1 2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9
2 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
3 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
4 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
5 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
6 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
7 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
8 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
9 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
10 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
11 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
12 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
13 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
14 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
15 Tomas Doran for his patch.
16 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
17 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
18 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
19 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
22 2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8
23 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
24 unwanted permission bits.
25 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
26 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
27 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
28 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
29 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
30 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
31 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
32 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
33 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
34 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
35 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
36 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
37 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
38 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
39 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
40 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
42 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
43 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
44 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
46 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
47 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
48 "KIvosak" for the patch.
49 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
50 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
51 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
52 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
53 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
55 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
56 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
57 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
58 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
59 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
60 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
61 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
64 2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7
65 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
66 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
68 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
69 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
71 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
72 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
73 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
75 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
76 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
78 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
79 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
81 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
82 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
84 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
85 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
87 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
88 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
89 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
90 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
91 runtime has been fixed.
93 2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6
94 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
95 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
96 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
98 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
99 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
100 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
101 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
102 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
103 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
104 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
106 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
108 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
109 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
110 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
111 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
112 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
114 2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5
115 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
116 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
117 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
118 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
120 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
121 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
122 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
123 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
125 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
126 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
127 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
128 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
129 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
130 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
131 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
132 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
133 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
136 2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4
137 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
138 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
139 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
140 to Peter Green for his patch.
141 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
142 McCabe for the patch.
143 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
144 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
145 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
147 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
148 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
149 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
150 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
151 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
152 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
153 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
154 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
155 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
156 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
157 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
158 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
161 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
162 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
163 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
165 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
166 percentage calculation has been fixed.
167 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
169 * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
170 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
171 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
172 * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
173 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
175 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
176 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
179 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
180 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
181 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
182 the rest of the configuration if possible.
183 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
184 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
185 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
186 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
187 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
188 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
189 configurable timeout value.
190 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
191 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
192 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
193 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
194 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
195 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
196 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
198 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
199 to prevent spamming the logs.
200 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
201 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
202 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
203 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
205 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
207 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
208 Trenkel for the patch.
210 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
211 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
212 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
213 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
214 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
216 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
217 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
218 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
220 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
221 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
222 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
223 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
224 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
225 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
226 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
227 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
228 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
229 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
231 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
232 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
233 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
234 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
235 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
236 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
237 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
239 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
241 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
242 lines from the match.
243 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
244 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
246 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
247 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
249 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
250 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
252 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
253 certain lines from the match.
254 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
255 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
256 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
257 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
258 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
259 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
260 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
261 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
262 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
263 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
264 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
265 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
266 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
267 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
268 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
269 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
270 Sebastian Harl for his work.
271 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
272 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
273 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
274 Sven Trenkel for his work.
275 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
276 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
277 MikroTik devices has been added.
278 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
279 Scraba for his patch.
280 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
281 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
282 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
283 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
284 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
285 Ammous for his patch.
287 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
288 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
289 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
291 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
292 percentage calculation has been fixed.
293 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
295 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
296 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
297 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
299 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
300 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
303 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
304 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
305 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
306 the rest of the configuration if possible.
307 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
308 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
309 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
310 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
311 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
312 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
313 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
314 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
315 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
316 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
317 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
318 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
320 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
321 to prevent spamming the logs.
322 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
323 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
324 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
325 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
327 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
328 Trenkel for the patch.
330 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
331 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
332 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
333 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
334 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
336 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
337 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
338 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
339 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
341 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
342 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
343 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
344 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
345 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
346 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
347 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
348 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
349 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
350 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
351 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
352 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
354 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
355 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
356 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
357 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
358 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
359 figuring out a way to make this work.
360 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
361 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
362 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
363 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
364 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
366 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
368 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
369 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
370 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
371 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
372 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
373 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
374 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
375 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
377 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
378 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
379 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
380 an unknown data source type.
381 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
382 packets has been fixed.
