1 2016-11-30, Version 5.6.2
2 * collectd: A compile error on AIX has been fixed: "MSG_DONTWAIT" is not
3 available on AIX. Thanks to Chao Yang.
4 * collectd: The capability checking has been rewritten to be more
5 portable. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2009
6 * collectd.conf(5): Various typos have been fixed. Thanks to Marc
8 * collectd-tg: Incorrect usage of "nanosleep()" has been fixed which
9 caused the tool to sleep (almost) indefinitely. Thanks to Florian
11 * Build system: Detection of the Java environment has been made
12 deterministic to allow for reproducible builds. Thanks to Marc
14 * Build system: Detection of the Lua headers has been improved. Thanks
16 * APC UPS plugin: Unavailable metrics are now skipped instead of
17 reported as 0 (zero). Thanks to Florian Forster. #2025
18 * Modbus plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
20 * OpenVPN plugin: Gracefully handle empty configurations. Thanks to
21 Pavel Rochnyack. #1932
22 * PowerDNS plugin: The "recursor command" has been fixed so PowerDNS can
23 correctly parse all requested fields. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
24 * Write Graphite and AMQP plugins: A bug that could lead to a missing
25 null-termination has been fixed. Thanks to Markus Linnala.
26 * Write HTTP plugin: A logic error when checking the correctness of the
27 data set has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1996
28 * Write Kafka plugin: The "Key Random" config option has been fixed.
29 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1977
30 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for librdkafka 0.9.0 has been added.
31 Thanks to Florian Forster.
32 * Write Riemann plugin: Build issues on Solaris have been fixed. Thanks
34 * ZFS ARC plugin: A duplicate metric has been removed. Thanks to Ruben
37 2016-10-07, Version 5.6.1
38 * Build system: Unnecessary linking of the Write Graphite plugin with
39 libyajl has been removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
41 * collectd: A bug in the "FlushInterval" option that caused a
42 segmentation fault in the Write HTTP plugin has been fixed. Thanks to
43 Florian Forster. #1954
44 * Apache plugin: A syntax error has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
46 * cURL-JSON plugin: A segmentation fault that occurred when handling
47 JSON with unexpected structure has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
49 * PostgreSQL plugin: Handling of "NULL" values in the "query_plans" and
50 "query_plans_by_table" queries has been fixed. Thanks to Bernd
52 * RRDCacheD plugin: Reconnection behavior has been added. Thanks to
53 Sebastian Harl. Debian#657877
54 * VServer plugin: Use of a deprecated API ("readdir_r()") has been
55 fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
56 * Write Graphite plugin: Make default values configurable at compile
57 time again. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1953
58 * Write HTTP plugin: A bug has been fixed that lead to flush callbacks
59 being registered twice. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1955
61 2016-09-11, Version 5.6.0
62 * Build system: An option to to avoid building the DF plugin against XFS
63 has been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1878
64 * Build system: Autoconf ≥ 2.60, a C99-capable compiler and pkg-config
65 are now required. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
66 * Build system: Building with "-Werror" is now optional. Thanks to Ruben
68 * Build system: Many compilation issues on non-Linux platforms have been
69 fixed, leading to wider plugin support. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
70 Dagobert Michelsen, Havard Eidnes and Robert Viduya.
71 * Build system: The configuration summary now also ends up in
72 config.log. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
73 * collectd: All command-line options now override global options from
74 the config file. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #366
75 * collectd: A number of unit tests for commonly used functions have been
76 added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
77 * collectd: Plugins start up and read timeouts are now logged. Thanks to
78 Marc Fournier. #1293, #1254
79 * collectd: Support for a timeout has been added to "FLUSH" callbacks.
80 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
81 * collectd: The "-T" command line switch now reports more errors. Thanks
83 * collectd: The max size of value list elements ("DATA_MAX_NAME_LEN")
84 has been doubled and is now configurable at build time. Thanks to Amy
85 Lin, Florian Forster and Radu Brumariu. #1120
86 * Set target: The "MetaData" option has been added. Thanks to Yves
87 Mettier and Kevin Bowling. #1106, #1656, #1913
88 * AMQP, Write_HTTP, Write_Kafka plugins: Support for libyajl < 2 has
89 been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
90 * APC UPS plugin: Parsing of end markers has been fixed. Thanks to
92 * APC UPS plugin: The "PersistentConnection" option has been added.
93 Thanks to Florian Forster #617
94 * ceph, DNS, Exec, IPTables, Ping, turbostat plugins: When running
95 unprivileged, these plugins will now warn about insuffiscient
96 permissions or capabilities(7). Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1530
97 * Chrony plugin: This new plugin collects NTP data from the chrony NTP
98 server. Thanks to Claudius Zingerli. #1548
99 * cpusleep plugin: This new plugin measures time spent by CPU in deep
100 sleep mode. Thanks to Rinigus. #1826
101 * CPU plugin: The "ReportNumCpu" option has been added. Thanks to Fabien
103 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: The new "Statistics" reports
104 various per-HTTP connection timers. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1004
105 * DBI plugin: The "Interval" option has been added to "Database" blocks.
106 Thanks to Michal Bebjak.
107 * Disk plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li,
108 Brad Davis, Ruben Kerfhof and Kevin Bowling.
109 * Empty Counter match: Support for derives has been implemented. Thanks
110 to Florian Forster. #1813
111 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for TabularData and the "PluginName" option
112 have been added. Thanks to David Crane. #1290, #1291
113 * GPS plugin: This new plugin reports the number of sattelites seen by
114 and precision of a GPS receiver. Thanks to Nicolas Jourden. #1346
115 * gRPC plugin: This new client and server plugin allows sending and
116 receiving metrics using the gRPC protocol. Comparable to the UnixSock
117 plugin, but using TCP and TLS. Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Florian
119 * Interface plugin: Reporting dropped packets has been added. Thanks to
121 * Interface plugin: The "ReportInactive" has been added, letting users
122 skip inactive network interfaces. Thanks to Rinigus. #1791
123 * Interface plugin: The new, Solaris-only "UniqueName" option has been
124 added. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam. #1416
125 * Lua plugin: This new language binding allows writing plugins using the
126 Lua programming language. Thanks to Julien Ammous, Florian Forster and
128 * Memory plugin: Reporting of ARC memory on Solaris has been added.
129 Thanks to Brian ONeill.
130 * MQTT plugin: This new plugin sends metrics to and/or receives metrics
131 from an MQTT broker. Thanks to Marc Falzon, Jan-Piet Mens, Nicholas
132 Humfrey and Florian Forster. #805, #1124
133 * MySQL plugin: Connection to the database server can now be done over
134 SSL. Thanks to Brian Lalor. #1256
135 * MySQL plugin: Monitoring slow queries has been added. Thanks to skob.
137 * MySQL plugin: mysql_bpool_pages-flushed has been renamed to
138 mysql_bpool_counters-pages_flushed because the value is cumulative.
139 Thanks to Marek Becka.
140 * MySQL plugin: Support for Galera statistics has been added. Thanks to
141 Rachid Zarouali. #1849
142 * MySQL plugin: Support for InnoDB metrics was improved. Thanks to Aman
144 * MySQL plugin: The "mysql_sort" type has been split into 3 different
145 types. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1592
146 * Network plugin: Decryption error logging has been improved. Thanks to
147 Pavel Rochnyack. #1735
148 * Notify Nagios plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to Nagios as
149 a passive check result. Thanks to Florian Forster.
150 * NTPd plugin: The plugin now detects if the ntp daemon reports
151 nanoseconds instead of microseconds. Thanks to Matwey V. Kornilov.
153 * OpenLDAP plugin: Several connection-related improvements have been
154 made. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1308
155 * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for "simple authentication" has been added.
156 Thanks to Marek Becka. #1087
157 * Ping plugin: The "Size" option has been added, allowing the ICMP data
158 payload size to be configured. Thanks to Witold Baryluk. #1395
159 * PostgreSQL, DBI, Oracle plugins: The new "PluginInstanceFrom" option
160 has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1707
161 * PowerDNS plugin: The recursor metrics have been updated to 3.7.3 and
162 missing rr types have been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
163 * Processes plugin: Counting of context switches was added for Linux.
164 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1036
165 * Processes plugin: Improve reliability of thread counts on Linux.
166 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
167 * Python plugin: Minimal Python version requirement has been bumped to
168 2.6. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1864
169 * Redis plugin: Several additional metrics are now collected. Thanks to
170 Marc Falzon and Matteo Contrini. #1807, #1483
171 * Sensors plugin: The "UseLabels" option has been added. Thanks to
173 * SMART plugin: The new "IgnoreSleepMode" option has been added. Thanks
174 to Scott Talbert. #1770
175 * SMART plugin: The new "UseSerial" option allows identifying devices in
176 a stable way. Thanks to Scott Talbert. #1794
177 * SNMP plugin: The "IpAddress" can now be used for instances. Thanks to
178 Vincent Bernat. #1397
179 * StatsD plugin: Latency calculation histogram is now able to shrink
180 automatically to optimal size. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1622
181 * StatsD plugin: The "CounterSum" option has been added. Thanks to
182 Florian Forster. #929, #1282, #1311
183 * UUID plugin: The plugin now also looks in in smbios system table and
184 "/sys/class/dmi". Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1490
185 * virt plugin: The "PluginInstanceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
186 to Ruben Kerkhof. #1100
187 * Write Graphite plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" option has been added.
188 Thanks to Toni Moreno and Florian Forster.
189 * Write HTTP plugin: A KairosDB formatter has been added. Thanks to
190 Aurélien Rougemont. #1809
191 * Write HTTP plugin: Notifications are now handled by this plugin.
