 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
1759 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
1760 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
1761 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
1762 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
1763 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
1764 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
1765 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
1766 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
1767 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
1769 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
1770 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
1771 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
1772 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
1773 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
1774 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
1775 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
1777 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
1779 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
1780 lines from the match.
1781 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
1782 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
1784 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
1785 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
1786 Malek for the patch.
1787 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
1788 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
1790 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
1791 certain lines from the match.
1792 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
1793 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
1794 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
1795 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
1796 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
1797 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
1798 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
1799 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
1800 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
1801 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
1802 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
1803 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
1804 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
1805 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
1806 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
1807 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
1808 Sebastian Harl for his work.
1809 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
1810 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
1811 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
1812 Sven Trenkel for his work.
1813 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
1814 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
1815 MikroTik devices has been added.
1816 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
1817 Scraba for his patch.
1818 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
1819 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
1820 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
1821 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
1822 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
1823 Ammous for his patch.
1825 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
1826 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1827 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
1829 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
1830 percentage calculation has been fixed.
1831 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
1833 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
1834 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
1835 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
1836 error handling case.
1837 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
1838 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
1841 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
1842 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
1843 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
1844 the rest of the configuration if possible.
1845 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
1846 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
1847 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
1848 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
1849 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
1850 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
1851 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
1852 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1853 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
1854 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
1855 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
1856 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1858 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1859 to prevent spamming the logs.
1860 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1861 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1862 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1863 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1865 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1866 Trenkel for the patch.
1868 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
1869 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1870 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1871 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
1872 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
1874 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
1875 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
1876 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
1877 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
1879 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
1880 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
1881 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
1882 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
1883 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
1884 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
1885 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
1886 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
1887 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
1888 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
1889 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
1890 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
1892 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
1893 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
1894 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1895 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
1896 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
1897 figuring out a way to make this work.
1898 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
1899 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
1900 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
1901 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
1902 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
1904 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
1906 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
1907 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
1908 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
1909 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
1910 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
1911 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
1912 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
1913 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1915 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1916 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1917 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1918 an unknown data source type.
1919 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1920 packets has been fixed.
1921 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
1923 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
1924 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
1925 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
1926 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
1927 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
1928 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1930 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
1931 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
1932 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
1933 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
1934 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
1935 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
1936 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
1937 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1938 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1940 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
1941 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
1942 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
1945 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
1946 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
1947 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
1948 Weiskircher for the patch.
1949 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
1950 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1951 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
1952 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
1953 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
1954 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
1955 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
1956 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
1957 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
1958 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
1959 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
1960 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
1961 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
1963 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
1964 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
1965 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
1966 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
1967 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
1968 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1969 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
1970 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1971 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
1972 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
1973 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
1974 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
1975 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
1976 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
1977 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
1978 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1979 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
1980 storage has been added.
1981 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
1982 value has been added.
1984 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
1985 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
1986 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1987 an unknown data source type.
1989 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
1990 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
1991 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1992 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
1993 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
1994 figuring out a way to make this work.
1995 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
1996 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
1997 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
1998 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
2000 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
2002 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
2003 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
2004 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
2005 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
2006 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
2007 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
2009 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
2010 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
2011 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
2012 packets has been fixed.
2013 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
2014 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
2015 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
2016 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
2017 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
2018 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2020 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
2021 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
2022 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
2023 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
2024 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
2027 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
2028 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
2029 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
2030 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
2031 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
2032 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
2034 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
2035 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
2036 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
2037 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
2038 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
2039 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
2041 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
2042 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
2043 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
2044 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
2046 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
2047 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
2049 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
2050 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
2051 issues on some platforms.
2052 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
2053 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2054 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
2055 descriptor handling.
2057 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
2058 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
2059 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
2060 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
2061 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
2062 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
2064 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
2065 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
2066 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
2067 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2068 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
2069 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
2070 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2071 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
2072 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
2073 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
2074 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
2076 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
2077 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
2078 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
2079 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
2080 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
2081 Aman Gupta for the patch.
2082 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
2083 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
2084 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
2085 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
2086 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
2088 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
2089 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
2091 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
2092 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
2093 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2094 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
2095 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
2096 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
2097 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
2098 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2099 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
2100 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
2101 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
2102 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
2103 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
2104 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
2106 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
2107 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
2108 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
2109 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
2110 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
2111 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
2113 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
2114 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
2115 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
2116 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
2118 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
2119 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
2120 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
2121 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
2123 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
2124 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
2126 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
2127 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
2128 issues on some platforms.
2129 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
2130 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2131 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
2132 descriptor handling.
2134 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
2135 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
2136 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
2137 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
2138 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
2139 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
2141 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
2142 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
2143 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
2144 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
2145 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
2146 Hess for reporting this bug.
2147 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
2148 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
2149 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
2150 is linked with the shipped library, too.
