1 2015-02-26, Version 5.3.2
2 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
3 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
4 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
6 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
7 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
8 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
10 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c Thanks to
12 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
13 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
14 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
15 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
16 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
17 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
18 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
19 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
20 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
21 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
22 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
23 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
24 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
26 * Documentation: The synopsis of the threshold has been fixed. Thanks
28 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
29 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
30 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
31 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
32 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
33 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
34 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
35 * csv: A regression which would lead to the "DataDir" option to be
36 ignored has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada.
37 * curl, curl-json, curl-xml and write_http plugins: Call
38 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
40 * curl and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
41 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
42 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
44 * dbi plugin: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been
45 restored. Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
46 * exec, unixsock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
47 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
48 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
49 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
51 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
52 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
53 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
54 Thanks to Florian Forster.
55 * logfile and syslog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
56 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
57 * memcached: Connecting to a UNIX socket has been fixed. Thanks to Jim
59 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
60 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
61 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
62 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
63 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
65 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
67 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
68 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
69 * replace and set targets: Fix error message. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
71 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: Honor the "DataDir" config option;
72 this fixes a regression. Thanks to Florian Forster. #380
73 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
74 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
75 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
77 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
78 to Florian Forster. #733
79 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
80 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
81 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
83 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
84 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
85 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
87 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
90 2013-07-13, Version 5.3.1
91 * Documentation: Various fixes.
92 * Configuration: Fix error handling: Errors in included files were
93 ignored, causing configuration mistakes to go unnoticed.
94 * dns plugin: Don't abort when PCAP returns an error.
95 * modbus plugin: The reconnection strategy was improved, fixing a
96 segfault in the libmodbud library. Thanks to Stefan Nickl and
97 Fabien Wernli for their patches.
98 * mysql plugin: The notification about a newly running MySQL slave
99 thread has been fixed. Thanks to Joaquín Cuenca Abela for the patch.
100 * snmp plugin: A build issue has been fixed (C99 mixed declaration).
101 The end-of-tree check has been improved by Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
102 * threshold plugin: Handling of the "Interesting" configuration option
103 has been fixed. Thanks to Björn for the patch.
104 * write_riemann plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Dave
105 Cottlehuber for reporting it.
107 2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0
108 * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include
109 only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
111 * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This
112 improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act
113 as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for
114 reviewing this change and fixing bugs.
115 * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using
116 regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric
117 can now be set via the configuration file.
118 * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented.
119 * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers
120 has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
121 * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks
122 to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
123 * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The
124 "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch.
125 * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to
126 Greg Mason for his patch.
127 * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks
128 to Johan Wirén for his patch.
129 * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication /
130 compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
131 patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work.
132 * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks
133 to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
134 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been
135 implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created
136 asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances.
137 Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code.
138 * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV
139 files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for
141 * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added.
142 * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to
143 Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to
144 Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work.
146 2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2
147 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
148 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
149 Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks
150 to Sebastian Harl for his patch.
151 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
152 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
153 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
154 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
155 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
156 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
157 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
158 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
159 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
160 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
161 Tomas Doran for his patch.
162 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
163 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
164 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
165 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
166 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
167 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
168 * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
169 * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
170 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
171 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
172 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
173 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
174 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
175 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
176 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
179 2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1
180 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris
181 and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches.
182 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
183 more frequently than intended.
184 * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added.
185 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
186 Ed Schouten for his patch.
187 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
188 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
189 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
190 Ed Schouten for his patch.
191 * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed.
192 A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was
193 configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these
195 * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
196 Ritschard for his patch.
197 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
198 * write_graphite plugin: A regression which rendered the
199 "SeparateInstances" and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been
200 fixed. A failed assertion when using types with many data sources
201 has been fixed. Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
202 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
204 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
205 Mettier for reporting this bug.
207 2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0
208 * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved.
209 Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch.
210 * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a
211 per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for
213 * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real
214 looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new
216 * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets
217 in the binary format has been added.
218 * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple
219 value lists into one.
220 * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON
221 output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch.
222 * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to
223 Thomas Meson for the patch.
224 * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to
225 Manuel Rozada for his patch.
226 * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the
228 * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't
230 * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks
231 to "Davide Guerri" for the patch.
232 * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added.
233 Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch.
