1 2015-02-26, Version 5.3.2
2 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
3 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
4 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
6 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
7 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
8 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
10 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c Thanks to
12 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
13 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
14 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
15 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
16 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
17 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
18 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
19 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
20 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
21 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
22 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
23 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
24 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
26 * Documentation: The synopsis of the threshold has been fixed. Thanks
28 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
29 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
30 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
31 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
32 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
33 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
34 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
35 * csv: A regression which would lead to the "DataDir" option to be
36 ignored has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada.
37 * curl, curl-json, curl-xml and write_http plugins: Call
38 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
40 * curl and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
41 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
42 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
44 * exec, unixsock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
45 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
46 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
47 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
49 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
50 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
51 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
52 Thanks to Florian Forster.
53 * logfile and syslog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
54 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
55 * memcached: Connecting to a UNIX socket has been fixed. Thanks to Jim
57 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
58 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
59 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
60 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
61 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
63 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
65 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
66 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
67 * replace and set targets: Fix error message. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
69 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: Honor the "DataDir" config option;
70 this fixes a regression. Thanks to Florian Forster. #380
71 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
72 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
73 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
75 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
76 to Florian Forster. #733
77 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
78 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
79 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
81 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
82 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
83 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
85 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
88 2013-07-13, Version 5.3.1
89 * Documentation: Various fixes.
90 * Configuration: Fix error handling: Errors in included files were
91 ignored, causing configuration mistakes to go unnoticed.
92 * dns plugin: Don't abort when PCAP returns an error.
93 * modbus plugin: The reconnection strategy was improved, fixing a
94 segfault in the libmodbud library. Thanks to Stefan Nickl and
95 Fabien Wernli for their patches.
96 * mysql plugin: The notification about a newly running MySQL slave
97 thread has been fixed. Thanks to Joaquín Cuenca Abela for the patch.
98 * snmp plugin: A build issue has been fixed (C99 mixed declaration).
99 The end-of-tree check has been improved by Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
100 * threshold plugin: Handling of the "Interesting" configuration option
101 has been fixed. Thanks to Björn for the patch.
102 * write_riemann plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Dave
103 Cottlehuber for reporting it.
105 2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0
106 * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include
107 only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
109 * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This
110 improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act
111 as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for
112 reviewing this change and fixing bugs.
113 * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using
114 regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric
115 can now be set via the configuration file.
116 * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented.
117 * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers
118 has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
119 * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks
120 to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
121 * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The
122 "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch.
123 * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to
124 Greg Mason for his patch.
125 * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks
126 to Johan Wirén for his patch.
127 * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication /
128 compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
129 patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work.
130 * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks
131 to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
132 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been
133 implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created
134 asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances.
135 Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code.
136 * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV
137 files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for
139 * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added.
140 * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to
141 Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to
142 Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work.
144 2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2
145 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
146 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
147 Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks
148 to Sebastian Harl for his patch.
149 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
150 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
151 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
152 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
153 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
154 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
155 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
156 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
157 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
158 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
159 Tomas Doran for his patch.
160 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
161 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
162 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
163 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
164 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
165 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
166 * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
167 * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
168 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
169 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
170 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
171 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
172 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
173 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
174 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
177 2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1
178 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris
179 and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches.
180 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
181 more frequently than intended.
182 * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added.
183 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
184 Ed Schouten for his patch.
185 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
186 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
187 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
188 Ed Schouten for his patch.
189 * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed.
190 A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was
191 configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these
193 * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
194 Ritschard for his patch.
195 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
196 * write_graphite plugin: A regression which rendered the
197 "SeparateInstances" and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been
198 fixed. A failed assertion when using types with many data sources
199 has been fixed. Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
200 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
202 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
203 Mettier for reporting this bug.
205 2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0
206 * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved.
207 Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch.
208 * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a
209 per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for
211 * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real
212 looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new
214 * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets
215 in the binary format has been added.
216 * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple
217 value lists into one.
218 * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON
219 output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch.
220 * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to
221 Thomas Meson for the patch.
222 * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to
223 Manuel Rozada for his patch.
224 * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the
226 * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't
228 * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks
229 to "Davide Guerri" for the patch.
230 * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added.
231 Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch.
232 * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The
233 behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to
234 Johan Kiviniemi for the patches.
235 * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added.