192 Thanks to Florian Forster.
193 * Write HTTP plugin: The "LogHttpError" option has been added. Thanks to
195 * Write HTTP plugin: The new "Headers" option allows setting custom HTTP
196 headers in outgoing requests. Thanks to Brandon Arp. #1634
197 * Write Kafka plugin: Key handling has been made more comprehensive and
198 reliable. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Vincent
199 Bernat. #1765, #1695, #1393
200 * Write Redis plugin: The "Database", "MaxSetSize", "Prefix" and
201 "StoreRates" options have been added. Thanks to Brian Kelly and
203 * Write Riemann plugin: The new "BatchFlushTimeout" and "Timeout" option
204 have been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Gergely Nagy.
205 * Write Riemann plugin: This plugin now requires the riemann-c-client
206 library, version 1.6.0+. This adds support for submitting values to
207 Riemann over TLS. Thanks to Gergely Nagy. #986
208 * Write TSDB, Write Sensu, Write Riemann, Write Graphite, Write TSDB
209 plugin: TCP keepalive is now enabled, helping graceful recovery from
210 unclean network disconnections. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1549
211 * XenCPU plugin: This new plugin collects XEN Hypervisor CPU stats.
212 Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1608
213 * ZFS ARC plugin: Several new statistics have been added and a couple of
214 obsolete ones removed. Thanks to Brad Davis, Brian ONeill and Ruben
216 * Zone plugin: This new plugin reads per-zone CPU usage on Solaris.
217 Thanks to Mathijs Mohlmann and Dagobert Michelsen.
219 2016-11-28, Version 5.5.3
220 * collectd: Write threads are stopped before shutdown callbacks are
221 called. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1110
222 * collectd: A compile error on AIX has been fixed: "MSG_DONTWAIT" is not
223 available on AIX. Thanks to Chao Yang.
224 * libcollectdclient: Lines printed to "STDERR" are now guarded by the
225 environment variable "COLLECTD_TRACE". Thanks to Florian Forster. #105
226 * collectd.conf(5): Various typos have been fixed. Thanks to Marc
228 * Build system: Detection of the Java environment has been made
229 deterministic to allow for reproducible builds. Thanks to Marc
231 * APC UPS plugin: Unavailable metrics are now skipped instead of
232 reported as 0 (zero). Thanks to Florian Forster. #2025
233 * Battery plugin: The minimum value has been removed from the power type
234 to allow the plugin to report discharging batteries as negative power.
235 Thanks to Florian Forster.
236 * DBI, Oracle and PostgreSQL plugins: An error message when the type
237 instance is truncated has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #4
238 * cURL-JSON plugin: A possible segmentation fault when parsing
239 unexpected JSON has been fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1896
240 * DF plugin: Compilation with xfsprogs ≥ 4.7.0 has been fixed. Thanks
241 to Thomas Deutschmann. #1877
242 * Modbus plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
244 * Network plugin: An error message has been corrected. Thanks to Florian
246 * Network plugin: Handling of errors form secure memory initialization
247 has been improved: the plugin fails gracefully now instead of calling
248 "abort()". Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
249 * Network plugin: The gcrypt library is only initialized when it is
250 actually required due to the network plugin's configuration. Thanks to
251 Florian Forster. #1902
252 * Ping plugin: The init callback has been changed to be idempotent,
253 fixing errors being reported on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster.
255 * PostgreSQL plugin: The query_plans and query_plans_by_table queries
256 have been improved to return 0 (zero) instead of "NULL" when not
257 available. Thanks to Bernd Zeimetz. #1905
258 * PowerDNS plugin: The "recursor command" has been fixed so PowerDNS can
259 correctly parse all requested fields. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
260 * Python plugin: Handling of data sets with multiple data sources of
261 different type has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
262 * RRDCacheD plugin: Reconnection behavior after failed operations has
263 been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. Debian#657877
264 * Write Graphite and AMQP plugins: A bug that could lead to a missing
265 null-termination has been fixed. Thanks to Markus Linnala.
266 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for librdkafka 0.9.0 has been added.
267 Thanks to Florian Forster.
268 * Write Riemann plugin: Build issues on Solaris have been fixed. Thanks
271 2016-07-25, Version 5.5.2
272 * collectd: A division by zero has been fixed in the
273 "plugin_dispatch_multivalue()" function. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
274 * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
275 in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
276 * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
277 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkof.
278 * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
279 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
280 * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
281 more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
282 * DF plugin: A build issue on DragonFlyBSD has been fixed. Thanks to
284 * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
285 This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
287 * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
288 has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
289 * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
290 now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
291 Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
292 * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has
293 been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was
294 ignored. Thanks to @yujokang. #1665
295 * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
296 This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
297 Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
298 * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
299 single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
300 create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
301 * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
302 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
303 * Redis plugin: A memory leak in an error handling code path has been
304 fixed. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz.
305 * Redis plugin: The data source type of the expired_keys metric has been
306 corrected to "DERIVE". Thanks to Marc Falzon and Marc Fournier. #1483.
307 * SMART plugin: A build dependency on libudev has been added. Thanks to
308 Pavel Rochnyack. #1724
309 * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
310 Pavel Rochnyack #1703
311 * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
312 shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
313 * Write Sensu plugin: A segfault when the Tag was unset has been fixed.
314 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
315 * ZFS ARC plugin: The cache_operation-stolen metric has been removed for
316 FreeBSD 10.2 and later. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1580
318 2016-01-22, Version 5.5.1
319 * Build system: Compilation errors have been avoided by correctly
320 defining package name and version used by autoconf. Thanks to Nathan
322 * Build system: Dependency ordering was fixed to ensure parallel builds
323 work reliably. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias. #1125
324 * Build system: Error messages have been improved and building the unit
325 tests has been fixed on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster and
326 Dagobert Michelsen. #1077
327 * Build system: The move of the "utils_ignorelist" functions has been
328 reverted. This fixes build issues of numerous plugins. Thanks to
329 Benjamin Drung;. #1323
330 * Build system: The fhcount plugin has been restricted to Linux. Thanks
331 to Ruben Kerkhof. #1195
332 * Build system: Detection of header files for the turbostat plugin has
333 been fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1075
334 * collectd: The "LC_NUMERIC" locale is now forced, to prevent issues
335 with some plugins on environments using a comma as decimal separator.
336 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1237
337 * Documentation: Some precisions related to the virt plugin have beed
338 added. Thanks to Wojtek Bocer and Ruben Kerkhof.
339 * Documentation: The CollectdInternalStats documentation has been
340 improved. Thanks to Yves Mettier and Florian Forster.
341 * Battery plugin: A missing Type has been added. Thanks to Marc
343 * Bind plugin: An off-by-one error has been fixed: an index was checked
344 against a wrong variable, which may lead to an out-of-bounds read.
345 Thanks to Michal Humpula. #1123
346 * Ceph plugin: JSON parsing has been refactored to support ceph 10.0.0
347 and fixes several buffer overflows. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1350
348 * CPU plugin: A Mac OS X specific bug has been fixed: the plugin
349 expected an incorrect number of CPU states, resulting in failing read
350 callbacks. This regression was introduced in 5.5.0. Thanks to Robert
352 * Disk plugin: Support for Mac OS X 10.10 has been added. Thanks to
354 * IPC plugin: Support for building with musl-libc has been added. Thanks
355 to Natanael Copa. #1147
356 * Log Logstash plugin: A segfault when using libyajl, version 1 was
357 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #1190
358 * Log Logstash plugin: The timestamp is now ISO 8601 compliant. Thanks
359 to Marc Fournier. #1132
360 * memcached plugin: The Type of the listen-disabled metric was fixed.
361 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1356
362 * MySQL plugin: The Type used by Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_flushed was
363 fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1085
364 * OpenLDAP plugin: A crash when using LDAPI (LDAP-over-IPC) got fixed.
365 Thanks to Marek Becka. #1080
366 * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for Mac OS X has been added. Thanks to Ruben
368 * SMART plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
369 Schüller and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1076
370 * Swap plugin: A regression that would lead to swap usage being reported
371 in kilobytes (instead of bytes) has been fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka.
373 * Varnish plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Ruben
375 * Varnish plugin: Support for versions 3 and 4 has been made more
376 tolerant to minor changes in Varnish point releases. Thanks to Marc
378 * virt plugin: A copy-and-paste mistake in an error message has been
379 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1101
380 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
382 * Write Redis plugin: Dead code has been removed. Thanks to Brian Kelly.
384 * 27 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
385 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
386 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan and clang: Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
387 Florian Forster and Marek Becka.
388 * Collectd::Unixsock: A Perl error got corrected. Thanks to Ciaran Mac
391 2015-05-27, Version 5.5.0
392 * Build system: Ability to make out-of-tree builds has been fixed.
393 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #792
394 * Build system, Disk and Users plugins: Detection and use of libstatgrab
395 ≧ 0.90 has been added. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #445, #795, #806,
397 * Build system, Memory, CPU, TCPConns and Processes plugins: Numerous
398 fixes related to OpenBSD support have been added. Thanks to Landry
399 Breuil. #777, #778, #779, #808
400 * Build system: Plugins now only export "module_register()". Thanks to
402 * Build system: Various cleanups and improvements have been done. Thanks
404 * collectd: Numerous internal changes and improvements to the daemon and
405 the plugin API have been make. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves
406 Ritschard and Alex Petrov. #512, #727
407 * collectd: Numerous spelling mistakes have been corrected in comments
408 and documentation and several error messages have been improved.
409 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Abhinav Upadhyay, Olivier Bazoud, Pierre-Yves
410 Ritschard, Tim Smith, Moshe Zada, Katelyn Perry and Marc Fournier.
411 * collectd: Rules/Targets can now be appended to existing Filter Chains.
