1 2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1
3 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
4 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
5 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
6 to Peter Green for his patch.
7 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
9 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
10 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
11 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
12 code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module.
13 * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts.
14 Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this.
15 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
16 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
17 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
18 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
19 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
20 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
21 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
22 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
23 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
24 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
25 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
26 * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values
27 were submitted as gauge even though they were derives.
28 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
31 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
32 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
33 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
34 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
35 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
36 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
37 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
38 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
40 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
41 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
42 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
43 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
44 added to the collectd client library.
45 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
46 one data source has been changed to "value".
47 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
48 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
49 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
50 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
51 maximum value is unspecified.
52 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
53 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
54 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
55 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
56 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
57 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
58 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
59 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
60 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
61 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
63 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
64 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
66 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
68 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
70 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
71 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
72 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
73 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
75 * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
76 license has been changes to LGPLv2.1.
77 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
78 data sets used have been improved.
79 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
81 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
82 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
83 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
84 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
85 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
86 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
87 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
88 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
90 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
91 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
92 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
93 Fournier for their contributions.
94 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
96 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
98 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
101 2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4
102 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
103 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
104 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
105 to Peter Green for his patch.
106 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
107 McCabe for the patch.
108 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
109 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
110 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
112 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
113 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
114 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
115 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
116 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
117 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
118 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
119 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
120 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
121 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
122 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
123 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
126 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
127 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
128 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
130 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
131 percentage calculation has been fixed.
132 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
134 * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
135 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
136 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
137 * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
138 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
140 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
141 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
144 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
145 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
146 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
147 the rest of the configuration if possible.
148 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
149 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
150 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
151 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
152 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
153 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
154 configurable timeout value.
155 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
156 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
157 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
158 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
159 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
160 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
161 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
163 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
164 to prevent spamming the logs.
165 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
166 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
167 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
168 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
170 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
172 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
173 Trenkel for the patch.
175 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
176 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
177 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
178 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
179 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
181 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
182 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
183 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
185 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
186 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
187 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
188 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
189 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
190 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
191 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
192 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
193 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
194 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
196 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
197 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
198 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
199 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
200 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
201 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
202 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
204 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
206 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
207 lines from the match.
208 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
209 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
211 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
212 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
214 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
215 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
217 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
218 certain lines from the match.
219 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
220 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
221 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
222 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
223 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
224 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
225 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
226 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
227 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
228 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
229 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
230 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
231 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
232 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
233 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
234 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
235 Sebastian Harl for his work.
236 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
237 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
238 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
239 Sven Trenkel for his work.
240 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
241 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
242 MikroTik devices has been added.
243 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
244 Scraba for his patch.
245 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
246 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
247 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
248 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
249 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
250 Ammous for his patch.
252 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
253 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
254 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
256 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
257 percentage calculation has been fixed.
258 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
260 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
261 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
262 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
264 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
265 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
268 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
269 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
270 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
271 the rest of the configuration if possible.
272 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
273 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
274 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
275 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
276 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
277 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
278 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
279 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
280 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
281 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
282 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
283 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
285 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
286 to prevent spamming the logs.
287 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
288 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
289 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
290 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
292 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
293 Trenkel for the patch.
295 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
296 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
297 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
298 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
299 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
301 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
302 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
303 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
304 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
306 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
307 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
308 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
309 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
310 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
311 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
312 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
313 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
314 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
315 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
316 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
317 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
319 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
320 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
321 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
322 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
323 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
324 figuring out a way to make this work.
325 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
326 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
327 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
328 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
329 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
331 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
333 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
334 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
335 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
336 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
337 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
338 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
339 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
340 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
342 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
343 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
344 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
345 an unknown data source type.
346 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
347 packets has been fixed.