383 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
385 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
386 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
387 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
388 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
389 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
390 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
392 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
393 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
394 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
395 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
396 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
397 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
398 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
399 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
400 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
402 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
403 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
404 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
407 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
408 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
409 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
410 Weiskircher for the patch.
411 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
412 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
413 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
414 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
415 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
416 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
417 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
418 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
419 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
420 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
421 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
422 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
423 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
425 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
426 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
427 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
428 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
429 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
430 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
431 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
432 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
433 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
434 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
435 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
436 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
437 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
438 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
439 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
440 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
441 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
442 storage has been added.
443 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
444 value has been added.
446 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
447 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
448 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
449 an unknown data source type.
451 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
452 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
453 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
454 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
455 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
456 figuring out a way to make this work.
457 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
458 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
459 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
460 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
462 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
464 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
465 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
466 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
467 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
468 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
469 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
471 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
472 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
473 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
474 packets has been fixed.
475 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
476 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
477 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
478 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
479 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
480 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
482 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
483 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
484 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
485 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
486 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
489 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
490 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
491 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
492 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
493 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
494 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
496 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
497 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
498 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
499 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
500 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
501 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
503 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
504 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
505 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
506 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
508 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
509 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
511 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
512 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
513 issues on some platforms.
514 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
515 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
516 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
519 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
520 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
521 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
522 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
523 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
524 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
526 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
527 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
528 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
529 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
530 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
531 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
532 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
533 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
534 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
535 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
536 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
538 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
539 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
540 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
541 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
542 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
543 Aman Gupta for the patch.
544 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
545 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
546 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
547 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
548 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
550 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
551 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
553 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
554 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
555 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
556 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
557 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
558 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
559 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
560 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
561 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
562 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
563 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
564 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
565 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
566 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
568 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
569 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
570 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
571 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
572 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
573 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
575 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
576 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
577 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
578 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
580 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
581 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
582 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
583 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
585 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
586 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
588 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
589 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
590 issues on some platforms.
591 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
592 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
593 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
596 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
597 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
598 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
599 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
600 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
601 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
603 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
604 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
605 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
606 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
607 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
608 Hess for reporting this bug.
609 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
610 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
611 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
612 is linked with the shipped library, too.
613 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
614 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
615 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
616 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
617 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
618 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
619 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
620 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
621 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
622 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
623 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
624 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
625 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
628 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
629 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
631 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
632 Díaz for fixing this bug.
633 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
634 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
635 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
636 for reporting the bug.
637 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
639 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
640 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
641 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
642 libtool 2.2 has been added.
643 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
644 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
645 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
646 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
647 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
649 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
650 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
651 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
652 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
653 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
655 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
656 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
658 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
659 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
660 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
661 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
662 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
663 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
664 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
665 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
666 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
667 Konetzko for the patch.
668 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
669 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
670 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
671 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
672 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
673 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
674 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
675 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
676 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
677 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
678 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
679 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
680 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
681 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
682 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
683 Quiédeville for the patch.
684 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
686 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
687 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
688 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
689 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
690 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
691 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
692 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
693 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
695 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
696 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
697 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
698 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
699 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
700 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
702 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
703 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
704 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
705 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
707 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
708 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
709 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
710 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
711 Hess for reporting this bug.
712 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
713 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
714 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
715 is linked with the shipped library, too.
716 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
717 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
718 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
719 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
720 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
723 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
724 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
725 Díaz for fixing this bug.
726 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
727 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
728 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
729 for reporting the bug.
731 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
732 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
733 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
734 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
735 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
736 providing an OpenBSD system.
737 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
738 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
739 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
740 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
741 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
743 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
745 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
746 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
747 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
748 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
749 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
751 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
752 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
753 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
755 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
756 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
757 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
758 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
760 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
761 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
762 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
763 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
764 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
765 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
766 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
767 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
768 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
769 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
770 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
771 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
772 initialized, the daemon may crash.
774 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
775 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
776 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
777 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
778 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
779 for finding and fixing most of them.