236 * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's
237 packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes
239 * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added.
240 Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added.
241 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches.
242 * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
243 Cosmin Ioiart for the patch.
244 * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added.
245 Thanks to biancalana for the patch.
246 * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan",
247 "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added.
248 * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX
249 version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out
250 "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch.
251 * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc
252 for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch.
254 2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3
255 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
256 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
257 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
258 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
259 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
260 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
261 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
262 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
263 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
264 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
265 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
266 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
267 Tomas Doran for his patch.
268 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
269 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
270 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
271 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
272 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
273 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
274 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
275 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
276 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
277 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
278 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
279 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
280 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
283 2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2
284 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves
285 Mettier for his patches.
286 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
287 more frequently than intended.
288 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
289 Ed Schouten for his patch.
290 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
291 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
292 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
293 Ed Schouten for his patch.
294 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
295 * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
296 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
298 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
299 Mettier for reporting this bug.
301 2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1
302 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
303 unwanted permission bits.
304 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
305 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
306 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
307 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
308 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
309 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
310 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
311 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
312 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
314 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
315 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
316 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
317 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
318 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
319 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
320 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
321 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
322 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
323 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
324 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
325 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
327 * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of
328 uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for
329 reporting these problems.
330 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
331 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
332 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
333 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
334 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
336 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
337 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
338 "KIvosak" for the patch.
339 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
340 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
341 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
342 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
343 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
345 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
346 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
347 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
348 "biancalana" for the fix.
349 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
350 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
351 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
352 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
353 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
355 * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been
356 fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch.
357 * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and
358 later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch.
360 2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0
361 * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has
363 * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using
364 "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
365 * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use
366 the system time rather than the time reported by BIND.
367 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been
368 added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch.
369 * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics
370 directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch.
371 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in
372 addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
373 Ritschard for his patch.
374 * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default
375 ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g.
377 * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various
378 states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
380 * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been
382 * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin
383 Ioiart for his patch.
384 * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the
385 Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux.
386 * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation.
387 Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch.
388 * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been
390 * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to
391 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch.
392 * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added.
393 * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added.
394 Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
395 * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel
396 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
397 * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to
398 Aaron Brady for his patch.
399 * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to
400 Jérôme Renard for his patches.
401 * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value
402 lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch
403 and Chris Lundquist for their work.
404 * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value
405 lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series
406 database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their
408 * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to
409 Aurelien Rougemont for his patches.
410 * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been
411 added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
413 2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5
414 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
415 unwanted permission bits.
416 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
417 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
418 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
419 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
420 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
421 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
422 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
423 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
424 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
426 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
427 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
428 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
429 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
430 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
431 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
432 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
433 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
434 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
435 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
436 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
437 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
439 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
440 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
441 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
442 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
443 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
445 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
446 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
447 "KIvosak" for the patch.
448 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
449 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
450 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
451 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
452 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
454 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
455 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
456 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
457 "biancalana" for the fix.
458 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
459 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
460 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
461 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
462 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
465 2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4
466 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
467 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
469 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
470 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
472 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
473 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
474 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
476 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
477 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
479 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
480 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
482 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
483 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
485 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
486 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
488 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
489 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
490 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
491 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
492 runtime has been fixed.
494 2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3
495 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
496 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
497 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
499 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
500 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
501 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
502 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
503 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
504 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
505 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
507 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
509 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
510 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
511 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
512 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
513 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
515 2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2
516 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
517 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
518 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
519 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
521 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
522 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
523 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
524 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
526 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
527 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
528 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
529 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
530 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
531 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
532 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
533 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
534 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
537 2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1
538 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
539 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
540 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
541 to Peter Green for his patch.
542 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
543 McCabe for the patch.
544 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
545 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
546 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
547 code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module.
548 * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts.
549 Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this.
550 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
551 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
552 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
553 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
554 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
555 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
556 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
557 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
558 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
559 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
560 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
561 * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values
562 were submitted as gauge even though they were derives.
563 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
566 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
567 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
568 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
569 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
570 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
571 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
572 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
573 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
575 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
576 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
577 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
578 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
579 added to the collectd client library.
580 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
581 one data source has been changed to "value".
582 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
583 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
584 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
585 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
586 maximum value is unspecified.
