1 yyyy-mm-dd, Version 5.0.0
2 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
3 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
4 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
5 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
6 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
7 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
8 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
10 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
11 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
12 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
13 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
14 added to the collectd client library.
15 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
16 one data source has been changed to "value".
17 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
18 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
19 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
20 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
21 maximum value is unspecified.
22 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
23 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
24 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
25 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
26 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
27 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
28 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
29 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
30 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
31 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
33 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
34 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
36 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
38 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
40 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
41 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
42 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
43 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
45 * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
46 license has been changes to LGPLv2.1.
47 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
48 data sets used have been improved.
49 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
51 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
52 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
53 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
54 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
55 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
56 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
57 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
58 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
60 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
61 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
62 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
63 Fournier for their contributions.
64 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
66 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
68 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
71 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
72 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
73 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
74 the rest of the configuration if possible.
75 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
76 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
77 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
78 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
79 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
80 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
81 configurable timeout value.
82 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
83 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
84 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
85 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
86 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
87 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
88 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
90 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
91 to prevent spamming the logs.
92 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
93 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
94 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
95 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
97 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
99 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
100 Trenkel for the patch.
102 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
103 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
104 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
105 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
106 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
108 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
109 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
110 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
112 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
113 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
114 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
115 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
116 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
117 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
118 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
119 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
120 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
121 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
123 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
124 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
125 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
126 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
127 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
128 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
129 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
131 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
133 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
134 lines from the match.
135 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
136 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
138 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
139 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
141 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
142 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
144 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
145 certain lines from the match.
146 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
147 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
148 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
149 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
150 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
151 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
152 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
153 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
154 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
155 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
156 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
157 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
158 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
159 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
160 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
161 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
162 Sebastian Harl for his work.
163 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
164 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
165 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
166 Sven Trenkel for his work.
167 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
168 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
169 MikroTik devices has been added.
170 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
171 Scraba for his patch.
172 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
173 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
174 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
175 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
176 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
177 Ammous for his patch.
179 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
180 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
181 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
182 the rest of the configuration if possible.
183 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
184 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
185 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
186 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
187 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
188 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
189 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
190 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
191 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
192 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
193 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
194 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
196 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
197 to prevent spamming the logs.
198 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
199 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
200 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
201 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
203 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
204 Trenkel for the patch.
206 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
207 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
208 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
209 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
210 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
212 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
213 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
214 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
215 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
217 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
218 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
219 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
220 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
221 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
222 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
223 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
224 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
225 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
226 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
227 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
228 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
230 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
231 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
232 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
233 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
234 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
235 figuring out a way to make this work.
236 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
237 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
238 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
239 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
240 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
242 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
244 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
245 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
246 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
247 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
248 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
249 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
250 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
251 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
253 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
254 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
255 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
256 an unknown data source type.
257 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
258 packets has been fixed.
259 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
261 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
262 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
263 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
264 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
265 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
266 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
268 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
269 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
270 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
271 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
272 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
273 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
274 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
275 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
276 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
278 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
279 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
280 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
283 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
284 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
285 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
286 Weiskircher for the patch.
287 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
288 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
289 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
290 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
291 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
292 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
293 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
294 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
295 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
296 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
297 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
298 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
299 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
301 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
302 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
303 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
304 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
305 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
306 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
307 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
308 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
309 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
310 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
311 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
312 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
313 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
314 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
315 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
316 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
317 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
318 storage has been added.
319 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
320 value has been added.
322 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
323 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
324 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
325 an unknown data source type.
327 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
328 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
329 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
330 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
331 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
332 figuring out a way to make this work.
333 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
334 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
335 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
336 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
338 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
340 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
341 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
342 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
343 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
344 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
345 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
347 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
348 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
349 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
350 packets has been fixed.
351 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
352 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
353 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
354 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
355 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
356 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
358 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
359 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
360 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
361 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
362 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
365 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
366 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
367 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
368 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
369 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
370 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
372 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
373 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
374 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
375 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
376 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
377 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
379 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
380 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
381 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
382 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
384 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
385 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
387 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
388 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
389 issues on some platforms.
390 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
391 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
392 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
395 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
396 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
397 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
398 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
399 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
400 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
402 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
403 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
404 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
405 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
406 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
407 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
408 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
409 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
410 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
411 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
412 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
414 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
415 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
416 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
417 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
418 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
419 Aman Gupta for the patch.
420 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
421 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
422 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
423 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
424 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
426 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
427 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
429 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
430 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
431 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
432 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
433 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
434 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
435 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
436 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
437 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
438 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
439 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
440 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
441 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
442 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
444 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
445 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
446 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
447 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
448 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
449 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
451 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
452 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
453 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
454 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
456 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
457 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
458 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
459 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
461 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
462 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
464 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
465 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
466 issues on some platforms.