412 Thanks to Marc Falzon. #444
413 * collectd: Failing Filter Chains destinations will now log the list of
414 available write targets. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #650, #1043
415 * collectd: Support for process signaling and management by upstart and
416 systemd has been implemented for the Linux platform. Thanks to
417 Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. #798, #811, #814
418 * collectd: The "CollectInternalStats" option has been added. Thanks to
420 * collectd: The daemon source code and dependencies have moved to the
421 "src/daemon/" directory. Thanks to Florian Forster.
422 * collectd: The new "MaxReadInterval" option allows to cap the
423 exponential retry interval of plugins read errors. Thanks to Alexey
424 Remizov and Florian Forster. #713
425 * collectd: The "-P" command-line option now has precedence over the
426 "PIDFile" option. Thanks to Thomas D. #553
427 * collection.cgi: Various data-source related adjustments have been
428 made. Thanks to Fabiano Pires and Sebastian Harl.
429 * libcollectdclient: Now propagates errors when signing / encrypting
430 network packets. Thanks to Florian Forster.
431 * Configuration: Support for unquoted IPv6 addresses has been added.
432 Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #489
433 * Documentation: Various improvements have been done. Thanks to Florian
434 Forster and Marc Fournier.
435 * Examples: the sample C plugin has been updated to the current plugin
436 API. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
437 * Licensing: The following components have been relicensed to the MIT
438 license: the Apple Sensors, Ascent, DBI, E-Mail, Entropy, GenericJMX,
439 gmond, LogFile, nginx, Notify Desktop, NTPd, NUT, olsrd, Perl, Ping,
440 PostgreSQL, Protocols, RouterOS, RRDCacheD, SNMP, StatsD, SysLog,
441 Table, Tail, UnixSock, vmem, VServer, Wireless, Write Riemann and XMMS
442 plugins, the core collectd daemon, the collectdmon, collectd-nagios
443 and collectd-tg utilities, all the Targets and Matches, liboconfig,
444 most of the "utils_*" files and the plugin API.
445 * Tests: A test suite has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
446 * Threshold: The hysteresis calculation has been made more reliable.
447 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #581
448 * Threshold: Various fixes and improvements have been made. Thanks to
449 Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #649, #644
450 * AMQP plugin: The "ConnectionRetryDelay" option has been added,
451 allowing to delay reconnection. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam and Marc
453 * AMQP plugin: The "QueueDurable" and "QueueAutoDelete" options have
454 been added, giving control over queue creation and deletion. Thanks to
455 David Blundell and Marc Fournier. #623
456 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx and Write HTTP
457 plugins: Customizing the "User-Agent" field is now possible at
458 compile-time. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #440
459 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx plugins: The
460 connection will be reset if it hasn't completed within the configured
461 "Interval". The new "Timeout" option gives control over this behavior.
462 Thanks to Jan Kundrát and Marc Fournier. #982, #983, #993
463 * Apache, Ascent, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP plugins:
464 Allow usernames and passwords to contain colons if built against
465 libcurl ≧ 7.19.1. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #695, #947
466 * Apache plugin: The "SSLCiphers" option gives control over the
467 encryption algorithms to use with TLS connections. Thanks to Toni
469 * Barometer plugin: This new plugin reads sensor data from various
470 Freescale and Bosch digital barometers. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #69,
472 * Battery plugin: Reporting values as percentages and reporting degraded
473 batteries has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
474 * Battery plugin: Support for reading values from sysfs on Linux has
475 been added. Thanks to Andy Parkins, Nicholas Humfrey, Peter Wu and
476 Florian Forster. #725, #810, #998
477 * Battery plugin: The value for current is no longer supplied unless the
478 battery provides this information. Thanks to Florian Forster.
479 * BIND plugin: Bind's XML v3 API is now supported; Thanks to Victor
480 Berger, Bruno Prémont and Michal Humpula. #742, #847
481 * Ceph plugin: This new plugin collects statistics from the Ceph
482 distributed storage system. Thanks to Dan Ryder, Dennis Zou, Colin
483 McCabe, Sage Weil. #522, #598
484 * ConnTrack plugin: Support for reporting values as percentages as well
485 as legacy conntrack files in "/proc" has been added. Thanks to
486 Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #497, #680
487 * CPU plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages and
488 aggregate values per-state and per-CPU. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
489 Ritschard, Florian Forster, Fabien Wernli, Nicholas Humfrey and
490 Wilfried Goesgens. #499, #516, #639 #734, #812, #802
491 * cURL-JSON plugin: Extracting values from complex JSON structures has
492 been enhanced. Thanks to Jim Radford. #408, #411
493 * cURL-JSON plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-URL basis.
494 Thanks to Stan Sawa. #685
495 * cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, Write HTTP plugins: These plugins now also follow
496 HTTP redirects. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
497 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: HTTP Digest authentication has been
498 implemented. Thanks to Frank Cornelis. #482
499 * DBI, Oracle, PostgreSQL plugins: A "MetadataFrom" parameter has been
500 added which allows to set metadata from database columns. Thanks to
501 Mark Wong. #317, #321
502 * DBI plugin: Querying several databases in parallel is now possible.
503 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #453
504 * Disk plugin: On the Linux platform, disk names can now get looked up
505 in udev with the "UdevNameAttr" option. Thanks to Patrick Mooney. #537
506 * Disk plugin: This plugin now collects several additional I/O-related
507 metrics on the Linux platform. Thanks to Florian Forster and Michael
509 * DRBD plugin: This new plugin reads Linux's Distributed Replicated
510 Block Device (DRBD) statistics. Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #566, #700
511 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: The "PUTNOTIF" command now allows to set
512 metadata on notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #416
513 * fhcount plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used file
514 handles. Thanks to Jiri Tyr. #1009
515 * GenericJMX plugin: A Class Loader for "JMXConnectorFactory" has been
516 added, allowing the plugin to work with JBOSS > 7. Thanks to Alexandre
518 * IPC plugin: This new plugin collects information related to shared
519 memory. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz. #925
520 * Java plugin: Now uses the hostname defined in the configuration file.
521 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #530, #681
522 * Load plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
523 Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #344, #498
524 * Log Logstash plugin: This new plugin writes collectd logs and events
525 as Logstash JSON formatted events. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
527 * LVM plugin: The plugin collects thin pool data volumes size, and no
528 longer reports virtual volumes. Thanks to Benjamin Gilbert. #603
529 * memcached plugin: "listen_disabled_num" are now also reported. Thanks
530 to Matt Cottingham. #622
531 * Memory plugin: Slab memory reporting on the Linux platform has been
532 added. Thanks to Manuel CISSÉ and Marc Fournier. #560, #697
533 * Memory plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
534 Thanks to Jeremy Katz, Florian Forster and Manuel CISSÉ. #501, #511,
536 * Modbus plugin: Selecting between holding and input registers is now
537 possible. Thanks to Jan Vitek. #338
538 * Modbus plugin: Support for accessing devices through an RS-485 serial
539 port has been added. Thanks to Eric Sandeen.
540 * Multimeter plugin: This plugin isn't built by default on the AIX
541 platform anymore. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada. #549, #684
542 * MySQL and PostgreSQL plugins: Passing "127.0.0.1" as a host will now
543 result in the global Hostname being used in metric names. Thanks to
545 * MySQL plugin: InnoDB, Select and Sort statistics collection has been
546 added. Thanks to Wilson Felipe, Marek Becka and Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
547 #248, #621, #699, #824
548 * MySQL plugin: The "Alias" and "ConnectTimeout" options have been
549 added. Thanks to William Tisäter.
550 * Netlink plugin: Support for 64bit netlink counters has been added.
551 Thanks to Marek Becka. #435
552 * Network plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" configuration option has been
553 added. Thanks to John Ferlito. #732
554 * NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4.0 has been implemented. Thanks to Marek
556 * OneWire plugin: Support for more temperature-providing sensor families
557 has been added. Thanks to Tomasz Torcz. #672
558 * OneWire plugin: Support for full OWFS path and more device families
559 has been implemented. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #68
560 * OpenLDAP plugin: This new plugin reads monitoring information from
561 OpenLDAP's "cn=Monitor" subtree. Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum, Marc
562 Fournier and Nicholas Humfrey. #719
563 * OpenVPN plugin: Support for OpenVPN 2.3.0 has been implemented. Thanks
565 * OpenVZ plugin: Various improvements have been made, making the plugin
566 report values like the other collectd plugins do. Thanks to Chris
568 * Perl plugin: A new "listval_filter" method has been added, various
569 internal cleanups and improvements have been made and a test suite has
570 been added. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #728
571 * PostgreSQL plugin: The new "ExpireDelay" option allows skipping older
572 values pending write when the database slows down. Thanks to Stephen
574 * PowerDNS plugin: The plugin was updated for stats from pdns 3.4.3.
575 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #965
576 * Processes plugin: A memory-usage related optimization for low-profile
577 systems has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #652
578 * Python plugin: Support for Python3 has been improved, "ModulePath" is
579 now prepended to "sys.path", and the "get_dataset()" function has been
580 added to the Python API. Thanks to Sven Trenkel and Patrick Browne.
582 * Redis and Write_Redis plugins: The support library has been switched
583 from credis to hiredis. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz, Victor Seva, Marc
584 Fournier, Johan Bergström, Michael Spiegle and brianpkelly. #296,
585 #464, #475, #799, #1030
586 * Redis plugin: Custom commands can now be used to fetch values stored
587 in Redis. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #816
588 * Redis plugin: Support for passwords up to 512 characters long has been
589 added. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #532
590 * Sensors plugin: Support for lm_sensors' power sensors has been added.
