1 2017-06-06, Version 5.7.2
2 * Build system: The Notify Email plugin is no longer linked with
3 indirect dependencies. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
4 * collectd: A race condition when calculating a metric's rate has been
5 fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1193
6 * AMQP, Exec, UnixSock, Write Kafka plugins: Parsing of the PUTVAL
7 command with multiple values has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
9 * AMQP plugin: The "ExchangeType" option is now also valid for
10 publishers. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2286
11 * BIND plugin: Fix parsing of the sample time provided by BIND.
12 Previously, the time was assumed to be in the local timezone when in
13 fact it was in UTC. Thanks to Ed Ravin. #1268
14 * BIND plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
16 * cURL-JSON plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
18 * DPDKStat plugin: Error handling during initialization has been
19 improved. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
20 * DPDKStat plugin: Handling of a number of metrics has been improved,
21 for example "rx_q0bytes". Thanks to Przemyslaw Szczerbik. #2167
22 * Intel RDT plugin: Configuration handling has been changed to be more
23 graceful. Thanks to Maryam Tahhan. #2165
24 * Log Logstash plugin: If writing the log entry fails, print it to
25 "STDERR" instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
26 * LogFile plugin: If writing to the file fails, print log messages on
27 "STDERR" instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
28 * memcachec, Tail plugins: A resource leak in the matching
29 infrastructure has been fixed. Thanks to Krzysztof Matczak. #2192
30 * MQTT plugin: Invalid symbols in topic names are now replaced and a
31 resource leak has been fixed. Thanks to Denys Fedoryshchenko. #2123
32 * Network plugin: A potential endless-loop has been fixed. This can be
33 triggered remotely by sending a signed network packet to a server
34 which is not set up to check signatures. Thanks to Marcin Kozlowski
35 and Pavel Rochnyack. #2174, #2233, CVE-2017-7401
36 * Perl plugin: A potential double-free has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
38 * Processes plugin: A compilation error on AIX has been fixed. Thanks to
39 Pavel Rochnyack. #2210
40 * SMART plugin: A check for the "CAP_SYS_RAWIO" capability has been
41 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
42 * Write Graphite plugin: Error handling in the case that calculating a
43 metric's rate fails has been improved. Previously, the raw counter
44 values were sent to Graphite. Thanks to Iain Buclaw. #2209
45 * Write Prometheus plugin: An incorrect use of "realloc(3)" has been
46 fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2275
48 2017-01-23, Version 5.7.1
49 * collectd: Handling of boolean configuration options has been unified.
50 Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #2083, #2098
51 * collectd: Reporting of internal statistics has been fixed. Thanks to
52 Florian Forster. #2108
53 * collectd, various plugins: Bugs and issues reported by scan-build and
54 coverity-scan have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof and Florian
56 * Build system: Parallel build have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
58 * DPDKStat plugin: Portability issues and a double-close bug have been
59 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof and Marc Fournier.
60 * Intel RDT plugin: A check for the libpqos library version has been
61 added. Thanks to Serhiy Pshyk.
62 * NetApp plugin: Compilation problems have been corrected. Thanks to
63 Florian Forster. #2120
64 * Write Prometheus plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben
67 2016-12-12, Version 5.7.0
68 * Documentation: The Turbostat plugin section has been improved. Thanks
70 * Documentation: The semantics of the "TypesDB" option have been
71 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster.
72 * collectd: A generic interface for parsing the text protocol has been
73 added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1749
74 * collectd: Threads now get named, making them easier to track using
75 tools such as top, ps, etc. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada
76 and Marc Fournier. #547
77 * AMQP plugin, Write Graphite plugin, Write Kafka plugin: The new
78 "[Graphite]PreserveSeparator" option allows retaining the default dot
79 separator rather than escaping it. Thanks to Florian Forster. #419
80 * Battery plugin: A StateFS backend for gathering statistics has been
81 added. Thanks to Rinigus. #1795
82 * CPU plugin: CPU aggregation on AIX was fixed. Thanks to Chao Yang.
84 * Collectd::Unixsock: Fractional seconds support has been made more
85 robust. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #2052
86 * DPDKStat plugin: This new plugin collects DPDK interface statistics.
87 Thanks to Maryam Tahhan, Harry van Haaren, Taras Chornyi and Kim
89 * gRPC plugin: The "DispatchValues" option has been renamed to
90 "PutValues". Thanks to Florian Forster.
91 * HDDTemp plugin: The 32 devices limit has been removed. Thanks to
92 Benjamin Gilbert. #631
93 * Hugepages plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used and free
94 hugepages on Linux. Thanks to Jaroslav Safka, Maryam Tahhan, Kim Jones
95 and Florian Forster. #1799
96 * Intel RDT plugin: This new plugin collects statistics exposed by
97 Intel's Resource Director Technology . Thanks to SerhiyX. #1970
98 * memcached plugin: The new "Address" option allows connecting to a
99 different server than specified by the "Host" option. Thanks to Pavel
101 * nginx plugin: Support for reporting failed connections has been added.
102 Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1609
103 * Perl plugin: Significant internal reworking has been made. The new
104 "RegisterLegacyFlush" option has been added. Thanks to Pavel
106 * PostgreSQL plugin: Timestamps are now RFC 3339-formatted local time.
107 Thanks to Igor Peshansky and Dave Cunningham. #1918
108 * Processes plugin: Internal performance improvements have been made.
109 Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1980, #1981
110 * RRDCacheD plugin: The plugin now tries to reconnect upon failed
111 operations. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1959
112 * SpamAssassin: The plugin can now run in Perl's "tainted mode" ("-T").
113 Thanks to Akos Vandra. #1962
114 * Tail plugin: Support for calculating latency distribution of matching
115 values has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack and Florian Forster.
117 * Tail plugin: The new "GaugePersist" option has been added. Thanks to
118 Florian Forster. #2015
119 * Target:Set, Target:Replace, Match:RegEx: MetaData support has been
120 added . Thanks to Igor Peshansky. #1922, #1923, #1930
121 * turbostat plugin: The new "LogicalCoreNames" option allows switching
122 to per-core naming rather than per-CPU. Thanks to Brock Johnson. #2056
123 * virt plugin: The new "BlockDeviceFormat" and
124 "BlockDeviceFormatBasename" options help controlling the names
125 reported for block-device metrics. Thanks to Deyan Chepishev. #2004
126 * Write Graphite plugin: A new "DropDuplicateFields" option has been
127 added. Thanks to Michael Leinartas. #1915
128 * Write Kafka plugin: The "Key Random" setting has been reintroduced.
129 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1977
130 * Write Log plugin: Support for formatting output in JSON has been
131 added, using the new "Format" configuration option. Thanks to Igor
133 * Write Prometheus plugin: This new plugin publishes values using an
134 embedded HTTP server, in a format compatible with Prometheus'
135 collectd_exporter. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1967
137 2017-10-06, Version 5.6.3
138 * collectd: support for boolean string config values has been
139 reintroduced. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #2083, #2098
140 * collectd: The capability checking has been changed to use
141 "cap_get_proc()". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #2151
142 * Documentation: A section documenting ignore lists has been added to
143 collectd.conf(5). Thanks to Florian Forster.
144 * AMQP plugin: The "ExchangeType" option is now also valid for
145 publishers. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2286
146 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP
147 plugins: Handling of URLs that redirect elsewhere has been fixed.
148 Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2328
149 * BIND plugin: Fix parsing of the sample time provided by BIND.
150 Previously, the time was assumed to be in the local time zone when in
151 fact it was in UTC. Thanks to Ed Ravin. #1268
152 * BIND plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
154 * Chrony plugin: Build flags have been fixed. Thanks to Thomas Jost and
156 * cURL-JSON plugin: The timeout value has been changed to default to the
157 collection interval. This fixes a regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
158 * cURL-JSON plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
160 * DBI plugin: Memory leaks at shutdown have been fixes. Thanks to Pavel
161 Rochnyack and Florian Forster.
162 * E-Mail, Exec, UnixSock plugins: Group ID lookup on systems with many
163 groups has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof and Florian Forster.
165 * IPC plugin: A compilation error on AIX has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel
167 * LogFile plugin: If writing to the file fails, print log messages on
168 "STDERR" instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
169 * Log Logstash plugin: If writing the log entry fails, print it to
170 "STDERR" instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
171 * memcachec, Tail plugins: A resource leak in the matching
172 infrastructure has been fixed. Thanks to Krzysztof Matczak. #2192
173 * MQTT plugin: Invalid symbols in topic names are now replaced and a
174 resource leak has been fixed. Thanks to Denys Fedoryshchenko. #2123
175 * Network plugin: A potential endless-loop has been fixed. This can be
176 triggered remotely by sending a signed network packet to a server
177 which is not set up to check signatures. Thanks to Marcin Kozlowski
178 and Pavel Rochnyack. #2174, #2233, CVE-2017-7401
179 * Network plugin: A use-after-free has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel
181 * Notify Email plugin: The plugin is no longer explicitly linked against
182 libssl and libcrypto, relies on libesmtp being linked correctly.
183 Thanks to Marc Fournier. Debian#852924
184 * NTPd plugin: Calculation of loop offset and error has been fixed.
185 Thanks to Neil Wilson. #2188
186 * OpenLDAP plugin: An incorrect use of the ldap library, leading to a
187 crash, has been fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #2331
188 * Perl plugin: A potential double-free has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
190 * Perl plugin: Print an error when an incorrect configuration is
191 encountered. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #927
192 * RRDtool plugin: Incorrect handling of the flushes timeout option has
193 been fixed. Handling of the "RandomTimeout" has been fixed. Thanks to
194 Pavel Rochnyack. #2363
195 * SMART plugin: Some warning messages have been removed and the code has
196 been cleaned up. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2062
197 * SMART plugin: A check for the "CAP_SYS_RAWIO" capability has been
198 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
199 * SNMP plugin: A double free has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack.
201 * Write Graphite plugin: Error handling in the case that calculating a
202 metric's rate fails has been improved. Previously, the raw counter
203 values were sent to Graphite. Thanks to Iain Buclaw. #2209
204 * Write Kafka plugin: A 32 bit random number is now used when formatting
205 a random key. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2074
208 2016-11-30, Version 5.6.2
209 * collectd: A compile error on AIX has been fixed: "MSG_DONTWAIT" is not
210 available on AIX. Thanks to Chao Yang.
211 * collectd: The capability checking has been rewritten to be more
212 portable. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2009
213 * collectd.conf(5): Various typos have been fixed. Thanks to Marc
215 * collectd-tg: Incorrect usage of "nanosleep()" has been fixed which
216 caused the tool to sleep (almost) indefinitely. Thanks to Florian
218 * Build system: Detection of the Java environment has been made
219 deterministic to allow for reproducible builds. Thanks to Marc
221 * Build system: Detection of the Lua headers has been improved. Thanks
223 * APC UPS plugin: Unavailable metrics are now skipped instead of
224 reported as 0 (zero). Thanks to Florian Forster. #2025
225 * Modbus plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
227 * OpenVPN plugin: Gracefully handle empty configurations. Thanks to
228 Pavel Rochnyack. #1932
229 * PowerDNS plugin: The "recursor command" has been fixed so PowerDNS can
230 correctly parse all requested fields. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
231 * Write Graphite and AMQP plugins: A bug that could lead to a missing
232 null-termination has been fixed. Thanks to Markus Linnala.