234 * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The
235 behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to
236 Johan Kiviniemi for the patches.
237 * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added.
238 * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's
239 packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes
241 * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added.
242 Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added.
243 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches.
244 * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
245 Cosmin Ioiart for the patch.
246 * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added.
247 Thanks to biancalana for the patch.
248 * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan",
249 "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added.
250 * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX
251 version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out
252 "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch.
253 * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc
254 for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch.
256 2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3
257 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
258 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
259 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
260 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
261 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
262 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
263 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
264 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
265 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
266 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
267 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
268 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
269 Tomas Doran for his patch.
270 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
271 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
272 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
273 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
274 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
275 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
276 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
277 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
278 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
279 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
280 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
281 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
282 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
285 2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2
286 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves
287 Mettier for his patches.
288 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
289 more frequently than intended.
290 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
291 Ed Schouten for his patch.
292 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
293 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
294 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
295 Ed Schouten for his patch.
296 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
297 * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
298 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
300 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
301 Mettier for reporting this bug.
303 2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1
304 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
305 unwanted permission bits.
306 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
307 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
308 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
309 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
310 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
311 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
312 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
313 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
314 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
316 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
317 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
318 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
319 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
320 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
321 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
322 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
323 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
324 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
325 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
326 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
327 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
329 * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of
330 uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for
331 reporting these problems.
332 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
333 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
334 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
335 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
336 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
338 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
339 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
340 "KIvosak" for the patch.
341 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
342 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
343 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
344 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
345 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
347 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
348 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
349 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
350 "biancalana" for the fix.
351 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
352 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
353 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
354 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
355 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
357 * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been
358 fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch.
359 * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and
360 later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch.
362 2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0
363 * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has
365 * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using
366 "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
367 * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use
368 the system time rather than the time reported by BIND.
369 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been
370 added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch.
371 * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics
372 directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch.
373 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in
374 addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
375 Ritschard for his patch.
376 * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default
377 ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g.
379 * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various
380 states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
382 * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been
384 * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin
385 Ioiart for his patch.
386 * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the
387 Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux.
388 * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation.
389 Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch.
390 * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been
392 * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to
393 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch.
394 * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added.
395 * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added.
396 Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
397 * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel
398 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
399 * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to
400 Aaron Brady for his patch.
401 * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to
402 Jérôme Renard for his patches.
403 * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value
404 lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch
405 and Chris Lundquist for their work.
406 * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value
407 lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series
408 database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their
410 * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to
411 Aurelien Rougemont for his patches.
412 * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been
413 added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
415 2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5
416 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
417 unwanted permission bits.
418 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
419 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
420 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
421 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
422 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
423 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
424 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
425 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
426 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
428 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
429 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
430 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
431 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
432 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
433 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
434 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
435 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
436 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
437 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
438 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
439 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
441 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
442 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
443 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
444 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
445 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
447 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
448 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
449 "KIvosak" for the patch.
450 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
451 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
452 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
453 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
454 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
456 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
457 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
458 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
459 "biancalana" for the fix.
460 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
461 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
462 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
463 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
464 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
467 2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4
468 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
469 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
471 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
472 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
474 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
475 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
476 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
478 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
479 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
481 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
482 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
484 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
485 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
487 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
488 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
490 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
491 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
492 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
493 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
494 runtime has been fixed.
496 2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3
497 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
498 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
499 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
501 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
502 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
503 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
504 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
505 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
506 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
507 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
509 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
511 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
512 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
513 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
514 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
515 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
517 2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2
518 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
519 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
520 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
521 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
523 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
524 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
525 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
526 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
528 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
529 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
530 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
531 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
532 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
533 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
534 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
535 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
536 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
539 2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1
540 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
541 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
542 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
543 to Peter Green for his patch.
544 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
545 McCabe for the patch.
546 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
547 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
548 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
549 code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module.
550 * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts.
551 Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this.
552 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
553 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
554 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
555 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
556 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
557 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
558 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
559 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
560 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
561 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
562 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
563 * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values
564 were submitted as gauge even though they were derives.
565 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
568 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
569 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
570 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
571 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
572 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
573 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
574 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
575 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
577 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
578 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
579 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
580 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
581 added to the collectd client library.
582 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
583 one data source has been changed to "value".
584 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
585 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
586 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
587 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
588 maximum value is unspecified.