2151 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
2152 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
2153 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
2154 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
2155 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
2156 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
2157 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
2158 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
2159 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
2160 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
2161 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
2162 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
2163 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2166 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
2167 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
2169 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
2170 Díaz for fixing this bug.
2171 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
2172 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
2173 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
2174 for reporting the bug.
2175 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
2177 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
2178 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
2179 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
2180 libtool 2.2 has been added.
2181 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
2182 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
2183 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
2184 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
2185 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
2187 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
2188 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
2189 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
2190 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
2191 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
2193 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
2194 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2196 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
2197 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
2198 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
2199 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
2200 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
2201 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
2202 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2203 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
2204 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
2205 Konetzko for the patch.
2206 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
2207 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
2208 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
2209 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
2210 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
2211 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
2212 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
2213 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
2214 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
2215 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
2216 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
2217 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
2218 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2219 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
2220 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
2221 Quiédeville for the patch.
2222 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
2224 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
2225 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
2226 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
2227 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
2228 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
2229 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
2230 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
2231 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
2233 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
2234 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
2235 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
2236 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
2237 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
2238 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
2240 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
2241 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
2242 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
2243 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
2245 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
2246 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
2247 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
2248 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
2249 Hess for reporting this bug.
2250 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
2251 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
2252 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
2253 is linked with the shipped library, too.
2254 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
2255 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
2256 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
2257 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
2258 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2261 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
2262 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
2263 Díaz for fixing this bug.
2264 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
2265 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
2266 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
2267 for reporting the bug.
2269 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
2270 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2271 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2272 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2273 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2274 providing an OpenBSD system.
2275 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
2276 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
2277 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
2278 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
2279 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
2281 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2283 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2284 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2285 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2286 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2287 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2289 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2290 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
2291 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2293 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
2294 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
2295 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
2296 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
2298 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
2299 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
2300 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
2301 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
2302 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
2303 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
2304 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
2305 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
2306 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
2307 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
2308 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2309 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2310 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2312 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
2313 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
2314 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2315 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
2316 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
2317 for finding and fixing most of them.
2318 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2319 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2321 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
2322 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
2323 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
2324 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
2325 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2326 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
2327 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
2328 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
2329 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
2330 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
2331 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
2333 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
2334 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
2335 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
2336 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
2338 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
2339 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
2340 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
2341 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
2342 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
2343 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
2344 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
2345 Kuhnle for the patch.
2346 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
2347 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
2348 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
2349 MacEachern for the patch.
2350 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
2351 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
2352 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
2353 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
2354 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
2355 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
2356 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
2357 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
2358 select interfaces, too.
2359 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
2360 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
2361 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
2363 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
2364 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
2365 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
2366 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
2367 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
2368 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2369 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
2370 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
2371 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
2372 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
2374 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
2375 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
2376 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
2377 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
2378 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
2379 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
2380 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
2381 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
2383 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
2384 been added. Portability fixes.
2385 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
2386 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
2387 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
2389 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
2392 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
2393 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2394 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2395 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2396 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2397 providing an OpenBSD system.
2398 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
2399 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2401 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
2402 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2403 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2404 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2405 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2406 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2408 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2409 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2410 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2411 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2413 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
2414 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
2416 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
2417 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2418 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
2420 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2421 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2422 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
2423 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
2425 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
2426 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2427 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2428 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2430 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2431 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2432 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
2433 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
2434 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
2435 provide these necessary functions.
2436 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2437 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
2439 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
2440 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2441 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2442 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
2444 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2445 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2446 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2447 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2448 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2449 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2451 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
2452 invalid configuration options.
2453 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2454 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2455 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2457 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
2458 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2459 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2460 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2462 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2463 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2464 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2465 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2466 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2467 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2468 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2469 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2471 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2472 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2473 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
2474 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
2475 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2476 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2477 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2478 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
2479 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
2480 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
2481 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
2482 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
2484 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2485 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2488 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
2489 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
2490 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
2492 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
2493 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
2494 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
2495 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
2496 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
2497 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
2499 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
2500 email, using the `esmtp' library.
2501 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
2502 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
2504 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
2505 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
2506 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
2507 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
2509 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
2510 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
2511 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
2512 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
2513 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
2515 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
2516 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
2517 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
2519 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
2520 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2521 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2522 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2524 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2525 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2526 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2527 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
2528 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2529 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2530 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2531 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2532 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2533 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2534 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2535 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2537 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2538 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2539 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2541 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
2542 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2543 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2544 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2546 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2547 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2548 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2549 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2550 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2551 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2552 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2553 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2555 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2556 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2557 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2558 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2559 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2560 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2561 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2564 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
2565 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
2566 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2568 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2569 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
2571 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
2572 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
2573 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianness of the
2574 architecture collectd is being built on.