467 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
468 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
469 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
472 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
473 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
474 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
475 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
476 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
477 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
479 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
480 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
481 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
482 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
483 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
484 Hess for reporting this bug.
485 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
486 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
487 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
488 is linked with the shipped library, too.
489 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
490 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
491 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
492 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
493 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
494 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
495 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
496 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
497 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
498 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
499 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
500 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
501 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
504 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
505 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
507 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
508 Díaz for fixing this bug.
509 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
510 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
511 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
512 for reporting the bug.
513 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
515 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
516 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
517 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
518 libtool 2.2 has been added.
519 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
520 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
521 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
522 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
523 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
525 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
526 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
527 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
528 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
529 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
531 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
532 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
534 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
535 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
536 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
537 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
538 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
539 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
540 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
541 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
542 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
543 Konetzko for the patch.
544 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
545 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
546 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
547 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
548 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
549 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
550 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
551 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
552 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
553 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
554 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
555 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
556 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
557 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
558 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
559 Quiédeville for the patch.
560 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
562 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
563 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
564 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
565 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
566 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
567 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
568 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
569 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
571 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
572 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
573 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
574 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
575 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
576 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
578 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
579 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
580 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
581 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
583 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
584 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
585 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
586 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
587 Hess for reporting this bug.
588 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
589 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
590 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
591 is linked with the shipped library, too.
592 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
593 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
594 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
595 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
596 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
599 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
600 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
601 Díaz for fixing this bug.
602 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
603 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
604 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
605 for reporting the bug.
607 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
608 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
609 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
610 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
611 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
612 providing an OpenBSD system.
613 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
614 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
615 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
616 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
617 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
619 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
621 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
622 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
623 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
624 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
625 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
627 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
628 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
629 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
631 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
632 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
633 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
634 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
636 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
637 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
638 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
639 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
640 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
641 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
642 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
643 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
644 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
645 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
646 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
647 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
648 initialized, the daemon may crash.
650 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
651 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
652 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
653 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
654 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
655 for finding and fixing most of them.
656 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
657 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
659 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
660 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
661 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
662 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
663 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
664 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
665 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
666 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
667 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
668 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
669 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
671 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
672 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
673 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
674 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
676 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
677 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
678 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
679 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
680 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
681 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
682 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
683 Kuhnle for the patch.
684 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
685 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
686 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
687 MacEachern for the patch.
688 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
689 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
690 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
691 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
692 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
693 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
694 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
695 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
696 select interfaces, too.
697 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
698 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
699 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
701 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
702 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
703 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
704 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
705 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
706 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
707 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
708 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
709 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
710 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
712 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
713 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
714 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
715 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
716 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
717 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
718 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
719 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
721 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
722 been added. Portability fixes.
723 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
724 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
725 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
727 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
730 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
731 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
732 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
733 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
734 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
735 providing an OpenBSD system.
736 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
737 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
739 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
740 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
741 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
742 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
743 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
744 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
746 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
747 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
748 initialized, the daemon may crash.
749 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
751 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
752 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
754 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
755 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
756 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
758 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
759 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
760 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
761 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
763 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
764 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
765 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
766 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
768 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
769 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
770 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
771 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
772 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
773 provide these necessary functions.
774 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
775 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
777 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
778 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
779 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
780 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
782 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
783 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
784 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
785 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
786 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
787 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
789 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
790 invalid configuration options.
791 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
792 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
793 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
795 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
796 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
797 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
798 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
800 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
801 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
802 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
803 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
804 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
805 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
806 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
807 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
809 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
810 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
811 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
812 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
813 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
814 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
815 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
816 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
817 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
818 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
819 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
820 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
822 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
823 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
826 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
827 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
828 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
830 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
831 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
832 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
833 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
834 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
835 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
837 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
838 email, using the `esmtp' library.
839 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
840 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
842 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
843 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
844 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
845 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
847 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
848 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
849 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
850 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
851 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
853 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
854 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
855 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
857 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
858 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
859 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
860 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
862 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
863 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
864 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
865 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
866 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
867 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
868 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
869 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
870 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
871 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
872 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
873 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
875 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
876 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
877 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
879 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
880 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
881 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
882 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
884 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
885 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
886 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
887 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
888 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
889 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
890 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
891 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
893 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
894 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
895 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
896 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
897 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
898 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
899 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
902 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
903 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
904 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
906 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
907 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
909 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
910 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
911 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianess of the
912 architecture collectd is being built on.