589 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
590 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
591 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
592 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
593 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
594 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
595 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
596 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
597 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
598 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
600 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
601 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
603 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
605 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
607 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
608 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
609 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
610 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
612 * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
613 license has been changed to LGPLv2.1.
614 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
615 data sets used have been improved.
616 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
618 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
619 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
620 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
621 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
622 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
623 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
624 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
625 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
626 this separate plugin.
627 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
628 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
629 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
630 Fournier for their contributions.
631 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
633 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
635 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
638 2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9
639 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
640 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
641 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
642 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
643 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
644 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
645 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
646 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
647 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
648 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
649 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
650 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
651 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
652 Tomas Doran for his patch.
653 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
654 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
655 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
656 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
659 2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8
660 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
661 unwanted permission bits.
662 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
663 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
664 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
665 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
666 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
667 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
668 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
669 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
670 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
671 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
672 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
673 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
674 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
675 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
676 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
677 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
679 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
680 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
681 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
683 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
684 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
685 "KIvosak" for the patch.
686 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
687 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
688 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
689 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
690 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
692 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
693 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
694 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
695 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
696 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
697 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
698 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
701 2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7
702 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
703 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
705 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
706 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
708 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
709 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
710 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
712 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
713 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
715 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
716 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
718 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
719 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
721 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
722 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
724 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
725 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
726 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
727 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
728 runtime has been fixed.
730 2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6
731 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
732 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
733 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
735 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
736 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
737 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
738 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
739 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
740 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
741 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
743 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
745 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
746 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
747 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
748 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
749 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
751 2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5
752 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
753 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
754 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
755 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
757 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
758 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
759 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
760 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
762 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
763 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
764 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
765 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
766 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
767 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
768 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
769 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
770 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
773 2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4
774 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
775 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
776 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
777 to Peter Green for his patch.
778 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
779 McCabe for the patch.
780 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
781 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
782 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
784 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
785 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
786 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
787 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
788 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
789 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
790 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
791 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
792 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
793 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
794 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
795 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
798 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
799 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
800 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
802 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
803 percentage calculation has been fixed.
804 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
806 * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
807 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
808 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
809 * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
810 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
812 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
813 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
816 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
817 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
818 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
819 the rest of the configuration if possible.
820 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
821 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
822 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
823 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
824 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
825 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
826 configurable timeout value.
827 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
828 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
829 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
830 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
831 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
832 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
833 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
835 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
836 to prevent spamming the logs.
837 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
838 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
839 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
840 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
842 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
844 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
845 Trenkel for the patch.
847 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
848 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
849 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
850 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
851 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
853 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
854 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
855 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
857 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
858 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
859 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
860 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
861 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
862 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
863 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
864 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
865 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
866 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
868 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
869 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
870 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
871 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
872 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
873 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
874 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
876 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
878 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
879 lines from the match.
880 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
881 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
883 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
884 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
886 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
887 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
889 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
890 certain lines from the match.
891 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
892 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
893 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
894 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
895 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
896 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
897 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
898 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
899 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
900 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
901 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
902 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
903 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
904 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
905 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
906 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
907 Sebastian Harl for his work.
908 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
909 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
910 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
911 Sven Trenkel for his work.
912 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
913 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
914 MikroTik devices has been added.
915 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
916 Scraba for his patch.
917 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
918 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
919 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
920 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
921 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
922 Ammous for his patch.
924 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
925 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
926 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
928 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
929 percentage calculation has been fixed.
930 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
932 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
933 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
934 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
936 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
937 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
940 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
941 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
942 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
943 the rest of the configuration if possible.
944 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
945 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
946 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
947 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
948 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
949 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
950 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
951 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
952 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
953 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
954 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
955 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
957 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
958 to prevent spamming the logs.
959 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
960 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
961 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
962 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
964 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
965 Trenkel for the patch.
967 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
968 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
969 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
970 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
971 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
973 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
974 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
975 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
976 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
978 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
979 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
980 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
981 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
982 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
983 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
984 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
985 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
986 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
987 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
988 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
989 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
991 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
992 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
993 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
994 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
995 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
996 figuring out a way to make this work.
997 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
998 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
999 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
1000 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
1001 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
1003 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
1005 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
1006 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
1007 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
1008 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
1009 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
1010 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
1011 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
1012 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1014 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1015 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1016 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1017 an unknown data source type.
