1 2013-07-13, Version 5.3.1
2 * Documentation: Various fixes.
3 * Configuration: Fix error handling: Errors in included files were
4 ignored, causing configuration mistakes to go unnoticed.
5 * dns plugin: Don't abort when PCAP returns an error.
6 * modbus plugin: The reconnection strategy was improved, fixing a
7 segfault in the libmodbud library. Thanks to Stefan Nickl and
8 Fabien Wernli for their patches.
9 * mysql plugin: The notification about a newly running MySQL slave
10 thread has been fixed. Thanks to Joaquín Cuenca Abela for the patch.
11 * snmp plugin: A build issue has been fixed (C99 mixed declaration).
12 The end-of-tree check has been improved by Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
13 * threshold plugin: Handling of the "Interesting" configuration option
14 has been fixed. Thanks to Björn for the patch.
15 * write_riemann plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Dave
16 Cottlehuber for reporting it.
18 2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0
19 * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include
20 only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
22 * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This
23 improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act
24 as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for
25 reviewing this change and fixing bugs.
26 * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using
27 regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric
28 can now be set via the configuration file.
29 * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented.
30 * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers
31 has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
32 * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks
33 to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
34 * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The
35 "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch.
36 * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to
37 Greg Mason for his patch.
38 * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks
39 to Johan Wirén for his patch.
40 * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication /
41 compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
42 patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work.
43 * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks
44 to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
45 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been
46 implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created
47 asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances.
48 Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code.
49 * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV
50 files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for
52 * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added.
53 * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to
54 Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to
55 Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work.
57 2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2
58 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
59 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
60 Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks
61 to Sebastian Harl for his patch.
62 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
63 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
64 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
65 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
66 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
67 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
68 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
69 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
70 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
71 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
72 Tomas Doran for his patch.
73 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
74 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
75 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
76 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
77 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
78 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
79 * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
80 * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
81 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
82 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
83 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
84 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
85 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
86 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
87 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
90 2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1
91 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris
92 and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches.
93 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
94 more frequently than intended.
95 * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added.
96 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
97 Ed Schouten for his patch.
98 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
99 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
100 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
101 Ed Schouten for his patch.
102 * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed.
103 A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was
104 configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these
106 * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
107 Ritschard for his patch.
108 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
109 * write_graphite plugin: A regression which rendered the
110 "SeparateInstances" and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been
111 fixed. A failed assertion when using types with many data sources
112 has been fixed. Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
113 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
115 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
116 Mettier for reporting this bug.
118 2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0
119 * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved.
120 Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch.
121 * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a
122 per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for
124 * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real
125 looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new
127 * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets
128 in the binary format has been added.
129 * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple
130 value lists into one.
131 * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON
132 output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch.
133 * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to
134 Thomas Meson for the patch.
135 * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to
136 Manuel Rozada for his patch.
137 * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the
139 * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't
141 * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks
142 to "Davide Guerri" for the patch.
143 * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added.
144 Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch.
145 * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The
146 behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to
147 Johan Kiviniemi for the patches.
148 * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added.
149 * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's
150 packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes
152 * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added.
153 Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added.
154 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches.
155 * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
156 Cosmin Ioiart for the patch.
157 * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added.
158 Thanks to biancalana for the patch.
159 * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan",
160 "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added.
161 * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX
162 version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out
163 "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch.
164 * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc
165 for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch.
167 2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3
168 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
169 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
170 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
171 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
172 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
173 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
174 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
175 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
176 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
177 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
178 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
179 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
180 Tomas Doran for his patch.
181 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
182 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
183 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
184 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
185 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
186 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
187 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
188 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
189 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
190 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
191 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
192 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
193 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
196 2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2
197 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves
198 Mettier for his patches.
199 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
200 more frequently than intended.
201 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
202 Ed Schouten for his patch.
203 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
204 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
205 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
206 Ed Schouten for his patch.
207 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
208 * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
209 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
211 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
212 Mettier for reporting this bug.
214 2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1
215 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
216 unwanted permission bits.