348 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
350 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
351 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
352 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
353 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
354 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
355 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
357 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
358 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
359 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
360 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
361 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
362 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
363 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
364 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
365 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
367 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
368 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
369 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
372 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
373 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
374 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
375 Weiskircher for the patch.
376 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
377 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
378 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
379 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
380 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
381 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
382 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
383 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
384 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
385 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
386 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
387 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
388 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
390 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
391 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
392 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
393 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
394 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
395 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
396 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
397 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
398 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
399 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
400 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
401 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
402 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
403 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
404 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
405 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
406 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
407 storage has been added.
408 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
409 value has been added.
411 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
412 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
413 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
414 an unknown data source type.
416 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
417 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
418 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
419 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
420 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
421 figuring out a way to make this work.
422 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
423 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
424 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
425 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
427 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
429 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
430 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
431 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
432 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
433 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
434 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
436 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
437 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
438 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
439 packets has been fixed.
440 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
441 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
442 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
443 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
444 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
445 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
447 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
448 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
449 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
450 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
451 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
454 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
455 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
456 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
457 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
458 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
459 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
461 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
462 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
463 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
464 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
465 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
466 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
468 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
469 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
470 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
471 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
473 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
474 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
476 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
477 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
478 issues on some platforms.
479 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
480 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
481 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
484 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
485 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
486 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
487 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
488 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
489 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
491 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
492 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
493 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
494 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
495 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
496 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
497 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
498 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
499 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
500 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
501 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
503 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
504 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
505 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
506 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
507 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
508 Aman Gupta for the patch.
509 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
510 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
511 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
512 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
513 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
515 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
516 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
518 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
519 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
520 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
521 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
522 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
523 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
524 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
525 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
526 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
527 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
528 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
529 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
530 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
531 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
533 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
534 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
535 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
536 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
537 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
538 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
540 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
541 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
542 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
543 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
545 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
546 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
547 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
548 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
550 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
551 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
553 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
554 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
555 issues on some platforms.
556 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
557 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
558 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
561 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
562 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
563 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
564 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
565 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
566 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
568 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
569 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
570 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
571 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
572 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
573 Hess for reporting this bug.
574 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
575 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
576 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
577 is linked with the shipped library, too.
578 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
579 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
580 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
581 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
582 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
583 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
584 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
585 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
586 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
587 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
588 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
589 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
590 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
593 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
594 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
596 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
597 Díaz for fixing this bug.
598 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
599 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
600 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
601 for reporting the bug.
602 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
604 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
605 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
606 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
607 libtool 2.2 has been added.
608 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
609 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
610 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
611 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
612 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
614 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
615 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
616 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
617 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
618 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
620 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
621 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
623 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
624 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
625 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
626 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
627 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
628 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
629 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
630 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
631 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
632 Konetzko for the patch.
633 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
634 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
635 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
636 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
637 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
638 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
639 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
640 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
641 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
642 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
643 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
644 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
645 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
646 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
647 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
648 Quiédeville for the patch.
649 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
651 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
652 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
653 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
654 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
655 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
656 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
657 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
658 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
660 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
661 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
662 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
663 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
664 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
665 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
667 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
668 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
669 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
670 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
672 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
673 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
674 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
675 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
676 Hess for reporting this bug.
677 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
678 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
679 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
680 is linked with the shipped library, too.
681 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
682 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
683 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
684 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
685 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
688 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
689 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
690 Díaz for fixing this bug.
691 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
692 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
693 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
694 for reporting the bug.
696 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
697 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
698 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
699 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
700 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
701 providing an OpenBSD system.
702 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
703 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
704 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
705 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
706 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
708 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
710 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
711 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
712 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
713 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
714 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
716 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
717 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
718 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
720 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
721 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
722 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
723 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
725 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
726 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
727 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
728 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
729 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
730 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
731 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
732 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
733 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
734 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
735 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
736 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
737 initialized, the daemon may crash.
739 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
740 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
741 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
742 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
743 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
744 for finding and fixing most of them.
