1 2016-01-22, Version 5.5.1
2 * Build system: Compilation errors have been avoided by correctly
3 defining package name and version used by autoconf. Thanks to Nathan
5 * Build system: Dependency ordering was fixed to ensure parallel builds
6 work reliably. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias. #1125
7 * Build system: Error messages have been improved and building the unit
8 tests has been fixed on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster and
9 Dagobert Michelsen. #1077
10 * Build system: The move of the "utils_ignorelist" functions has been
11 reverted. This fixes build issues of numerous plugins. Thanks to
12 Benjamin Drung;. #1323
13 * Build system: The fhcount plugin has been restricted to Linux. Thanks
14 to Ruben Kerkhof. #1195
15 * Build system: Detection of header files for the turbostat plugin has
16 been fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1075
17 * collectd: The "LC_NUMERIC" locale is now forced, to prevent issues
18 with some plugins on environments using a comma as decimal separator.
19 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1237
20 * Documentation: Some precisions related to the virt plugin have beed
21 added. Thanks to Wojtek Bocer and Ruben Kerkhof.
22 * Documentation: The CollectdInternalStats documentation has been
23 improved. Thanks to Yves Mettier and Florian Forster.
24 * Battery plugin: A missing Marc Fournier. #1338
25 * Bind plugin: An off-by-one error has been fixed: an index was checked
26 against a wrong variable, which may lead to an out-of-bounds read.
27 Thanks to Michal Humpula. #1123
28 * Ceph plugin: JSON parsing has been refactored to support ceph 10.0.0
29 and fixes several buffer overflows. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1350
30 * CPU plugin: A Mac OS X specific bug has been fixed: the plugin
31 expected an incorrect number of CPU states, resulting in failing read
32 callbacks. This regression was introduced in 5.5.0. Thanks to Robert
34 * Disk plugin: Support for Mac OS X 10.10 has been added. Thanks to
36 * IPC plugin: Support for building with musl-libc has been added. Thanks
37 to Natanael Copa. #1147
38 * Log Logstash plugin: A segfault when using libyajl, version 1 was
39 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #1190
40 * Log Logstash plugin: The timestamp is now ISO 8601 compliant. Thanks
41 to Marc Fournier. #1132
42 * memcached plugin: The Florian Forster. #1356
43 * MySQL plugin: The Type used by Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_flushed was
44 fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1085
45 * OpenLDAP plugin: A crash when using LDAPI (LDAP-over-IPC) got fixed.
46 Thanks to Marek Becka. #1080
47 * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for Mac OS X has been added. Thanks to Ruben
49 * SMART plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
50 Schüller and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1076
51 * Swap plugin: A regression that would lead to swap usage being reported
52 in kilobytes (instead of bytes) has been fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka.
54 * Varnish plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Ruben
56 * Varnish plugin: Support for versions 3 and 4 has been made more
57 tolerant to minor changes in Varnish point releases. Thanks to Marc
59 * virt plugin: A copy-and-paste mistake in an error message has been
60 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1101
61 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
63 * Write Redis plugin: Dead code has been removed. Thanks to Brian Kelly.
65 * 27 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
66 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
67 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan and clang: Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
68 Florian Forster and Marek Becka.
69 * Collectd::Unixsock: A Perl error got corrected. Thanks to Ciaran Mac
72 2015-05-27, Version 5.5.0
73 * Build system: Ability to make out-of-tree builds has been fixed.
74 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #792
75 * Build system, Disk and Users plugins: Detection and use of libstatgrab
76 ≧ 0.90 has been added. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #445, #795, #806,
78 * Build system, Memory, CPU, TCPConns and Processes plugins: Numerous
79 fixes related to OpenBSD support have been added. Thanks to Landry
80 Breuil. #777, #778, #779, #808
81 * Build system: Plugins now only export "module_register()". Thanks to
83 * Build system: Various cleanups and improvements have been done. Thanks
85 * collectd: Numerous internal changes and improvements to the daemon and
86 the plugin API have been make. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves
87 Ritschard and Alex Petrov. #512, #727
88 * collectd: Numerous spelling mistakes have been corrected in comments
89 and documentation and several error messages have been improved.
90 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Abhinav Upadhyay, Olivier Bazoud, Pierre-Yves
91 Ritschard, Tim Smith, Moshe Zada, Katelyn Perry and Marc Fournier.
92 * collectd: Rules/Targets can now be appended to existing Filter Chains.
93 Thanks to Marc Falzon. #444
94 * collectd: Failing Filter Chains destinations will now log the list of
95 available write targets. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #650, #1043
96 * collectd: Support for process signaling and management by upstart and
97 systemd has been implemented for the Linux platform. Thanks to
98 Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. #798, #811, #814
99 * collectd: The "CollectInternalStats" option has been added. Thanks to
101 * collectd: The daemon source code and dependencies have moved to the
102 "src/daemon/" directory. Thanks to Florian Forster.
103 * collectd: The new "MaxReadInterval" option allows to cap the
104 exponential retry interval of plugins read errors. Thanks to Alexey
105 Remizov and Florian Forster. #713
106 * collectd: The "-P" command-line option now has precedence over the
107 "PIDFile" option. Thanks to Thomas D. #553
108 * collection.cgi: Various data-source related adjustments have been
109 made. Thanks to Fabiano Pires and Sebastian Harl.
110 * libcollectdclient: Now propagates errors when signing / encrypting
111 network packets. Thanks to Florian Forster.
112 * Configuration: Support for unquoted IPv6 addresses has been added.
113 Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #489
114 * Documentation: Various improvements have been done. Thanks to Florian
115 Forster and Marc Fournier.
116 * Examples: the sample C plugin has been updated to the current plugin
117 API. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
118 * Licensing: The following components have been relicensed to the MIT
119 license: the Apple Sensors, Ascent, DBI, E-Mail, Entropy, GenericJMX,
120 gmond, LogFile, nginx, Notify Desktop, NTPd, NUT, olsrd, Perl, Ping,
121 PostgreSQL, Protocols, RouterOS, RRDCacheD, SNMP, StatsD, SysLog,
122 Table, Tail, UnixSock, vmem, VServer, Wireless, Write Riemann and XMMS
123 plugins, the core collectd daemon, the collectdmon, collectd-nagios
124 and collectd-tg utilities, all the Targets and Matches, liboconfig,
125 most of the "utils_*" files and the plugin API.
126 * Tests: A test suite has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
127 * Threshold: The hysteresis calculation has been made more reliable.
128 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #581
129 * Threshold: Various fixes and improvements have been made. Thanks to
130 Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #649, #644
131 * AMQP plugin: The "ConnectionRetryDelay" option has been added,
132 allowing to delay reconnection. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam and Marc
134 * AMQP plugin: The "QueueDurable" and "QueueAutoDelete" options have
135 been added, giving control over queue creation and deletion. Thanks to
136 David Blundell and Marc Fournier. #623
137 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx and Write HTTP
138 plugins: Customizing the "User-Agent" field is now possible at
139 compile-time. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #440
140 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx plugins: The
141 connection will be reset if it hasn't completed within the configured
142 "Interval". The new "Timeout" option gives control over this behavior.
