1 2016-10-07, Version 5.6.1
2 * Build system: Unnecessary linking of the Write Graphite plugin with
3 libyajl has been removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
5 * collectd: A bug in the "FlushInterval" option that caused a
6 segmentation fault in the Write HTTP plugin has been fixed. Thanks to
8 * Apache plugin: A syntax error has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
10 * cURL-JSON plugin: A segmentation fault that occurred when handling
11 JSON with unexpected structure has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
13 * PostgreSQL plugin: Handling of "NULL" values in the "query_plans" and
14 "query_plans_by_table" queries has been fixed. Thanks to Bernd
16 * RRDCacheD plugin: Reconnection behavior has been added. Thanks to
17 Sebastian Harl. Debian#657877
18 * VServer plugin: Use of a deprecated API ("readdir_r()") has been
19 fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
20 * Write Graphite plugin: Make default values configurable at compile
21 time again. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1953
22 * Write HTTP plugin: A bug has been fixed that lead to flush callbacks
23 being registered twice. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1955
25 2016-09-11, Version 5.6.0
26 * Build system: An option to to avoid building the DF plugin against XFS
27 has been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1878
28 * Build system: Autoconf ≥ 2.60, a C99-capable compiler and pkg-config
29 are now required. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
30 * Build system: Building with "-Werror" is now optional. Thanks to Ruben
32 * Build system: Many compilation issues on non-Linux platforms have been
33 fixed, leading to wider plugin support. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
34 Dagobert Michelsen, Havard Eidnes and Robert Viduya.
35 * Build system: The configuration summary now also ends up in
36 config.log. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
37 * collectd: All command-line options now override global options from
38 the config file. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #366
39 * collectd: A number of unit tests for commonly used functions have been
40 added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
41 * collectd: Plugins start up and read timeouts are now logged. Thanks to
42 Marc Fournier. #1293, #1254
43 * collectd: Support for a timeout has been added to "FLUSH" callbacks.
44 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
45 * collectd: The "-T" command line switch now reports more errors. Thanks
47 * collectd: The max size of value list elements ("DATA_MAX_NAME_LEN")
48 has been doubled and is now configurable at build time. Thanks to Amy
49 Lin, Florian Forster and Radu Brumariu. #1120
50 * Set target: The "MetaData" option has been added. Thanks to Yves
51 Mettier and Kevin Bowling. #1106, #1656, #1913
52 * AMQP, Write_HTTP, Write_Kafka plugins: Support for libyajl < 2 has
53 been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
54 * APC UPS plugin: Parsing of end markers has been fixed. Thanks to
56 * APC UPS plugin: The "PersistentConnection" option has been added.
57 Thanks to Florian Forster #617
58 * ceph, DNS, Exec, IPTables, Ping, turbostat plugins: When running
59 unprivileged, these plugins will now warn about insuffiscient
60 permissions or capabilities(7). Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1530
61 * Chrony plugin: This new plugin collects NTP data from the chrony NTP
62 server. Thanks to Claudius Zingerli. #1548
63 * cpusleep plugin: This new plugin measures time spent by CPU in deep
64 sleep mode. Thanks to Rinigus. #1826
65 * CPU plugin: The "ReportNumCpu" option has been added. Thanks to Fabien
67 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: The new "Statistics" reports
68 various per-HTTP connection timers. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1004
69 * DBI plugin: The "Interval" option has been added to "Database" blocks.