591 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #571
592 * SMART plugin: This new plugin collects SMART statistics from disk
593 drives. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #797
594 * SNMP plugin: A blacklist/whitelist feature can now be used to filter
595 which OIDs to collect. Thanks to Christophe Courtaut. #414
596 * SNMP plugin: SNMPv3 authentication and encryption support has been
597 implemented. Thanks to Michael Pilat. #362
598 * SNMP plugin: Two error messages have been disambiguated. Thanks to
600 * Swap plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
601 Thanks to Jeremy Katz and Florian Forster. #500, #510
602 * Swap plugin: The plugin no longer fails on Linux systems where
603 "SwapCached" isn't exposed by the kernel. Thanks to Florian Forster.
605 * Tail plugin: "GaugeInc" and "GaugeAdd" options have been implemented.
606 Thanks to Andre Ferraz. #673
607 * Tail plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-File basis.
608 Thanks to Tom Leaman. #446
609 * TCPConns plugin: The "AllPortsSummary" option, allowing to summarize
610 all connections, has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #488
611 * TCPConns plugin: Three metrics were renamed on the AIX platform, for
612 the sake of consistency. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #546
613 * Turbostat plugin: This new plugin reads CPU frequency and C-state
614 residency on modern Intel turbo-capable processors. Thanks to Vincent
615 Brillault, Jean Delvare and Nicolas Iooss. #651
616 * UnixSock plugin: The "GETTHRESHOLD" command has been re-added. Thanks
617 to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #674
618 * Varnish plugin: Varnish 4 support has been added, as well as as
619 monitoring metrics only available in Varnish 4. Thanks to Marc
621 * virt plugin: Guests memory usage is now also collected. Thanks to
622 Tiago Carvalho, jazzmes and Zollner Robert.
623 * virt plugin: It is now possible to chose between using guests' name or
624 UUID as plugin_instance. Thanks to Remi Ferrand. #385
625 * virt plugin: The libvirt plugin has been renamed to virt. Thanks to
627 * Write Graphite plugin: When the connection to graphite fails,
628 reconnection attempts are now limited to once per second. Thanks to
629 Florian Forster. #625
630 * Write HTTP plugin: Multi-instance support of this plugin has been
631 improved. The "<URL "url">" block has been deprecated in favor of
632 "<Node "identifier">". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #902
633 * Write HTTP plugin: Several TLS-related configuration options have been
634 added. Thanks to Ingmar Runge. #666
635 * Write HTTP plugin: The "LowSpeedLimit" and "Timeout" options allow to
636 reset slow/stalled network connections. Thanks to loginator17 and Marc
638 * Write HTTP plugin: The size of the payload posted to the HTTP server
639 can now be controlled with the "BufferSize" option. Thanks to Florian
641 * Write Kafka plugin: This new plugin sends data to Apache Kafka, a
642 distributed messaging queue. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard,
643 ciomaire, Vincent Bernat, Marc Fournier. #670, #694, #794, #853, #014
644 * Write Log plugin: This new plugin dispatches collected values to the
645 configured log destination(s). Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #886
646 * Write Riemann plugin: Extra meta strings are now added as attributes
647 in notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #417
648 * Write Riemann plugin: Notification message are now sent to the Riemann
649 server via the description field. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #575
650 * Write Riemann plugin: Support for custom attributes has been added.
651 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #459
652 * Write Riemann plugin: Support had been implemented for sending events
653 to Riemann in batches (when using TCP), and is enabled by default.
654 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #800
655 * Write Riemann plugin: The "EventServicePrefix" option has been added,
656 which adds a prefix to event service names. Thanks to Moshe Zada. #706
657 * Write Riemann plugin: Threshold checks can now be passed down to the
658 Riemann server. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #518
659 * Write Sensu plugin: This new plugin submits values to Sensu, a stream
660 processing and monitoring system. Thanks to Fabrice A. Marie and Marc
661 Fournier. #912, #1001, #1016
662 * Write TSDB plugin: This new plugin sends data to OpenTSDB, a scalable
663 time series database. Thanks to Kevin Bowling, Florian Forster, Dallin
664 Young, Michael Schenck and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #703, #772, #945
665 * ZFS ARC plugin: Support for ZFS-on-Linux has been added. Thanks to
666 Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. #552
667 * Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache Zookeeper
668 "MNTR" command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826
670 2016-07-26, Version 5.4.3
671 * Build system: A deprecation warning has been removed. Thanks to
673 * Build system: An ordering issue when build the AMQP plugin was
674 corrected. Thanks to Shahul Hameed.
675 * Build system: Building the gmond plugin against recent libganglia
676 versions has been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1129
677 * Build system: "collectd-tg" now builds on AIX. Thanks to Manuel Luis
678 Sanmartín Rozada. #542
679 * Build system: "version-gen.sh" portablility was improved. Thanks to
680 Marc Fournier and Ruben Kerkhof.
681 * Build system: Compiling utils_dns.c on Solaris has beed fixed. Thanks
682 to Yves Mettier, Dagobert Michelsen and Florian Forster. #348
683 * Build system: Default JDK detection got improved. Thanks to Ruben
684 Kerkhof and Marc Fournier.
685 * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
686 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
687 * Build system: notify_email build options got corrected to make it
688 build on non-GNU libc systems. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
689 * Build system: Protobuf building and logging has been improved. Thanks
691 * Build system: The "make distcheck" target was fixed to properly handle
692 java build artifacts. Thanks to Florian Forster.
693 * Build system: The configure script got fixed to work properly when
694 called with "CC="gcc -Wall -Werror"" . Thanks to Marc Fournier.
695 * Build system: The configure script will now fail if pkg-config isn't
696 available. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
697 * Build system: The users plugin now builds properly on Solaris when
698 libstatgrab is available. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #1061
699 * Build system: Various fixes have been done to improve library
700 detection on FreeBSD. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
701 * collectd2html: Several perl errors have been corrected. Thanks to Ruud
703 * collectd: A global gauge format-string is now used to avoid loss of
704 precision. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1039
705 * collectd: A race condition at plugin initialization time was fixed.
706 Thanks to Jan Andres. #1316
707 * collectd: Autoloading now properly sets plugin context, allowing
708 plugins to determine the interval. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1069
709 * collectd: Empty "Plugin" blocks are now supported by the configuration
710 file parser. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1035
711 * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
712 in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
713 * collectd: Writing to a closed TCP socket is now properly handled.
714 Thanks to Tamás Földesi. #1104
715 * Documentation: iptables plugin: IPv6 configuration option has been
716 added to the collectd.conf(5) manpage. Thanks to 'Marc Fournier''.
718 * AMQP plugin: The plugin was fixed to build against librabbitmq 0.6.0.
719 Thanks to Remi Collet. #1008
720 * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
721 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
722 * Apache plugin: The plugin was extended to parse the whole response,
723 required to support Apache versions greater than 2.4.17. Thanks to
724 Marc Fournier and Florian Forster. #1170, #1343
725 * APC UPS plugin: Log messages are now prefixed with the plugin name.
726 Thanks to Sergey. #1329
727 * Bind plugin: The type_instance now gets properly sanitized. Thanks to
729 * CPU plugin: Error messages on MacOSX have been improved. Thanks to
731 * cURL plugin: A typo in an error message got corrected. Thanks to Marc
733 * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
734 more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
735 * DF plugin: An bug preventing filesystems which don't report inodes
736 such as btrfs has been corrected. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1096
737 * DF plugin: Duplicate entries are no longer reported twice. Thanks to
738 Stefan Brüns and Florian Forster. #1402
739 * DF plugin: Legacy code for skipping "rootfs" mount points has been
740 removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1402
741 * DF plugin: Legacy references to the "ReportReserved" option have been
742 removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
743 * DF plugin: Reading the mtab now uses a reentrant function when
744 possible. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1163
745 * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
746 This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
748 * Exec plugin: A file descriptor leak when the plugin is configured to
749 run as a non-existing user was corrected. Thanks to Gautam BT and Marc
751 * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
752 has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
753 * Interface plugin: Documentation about regular expressions in the
754 ignore list has been added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski.
755 * IRQ plugin: The "FIQ" line is now skipped as it doesn't contain any
756 counter. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #971
757 * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
758 now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
759 Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
760 * MongoDB plugin: A memory leak has been fixed and some adaptations to
761 the current API of the mongo-c-driver have been made. Thanks to
762 Florian Forster. #956
763 * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has
764 been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was ignored.
765 Thanks to @yujokang. #1665
766 * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
767 This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
768 Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
769 * Network plugin: The TimeToLive option handling was made more robust.
770 Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #654
771 * NTPd plugin: Documentation about the required "mode 7" has been added.
772 Thanks to Jakub Jankowski.
773 * NTPd plugin: Reporting of "time_offset-loop" was corrected to match
774 the values from ntpq/ntpdc. Thanks to Pierre Fersing and Florian
776 * OpenVPN plugin: The plugin was fixe to avoid signaling an error when
777 no clients were connected. Thanks to Florian Forster. #731
778 * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
779 single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
780 create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
781 * PF plugin and DNS plugin: These plugins have been fixed to build
782 properly on OpenBSD again. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
783 * Processes plugin: A compilation error on systems without "regex.h" has
784 been fixed. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
785 * Processes plugin: A memory leak on Solaris has been fixed. Thanks to
787 * Processes plugin and Swap plugin: These plugins have been corrected to
788 also work inside FreeBSD jails. Thanks to biancalana. #1019
789 * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
790 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
791 * Processes plugin: Process counting on the FreeBSD and OpenBSD
792 platforms has been fixed. Thanks to Herve COMMOWICK. #1298
793 * Processes plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly on Solaris.
794 Thanks to Jan Andres. #919
795 * Python plugin: A double-free bug got fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel.
797 * RRDtool plugin: A race condition leading to corrupt RRD file creation
798 has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1031
799 * SNMP plugin: The "Gauge32" signedness was corrected to match RFC1902.