143 Thanks to Jan Kundrát and Marc Fournier. #982, #983, #993
144 * Apache, Ascent, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP plugins:
145 Allow usernames and passwords to contain colons if built against
146 libcurl ≧ 7.19.1. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #695, #947
147 * Apache plugin: The "SSLCiphers" option gives control over the
148 encryption algorithms to use with TLS connections. Thanks to Toni
150 * Barometer plugin: This new plugin reads sensor data from various
151 Freescale and Bosch digital barometers. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #69,
153 * Battery plugin: Reporting values as percentages and reporting degraded
154 batteries has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
155 * Battery plugin: Support for reading values from sysfs on Linux has
156 been added. Thanks to Andy Parkins, Nicholas Humfrey, Peter Wu and
157 Florian Forster. #725, #810, #998
158 * Battery plugin: The value for current is no longer supplied unless the
159 battery provides this information. Thanks to Florian Forster.
160 * BIND plugin: Bind's XML v3 API is now supported; Thanks to Victor
161 Berger, Bruno Prémont and Michal Humpula. #742, #847
162 * Ceph plugin: This new plugin collects statistics from the Ceph
163 distributed storage system. Thanks to Dan Ryder, Dennis Zou, Colin
164 McCabe, Sage Weil. #522, #598
165 * ConnTrack plugin: Support for reporting values as percentages as well
166 as legacy conntrack files in "/proc" has been added. Thanks to
167 Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #497, #680
168 * CPU plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages and
169 aggregate values per-state and per-CPU. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
170 Ritschard, Florian Forster, Fabien Wernli, Nicholas Humfrey and
171 Wilfried Goesgens. #499, #516, #639 #734, #812, #802
172 * cURL-JSON plugin: Extracting values from complex JSON structures has
173 been enhanced. Thanks to Jim Radford. #408, #411
174 * cURL-JSON plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-URL basis.
175 Thanks to Stan Sawa. #685
176 * cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, Write HTTP plugins: These plugins now also follow
177 HTTP redirects. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
178 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: HTTP Digest authentication has been
179 implemented. Thanks to Frank Cornelis. #482
180 * DBI, Oracle, PostgreSQL plugins: A "MetadataFrom" parameter has been
181 added which allows to set metadata from database columns. Thanks to
182 Mark Wong. #317, #321
183 * DBI plugin: Querying several databases in parallel is now possible.
184 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #453
185 * Disk plugin: On the Linux platform, disk names can now get looked up
186 in udev with the "UdevNameAttr" option. Thanks to Patrick Mooney. #537
187 * Disk plugin: This plugin now collects several additional I/O-related
188 metrics on the Linux platform. Thanks to Florian Forster and Michael
190 * DRBD plugin: This new plugin reads Linux's Distributed Replicated
191 Block Device (DRBD) statistics. Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #566, #700
192 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: The "PUTNOTIF" command now allows to set
193 metadata on notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #416
194 * fhcount plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used file
195 handles. Thanks to Jiri Tyr. #1009
196 * GenericJMX plugin: A Class Loader for "JMXConnectorFactory" has been
197 added, allowing the plugin to work with JBOSS > 7. Thanks to Alexandre
199 * IPC plugin: This new plugin collects information related to shared
200 memory. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz. #925
201 * Java plugin: Now uses the hostname defined in the configuration file.
202 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #530, #681
203 * Load plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
204 Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #344, #498
205 * Log Logstash plugin: This new plugin writes collectd logs and events
206 as Logstash JSON formatted events. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
208 * LVM plugin: The plugin collects thin pool data volumes size, and no
209 longer reports virtual volumes. Thanks to Benjamin Gilbert. #603
210 * memcached plugin: "listen_disabled_num" are now also reported. Thanks
211 to Matt Cottingham. #622
212 * Memory plugin: Slab memory reporting on the Linux platform has been
213 added. Thanks to Manuel CISSÉ and Marc Fournier. #560, #697
214 * Memory plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
215 Thanks to Jeremy Katz, Florian Forster and Manuel CISSÉ. #501, #511,
217 * Modbus plugin: Selecting between holding and input registers is now
218 possible. Thanks to Jan Vitek. #338
219 * Modbus plugin: Support for accessing devices through an RS-485 serial
220 port has been added. Thanks to Eric Sandeen.
221 * Multimeter plugin: This plugin isn't built by default on the AIX
222 platform anymore. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada. #549, #684
223 * MySQL and PostgreSQL plugins: Passing "127.0.0.1" as a host will now
224 result in the global Hostname being used in metric names. Thanks to
226 * MySQL plugin: InnoDB, Select and Sort statistics collection has been
227 added. Thanks to Wilson Felipe, Marek Becka and Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
228 #248, #621, #699, #824
229 * MySQL plugin: The "Alias" and "ConnectTimeout" options have been
230 added. Thanks to William Tisäter.
231 * Netlink plugin: Support for 64bit netlink counters has been added.
232 Thanks to Marek Becka. #435
233 * Network plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" configuration option has been
234 added. Thanks to John Ferlito. #732
235 * NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4.0 has been implemented. Thanks to Marek
237 * OneWire plugin: Support for more temperature-providing sensor families
238 has been added. Thanks to Tomasz Torcz. #672
239 * OneWire plugin: Support for full OWFS path and more device families
240 has been implemented. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #68
241 * OpenLDAP plugin: This new plugin reads monitoring information from
242 OpenLDAP's "cn=Monitor" subtree. Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum, Marc
243 Fournier and Nicholas Humfrey. #719
244 * OpenVPN plugin: Support for OpenVPN 2.3.0 has been implemented. Thanks
246 * OpenVZ plugin: Various improvements have been made, making the plugin
247 report values like the other collectd plugins do. Thanks to Chris
249 * Perl plugin: A new "listval_filter" method has been added, various
250 internal cleanups and improvements have been made and a test suite has
251 been added. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #728
252 * PostgreSQL plugin: The new "ExpireDelay" option allows skipping older
253 values pending write when the database slows down. Thanks to Stephen
255 * PowerDNS plugin: The plugin was updated for stats from pdns 3.4.3.
256 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #965
257 * Processes plugin: A memory-usage related optimization for low-profile
258 systems has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #652
259 * Python plugin: Support for Python3 has been improved, "ModulePath" is
260 now prepended to "sys.path", and the "get_dataset()" function has been
261 added to the Python API. Thanks to Sven Trenkel and Patrick Browne.