780 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
781 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
783 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
784 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
785 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
786 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
787 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
788 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
789 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
790 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
791 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
792 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
793 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
795 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
796 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
797 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
798 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
800 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
801 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
802 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
803 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
804 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
805 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
806 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
807 Kuhnle for the patch.
808 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
809 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
810 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
811 MacEachern for the patch.
812 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
813 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
814 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
815 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
816 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
817 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
818 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
819 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
820 select interfaces, too.
821 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
822 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
823 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
825 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
826 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
827 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
828 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
829 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
830 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
831 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
832 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
833 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
834 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
836 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
837 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
838 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
839 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
840 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
841 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
842 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
843 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
845 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
846 been added. Portability fixes.
847 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
848 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
849 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
851 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
854 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
855 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
856 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
857 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
858 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
859 providing an OpenBSD system.
860 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
861 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
863 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
864 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
865 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
866 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
867 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
868 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
870 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
871 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
872 initialized, the daemon may crash.
873 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
875 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
876 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
878 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
879 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
880 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
882 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
883 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
884 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
885 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
887 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
888 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
889 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
890 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
892 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
893 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
894 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
895 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
896 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
897 provide these necessary functions.
898 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
899 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
901 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
902 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
903 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
904 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
906 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
907 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
908 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
909 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
910 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
911 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
913 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
914 invalid configuration options.
915 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
916 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
917 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
919 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
920 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
921 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
922 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
924 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
925 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
926 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
927 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
928 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
929 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
930 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
931 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
933 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
934 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
935 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
936 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
937 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
938 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
939 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
940 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
941 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
942 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
943 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
944 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
946 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
947 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
950 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
951 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
952 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
954 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
955 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
956 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
957 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
958 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
959 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
961 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
962 email, using the `esmtp' library.
963 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
964 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
966 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
967 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
968 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
969 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
971 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
972 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
973 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
974 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
975 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
977 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
978 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
979 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
981 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
982 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
983 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
984 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
986 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
987 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
988 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
989 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
990 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
991 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
992 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
993 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
994 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
995 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
996 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
997 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
999 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
1000 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
1001 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
1003 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
1004 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
1005 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
1006 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
1008 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
1009 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
1010 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
1011 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
1012 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
1013 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
1014 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
1015 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
1017 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
1018 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
1019 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
1020 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
1021 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
1022 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
1023 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
1026 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
1027 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
1028 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
1030 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
1031 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
1033 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
1034 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
1035 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianess of the
1036 architecture collectd is being built on.
1037 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
1039 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
1041 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
1042 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
1043 values under Solaris.
1044 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
1045 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
1047 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
1048 returned by some broken drivers.
1050 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
1051 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
1052 to kyrone for reporting this.
1053 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
1055 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
1057 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
1058 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
1059 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
1060 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
1062 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
1063 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
1064 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
1065 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
1066 flush its values to disk.
1067 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
1068 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
1069 for each data source.
1070 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
1072 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
1073 page of an Ascent server.
1074 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1075 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
1076 specific disks has been added.
1077 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1078 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
1079 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
1081 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
1082 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
1083 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
1084 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
1085 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
1086 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
1087 configuration has been decreased.
1088 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
1089 continuously reading from log files.
1090 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
1091 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
1092 and number of channels.
1093 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1094 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
1095 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
1097 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
1098 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
1100 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianess more
1102 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
1103 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
1104 again has been applied.
1105 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
1107 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
1108 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
1110 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
1111 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
1112 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
1115 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
1116 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
1117 they are in non-standard paths.
1118 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
1119 if the libc expects it.
1120 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1121 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
1123 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
1124 using a buffer of static size.
1125 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
1127 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1128 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
1130 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
1131 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
1132 `Persist' threshold options.
1133 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
1134 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
1135 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
1136 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
1137 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
1139 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
1140 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
1142 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
1143 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
1144 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
1145 cross-platform compatibility.
1146 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
1147 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
1148 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
1150 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
1151 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
1152 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
1153 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
1154 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
1155 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
1157 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
1158 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
1159 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
1160 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
1161 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
1162 wants to add custom type definitions.