233 * Write HTTP plugin: A logic error when checking the correctness of the
234 data set has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1996
235 * Write Kafka plugin: The "Key Random" config option has been fixed.
236 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1977
237 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for librdkafka 0.9.0 has been added.
238 Thanks to Florian Forster.
239 * Write Riemann plugin: Build issues on Solaris have been fixed. Thanks
241 * ZFS ARC plugin: A duplicate metric has been removed. Thanks to Ruben
244 2016-10-07, Version 5.6.1
245 * Build system: Unnecessary linking of the Write Graphite plugin with
246 libyajl has been removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
248 * collectd: A bug in the "FlushInterval" option that caused a
249 segmentation fault in the Write HTTP plugin has been fixed. Thanks to
250 Florian Forster. #1954
251 * Apache plugin: A syntax error has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
253 * cURL-JSON plugin: A segmentation fault that occurred when handling
254 JSON with unexpected structure has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
256 * PostgreSQL plugin: Handling of "NULL" values in the "query_plans" and
257 "query_plans_by_table" queries has been fixed. Thanks to Bernd
259 * RRDCacheD plugin: Reconnection behavior has been added. Thanks to
260 Sebastian Harl. Debian#657877
261 * VServer plugin: Use of a deprecated API ("readdir_r()") has been
262 fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
263 * Write Graphite plugin: Make default values configurable at compile
264 time again. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1953
265 * Write HTTP plugin: A bug has been fixed that lead to flush callbacks
266 being registered twice. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1955
268 2016-09-11, Version 5.6.0
269 * Build system: An option to to avoid building the DF plugin against XFS
270 has been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1878
271 * Build system: Autoconf ≥ 2.60, a C99-capable compiler and pkg-config
272 are now required. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
273 * Build system: Building with "-Werror" is now optional. Thanks to Ruben
275 * Build system: Many compilation issues on non-Linux platforms have been
276 fixed, leading to wider plugin support. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
277 Dagobert Michelsen, Havard Eidnes and Robert Viduya.
278 * Build system: The configuration summary now also ends up in
279 config.log. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
280 * collectd: All command-line options now override global options from
281 the config file. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #366
282 * collectd: A number of unit tests for commonly used functions have been
283 added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
284 * collectd: Plugins start up and read timeouts are now logged. Thanks to
285 Marc Fournier. #1293, #1254
286 * collectd: Support for a timeout has been added to "FLUSH" callbacks.
287 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
288 * collectd: The "-T" command line switch now reports more errors. Thanks
289 to Corey Kosak. #1642
290 * collectd: The max size of value list elements ("DATA_MAX_NAME_LEN")
291 has been doubled and is now configurable at build time. Thanks to Amy
292 Lin, Florian Forster and Radu Brumariu. #1120
293 * Set target: The "MetaData" option has been added. Thanks to Yves
294 Mettier and Kevin Bowling. #1106, #1656, #1913
295 * AMQP, Write_HTTP, Write_Kafka plugins: Support for libyajl < 2 has
296 been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
297 * APC UPS plugin: Parsing of end markers has been fixed. Thanks to
299 * APC UPS plugin: The "PersistentConnection" option has been added.
300 Thanks to Florian Forster #617
301 * ceph, DNS, Exec, IPTables, Ping, turbostat plugins: When running
302 unprivileged, these plugins will now warn about insuffiscient
303 permissions or capabilities(7). Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1530
304 * Chrony plugin: This new plugin collects NTP data from the chrony NTP
305 server. Thanks to Claudius Zingerli. #1548
306 * cpusleep plugin: This new plugin measures time spent by CPU in deep
307 sleep mode. Thanks to Rinigus. #1826
308 * CPU plugin: The "ReportNumCpu" option has been added. Thanks to Fabien
310 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: The new "Statistics" reports
311 various per-HTTP connection timers. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1004
312 * DBI plugin: The "Interval" option has been added to "Database" blocks.
313 Thanks to Michal Bebjak.
314 * Disk plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li,
315 Brad Davis, Ruben Kerfhof and Kevin Bowling.
316 * Empty Counter match: Support for derives has been implemented. Thanks
317 to Florian Forster. #1813
318 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for TabularData and the "PluginName" option
319 have been added. Thanks to David Crane. #1290, #1291
320 * GPS plugin: This new plugin reports the number of sattelites seen by
321 and precision of a GPS receiver. Thanks to Nicolas Jourden. #1346
322 * gRPC plugin: This new client and server plugin allows sending and
323 receiving metrics using the gRPC protocol. Comparable to the UnixSock
324 plugin, but using TCP and TLS. Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Florian
326 * Interface plugin: Reporting dropped packets has been added. Thanks to
328 * Interface plugin: The "ReportInactive" has been added, letting users
329 skip inactive network interfaces. Thanks to Rinigus. #1791
330 * Interface plugin: The new, Solaris-only "UniqueName" option has been
331 added. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam. #1416
332 * Lua plugin: This new language binding allows writing plugins using the
333 Lua programming language. Thanks to Julien Ammous, Florian Forster and
335 * Memory plugin: Reporting of ARC memory on Solaris has been added.
336 Thanks to Brian ONeill.
337 * MQTT plugin: This new plugin sends metrics to and/or receives metrics
338 from an MQTT broker. Thanks to Marc Falzon, Jan-Piet Mens, Nicholas
339 Humfrey and Florian Forster. #805, #1124
340 * MySQL plugin: Connection to the database server can now be done over
341 SSL. Thanks to Brian Lalor. #1256
342 * MySQL plugin: Monitoring slow queries has been added. Thanks to skob.
344 * MySQL plugin: mysql_bpool_pages-flushed has been renamed to
345 mysql_bpool_counters-pages_flushed because the value is cumulative.
346 Thanks to Marek Becka.
347 * MySQL plugin: Support for Galera statistics has been added. Thanks to
348 Rachid Zarouali. #1849
349 * MySQL plugin: Support for InnoDB metrics was improved. Thanks to Aman
351 * MySQL plugin: The "mysql_sort" type has been split into 3 different
352 types. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1592
353 * Network plugin: Decryption error logging has been improved. Thanks to
354 Pavel Rochnyack. #1735
355 * Notify Nagios plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to Nagios as
356 a passive check result. Thanks to Florian Forster.
357 * NTPd plugin: The plugin now detects if the ntp daemon reports
358 nanoseconds instead of microseconds. Thanks to Matwey V. Kornilov.
360 * OpenLDAP plugin: Several connection-related improvements have been
361 made. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1308
362 * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for "simple authentication" has been added.
363 Thanks to Marek Becka. #1087
364 * Ping plugin: The "Size" option has been added, allowing the ICMP data
365 payload size to be configured. Thanks to Witold Baryluk. #1395
366 * PostgreSQL, DBI, Oracle plugins: The new "PluginInstanceFrom" option
367 has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1707
368 * PowerDNS plugin: The recursor metrics have been updated to 3.7.3 and
369 missing rr types have been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
370 * Processes plugin: Counting of context switches was added for Linux.
371 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1036
372 * Processes plugin: Improve reliability of thread counts on Linux.
373 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
374 * Python plugin: Minimal Python version requirement has been bumped to
375 2.6. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1864
376 * Redis plugin: Several additional metrics are now collected. Thanks to
377 Marc Falzon and Matteo Contrini. #1807, #1483
378 * Sensors plugin: The "UseLabels" option has been added. Thanks to
380 * SMART plugin: The new "IgnoreSleepMode" option has been added. Thanks
381 to Scott Talbert. #1770
382 * SMART plugin: The new "UseSerial" option allows identifying devices in
383 a stable way. Thanks to Scott Talbert. #1794
384 * SNMP plugin: The "IpAddress" can now be used for instances. Thanks to
385 Vincent Bernat. #1397
386 * StatsD plugin: Latency calculation histogram is now able to shrink
387 automatically to optimal size. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1622
388 * StatsD plugin: The "CounterSum" option has been added. Thanks to
389 Florian Forster. #929, #1282, #1311
390 * UUID plugin: The plugin now also looks in in smbios system table and
391 "/sys/class/dmi". Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1490
392 * virt plugin: The "PluginInstanceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
393 to Ruben Kerkhof. #1100
394 * Write Graphite plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" option has been added.
395 Thanks to Toni Moreno and Florian Forster.
396 * Write HTTP plugin: A KairosDB formatter has been added. Thanks to
397 Aurélien Rougemont. #1809
398 * Write HTTP plugin: Notifications are now handled by this plugin.
399 Thanks to Florian Forster.
400 * Write HTTP plugin: The "LogHttpError" option has been added. Thanks to
402 * Write HTTP plugin: The new "Headers" option allows setting custom HTTP
403 headers in outgoing requests. Thanks to Brandon Arp. #1634
404 * Write Kafka plugin: Key handling has been made more comprehensive and
405 reliable. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Vincent
406 Bernat. #1765, #1695, #1393
407 * Write Redis plugin: The "Database", "MaxSetSize", "Prefix" and
408 "StoreRates" options have been added. Thanks to Brian Kelly and
410 * Write Riemann plugin: The new "BatchFlushTimeout" and "Timeout" option
411 have been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Gergely Nagy.
412 * Write Riemann plugin: This plugin now requires the riemann-c-client
413 library, version 1.6.0+. This adds support for submitting values to
414 Riemann over TLS. Thanks to Gergely Nagy. #986
415 * Write TSDB, Write Sensu, Write Riemann, Write Graphite, Write TSDB
416 plugin: TCP keepalive is now enabled, helping graceful recovery from
417 unclean network disconnections. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1549
418 * XenCPU plugin: This new plugin collects XEN Hypervisor CPU stats.
419 Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1608
420 * ZFS ARC plugin: Several new statistics have been added and a couple of
421 obsolete ones removed. Thanks to Brad Davis, Brian ONeill and Ruben
423 * Zone plugin: This new plugin reads per-zone CPU usage on Solaris.
424 Thanks to Mathijs Mohlmann and Dagobert Michelsen.
426 2016-11-28, Version 5.5.3
427 * collectd: Write threads are stopped before shutdown callbacks are
428 called. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1110
429 * collectd: A compile error on AIX has been fixed: "MSG_DONTWAIT" is not
430 available on AIX. Thanks to Chao Yang.
431 * libcollectdclient: Lines printed to "STDERR" are now guarded by the
432 environment variable "COLLECTD_TRACE". Thanks to Florian Forster. #105
433 * collectd.conf(5): Various typos have been fixed. Thanks to Marc
435 * Build system: Detection of the Java environment has been made
436 deterministic to allow for reproducible builds. Thanks to Marc
438 * APC UPS plugin: Unavailable metrics are now skipped instead of
439 reported as 0 (zero). Thanks to Florian Forster. #2025
440 * Battery plugin: The minimum value has been removed from the power type
441 to allow the plugin to report discharging batteries as negative power.