263 * Redis and Write_Redis plugins: The support library has been switched
264 from credis to hiredis. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz, Victor Seva, Marc
265 Fournier, Johan Bergström, Michael Spiegle and brianpkelly. #296,
266 #464, #475, #799, #1030
267 * Redis plugin: Custom commands can now be used to fetch values stored
268 in Redis. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #816
269 * Redis plugin: Support for passwords up to 512 characters long has been
270 added. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #532
271 * Sensors plugin: Support for lm_sensors' power sensors has been added.
272 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #571
273 * SMART plugin: This new plugin collects SMART statistics from disk
274 drives. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #797
275 * SNMP plugin: A blacklist/whitelist feature can now be used to filter
276 which OIDs to collect. Thanks to Christophe Courtaut. #414
277 * SNMP plugin: SNMPv3 authentication and encryption support has been
278 implemented. Thanks to Michael Pilat. #362
279 * SNMP plugin: Two error messages have been disambiguated. Thanks to
281 * Swap plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
282 Thanks to Jeremy Katz and Florian Forster. #500, #510
283 * Swap plugin: The plugin no longer fails on Linux systems where
284 "SwapCached" isn't exposed by the kernel. Thanks to Florian Forster.
286 * Tail plugin: "GaugeInc" and "GaugeAdd" options have been implemented.
287 Thanks to Andre Ferraz. #673
288 * Tail plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-File basis.
289 Thanks to Tom Leaman. #446
290 * TCPConns plugin: The "AllPortsSummary" option, allowing to summarize
291 all connections, has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #488
292 * TCPConns plugin: Three metrics were renamed on the AIX platform, for
293 the sake of consistency. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #546
294 * Turbostat plugin: This new plugin reads CPU frequency and C-state
295 residency on modern Intel turbo-capable processors. Thanks to Vincent
296 Brillault, Jean Delvare and Nicolas Iooss. #651
297 * UnixSock plugin: The "GETTHRESHOLD" command has been re-added. Thanks
298 to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #674
299 * Varnish plugin: Varnish 4 support has been added, as well as as
300 monitoring metrics only available in Varnish 4. Thanks to Marc
302 * virt plugin: Guests memory usage is now also collected. Thanks to
303 Tiago Carvalho, jazzmes and Zollner Robert.
304 * virt plugin: It is now possible to chose between using guests' name or
305 UUID as plugin_instance. Thanks to Remi Ferrand. #385
306 * virt plugin: The libvirt plugin has been renamed to virt. Thanks to
308 * Write Graphite plugin: When the connection to graphite fails,
309 reconnection attempts are now limited to once per second. Thanks to
310 Florian Forster. #625
311 * Write HTTP plugin: Multi-instance support of this plugin has been
312 improved. The "<URL "url">" block has been deprecated in favor of
313 "<Node "identifier">". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #902
314 * Write HTTP plugin: Several TLS-related configuration options have been
315 added. Thanks to Ingmar Runge. #666
316 * Write HTTP plugin: The "LowSpeedLimit" and "Timeout" options allow to
317 reset slow/stalled network connections. Thanks to loginator17 and Marc
319 * Write HTTP plugin: The size of the payload posted to the HTTP server
320 can now be controlled with the "BufferSize" option. Thanks to Florian
322 * Write Kafka plugin: This new plugin sends data to Apache Kafka, a
323 distributed messaging queue. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard,
324 ciomaire, Vincent Bernat, Marc Fournier. #670, #694, #794, #853, #014
325 * Write Log plugin: This new plugin dispatches collected values to the
326 configured log destination(s). Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #886
327 * Write Riemann plugin: Extra meta strings are now added as attributes
328 in notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #417
329 * Write Riemann plugin: Notification message are now sent to the Riemann
330 server via the description field. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #575
331 * Write Riemann plugin: Support for custom attributes has been added.
332 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #459
333 * Write Riemann plugin: Support had been implemented for sending events
334 to Riemann in batches (when using TCP), and is enabled by default.
335 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #800
336 * Write Riemann plugin: The "EventServicePrefix" option has been added,
337 which adds a prefix to event service names. Thanks to Moshe Zada. #706
338 * Write Riemann plugin: Threshold checks can now be passed down to the
339 Riemann server. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #518
340 * Write Sensu plugin: This new plugin submits values to Sensu, a stream
341 processing and monitoring system. Thanks to Fabrice A. Marie and Marc
342 Fournier. #912, #1001, #1016
343 * Write TSDB plugin: This new plugin sends data to OpenTSDB, a scalable
344 time series database. Thanks to Kevin Bowling, Florian Forster, Dallin
345 Young, Michael Schenck and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #703, #772, #945
346 * ZFS ARC plugin: Support for ZFS-on-Linux has been added. Thanks to
347 Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. #552
348 * Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache Zookeeper
349 "MNTR" command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826
351 2015-02-26, Version 5.4.2
352 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
353 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
354 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
356 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
357 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
358 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
360 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c. Thanks to
362 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
363 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
364 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
365 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
366 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
367 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
368 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
369 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
370 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
371 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
372 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
373 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
374 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
376 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
377 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
378 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
379 * Documentation: Documentation of the "AutoLoadPlugin" option has been
380 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #715
381 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
382 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
383 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
384 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
385 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML and Write HTTP plugins: Call
386 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
388 * cURL and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
389 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
390 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
391 Florian Forster. #663
392 * curl-json: A bug, which triggered when two URLs with a long common
393 prefix were configured, was fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #582
394 * dbi: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been restored.
395 Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
396 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
397 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
398 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
399 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
400 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
401 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
403 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
404 Thanks to Florian Forster.
405 * LogFile and SysLog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
406 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
407 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
408 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
409 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
410 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
411 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
413 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
415 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
416 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
417 * RRDtool and RRDCacheD plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
418 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
419 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
420 Ritschard. #610, #804
421 * statsd: Support for samplerates in timer metrics was added. Thanks
423 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
424 to Florian Forster. #733
425 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
426 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
427 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
429 * lvm: An issue with Volume Groups (VGs) without Logical Volumes (LVs)
430 has been fixed. Thanks to Jan Kundrát.
431 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
432 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
433 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
435 * write_redis: A formatting bug, which resulted in totally unusable
436 numbers being transmitted to Redis, was fixed. Thanks to Marc
438 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
441 2014-01-26, Version 5.4.1
442 * amqp plugin: Add support for RabbitMQ 0.4.x to avoid compiler
443 warnings. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for implementing this.
444 * apache / network plugins: Improved initialization order hopefully
445 resolved gcrypt initialization problems.
446 * aquaero plugin: The type used to submit fan utilization was fixed.
447 Thanks to Alex Deymo for the patch.
448 * cgroups plugin: A small memory leak was fixed. Checking the existence
449 of a mount option without a value was fixed. More permissive parsing
450 of the cpuacct.stats file fixes support for some versions of Linux.