1163 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
1164 entire directories and shell wildcards.
1165 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
1166 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
1167 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
1168 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
1169 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
1170 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
1171 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
1172 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
1173 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
1174 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
1175 domain name lookups in this plugin.
1176 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
1177 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
1178 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
1179 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
1180 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
1181 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
1182 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
1183 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
1184 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
1185 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
1186 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
1187 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
1188 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
1189 Technology group for this plugin.
1191 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
1192 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
1193 they are in non-standard paths.
1194 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
1195 if the libc expects it.
1196 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1197 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
1199 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
1200 using a buffer of static size.
1201 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
1203 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1204 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
1206 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
1207 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
1208 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
1209 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
1210 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
1212 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
1213 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
1214 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
1216 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
1217 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
1218 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
1219 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
1220 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
1221 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
1222 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
1223 cross-platform compatibility.
1224 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
1225 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
1226 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
1227 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
1229 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
1230 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
1231 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
1232 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
1233 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
1235 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
1236 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
1237 of the libsensors library.
1239 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
1240 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
1241 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
1243 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
1244 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1247 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
1248 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
1249 enabled on the host.
1250 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
1252 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
1253 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
1254 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
1255 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
1256 definitions separate from the host definitions.
1257 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
1258 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
1259 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
1260 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
1261 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
1262 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
1263 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
1264 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
1265 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
1266 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
1267 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
1268 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
1269 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
1270 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
1271 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
1272 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
1273 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
1274 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
1275 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
1276 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
1277 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
1279 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
1280 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
1281 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
1282 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
1283 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
1285 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
1286 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
1288 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
1289 of the libsensors library.
1291 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
1292 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
1293 it's in a non-standard location.
1294 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
1295 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
1296 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
1297 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
1298 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
1299 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
1301 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
1302 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
1304 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
1305 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
1307 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
1308 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
1309 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1310 noise quality as percentage.
1311 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
1312 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
1313 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
1314 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
1315 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
1316 support for the `timeticks' type.
1318 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
1319 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
1320 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
1321 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
1323 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
1324 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
1325 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
1327 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
1328 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
1329 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
1330 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
1332 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
1333 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
1334 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
1335 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
1337 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
1338 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
1339 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
1340 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
1341 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
1342 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
1343 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
1344 to not block data collection.
1345 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
1346 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
1347 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
1349 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
1350 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
1351 of music played with xmms.
1353 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
1354 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
1355 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1356 noise quality as percentage.
1357 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
1359 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
1360 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
1361 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
1362 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
1364 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
1365 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
1366 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
1367 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
1369 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
1370 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
1372 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
1373 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
1374 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
1375 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
1376 (i. e. without quotes).
1377 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
1378 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
1379 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
1381 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
1382 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
1383 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
1384 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
1386 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
1387 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
1388 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
1391 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
1392 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
1394 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
1395 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1396 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
1397 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1398 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
1399 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
1400 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
1402 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
1403 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
1404 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
1405 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
1406 initialized correctly.
1407 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
1409 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
1410 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
1411 they're given in numerically form.
1413 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
1414 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
1415 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
1418 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
1419 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
1420 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
1421 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
1422 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
1423 thread-safe functions from now on.
1424 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
1425 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
1426 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
1428 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
1429 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
1430 write to increase IO-performance.
1431 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
1432 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
1433 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
1434 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
1435 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
1437 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
1438 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
1439 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
1441 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
1442 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
1443 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
1444 or STDOUT or STDERR.
1445 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
1446 system's syslog daemon.
1447 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
1448 entropy currently being available to the system.
1449 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
1450 back values provided by the forked processes.
1451 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
1452 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
1454 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
1455 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
1456 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
1457 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
1458 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
1459 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
1460 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
1461 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
1462 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
1464 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
1465 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
1466 noise quality as percentage.
1468 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
1469 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
1471 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
1472 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
1473 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
1474 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
1475 were accounted as `zombies'.