70 Thanks to Michal Bebjak.
71 * Disk plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li,
72 Brad Davis, Ruben Kerfhof and Kevin Bowling.
73 * Empty Counter match: Support for derives has been implemented. Thanks
74 to Florian Forster. #1813
75 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for TabularData and the "PluginName" option
76 have been added. Thanks to David Crane. #1290, #1291
77 * GPS plugin: This new plugin reports the number of sattelites seen by
78 and precision of a GPS receiver. Thanks to Nicolas Jourden. #1346
79 * gRPC plugin: This new client and server plugin allows sending and
80 receiving metrics using the gRPC protocol. Comparable to the UnixSock
81 plugin, but using TCP and TLS. Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Florian
83 * Interface plugin: Reporting dropped packets has been added. Thanks to
85 * Interface plugin: The "ReportInactive" has been added, letting users
86 skip inactive network interfaces. Thanks to Rinigus. #1791
87 * Interface plugin: The new, Solaris-only "UniqueName" option has been
88 added. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam. #1416
89 * Lua plugin: This new language binding allows writing plugins using the
90 Lua programming language. Thanks to Julien Ammous, Florian Forster and
92 * Memory plugin: Reporting of ARC memory on Solaris has been added.
93 Thanks to Brian ONeill.
94 * MQTT plugin: This new plugin sends metrics to and/or receives metrics
95 from an MQTT broker. Thanks to Marc Falzon, Jan-Piet Mens, Nicholas
96 Humfrey and Florian Forster. #805, #1124
97 * MySQL plugin: Connection to the database server can now be done over
98 SSL. Thanks to Brian Lalor. #1256
99 * MySQL plugin: Monitoring slow queries has been added. Thanks to skob.
101 * MySQL plugin: mysql_bpool_pages-flushed has been renamed to
102 mysql_bpool_counters-pages_flushed because the value is cumulative.
103 Thanks to Marek Becka.
104 * MySQL plugin: Support for Galera statistics has been added. Thanks to
105 Rachid Zarouali. #1849
106 * MySQL plugin: Support for InnoDB metrics was improved. Thanks to Aman
108 * MySQL plugin: The "mysql_sort" type has been split into 3 different
109 types. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1592
110 * Network plugin: Decryption error logging has been improved. Thanks to
111 Pavel Rochnyack. #1735
112 * Notify Nagios plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to Nagios as
113 a passive check result. Thanks to Florian Forster.
114 * NTPd plugin: The plugin now detects if the ntp daemon reports
115 nanoseconds instead of microseconds. Thanks to Matwey V. Kornilov.
117 * OpenLDAP plugin: Several connection-related improvements have been
118 made. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1308
119 * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for "simple authentication" has been added.
120 Thanks to Marek Becka. #1087
121 * Ping plugin: The "Size" option has been added, allowing the ICMP data
122 payload size to be configured. Thanks to Witold Baryluk. #1395
123 * PostgreSQL, DBI, Oracle plugins: The new "PluginInstanceFrom" option
124 has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1707
125 * PowerDNS plugin: The recursor metrics have been updated to 3.7.3 and
126 missing rr types have been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
127 * Processes plugin: Counting of context switches was added for Linux.
128 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1036
129 * Processes plugin: Improve reliability of thread counts on Linux.
130 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
131 * Python plugin: Minimal Python version requirement has been bumped to
132 2.6. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1864
133 * Redis plugin: Several additional metrics are now collected. Thanks to
134 Marc Falzon and Matteo Contrini. #1807, #1483
135 * Sensors plugin: The "UseLabels" option has been added. Thanks to
137 * SMART plugin: The new "IgnoreSleepMode" option has been added. Thanks
138 to Scott Talbert. #1770
139 * SMART plugin: The new "UseSerial" option allows identifying devices in
140 a stable way. Thanks to Scott Talbert. #1794
141 * SNMP plugin: The "IpAddress" can now be used for instances. Thanks to
142 Vincent Bernat. #1397
143 * StatsD plugin: Latency calculation histogram is now able to shrink
144 automatically to optimal size. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1622
145 * StatsD plugin: The "CounterSum" option has been added. Thanks to
146 Florian Forster. #929, #1282, #1311
147 * UUID plugin: The plugin now also looks in in smbios system table and
148 "/sys/class/dmi". Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1490
149 * virt plugin: The "PluginInstanceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
150 to Ruben Kerkhof. #1100
151 * Write Graphite plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" option has been added.