451 Thanks to Marc Fournier for bug reports and patches.
452 * curl plugin: Fix <Match> blocks without an instance. Thanks to
453 Alexander Golovko for reporting and Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
454 * curl_json plugin: Potentially invalid memory access has been
455 sanitized. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
456 * interface plugin: Fix behavior under FreeBSD 10: Reporting of
457 per-address statistics caused duplicate updates to the same metric.
458 Thanks to demon / @trtrmitya for the patch.
459 * write_graphite plugin: Use TCP to connect to Graphite by default. The
460 default changed from TCP to UDP between 5.3.1 and 5.4.0, which is a
461 regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier for fixing this. Reconnect
462 behavior was improved. Thanks to Michael Hart for his patch.
463 * zfs_arc plugin: Collect "allocated" and "stolen" on FreeBSD only.
465 2013-08-18, Version 5.4.0
466 * collectd: The "LoadPlugin" config option no longer attempts to load
467 plugins twice. If more than one "LoadPlugin" statement or block is
468 encountered, only the first will have any effect.
469 * collectd: The "AutoLoadPlugin" option allows to automatically load
470 plugins for which a configuration is found.
471 * collectd: The "WriteQueueLimitHigh" and "WriteQueueLimitLow" options
472 allow collectd to drop values when under stress, to avoid running out
473 of memory. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patch.
474 * amqp plugin: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
475 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options have been added. Thanks to Laurent
477 * aquaero plugin: This new plugin reads various metrics, e.g. fan
478 speeds and temperatures, from Aquaero 5, a fan and water cooling
479 control panel. Thanks to Alex Deymo for his patch.
480 * curl plugin: The "MeasureResponseCode" option has been added. Thanks
481 to Jan Matějka for his patch.
482 * curl_json plugin: Support for UNIX domain sockets and array wildcards
483 has been added. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
484 * curl_xml plugin: Support for long URLs has been improved.
485 * cgroups plugin: This new plugin collects CPU accounting information
486 for processes in a cgroup. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for his patch.
487 * df plugin: The "ValuesAbsolute" and "ValuesPercentage" options have
488 been added. Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek for the patch.
489 * exec plugin: Do UID / GID lookups before forking. This should prevent
490 a race condition in the NSS library. Thanks to Ceri Storey for the
492 * lvm plugin: This new plugin collects size information from Linux'
493 Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Thanks to Chad Malfait for his work.
494 * memcached plugin: Support for increment and decrement counts has been
495 added. Thanks to Blake Matheny for the patch.
496 * mic plugin: This new plugin collects CPU and memory usage, power
497 consumption and temperatures of Intel's Many-Integrated-Core (MIC)
498 architecture, such as Xeon Phi cards. Thanks to Evan Felix for his
500 * netlink plugin: This plugin has been converted to use the supported
501 "libmnl" library. Thanks to Andreas Henriksson for his patch.
502 * nginx plugin: Collection of accepted and handled connections has been
503 added. Thanks to Patrick Shan for his patch.
504 * sigrok plugin: This new plugin collects metrics from sigrok, a signal
505 processing framework reading various hardware devices, from light
506 meters to spectrum analyzers. Thanks to Bert Vermeulen for his patch.
507 * statsd plugin: This new plugin listens to a UDP socket and reads
508 metrics in the StatsD format.
509 * varnish plugin: Many additional metrics have been added. Thanks to
510 Nick Stenning for his patch.
511 * write_graphite plugin: Support for "UDP" has been added. Thanks to
512 Javier Maestro for his patch.
513 * write_riemann plugin: The "TTLFactor" option has been added.
514 * zfs_arc plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li
517 2015-02-26, Version 5.3.2
518 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
519 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
520 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
522 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
523 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
524 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
526 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c Thanks to
528 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
529 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
530 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
531 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
532 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
533 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
534 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
535 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
536 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
537 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
538 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
539 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
540 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
542 * Documentation: The synopsis of the threshold has been fixed. Thanks
544 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
545 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
546 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
547 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
548 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
549 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
550 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
551 * csv: A regression which would lead to the "DataDir" option to be
552 ignored has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada.
553 * curl, curl-json, curl-xml and write_http plugins: Call
554 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
556 * curl and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
557 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
558 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
559 Florian Forster. #663
560 * dbi plugin: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been
561 restored. Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
562 * exec, unixsock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
563 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
564 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
565 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
567 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
568 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
569 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
570 Thanks to Florian Forster.
571 * logfile and syslog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
572 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
573 * memcached: Connecting to a UNIX socket has been fixed. Thanks to Jim
575 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
576 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
577 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
578 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
579 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
581 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
583 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
584 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
585 * replace and set targets: Fix error message. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
587 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: Honor the "DataDir" config option;
588 this fixes a regression. Thanks to Florian Forster. #380
589 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
590 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
591 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
592 Ritschard. #610, #804
593 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
594 to Florian Forster. #733
595 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
596 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
597 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
599 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
600 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
601 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
603 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
606 2013-07-13, Version 5.3.1
607 * Documentation: Various fixes.
608 * Configuration: Fix error handling: Errors in included files were
609 ignored, causing configuration mistakes to go unnoticed.
610 * dns plugin: Don't abort when PCAP returns an error.
611 * modbus plugin: The reconnection strategy was improved, fixing a
612 segfault in the libmodbud library. Thanks to Stefan Nickl and
613 Fabien Wernli for their patches.
614 * mysql plugin: The notification about a newly running MySQL slave
615 thread has been fixed. Thanks to Joaquín Cuenca Abela for the patch.
616 * snmp plugin: A build issue has been fixed (C99 mixed declaration).
617 The end-of-tree check has been improved by Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
618 * threshold plugin: Handling of the "Interesting" configuration option
619 has been fixed. Thanks to Björn for the patch.
620 * write_riemann plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Dave
621 Cottlehuber for reporting it.
623 2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0
624 * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include
625 only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
627 * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This
628 improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act
629 as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for
630 reviewing this change and fixing bugs.
631 * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using
632 regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric
633 can now be set via the configuration file.
634 * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented.
635 * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers
636 has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
637 * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks
638 to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
639 * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The
640 "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch.
641 * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to
642 Greg Mason for his patch.
643 * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks
644 to Johan Wirén for his patch.
645 * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication /
646 compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
647 patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work.
648 * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks
649 to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
650 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been
651 implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created
652 asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances.
653 Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code.
654 * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV
655 files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for
657 * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added.
658 * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to
659 Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to
660 Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work.
662 2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2
663 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
664 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
665 Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks
666 to Sebastian Harl for his patch.
667 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
668 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
669 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
670 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
671 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
672 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
673 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
674 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
675 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
676 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
677 Tomas Doran for his patch.
678 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
679 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
680 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
681 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
682 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
683 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
684 * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
685 * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
686 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
687 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
688 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
689 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
690 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
691 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
692 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
695 2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1
696 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris
697 and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches.