217 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
218 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
219 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
220 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
221 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
222 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
223 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
224 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
225 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
227 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
228 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
229 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
230 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
231 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
232 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
233 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
234 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
235 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
236 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
237 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
238 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
240 * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of
241 uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for
242 reporting these problems.
243 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
244 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
245 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
246 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
247 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
249 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
250 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
251 "KIvosak" for the patch.
252 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
253 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
254 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
255 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
256 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
258 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
259 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
260 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
261 "biancalana" for the fix.
262 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
263 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
264 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
265 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
266 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
268 * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been
269 fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch.
270 * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and
271 later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch.
273 2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0
274 * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has
276 * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using
277 "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
278 * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use
279 the system time rather than the time reported by BIND.
280 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been
281 added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch.
282 * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics
283 directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch.
284 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in
285 addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
286 Ritschard for his patch.
287 * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default
288 ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g.
290 * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various
291 states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
293 * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been
295 * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin
296 Ioiart for his patch.
297 * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the
298 Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux.
299 * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation.
300 Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch.
301 * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been
303 * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to
304 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch.
305 * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added.
306 * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added.
307 Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
308 * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel
309 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
310 * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to
311 Aaron Brady for his patch.
312 * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to
313 Jérôme Renard for his patches.
314 * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value
315 lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch
316 and Chris Lundquist for their work.
317 * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value
318 lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series
319 database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their
321 * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to
322 Aurelien Rougemont for his patches.
323 * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been
324 added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
326 2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5
327 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
328 unwanted permission bits.
329 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
330 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
331 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
332 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
333 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
334 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
335 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
336 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
337 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
339 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
340 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
341 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
342 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
343 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
344 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
345 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
346 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
347 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
348 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
349 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
350 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
352 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
353 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
354 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
355 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
356 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
358 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
359 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
360 "KIvosak" for the patch.
361 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
362 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
363 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
364 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
365 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
367 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
368 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
369 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
370 "biancalana" for the fix.
371 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
372 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
373 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
374 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
375 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
378 2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4
379 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
380 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
382 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
383 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
385 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
386 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
387 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
389 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
390 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
392 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
393 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
395 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
396 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
398 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
399 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
401 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
402 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
403 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
404 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
405 runtime has been fixed.
407 2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3
408 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
409 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
410 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
412 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
413 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
414 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
415 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
416 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
417 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
418 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
420 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
422 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
423 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
424 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
425 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
426 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
428 2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2
429 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
430 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
431 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
432 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
434 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
435 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
436 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
437 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
439 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
440 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
441 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
442 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
443 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
444 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
445 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
446 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
447 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
450 2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1
451 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
452 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
453 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
454 to Peter Green for his patch.
455 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
456 McCabe for the patch.
457 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
458 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
459 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
460 code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module.
461 * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts.
462 Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this.
463 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
464 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
465 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
466 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
467 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
468 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
469 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
470 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
471 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
472 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
473 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
474 * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values
475 were submitted as gauge even though they were derives.
476 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
479 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
480 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
481 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
482 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
483 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
484 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
485 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
486 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
488 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
489 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
490 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
491 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
492 added to the collectd client library.
493 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
494 one data source has been changed to "value".
495 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
496 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
497 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
498 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
499 maximum value is unspecified.
500 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
501 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
502 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
503 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
504 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
505 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
506 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
507 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
508 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
509 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
511 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
512 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
514 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
516 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
518 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
519 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
520 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
521 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
523 * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
524 license has been changed to LGPLv2.1.
525 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
526 data sets used have been improved.
527 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
529 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
530 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
531 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
532 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
533 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
534 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
535 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
536 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
537 this separate plugin.
538 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
539 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
540 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
541 Fournier for their contributions.
542 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
544 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
546 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
549 2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9
550 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
551 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
552 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
553 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
554 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
555 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
556 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
557 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
558 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
559 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
560 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
561 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
562 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
563 Tomas Doran for his patch.
564 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
565 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
566 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
567 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
570 2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8
571 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
572 unwanted permission bits.