745 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
746 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
748 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
749 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
750 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
751 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
752 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
753 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
754 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
755 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
756 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
757 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
758 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
760 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
761 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
762 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
763 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
765 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
766 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
767 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
768 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
769 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
770 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
771 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
772 Kuhnle for the patch.
773 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
774 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
775 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
776 MacEachern for the patch.
777 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
778 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
779 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
780 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
781 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
782 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
783 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
784 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
785 select interfaces, too.
786 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
787 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
788 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
790 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
791 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
792 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
793 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
794 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
795 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
796 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
797 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
798 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
799 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
801 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
802 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
803 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
804 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
805 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
806 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
807 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
808 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
810 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
811 been added. Portability fixes.
812 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
813 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
814 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
816 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
819 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
820 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
821 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
822 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
823 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
824 providing an OpenBSD system.
825 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
826 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
828 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
829 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
830 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
831 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
832 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
833 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
835 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
836 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
837 initialized, the daemon may crash.
838 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
840 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
841 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
843 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
844 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
845 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
847 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
848 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
849 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
850 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
852 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
853 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
854 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
855 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
857 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
858 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
859 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
860 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
861 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
862 provide these necessary functions.
863 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
864 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
866 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
867 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
868 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
869 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
871 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
872 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
873 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
874 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
875 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
876 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
878 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
879 invalid configuration options.
880 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
881 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
882 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
884 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
885 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
886 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
887 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
889 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
890 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
891 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
892 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
893 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
894 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
895 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
896 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
898 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
899 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
900 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
901 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
902 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
903 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
904 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
905 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
906 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
907 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
908 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
909 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
911 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
912 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
915 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
916 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
917 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
919 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
920 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
921 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
922 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
923 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
924 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
926 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
927 email, using the `esmtp' library.
928 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
929 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
931 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
932 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
933 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
934 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
936 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
937 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
938 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
939 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
940 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
942 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
943 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
944 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
946 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
947 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
948 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
949 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
951 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
952 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
953 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
954 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
955 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
956 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
957 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
958 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
959 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
960 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
961 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
962 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
964 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
965 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
966 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
968 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
969 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
970 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
971 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
973 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
974 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
975 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
976 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
977 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
978 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
979 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
980 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
982 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
983 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
984 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
985 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
986 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
987 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
988 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
991 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
992 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
993 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
995 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
996 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
998 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
999 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
1000 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianess of the
1001 architecture collectd is being built on.
1002 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
1004 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
1006 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
1007 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
1008 values under Solaris.
1009 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
1010 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
1012 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
1013 returned by some broken drivers.
1015 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
1016 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
1017 to kyrone for reporting this.
1018 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
1020 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
1022 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
1023 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
1024 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
1025 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
1027 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
1028 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
1029 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
1030 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
1031 flush its values to disk.
1032 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
1033 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
1034 for each data source.
1035 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
1037 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
1038 page of an Ascent server.
1039 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1040 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
1041 specific disks has been added.
1042 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1043 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
1044 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
1046 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
1047 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
1048 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
1049 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
1050 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
1051 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
1052 configuration has been decreased.
1053 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
1054 continuously reading from log files.
1055 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
1056 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
1057 and number of channels.
1058 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1059 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
1060 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
1062 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
1063 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
1065 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianess more
1067 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
1068 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
1069 again has been applied.
1070 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
1072 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
1073 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
1075 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
1076 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
1077 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
1080 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
1081 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
1082 they are in non-standard paths.
1083 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
1084 if the libc expects it.
1085 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1086 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
1088 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
1089 using a buffer of static size.
1090 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
1092 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1093 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
1095 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
1096 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
1097 `Persist' threshold options.
1098 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
1099 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
1100 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
1101 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
1102 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
1104 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
1105 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
1107 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
1108 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
1109 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
1110 cross-platform compatibility.
1111 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
1112 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
1113 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
1115 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
1116 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
1117 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
1118 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
1119 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
1120 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
1122 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
1123 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
1124 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
1125 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
1126 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
1127 wants to add custom type definitions.