800 Thanks to Nathan Ward. #1325
801 * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
802 Pavel Rochnyack #1703
803 * StatsD plugin: A memory leak was corrected. Thanks to Florian Forster.
805 * StatsD plugin: A symbol lookup error was fixed by properly linking the
806 plugin against libm. Thanks to Florian Forster.
807 * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Support for including values above
808 1000 in percentile calculation has been added. Thanks to Yoga
810 * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Two division by zero error conditions
811 have been corrected. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #655
812 * StatsD plugin: Counters absolute counts are now also reported. Thanks
813 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1311
814 * StatsD plugin: The plugin now emits NaN values when no timer event is
815 recorded. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1038, #1039
816 * StatsD plugin: The plugin was corrected to avoid crashing when
817 negative timer values are submitted. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1131
818 * Tail CSV plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly with multiple
819 "Collect" options and a bug got fixed when no "TimeFrom" is specified.
820 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada and Florian Forster. #1032
821 * TCPConns plugin: A memory leak was fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster.
823 * TCPConns plugin: An bug causing collectd to enter an inifinite loop on
824 OpenBSD was fixed. Thanks to Landry Breuil. #1094
825 * Threshold plugin: Threshold configuration blocks can now be defined in
826 different files. Thanks to Michael Salmon. #551
827 * vmem plugin: Support for pgsteal in recent Linux kernels has been
828 added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski. #1307
829 * vmem plugin: The DSType for nr_dirtied and nr_written was corrected to
830 report a derive. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1072
831 * Write Graphite plugin: Error handling when submitting metrics to the
832 server is now more robust. Thanks to Sam Pointer. #1364
833 * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
834 shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
835 * Write Redis plugin: Multi-Valued key was made easier to parse by
836 adding a "|" character as a delimiter. Thanks to brianpkelly and
837 Florian Forster. #1070
838 * Write Redis plugin: The timestamp format was corrected. Thanks to
840 * ZFS ARC plugin: The plugin was will not emit warning about missing
841 "l2_size" stats anymore. Thanks to Jan Andres. #919
842 * 152 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
843 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
844 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan, clang and gcc-6: Thanks to Ruben
845 Kerkhof, Florian Forster, Marc Fournier, Corey Kosak, Laurent,
846 Claudius Zingerli and Fabien Wernli.
848 2015-02-26, Version 5.4.2
849 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
850 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
851 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
853 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
854 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
855 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
857 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c. Thanks to
859 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
860 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
861 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
862 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
863 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
864 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
865 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
866 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
867 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
868 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
869 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
870 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
871 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
873 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
874 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
875 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
876 * Documentation: Documentation of the "AutoLoadPlugin" option has been
877 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #715
878 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
879 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
880 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
881 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
882 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML and Write HTTP plugins: Call
883 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
885 * cURL and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
886 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
887 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
888 Florian Forster. #663
889 * curl-json: A bug, which triggered when two URLs with a long common
890 prefix were configured, was fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #582
891 * dbi: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been restored.
892 Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
893 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
894 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
895 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
896 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
897 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
898 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
900 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
901 Thanks to Florian Forster.
902 * LogFile and SysLog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
903 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
904 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
905 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
906 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
907 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
908 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
910 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
912 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
913 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
914 * RRDtool and RRDCacheD plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
915 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
916 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
917 Ritschard. #610, #804
918 * statsd: Support for samplerates in timer metrics was added. Thanks
920 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
921 to Florian Forster. #733
922 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
923 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
924 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
926 * lvm: An issue with Volume Groups (VGs) without Logical Volumes (LVs)
927 has been fixed. Thanks to Jan Kundrát.
928 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
929 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
930 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
932 * write_redis: A formatting bug, which resulted in totally unusable
933 numbers being transmitted to Redis, was fixed. Thanks to Marc
935 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
938 2014-01-26, Version 5.4.1
939 * amqp plugin: Add support for RabbitMQ 0.4.x to avoid compiler
940 warnings. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for implementing this.
941 * apache / network plugins: Improved initialization order hopefully
942 resolved gcrypt initialization problems.
943 * aquaero plugin: The type used to submit fan utilization was fixed.
944 Thanks to Alex Deymo for the patch.
945 * cgroups plugin: A small memory leak was fixed. Checking the existence
946 of a mount option without a value was fixed. More permissive parsing
947 of the cpuacct.stats file fixes support for some versions of Linux.
948 Thanks to Marc Fournier for bug reports and patches.
949 * curl plugin: Fix <Match> blocks without an instance. Thanks to
950 Alexander Golovko for reporting and Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
951 * curl_json plugin: Potentially invalid memory access has been
952 sanitized. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
953 * interface plugin: Fix behavior under FreeBSD 10: Reporting of
954 per-address statistics caused duplicate updates to the same metric.
955 Thanks to demon / @trtrmitya for the patch.
956 * write_graphite plugin: Use TCP to connect to Graphite by default. The
957 default changed from TCP to UDP between 5.3.1 and 5.4.0, which is a
958 regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier for fixing this. Reconnect
959 behavior was improved. Thanks to Michael Hart for his patch.
960 * zfs_arc plugin: Collect "allocated" and "stolen" on FreeBSD only.
962 2013-08-18, Version 5.4.0
963 * collectd: The "LoadPlugin" config option no longer attempts to load
964 plugins twice. If more than one "LoadPlugin" statement or block is
965 encountered, only the first will have any effect.
966 * collectd: The "AutoLoadPlugin" option allows to automatically load
967 plugins for which a configuration is found.
968 * collectd: The "WriteQueueLimitHigh" and "WriteQueueLimitLow" options
969 allow collectd to drop values when under stress, to avoid running out
970 of memory. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patch.
971 * amqp plugin: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
972 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options have been added. Thanks to Laurent
974 * aquaero plugin: This new plugin reads various metrics, e.g. fan
975 speeds and temperatures, from Aquaero 5, a fan and water cooling
976 control panel. Thanks to Alex Deymo for his patch.
977 * curl plugin: The "MeasureResponseCode" option has been added. Thanks
978 to Jan Matějka for his patch.
979 * curl_json plugin: Support for UNIX domain sockets and array wildcards
980 has been added. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
981 * curl_xml plugin: Support for long URLs has been improved.
982 * cgroups plugin: This new plugin collects CPU accounting information
983 for processes in a cgroup. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for his patch.
984 * df plugin: The "ValuesAbsolute" and "ValuesPercentage" options have
985 been added. Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek for the patch.
986 * exec plugin: Do UID / GID lookups before forking. This should prevent
987 a race condition in the NSS library. Thanks to Ceri Storey for the
989 * lvm plugin: This new plugin collects size information from Linux'
990 Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Thanks to Chad Malfait for his work.
991 * memcached plugin: Support for increment and decrement counts has been
992 added. Thanks to Blake Matheny for the patch.
993 * mic plugin: This new plugin collects CPU and memory usage, power
994 consumption and temperatures of Intel's Many-Integrated-Core (MIC)
995 architecture, such as Xeon Phi cards. Thanks to Evan Felix for his
997 * netlink plugin: This plugin has been converted to use the supported
998 "libmnl" library. Thanks to Andreas Henriksson for his patch.
999 * nginx plugin: Collection of accepted and handled connections has been
1000 added. Thanks to Patrick Shan for his patch.
1001 * sigrok plugin: This new plugin collects metrics from sigrok, a signal
1002 processing framework reading various hardware devices, from light
1003 meters to spectrum analyzers. Thanks to Bert Vermeulen for his patch.
1004 * statsd plugin: This new plugin listens to a UDP socket and reads
1005 metrics in the StatsD format.
1006 * varnish plugin: Many additional metrics have been added. Thanks to
1007 Nick Stenning for his patch.
1008 * write_graphite plugin: Support for "UDP" has been added. Thanks to
1009 Javier Maestro for his patch.
1010 * write_riemann plugin: The "TTLFactor" option has been added.
1011 * zfs_arc plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li
1014 2015-02-26, Version 5.3.2
1015 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
1016 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
1017 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
1019 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
1020 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
1021 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
1022 Fournier and @NsLib.
1023 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c Thanks to
1025 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
1026 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
1027 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
1028 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1029 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
1030 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
1031 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
1032 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
1033 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
1034 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1035 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
1036 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
1037 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
1039 * Documentation: The synopsis of the threshold has been fixed. Thanks
1041 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
1042 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
1043 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1044 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
1045 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
1046 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
1047 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
1048 * csv: A regression which would lead to the "DataDir" option to be
1049 ignored has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada.
1050 * curl, curl-json, curl-xml and write_http plugins: Call
1051 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
1053 * curl and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
1054 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
1055 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
1056 Florian Forster. #663
1057 * dbi plugin: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been
1058 restored. Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
1059 * exec, unixsock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
1060 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
1061 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
1062 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
1064 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
1065 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
1066 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
1067 Thanks to Florian Forster.
1068 * logfile and syslog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
1069 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
1070 * memcached: Connecting to a UNIX socket has been fixed. Thanks to Jim
1072 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
1073 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
1074 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
1075 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
1076 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
1078 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
1080 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
1081 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
1082 * replace and set targets: Fix error message. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1084 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: Honor the "DataDir" config option;
1085 this fixes a regression. Thanks to Florian Forster. #380
1086 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
1087 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
1088 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
1089 Ritschard. #610, #804
1090 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
1091 to Florian Forster. #733
1092 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
1093 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
1094 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
1096 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
1097 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
1098 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
1100 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
1103 2013-07-13, Version 5.3.1
1104 * Documentation: Various fixes.
1105 * Configuration: Fix error handling: Errors in included files were
1106 ignored, causing configuration mistakes to go unnoticed.