442 Thanks to Florian Forster.
443 * DBI, Oracle and PostgreSQL plugins: An error message when the type
444 instance is truncated has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #4
445 * cURL-JSON plugin: A possible segmentation fault when parsing
446 unexpected JSON has been fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1896
447 * DF plugin: Compilation with xfsprogs ≥ 4.7.0 has been fixed. Thanks
448 to Thomas Deutschmann. #1877
449 * Modbus plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
451 * Network plugin: An error message has been corrected. Thanks to Florian
453 * Network plugin: Handling of errors form secure memory initialization
454 has been improved: the plugin fails gracefully now instead of calling
455 "abort()". Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
456 * Network plugin: The gcrypt library is only initialized when it is
457 actually required due to the network plugin's configuration. Thanks to
458 Florian Forster. #1902
459 * Ping plugin: The init callback has been changed to be idempotent,
460 fixing errors being reported on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster.
462 * PostgreSQL plugin: The query_plans and query_plans_by_table queries
463 have been improved to return 0 (zero) instead of "NULL" when not
464 available. Thanks to Bernd Zeimetz. #1905
465 * PowerDNS plugin: The "recursor command" has been fixed so PowerDNS can
466 correctly parse all requested fields. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
467 * Python plugin: Handling of data sets with multiple data sources of
468 different type has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
469 * RRDCacheD plugin: Reconnection behavior after failed operations has
470 been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. Debian#657877
471 * Write Graphite and AMQP plugins: A bug that could lead to a missing
472 null-termination has been fixed. Thanks to Markus Linnala.
473 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for librdkafka 0.9.0 has been added.
474 Thanks to Florian Forster.
475 * Write Riemann plugin: Build issues on Solaris have been fixed. Thanks
478 2016-07-25, Version 5.5.2
479 * collectd: A division by zero has been fixed in the
480 "plugin_dispatch_multivalue()" function. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
481 * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
482 in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
483 * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
484 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkof.
485 * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
486 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
487 * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
488 more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
489 * DF plugin: A build issue on DragonFlyBSD has been fixed. Thanks to
491 * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
492 This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
494 * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
495 has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
496 * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
497 now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
498 Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
499 * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has
500 been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was
501 ignored. Thanks to @yujokang. #1665
502 * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
503 This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
504 Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
505 * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
506 single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
507 create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
508 * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
509 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
510 * Redis plugin: A memory leak in an error handling code path has been
511 fixed. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz.
512 * Redis plugin: The data source type of the expired_keys metric has been
513 corrected to "DERIVE". Thanks to Marc Falzon and Marc Fournier. #1483.
514 * SMART plugin: A build dependency on libudev has been added. Thanks to
515 Pavel Rochnyack. #1724
516 * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
517 Pavel Rochnyack #1703
518 * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
519 shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
520 * Write Sensu plugin: A segfault when the Tag was unset has been fixed.
521 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
522 * ZFS ARC plugin: The cache_operation-stolen metric has been removed for
523 FreeBSD 10.2 and later. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1580
525 2016-01-22, Version 5.5.1
526 * Build system: Compilation errors have been avoided by correctly
527 defining package name and version used by autoconf. Thanks to Nathan
529 * Build system: Dependency ordering was fixed to ensure parallel builds
530 work reliably. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias. #1125
531 * Build system: Error messages have been improved and building the unit
532 tests has been fixed on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster and
533 Dagobert Michelsen. #1077
534 * Build system: The move of the "utils_ignorelist" functions has been
535 reverted. This fixes build issues of numerous plugins. Thanks to
536 Benjamin Drung;. #1323
537 * Build system: The fhcount plugin has been restricted to Linux. Thanks
538 to Ruben Kerkhof. #1195
539 * Build system: Detection of header files for the turbostat plugin has
540 been fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1075
541 * collectd: The "LC_NUMERIC" locale is now forced, to prevent issues
542 with some plugins on environments using a comma as decimal separator.
543 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1237
544 * Documentation: Some precisions related to the virt plugin have beed
545 added. Thanks to Wojtek Bocer and Ruben Kerkhof.
546 * Documentation: The CollectdInternalStats documentation has been
547 improved. Thanks to Yves Mettier and Florian Forster.
548 * Battery plugin: A missing Type has been added. Thanks to Marc
550 * Bind plugin: An off-by-one error has been fixed: an index was checked
551 against a wrong variable, which may lead to an out-of-bounds read.
552 Thanks to Michal Humpula. #1123
553 * Ceph plugin: JSON parsing has been refactored to support ceph 10.0.0
554 and fixes several buffer overflows. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1350
555 * CPU plugin: A Mac OS X specific bug has been fixed: the plugin
556 expected an incorrect number of CPU states, resulting in failing read
557 callbacks. This regression was introduced in 5.5.0. Thanks to Robert
559 * Disk plugin: Support for Mac OS X 10.10 has been added. Thanks to
561 * IPC plugin: Support for building with musl-libc has been added. Thanks
562 to Natanael Copa. #1147
563 * Log Logstash plugin: A segfault when using libyajl, version 1 was
564 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #1190
565 * Log Logstash plugin: The timestamp is now ISO 8601 compliant. Thanks
566 to Marc Fournier. #1132
567 * memcached plugin: The Type of the listen-disabled metric was fixed.
568 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1356
569 * MySQL plugin: The Type used by Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_flushed was
570 fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1085
571 * OpenLDAP plugin: A crash when using LDAPI (LDAP-over-IPC) got fixed.
572 Thanks to Marek Becka. #1080
573 * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for Mac OS X has been added. Thanks to Ruben
575 * SMART plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
576 Schüller and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1076
577 * Swap plugin: A regression that would lead to swap usage being reported
578 in kilobytes (instead of bytes) has been fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka.
580 * Varnish plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Ruben
582 * Varnish plugin: Support for versions 3 and 4 has been made more
583 tolerant to minor changes in Varnish point releases. Thanks to Marc
585 * virt plugin: A copy-and-paste mistake in an error message has been
586 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1101
587 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
589 * Write Redis plugin: Dead code has been removed. Thanks to Brian Kelly.
591 * 27 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
592 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
593 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan and clang: Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
594 Florian Forster and Marek Becka.
595 * Collectd::Unixsock: A Perl error got corrected. Thanks to Ciaran Mac
598 2015-05-27, Version 5.5.0
599 * Build system: Ability to make out-of-tree builds has been fixed.
600 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #792
601 * Build system, Disk and Users plugins: Detection and use of libstatgrab
602 ≧ 0.90 has been added. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #445, #795, #806,
604 * Build system, Memory, CPU, TCPConns and Processes plugins: Numerous
605 fixes related to OpenBSD support have been added. Thanks to Landry
606 Breuil. #777, #778, #779, #808
607 * Build system: Plugins now only export "module_register()". Thanks to
609 * Build system: Various cleanups and improvements have been done. Thanks
611 * collectd: Numerous internal changes and improvements to the daemon and
612 the plugin API have been make. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves
613 Ritschard and Alex Petrov. #512, #727
614 * collectd: Numerous spelling mistakes have been corrected in comments
615 and documentation and several error messages have been improved.
616 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Abhinav Upadhyay, Olivier Bazoud, Pierre-Yves
617 Ritschard, Tim Smith, Moshe Zada, Katelyn Perry and Marc Fournier.
618 * collectd: Rules/Targets can now be appended to existing Filter Chains.
619 Thanks to Marc Falzon. #444
620 * collectd: Failing Filter Chains destinations will now log the list of
621 available write targets. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #650, #1043
622 * collectd: Support for process signaling and management by upstart and
623 systemd has been implemented for the Linux platform. Thanks to
624 Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. #798, #811, #814
625 * collectd: The "CollectInternalStats" option has been added. Thanks to
627 * collectd: The daemon source code and dependencies have moved to the
628 "src/daemon/" directory. Thanks to Florian Forster.
629 * collectd: The new "MaxReadInterval" option allows to cap the
630 exponential retry interval of plugins read errors. Thanks to Alexey
631 Remizov and Florian Forster. #713
632 * collectd: The "-P" command-line option now has precedence over the
633 "PIDFile" option. Thanks to Thomas D. #553
634 * collection.cgi: Various data-source related adjustments have been
635 made. Thanks to Fabiano Pires and Sebastian Harl.
636 * libcollectdclient: Now propagates errors when signing / encrypting
637 network packets. Thanks to Florian Forster.
638 * Configuration: Support for unquoted IPv6 addresses has been added.
639 Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #489
640 * Documentation: Various improvements have been done. Thanks to Florian
641 Forster and Marc Fournier.
642 * Examples: the sample C plugin has been updated to the current plugin
643 API. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
644 * Licensing: The following components have been relicensed to the MIT
645 license: the Apple Sensors, Ascent, DBI, E-Mail, Entropy, GenericJMX,
646 gmond, LogFile, nginx, Notify Desktop, NTPd, NUT, olsrd, Perl, Ping,
647 PostgreSQL, Protocols, RouterOS, RRDCacheD, SNMP, StatsD, SysLog,
648 Table, Tail, UnixSock, vmem, VServer, Wireless, Write Riemann and XMMS
649 plugins, the core collectd daemon, the collectdmon, collectd-nagios
650 and collectd-tg utilities, all the Targets and Matches, liboconfig,
651 most of the "utils_*" files and the plugin API.
652 * Tests: A test suite has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
653 * Threshold: The hysteresis calculation has been made more reliable.
654 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #581
655 * Threshold: Various fixes and improvements have been made. Thanks to
656 Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #649, #644
657 * AMQP plugin: The "ConnectionRetryDelay" option has been added,
658 allowing to delay reconnection. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam and Marc
660 * AMQP plugin: The "QueueDurable" and "QueueAutoDelete" options have
661 been added, giving control over queue creation and deletion. Thanks to
662 David Blundell and Marc Fournier. #623
663 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx and Write HTTP
664 plugins: Customizing the "User-Agent" field is now possible at
665 compile-time. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #440
666 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx plugins: The
667 connection will be reset if it hasn't completed within the configured
668 "Interval". The new "Timeout" option gives control over this behavior.
669 Thanks to Jan Kundrát and Marc Fournier. #982, #983, #993
670 * Apache, Ascent, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP plugins:
671 Allow usernames and passwords to contain colons if built against
672 libcurl ≧ 7.19.1. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #695, #947
673 * Apache plugin: The "SSLCiphers" option gives control over the
674 encryption algorithms to use with TLS connections. Thanks to Toni
676 * Barometer plugin: This new plugin reads sensor data from various
677 Freescale and Bosch digital barometers. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #69,
679 * Battery plugin: Reporting values as percentages and reporting degraded
680 batteries has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
681 * Battery plugin: Support for reading values from sysfs on Linux has
682 been added. Thanks to Andy Parkins, Nicholas Humfrey, Peter Wu and
683 Florian Forster. #725, #810, #998
684 * Battery plugin: The value for current is no longer supplied unless the
685 battery provides this information. Thanks to Florian Forster.