587 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
588 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
589 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
590 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
591 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
592 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
593 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
594 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
595 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
596 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
598 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
599 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
601 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
603 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
605 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
606 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
607 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
608 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
610 * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
611 license has been changed to LGPLv2.1.
612 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
613 data sets used have been improved.
614 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
616 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
617 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
618 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
619 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
620 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
621 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
622 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
623 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
624 this separate plugin.
625 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
626 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
627 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
628 Fournier for their contributions.
629 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
631 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
633 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
636 2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9
637 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
638 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
639 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
640 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
641 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
642 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
643 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
644 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
645 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
646 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
647 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
648 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
649 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
650 Tomas Doran for his patch.
651 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
652 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
653 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
654 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
657 2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8
658 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
659 unwanted permission bits.
660 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
661 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
662 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
663 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
664 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
665 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
666 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
667 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
668 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
669 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
670 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
671 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
672 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
673 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
674 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
675 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
677 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
678 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
679 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
681 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
682 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
683 "KIvosak" for the patch.
684 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
685 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
686 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
687 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
688 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
690 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
691 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
692 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
693 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
694 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
695 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
696 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
699 2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7
700 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
701 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
703 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
704 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
706 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
707 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
708 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
710 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
711 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
713 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
714 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
716 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
717 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
719 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
720 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
722 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
723 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
724 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
725 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
726 runtime has been fixed.
728 2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6
729 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
730 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
731 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
733 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
734 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
735 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
736 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
737 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
738 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
739 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
741 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
743 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
744 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
745 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
746 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
747 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
749 2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5
750 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
751 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
752 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
753 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
755 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
756 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
757 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
758 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
760 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
761 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
762 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
763 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
764 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
765 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
766 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
767 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
768 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
771 2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4
772 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
773 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
774 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
775 to Peter Green for his patch.
776 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
777 McCabe for the patch.
778 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
779 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
780 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
782 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
783 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
784 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
785 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
786 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
787 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
788 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
789 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
790 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
791 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
792 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
793 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
796 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
797 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
798 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
800 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
801 percentage calculation has been fixed.
802 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
804 * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
805 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
806 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
807 * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
808 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
810 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
811 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
814 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
815 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
816 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
817 the rest of the configuration if possible.
818 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
819 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
820 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
821 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
822 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
823 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
824 configurable timeout value.
825 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
826 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
827 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
828 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
829 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
830 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
831 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
833 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
834 to prevent spamming the logs.
835 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
836 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
837 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
838 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
840 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
842 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
843 Trenkel for the patch.
845 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
846 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
847 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
848 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
849 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
851 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
852 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
853 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
855 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
856 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
857 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
858 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
859 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
860 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
861 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
862 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
863 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
864 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
866 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
867 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
868 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
869 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
870 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
871 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
872 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
874 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
876 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
877 lines from the match.
878 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
879 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
881 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
882 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
884 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
885 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
887 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
888 certain lines from the match.
889 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
890 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
891 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
892 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
893 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
894 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
895 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
896 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
897 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
898 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
899 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
900 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
901 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
902 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
903 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
904 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
905 Sebastian Harl for his work.
906 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
907 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
908 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
909 Sven Trenkel for his work.
910 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
911 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
912 MikroTik devices has been added.
913 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
914 Scraba for his patch.
915 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
916 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
917 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
918 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
919 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
920 Ammous for his patch.
922 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
923 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
924 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
926 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
927 percentage calculation has been fixed.
928 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
930 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
931 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
932 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
934 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
935 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
938 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
939 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
940 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
941 the rest of the configuration if possible.
942 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
943 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
944 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
945 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
946 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
947 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
948 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
949 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
950 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
951 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
952 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
953 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
955 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
956 to prevent spamming the logs.
957 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
958 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
959 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
960 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
962 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
963 Trenkel for the patch.
965 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
966 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
967 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
968 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
969 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
971 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
972 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
973 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
974 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
976 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
977 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
978 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
979 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
980 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
981 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
982 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
983 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
984 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
985 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
986 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
987 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
989 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
990 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
991 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
992 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
993 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
994 figuring out a way to make this work.
995 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
996 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
997 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
998 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
999 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
1001 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
1003 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
1004 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
1005 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
1006 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
1007 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
1008 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
1009 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
1010 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1012 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1013 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1014 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1015 an unknown data source type.