1107 * dns plugin: Don't abort when PCAP returns an error.
1108 * modbus plugin: The reconnection strategy was improved, fixing a
1109 segfault in the libmodbud library. Thanks to Stefan Nickl and
1110 Fabien Wernli for their patches.
1111 * mysql plugin: The notification about a newly running MySQL slave
1112 thread has been fixed. Thanks to Joaquín Cuenca Abela for the patch.
1113 * snmp plugin: A build issue has been fixed (C99 mixed declaration).
1114 The end-of-tree check has been improved by Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
1115 * threshold plugin: Handling of the "Interesting" configuration option
1116 has been fixed. Thanks to Björn for the patch.
1117 * write_riemann plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Dave
1118 Cottlehuber for reporting it.
1120 2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0
1121 * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include
1122 only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
1124 * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This
1125 improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act
1126 as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for
1127 reviewing this change and fixing bugs.
1128 * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using
1129 regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric
1130 can now be set via the configuration file.
1131 * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented.
1132 * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers
1133 has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
1134 * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks
1135 to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
1136 * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The
1137 "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch.
1138 * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to
1139 Greg Mason for his patch.
1140 * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks
1141 to Johan Wirén for his patch.
1142 * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication /
1143 compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
1144 patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work.
1145 * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks
1146 to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
1147 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been
1148 implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created
1149 asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances.
1150 Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code.
1151 * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV
1152 files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for
1154 * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added.
1155 * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to
1156 Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to
1157 Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work.
1159 2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2
1160 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1161 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1162 Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks
1163 to Sebastian Harl for his patch.
1164 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
1165 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1166 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1167 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1168 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1169 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1170 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1171 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1172 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1173 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1174 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1175 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
1176 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1177 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1178 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
1179 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
1180 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
1181 * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
1182 * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
1183 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
1184 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
1185 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
1186 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1187 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1188 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1189 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1192 2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1
1193 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris
1194 and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches.
1195 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
1196 more frequently than intended.
1197 * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added.
1198 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1199 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1200 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
1201 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
1202 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1203 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1204 * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed.
1205 A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was
1206 configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these
1208 * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
1209 Ritschard for his patch.
1210 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
1211 * write_graphite plugin: A regression which rendered the
1212 "SeparateInstances" and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been
1213 fixed. A failed assertion when using types with many data sources
1214 has been fixed. Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
1215 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
1216 the logging problem.
1217 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
1218 Mettier for reporting this bug.
1220 2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0
1221 * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved.
1222 Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch.
1223 * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a
1224 per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for
1226 * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real
1227 looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new
1228 plugin, for example.
1229 * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets
1230 in the binary format has been added.
1231 * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple
1232 value lists into one.
1233 * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON
1234 output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch.
1235 * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to
1236 Thomas Meson for the patch.
1237 * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to
1238 Manuel Rozada for his patch.
1239 * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the
1241 * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't
1243 * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks
1244 to "Davide Guerri" for the patch.
1245 * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added.
1246 Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch.
1247 * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The
1248 behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to
1249 Johan Kiviniemi for the patches.
1250 * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added.
1251 * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's
1252 packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes
1254 * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added.
1255 Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added.
1256 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches.
1257 * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
1258 Cosmin Ioiart for the patch.
1259 * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added.
1260 Thanks to biancalana for the patch.
1261 * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan",
1262 "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added.
1263 * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX
1264 version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out
1265 "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch.
1266 * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc
1267 for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch.
1269 2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3
1270 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1271 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1272 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
1273 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1274 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1275 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1276 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1277 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1278 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1279 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1280 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1281 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1282 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1283 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
1284 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1285 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1286 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
1287 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
1288 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
1289 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
1290 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
1291 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
1292 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1293 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1294 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1295 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1298 2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2
1299 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves
1300 Mettier for his patches.
1301 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
1302 more frequently than intended.
1303 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1304 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1305 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
1306 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
1307 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1308 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1309 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
1310 * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
1311 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
1313 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
1314 Mettier for reporting this bug.
1316 2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1
1317 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1318 unwanted permission bits.
1319 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1320 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1321 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1322 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1323 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1324 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1325 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
1326 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
1327 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
1329 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1330 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
1331 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
1332 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1333 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1334 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1335 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1336 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1337 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1338 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1339 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1340 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1342 * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of
1343 uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for
1344 reporting these problems.
1345 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1346 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1347 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
1348 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1349 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1351 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1352 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1353 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1354 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1355 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1356 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1357 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1358 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1360 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1361 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1362 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
1363 "biancalana" for the fix.
1364 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1365 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1366 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1367 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1368 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1370 * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been
1371 fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch.
1372 * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and
1373 later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch.
1375 2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0
1376 * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has
1378 * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using
1379 "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
1380 * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use
1381 the system time rather than the time reported by BIND.
1382 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been
1383 added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch.
1384 * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics
1385 directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch.
1386 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in
1387 addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
1388 Ritschard for his patch.
1389 * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default
1390 ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g.
1392 * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various
1393 states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
1395 * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been
1397 * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin
1398 Ioiart for his patch.
1399 * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the
1400 Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux.
1401 * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation.
1402 Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch.
1403 * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been
1405 * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to
1406 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch.
1407 * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added.
1408 * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added.
1409 Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1410 * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1411 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1412 * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to
1413 Aaron Brady for his patch.
1414 * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to
1415 Jérôme Renard for his patches.
1416 * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value
1417 lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch
1418 and Chris Lundquist for their work.
1419 * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value
1420 lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series
1421 database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their
1423 * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to
1424 Aurelien Rougemont for his patches.
1425 * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been
1426 added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1428 2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5
1429 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1430 unwanted permission bits.
1431 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1432 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1433 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1434 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1435 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1436 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1437 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
1438 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
1439 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
1441 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1442 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
1443 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
1444 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1445 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1446 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1447 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1448 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1449 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1450 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1451 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1452 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1454 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1455 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1456 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
1457 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1458 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1460 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1461 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1462 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1463 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1464 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1465 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1466 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1467 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1469 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1470 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1471 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
1472 "biancalana" for the fix.
1473 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1474 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1475 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1476 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1477 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1480 2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4
1481 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1482 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1483 plugin under Gentoo.
1484 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1485 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1487 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1488 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1489 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1490 Opter for his patch.
1491 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1492 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1494 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1495 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1497 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1498 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1500 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1501 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1503 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1504 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1505 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1506 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1507 runtime has been fixed.
1509 2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3
1510 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1511 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1512 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1514 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1515 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1516 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1517 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1518 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1519 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1520 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1522 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1524 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1525 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1526 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1527 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1528 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1530 2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2
1531 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1532 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1533 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1534 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1536 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1537 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1538 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1539 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1541 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1542 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1543 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1544 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1545 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1546 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1547 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1548 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1549 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1550 for fixing this bug!
1552 2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1
1553 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1554 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1555 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1556 to Peter Green for his patch.
1557 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1558 McCabe for the patch.
1559 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1560 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1561 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1562 code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module.
1563 * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts.
1564 Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this.
1565 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1566 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1567 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1568 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1569 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1570 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1571 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1572 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1573 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1574 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1575 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1576 * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values
1577 were submitted as gauge even though they were derives.
1578 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1579 Flisher for the fix.
1581 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
1582 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
1583 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
1584 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
1585 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
1586 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
1587 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
1588 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
1590 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
1591 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
1592 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
1593 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
1594 added to the collectd client library.
1595 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
1596 one data source has been changed to "value".
1597 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
1598 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
1599 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
1600 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
1601 maximum value is unspecified.
1602 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
1603 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
1604 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1605 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1606 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1607 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
1608 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
1609 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
1610 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
1611 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
1613 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1614 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
1615 "Connection" blocks.
1616 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
1618 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
1620 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
1621 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
1622 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
1623 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
1625 * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
1626 license has been changed to LGPLv2.1.
1627 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
1628 data sets used have been improved.
1629 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
1631 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1632 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1633 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
1634 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
1635 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
1636 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
1637 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
1638 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
1639 this separate plugin.
1640 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
1641 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
1642 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
1643 Fournier for their contributions.
1644 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
1646 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
1648 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
1651 2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9
1652 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1653 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1654 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1655 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1656 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1657 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1658 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1659 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1660 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1661 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1662 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1663 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1664 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1665 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1666 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1667 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1668 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1669 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1672 2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8
1673 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1674 unwanted permission bits.
1675 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1676 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1677 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1678 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1679 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1680 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1681 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1682 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1683 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1684 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1685 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1686 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1687 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1688 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1689 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1690 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1692 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1693 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1694 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1696 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1697 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1698 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1699 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1700 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1701 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1702 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1703 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1705 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1706 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1707 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1708 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1709 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1710 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1711 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1714 2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7
1715 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1716 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1717 plugin under Gentoo.
1718 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1719 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1721 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1722 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1723 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1724 Opter for his patch.
1725 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1726 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1728 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1729 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1731 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1732 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1734 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1735 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1737 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1738 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1739 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1740 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1741 runtime has been fixed.
1743 2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6
1744 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1745 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1746 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1748 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1749 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1750 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1751 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1752 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1753 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1754 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1756 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1758 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1759 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1760 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1761 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1762 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1764 2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5
1765 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1766 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1767 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1768 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1770 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1771 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1772 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1773 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1775 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1776 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1777 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1778 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1779 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1780 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1781 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1782 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1783 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1784 for fixing this bug!
1786 2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4
1787 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1788 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1789 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1790 to Peter Green for his patch.
1791 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1792 McCabe for the patch.
1793 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1794 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1795 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1797 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1798 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1799 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1800 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1801 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1802 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1803 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1804 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1805 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1806 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1807 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1808 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1809 Flisher for the fix.