2575 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
2577 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
2579 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
2580 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
2581 values under Solaris.
2582 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
2583 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
2585 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
2586 returned by some broken drivers.
2588 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
2589 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
2590 to kyrone for reporting this.
2591 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
2593 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
2595 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
2596 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
2597 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
2598 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
2600 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
2601 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
2602 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
2603 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
2604 flush its values to disk.
2605 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
2606 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
2607 for each data source.
2608 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
2610 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
2611 page of an Ascent server.
2612 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2613 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
2614 specific disks has been added.
2615 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2616 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
2617 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
2619 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
2620 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
2621 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
2622 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
2623 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
2624 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
2625 configuration has been decreased.
2626 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
2627 continuously reading from log files.
2628 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
2629 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
2630 and number of channels.
2631 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2632 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
2633 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
2635 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
2636 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
2638 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianness more
2640 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
2641 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
2642 again has been applied.
2643 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2645 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2646 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
2648 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2649 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2650 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
2653 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
2654 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2655 they are in non-standard paths.
2656 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2657 if the libc expects it.
2658 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2659 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2661 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2662 using a buffer of static size.
2663 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2665 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2666 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2668 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
2669 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
2670 `Persist' threshold options.
2671 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
2672 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2673 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2674 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2675 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2677 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
2678 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2680 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2681 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2682 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2683 cross-platform compatibility.
2684 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2685 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2686 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2688 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
2689 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
2690 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
2691 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
2692 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
2693 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
2695 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
2696 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
2697 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
2698 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
2699 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
2700 wants to add custom type definitions.
2701 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
2702 entire directories and shell wildcards.
2703 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
2704 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
2705 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
2706 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
2707 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
2708 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
2709 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
2710 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
2711 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
2712 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
2713 domain name lookups in this plugin.
2714 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
2715 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
2716 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
2717 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
2718 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
2719 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
2720 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
2721 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
2722 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
2723 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
2724 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
2725 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
2726 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
2727 Technology group for this plugin.
2729 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
2730 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2731 they are in non-standard paths.
2732 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2733 if the libc expects it.
2734 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2735 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2737 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2738 using a buffer of static size.
2739 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2741 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2742 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2744 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
2745 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2746 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2747 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2748 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2750 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
2751 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
2752 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2754 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
2755 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
2756 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
2757 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
2758 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2759 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2760 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2761 cross-platform compatibility.
2762 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2763 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
2764 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2765 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2767 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
2768 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
2769 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
2770 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
2771 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2773 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
2774 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
2775 of the libsensors library.
2777 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
2778 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
2779 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
2781 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
2782 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2785 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
2786 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
2787 enabled on the host.
2788 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2790 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
2791 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
2792 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
2793 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
2794 definitions separate from the host definitions.
2795 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
2796 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
2797 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
2798 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
2799 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
2800 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
2801 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
2802 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
2803 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
2804 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
2805 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
2806 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
2807 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
2808 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
2809 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
2810 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
2811 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
2812 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
2813 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
2814 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
2815 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
2817 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
2818 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
2819 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
2820 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
2821 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2823 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
2824 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
2826 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
2827 of the libsensors library.
2829 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
2830 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
2831 it's in a non-standard location.
2832 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
2833 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
2834 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
2835 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
2836 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
2837 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2839 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
2840 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
2842 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
2843 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
2845 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
2846 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
2847 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2848 noise quality as percentage.
2849 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
2850 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
2851 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
2852 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
2853 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
2854 support for the `timeticks' type.
2856 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
2857 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
2858 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
2859 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
2861 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
2862 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
2863 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
2865 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
2866 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
2867 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
2868 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
2870 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
2871 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
2872 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
2873 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
2875 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
2876 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
2877 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
2878 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
2879 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
2880 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
2881 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
2882 to not block data collection.
2883 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
2884 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
2885 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
2887 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
2888 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
2889 of music played with xmms.
2891 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
2892 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
2893 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2894 noise quality as percentage.
2895 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
2897 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
2898 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
2899 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
2900 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
2902 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
2903 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
2904 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
2905 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
2907 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
2908 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
2910 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
2911 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
2912 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
2913 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
2914 (i. e. without quotes).
2915 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
2916 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
2917 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2919 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
2920 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
2921 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
2922 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
2924 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
2925 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
2926 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
2929 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
2930 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
2932 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
2933 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2934 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
2935 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2936 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
2937 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2938 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
2940 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
2941 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
2942 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
2943 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
2944 initialized correctly.
2945 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
2947 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
2948 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
2949 they're given in numerically form.