573 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
574 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
575 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
576 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
577 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
578 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
579 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
580 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
581 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
582 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
583 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
584 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
585 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
586 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
587 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
588 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
590 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
591 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
592 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
594 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
595 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
596 "KIvosak" for the patch.
597 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
598 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
599 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
600 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
601 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
603 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
604 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
605 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
606 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
607 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
608 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
609 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
612 2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7
613 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
614 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
616 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
617 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
619 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
620 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
621 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
623 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
624 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
626 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
627 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
629 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
630 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
632 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
633 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
635 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
636 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
637 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
638 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
639 runtime has been fixed.
641 2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6
642 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
643 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
644 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
646 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
647 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
648 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
649 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
650 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
651 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
652 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
654 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
656 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
657 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
658 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
659 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
660 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
662 2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5
663 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
664 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
665 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
666 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
668 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
669 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
670 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
671 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
673 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
674 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
675 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
676 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
677 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
678 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
679 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
680 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
681 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
684 2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4
685 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
686 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
687 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
688 to Peter Green for his patch.
689 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
690 McCabe for the patch.
691 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
692 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
693 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
695 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
696 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
697 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
698 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
699 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
700 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
701 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
702 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
703 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
704 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
705 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
706 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
709 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
710 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
711 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
713 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
714 percentage calculation has been fixed.
715 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
717 * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
718 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
719 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
720 * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
721 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
723 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
724 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
727 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
728 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
729 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
730 the rest of the configuration if possible.
731 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
732 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
733 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
734 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
735 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
736 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
737 configurable timeout value.
738 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
739 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
740 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
741 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
742 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
743 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
744 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
746 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
747 to prevent spamming the logs.
748 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
749 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
750 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
751 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
753 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
755 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
756 Trenkel for the patch.
758 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
759 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
760 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
761 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
762 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
764 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
765 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
766 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
768 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
769 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
770 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
771 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
772 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
773 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
774 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
775 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
776 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
777 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
779 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
780 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
781 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
782 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
783 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
784 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
785 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
787 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
789 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
790 lines from the match.
791 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
792 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
794 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
795 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
797 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
798 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
800 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
801 certain lines from the match.
802 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
803 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
804 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
805 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
806 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
807 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
808 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
809 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
810 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
811 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
812 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
813 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
814 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
815 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
816 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
817 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
818 Sebastian Harl for his work.
819 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
820 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
821 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
822 Sven Trenkel for his work.
823 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
824 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
825 MikroTik devices has been added.
826 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
827 Scraba for his patch.
828 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
829 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
830 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
831 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
832 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
833 Ammous for his patch.
835 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
836 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
837 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
839 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
840 percentage calculation has been fixed.
841 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
843 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
844 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
845 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
847 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
848 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
851 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
852 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
853 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
854 the rest of the configuration if possible.
855 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
856 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
857 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
858 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
859 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
860 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
861 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
862 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
863 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
864 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
865 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
866 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
868 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
869 to prevent spamming the logs.
870 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
871 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
872 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
873 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
875 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
876 Trenkel for the patch.
878 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
879 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
880 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
881 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
882 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
884 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
885 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
886 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
887 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
889 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
890 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
891 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
892 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
893 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
894 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
895 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
896 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
897 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
898 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
899 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
900 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
902 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
903 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
904 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
905 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
906 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
907 figuring out a way to make this work.
908 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
909 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
910 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
911 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
912 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
914 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
916 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
917 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
918 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
919 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
920 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
921 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
922 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
923 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
925 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
926 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
927 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
928 an unknown data source type.
929 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
930 packets has been fixed.
931 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
933 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
934 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
935 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
936 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
937 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
938 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
940 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
941 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
942 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
943 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
944 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
945 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
946 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
947 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
948 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
950 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
951 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
952 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
955 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
956 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
957 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
958 Weiskircher for the patch.
959 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
960 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
961 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
962 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
963 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
964 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
965 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
966 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
967 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
968 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
969 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
970 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
971 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
973 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
974 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
975 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
976 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
977 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
978 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
979 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
980 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
981 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
982 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
983 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
984 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
985 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
986 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
987 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
988 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
989 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
990 storage has been added.
991 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
992 value has been added.
994 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
995 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
996 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
997 an unknown data source type.