1811 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
1812 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1813 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
1815 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
1816 percentage calculation has been fixed.
1817 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
1819 * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
1820 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
1821 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
1822 * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
1823 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
1824 error handling case.
1825 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
1826 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
1829 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
1830 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
1831 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
1832 the rest of the configuration if possible.
1833 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
1834 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
1835 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
1836 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
1837 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
1838 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
1839 configurable timeout value.
1840 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
1841 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
1842 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1843 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
1844 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
1845 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
1846 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1848 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1849 to prevent spamming the logs.
1850 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1851 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1852 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1853 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1855 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
1857 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1858 Trenkel for the patch.
1860 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
1861 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1862 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1863 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
1864 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
1866 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
1867 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
1868 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
1870 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
1871 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
1872 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
1873 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
1874 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
1875 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
1876 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
1877 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
1878 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
1879 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
1881 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
1882 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
1883 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
1884 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
1885 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
1886 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
1887 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
1889 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
1891 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
1892 lines from the match.
1893 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
1894 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
1896 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
1897 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
1898 Malek for the patch.
1899 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
1900 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
1902 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
1903 certain lines from the match.
1904 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
1905 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
1906 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
1907 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
1908 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
1909 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
1910 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
1911 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
1912 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
1913 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
1914 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
1915 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
1916 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
1917 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
1918 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
1919 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
1920 Sebastian Harl for his work.
1921 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
1922 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
1923 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
1924 Sven Trenkel for his work.
1925 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
1926 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
1927 MikroTik devices has been added.
1928 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
1929 Scraba for his patch.
1930 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
1931 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
1932 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
1933 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
1934 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
1935 Ammous for his patch.
1937 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
1938 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1939 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
1941 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
1942 percentage calculation has been fixed.
1943 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
1945 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
1946 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
1947 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
1948 error handling case.
1949 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
1950 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
1953 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
1954 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
1955 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
1956 the rest of the configuration if possible.
1957 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
1958 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
1959 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
1960 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
1961 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
1962 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
1963 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
1964 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1965 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
1966 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
1967 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
1968 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1970 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1971 to prevent spamming the logs.
1972 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1973 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1974 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1975 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1977 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1978 Trenkel for the patch.
1980 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
1981 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1982 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1983 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
1984 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
1986 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
1987 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
1988 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
1989 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
1991 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
1992 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
1993 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
1994 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
1995 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
1996 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
1997 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
1998 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
1999 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
2000 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
2001 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
2002 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
2004 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
2005 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
2006 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
2007 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
2008 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
2009 figuring out a way to make this work.
2010 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
2011 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
2012 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
2013 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
2014 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
2016 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
2018 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
2019 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
2020 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
2021 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
2022 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
2023 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
2024 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
2025 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
2027 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
2028 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
2029 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
2030 an unknown data source type.
2031 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
2032 packets has been fixed.
2033 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
2035 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
2036 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
2037 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
2038 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
2039 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
2040 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2042 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
2043 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
2044 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
2045 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
2046 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
2047 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
2048 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
2049 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
2050 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
2052 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
2053 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
2054 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
2057 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
2058 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
2059 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
2060 Weiskircher for the patch.
2061 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
2062 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2063 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
2064 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
2065 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
2066 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
2067 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
2068 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
2069 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
2070 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
2071 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
2072 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
2073 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
2075 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
2076 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
2077 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
2078 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
2079 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
2080 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
2081 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
2082 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2083 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
2084 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
2085 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
2086 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
2087 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
2088 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
2089 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
2090 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
2091 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
2092 storage has been added.
2093 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
2094 value has been added.
2096 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
2097 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
2098 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
2099 an unknown data source type.
2101 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
2102 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
2103 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
2104 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
2105 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
2106 figuring out a way to make this work.
2107 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
2108 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
2109 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
2110 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
2112 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
2114 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
2115 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
2116 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
2117 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
2118 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
2119 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
2121 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
2122 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
2123 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
2124 packets has been fixed.
2125 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
2126 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
2127 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
2128 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
2129 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
2130 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2132 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
2133 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
2134 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
2135 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
2136 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
2139 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
2140 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
2141 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
2142 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
2143 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
2144 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
2146 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
2147 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
2148 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
2149 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
2150 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
2151 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
2153 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
2154 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
2155 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
2156 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
2158 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
2159 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
2161 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
2162 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
2163 issues on some platforms.
2164 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
2165 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2166 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
2167 descriptor handling.
2169 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
2170 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
2171 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
2172 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
2173 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
2174 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
2176 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
2177 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
2178 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
2179 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2180 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
2181 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
2182 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2183 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
2184 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
2185 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
2186 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
2188 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
2189 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
2190 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
2191 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
2192 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
2193 Aman Gupta for the patch.
2194 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
2195 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
2196 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
2197 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
2198 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
2200 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
2201 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
2203 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
2204 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
2205 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2206 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
2207 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
2208 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
2209 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
2210 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2211 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
2212 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
2213 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
2214 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
2215 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
2216 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
2218 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
2219 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
2220 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
2221 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
2222 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
2223 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
2225 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
2226 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
2227 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
2228 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
2230 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
2231 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
2232 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
2233 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
2235 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
2236 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
2238 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
2239 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
2240 issues on some platforms.
2241 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
2242 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2243 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
2244 descriptor handling.
2246 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
2247 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
2248 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
2249 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
2250 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
2251 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
2253 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
2254 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
2255 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
2256 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
2257 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
2258 Hess for reporting this bug.
2259 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
2260 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
2261 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
2262 is linked with the shipped library, too.
2263 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
2264 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
2265 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
2266 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
2267 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
2268 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
2269 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
2270 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
2271 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
2272 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
2273 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
2274 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
2275 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2278 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
2279 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
2281 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
2282 Díaz for fixing this bug.
2283 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
2284 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
2285 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
2286 for reporting the bug.
2287 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
2289 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
2290 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
2291 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
2292 libtool 2.2 has been added.
2293 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
2294 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
2295 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
2296 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
2297 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
2299 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
2300 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
2301 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
2302 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
2303 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
2305 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
2306 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2308 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
2309 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
2310 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
2311 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
2312 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
2313 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
2314 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2315 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
2316 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
2317 Konetzko for the patch.
2318 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
2319 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
2320 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
2321 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
2322 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
2323 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
2324 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
2325 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
2326 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
2327 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
2328 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
2329 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
2330 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2331 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
2332 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
2333 Quiédeville for the patch.
2334 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
2336 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
2337 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
2338 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
2339 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
2340 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
2341 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
2342 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
2343 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
2345 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
2346 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
2347 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
2348 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
2349 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
2350 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
2352 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
2353 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
2354 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
2355 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
2357 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
2358 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
2359 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
2360 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
2361 Hess for reporting this bug.
2362 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
2363 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
2364 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
2365 is linked with the shipped library, too.
2366 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
2367 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
2368 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
2369 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
2370 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2373 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
2374 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
2375 Díaz for fixing this bug.
2376 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
2377 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
2378 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
2379 for reporting the bug.
2381 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
2382 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2383 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2384 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2385 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2386 providing an OpenBSD system.
2387 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
2388 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
2389 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
2390 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
2391 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
2393 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2395 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2396 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2397 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2398 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2399 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2401 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2402 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
2403 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2405 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
2406 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
2407 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
2408 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
2410 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
2411 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
2412 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
2413 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
2414 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
2415 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
2416 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
2417 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
2418 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
2419 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
2420 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2421 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2422 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2424 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
2425 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
2426 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2427 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
2428 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
2429 for finding and fixing most of them.
2430 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2431 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2433 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
2434 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
2435 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
2436 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
2437 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2438 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
2439 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
2440 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
2441 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
2442 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
2443 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
2445 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
2446 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
2447 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
2448 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
2450 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
2451 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
2452 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
2453 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
2454 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
2455 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
2456 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
2457 Kuhnle for the patch.
2458 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
2459 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
2460 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
2461 MacEachern for the patch.
2462 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
2463 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
2464 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
2465 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
2466 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
2467 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
2468 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
2469 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
2470 select interfaces, too.
2471 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
2472 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
2473 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
2475 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
2476 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
2477 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
2478 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
2479 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
2480 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2481 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
2482 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
2483 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
2484 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
2486 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
2487 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
2488 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
2489 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
2490 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
2491 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
2492 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
2493 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
2495 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
2496 been added. Portability fixes.
2497 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
2498 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
2499 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
2501 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
2504 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
2505 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2506 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2507 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2508 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2509 providing an OpenBSD system.
2510 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
2511 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2513 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
2514 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2515 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2516 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2517 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2518 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2520 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2521 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2522 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2523 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2525 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
2526 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
2528 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
2529 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2530 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
2532 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2533 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2534 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
2535 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
2537 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
2538 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2539 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2540 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2542 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2543 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2544 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
2545 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
2546 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
2547 provide these necessary functions.
2548 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2549 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
2551 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
2552 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2553 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2554 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
2556 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2557 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2558 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2559 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2560 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2561 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2563 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
2564 invalid configuration options.
2565 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2566 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2567 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2569 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
2570 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2571 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2572 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2574 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2575 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2576 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2577 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2578 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2579 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2580 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2581 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2583 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2584 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2585 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
2586 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
2587 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2588 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2589 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2590 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
2591 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
2592 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
2593 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
2594 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
2596 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2597 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2600 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
2601 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
2602 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
2604 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
2605 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
2606 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
2607 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
2608 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
2609 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
2611 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
2612 email, using the `esmtp' library.