686 * BIND plugin: Bind's XML v3 API is now supported; Thanks to Victor
687 Berger, Bruno Prémont and Michal Humpula. #742, #847
688 * Ceph plugin: This new plugin collects statistics from the Ceph
689 distributed storage system. Thanks to Dan Ryder, Dennis Zou, Colin
690 McCabe, Sage Weil. #522, #598
691 * ConnTrack plugin: Support for reporting values as percentages as well
692 as legacy conntrack files in "/proc" has been added. Thanks to
693 Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #497, #680
694 * CPU plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages and
695 aggregate values per-state and per-CPU. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
696 Ritschard, Florian Forster, Fabien Wernli, Nicholas Humfrey and
697 Wilfried Goesgens. #499, #516, #639 #734, #812, #802
698 * cURL-JSON plugin: Extracting values from complex JSON structures has
699 been enhanced. Thanks to Jim Radford. #408, #411
700 * cURL-JSON plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-URL basis.
701 Thanks to Stan Sawa. #685
702 * cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, Write HTTP plugins: These plugins now also follow
703 HTTP redirects. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
704 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: HTTP Digest authentication has been
705 implemented. Thanks to Frank Cornelis. #482
706 * DBI, Oracle, PostgreSQL plugins: A "MetadataFrom" parameter has been
707 added which allows to set metadata from database columns. Thanks to
708 Mark Wong. #317, #321
709 * DBI plugin: Querying several databases in parallel is now possible.
710 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #453
711 * Disk plugin: On the Linux platform, disk names can now get looked up
712 in udev with the "UdevNameAttr" option. Thanks to Patrick Mooney. #537
713 * Disk plugin: This plugin now collects several additional I/O-related
714 metrics on the Linux platform. Thanks to Florian Forster and Michael
716 * DRBD plugin: This new plugin reads Linux's Distributed Replicated
717 Block Device (DRBD) statistics. Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #566, #700
718 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: The "PUTNOTIF" command now allows to set
719 metadata on notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #416
720 * fhcount plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used file
721 handles. Thanks to Jiri Tyr. #1009
722 * GenericJMX plugin: A Class Loader for "JMXConnectorFactory" has been
723 added, allowing the plugin to work with JBOSS > 7. Thanks to Alexandre
725 * IPC plugin: This new plugin collects information related to shared
726 memory. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz. #925
727 * Java plugin: Now uses the hostname defined in the configuration file.
728 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #530, #681
729 * Load plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
730 Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #344, #498
731 * Log Logstash plugin: This new plugin writes collectd logs and events
732 as Logstash JSON formatted events. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
734 * LVM plugin: The plugin collects thin pool data volumes size, and no
735 longer reports virtual volumes. Thanks to Benjamin Gilbert. #603
736 * memcached plugin: "listen_disabled_num" are now also reported. Thanks
737 to Matt Cottingham. #622
738 * Memory plugin: Slab memory reporting on the Linux platform has been
739 added. Thanks to Manuel CISSÉ and Marc Fournier. #560, #697
740 * Memory plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
741 Thanks to Jeremy Katz, Florian Forster and Manuel CISSÉ. #501, #511,
743 * Modbus plugin: Selecting between holding and input registers is now
744 possible. Thanks to Jan Vitek. #338
745 * Modbus plugin: Support for accessing devices through an RS-485 serial
746 port has been added. Thanks to Eric Sandeen.
747 * Multimeter plugin: This plugin isn't built by default on the AIX
748 platform anymore. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada. #549, #684
749 * MySQL and PostgreSQL plugins: Passing "127.0.0.1" as a host will now
750 result in the global Hostname being used in metric names. Thanks to
752 * MySQL plugin: InnoDB, Select and Sort statistics collection has been
753 added. Thanks to Wilson Felipe, Marek Becka and Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
754 #248, #621, #699, #824
755 * MySQL plugin: The "Alias" and "ConnectTimeout" options have been
756 added. Thanks to William Tisäter.
757 * Netlink plugin: Support for 64bit netlink counters has been added.
758 Thanks to Marek Becka. #435
759 * Network plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" configuration option has been
760 added. Thanks to John Ferlito. #732
761 * NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4.0 has been implemented. Thanks to Marek
763 * OneWire plugin: Support for more temperature-providing sensor families
764 has been added. Thanks to Tomasz Torcz. #672
765 * OneWire plugin: Support for full OWFS path and more device families
766 has been implemented. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #68
767 * OpenLDAP plugin: This new plugin reads monitoring information from
768 OpenLDAP's "cn=Monitor" subtree. Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum, Marc
769 Fournier and Nicholas Humfrey. #719
770 * OpenVPN plugin: Support for OpenVPN 2.3.0 has been implemented. Thanks
772 * OpenVZ plugin: Various improvements have been made, making the plugin
773 report values like the other collectd plugins do. Thanks to Chris
775 * Perl plugin: A new "listval_filter" method has been added, various
776 internal cleanups and improvements have been made and a test suite has
777 been added. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #728
778 * PostgreSQL plugin: The new "ExpireDelay" option allows skipping older
779 values pending write when the database slows down. Thanks to Stephen
781 * PowerDNS plugin: The plugin was updated for stats from pdns 3.4.3.
782 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #965
783 * Processes plugin: A memory-usage related optimization for low-profile
784 systems has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #652
785 * Python plugin: Support for Python3 has been improved, "ModulePath" is
786 now prepended to "sys.path", and the "get_dataset()" function has been
787 added to the Python API. Thanks to Sven Trenkel and Patrick Browne.
789 * Redis and Write_Redis plugins: The support library has been switched
790 from credis to hiredis. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz, Victor Seva, Marc
791 Fournier, Johan Bergström, Michael Spiegle and brianpkelly. #296,
792 #464, #475, #799, #1030
793 * Redis plugin: Custom commands can now be used to fetch values stored
794 in Redis. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #816
795 * Redis plugin: Support for passwords up to 512 characters long has been
796 added. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #532
797 * Sensors plugin: Support for lm_sensors' power sensors has been added.
798 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #571
799 * SMART plugin: This new plugin collects SMART statistics from disk
800 drives. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #797
801 * SNMP plugin: A blacklist/whitelist feature can now be used to filter
802 which OIDs to collect. Thanks to Christophe Courtaut. #414
803 * SNMP plugin: SNMPv3 authentication and encryption support has been
804 implemented. Thanks to Michael Pilat. #362
805 * SNMP plugin: Two error messages have been disambiguated. Thanks to
807 * Swap plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
808 Thanks to Jeremy Katz and Florian Forster. #500, #510
809 * Swap plugin: The plugin no longer fails on Linux systems where
810 "SwapCached" isn't exposed by the kernel. Thanks to Florian Forster.
812 * Tail plugin: "GaugeInc" and "GaugeAdd" options have been implemented.
813 Thanks to Andre Ferraz. #673
814 * Tail plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-File basis.
815 Thanks to Tom Leaman. #446
816 * TCPConns plugin: The "AllPortsSummary" option, allowing to summarize
817 all connections, has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #488
818 * TCPConns plugin: Three metrics were renamed on the AIX platform, for
819 the sake of consistency. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #546
820 * Turbostat plugin: This new plugin reads CPU frequency and C-state
821 residency on modern Intel turbo-capable processors. Thanks to Vincent
822 Brillault, Jean Delvare and Nicolas Iooss. #651
823 * UnixSock plugin: The "GETTHRESHOLD" command has been re-added. Thanks
824 to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #674
825 * Varnish plugin: Varnish 4 support has been added, as well as as
826 monitoring metrics only available in Varnish 4. Thanks to Marc
828 * virt plugin: Guests memory usage is now also collected. Thanks to
829 Tiago Carvalho, jazzmes and Zollner Robert.
830 * virt plugin: It is now possible to chose between using guests' name or
831 UUID as plugin_instance. Thanks to Remi Ferrand. #385
832 * virt plugin: The libvirt plugin has been renamed to virt. Thanks to
834 * Write Graphite plugin: When the connection to graphite fails,
835 reconnection attempts are now limited to once per second. Thanks to
836 Florian Forster. #625
837 * Write HTTP plugin: Multi-instance support of this plugin has been
838 improved. The "<URL "url">" block has been deprecated in favor of
839 "<Node "identifier">". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #902
840 * Write HTTP plugin: Several TLS-related configuration options have been
841 added. Thanks to Ingmar Runge. #666
842 * Write HTTP plugin: The "LowSpeedLimit" and "Timeout" options allow to
843 reset slow/stalled network connections. Thanks to loginator17 and Marc
845 * Write HTTP plugin: The size of the payload posted to the HTTP server
846 can now be controlled with the "BufferSize" option. Thanks to Florian
848 * Write Kafka plugin: This new plugin sends data to Apache Kafka, a
849 distributed messaging queue. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard,
850 ciomaire, Vincent Bernat, Marc Fournier. #670, #694, #794, #853, #014
851 * Write Log plugin: This new plugin dispatches collected values to the
852 configured log destination(s). Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #886
853 * Write Riemann plugin: Extra meta strings are now added as attributes
854 in notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #417
855 * Write Riemann plugin: Notification message are now sent to the Riemann
856 server via the description field. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #575
857 * Write Riemann plugin: Support for custom attributes has been added.
858 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #459
859 * Write Riemann plugin: Support had been implemented for sending events
860 to Riemann in batches (when using TCP), and is enabled by default.
861 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #800
862 * Write Riemann plugin: The "EventServicePrefix" option has been added,
863 which adds a prefix to event service names. Thanks to Moshe Zada. #706
864 * Write Riemann plugin: Threshold checks can now be passed down to the
865 Riemann server. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #518
866 * Write Sensu plugin: This new plugin submits values to Sensu, a stream
867 processing and monitoring system. Thanks to Fabrice A. Marie and Marc
868 Fournier. #912, #1001, #1016
869 * Write TSDB plugin: This new plugin sends data to OpenTSDB, a scalable
870 time series database. Thanks to Kevin Bowling, Florian Forster, Dallin
871 Young, Michael Schenck and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #703, #772, #945
872 * ZFS ARC plugin: Support for ZFS-on-Linux has been added. Thanks to
873 Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. #552
874 * Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache Zookeeper
875 "MNTR" command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826
877 2016-07-26, Version 5.4.3
878 * Build system: A deprecation warning has been removed. Thanks to
880 * Build system: An ordering issue when build the AMQP plugin was
881 corrected. Thanks to Shahul Hameed.
882 * Build system: Building the gmond plugin against recent libganglia
883 versions has been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1129
884 * Build system: "collectd-tg" now builds on AIX. Thanks to Manuel Luis
885 Sanmartín Rozada. #542
886 * Build system: "version-gen.sh" portablility was improved. Thanks to
887 Marc Fournier and Ruben Kerkhof.
888 * Build system: Compiling utils_dns.c on Solaris has beed fixed. Thanks
889 to Yves Mettier, Dagobert Michelsen and Florian Forster. #348
890 * Build system: Default JDK detection got improved. Thanks to Ruben
891 Kerkhof and Marc Fournier.
892 * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
893 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
894 * Build system: notify_email build options got corrected to make it
895 build on non-GNU libc systems. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
896 * Build system: Protobuf building and logging has been improved. Thanks
898 * Build system: The "make distcheck" target was fixed to properly handle
899 java build artifacts. Thanks to Florian Forster.