999 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
1000 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
1001 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1002 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
1003 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
1004 figuring out a way to make this work.
1005 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
1006 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
1007 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
1008 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
1010 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
1012 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
1013 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
1014 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
1015 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
1016 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
1017 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1019 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1020 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1021 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1022 packets has been fixed.
1023 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
1024 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
1025 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
1026 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
1027 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
1028 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1030 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
1031 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
1032 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
1033 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1034 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1037 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
1038 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
1039 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
1040 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
1041 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
1042 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
1044 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
1045 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
1046 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
1047 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
1048 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
1049 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
1051 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
1052 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
1053 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
1054 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
1056 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
1057 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
1059 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
1060 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
1061 issues on some platforms.
1062 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
1063 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1064 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
1065 descriptor handling.
1067 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
1068 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
1069 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
1070 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
1071 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
1072 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
1074 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
1075 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
1076 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
1077 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1078 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
1079 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
1080 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1081 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
1082 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
1083 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
1084 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
1086 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
1087 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
1088 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
1089 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
1090 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
1091 Aman Gupta for the patch.
1092 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
1093 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
1094 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
1095 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
1096 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
1098 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
1099 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
1101 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
1102 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
1103 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1104 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
1105 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
1106 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
1107 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
1108 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1109 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
1110 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
1111 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
1112 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
1113 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
1114 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
1116 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
1117 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
1118 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
1119 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
1120 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
1121 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
1123 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
1124 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
1125 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
1126 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
1128 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
1129 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
1130 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
1131 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
1133 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
1134 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
1136 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
1137 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
1138 issues on some platforms.
1139 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
1140 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1141 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
1142 descriptor handling.
1144 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
1145 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
1146 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1147 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
1148 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
1149 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
1151 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
1152 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
1153 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
1154 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
1155 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
1156 Hess for reporting this bug.
1157 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
1158 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
1159 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
1160 is linked with the shipped library, too.
1161 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
1162 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
1163 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
1164 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
1165 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
1166 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
1167 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
1168 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
1169 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
1170 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
1171 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
1172 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
1173 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1176 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
1177 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
1179 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
1180 Díaz for fixing this bug.
1181 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
1182 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
1183 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
1184 for reporting the bug.
1185 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
1187 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
1188 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
1189 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
1190 libtool 2.2 has been added.
1191 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
1192 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
1193 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
1194 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
1195 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
1197 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
1198 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
1199 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
1200 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
1201 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
1203 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
1204 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1206 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
1207 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
1208 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
1209 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
1210 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
1211 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
1212 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1213 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
1214 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
1215 Konetzko for the patch.
1216 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
1217 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
1218 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
1219 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
1220 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
1221 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
1222 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
1223 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
1224 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
1225 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
1226 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
1227 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
1228 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1229 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
1230 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
1231 Quiédeville for the patch.
1232 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
1234 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
1235 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
1236 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
1237 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
1238 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
1239 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
1240 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
1241 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
1243 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
1244 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
1245 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
1246 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
1247 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
1248 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
1250 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
1251 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
1252 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
1253 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
1255 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
1256 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
1257 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
1258 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
1259 Hess for reporting this bug.
1260 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
1261 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
1262 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
1263 is linked with the shipped library, too.
1264 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
1265 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
1266 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
1267 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
1268 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1271 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
1272 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
1273 Díaz for fixing this bug.
1274 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
1275 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
1276 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
1277 for reporting the bug.
1279 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
1280 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
1281 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
1282 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
1283 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
1284 providing an OpenBSD system.
1285 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
1286 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
1287 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
1288 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
1289 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
1291 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
1293 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
1294 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
1295 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
1296 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1297 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
1299 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
1300 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
1301 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1303 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
1304 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
1305 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
1306 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
1308 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
1309 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
1310 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
1311 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
1312 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
1313 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
1314 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
1315 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
1316 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
1317 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
1318 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
1319 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
1320 initialized, the daemon may crash.
1322 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
1323 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
1324 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
1325 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
1326 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
1327 for finding and fixing most of them.