698 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
699 more frequently than intended.
700 * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added.
701 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
702 Ed Schouten for his patch.
703 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
704 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
705 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
706 Ed Schouten for his patch.
707 * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed.
708 A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was
709 configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these
711 * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
712 Ritschard for his patch.
713 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
714 * write_graphite plugin: A regression which rendered the
715 "SeparateInstances" and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been
716 fixed. A failed assertion when using types with many data sources
717 has been fixed. Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
718 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
720 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
721 Mettier for reporting this bug.
723 2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0
724 * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved.
725 Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch.
726 * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a
727 per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for
729 * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real
730 looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new
732 * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets
733 in the binary format has been added.
734 * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple
735 value lists into one.
736 * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON
737 output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch.
738 * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to
739 Thomas Meson for the patch.
740 * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to
741 Manuel Rozada for his patch.
742 * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the
744 * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't
746 * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks
747 to "Davide Guerri" for the patch.
748 * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added.
749 Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch.
750 * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The
751 behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to
752 Johan Kiviniemi for the patches.
753 * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added.
754 * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's
755 packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes
757 * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added.
758 Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added.
759 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches.
760 * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
761 Cosmin Ioiart for the patch.
762 * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added.
763 Thanks to biancalana for the patch.
764 * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan",
765 "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added.
766 * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX
767 version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out
768 "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch.
769 * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc
770 for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch.
772 2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3
773 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
774 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
775 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
776 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
777 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
778 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
779 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
780 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
781 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
782 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
783 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
784 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
785 Tomas Doran for his patch.
786 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
787 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
788 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
789 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
790 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
791 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
792 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
793 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
794 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
795 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
796 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
797 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
798 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
801 2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2
802 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves
803 Mettier for his patches.
804 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
805 more frequently than intended.
806 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
807 Ed Schouten for his patch.
808 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
809 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
810 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
811 Ed Schouten for his patch.
812 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
813 * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
814 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
816 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
817 Mettier for reporting this bug.
819 2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1
820 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
821 unwanted permission bits.
822 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
823 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
824 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
825 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
826 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
827 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
828 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
829 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
830 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
832 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
833 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
834 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
835 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
836 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
837 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
838 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
839 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
840 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
841 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
842 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
843 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
845 * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of
846 uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for
847 reporting these problems.
848 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
849 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
850 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
851 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
852 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
854 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
855 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
856 "KIvosak" for the patch.
857 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
858 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
859 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
860 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
861 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
863 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
864 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
865 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
866 "biancalana" for the fix.
867 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
868 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
869 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
870 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
871 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
873 * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been
874 fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch.
875 * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and
876 later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch.
878 2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0
879 * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has
881 * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using
882 "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
883 * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use
884 the system time rather than the time reported by BIND.
885 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been
886 added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch.
887 * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics
888 directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch.
889 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in
890 addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
891 Ritschard for his patch.
892 * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default
893 ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g.
895 * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various
896 states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
898 * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been
900 * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin
901 Ioiart for his patch.
902 * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the
903 Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux.
904 * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation.
905 Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch.
906 * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been
908 * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to
909 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch.
910 * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added.
911 * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added.
912 Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
913 * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel
914 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
915 * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to
916 Aaron Brady for his patch.
917 * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to
918 Jérôme Renard for his patches.
919 * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value
920 lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch
921 and Chris Lundquist for their work.
922 * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value
923 lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series
924 database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their
926 * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to
927 Aurelien Rougemont for his patches.
928 * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been
929 added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
931 2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5
932 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
933 unwanted permission bits.
934 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
935 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
936 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
937 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
938 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
939 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
940 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
941 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
942 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
944 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
945 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
946 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
947 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
948 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
949 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
950 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
951 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
952 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
953 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
954 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
955 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
957 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
958 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
959 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
960 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
961 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
963 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
964 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
965 "KIvosak" for the patch.
966 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
967 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
968 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
969 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
970 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
972 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
973 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
974 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
975 "biancalana" for the fix.
976 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
977 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
978 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
979 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
980 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
983 2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4
984 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
985 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
987 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
988 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
990 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
991 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
992 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
994 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
995 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
997 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
998 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1000 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1001 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1003 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1004 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1006 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1007 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1008 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1009 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1010 runtime has been fixed.
1012 2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3
1013 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1014 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1015 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1017 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1018 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1019 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1020 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1021 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1022 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1023 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1025 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1027 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1028 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1029 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1030 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1031 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1033 2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2
1034 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1035 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1036 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1037 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1039 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1040 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1041 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1042 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1044 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1045 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1046 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1047 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1048 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1049 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1050 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1051 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1052 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1053 for fixing this bug!
1055 2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1
1056 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1057 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1058 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1059 to Peter Green for his patch.
1060 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1061 McCabe for the patch.
1062 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1063 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1064 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1065 code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module.
1066 * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts.
1067 Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this.
1068 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1069 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1070 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1071 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1072 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1073 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1074 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1075 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1076 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1077 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1078 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1079 * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values
1080 were submitted as gauge even though they were derives.
1081 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1082 Flisher for the fix.
1084 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
1085 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
1086 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
1087 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
1088 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
1089 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
1090 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
1091 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
1093 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
1094 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
1095 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
1096 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
1097 added to the collectd client library.
1098 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
1099 one data source has been changed to "value".
1100 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
1101 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
1102 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
1103 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
1104 maximum value is unspecified.
1105 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
1106 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
1107 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1108 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1109 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1110 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
1111 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
1112 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
1113 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
1114 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
1116 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1117 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
1118 "Connection" blocks.
1119 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
1121 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
1123 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
1124 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
1125 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
1126 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
1128 * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
1129 license has been changed to LGPLv2.1.
1130 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
1131 data sets used have been improved.
1132 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
1134 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1135 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1136 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
1137 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
1138 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
1139 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
1140 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
1141 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
1142 this separate plugin.
1143 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
1144 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
1145 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
1146 Fournier for their contributions.
1147 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
1149 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
1151 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
1154 2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9
1155 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1156 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1157 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1158 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1159 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1160 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1161 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1162 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1163 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1164 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1165 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1166 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1167 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1168 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1169 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1170 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1171 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1172 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1175 2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8
1176 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1177 unwanted permission bits.
1178 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1179 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1180 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1181 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1182 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1183 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1184 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1185 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1186 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1187 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1188 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1189 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1190 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1191 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1192 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1193 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1195 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1196 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1197 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1199 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1200 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1201 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1202 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1203 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1204 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1205 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1206 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1208 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1209 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1210 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1211 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1212 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1213 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1214 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1217 2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7
1218 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1219 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1220 plugin under Gentoo.