1128 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
1129 entire directories and shell wildcards.
1130 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
1131 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
1132 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
1133 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
1134 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
1135 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
1136 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
1137 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
1138 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
1139 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
1140 domain name lookups in this plugin.
1141 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
1142 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
1143 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
1144 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
1145 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
1146 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
1147 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
1148 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
1149 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
1150 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
1151 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
1152 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
1153 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
1154 Technology group for this plugin.
1156 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
1157 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
1158 they are in non-standard paths.
1159 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
1160 if the libc expects it.
1161 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1162 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
1164 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
1165 using a buffer of static size.
1166 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
1168 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1169 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
1171 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
1172 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
1173 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
1174 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
1175 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
1177 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
1178 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
1179 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
1181 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
1182 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
1183 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
1184 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
1185 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
1186 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
1187 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
1188 cross-platform compatibility.
1189 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
1190 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
1191 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
1192 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
1194 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
1195 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
1196 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
1197 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
1198 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
1200 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
1201 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
1202 of the libsensors library.
1204 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
1205 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
1206 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
1208 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
1209 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1212 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
1213 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
1214 enabled on the host.
1215 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
1217 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
1218 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
1219 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
1220 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
1221 definitions separate from the host definitions.
1222 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
1223 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
1224 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
1225 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
1226 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
1227 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
1228 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
1229 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
1230 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
1231 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
1232 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
1233 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
1234 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
1235 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
1236 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
1237 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
1238 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
1239 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
1240 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
1241 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
1242 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
1244 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
1245 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
1246 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
1247 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
1248 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
1250 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
1251 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
1253 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
1254 of the libsensors library.
1256 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
1257 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
1258 it's in a non-standard location.
1259 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
1260 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
1261 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
1262 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
1263 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
1264 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
1266 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
1267 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
1269 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
1270 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
1272 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
1273 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
1274 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1275 noise quality as percentage.
1276 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
1277 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
1278 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
1279 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
1280 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
1281 support for the `timeticks' type.
1283 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
1284 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
1285 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
1286 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
1288 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
1289 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
1290 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
1292 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
1293 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
1294 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
1295 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
1297 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
1298 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
1299 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
1300 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
1302 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
1303 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
1304 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
1305 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
1306 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
1307 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
1308 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
1309 to not block data collection.
1310 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
1311 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
1312 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
1314 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
1315 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
1316 of music played with xmms.
1318 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
1319 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
1320 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1321 noise quality as percentage.
1322 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
1324 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
1325 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
1326 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
1327 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
1329 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
1330 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
1331 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
1332 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
1334 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
1335 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
1337 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
1338 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
1339 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
1340 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
1341 (i. e. without quotes).
1342 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
1343 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
1344 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
1346 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
1347 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
1348 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
1349 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
1351 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
1352 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
1353 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
1356 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
1357 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
1359 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
1360 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1361 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
1362 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1363 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
1364 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1365 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
1367 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
1368 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
1369 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
1370 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
1371 initialized correctly.
1372 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
1374 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
1375 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
1376 they're given in numerically form.
1378 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
1379 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
1380 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
1383 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
1384 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
1385 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
1386 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
1387 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
1388 thread-safe functions from now on.
1389 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
1390 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
1391 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
1393 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
1394 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
1395 write to increase IO-performance.
1396 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
1397 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
1398 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
1399 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
1400 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
1402 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
1403 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
1404 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
1406 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
1407 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
1408 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
1409 or STDOUT or STDERR.
1410 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
1411 system's syslog daemon.
1412 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
1413 entropy currently being available to the system.
1414 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
1415 back values provided by the forked processes.
1416 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
1417 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
1419 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
1420 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
1421 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
1422 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
1423 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
1424 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
1425 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
1426 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
1427 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
1429 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
1430 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1431 noise quality as percentage.
1433 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
1434 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
1436 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
1437 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
1438 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
1439 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
1440 were accounted as `zombies'.