1328 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
1329 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
1331 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
1332 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
1333 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
1334 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
1335 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1336 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
1337 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
1338 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
1339 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
1340 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
1341 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
1343 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
1344 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
1345 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
1346 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
1348 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
1349 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
1350 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
1351 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
1352 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
1353 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
1354 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
1355 Kuhnle for the patch.
1356 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
1357 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
1358 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
1359 MacEachern for the patch.
1360 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
1361 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
1362 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
1363 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
1364 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
1365 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
1366 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
1367 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
1368 select interfaces, too.
1369 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
1370 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
1371 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
1373 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
1374 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
1375 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
1376 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
1377 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
1378 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1379 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
1380 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
1381 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
1382 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
1384 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
1385 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
1386 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
1387 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
1388 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
1389 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
1390 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
1391 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
1393 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
1394 been added. Portability fixes.
1395 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
1396 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
1397 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
1399 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
1402 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
1403 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
1404 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
1405 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
1406 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
1407 providing an OpenBSD system.
1408 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
1409 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
1411 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
1412 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
1413 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
1414 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
1415 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1416 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
1418 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
1419 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
1420 initialized, the daemon may crash.
1421 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
1423 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
1424 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
1426 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
1427 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
1428 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
1430 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
1431 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
1432 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
1433 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
1435 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
1436 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
1437 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
1438 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
1440 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
1441 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
1442 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
1443 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
1444 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
1445 provide these necessary functions.
1446 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
1447 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
1449 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
1450 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
1451 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
1452 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
1454 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
1455 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
1456 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
1457 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
1458 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
1459 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
1461 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
1462 invalid configuration options.
1463 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
1464 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
1465 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
1467 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
1468 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
1469 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
1470 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
1472 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
1473 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
1474 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
1475 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
1476 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
1477 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
1478 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
1479 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
1481 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
1482 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
1483 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
1484 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
1485 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
1486 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
1487 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
1488 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
1489 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
1490 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
1491 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
1492 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
1494 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
1495 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
1498 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
1499 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
1500 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
1502 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
1503 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
1504 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
1505 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
1506 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
1507 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
1509 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
1510 email, using the `esmtp' library.
1511 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
1512 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
1514 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
1515 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
1516 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
1517 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
1519 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
1520 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
1521 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
1522 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
1523 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
1525 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
1526 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
1527 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
1529 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
1530 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
1531 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
1532 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
1534 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
1535 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
1536 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
1537 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
1538 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
1539 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
1540 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
1541 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
1542 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
1543 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
1544 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
1545 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
1547 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
1548 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
1549 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
1551 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
1552 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
1553 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
1554 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
1556 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
1557 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
1558 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
1559 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
1560 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
1561 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
1562 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
1563 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
1565 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
1566 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
1567 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
1568 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
1569 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
1570 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
1571 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
1574 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
1575 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
1576 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
1578 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
1579 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
1581 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
1582 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
1583 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianess of the
1584 architecture collectd is being built on.
1585 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
1587 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
1589 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
1590 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
1591 values under Solaris.
1592 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
1593 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
1595 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
1596 returned by some broken drivers.
1598 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
1599 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
1600 to kyrone for reporting this.
1601 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
1603 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
1605 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
1606 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
1607 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
1608 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
1610 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
1611 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
1612 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
1613 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
1614 flush its values to disk.
1615 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
1616 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
1617 for each data source.
1618 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
1620 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
1621 page of an Ascent server.
1622 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1623 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
1624 specific disks has been added.
1625 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1626 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
1627 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
1629 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
1630 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
1631 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
1632 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
1633 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
1634 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
1635 configuration has been decreased.
1636 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
1637 continuously reading from log files.
1638 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
1639 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
1640 and number of channels.
1641 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1642 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
1643 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
1645 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
1646 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
1648 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianess more
1650 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
1651 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
1652 again has been applied.
1653 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
1655 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
1656 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
1658 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
1659 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
1660 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
1663 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
1664 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
1665 they are in non-standard paths.
1666 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
1667 if the libc expects it.
1668 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1669 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
1671 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
1672 using a buffer of static size.
1673 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
1675 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1676 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
1678 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
1679 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
1680 `Persist' threshold options.