1018 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1019 packets has been fixed.
1020 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
1022 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
1023 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
1024 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
1025 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
1026 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
1027 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1029 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
1030 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
1031 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
1032 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
1033 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
1034 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
1035 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
1036 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1037 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1039 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
1040 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
1041 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
1044 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
1045 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
1046 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
1047 Weiskircher for the patch.
1048 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
1049 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1050 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
1051 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
1052 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
1053 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
1054 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
1055 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
1056 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
1057 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
1058 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
1059 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
1060 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
1062 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
1063 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
1064 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
1065 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
1066 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
1067 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1068 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
1069 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1070 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
1071 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
1072 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
1073 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
1074 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
1075 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
1076 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
1077 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1078 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
1079 storage has been added.
1080 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
1081 value has been added.
1083 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
1084 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
1085 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1086 an unknown data source type.
1088 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
1089 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
1090 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1091 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
1092 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
1093 figuring out a way to make this work.
1094 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
1095 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
1096 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
1097 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
1099 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
1101 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
1102 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
1103 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
1104 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
1105 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
1106 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1108 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1109 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1110 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1111 packets has been fixed.
1112 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
1113 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
1114 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
1115 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
1116 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
1117 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1119 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
1120 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
1121 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
1122 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1123 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1126 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
1127 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
1128 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
1129 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
1130 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
1131 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
1133 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
1134 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
1135 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
1136 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
1137 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
1138 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
1140 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
1141 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
1142 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
1143 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
1145 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
1146 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
1148 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
1149 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
1150 issues on some platforms.
1151 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
1152 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1153 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
1154 descriptor handling.
1156 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
1157 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
1158 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
1159 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
1160 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
1161 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
1163 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
1164 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
1165 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
1166 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1167 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
1168 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
1169 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1170 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
1171 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
1172 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
1173 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
1175 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
1176 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
1177 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
1178 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
1179 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
1180 Aman Gupta for the patch.
1181 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
1182 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
1183 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
1184 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
1185 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
1187 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
1188 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
1190 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
1191 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
1192 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1193 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
1194 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
1195 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
1196 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
1197 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1198 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
1199 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
1200 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
1201 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
1202 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
1203 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
1205 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
1206 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
1207 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
1208 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
1209 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
1210 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
1212 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
1213 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
1214 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
1215 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
1217 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
1218 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
1219 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
1220 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
1222 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
1223 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
1225 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
1226 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
1227 issues on some platforms.
1228 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
1229 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1230 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
1231 descriptor handling.
1233 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
1234 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
1235 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1236 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
1237 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
1238 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
1240 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
1241 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
1242 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
1243 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
1244 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
1245 Hess for reporting this bug.
1246 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
1247 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
1248 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
1249 is linked with the shipped library, too.
1250 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
1251 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
1252 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
1253 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
1254 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
1255 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
1256 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
1257 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
1258 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
1259 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
1260 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
1261 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
1262 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1265 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
1266 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
1268 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
1269 Díaz for fixing this bug.
1270 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
1271 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
1272 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
1273 for reporting the bug.
1274 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
1276 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
1277 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
1278 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
1279 libtool 2.2 has been added.
1280 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
1281 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
1282 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
1283 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
1284 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
1286 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
1287 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
1288 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
1289 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
1290 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
1292 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
1293 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1295 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
1296 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
1297 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
1298 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
1299 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
1300 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
1301 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1302 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
1303 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
1304 Konetzko for the patch.
1305 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
1306 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
1307 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
1308 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
1309 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
1310 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
1311 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
1312 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
1313 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
1314 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
1315 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
1316 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
1317 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1318 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
1319 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
1320 Quiédeville for the patch.
1321 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
1323 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
1324 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
1325 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
1326 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
1327 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
1328 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
1329 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
1330 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
1332 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
1333 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
1334 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
1335 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
1336 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
1337 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
1339 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
1340 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
1341 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
1342 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
1344 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
1345 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
1346 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
1347 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
1348 Hess for reporting this bug.
1349 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
1350 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
1351 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
1352 is linked with the shipped library, too.
1353 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
1354 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
1355 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
1356 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
1357 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1360 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
1361 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
1362 Díaz for fixing this bug.
1363 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
1364 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
1365 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
1366 for reporting the bug.