2613 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
2614 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
2616 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
2617 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
2618 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
2619 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
2621 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
2622 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
2623 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
2624 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
2625 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
2627 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
2628 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
2629 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
2631 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
2632 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2633 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2634 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2636 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2637 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2638 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2639 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
2640 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2641 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2642 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2643 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2644 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2645 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2646 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2647 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2649 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2650 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2651 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2653 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
2654 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2655 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2656 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2658 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2659 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2660 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2661 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2662 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2663 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2664 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2665 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2667 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2668 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2669 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2670 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2671 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2672 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2673 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2676 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
2677 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
2678 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2680 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2681 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
2683 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
2684 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
2685 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianness of the
2686 architecture collectd is being built on.
2687 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
2689 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
2691 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
2692 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
2693 values under Solaris.
2694 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
2695 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
2697 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
2698 returned by some broken drivers.
2700 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
2701 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
2702 to kyrone for reporting this.
2703 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
2705 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
2707 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
2708 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
2709 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
2710 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
2712 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
2713 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
2714 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
2715 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
2716 flush its values to disk.
2717 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
2718 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
2719 for each data source.
2720 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
2722 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
2723 page of an Ascent server.
2724 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2725 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
2726 specific disks has been added.
2727 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2728 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
2729 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
2731 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
2732 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
2733 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
2734 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
2735 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
2736 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
2737 configuration has been decreased.
2738 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
2739 continuously reading from log files.
2740 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
2741 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
2742 and number of channels.
2743 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2744 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
2745 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
2747 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
2748 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
2750 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianness more
2752 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
2753 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
2754 again has been applied.
2755 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2757 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2758 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
2760 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2761 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2762 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
2765 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
2766 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2767 they are in non-standard paths.
2768 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2769 if the libc expects it.
2770 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2771 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2773 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2774 using a buffer of static size.
2775 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2777 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2778 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2780 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
2781 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
2782 `Persist' threshold options.
2783 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
2784 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2785 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2786 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2787 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2789 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
2790 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2792 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2793 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2794 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2795 cross-platform compatibility.
2796 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2797 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2798 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2800 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
2801 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
2802 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
2803 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
2804 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
2805 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
2807 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
2808 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
2809 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
2810 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
2811 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
2812 wants to add custom type definitions.
2813 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
2814 entire directories and shell wildcards.
2815 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
2816 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
2817 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
2818 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
2819 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
2820 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
2821 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
2822 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
2823 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
2824 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
2825 domain name lookups in this plugin.
2826 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
2827 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
2828 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
2829 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
2830 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
2831 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
2832 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
2833 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
2834 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
2835 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
2836 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
2837 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
2838 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
2839 Technology group for this plugin.
2841 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
2842 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2843 they are in non-standard paths.
2844 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2845 if the libc expects it.
2846 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2847 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2849 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2850 using a buffer of static size.
2851 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2853 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2854 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2856 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
2857 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2858 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2859 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2860 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2862 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
2863 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
2864 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2866 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
2867 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
2868 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
2869 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
2870 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2871 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2872 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2873 cross-platform compatibility.
2874 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2875 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
2876 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2877 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2879 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
2880 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
2881 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
2882 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
2883 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2885 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
2886 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
2887 of the libsensors library.
2889 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
2890 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
2891 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
2893 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
2894 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2897 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
2898 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
2899 enabled on the host.
2900 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2902 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
2903 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
2904 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
2905 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
2906 definitions separate from the host definitions.
2907 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
2908 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
2909 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
2910 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
2911 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
2912 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
2913 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
2914 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
2915 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
2916 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
2917 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
2918 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
2919 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
2920 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
2921 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
2922 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
2923 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
2924 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
2925 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
2926 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
2927 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
2929 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
2930 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
2931 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
2932 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
2933 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2935 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
2936 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
2938 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
2939 of the libsensors library.
2941 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
2942 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
2943 it's in a non-standard location.
2944 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
2945 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
2946 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
2947 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
2948 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
2949 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2951 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
2952 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
2954 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
2955 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
2957 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
2958 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
2959 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2960 noise quality as percentage.
2961 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
2962 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
2963 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
2964 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
2965 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
2966 support for the `timeticks' type.
2968 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
2969 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
2970 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
2971 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
2973 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
2974 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
2975 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
2977 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
2978 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
2979 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
2980 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
2982 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
2983 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
2984 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
2985 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
2987 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
2988 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
2989 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
2990 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
2991 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
2992 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
2993 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
2994 to not block data collection.
2995 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
2996 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
2997 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
2999 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
3000 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
3001 of music played with xmms.
3003 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
3004 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
3005 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
3006 noise quality as percentage.
3007 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
3009 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
3010 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
3011 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
3012 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
3014 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
3015 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
3016 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
3017 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
3019 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
3020 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
3022 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
3023 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
3024 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
3025 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
3026 (i. e. without quotes).
3027 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
3028 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
3029 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
3031 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
3032 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
3033 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
3034 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
3036 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
3037 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
3038 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
3041 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
3042 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
3044 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
3045 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
3046 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
3047 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
3048 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
3049 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
3050 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
3052 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
3053 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
3054 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
3055 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
3056 initialized correctly.
3057 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
3059 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
3060 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
3061 they're given in numerically form.
3063 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
3064 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
3065 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
3068 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
3069 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
3070 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
3071 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
3072 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
3073 thread-safe functions from now on.
3074 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
3075 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
3076 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
3078 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
3079 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
3080 write to increase IO-performance.
3081 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
3082 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
3083 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
3084 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
3085 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
3087 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
3088 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
3089 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
3091 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
3092 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
3093 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
3094 or STDOUT or STDERR.
3095 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
3096 system's syslog daemon.
3097 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
3098 entropy currently being available to the system.
3099 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
3100 back values provided by the forked processes.
3101 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
3102 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
3104 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
3105 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
3106 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
3107 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
3108 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
3109 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
3110 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
3111 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
3112 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
3114 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
3115 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
3116 noise quality as percentage.
3118 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
3119 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
3121 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
3122 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
3123 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
3124 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
3125 were accounted as `zombies'.
3127 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
3128 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
3131 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
3132 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
3133 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
3135 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
3136 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
3137 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
3138 segfault with some libcs.
3140 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
3141 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
3142 under Solaris again.
3143 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
3145 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
3146 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
3148 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
3149 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
3150 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
3151 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
3152 write init.d-scripts for it.
3153 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
3154 caused problems every now and then.
3155 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
3156 filesystem types or devices.
3157 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
3158 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
3160 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
3161 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
3162 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
3163 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
3164 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
3165 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
3166 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
3167 segment size and pagefaults.
3168 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
3169 queries multimeters.
3170 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
3171 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
3172 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
3174 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
3175 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
3176 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
3177 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
3179 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
3180 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
3181 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
3182 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
3185 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
3186 * The sample config file has been improved.
3187 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
3188 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
3189 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
3190 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
3192 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
3193 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
3194 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
3196 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
3197 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
3199 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
3200 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
3201 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
3202 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
3204 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
3205 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
3206 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
3207 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
3208 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
3209 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
3210 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
3211 with a test environment :)
3212 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
3215 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
3216 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
3217 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
3219 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
3220 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
3221 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
3223 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
3224 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
3225 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
3227 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
3228 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
3230 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
3231 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
3232 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
3233 approximately 7.6 days.
3235 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
3236 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
3237 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
3238 approximately 7.6 days.
3240 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
3241 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
3243 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
3245 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
3247 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
3248 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
3249 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
3250 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
3251 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
3253 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
3254 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
3255 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
3256 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
3257 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
3258 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
3259 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
3260 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
3262 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
3263 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
3264 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
3265 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
3267 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
3268 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
3269 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
3271 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
3272 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
3273 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
3275 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
3276 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
3277 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
3280 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
3281 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
3282 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
3284 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
3285 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
3286 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
3287 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
3289 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
3290 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
3291 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
3293 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
3294 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
3296 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
3297 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
3299 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
3300 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
3302 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
3303 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
3305 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
3306 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
3307 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
3308 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
3309 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
3310 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
3311 address and/or port than localhost.
3312 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
3313 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
3314 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
3315 be set in the configfile.
3317 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
3318 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
3319 client mode. This released fixes this.
3321 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
3322 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
3323 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
3326 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
3327 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
3329 * A `df' plugin has been added.
3330 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
3331 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
3332 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
3334 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
3335 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
3336 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
3339 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
3340 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
3341 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
3343 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
3344 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
3345 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
3346 currently logged in users.
3347 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
3348 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
3349 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
3350 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
3352 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
3353 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
3354 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
3355 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
3356 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
3357 with the `-c' argument.
3358 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
3359 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
3360 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
3361 Barcellos for this patch.
3363 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
3364 * New modules have been added:
3365 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
3366 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
3367 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
3368 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
3370 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
3371 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
3373 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
3374 between polls up to one day.
3375 * The init.d files have been improved.
3376 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
3378 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
3379 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
3380 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
3382 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
3383 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
3384 multicast) has been added.
3385 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
3386 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
3387 to be linked against an external library.
3388 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
3389 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
3391 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
3392 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
3394 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
3395 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
3396 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
3397 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
3398 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
3399 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
3400 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
3401 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
3402 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
3405 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
3406 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
3408 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
3410 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
3411 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
3413 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
3414 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
3415 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
3416 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
3418 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
3419 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
3420 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3422 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
3423 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
3424 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
3425 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
3426 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
3427 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
3428 statistics will not work.
3430 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
3431 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
3432 weird strings as disk-names..
3434 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
3435 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
3436 about the disks and partitions.
3438 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
3439 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
3440 and/or kernel versions.
3442 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
3443 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
3444 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
3446 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
3447 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
3448 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
3450 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
3451 * Collecting CPU statistics now
3453 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
3454 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
3456 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
3458 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
3459 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
3461 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
3462 * The following modules are provided:
projects / collectd.git / blob