1681 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
1682 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
1683 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
1684 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
1685 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
1687 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
1688 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
1690 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
1691 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
1692 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
1693 cross-platform compatibility.
1694 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
1695 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
1696 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
1698 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
1699 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
1700 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
1701 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
1702 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
1703 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
1705 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
1706 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
1707 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
1708 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
1709 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
1710 wants to add custom type definitions.
1711 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
1712 entire directories and shell wildcards.
1713 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
1714 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
1715 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
1716 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
1717 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
1718 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
1719 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
1720 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
1721 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
1722 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
1723 domain name lookups in this plugin.
1724 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
1725 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
1726 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
1727 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
1728 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
1729 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
1730 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
1731 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
1732 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
1733 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
1734 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
1735 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
1736 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
1737 Technology group for this plugin.
1739 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
1740 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
1741 they are in non-standard paths.
1742 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
1743 if the libc expects it.
1744 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1745 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
1747 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
1748 using a buffer of static size.
1749 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
1751 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1752 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
1754 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
1755 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
1756 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
1757 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
1758 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
1760 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
1761 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
1762 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
1764 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
1765 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
1766 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
1767 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
1768 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
1769 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
1770 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
1771 cross-platform compatibility.
1772 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
1773 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
1774 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
1775 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
1777 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
1778 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
1779 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
1780 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
1781 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
1783 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
1784 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
1785 of the libsensors library.
1787 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
1788 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
1789 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
1791 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
1792 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1795 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
1796 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
1797 enabled on the host.
1798 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
1800 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
1801 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
1802 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
1803 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
1804 definitions separate from the host definitions.
1805 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
1806 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
1807 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
1808 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
1809 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
1810 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
1811 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
1812 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
1813 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
1814 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
1815 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
1816 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
1817 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
1818 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
1819 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
1820 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
1821 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
1822 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
1823 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
1824 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
1825 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
1827 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
1828 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
1829 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
1830 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
1831 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
1833 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
1834 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
1836 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
1837 of the libsensors library.
1839 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
1840 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
1841 it's in a non-standard location.
1842 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
1843 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
1844 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
1845 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
1846 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
1847 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
1849 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
1850 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
1852 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
1853 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
1855 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
1856 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
1857 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1858 noise quality as percentage.
1859 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
1860 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
1861 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
1862 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
1863 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
1864 support for the `timeticks' type.
1866 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
1867 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
1868 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
1869 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
1871 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
1872 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
1873 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
1875 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
1876 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
1877 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
1878 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
1880 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
1881 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
1882 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
1883 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
1885 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
1886 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
1887 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
1888 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
1889 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
1890 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
1891 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
1892 to not block data collection.
1893 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
1894 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
1895 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
1897 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
1898 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
1899 of music played with xmms.
1901 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
1902 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
1903 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1904 noise quality as percentage.
1905 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
1907 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
1908 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
1909 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
1910 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
1912 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
1913 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
1914 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
1915 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
1917 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
1918 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
1920 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
1921 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
1922 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
1923 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
1924 (i. e. without quotes).
1925 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
1926 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
1927 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
1929 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
1930 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
1931 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
1932 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
1934 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
1935 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
1936 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
1939 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
1940 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
1942 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
1943 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1944 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
1945 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1946 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
1947 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1948 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
1950 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
1951 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
1952 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
1953 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
1954 initialized correctly.
1955 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
1957 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
1958 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
1959 they're given in numerically form.
1961 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
1962 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
1963 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
1966 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
1967 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
1968 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
1969 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
1970 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
1971 thread-safe functions from now on.
1972 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
1973 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
1974 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
1976 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
1977 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
1978 write to increase IO-performance.
1979 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
1980 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
1981 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
1982 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
1983 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
1985 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
1986 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
1987 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
1989 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
1990 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
1991 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
1992 or STDOUT or STDERR.
1993 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
1994 system's syslog daemon.
1995 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
1996 entropy currently being available to the system.
1997 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
1998 back values provided by the forked processes.
1999 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
2000 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
2002 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
2003 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
2004 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
2005 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
2006 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
2007 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
2008 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
2009 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
2010 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
2012 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
2013 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2014 noise quality as percentage.