1368 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
1369 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
1370 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
1371 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
1372 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
1373 providing an OpenBSD system.
1374 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
1375 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
1376 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
1377 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
1378 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
1380 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
1382 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
1383 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
1384 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
1385 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1386 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
1388 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
1389 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
1390 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1392 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
1393 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
1394 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
1395 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
1397 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
1398 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
1399 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
1400 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
1401 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
1402 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
1403 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
1404 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
1405 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
1406 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
1407 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
1408 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
1409 initialized, the daemon may crash.
1411 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
1412 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
1413 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
1414 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
1415 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
1416 for finding and fixing most of them.
1417 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
1418 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
1420 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
1421 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
1422 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
1423 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
1424 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1425 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
1426 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
1427 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
1428 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
1429 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
1430 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
1432 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
1433 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
1434 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
1435 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
1437 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
1438 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
1439 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
1440 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
1441 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
1442 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
1443 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
1444 Kuhnle for the patch.
1445 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
1446 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
1447 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
1448 MacEachern for the patch.
1449 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
1450 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
1451 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
1452 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
1453 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
1454 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
1455 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
1456 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
1457 select interfaces, too.
1458 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
1459 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
1460 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
1462 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
1463 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
1464 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
1465 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
1466 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
1467 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1468 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
1469 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
1470 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
1471 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
1473 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
1474 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
1475 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
1476 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
1477 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
1478 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
1479 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
1480 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
1482 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
1483 been added. Portability fixes.
1484 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
1485 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
1486 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
1488 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
1491 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
1492 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
1493 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
1494 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
1495 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
1496 providing an OpenBSD system.
1497 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
1498 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
1500 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
1501 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
1502 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
1503 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
1504 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1505 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
1507 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
1508 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
1509 initialized, the daemon may crash.
1510 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
1512 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
1513 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
1515 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
1516 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
1517 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
1519 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
1520 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
1521 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
1522 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
1524 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
1525 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
1526 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
1527 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
1529 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
1530 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
1531 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
1532 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
1533 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
1534 provide these necessary functions.
1535 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
1536 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
1538 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
1539 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
1540 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
1541 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
1543 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
1544 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
1545 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
1546 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
1547 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
1548 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
1550 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
1551 invalid configuration options.
1552 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
1553 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
1554 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
1556 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
1557 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
1558 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
1559 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
1561 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
1562 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
1563 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
1564 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
1565 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
1566 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
1567 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
1568 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
1570 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
1571 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
1572 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
1573 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
1574 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
1575 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
1576 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
1577 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
1578 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
1579 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
1580 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
1581 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
1583 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
1584 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
1587 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
1588 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
1589 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
1591 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
1592 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
1593 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
1594 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
1595 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
1596 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
1598 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
1599 email, using the `esmtp' library.
1600 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
1601 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
1603 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
1604 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
1605 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
1606 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
1608 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
1609 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
1610 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
1611 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
1612 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
1614 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
1615 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
1616 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
1618 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
1619 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
1620 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
1621 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
1623 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
1624 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
1625 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
1626 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
1627 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
1628 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
1629 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
1630 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
1631 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
1632 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
1633 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
1634 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
1636 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
1637 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
1638 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
1640 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
1641 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
1642 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
1643 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
1645 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
1646 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
1647 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
1648 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
1649 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
1650 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
1651 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
1652 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
1654 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
1655 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
1656 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
1657 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
1658 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
1659 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
1660 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
1663 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
1664 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
1665 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
1667 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
1668 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
1670 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
1671 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
1672 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianess of the
1673 architecture collectd is being built on.
1674 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
1676 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
1678 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
1679 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
1680 values under Solaris.
1681 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
1682 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
1684 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
1685 returned by some broken drivers.
1687 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
1688 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
1689 to kyrone for reporting this.
1690 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
1692 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
1694 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
1695 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
1696 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
1697 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
1699 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
1700 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
1701 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
1702 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
1703 flush its values to disk.
1704 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
1705 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
1706 for each data source.
1707 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
1709 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
1710 page of an Ascent server.
1711 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1712 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
1713 specific disks has been added.
1714 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1715 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
1716 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
1718 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
1719 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
1720 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
1721 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
1722 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
1723 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
1724 configuration has been decreased.
1725 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
1726 continuously reading from log files.
1727 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
1728 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
1729 and number of channels.