1442 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
1443 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
1446 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
1447 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
1448 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
1450 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
1451 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
1452 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
1453 segfault with some libcs.
1455 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
1456 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
1457 under Solaris again.
1458 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
1460 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
1461 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
1463 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
1464 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
1465 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
1466 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
1467 write init.d-scripts for it.
1468 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
1469 caused problems every now and then.
1470 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
1471 filesystem types or devices.
1472 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
1473 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
1475 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
1476 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
1477 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
1478 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
1479 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
1480 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
1481 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
1482 segment size and pagefaults.
1483 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
1484 queries multimeters.
1485 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
1486 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
1487 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
1489 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
1490 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
1491 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
1492 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
1494 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
1495 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
1496 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
1497 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
1500 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
1501 * The sample config file has been improved.
1502 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
1503 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
1504 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
1505 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
1507 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
1508 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
1509 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
1511 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
1512 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
1514 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
1515 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
1516 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
1517 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
1519 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
1520 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
1521 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
1522 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
1523 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
1524 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
1525 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
1526 with a test environment :)
1527 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
1530 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
1531 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
1532 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
1534 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
1535 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
1536 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
1538 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
1539 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
1540 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
1542 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
1543 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
1545 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
1546 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1547 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1548 approximately 7.6 days.
1550 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
1551 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1552 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1553 approximately 7.6 days.
1555 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
1556 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
1558 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
1560 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
1562 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
1563 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
1564 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
1565 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
1566 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
1568 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
1569 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
1570 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
1571 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
1572 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
1573 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
1574 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
1575 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
1577 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
1578 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
1579 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
1580 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
1582 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
1583 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
1584 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
1586 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
1587 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
1588 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
1590 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
1591 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
1592 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
1595 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
1596 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
1597 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
1599 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
1600 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
1601 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
1602 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
1604 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
1605 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
1606 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
1608 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
1609 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
1611 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
1612 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
1614 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
1615 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
1617 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
1618 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
1620 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
1621 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
1622 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
1623 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
1624 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
1625 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
1626 address and/or port than localhost.
1627 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
1628 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
1629 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
1630 be set in the configfile.
1632 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
1633 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
1634 client mode. This released fixes this.
1636 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
1637 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
1638 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
1641 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
1642 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
1644 * A `df' plugin has been added.
1645 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
1646 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
1647 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
1649 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
1650 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
1651 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
1654 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
1655 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
1656 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
1658 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
1659 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
1660 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
1661 currently logged in users.
1662 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
1663 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
1664 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
1665 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
1667 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
1668 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
1669 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
1670 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
1671 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
1672 with the `-c' argument.
1673 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
1674 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
1675 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
1676 Barcellos for this patch.
1678 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
1679 * New modules have been added:
1680 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
1681 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
1682 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
1683 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
1685 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
1686 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
1688 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
1689 between polls up to one day.
1690 * The init.d files have been improved.
1691 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
1693 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
1694 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
1695 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
1697 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
1698 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
1699 multicast) has been added.
1700 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
1701 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
1702 to be linked against an external library.
1703 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
1704 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
1706 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
1707 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
1709 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
1710 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
1711 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
1712 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
1713 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
1714 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
1715 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
1716 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
1717 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
1720 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
1721 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
1723 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
1725 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
1726 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
1728 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
1729 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
1730 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
1731 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
1733 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
1734 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
1735 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
1737 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
1738 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
1739 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
1740 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
1741 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
1742 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
1743 statistics will not work.
1745 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
1746 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
1747 weird strings as disk-names..
1749 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
1750 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
1751 about the disks and partitions.
1753 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
1754 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
1755 and/or kernel versions.
1757 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
1758 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
1759 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
1761 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
1762 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
1763 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
1765 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
1766 * Collecting CPU statistics now
1768 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
1769 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
1771 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
1773 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
1774 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
1776 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
1777 * The following modules are provided:
projects / collectd.git / blob