900 * Build system: The configure script got fixed to work properly when
901 called with "CC="gcc -Wall -Werror"" . Thanks to Marc Fournier.
902 * Build system: The configure script will now fail if pkg-config isn't
903 available. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
904 * Build system: The users plugin now builds properly on Solaris when
905 libstatgrab is available. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #1061
906 * Build system: Various fixes have been done to improve library
907 detection on FreeBSD. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
908 * collectd2html: Several perl errors have been corrected. Thanks to Ruud
910 * collectd: A global gauge format-string is now used to avoid loss of
911 precision. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1039
912 * collectd: A race condition at plugin initialization time was fixed.
913 Thanks to Jan Andres. #1316
914 * collectd: Autoloading now properly sets plugin context, allowing
915 plugins to determine the interval. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1069
916 * collectd: Empty "Plugin" blocks are now supported by the configuration
917 file parser. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1035
918 * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
919 in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
920 * collectd: Writing to a closed TCP socket is now properly handled.
921 Thanks to Tamás Földesi. #1104
922 * Documentation: iptables plugin: IPv6 configuration option has been
923 added to the collectd.conf(5) manpage. Thanks to 'Marc Fournier''.
925 * AMQP plugin: The plugin was fixed to build against librabbitmq 0.6.0.
926 Thanks to Remi Collet. #1008
927 * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
928 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
929 * Apache plugin: The plugin was extended to parse the whole response,
930 required to support Apache versions greater than 2.4.17. Thanks to
931 Marc Fournier and Florian Forster. #1170, #1343
932 * APC UPS plugin: Log messages are now prefixed with the plugin name.
933 Thanks to Sergey. #1329
934 * Bind plugin: The type_instance now gets properly sanitized. Thanks to
936 * CPU plugin: Error messages on MacOSX have been improved. Thanks to
938 * cURL plugin: A typo in an error message got corrected. Thanks to Marc
940 * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
941 more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
942 * DF plugin: An bug preventing filesystems which don't report inodes
943 such as btrfs has been corrected. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1096
944 * DF plugin: Duplicate entries are no longer reported twice. Thanks to
945 Stefan Brüns and Florian Forster. #1402
946 * DF plugin: Legacy code for skipping "rootfs" mount points has been
947 removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1402
948 * DF plugin: Legacy references to the "ReportReserved" option have been
949 removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
950 * DF plugin: Reading the mtab now uses a reentrant function when
951 possible. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1163
952 * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
953 This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
955 * Exec plugin: A file descriptor leak when the plugin is configured to
956 run as a non-existing user was corrected. Thanks to Gautam BT and Marc
958 * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
959 has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
960 * Interface plugin: Documentation about regular expressions in the
961 ignore list has been added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski.
962 * IRQ plugin: The "FIQ" line is now skipped as it doesn't contain any
963 counter. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #971
964 * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
965 now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
966 Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
967 * MongoDB plugin: A memory leak has been fixed and some adaptations to
968 the current API of the mongo-c-driver have been made. Thanks to
969 Florian Forster. #956
970 * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has
971 been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was ignored.
972 Thanks to @yujokang. #1665
973 * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
974 This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
975 Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
976 * Network plugin: The TimeToLive option handling was made more robust.
977 Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #654
978 * NTPd plugin: Documentation about the required "mode 7" has been added.
979 Thanks to Jakub Jankowski.
980 * NTPd plugin: Reporting of "time_offset-loop" was corrected to match
981 the values from ntpq/ntpdc. Thanks to Pierre Fersing and Florian
983 * OpenVPN plugin: The plugin was fixe to avoid signaling an error when
984 no clients were connected. Thanks to Florian Forster. #731
985 * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
986 single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
987 create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
988 * PF plugin and DNS plugin: These plugins have been fixed to build
989 properly on OpenBSD again. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
990 * Processes plugin: A compilation error on systems without "regex.h" has
991 been fixed. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
992 * Processes plugin: A memory leak on Solaris has been fixed. Thanks to
994 * Processes plugin and Swap plugin: These plugins have been corrected to
995 also work inside FreeBSD jails. Thanks to biancalana. #1019
996 * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
997 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
998 * Processes plugin: Process counting on the FreeBSD and OpenBSD
999 platforms has been fixed. Thanks to Herve COMMOWICK. #1298
1000 * Processes plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly on Solaris.
1001 Thanks to Jan Andres. #919
1002 * Python plugin: A double-free bug got fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel.
1004 * RRDtool plugin: A race condition leading to corrupt RRD file creation
1005 has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1031
1006 * SNMP plugin: The "Gauge32" signedness was corrected to match RFC1902.
1007 Thanks to Nathan Ward. #1325
1008 * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
1009 Pavel Rochnyack #1703
1010 * StatsD plugin: A memory leak was corrected. Thanks to Florian Forster.
1012 * StatsD plugin: A symbol lookup error was fixed by properly linking the
1013 plugin against libm. Thanks to Florian Forster.
1014 * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Support for including values above
1015 1000 in percentile calculation has been added. Thanks to Yoga
1017 * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Two division by zero error conditions
1018 have been corrected. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #655
1019 * StatsD plugin: Counters absolute counts are now also reported. Thanks
1020 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1311
1021 * StatsD plugin: The plugin now emits NaN values when no timer event is
1022 recorded. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1038, #1039
1023 * StatsD plugin: The plugin was corrected to avoid crashing when
1024 negative timer values are submitted. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1131
1025 * Tail CSV plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly with multiple
1026 "Collect" options and a bug got fixed when no "TimeFrom" is specified.
1027 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada and Florian Forster. #1032
1028 * TCPConns plugin: A memory leak was fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster.
1030 * TCPConns plugin: An bug causing collectd to enter an inifinite loop on
1031 OpenBSD was fixed. Thanks to Landry Breuil. #1094
1032 * Threshold plugin: Threshold configuration blocks can now be defined in
1033 different files. Thanks to Michael Salmon. #551
1034 * vmem plugin: Support for pgsteal in recent Linux kernels has been
1035 added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski. #1307
1036 * vmem plugin: The DSType for nr_dirtied and nr_written was corrected to
1037 report a derive. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1072
1038 * Write Graphite plugin: Error handling when submitting metrics to the
1039 server is now more robust. Thanks to Sam Pointer. #1364
1040 * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
1041 shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
1042 * Write Redis plugin: Multi-Valued key was made easier to parse by
1043 adding a "|" character as a delimiter. Thanks to brianpkelly and
1044 Florian Forster. #1070
1045 * Write Redis plugin: The timestamp format was corrected. Thanks to
1047 * ZFS ARC plugin: The plugin was will not emit warning about missing
1048 "l2_size" stats anymore. Thanks to Jan Andres. #919
1049 * 152 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
1050 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
1051 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan, clang and gcc-6: Thanks to Ruben
1052 Kerkhof, Florian Forster, Marc Fournier, Corey Kosak, Laurent,
1053 Claudius Zingerli and Fabien Wernli.
1055 2015-02-26, Version 5.4.2
1056 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
1057 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
1058 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
1060 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
1061 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
1062 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
1063 Fournier and @NsLib.
1064 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c. Thanks to
1066 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
1067 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
1068 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
1069 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1070 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
1071 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
1072 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
1073 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
1074 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
1075 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1076 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
1077 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
1078 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
1080 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
1081 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
1082 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1083 * Documentation: Documentation of the "AutoLoadPlugin" option has been
1084 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #715
1085 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
1086 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
1087 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
1088 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
1089 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML and Write HTTP plugins: Call
1090 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
1092 * cURL and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
1093 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
1094 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
1095 Florian Forster. #663
1096 * curl-json: A bug, which triggered when two URLs with a long common
1097 prefix were configured, was fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #582
1098 * dbi: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been restored.
1099 Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
1100 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
1101 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
1102 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
1103 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
1104 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
1105 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
1107 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
1108 Thanks to Florian Forster.
1109 * LogFile and SysLog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
1110 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
1111 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
1112 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
1113 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
1114 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
1115 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
1117 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
1119 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
1120 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
1121 * RRDtool and RRDCacheD plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
1122 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
1123 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
1124 Ritschard. #610, #804
1125 * statsd: Support for samplerates in timer metrics was added. Thanks
1127 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
1128 to Florian Forster. #733
1129 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
1130 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
1131 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
1133 * lvm: An issue with Volume Groups (VGs) without Logical Volumes (LVs)
1134 has been fixed. Thanks to Jan Kundrát.
1135 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
1136 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
1137 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
1139 * write_redis: A formatting bug, which resulted in totally unusable
1140 numbers being transmitted to Redis, was fixed. Thanks to Marc
1142 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
1145 2014-01-26, Version 5.4.1
1146 * amqp plugin: Add support for RabbitMQ 0.4.x to avoid compiler
1147 warnings. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for implementing this.
1148 * apache / network plugins: Improved initialization order hopefully
1149 resolved gcrypt initialization problems.
1150 * aquaero plugin: The type used to submit fan utilization was fixed.
1151 Thanks to Alex Deymo for the patch.
1152 * cgroups plugin: A small memory leak was fixed. Checking the existence
1153 of a mount option without a value was fixed. More permissive parsing
1154 of the cpuacct.stats file fixes support for some versions of Linux.
1155 Thanks to Marc Fournier for bug reports and patches.
1156 * curl plugin: Fix <Match> blocks without an instance. Thanks to
1157 Alexander Golovko for reporting and Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1158 * curl_json plugin: Potentially invalid memory access has been
1159 sanitized. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
1160 * interface plugin: Fix behavior under FreeBSD 10: Reporting of
1161 per-address statistics caused duplicate updates to the same metric.
1162 Thanks to demon / @trtrmitya for the patch.
1163 * write_graphite plugin: Use TCP to connect to Graphite by default. The
1164 default changed from TCP to UDP between 5.3.1 and 5.4.0, which is a
1165 regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier for fixing this. Reconnect
1166 behavior was improved. Thanks to Michael Hart for his patch.
1167 * zfs_arc plugin: Collect "allocated" and "stolen" on FreeBSD only.
1169 2013-08-18, Version 5.4.0
1170 * collectd: The "LoadPlugin" config option no longer attempts to load
1171 plugins twice. If more than one "LoadPlugin" statement or block is
1172 encountered, only the first will have any effect.
1173 * collectd: The "AutoLoadPlugin" option allows to automatically load
1174 plugins for which a configuration is found.
1175 * collectd: The "WriteQueueLimitHigh" and "WriteQueueLimitLow" options
1176 allow collectd to drop values when under stress, to avoid running out
1177 of memory. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patch.
1178 * amqp plugin: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
1179 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options have been added. Thanks to Laurent
1181 * aquaero plugin: This new plugin reads various metrics, e.g. fan
1182 speeds and temperatures, from Aquaero 5, a fan and water cooling
1183 control panel. Thanks to Alex Deymo for his patch.