1016 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1017 packets has been fixed.
1018 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
1020 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
1021 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
1022 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
1023 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
1024 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
1025 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1027 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
1028 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
1029 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
1030 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
1031 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
1032 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
1033 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
1034 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1035 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1037 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
1038 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
1039 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
1042 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
1043 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
1044 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
1045 Weiskircher for the patch.
1046 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
1047 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1048 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
1049 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
1050 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
1051 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
1052 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
1053 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
1054 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
1055 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
1056 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
1057 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
1058 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
1060 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
1061 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
1062 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
1063 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
1064 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
1065 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1066 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
1067 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1068 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
1069 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
1070 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
1071 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
1072 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
1073 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
1074 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
1075 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1076 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
1077 storage has been added.
1078 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
1079 value has been added.
1081 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
1082 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
1083 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1084 an unknown data source type.
1086 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
1087 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
1088 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1089 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
1090 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
1091 figuring out a way to make this work.
1092 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
1093 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
1094 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
1095 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
1097 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
1099 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
1100 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
1101 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
1102 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
1103 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
1104 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1106 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1107 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1108 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1109 packets has been fixed.
1110 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
1111 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
1112 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
1113 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
1114 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
1115 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1117 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
1118 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
1119 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
1120 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1121 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1124 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
1125 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
1126 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
1127 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
1128 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
1129 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
1131 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
1132 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
1133 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
1134 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
1135 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
1136 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
1138 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
1139 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
1140 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
1141 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
1143 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
1144 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
1146 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
1147 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
1148 issues on some platforms.
1149 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
1150 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1151 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
1152 descriptor handling.
1154 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
1155 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
1156 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
1157 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
1158 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
1159 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
1161 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
1162 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
1163 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
1164 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1165 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
1166 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
1167 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1168 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
1169 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
1170 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
1171 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
1173 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
1174 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
1175 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
1176 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
1177 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
1178 Aman Gupta for the patch.
1179 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
1180 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
1181 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
1182 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
1183 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
1185 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
1186 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
1188 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
1189 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
1190 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1191 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
1192 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
1193 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
1194 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
1195 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1196 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
1197 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
1198 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
1199 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
1200 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
1201 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
1203 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
1204 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
1205 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
1206 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
1207 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
1208 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
1210 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
1211 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
1212 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
1213 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
1215 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
1216 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
1217 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
1218 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
1220 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
1221 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
1223 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
1224 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
1225 issues on some platforms.
1226 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
1227 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1228 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
1229 descriptor handling.
1231 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
1232 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
1233 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1234 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
1235 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
1236 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
1238 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
1239 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
1240 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
1241 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
1242 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
1243 Hess for reporting this bug.
1244 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
1245 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
1246 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
1247 is linked with the shipped library, too.
1248 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
1249 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
1250 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
1251 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
1252 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
1253 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
1254 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
1255 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
1256 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
1257 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
1258 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
1259 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
1260 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1263 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
1264 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
1266 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
1267 Díaz for fixing this bug.
1268 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
1269 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
1270 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
1271 for reporting the bug.
1272 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
1274 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
1275 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
1276 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
1277 libtool 2.2 has been added.
1278 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
1279 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
1280 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
1281 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
1282 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
1284 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
1285 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
1286 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
1287 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
1288 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
1290 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
1291 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1293 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
1294 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
1295 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
1296 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
1297 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
1298 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
1299 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1300 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
1301 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
1302 Konetzko for the patch.
1303 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
1304 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
1305 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
1306 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
1307 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
1308 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
1309 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
1310 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
1311 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
1312 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
1313 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
1314 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
1315 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1316 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
1317 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
1318 Quiédeville for the patch.
1319 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
1321 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
1322 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
1323 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
1324 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
1325 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
1326 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
1327 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
1328 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
1330 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
1331 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
1332 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
1333 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
1334 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
1335 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
1337 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
1338 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
1339 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
1340 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
1342 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
1343 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
1344 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
1345 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
1346 Hess for reporting this bug.
1347 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
1348 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
1349 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
1350 is linked with the shipped library, too.
1351 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
1352 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
1353 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
1354 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
1355 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1358 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
1359 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
1360 Díaz for fixing this bug.
1361 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
1362 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
1363 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
1364 for reporting the bug.
1366 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
1367 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
1368 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
1369 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
1370 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
1371 providing an OpenBSD system.