2951 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
2952 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
2953 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
2956 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
2957 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
2958 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
2959 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
2960 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
2961 thread-safe functions from now on.
2962 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
2963 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
2964 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
2966 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
2967 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
2968 write to increase IO-performance.
2969 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
2970 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
2971 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
2972 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
2973 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
2975 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
2976 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
2977 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
2979 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
2980 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
2981 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
2982 or STDOUT or STDERR.
2983 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
2984 system's syslog daemon.
2985 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
2986 entropy currently being available to the system.
2987 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
2988 back values provided by the forked processes.
2989 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
2990 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
2992 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
2993 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
2994 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
2995 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
2996 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
2997 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
2998 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
2999 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
3000 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
3002 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
3003 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
3004 noise quality as percentage.
3006 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
3007 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
3009 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
3010 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
3011 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
3012 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
3013 were accounted as `zombies'.
3015 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
3016 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
3019 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
3020 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
3021 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
3023 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
3024 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
3025 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
3026 segfault with some libcs.
3028 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
3029 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
3030 under Solaris again.
3031 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
3033 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
3034 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
3036 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
3037 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
3038 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
3039 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
3040 write init.d-scripts for it.
3041 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
3042 caused problems every now and then.
3043 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
3044 filesystem types or devices.
3045 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
3046 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
3048 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
3049 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
3050 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
3051 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
3052 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
3053 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
3054 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
3055 segment size and pagefaults.
3056 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
3057 queries multimeters.
3058 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
3059 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
3060 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
3062 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
3063 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
3064 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
3065 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
3067 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
3068 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
3069 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
3070 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
3073 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
3074 * The sample config file has been improved.
3075 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
3076 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
3077 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
3078 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
3080 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
3081 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
3082 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
3084 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
3085 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
3087 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
3088 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
3089 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
3090 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
3092 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
3093 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
3094 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
3095 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
3096 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
3097 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
3098 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
3099 with a test environment :)
3100 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
3103 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
3104 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
3105 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
3107 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
3108 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
3109 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
3111 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
3112 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
3113 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
3115 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
3116 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
3118 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
3119 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
3120 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
3121 approximately 7.6 days.
3123 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
3124 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
3125 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
3126 approximately 7.6 days.
3128 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
3129 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
3131 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
3133 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
3135 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
3136 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
3137 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
3138 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
3139 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
3141 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
3142 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
3143 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
3144 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
3145 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
3146 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
3147 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
3148 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
3150 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
3151 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
3152 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
3153 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
3155 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
3156 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
3157 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
3159 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
3160 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
3161 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
3163 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
3164 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
3165 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
3168 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
3169 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
3170 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
3172 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
3173 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
3174 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
3175 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
3177 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
3178 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
3179 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
3181 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
3182 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
3184 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
3185 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
3187 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
3188 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
3190 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
3191 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
3193 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
3194 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
3195 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
3196 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
3197 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
3198 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
3199 address and/or port than localhost.
3200 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
3201 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
3202 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
3203 be set in the configfile.
3205 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
3206 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
3207 client mode. This released fixes this.
3209 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
3210 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
3211 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
3214 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
3215 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
3217 * A `df' plugin has been added.
3218 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
3219 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
3220 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
3222 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
3223 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
3224 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
3227 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
3228 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
3229 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
3231 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
3232 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
3233 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
3234 currently logged in users.
3235 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
3236 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
3237 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
3238 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
3240 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
3241 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
3242 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
3243 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
3244 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
3245 with the `-c' argument.
3246 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
3247 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
3248 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
3249 Barcellos for this patch.
3251 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
3252 * New modules have been added:
3253 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
3254 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
3255 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
3256 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
3258 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
3259 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
3261 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
3262 between polls up to one day.
3263 * The init.d files have been improved.
3264 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
3266 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
3267 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
3268 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
3270 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
3271 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
3272 multicast) has been added.
3273 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
3274 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
3275 to be linked against an external library.
3276 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
3277 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
3279 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
3280 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
3282 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
3283 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
3284 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
3285 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
3286 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
3287 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
3288 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
3289 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
3290 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
3293 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
3294 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
3296 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
3298 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
3299 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
3301 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
3302 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
3303 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
3304 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
3306 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
3307 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
3308 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3310 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
3311 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
3312 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
3313 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
3314 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
3315 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
3316 statistics will not work.
3318 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
3319 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
3320 weird strings as disk-names..
3322 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
3323 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
3324 about the disks and partitions.
3326 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
3327 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
3328 and/or kernel versions.
3330 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
3331 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
3332 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
3334 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
3335 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
3336 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
3338 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
3339 * Collecting CPU statistics now
3341 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
3342 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
3344 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
3346 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
3347 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
3349 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
3350 * The following modules are provided:
projects / collectd.git / blob