1730 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1731 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
1732 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
1734 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
1735 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
1737 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianess more
1739 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
1740 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
1741 again has been applied.
1742 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
1744 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
1745 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
1747 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
1748 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
1749 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
1752 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
1753 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
1754 they are in non-standard paths.
1755 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
1756 if the libc expects it.
1757 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1758 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
1760 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
1761 using a buffer of static size.
1762 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
1764 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1765 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
1767 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
1768 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
1769 `Persist' threshold options.
1770 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
1771 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
1772 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
1773 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
1774 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
1776 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
1777 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
1779 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
1780 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
1781 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
1782 cross-platform compatibility.
1783 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
1784 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
1785 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
1787 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
1788 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
1789 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
1790 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
1791 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
1792 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
1794 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
1795 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
1796 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
1797 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
1798 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
1799 wants to add custom type definitions.
1800 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
1801 entire directories and shell wildcards.
1802 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
1803 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
1804 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
1805 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
1806 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
1807 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
1808 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
1809 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
1810 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
1811 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
1812 domain name lookups in this plugin.
1813 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
1814 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
1815 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
1816 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
1817 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
1818 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
1819 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
1820 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
1821 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
1822 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
1823 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
1824 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
1825 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
1826 Technology group for this plugin.
1828 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
1829 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
1830 they are in non-standard paths.
1831 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
1832 if the libc expects it.
1833 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1834 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
1836 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
1837 using a buffer of static size.
1838 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
1840 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1841 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
1843 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
1844 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
1845 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
1846 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
1847 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
1849 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
1850 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
1851 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
1853 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
1854 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
1855 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
1856 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
1857 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
1858 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
1859 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
1860 cross-platform compatibility.
1861 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
1862 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
1863 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
1864 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
1866 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
1867 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
1868 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
1869 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
1870 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
1872 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
1873 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
1874 of the libsensors library.
1876 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
1877 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
1878 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
1880 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
1881 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1884 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
1885 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
1886 enabled on the host.
1887 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
1889 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
1890 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
1891 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
1892 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
1893 definitions separate from the host definitions.
1894 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
1895 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
1896 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
1897 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
1898 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
1899 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
1900 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
1901 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
1902 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
1903 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
1904 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
1905 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
1906 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
1907 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
1908 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
1909 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
1910 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
1911 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
1912 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
1913 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
1914 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
1916 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
1917 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
1918 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
1919 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
1920 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
1922 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
1923 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
1925 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
1926 of the libsensors library.
1928 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
1929 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
1930 it's in a non-standard location.
1931 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
1932 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
1933 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
1934 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
1935 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
1936 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
1938 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
1939 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
1941 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
1942 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
1944 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
1945 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
1946 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1947 noise quality as percentage.
1948 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
1949 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
1950 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
1951 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
1952 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
1953 support for the `timeticks' type.
1955 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
1956 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
1957 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
1958 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
1960 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
1961 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
1962 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
1964 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
1965 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
1966 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
1967 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
1969 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
1970 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
1971 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
1972 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
1974 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
1975 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
1976 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
1977 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
1978 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
1979 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
1980 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
1981 to not block data collection.
1982 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
1983 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
1984 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
1986 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
1987 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
1988 of music played with xmms.
1990 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
1991 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
1992 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1993 noise quality as percentage.
1994 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
1996 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
1997 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
1998 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
1999 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
2001 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
2002 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
2003 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
2004 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
2006 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
2007 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
2009 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
2010 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
2011 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
2012 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
2013 (i. e. without quotes).
2014 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
2015 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
2016 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2018 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
2019 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
2020 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
2021 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
2023 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
2024 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
2025 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
2028 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
2029 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
2031 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
2032 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2033 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
2034 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2035 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
2036 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2037 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
2039 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
2040 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
2041 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
2042 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
2043 initialized correctly.
2044 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
2046 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
2047 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
2048 they're given in numerically form.
2050 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
2051 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
2052 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
2055 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
2056 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
2057 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
2058 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
2059 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
2060 thread-safe functions from now on.
2061 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
2062 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
2063 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
2065 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
2066 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
2067 write to increase IO-performance.
2068 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
2069 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
2070 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
2071 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
2072 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
2074 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
2075 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
2076 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
2078 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
2079 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
2080 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
2081 or STDOUT or STDERR.
2082 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
2083 system's syslog daemon.