1372 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
1373 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
1374 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
1375 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
1376 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
1378 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
1380 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
1381 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
1382 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
1383 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1384 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
1386 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
1387 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
1388 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1390 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
1391 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
1392 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
1393 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
1395 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
1396 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
1397 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
1398 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
1399 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
1400 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
1401 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
1402 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
1403 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
1404 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
1405 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
1406 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
1407 initialized, the daemon may crash.
1409 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
1410 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
1411 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
1412 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
1413 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
1414 for finding and fixing most of them.
1415 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
1416 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
1418 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
1419 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
1420 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
1421 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
1422 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1423 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
1424 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
1425 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
1426 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
1427 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
1428 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
1430 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
1431 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
1432 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
1433 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
1435 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
1436 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
1437 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
1438 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
1439 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
1440 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
1441 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
1442 Kuhnle for the patch.
1443 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
1444 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
1445 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
1446 MacEachern for the patch.
1447 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
1448 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
1449 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
1450 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
1451 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
1452 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
1453 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
1454 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
1455 select interfaces, too.
1456 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
1457 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
1458 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
1460 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
1461 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
1462 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
1463 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
1464 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
1465 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1466 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
1467 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
1468 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
1469 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
1471 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
1472 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
1473 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
1474 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
1475 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
1476 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
1477 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
1478 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
1480 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
1481 been added. Portability fixes.
1482 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
1483 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
1484 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
1486 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
1489 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
1490 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
1491 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
1492 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
1493 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
1494 providing an OpenBSD system.
1495 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
1496 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
1498 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
1499 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
1500 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
1501 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
1502 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1503 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
1505 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
1506 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
1507 initialized, the daemon may crash.
1508 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
1510 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
1511 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
1513 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
1514 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
1515 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
1517 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
1518 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
1519 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
1520 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
1522 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
1523 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
1524 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
1525 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
1527 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
1528 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
1529 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
1530 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
1531 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
1532 provide these necessary functions.
1533 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
1534 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
1536 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
1537 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
1538 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
1539 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
1541 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
1542 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
1543 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
1544 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
1545 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
1546 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
1548 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
1549 invalid configuration options.
1550 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
1551 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
1552 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
1554 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
1555 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
1556 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
1557 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
1559 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
1560 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
1561 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
1562 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
1563 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
1564 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
1565 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
1566 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
1568 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
1569 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
1570 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
1571 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
1572 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
1573 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
1574 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
1575 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
1576 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
1577 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
1578 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
1579 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
1581 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
1582 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
1585 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
1586 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
1587 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
1589 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
1590 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
1591 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
1592 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
1593 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
1594 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
1596 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
1597 email, using the `esmtp' library.
1598 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
1599 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
1601 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
1602 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
1603 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
1604 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
1606 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
1607 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
1608 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
1609 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
1610 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
1612 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
1613 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
1614 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
1616 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
1617 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
1618 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
1619 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
1621 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
1622 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
1623 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
1624 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
1625 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
1626 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
1627 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
1628 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
1629 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
1630 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
1631 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
1632 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
1634 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
1635 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
1636 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
1638 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
1639 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
1640 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
1641 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
1643 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
1644 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
1645 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
1646 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
1647 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
1648 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
1649 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
1650 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
1652 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
1653 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
1654 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
1655 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
1656 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
1657 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
1658 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
1661 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
1662 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
1663 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
1665 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
1666 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
1668 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
1669 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
1670 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianess of the
1671 architecture collectd is being built on.
1672 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
1674 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
1676 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
1677 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
1678 values under Solaris.
1679 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
1680 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
1682 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
1683 returned by some broken drivers.
1685 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
1686 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
1687 to kyrone for reporting this.
1688 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
1690 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
1692 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
1693 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
1694 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
1695 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
1697 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
1698 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
1699 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
1700 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
1701 flush its values to disk.
1702 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
1703 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
1704 for each data source.
1705 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
1707 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
1708 page of an Ascent server.
1709 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1710 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
1711 specific disks has been added.
1712 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1713 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
1714 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
1716 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
1717 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
1718 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
1719 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
1720 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
1721 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
1722 configuration has been decreased.
1723 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
1724 continuously reading from log files.
1725 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
1726 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
1727 and number of channels.