152 Thanks to Toni Moreno and Florian Forster.
153 * Write HTTP plugin: A KairosDB formatter has been added. Thanks to
154 Aurélien Rougemont. #1809
155 * Write HTTP plugin: Notifications are now handled by this plugin.
156 Thanks to Florian Forster.
157 * Write HTTP plugin: The "LogHttpError" option has been added. Thanks to
159 * Write HTTP plugin: The new "Headers" option allows setting custom HTTP
160 headers in outgoing requests. Thanks to Brandon Arp. #1634
161 * Write Kafka plugin: Key handling has been made more comprehensive and
162 reliable. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Vincent
163 Bernat. #1765, #1695, #1393
164 * Write Redis plugin: The "Database", "MaxSetSize", "Prefix" and
165 "StoreRates" options have been added. Thanks to Brian Kelly and
167 * Write Riemann plugin: The new "BatchFlushTimeout" and "Timeout" option
168 have been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Gergely Nagy.
169 * Write Riemann plugin: This plugin now requires the riemann-c-client
170 library, version 1.6.0+. This adds support for submitting values to
171 Riemann over TLS. Thanks to Gergely Nagy. #986
172 * Write TSDB, Write Sensu, Write Riemann, Write Graphite, Write TSDB
173 plugin: TCP keepalive is now enabled, helping graceful recovery from
174 unclean network disconnections. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1549
175 * XenCPU plugin: This new plugin collects XEN Hypervisor CPU stats.
176 Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1608
177 * ZFS ARC plugin: Several new statistics have been added and a couple of
178 obsolete ones removed. Thanks to Brad Davis, Brian ONeill and Ruben
180 * Zone plugin: This new plugin reads per-zone CPU usage on Solaris.
181 Thanks to Mathijs Mohlmann and Dagobert Michelsen.
183 2016-07-25, Version 5.5.2
184 * collectd: A division by zero has been fixed in the
185 "plugin_dispatch_multivalue()" function. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
186 * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
187 in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
188 * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
189 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkof.
190 * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
191 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
192 * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
193 more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
194 * DF plugin: A build issue on DragonFlyBSD has been fixed. Thanks to
196 * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
197 This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
199 * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
200 has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
201 * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
202 now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
203 Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
204 * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has
205 been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was
206 ignored. Thanks to @yujokang. #1665
207 * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
208 This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
209 Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
210 * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
211 single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
212 create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
213 * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
214 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
215 * Redis plugin: A memory leak in an error handling code path has been
216 fixed. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz.
217 * Redis plugin: The data source type of the expired_keys metric has been
218 corrected to "DERIVE". Thanks to Marc Falzon and Marc Fournier. #1483.
219 * SMART plugin: A build dependency on libudev has been added. Thanks to
220 Pavel Rochnyack. #1724
221 * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
222 Pavel Rochnyack #1703
223 * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
224 shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
225 * Write Sensu plugin: A segfault when the Tag was unset has been fixed.
226 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
227 * ZFS ARC plugin: The cache_operation-stolen metric has been removed for
228 FreeBSD 10.2 and later. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1580
230 2016-01-22, Version 5.5.1
231 * Build system: Compilation errors have been avoided by correctly
232 defining package name and version used by autoconf. Thanks to Nathan
234 * Build system: Dependency ordering was fixed to ensure parallel builds
235 work reliably. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias. #1125
236 * Build system: Error messages have been improved and building the unit
237 tests has been fixed on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster and
238 Dagobert Michelsen. #1077
239 * Build system: The move of the "utils_ignorelist" functions has been
240 reverted. This fixes build issues of numerous plugins. Thanks to
241 Benjamin Drung;. #1323
242 * Build system: The fhcount plugin has been restricted to Linux. Thanks
243 to Ruben Kerkhof. #1195
244 * Build system: Detection of header files for the turbostat plugin has
245 been fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1075
246 * collectd: The "LC_NUMERIC" locale is now forced, to prevent issues
247 with some plugins on environments using a comma as decimal separator.