1184 * curl plugin: The "MeasureResponseCode" option has been added. Thanks
1185 to Jan Matějka for his patch.
1186 * curl_json plugin: Support for UNIX domain sockets and array wildcards
1187 has been added. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
1188 * curl_xml plugin: Support for long URLs has been improved.
1189 * cgroups plugin: This new plugin collects CPU accounting information
1190 for processes in a cgroup. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for his patch.
1191 * df plugin: The "ValuesAbsolute" and "ValuesPercentage" options have
1192 been added. Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek for the patch.
1193 * exec plugin: Do UID / GID lookups before forking. This should prevent
1194 a race condition in the NSS library. Thanks to Ceri Storey for the
1196 * lvm plugin: This new plugin collects size information from Linux'
1197 Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Thanks to Chad Malfait for his work.
1198 * memcached plugin: Support for increment and decrement counts has been
1199 added. Thanks to Blake Matheny for the patch.
1200 * mic plugin: This new plugin collects CPU and memory usage, power
1201 consumption and temperatures of Intel's Many-Integrated-Core (MIC)
1202 architecture, such as Xeon Phi cards. Thanks to Evan Felix for his
1204 * netlink plugin: This plugin has been converted to use the supported
1205 "libmnl" library. Thanks to Andreas Henriksson for his patch.
1206 * nginx plugin: Collection of accepted and handled connections has been
1207 added. Thanks to Patrick Shan for his patch.
1208 * sigrok plugin: This new plugin collects metrics from sigrok, a signal
1209 processing framework reading various hardware devices, from light
1210 meters to spectrum analyzers. Thanks to Bert Vermeulen for his patch.
1211 * statsd plugin: This new plugin listens to a UDP socket and reads
1212 metrics in the StatsD format.
1213 * varnish plugin: Many additional metrics have been added. Thanks to
1214 Nick Stenning for his patch.
1215 * write_graphite plugin: Support for "UDP" has been added. Thanks to
1216 Javier Maestro for his patch.
1217 * write_riemann plugin: The "TTLFactor" option has been added.
1218 * zfs_arc plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li
1221 2015-02-26, Version 5.3.2
1222 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
1223 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
1224 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
1226 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
1227 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
1228 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
1229 Fournier and @NsLib.
1230 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c Thanks to
1232 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
1233 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
1234 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
1235 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1236 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
1237 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
1238 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
1239 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
1240 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
1241 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1242 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
1243 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
1244 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
1246 * Documentation: The synopsis of the threshold has been fixed. Thanks
1248 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
1249 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
1250 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1251 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
1252 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
1253 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
1254 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
1255 * csv: A regression which would lead to the "DataDir" option to be
1256 ignored has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada.
1257 * curl, curl-json, curl-xml and write_http plugins: Call
1258 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
1260 * curl and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
1261 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
1262 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
1263 Florian Forster. #663
1264 * dbi plugin: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been
1265 restored. Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
1266 * exec, unixsock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
1267 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
1268 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
1269 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
1271 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
1272 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
1273 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
1274 Thanks to Florian Forster.
1275 * logfile and syslog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
1276 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
1277 * memcached: Connecting to a UNIX socket has been fixed. Thanks to Jim
1279 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
1280 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
1281 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
1282 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
1283 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
1285 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
1287 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
1288 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
1289 * replace and set targets: Fix error message. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1291 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: Honor the "DataDir" config option;
1292 this fixes a regression. Thanks to Florian Forster. #380
1293 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
1294 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
1295 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
1296 Ritschard. #610, #804
1297 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
1298 to Florian Forster. #733
1299 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
1300 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
1301 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
1303 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
1304 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
1305 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
1307 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
1310 2013-07-13, Version 5.3.1
1311 * Documentation: Various fixes.
1312 * Configuration: Fix error handling: Errors in included files were
1313 ignored, causing configuration mistakes to go unnoticed.
1314 * dns plugin: Don't abort when PCAP returns an error.
1315 * modbus plugin: The reconnection strategy was improved, fixing a
1316 segfault in the libmodbud library. Thanks to Stefan Nickl and
1317 Fabien Wernli for their patches.
1318 * mysql plugin: The notification about a newly running MySQL slave
1319 thread has been fixed. Thanks to Joaquín Cuenca Abela for the patch.
1320 * snmp plugin: A build issue has been fixed (C99 mixed declaration).
1321 The end-of-tree check has been improved by Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
1322 * threshold plugin: Handling of the "Interesting" configuration option
1323 has been fixed. Thanks to Björn for the patch.
1324 * write_riemann plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Dave
1325 Cottlehuber for reporting it.
1327 2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0
1328 * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include
1329 only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
1331 * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This
1332 improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act
1333 as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for
1334 reviewing this change and fixing bugs.
1335 * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using
1336 regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric
1337 can now be set via the configuration file.
1338 * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented.
1339 * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers
1340 has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
1341 * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks
1342 to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
1343 * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The
1344 "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch.
1345 * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to
1346 Greg Mason for his patch.
1347 * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks
1348 to Johan Wirén for his patch.
1349 * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication /
1350 compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
1351 patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work.
1352 * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks
1353 to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
1354 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been
1355 implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created
1356 asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances.
1357 Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code.
1358 * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV
1359 files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for
1361 * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added.
1362 * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to
1363 Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to
1364 Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work.
1366 2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2
1367 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1368 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1369 Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks
1370 to Sebastian Harl for his patch.
1371 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
1372 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1373 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1374 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1375 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1376 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1377 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1378 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1379 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1380 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1381 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1382 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
1383 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1384 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1385 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
1386 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
1387 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
1388 * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
1389 * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
1390 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
1391 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
1392 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
1393 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1394 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1395 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1396 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1399 2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1
1400 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris
1401 and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches.
1402 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
1403 more frequently than intended.
1404 * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added.
1405 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1406 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1407 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
1408 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
1409 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1410 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1411 * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed.
1412 A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was
1413 configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these
1415 * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
1416 Ritschard for his patch.
1417 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
1418 * write_graphite plugin: A regression which rendered the
1419 "SeparateInstances" and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been
1420 fixed. A failed assertion when using types with many data sources
1421 has been fixed. Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
1422 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
1423 the logging problem.
1424 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
1425 Mettier for reporting this bug.
1427 2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0
1428 * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved.
1429 Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch.
1430 * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a
1431 per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for
1433 * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real
1434 looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new
1435 plugin, for example.
1436 * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets
1437 in the binary format has been added.
1438 * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple
1439 value lists into one.
1440 * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON
1441 output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch.
1442 * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to
1443 Thomas Meson for the patch.
1444 * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to
1445 Manuel Rozada for his patch.
1446 * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the
1448 * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't
1450 * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks
1451 to "Davide Guerri" for the patch.
1452 * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added.
1453 Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch.
1454 * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The
1455 behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to
1456 Johan Kiviniemi for the patches.
1457 * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added.
1458 * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's
1459 packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes
1461 * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added.
1462 Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added.
1463 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches.
1464 * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
1465 Cosmin Ioiart for the patch.
1466 * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added.
1467 Thanks to biancalana for the patch.
1468 * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan",
1469 "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added.
1470 * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX
1471 version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out
1472 "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch.
1473 * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc
1474 for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch.
1476 2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3
1477 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1478 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1479 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
1480 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1481 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1482 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1483 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1484 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1485 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1486 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1487 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1488 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1489 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1490 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
1491 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1492 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1493 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
1494 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
1495 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
1496 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
1497 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
1498 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
1499 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1500 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1501 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1502 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1505 2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2
1506 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves
1507 Mettier for his patches.
1508 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
1509 more frequently than intended.
1510 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1511 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1512 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
1513 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
1514 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1515 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1516 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
1517 * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
1518 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
1520 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
1521 Mettier for reporting this bug.
1523 2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1
1524 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1525 unwanted permission bits.
1526 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1527 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1528 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1529 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1530 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1531 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1532 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
1533 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
1534 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
1536 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1537 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
1538 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
1539 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1540 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1541 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1542 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1543 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1544 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1545 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1546 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1547 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1549 * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of
1550 uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for
1551 reporting these problems.
1552 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1553 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1554 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
1555 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1556 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1558 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1559 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1560 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1561 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1562 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1563 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1564 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1565 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1567 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1568 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1569 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
1570 "biancalana" for the fix.
1571 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1572 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1573 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1574 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1575 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1577 * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been
1578 fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch.
1579 * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and
1580 later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch.
1582 2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0
1583 * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has
1585 * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using
1586 "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
1587 * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use
1588 the system time rather than the time reported by BIND.
1589 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been
1590 added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch.
1591 * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics
1592 directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch.
1593 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in
1594 addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
1595 Ritschard for his patch.
1596 * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default
1597 ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g.
1599 * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various
1600 states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
1602 * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been
1604 * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin
1605 Ioiart for his patch.
1606 * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the
1607 Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux.
1608 * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation.
1609 Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch.
1610 * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been
1612 * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to
1613 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch.
1614 * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added.
1615 * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added.
1616 Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1617 * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1618 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1619 * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to
1620 Aaron Brady for his patch.
1621 * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to
1622 Jérôme Renard for his patches.
1623 * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value
1624 lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch
1625 and Chris Lundquist for their work.
1626 * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value
1627 lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series
1628 database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their
1630 * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to
1631 Aurelien Rougemont for his patches.
1632 * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been
1633 added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1635 2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5
1636 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1637 unwanted permission bits.
1638 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1639 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1640 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1641 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1642 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1643 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1644 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
1645 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
1646 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
1648 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1649 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
1650 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
1651 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1652 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1653 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1654 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1655 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1656 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1657 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1658 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1659 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1661 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1662 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1663 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
1664 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1665 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1667 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1668 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1669 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1670 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1671 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1672 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1673 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1674 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1676 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1677 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1678 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
1679 "biancalana" for the fix.
1680 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1681 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1682 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1683 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1684 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1687 2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4
1688 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1689 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1690 plugin under Gentoo.
1691 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1692 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1694 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1695 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1696 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1697 Opter for his patch.
1698 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1699 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1701 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1702 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1704 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1705 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1707 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1708 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1710 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1711 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1712 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1713 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1714 runtime has been fixed.
1716 2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3
1717 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1718 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1719 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1721 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1722 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1723 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1724 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1725 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1726 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1727 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1729 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1731 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1732 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1733 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1734 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1735 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1737 2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2
1738 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1739 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1740 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1741 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1743 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1744 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1745 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1746 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1748 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1749 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1750 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1751 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1752 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1753 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1754 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1755 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1756 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1757 for fixing this bug!
1759 2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1
1760 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1761 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1762 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1763 to Peter Green for his patch.
1764 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1765 McCabe for the patch.
1766 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1767 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1768 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1769 code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module.
1770 * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts.
1771 Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this.