1728 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1729 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
1730 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
1732 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
1733 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
1735 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianess more
1737 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
1738 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
1739 again has been applied.
1740 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
1742 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
1743 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
1745 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
1746 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
1747 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
1750 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
1751 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
1752 they are in non-standard paths.
1753 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
1754 if the libc expects it.
1755 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1756 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
1758 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
1759 using a buffer of static size.
1760 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
1762 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1763 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
1765 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
1766 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
1767 `Persist' threshold options.
1768 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
1769 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
1770 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
1771 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
1772 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
1774 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
1775 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
1777 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
1778 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
1779 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
1780 cross-platform compatibility.
1781 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
1782 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
1783 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
1785 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
1786 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
1787 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
1788 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
1789 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
1790 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
1792 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
1793 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
1794 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
1795 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
1796 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
1797 wants to add custom type definitions.
1798 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
1799 entire directories and shell wildcards.
1800 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
1801 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
1802 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
1803 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
1804 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
1805 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
1806 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
1807 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
1808 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
1809 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
1810 domain name lookups in this plugin.
1811 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
1812 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
1813 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
1814 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
1815 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
1816 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
1817 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
1818 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
1819 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
1820 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
1821 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
1822 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
1823 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
1824 Technology group for this plugin.
1826 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
1827 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
1828 they are in non-standard paths.
1829 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
1830 if the libc expects it.
1831 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1832 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
1834 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
1835 using a buffer of static size.
1836 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
1838 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1839 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
1841 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
1842 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
1843 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
1844 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
1845 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
1847 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
1848 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
1849 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
1851 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
1852 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
1853 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
1854 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
1855 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
1856 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
1857 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
1858 cross-platform compatibility.
1859 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
1860 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
1861 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
1862 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
1864 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
1865 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
1866 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
1867 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
1868 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
1870 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
1871 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
1872 of the libsensors library.
1874 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
1875 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
1876 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
1878 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
1879 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1882 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
1883 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
1884 enabled on the host.
1885 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
1887 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
1888 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
1889 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
1890 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
1891 definitions separate from the host definitions.
1892 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
1893 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
1894 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
1895 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
1896 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
1897 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
1898 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
1899 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
1900 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
1901 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
1902 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
1903 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
1904 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
1905 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
1906 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
1907 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
1908 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
1909 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
1910 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
1911 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
1912 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
1914 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
1915 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
1916 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
1917 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
1918 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
1920 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
1921 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
1923 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
1924 of the libsensors library.
1926 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
1927 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
1928 it's in a non-standard location.
1929 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
1930 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
1931 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
1932 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
1933 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
1934 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
1936 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
1937 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
1939 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
1940 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
1942 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
1943 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
1944 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1945 noise quality as percentage.
1946 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
1947 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
1948 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
1949 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
1950 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
1951 support for the `timeticks' type.
1953 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
1954 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
1955 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
1956 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
1958 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
1959 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
1960 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
1962 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
1963 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
1964 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
1965 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
1967 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
1968 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
1969 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
1970 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
1972 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
1973 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
1974 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
1975 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
1976 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
1977 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
1978 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
1979 to not block data collection.
1980 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
1981 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
1982 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
1984 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
1985 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
1986 of music played with xmms.
1988 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
1989 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
1990 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1991 noise quality as percentage.
1992 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
1994 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
1995 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
1996 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
1997 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
1999 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
2000 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
2001 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
2002 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
2004 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
2005 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
2007 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
2008 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
2009 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
2010 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
2011 (i. e. without quotes).
2012 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
2013 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
2014 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2016 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
2017 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
2018 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
2019 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
2021 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
2022 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
2023 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
2026 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
2027 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
2029 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
2030 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2031 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
2032 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2033 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
2034 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2035 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
2037 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
2038 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
2039 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
2040 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
2041 initialized correctly.
2042 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
2044 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
2045 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
2046 they're given in numerically form.
2048 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
2049 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
2050 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
2053 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
2054 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
2055 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
2056 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
2057 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
2058 thread-safe functions from now on.
2059 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
2060 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
2061 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
2063 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
2064 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
2065 write to increase IO-performance.
2066 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
2067 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
2068 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
2069 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
2070 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
2072 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
2073 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
2074 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
2076 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
2077 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
2078 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
2079 or STDOUT or STDERR.
2080 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
2081 system's syslog daemon.