1221 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1222 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1224 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1225 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1226 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1227 Opter for his patch.
1228 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1229 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1231 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1232 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1234 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1235 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1237 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1238 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1240 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1241 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1242 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1243 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1244 runtime has been fixed.
1246 2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6
1247 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1248 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1249 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1251 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1252 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1253 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1254 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1255 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1256 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1257 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1259 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1261 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1262 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1263 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1264 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1265 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1267 2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5
1268 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1269 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1270 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1271 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1273 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1274 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1275 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1276 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1278 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1279 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1280 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1281 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1282 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1283 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1284 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1285 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1286 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1287 for fixing this bug!
1289 2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4
1290 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1291 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1292 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1293 to Peter Green for his patch.
1294 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1295 McCabe for the patch.
1296 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1297 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1298 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1300 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1301 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1302 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1303 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1304 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1305 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1306 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1307 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1308 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1309 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1310 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1311 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1312 Flisher for the fix.
1314 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
1315 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1316 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
1318 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
1319 percentage calculation has been fixed.
1320 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
1322 * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
1323 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
1324 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
1325 * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
1326 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
1327 error handling case.
1328 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
1329 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
1332 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
1333 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
1334 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
1335 the rest of the configuration if possible.
1336 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
1337 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
1338 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
1339 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
1340 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
1341 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
1342 configurable timeout value.
1343 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
1344 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
1345 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1346 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
1347 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
1348 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
1349 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1351 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1352 to prevent spamming the logs.
1353 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1354 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1355 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1356 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1358 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
1360 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1361 Trenkel for the patch.
1363 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
1364 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1365 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1366 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
1367 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
1369 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
1370 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
1371 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
1373 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
1374 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
1375 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
1376 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
1377 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
1378 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
1379 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
1380 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
1381 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
1382 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
1384 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
1385 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
1386 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
1387 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
1388 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
1389 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
1390 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
1392 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
1394 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
1395 lines from the match.
1396 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
1397 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
1399 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
1400 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
1401 Malek for the patch.
1402 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
1403 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
1405 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
1406 certain lines from the match.
1407 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
1408 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
1409 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
1410 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
1411 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
1412 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
1413 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
1414 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
1415 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
1416 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
1417 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
1418 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
1419 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
1420 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
1421 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
1422 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
1423 Sebastian Harl for his work.
1424 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
1425 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
1426 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
1427 Sven Trenkel for his work.
1428 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
1429 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
1430 MikroTik devices has been added.
1431 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
1432 Scraba for his patch.
1433 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
1434 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
1435 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
1436 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
1437 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
1438 Ammous for his patch.
1440 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
1441 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1442 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
1444 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
1445 percentage calculation has been fixed.
1446 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
1448 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
1449 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
1450 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
1451 error handling case.
1452 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
1453 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
1456 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
1457 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
1458 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
1459 the rest of the configuration if possible.
1460 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
1461 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
1462 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
1463 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
1464 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
1465 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
1466 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
1467 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1468 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
1469 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
1470 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
1471 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1473 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1474 to prevent spamming the logs.
1475 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1476 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1477 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1478 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1480 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1481 Trenkel for the patch.
1483 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
1484 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1485 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1486 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
1487 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
1489 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
1490 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
1491 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
1492 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
1494 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
1495 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
1496 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
1497 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
1498 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
1499 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
1500 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
1501 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
1502 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
1503 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
1504 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
1505 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
1507 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
1508 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
1509 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1510 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
1511 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
1512 figuring out a way to make this work.
1513 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
1514 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
1515 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
1516 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
1517 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
1519 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
1521 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
1522 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
1523 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
1524 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
1525 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
1526 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
1527 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
1528 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1530 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1531 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1532 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1533 an unknown data source type.
1534 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1535 packets has been fixed.
1536 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
1538 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
1539 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
1540 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
1541 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
1542 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
1543 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1545 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
1546 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
1547 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
1548 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
1549 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
1550 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
1551 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
1552 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1553 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1555 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
1556 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
1557 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
1560 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
1561 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
1562 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
1563 Weiskircher for the patch.
1564 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
1565 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1566 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
1567 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
1568 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
1569 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
1570 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
1571 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
1572 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
1573 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
1574 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
1575 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
1576 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
1578 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
1579 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
1580 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
1581 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
1582 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
1583 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1584 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
1585 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1586 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
1587 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
1588 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
1589 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
1590 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
1591 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
1592 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
1593 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1594 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
1595 storage has been added.
1596 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
1597 value has been added.
1599 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
1600 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
1601 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1602 an unknown data source type.
1604 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
1605 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
1606 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1607 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
1608 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
1609 figuring out a way to make this work.
1610 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
1611 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
1612 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
1613 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
1615 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
1617 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
1618 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
1619 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
1620 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
1621 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
1622 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1624 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1625 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1626 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1627 packets has been fixed.
1628 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
1629 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
1630 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
1631 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
1632 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
1633 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1635 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
1636 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
1637 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
1638 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1639 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1642 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
1643 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
1644 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
1645 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
1646 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
1647 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
1649 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
1650 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
1651 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
1652 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
1653 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
1654 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
1656 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
1657 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
1658 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
1659 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
1661 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
1662 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
1664 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
1665 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
1666 issues on some platforms.
1667 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
1668 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1669 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
1670 descriptor handling.
1672 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
1673 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
1674 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
1675 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
1676 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
1677 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
1679 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
1680 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
1681 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
1682 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1683 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
1684 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
1685 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1686 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
1687 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
1688 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
1689 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
1691 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
1692 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
1693 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
1694 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
1695 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
1696 Aman Gupta for the patch.
1697 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
1698 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
1699 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
1700 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
1701 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
1703 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
1704 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
1706 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
1707 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
1708 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1709 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
1710 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
1711 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
1712 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
1713 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1714 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
1715 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
1716 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
1717 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
1718 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
1719 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
1721 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
1722 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
1723 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
1724 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
1725 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
1726 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
1728 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
1729 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
1730 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
1731 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
1733 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
1734 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
1735 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
1736 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
1738 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
1739 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
1741 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
1742 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
1743 issues on some platforms.
1744 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
1745 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1746 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
1747 descriptor handling.
1749 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
1750 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
1751 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1752 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
1753 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
1754 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
1756 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
1757 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
1758 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
1759 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
1760 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
1761 Hess for reporting this bug.
1762 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
1763 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
1764 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
1765 is linked with the shipped library, too.
1766 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
1767 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
1768 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
1769 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
1770 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
1771 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
1772 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
1773 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
1774 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
1775 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
1776 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
1777 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
1778 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1781 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
1782 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
1784 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
1785 Díaz for fixing this bug.
1786 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
1787 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
1788 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
1789 for reporting the bug.
1790 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
1792 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
1793 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
1794 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
1795 libtool 2.2 has been added.