2016 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
2017 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2019 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
2020 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
2021 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
2022 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
2023 were accounted as `zombies'.
2025 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
2026 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
2029 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
2030 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
2031 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
2033 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
2034 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
2035 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
2036 segfault with some libcs.
2038 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
2039 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
2040 under Solaris again.
2041 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
2043 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
2044 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
2046 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
2047 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
2048 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
2049 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
2050 write init.d-scripts for it.
2051 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
2052 caused problems every now and then.
2053 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
2054 filesystem types or devices.
2055 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
2056 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
2058 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
2059 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
2060 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
2061 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
2062 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
2063 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
2064 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
2065 segment size and pagefaults.
2066 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
2067 queries multimeters.
2068 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
2069 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
2070 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
2072 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
2073 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
2074 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
2075 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
2077 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
2078 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
2079 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
2080 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
2083 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
2084 * The sample config file has been improved.
2085 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
2086 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
2087 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
2088 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
2090 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
2091 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
2092 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
2094 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
2095 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
2097 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
2098 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
2099 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
2100 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
2102 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
2103 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
2104 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
2105 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
2106 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
2107 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
2108 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
2109 with a test environment :)
2110 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
2113 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
2114 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
2115 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
2117 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
2118 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
2119 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
2121 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
2122 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
2123 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
2125 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
2126 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
2128 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
2129 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
2130 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
2131 approximately 7.6 days.
2133 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
2134 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
2135 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
2136 approximately 7.6 days.
2138 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
2139 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
2141 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
2143 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
2145 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
2146 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
2147 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
2148 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
2149 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
2151 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
2152 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
2153 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
2154 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
2155 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
2156 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
2157 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
2158 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
2160 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
2161 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
2162 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
2163 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
2165 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
2166 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
2167 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
2169 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
2170 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
2171 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
2173 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
2174 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
2175 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
2178 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
2179 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
2180 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
2182 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
2183 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
2184 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
2185 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
2187 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
2188 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
2189 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
2191 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
2192 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
2194 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
2195 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
2197 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
2198 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
2200 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
2201 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
2203 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
2204 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
2205 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
2206 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
2207 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
2208 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
2209 address and/or port than localhost.
2210 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
2211 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
2212 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
2213 be set in the configfile.
2215 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
2216 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
2217 client mode. This released fixes this.
2219 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
2220 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
2221 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
2224 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
2225 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
2227 * A `df' plugin has been added.
2228 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
2229 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
2230 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
2232 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
2233 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
2234 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
2237 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
2238 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
2239 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
2241 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
2242 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
2243 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
2244 currently logged in users.
2245 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
2246 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
2247 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
2248 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
2250 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
2251 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
2252 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
2253 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
2254 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
2255 with the `-c' argument.
2256 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
2257 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
2258 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
2259 Barcellos for this patch.
2261 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
2262 * New modules have been added:
2263 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
2264 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
2265 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
2266 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
2268 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
2269 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
2271 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
2272 between polls up to one day.
2273 * The init.d files have been improved.
2274 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
2276 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
2277 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
2278 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
2280 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
2281 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
2282 multicast) has been added.
2283 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
2284 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
2285 to be linked against an external library.
2286 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
2287 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
2289 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
2290 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
2292 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
2293 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
2294 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
2295 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
2296 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
2297 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
2298 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
2299 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
2300 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
2303 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
2304 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
2306 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
2308 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
2309 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
2311 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
2312 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
2313 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
2314 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
2316 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
2317 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
2318 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
2320 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
2321 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
2322 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
2323 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
2324 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
2325 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
2326 statistics will not work.
2328 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
2329 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
2330 weird strings as disk-names..
2332 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
2333 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
2334 about the disks and partitions.
2336 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
2337 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
2338 and/or kernel versions.
2340 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
2341 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
2342 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
2344 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
2345 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
2346 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
2348 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
2349 * Collecting CPU statistics now
2351 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
2352 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
2354 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
2356 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
2357 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
2359 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
2360 * The following modules are provided:
projects / collectd.git / blob