913 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
915 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
917 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
918 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
919 values under Solaris.
920 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
921 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
923 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
924 returned by some broken drivers.
926 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
927 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
928 to kyrone for reporting this.
929 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
931 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
933 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
934 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
935 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
936 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
938 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
939 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
940 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
941 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
942 flush its values to disk.
943 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
944 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
945 for each data source.
946 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
948 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
949 page of an Ascent server.
950 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
951 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
952 specific disks has been added.
953 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
954 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
955 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
957 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
958 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
959 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
960 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
961 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
962 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
963 configuration has been decreased.
964 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
965 continuously reading from log files.
966 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
967 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
968 and number of channels.
969 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
970 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
971 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
973 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
974 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
976 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianess more
978 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
979 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
980 again has been applied.
981 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
983 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
984 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
986 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
987 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
988 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
991 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
992 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
993 they are in non-standard paths.
994 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
995 if the libc expects it.
996 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
997 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
999 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
1000 using a buffer of static size.
1001 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
1003 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1004 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
1006 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
1007 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
1008 `Persist' threshold options.
1009 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
1010 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
1011 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
1012 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
1013 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
1015 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
1016 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
1018 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
1019 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
1020 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
1021 cross-platform compatibility.
1022 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
1023 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
1024 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
1026 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
1027 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
1028 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
1029 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
1030 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
1031 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
1033 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
1034 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
1035 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
1036 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
1037 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
1038 wants to add custom type definitions.
1039 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
1040 entire directories and shell wildcards.
1041 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
1042 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
1043 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
1044 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
1045 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
1046 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
1047 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
1048 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
1049 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
1050 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
1051 domain name lookups in this plugin.
1052 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
1053 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
1054 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
1055 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
1056 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
1057 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
1058 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
1059 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
1060 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
1061 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
1062 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
1063 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
1064 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
1065 Technology group for this plugin.
1067 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
1068 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
1069 they are in non-standard paths.
1070 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
1071 if the libc expects it.
1072 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1073 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
1075 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
1076 using a buffer of static size.
1077 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
1079 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1080 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
1082 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
1083 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
1084 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
1085 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
1086 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
1088 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
1089 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
1090 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
1092 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
1093 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
1094 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
1095 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
1096 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
1097 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
1098 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
1099 cross-platform compatibility.
1100 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
1101 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
1102 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
1103 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
1105 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
1106 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
1107 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
1108 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
1109 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
1111 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
1112 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
1113 of the libsensors library.
1115 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
1116 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
1117 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
1119 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
1120 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1123 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
1124 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
1125 enabled on the host.
1126 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
1128 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
1129 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
1130 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
1131 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
1132 definitions separate from the host definitions.
1133 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
1134 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
1135 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
1136 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
1137 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
1138 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
1139 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
1140 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
1141 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
1142 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
1143 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
1144 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
1145 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
1146 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
1147 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
1148 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
1149 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
1150 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
1151 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
1152 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
1153 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
1155 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
1156 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
1157 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
1158 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
1159 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
1161 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
1162 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
1164 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
1165 of the libsensors library.
1167 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
1168 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
1169 it's in a non-standard location.
1170 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
1171 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
1172 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
1173 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
1174 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
1175 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
1177 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
1178 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
1180 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
1181 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
1183 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
1184 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
1185 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1186 noise quality as percentage.
1187 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
1188 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
1189 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
1190 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
1191 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
1192 support for the `timeticks' type.
1194 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
1195 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
1196 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
1197 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
1199 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
1200 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
1201 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
1203 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
1204 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
1205 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
1206 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
1208 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
1209 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
1210 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
1211 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
1213 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
1214 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
1215 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
1216 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
1217 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
1218 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
1219 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
1220 to not block data collection.
1221 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
1222 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
1223 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
1225 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
1226 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
1227 of music played with xmms.
1229 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
1230 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
1231 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1232 noise quality as percentage.
1233 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
1235 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
1236 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
1237 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
1238 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
1240 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
1241 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
1242 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
1243 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
1245 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
1246 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
1248 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
1249 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
1250 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
1251 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
1252 (i. e. without quotes).
1253 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
1254 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
1255 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
1257 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
1258 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
1259 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
1260 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
1262 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
1263 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
1264 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
1267 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
1268 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
1270 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
1271 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1272 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
1273 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1274 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
1275 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1276 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
1278 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
1279 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
1280 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
1281 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
1282 initialized correctly.
1283 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
1285 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
1286 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
1287 they're given in numerically form.
1289 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
1290 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
1291 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
1294 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
1295 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
1296 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
1297 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
1298 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
1299 thread-safe functions from now on.