1796 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
1797 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
1798 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
1799 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
1800 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
1802 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
1803 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
1804 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
1805 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
1806 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
1808 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
1809 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1811 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
1812 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
1813 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
1814 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
1815 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
1816 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
1817 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1818 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
1819 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
1820 Konetzko for the patch.
1821 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
1822 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
1823 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
1824 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
1825 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
1826 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
1827 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
1828 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
1829 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
1830 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
1831 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
1832 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
1833 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1834 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
1835 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
1836 Quiédeville for the patch.
1837 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
1839 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
1840 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
1841 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
1842 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
1843 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
1844 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
1845 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
1846 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
1848 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
1849 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
1850 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
1851 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
1852 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
1853 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
1855 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
1856 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
1857 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
1858 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
1860 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
1861 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
1862 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
1863 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
1864 Hess for reporting this bug.
1865 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
1866 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
1867 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
1868 is linked with the shipped library, too.
1869 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
1870 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
1871 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
1872 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
1873 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1876 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
1877 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
1878 Díaz for fixing this bug.
1879 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
1880 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
1881 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
1882 for reporting the bug.
1884 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
1885 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
1886 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
1887 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
1888 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
1889 providing an OpenBSD system.
1890 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
1891 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
1892 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
1893 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
1894 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
1896 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
1898 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
1899 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
1900 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
1901 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1902 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
1904 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
1905 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
1906 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1908 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
1909 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
1910 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
1911 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
1913 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
1914 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
1915 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
1916 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
1917 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
1918 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
1919 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
1920 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
1921 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
1922 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
1923 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
1924 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
1925 initialized, the daemon may crash.
1927 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
1928 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
1929 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
1930 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
1931 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
1932 for finding and fixing most of them.
1933 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
1934 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
1936 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
1937 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
1938 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
1939 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
1940 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1941 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
1942 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
1943 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
1944 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
1945 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
1946 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
1948 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
1949 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
1950 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
1951 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
1953 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
1954 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
1955 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
1956 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
1957 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
1958 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
1959 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
1960 Kuhnle for the patch.
1961 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
1962 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
1963 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
1964 MacEachern for the patch.
1965 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
1966 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
1967 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
1968 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
1969 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
1970 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
1971 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
1972 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
1973 select interfaces, too.
1974 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
1975 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
1976 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
1978 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
1979 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
1980 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
1981 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
1982 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
1983 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1984 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
1985 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
1986 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
1987 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
1989 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
1990 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
1991 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
1992 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
1993 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
1994 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
1995 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
1996 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
1998 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
1999 been added. Portability fixes.
2000 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
2001 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
2002 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
2004 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
2007 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
2008 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2009 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2010 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2011 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2012 providing an OpenBSD system.
2013 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
2014 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2016 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
2017 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2018 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2019 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2020 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2021 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2023 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2024 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2025 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2026 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2028 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
2029 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
2031 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
2032 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2033 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
2035 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2036 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2037 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
2038 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
2040 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
2041 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2042 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2043 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2045 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2046 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2047 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
2048 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
2049 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
2050 provide these necessary functions.
2051 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2052 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
2054 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
2055 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2056 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2057 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
2059 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2060 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2061 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2062 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2063 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2064 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2066 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
2067 invalid configuration options.
2068 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2069 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2070 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2072 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
2073 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2074 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2075 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2077 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2078 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2079 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2080 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2081 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2082 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2083 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2084 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2086 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2087 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2088 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
2089 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
2090 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2091 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2092 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2093 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
2094 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
2095 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
2096 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
2097 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
2099 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2100 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2103 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
2104 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
2105 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
2107 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
2108 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
2109 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
2110 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
2111 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
2112 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
2114 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
2115 email, using the `esmtp' library.
2116 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
2117 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
2119 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
2120 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
2121 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
2122 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
2124 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
2125 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
2126 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
2127 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
2128 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
2130 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
2131 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
2132 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
2134 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
2135 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2136 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2137 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2139 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2140 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2141 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2142 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
2143 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2144 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2145 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2146 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2147 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2148 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2149 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2150 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2152 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2153 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2154 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2156 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
2157 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2158 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2159 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2161 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2162 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2163 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2164 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2165 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2166 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2167 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2168 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2170 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2171 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2172 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2173 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2174 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2175 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2176 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2179 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
2180 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
2181 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2183 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2184 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
2186 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
2187 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
2188 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianness of the
2189 architecture collectd is being built on.
2190 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
2192 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
2194 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
2195 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
2196 values under Solaris.
2197 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
2198 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
2200 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
2201 returned by some broken drivers.
2203 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
2204 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
2205 to kyrone for reporting this.
2206 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
2208 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
2210 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
2211 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
2212 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
2213 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
2215 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
2216 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
2217 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
2218 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
2219 flush its values to disk.
2220 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
2221 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
2222 for each data source.
2223 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
2225 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
2226 page of an Ascent server.
2227 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2228 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
2229 specific disks has been added.
2230 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2231 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
2232 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
2234 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
2235 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
2236 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
2237 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
2238 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
2239 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
2240 configuration has been decreased.
2241 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
2242 continuously reading from log files.
2243 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
2244 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
2245 and number of channels.
2246 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2247 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
2248 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
2250 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
2251 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
2253 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianness more
2255 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
2256 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
2257 again has been applied.
2258 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2260 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2261 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
2263 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2264 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2265 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
2268 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
2269 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2270 they are in non-standard paths.
2271 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2272 if the libc expects it.
2273 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2274 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2276 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2277 using a buffer of static size.
2278 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2280 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2281 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2283 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
2284 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
2285 `Persist' threshold options.
2286 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
2287 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2288 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2289 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2290 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2292 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
2293 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2295 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2296 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2297 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2298 cross-platform compatibility.
2299 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2300 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2301 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2303 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
2304 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
2305 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
2306 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
2307 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
2308 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
2310 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
2311 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
2312 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
2313 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
2314 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
2315 wants to add custom type definitions.
2316 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
2317 entire directories and shell wildcards.
2318 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
2319 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
2320 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
2321 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
2322 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
2323 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
2324 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
2325 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
2326 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
2327 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
2328 domain name lookups in this plugin.
2329 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
2330 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
2331 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
2332 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
2333 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
2334 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
2335 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
2336 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
2337 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
2338 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
2339 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
2340 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
2341 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
2342 Technology group for this plugin.
2344 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
2345 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2346 they are in non-standard paths.
2347 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2348 if the libc expects it.
2349 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2350 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2352 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2353 using a buffer of static size.
2354 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2356 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2357 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2359 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
2360 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2361 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2362 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2363 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2365 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
2366 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
2367 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2369 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
2370 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
2371 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
2372 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
2373 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2374 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2375 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2376 cross-platform compatibility.
2377 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2378 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
2379 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2380 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2382 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
2383 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
2384 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
2385 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
2386 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2388 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
2389 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
2390 of the libsensors library.