2084 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
2085 entropy currently being available to the system.
2086 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
2087 back values provided by the forked processes.
2088 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
2089 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
2091 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
2092 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
2093 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
2094 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
2095 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
2096 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
2097 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
2098 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
2099 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
2101 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
2102 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2103 noise quality as percentage.
2105 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
2106 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2108 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
2109 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
2110 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
2111 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
2112 were accounted as `zombies'.
2114 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
2115 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
2118 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
2119 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
2120 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
2122 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
2123 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
2124 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
2125 segfault with some libcs.
2127 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
2128 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
2129 under Solaris again.
2130 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
2132 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
2133 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
2135 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
2136 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
2137 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
2138 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
2139 write init.d-scripts for it.
2140 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
2141 caused problems every now and then.
2142 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
2143 filesystem types or devices.
2144 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
2145 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
2147 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
2148 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
2149 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
2150 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
2151 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
2152 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
2153 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
2154 segment size and pagefaults.
2155 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
2156 queries multimeters.
2157 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
2158 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
2159 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
2161 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
2162 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
2163 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
2164 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
2166 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
2167 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
2168 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
2169 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
2172 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
2173 * The sample config file has been improved.
2174 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
2175 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
2176 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
2177 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
2179 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
2180 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
2181 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
2183 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
2184 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
2186 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
2187 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
2188 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
2189 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
2191 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
2192 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
2193 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
2194 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
2195 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
2196 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
2197 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
2198 with a test environment :)
2199 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
2202 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
2203 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
2204 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
2206 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
2207 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
2208 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
2210 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
2211 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
2212 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
2214 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
2215 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
2217 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
2218 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
2219 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
2220 approximately 7.6 days.
2222 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
2223 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
2224 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
2225 approximately 7.6 days.
2227 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
2228 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
2230 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
2232 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
2234 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
2235 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
2236 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
2237 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
2238 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
2240 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
2241 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
2242 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
2243 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
2244 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
2245 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
2246 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
2247 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
2249 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
2250 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
2251 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
2252 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
2254 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
2255 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
2256 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
2258 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
2259 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
2260 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
2262 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
2263 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
2264 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
2267 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
2268 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
2269 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
2271 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
2272 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
2273 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
2274 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
2276 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
2277 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
2278 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
2280 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
2281 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
2283 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
2284 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
2286 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
2287 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
2289 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
2290 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
2292 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
2293 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
2294 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
2295 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
2296 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
2297 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
2298 address and/or port than localhost.
2299 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
2300 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
2301 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
2302 be set in the configfile.
2304 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
2305 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
2306 client mode. This released fixes this.
2308 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
2309 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
2310 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
2313 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
2314 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
2316 * A `df' plugin has been added.
2317 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
2318 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
2319 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
2321 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
2322 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
2323 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
2326 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
2327 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
2328 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
2330 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
2331 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
2332 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
2333 currently logged in users.
2334 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
2335 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
2336 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
2337 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
2339 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
2340 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
2341 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
2342 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
2343 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
2344 with the `-c' argument.
2345 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
2346 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
2347 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
2348 Barcellos for this patch.
2350 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
2351 * New modules have been added:
2352 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
2353 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
2354 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
2355 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
2357 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
2358 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
2360 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
2361 between polls up to one day.
2362 * The init.d files have been improved.
2363 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
2365 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
2366 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
2367 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
2369 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
2370 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
2371 multicast) has been added.
2372 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
2373 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
2374 to be linked against an external library.
2375 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
2376 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
2378 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
2379 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
2381 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
2382 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
2383 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
2384 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
2385 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
2386 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
2387 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
2388 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
2389 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
2392 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
2393 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
2395 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
2397 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
2398 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
2400 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
2401 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
2402 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
2403 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
2405 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
2406 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
2407 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
2409 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
2410 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
2411 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
2412 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
2413 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
2414 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
2415 statistics will not work.
2417 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
2418 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
2419 weird strings as disk-names..
2421 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
2422 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
2423 about the disks and partitions.
2425 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
2426 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
2427 and/or kernel versions.
2429 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
2430 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
2431 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
2433 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
2434 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
2435 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
2437 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
2438 * Collecting CPU statistics now
2440 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
2441 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
2443 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
2445 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
2446 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
2448 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
2449 * The following modules are provided:
projects / collectd.git / blob