1772 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1773 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1774 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1775 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1776 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1777 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1778 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1779 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1780 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1781 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1782 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1783 * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values
1784 were submitted as gauge even though they were derives.
1785 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1786 Flisher for the fix.
1788 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
1789 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
1790 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
1791 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
1792 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
1793 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
1794 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
1795 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
1797 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
1798 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
1799 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
1800 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
1801 added to the collectd client library.
1802 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
1803 one data source has been changed to "value".
1804 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
1805 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
1806 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
1807 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
1808 maximum value is unspecified.
1809 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
1810 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
1811 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1812 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1813 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1814 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
1815 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
1816 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
1817 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
1818 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
1820 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1821 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
1822 "Connection" blocks.
1823 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
1825 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
1827 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
1828 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
1829 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
1830 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
1832 * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
1833 license has been changed to LGPLv2.1.
1834 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
1835 data sets used have been improved.
1836 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
1838 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1839 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1840 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
1841 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
1842 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
1843 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
1844 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
1845 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
1846 this separate plugin.
1847 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
1848 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
1849 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
1850 Fournier for their contributions.
1851 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
1853 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
1855 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
1858 2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9
1859 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1860 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1861 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1862 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1863 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1864 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1865 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1866 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1867 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1868 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1869 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1870 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1871 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1872 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1873 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1874 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1875 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1876 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1879 2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8
1880 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1881 unwanted permission bits.
1882 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1883 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1884 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1885 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1886 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1887 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1888 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1889 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1890 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1891 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1892 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1893 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1894 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1895 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1896 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1897 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1899 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1900 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1901 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1903 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1904 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1905 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1906 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1907 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1908 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1909 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1910 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1912 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1913 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1914 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1915 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1916 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1917 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1918 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1921 2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7
1922 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1923 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1924 plugin under Gentoo.
1925 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1926 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1928 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1929 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1930 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1931 Opter for his patch.
1932 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1933 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1935 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1936 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1938 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1939 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1941 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1942 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1944 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1945 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1946 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1947 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1948 runtime has been fixed.
1950 2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6
1951 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1952 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1953 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1955 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1956 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1957 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1958 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1959 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1960 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1961 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1963 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1965 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1966 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1967 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1968 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1969 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1971 2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5
1972 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1973 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1974 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1975 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1977 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1978 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1979 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1980 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1982 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1983 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1984 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1985 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1986 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1987 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1988 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1989 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1990 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1991 for fixing this bug!
1993 2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4
1994 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1995 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1996 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1997 to Peter Green for his patch.
1998 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1999 McCabe for the patch.
2000 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
2001 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
2002 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
2004 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
2005 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
2006 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
2007 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
2008 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
2009 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
2010 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
2011 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
2012 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
2013 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
2014 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
2015 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
2016 Flisher for the fix.
2018 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
2019 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
2020 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
2022 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
2023 percentage calculation has been fixed.
2024 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
2026 * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
2027 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
2028 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
2029 * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
2030 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
2031 error handling case.
2032 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
2033 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
2036 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
2037 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
2038 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
2039 the rest of the configuration if possible.
2040 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
2041 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
2042 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
2043 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
2044 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
2045 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
2046 configurable timeout value.
2047 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
2048 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
2049 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
2050 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
2051 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
2052 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
2053 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
2055 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
2056 to prevent spamming the logs.
2057 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
2058 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
2059 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
2060 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
2062 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
2064 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
2065 Trenkel for the patch.
2067 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
2068 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
2069 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
2070 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
2071 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
2073 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
2074 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
2075 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
2077 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
2078 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
2079 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
2080 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
2081 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
2082 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
2083 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
2084 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
2085 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
2086 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
2088 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
2089 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
2090 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
2091 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
2092 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
2093 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
2094 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
2096 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
2098 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
2099 lines from the match.
2100 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
2101 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
2103 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
2104 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
2105 Malek for the patch.
2106 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
2107 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
2109 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
2110 certain lines from the match.
2111 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
2112 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
2113 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
2114 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
2115 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
2116 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
2117 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
2118 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
2119 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
2120 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
2121 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
2122 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
2123 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
2124 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
2125 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
2126 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
2127 Sebastian Harl for his work.
2128 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
2129 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
2130 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
2131 Sven Trenkel for his work.
2132 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
2133 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
2134 MikroTik devices has been added.
2135 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
2136 Scraba for his patch.
2137 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
2138 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
2139 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
2140 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
2141 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
2142 Ammous for his patch.
2144 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
2145 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
2146 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
2148 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
2149 percentage calculation has been fixed.
2150 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
2152 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
2153 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
2154 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
2155 error handling case.
2156 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
2157 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
2160 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
2161 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
2162 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
2163 the rest of the configuration if possible.
2164 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
2165 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
2166 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
2167 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
2168 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
2169 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
2170 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
2171 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
2172 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
2173 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
2174 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
2175 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
2177 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
2178 to prevent spamming the logs.
2179 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
2180 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
2181 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
2182 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
2184 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
2185 Trenkel for the patch.
2187 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
2188 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
2189 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
2190 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
2191 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
2193 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
2194 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
2195 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
2196 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
2198 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
2199 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
2200 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
2201 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
2202 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
2203 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
2204 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
2205 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
2206 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
2207 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
2208 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
2209 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
2211 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
2212 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
2213 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
2214 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
2215 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
2216 figuring out a way to make this work.
2217 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
2218 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
2219 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
2220 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
2221 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
2223 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
2225 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
2226 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
2227 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
2228 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
2229 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
2230 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
2231 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
2232 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
2234 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
2235 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
2236 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
2237 an unknown data source type.
2238 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
2239 packets has been fixed.
2240 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
2242 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
2243 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
2244 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
2245 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
2246 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
2247 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2249 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
2250 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
2251 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
2252 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
2253 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
2254 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
2255 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
2256 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
2257 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
2259 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
2260 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
2261 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
2264 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
2265 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
2266 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
2267 Weiskircher for the patch.
2268 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
2269 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2270 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
2271 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
2272 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
2273 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
2274 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
2275 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
2276 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
2277 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
2278 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
2279 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
2280 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
2282 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
2283 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
2284 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
2285 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
2286 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
2287 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
2288 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
2289 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2290 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
2291 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
2292 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
2293 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
2294 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
2295 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
2296 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
2297 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
2298 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
2299 storage has been added.
2300 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
2301 value has been added.
2303 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
2304 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
2305 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
2306 an unknown data source type.
2308 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
2309 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
2310 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
2311 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
2312 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
2313 figuring out a way to make this work.
2314 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
2315 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
2316 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
2317 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
2319 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
2321 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
2322 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
2323 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
2324 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
2325 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
2326 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
2328 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
2329 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
2330 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
2331 packets has been fixed.
2332 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
2333 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
2334 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
2335 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
2336 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
2337 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2339 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
2340 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
2341 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
2342 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
2343 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
2346 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
2347 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
2348 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
2349 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
2350 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
2351 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
2353 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
2354 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
2355 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
2356 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
2357 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
2358 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
2360 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
2361 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
2362 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
2363 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
2365 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
2366 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
2368 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
2369 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
2370 issues on some platforms.
2371 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
2372 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2373 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
2374 descriptor handling.
2376 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
2377 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
2378 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
2379 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
2380 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
2381 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
2383 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
2384 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
2385 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
2386 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2387 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
2388 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
2389 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2390 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
2391 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
2392 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
2393 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
2395 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
2396 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
2397 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
2398 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
2399 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
2400 Aman Gupta for the patch.
2401 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
2402 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
2403 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
2404 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
2405 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
2407 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
2408 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
2410 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
2411 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
2412 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2413 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
2414 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
2415 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
2416 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
2417 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2418 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
2419 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
2420 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
2421 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
2422 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
2423 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
2425 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
2426 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
2427 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
2428 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
2429 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
2430 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
2432 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
2433 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
2434 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
2435 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
2437 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
2438 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
2439 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
2440 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
2442 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
2443 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
2445 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
2446 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
2447 issues on some platforms.
2448 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
2449 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2450 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
2451 descriptor handling.
2453 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
2454 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
2455 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
2456 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
2457 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
2458 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
2460 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
2461 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
2462 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
2463 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
2464 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
2465 Hess for reporting this bug.
2466 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
2467 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
2468 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
2469 is linked with the shipped library, too.
2470 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
2471 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
2472 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
2473 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
2474 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
2475 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
2476 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
2477 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
2478 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
2479 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
2480 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
2481 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
2482 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2485 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
2486 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
2488 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
2489 Díaz for fixing this bug.
2490 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
2491 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
2492 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
2493 for reporting the bug.
2494 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
2496 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
2497 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
2498 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
2499 libtool 2.2 has been added.
2500 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
2501 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
2502 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
2503 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
2504 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
2506 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
2507 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
2508 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
2509 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
2510 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
2512 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
2513 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2515 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
2516 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
2517 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
2518 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
2519 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
2520 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
2521 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2522 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
2523 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
2524 Konetzko for the patch.
2525 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
2526 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
2527 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
2528 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
2529 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
2530 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
2531 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
2532 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
2533 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
2534 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
2535 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
2536 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
2537 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2538 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
2539 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
2540 Quiédeville for the patch.
2541 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
2543 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
2544 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
2545 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
2546 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
2547 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
2548 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
2549 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
2550 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
2552 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
2553 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
2554 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
2555 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
2556 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
2557 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
2559 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
2560 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
2561 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
2562 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
2564 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
2565 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
2566 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
2567 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
2568 Hess for reporting this bug.
2569 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
2570 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
2571 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
2572 is linked with the shipped library, too.
2573 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
2574 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
2575 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
2576 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
2577 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2580 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
2581 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
2582 Díaz for fixing this bug.
2583 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
2584 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
2585 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
2586 for reporting the bug.
2588 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
2589 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2590 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2591 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2592 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2593 providing an OpenBSD system.
2594 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
2595 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
2596 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
2597 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
2598 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
2600 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2602 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2603 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2604 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2605 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2606 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2608 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2609 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
2610 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2612 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
2613 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
2614 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
2615 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
2617 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
2618 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
2619 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
2620 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
2621 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
2622 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
2623 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
2624 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
2625 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
2626 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
2627 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2628 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2629 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2631 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
2632 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
2633 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2634 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
2635 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
2636 for finding and fixing most of them.
2637 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2638 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2640 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
2641 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
2642 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
2643 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
2644 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2645 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
2646 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
2647 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
2648 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
2649 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
2650 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
2652 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
2653 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
2654 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
2655 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
2657 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
2658 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
2659 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
2660 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
2661 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
2662 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
2663 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
2664 Kuhnle for the patch.
2665 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
2666 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
2667 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
2668 MacEachern for the patch.
2669 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
2670 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
2671 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
2672 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
2673 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
2674 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
2675 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
2676 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
2677 select interfaces, too.
2678 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
2679 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
2680 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
2682 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
2683 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
2684 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
2685 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
2686 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
2687 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2688 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
2689 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
2690 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
2691 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
2693 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
2694 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
2695 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
2696 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
2697 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
2698 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
2699 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
2700 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
2702 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
2703 been added. Portability fixes.