1477 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
1478 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
1481 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
1482 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
1483 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
1485 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
1486 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
1487 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
1488 segfault with some libcs.
1490 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
1491 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
1492 under Solaris again.
1493 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
1495 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
1496 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
1498 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
1499 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
1500 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
1501 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
1502 write init.d-scripts for it.
1503 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
1504 caused problems every now and then.
1505 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
1506 filesystem types or devices.
1507 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
1508 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
1510 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
1511 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
1512 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
1513 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
1514 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
1515 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
1516 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
1517 segment size and pagefaults.
1518 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
1519 queries multimeters.
1520 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
1521 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
1522 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
1524 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
1525 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
1526 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
1527 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
1529 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
1530 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
1531 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
1532 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
1535 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
1536 * The sample config file has been improved.
1537 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
1538 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
1539 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
1540 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
1542 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
1543 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
1544 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
1546 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
1547 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
1549 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
1550 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
1551 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
1552 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
1554 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
1555 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
1556 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
1557 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
1558 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
1559 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
1560 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
1561 with a test environment :)
1562 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
1565 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
1566 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
1567 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
1569 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
1570 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
1571 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
1573 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
1574 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
1575 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
1577 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
1578 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
1580 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
1581 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1582 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1583 approximately 7.6 days.
1585 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
1586 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1587 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1588 approximately 7.6 days.
1590 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
1591 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
1593 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
1595 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
1597 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
1598 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
1599 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
1600 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
1601 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
1603 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
1604 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
1605 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
1606 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
1607 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
1608 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
1609 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
1610 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
1612 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
1613 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
1614 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
1615 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
1617 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
1618 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
1619 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
1621 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
1622 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
1623 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
1625 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
1626 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
1627 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
1630 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
1631 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
1632 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
1634 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
1635 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
1636 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
1637 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
1639 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
1640 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
1641 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
1643 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
1644 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
1646 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
1647 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
1649 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
1650 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
1652 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
1653 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
1655 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
1656 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
1657 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
1658 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
1659 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
1660 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
1661 address and/or port than localhost.
1662 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
1663 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
1664 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
1665 be set in the configfile.
1667 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
1668 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
1669 client mode. This released fixes this.
1671 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
1672 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
1673 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
1676 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
1677 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
1679 * A `df' plugin has been added.
1680 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
1681 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
1682 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
1684 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
1685 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
1686 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
1689 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
1690 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
1691 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
1693 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
1694 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
1695 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
1696 currently logged in users.
1697 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
1698 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
1699 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
1700 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
1702 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
1703 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
1704 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
1705 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
1706 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
1707 with the `-c' argument.
1708 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
1709 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
1710 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
1711 Barcellos for this patch.
1713 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
1714 * New modules have been added:
1715 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
1716 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
1717 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
1718 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
1720 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
1721 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
1723 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
1724 between polls up to one day.
1725 * The init.d files have been improved.
1726 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
1728 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
1729 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
1730 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
1732 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
1733 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
1734 multicast) has been added.
1735 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
1736 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
1737 to be linked against an external library.
1738 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
1739 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
1741 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
1742 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
1744 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
1745 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
1746 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
1747 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
1748 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
1749 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
1750 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
1751 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
1752 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
1755 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
1756 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
1758 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
1760 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
1761 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
1763 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
1764 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
1765 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
1766 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
1768 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
1769 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
1770 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
1772 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
1773 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
1774 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
1775 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
1776 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
1777 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
1778 statistics will not work.
1780 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
1781 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
1782 weird strings as disk-names..
1784 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
1785 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
1786 about the disks and partitions.
1788 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
1789 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
1790 and/or kernel versions.
1792 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
1793 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
1794 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
1796 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
1797 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
1798 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
1800 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
1801 * Collecting CPU statistics now
1803 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
1804 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
1806 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
1808 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
1809 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
1811 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
1812 * The following modules are provided:
projects / collectd.git / blob