2082 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
2083 entropy currently being available to the system.
2084 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
2085 back values provided by the forked processes.
2086 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
2087 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
2089 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
2090 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
2091 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
2092 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
2093 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
2094 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
2095 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
2096 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
2097 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
2099 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
2100 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2101 noise quality as percentage.
2103 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
2104 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2106 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
2107 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
2108 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
2109 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
2110 were accounted as `zombies'.
2112 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
2113 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
2116 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
2117 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
2118 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
2120 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
2121 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
2122 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
2123 segfault with some libcs.
2125 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
2126 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
2127 under Solaris again.
2128 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
2130 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
2131 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
2133 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
2134 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
2135 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
2136 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
2137 write init.d-scripts for it.
2138 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
2139 caused problems every now and then.
2140 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
2141 filesystem types or devices.
2142 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
2143 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
2145 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
2146 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
2147 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
2148 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
2149 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
2150 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
2151 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
2152 segment size and pagefaults.
2153 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
2154 queries multimeters.
2155 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
2156 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
2157 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
2159 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
2160 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
2161 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
2162 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
2164 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
2165 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
2166 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
2167 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
2170 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
2171 * The sample config file has been improved.
2172 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
2173 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
2174 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
2175 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
2177 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
2178 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
2179 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
2181 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
2182 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
2184 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
2185 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
2186 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
2187 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
2189 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
2190 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
2191 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
2192 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
2193 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
2194 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
2195 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
2196 with a test environment :)
2197 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
2200 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
2201 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
2202 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
2204 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
2205 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
2206 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
2208 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
2209 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
2210 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
2212 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
2213 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
2215 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
2216 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
2217 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
2218 approximately 7.6 days.
2220 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
2221 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
2222 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
2223 approximately 7.6 days.
2225 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
2226 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
2228 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
2230 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
2232 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
2233 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
2234 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
2235 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
2236 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
2238 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
2239 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
2240 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
2241 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
2242 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
2243 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
2244 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
2245 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
2247 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
2248 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
2249 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
2250 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
2252 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
2253 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
2254 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
2256 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
2257 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
2258 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
2260 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
2261 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
2262 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
2265 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
2266 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
2267 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
2269 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
2270 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
2271 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
2272 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
2274 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
2275 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
2276 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
2278 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
2279 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
2281 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
2282 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
2284 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
2285 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
2287 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
2288 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
2290 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
2291 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
2292 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
2293 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
2294 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
2295 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
2296 address and/or port than localhost.
2297 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
2298 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
2299 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
2300 be set in the configfile.
2302 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
2303 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
2304 client mode. This released fixes this.
2306 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
2307 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
2308 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
2311 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
2312 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
2314 * A `df' plugin has been added.
2315 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
2316 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
2317 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
2319 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
2320 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
2321 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
2324 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
2325 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
2326 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
2328 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
2329 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
2330 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
2331 currently logged in users.
2332 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
2333 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
2334 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
2335 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
2337 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
2338 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
2339 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
2340 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
2341 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
2342 with the `-c' argument.
2343 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
2344 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
2345 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
2346 Barcellos for this patch.
2348 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
2349 * New modules have been added:
2350 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
2351 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
2352 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
2353 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
2355 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
2356 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
2358 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
2359 between polls up to one day.
2360 * The init.d files have been improved.
2361 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
2363 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
2364 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
2365 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
2367 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
2368 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
2369 multicast) has been added.
2370 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
2371 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
2372 to be linked against an external library.
2373 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
2374 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
2376 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
2377 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
2379 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
2380 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
2381 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
2382 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
2383 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
2384 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
2385 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
2386 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
2387 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
2390 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
2391 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
2393 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
2395 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
2396 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
2398 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
2399 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
2400 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
2401 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
2403 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
2404 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
2405 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
2407 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
2408 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
2409 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
2410 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
2411 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
2412 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
2413 statistics will not work.
2415 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
2416 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
2417 weird strings as disk-names..
2419 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
2420 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
2421 about the disks and partitions.
2423 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
2424 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
2425 and/or kernel versions.
2427 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
2428 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
2429 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
2431 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
2432 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
2433 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
2435 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
2436 * Collecting CPU statistics now
2438 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
2439 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
2441 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
2443 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
2444 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
2446 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
2447 * The following modules are provided:
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