2392 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
2393 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
2394 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
2396 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
2397 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2400 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
2401 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
2402 enabled on the host.
2403 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2405 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
2406 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
2407 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
2408 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
2409 definitions separate from the host definitions.
2410 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
2411 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
2412 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
2413 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
2414 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
2415 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
2416 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
2417 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
2418 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
2419 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
2420 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
2421 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
2422 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
2423 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
2424 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
2425 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
2426 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
2427 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
2428 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
2429 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
2430 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
2432 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
2433 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
2434 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
2435 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
2436 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2438 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
2439 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
2441 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
2442 of the libsensors library.
2444 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
2445 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
2446 it's in a non-standard location.
2447 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
2448 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
2449 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
2450 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
2451 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
2452 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2454 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
2455 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
2457 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
2458 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
2460 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
2461 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
2462 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2463 noise quality as percentage.
2464 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
2465 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
2466 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
2467 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
2468 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
2469 support for the `timeticks' type.
2471 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
2472 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
2473 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
2474 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
2476 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
2477 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
2478 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
2480 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
2481 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
2482 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
2483 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
2485 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
2486 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
2487 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
2488 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
2490 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
2491 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
2492 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
2493 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
2494 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
2495 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
2496 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
2497 to not block data collection.
2498 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
2499 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
2500 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
2502 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
2503 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
2504 of music played with xmms.
2506 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
2507 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
2508 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2509 noise quality as percentage.
2510 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
2512 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
2513 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
2514 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
2515 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
2517 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
2518 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
2519 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
2520 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
2522 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
2523 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
2525 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
2526 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
2527 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
2528 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
2529 (i. e. without quotes).
2530 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
2531 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
2532 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2534 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
2535 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
2536 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
2537 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
2539 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
2540 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
2541 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
2544 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
2545 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
2547 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
2548 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2549 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
2550 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2551 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
2552 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2553 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
2555 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
2556 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
2557 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
2558 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
2559 initialized correctly.
2560 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
2562 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
2563 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
2564 they're given in numerically form.
2566 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
2567 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
2568 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
2571 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
2572 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
2573 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
2574 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
2575 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
2576 thread-safe functions from now on.
2577 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
2578 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
2579 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
2581 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
2582 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
2583 write to increase IO-performance.
2584 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
2585 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
2586 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
2587 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
2588 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
2590 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
2591 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
2592 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
2594 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
2595 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
2596 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
2597 or STDOUT or STDERR.
2598 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
2599 system's syslog daemon.
2600 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
2601 entropy currently being available to the system.
2602 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
2603 back values provided by the forked processes.
2604 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
2605 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
2607 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
2608 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
2609 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
2610 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
2611 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
2612 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
2613 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
2614 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
2615 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
2617 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
2618 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2619 noise quality as percentage.
2621 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
2622 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2624 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
2625 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
2626 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
2627 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
2628 were accounted as `zombies'.
2630 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
2631 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
2634 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
2635 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
2636 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
2638 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
2639 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
2640 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
2641 segfault with some libcs.
2643 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
2644 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
2645 under Solaris again.
2646 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
2648 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
2649 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
2651 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
2652 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
2653 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
2654 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
2655 write init.d-scripts for it.
2656 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
2657 caused problems every now and then.
2658 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
2659 filesystem types or devices.
2660 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
2661 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
2663 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
2664 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
2665 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
2666 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
2667 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
2668 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
2669 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
2670 segment size and pagefaults.
2671 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
2672 queries multimeters.
2673 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
2674 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
2675 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
2677 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
2678 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
2679 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
2680 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
2682 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
2683 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
2684 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
2685 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
2688 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
2689 * The sample config file has been improved.
2690 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
2691 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
2692 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
2693 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
2695 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
2696 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
2697 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
2699 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
2700 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
2702 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
2703 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
2704 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
2705 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
2707 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
2708 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
2709 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
2710 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
2711 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
2712 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
2713 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
2714 with a test environment :)
2715 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
2718 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
2719 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
2720 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
2722 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
2723 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
2724 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
2726 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
2727 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
2728 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
2730 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
2731 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
2733 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
2734 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
2735 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
2736 approximately 7.6 days.
2738 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
2739 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
2740 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
2741 approximately 7.6 days.
2743 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
2744 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
2746 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
2748 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
2750 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
2751 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
2752 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
2753 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
2754 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
2756 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
2757 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
2758 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
2759 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
2760 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
2761 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
2762 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
2763 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
2765 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
2766 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
2767 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
2768 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
2770 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
2771 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
2772 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
2774 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
2775 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
2776 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
2778 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
2779 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
2780 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
2783 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
2784 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
2785 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
2787 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
2788 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
2789 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
2790 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
2792 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
2793 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
2794 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
2796 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
2797 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
2799 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
2800 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
2802 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
2803 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
2805 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
2806 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
2808 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
2809 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
2810 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
2811 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
2812 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
2813 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
2814 address and/or port than localhost.
2815 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
2816 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
2817 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
2818 be set in the configfile.
2820 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
2821 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
2822 client mode. This released fixes this.
2824 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
2825 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
2826 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
2829 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
2830 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
2832 * A `df' plugin has been added.
2833 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
2834 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
2835 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
2837 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
2838 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
2839 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
2842 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
2843 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
2844 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
2846 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
2847 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
2848 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
2849 currently logged in users.
2850 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
2851 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
2852 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
2853 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
2855 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
2856 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
2857 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
2858 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
2859 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
2860 with the `-c' argument.
2861 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
2862 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
2863 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
2864 Barcellos for this patch.
2866 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
2867 * New modules have been added:
2868 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
2869 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
2870 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
2871 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
2873 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
2874 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
2876 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
2877 between polls up to one day.
2878 * The init.d files have been improved.
2879 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
2881 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
2882 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
2883 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
2885 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
2886 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
2887 multicast) has been added.
2888 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
2889 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
2890 to be linked against an external library.
2891 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
2892 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
2894 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
2895 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
2897 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
2898 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
2899 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
2900 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
2901 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
2902 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
2903 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
2904 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
2905 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
2908 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
2909 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
2911 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
2913 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
2914 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
2916 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
2917 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
2918 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
2919 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
2921 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
2922 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
2923 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
2925 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
2926 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
2927 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
2928 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
2929 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
2930 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
2931 statistics will not work.
2933 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
2934 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
2935 weird strings as disk-names..
2937 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
2938 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
2939 about the disks and partitions.
2941 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
2942 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
2943 and/or kernel versions.
2945 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
2946 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
2947 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
2949 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
2950 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
2951 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
2953 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
2954 * Collecting CPU statistics now
2956 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
2957 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
2959 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
2961 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
2962 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
2964 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
2965 * The following modules are provided:
projects / collectd.git / blob