2704 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
2705 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
2706 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
2708 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
2711 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
2712 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2713 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2714 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2715 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2716 providing an OpenBSD system.
2717 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
2718 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2720 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
2721 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2722 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2723 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2724 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2725 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2727 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2728 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2729 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2730 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2732 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
2733 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
2735 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
2736 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2737 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
2739 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2740 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2741 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
2742 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
2744 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
2745 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2746 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2747 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2749 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2750 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2751 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
2752 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
2753 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
2754 provide these necessary functions.
2755 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2756 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
2758 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
2759 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2760 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2761 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
2763 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2764 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2765 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2766 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2767 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2768 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2770 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
2771 invalid configuration options.
2772 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2773 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2774 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2776 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
2777 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2778 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2779 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2781 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2782 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2783 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2784 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2785 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2786 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2787 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2788 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2790 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2791 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2792 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
2793 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
2794 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2795 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2796 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2797 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
2798 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
2799 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
2800 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
2801 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
2803 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2804 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2807 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
2808 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
2809 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
2811 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
2812 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
2813 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
2814 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
2815 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
2816 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
2818 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
2819 email, using the `esmtp' library.
2820 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
2821 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
2823 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
2824 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
2825 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
2826 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
2828 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
2829 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
2830 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
2831 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
2832 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
2834 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
2835 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
2836 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
2838 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
2839 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2840 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2841 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2843 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2844 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2845 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2846 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
2847 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2848 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2849 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2850 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2851 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2852 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2853 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2854 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2856 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2857 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2858 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2860 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
2861 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2862 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2863 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2865 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2866 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2867 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2868 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2869 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2870 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2871 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2872 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2874 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2875 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2876 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2877 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2878 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2879 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2880 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2883 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
2884 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
2885 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2887 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2888 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
2890 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
2891 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
2892 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianness of the
2893 architecture collectd is being built on.
2894 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
2896 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
2898 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
2899 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
2900 values under Solaris.
2901 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
2902 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
2904 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
2905 returned by some broken drivers.
2907 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
2908 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
2909 to kyrone for reporting this.
2910 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
2912 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
2914 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
2915 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
2916 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
2917 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
2919 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
2920 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
2921 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
2922 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
2923 flush its values to disk.
2924 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
2925 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
2926 for each data source.
2927 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
2929 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
2930 page of an Ascent server.
2931 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2932 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
2933 specific disks has been added.
2934 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2935 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
2936 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
2938 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
2939 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
2940 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
2941 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
2942 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
2943 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
2944 configuration has been decreased.
2945 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
2946 continuously reading from log files.
2947 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
2948 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
2949 and number of channels.
2950 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2951 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
2952 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
2954 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
2955 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
2957 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianness more
2959 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
2960 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
2961 again has been applied.
2962 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2964 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2965 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
2967 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2968 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2969 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
2972 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
2973 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2974 they are in non-standard paths.
2975 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2976 if the libc expects it.
2977 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2978 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2980 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2981 using a buffer of static size.
2982 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2984 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2985 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2987 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
2988 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
2989 `Persist' threshold options.
2990 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
2991 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2992 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2993 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2994 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2996 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
2997 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2999 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
3000 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
3001 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
3002 cross-platform compatibility.
3003 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
3004 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
3005 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
3007 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
3008 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
3009 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
3010 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
3011 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
3012 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
3014 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
3015 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
3016 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
3017 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
3018 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
3019 wants to add custom type definitions.
3020 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
3021 entire directories and shell wildcards.
3022 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
3023 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
3024 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
3025 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
3026 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
3027 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
3028 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
3029 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
3030 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
3031 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
3032 domain name lookups in this plugin.
3033 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
3034 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
3035 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
3036 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
3037 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
3038 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
3039 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
3040 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
3041 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
3042 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
3043 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
3044 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
3045 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
3046 Technology group for this plugin.
3048 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
3049 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
3050 they are in non-standard paths.
3051 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
3052 if the libc expects it.
3053 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
3054 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
3056 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
3057 using a buffer of static size.
3058 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
3060 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
3061 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
3063 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
3064 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
3065 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
3066 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
3067 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
3069 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
3070 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
3071 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
3073 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
3074 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
3075 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
3076 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
3077 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
3078 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
3079 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
3080 cross-platform compatibility.
3081 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
3082 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
3083 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
3084 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
3086 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
3087 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
3088 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
3089 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
3090 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
3092 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
3093 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
3094 of the libsensors library.
3096 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
3097 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
3098 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
3100 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
3101 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
3104 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
3105 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
3106 enabled on the host.
3107 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
3109 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
3110 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
3111 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
3112 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
3113 definitions separate from the host definitions.
3114 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
3115 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
3116 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
3117 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
3118 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
3119 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
3120 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
3121 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
3122 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
3123 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
3124 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
3125 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
3126 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
3127 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
3128 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
3129 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
3130 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
3131 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
3132 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
3133 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
3134 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
3136 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
3137 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
3138 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
3139 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
3140 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
3142 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
3143 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
3145 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
3146 of the libsensors library.
3148 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
3149 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
3150 it's in a non-standard location.
3151 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
3152 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
3153 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
3154 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
3155 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
3156 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
3158 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
3159 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
3161 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
3162 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
3164 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
3165 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
3166 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
3167 noise quality as percentage.
3168 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
3169 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
3170 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
3171 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
3172 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
3173 support for the `timeticks' type.
3175 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
3176 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
3177 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
3178 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
3180 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
3181 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
3182 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
3184 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
3185 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
3186 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
3187 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
3189 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
3190 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
3191 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
3192 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
3194 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
3195 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
3196 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
3197 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
3198 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
3199 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
3200 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
3201 to not block data collection.
3202 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
3203 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
3204 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
3206 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
3207 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
3208 of music played with xmms.
3210 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
3211 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
3212 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
3213 noise quality as percentage.
3214 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
3216 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
3217 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
3218 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
3219 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
3221 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
3222 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
3223 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
3224 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
3226 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
3227 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
3229 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
3230 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
3231 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
3232 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
3233 (i. e. without quotes).
3234 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
3235 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
3236 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
3238 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
3239 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
3240 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
3241 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
3243 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
3244 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
3245 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
3248 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
3249 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
3251 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
3252 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
3253 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
3254 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
3255 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
3256 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
3257 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
3259 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
3260 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
3261 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
3262 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
3263 initialized correctly.
3264 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
3266 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
3267 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
3268 they're given in numerically form.
3270 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
3271 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
3272 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
3275 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
3276 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
3277 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
3278 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
3279 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
3280 thread-safe functions from now on.
3281 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
3282 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
3283 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
3285 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
3286 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
3287 write to increase IO-performance.
3288 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
3289 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
3290 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
3291 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
3292 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
3294 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
3295 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
3296 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
3298 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
3299 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
3300 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
3301 or STDOUT or STDERR.
3302 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
3303 system's syslog daemon.
3304 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
3305 entropy currently being available to the system.
3306 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
3307 back values provided by the forked processes.
3308 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
3309 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
3311 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
3312 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
3313 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
3314 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
3315 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
3316 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
3317 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
3318 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
3319 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
3321 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
3322 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
3323 noise quality as percentage.
3325 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
3326 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
3328 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
3329 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
3330 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
3331 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
3332 were accounted as `zombies'.
3334 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
3335 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
3338 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
3339 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
3340 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
3342 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
3343 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
3344 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
3345 segfault with some libcs.
3347 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
3348 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
3349 under Solaris again.
3350 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
3352 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
3353 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
3355 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
3356 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
3357 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
3358 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
3359 write init.d-scripts for it.
3360 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
3361 caused problems every now and then.
3362 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
3363 filesystem types or devices.
3364 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
3365 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
3367 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
3368 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
3369 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
3370 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
3371 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
3372 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
3373 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
3374 segment size and pagefaults.
3375 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
3376 queries multimeters.
3377 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
3378 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
3379 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
3381 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
3382 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
3383 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
3384 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
3386 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
3387 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
3388 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
3389 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
3392 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
3393 * The sample config file has been improved.
3394 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
3395 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
3396 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
3397 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
3399 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
3400 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
3401 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
3403 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
3404 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
3406 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
3407 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
3408 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
3409 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
3411 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
3412 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
3413 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
3414 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
3415 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
3416 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
3417 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
3418 with a test environment :)
3419 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
3422 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
3423 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
3424 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
3426 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
3427 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
3428 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
3430 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
3431 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
3432 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
3434 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
3435 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
3437 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
3438 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
3439 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
3440 approximately 7.6 days.
3442 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
3443 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
3444 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
3445 approximately 7.6 days.
3447 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
3448 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
3450 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
3452 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
3454 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
3455 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
3456 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
3457 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
3458 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
3460 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
3461 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
3462 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
3463 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
3464 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
3465 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
3466 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
3467 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
3469 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
3470 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
3471 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
3472 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
3474 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
3475 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
3476 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
3478 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
3479 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
3480 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
3482 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
3483 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
3484 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
3487 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
3488 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
3489 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
3491 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
3492 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
3493 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
3494 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
3496 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
3497 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
3498 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
3500 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
3501 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
3503 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
3504 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
3506 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
3507 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
3509 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
3510 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
3512 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
3513 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
3514 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
3515 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
3516 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
3517 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
3518 address and/or port than localhost.
3519 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
3520 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
3521 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
3522 be set in the configfile.
3524 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
3525 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
3526 client mode. This released fixes this.
3528 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
3529 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
3530 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
3533 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
3534 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
3536 * A `df' plugin has been added.
3537 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
3538 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
3539 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
3541 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
3542 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
3543 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
3546 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
3547 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
3548 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
3550 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
3551 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
3552 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
3553 currently logged in users.
3554 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
3555 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
3556 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
3557 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
3559 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
3560 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
3561 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
3562 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
3563 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
3564 with the `-c' argument.
3565 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
3566 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
3567 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
3568 Barcellos for this patch.
3570 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
3571 * New modules have been added:
3572 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
3573 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
3574 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
3575 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
3577 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
3578 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
3580 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
3581 between polls up to one day.
3582 * The init.d files have been improved.
3583 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
3585 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
3586 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
3587 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
3589 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
3590 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
3591 multicast) has been added.
3592 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
3593 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
3594 to be linked against an external library.
3595 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
3596 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
3598 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
3599 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
3601 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
3602 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
3603 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
3604 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
3605 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
3606 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
3607 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
3608 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
3609 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
3612 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
3613 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
3615 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
3617 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
3618 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
3620 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
3621 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
3622 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
3623 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
3625 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
3626 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
3627 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3629 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
3630 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
3631 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
3632 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
3633 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
3634 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
3635 statistics will not work.
3637 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
3638 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
3639 weird strings as disk-names..
3641 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
3642 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
3643 about the disks and partitions.
3645 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
3646 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
3647 and/or kernel versions.
3649 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
3650 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
3651 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
3653 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
3654 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
3655 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
3657 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
3658 * Collecting CPU statistics now
3660 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
3661 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
3663 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
3665 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
3666 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
3668 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
3669 * The following modules are provided:
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