1300 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
1301 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
1302 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
1304 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
1305 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
1306 write to increase IO-performance.
1307 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
1308 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
1309 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
1310 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
1311 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
1313 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
1314 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
1315 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
1317 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
1318 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
1319 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
1320 or STDOUT or STDERR.
1321 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
1322 system's syslog daemon.
1323 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
1324 entropy currently being available to the system.
1325 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
1326 back values provided by the forked processes.
1327 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
1328 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
1330 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
1331 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
1332 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
1333 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
1334 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
1335 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
1336 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
1337 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
1338 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
1340 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
1341 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1342 noise quality as percentage.
1344 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
1345 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
1347 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
1348 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
1349 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
1350 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
1351 were accounted as `zombies'.
1353 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
1354 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
1357 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
1358 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
1359 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
1361 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
1362 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
1363 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
1364 segfault with some libcs.
1366 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
1367 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
1368 under Solaris again.
1369 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
1371 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
1372 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
1374 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
1375 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
1376 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
1377 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
1378 write init.d-scripts for it.
1379 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
1380 caused problems every now and then.
1381 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
1382 filesystem types or devices.
1383 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
1384 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
1386 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
1387 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
1388 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
1389 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
1390 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
1391 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
1392 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
1393 segment size and pagefaults.
1394 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
1395 queries multimeters.
1396 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
1397 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
1398 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
1400 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
1401 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
1402 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
1403 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
1405 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
1406 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
1407 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
1408 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
1411 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
1412 * The sample config file has been improved.
1413 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
1414 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
1415 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
1416 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
1418 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
1419 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
1420 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
1422 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
1423 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
1425 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
1426 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
1427 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
1428 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
1430 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
1431 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
1432 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
1433 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
1434 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
1435 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
1436 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
1437 with a test environment :)
1438 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
1441 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
1442 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
1443 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
1445 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
1446 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
1447 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
1449 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
1450 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
1451 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
1453 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
1454 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
1456 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
1457 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1458 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1459 approximately 7.6 days.
1461 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
1462 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1463 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1464 approximately 7.6 days.
1466 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
1467 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
1469 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
1471 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
1473 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
1474 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
1475 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
1476 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
1477 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
1479 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
1480 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
1481 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
1482 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
1483 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
1484 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
1485 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
1486 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
1488 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
1489 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
1490 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
1491 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
1493 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
1494 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
1495 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
1497 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
1498 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
1499 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
1501 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
1502 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
1503 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
1506 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
1507 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
1508 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
1510 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
1511 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
1512 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
1513 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
1515 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
1516 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
1517 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
1519 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
1520 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
1522 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
1523 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
1525 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
1526 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
1528 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
1529 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
1531 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
1532 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
1533 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
1534 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
1535 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
1536 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
1537 address and/or port than localhost.
1538 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
1539 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
1540 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
1541 be set in the configfile.
1543 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
1544 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
1545 client mode. This released fixes this.
1547 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
1548 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
1549 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
1552 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
1553 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
1555 * A `df' plugin has been added.
1556 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
1557 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
1558 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
1560 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
1561 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
1562 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
1565 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
1566 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
1567 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
1569 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
1570 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
1571 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
1572 currently logged in users.
1573 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
1574 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
1575 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
1576 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
1578 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
1579 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
1580 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
1581 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
1582 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
1583 with the `-c' argument.
1584 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
1585 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
1586 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
1587 Barcellos for this patch.
1589 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
1590 * New modules have been added:
1591 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
1592 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
1593 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
1594 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
1596 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
1597 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
1599 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
1600 between polls up to one day.
1601 * The init.d files have been improved.
1602 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
1604 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
1605 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
1606 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
1608 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
1609 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
1610 multicast) has been added.
1611 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
1612 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
1613 to be linked against an external library.
1614 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
1615 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
1617 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
1618 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
1620 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
1621 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
1622 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
1623 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
1624 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
1625 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
1626 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
1627 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
1628 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
1631 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
1632 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
1634 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
1636 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
1637 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
1639 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
1640 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
1641 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
1642 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
1644 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
1645 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
1646 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
1648 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
1649 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
1650 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
1651 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
1652 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
1653 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
1654 statistics will not work.
1656 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
1657 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
1658 weird strings as disk-names..
1660 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
1661 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
1662 about the disks and partitions.
1664 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
1665 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
1666 and/or kernel versions.
1668 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
1669 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
1670 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
1672 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
1673 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
1674 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
1676 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
1677 * Collecting CPU statistics now
1679 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
1680 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
1682 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
1684 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
1685 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
1687 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
1688 * The following modules are provided:
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