248 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1237
249 * Documentation: Some precisions related to the virt plugin have beed
250 added. Thanks to Wojtek Bocer and Ruben Kerkhof.
251 * Documentation: The CollectdInternalStats documentation has been
252 improved. Thanks to Yves Mettier and Florian Forster.
253 * Battery plugin: A missing Type has been added. Thanks to Marc
255 * Bind plugin: An off-by-one error has been fixed: an index was checked
256 against a wrong variable, which may lead to an out-of-bounds read.
257 Thanks to Michal Humpula. #1123
258 * Ceph plugin: JSON parsing has been refactored to support ceph 10.0.0
259 and fixes several buffer overflows. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1350
260 * CPU plugin: A Mac OS X specific bug has been fixed: the plugin
261 expected an incorrect number of CPU states, resulting in failing read
262 callbacks. This regression was introduced in 5.5.0. Thanks to Robert
264 * Disk plugin: Support for Mac OS X 10.10 has been added. Thanks to
266 * IPC plugin: Support for building with musl-libc has been added. Thanks
267 to Natanael Copa. #1147
268 * Log Logstash plugin: A segfault when using libyajl, version 1 was
269 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #1190
270 * Log Logstash plugin: The timestamp is now ISO 8601 compliant. Thanks
271 to Marc Fournier. #1132
272 * memcached plugin: The Type of the listen-disabled metric was fixed.
273 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1356
274 * MySQL plugin: The Type used by Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_flushed was
275 fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1085
276 * OpenLDAP plugin: A crash when using LDAPI (LDAP-over-IPC) got fixed.
277 Thanks to Marek Becka. #1080
278 * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for Mac OS X has been added. Thanks to Ruben
280 * SMART plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
281 Schüller and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1076
282 * Swap plugin: A regression that would lead to swap usage being reported
283 in kilobytes (instead of bytes) has been fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka.
285 * Varnish plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Ruben
287 * Varnish plugin: Support for versions 3 and 4 has been made more
288 tolerant to minor changes in Varnish point releases. Thanks to Marc
290 * virt plugin: A copy-and-paste mistake in an error message has been
291 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1101
292 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
294 * Write Redis plugin: Dead code has been removed. Thanks to Brian Kelly.
296 * 27 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
297 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
298 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan and clang: Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
299 Florian Forster and Marek Becka.
300 * Collectd::Unixsock: A Perl error got corrected. Thanks to Ciaran Mac
303 2015-05-27, Version 5.5.0
304 * Build system: Ability to make out-of-tree builds has been fixed.
305 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #792
306 * Build system, Disk and Users plugins: Detection and use of libstatgrab
307 ≧ 0.90 has been added. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #445, #795, #806,
309 * Build system, Memory, CPU, TCPConns and Processes plugins: Numerous
310 fixes related to OpenBSD support have been added. Thanks to Landry
311 Breuil. #777, #778, #779, #808
312 * Build system: Plugins now only export "module_register()". Thanks to
314 * Build system: Various cleanups and improvements have been done. Thanks
316 * collectd: Numerous internal changes and improvements to the daemon and
317 the plugin API have been make. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves
318 Ritschard and Alex Petrov. #512, #727
319 * collectd: Numerous spelling mistakes have been corrected in comments
320 and documentation and several error messages have been improved.
321 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Abhinav Upadhyay, Olivier Bazoud, Pierre-Yves
322 Ritschard, Tim Smith, Moshe Zada, Katelyn Perry and Marc Fournier.
323 * collectd: Rules/Targets can now be appended to existing Filter Chains.
324 Thanks to Marc Falzon. #444
325 * collectd: Failing Filter Chains destinations will now log the list of
326 available write targets. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #650, #1043
327 * collectd: Support for process signaling and management by upstart and
328 systemd has been implemented for the Linux platform. Thanks to
329 Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. #798, #811, #814
330 * collectd: The "CollectInternalStats" option has been added. Thanks to
332 * collectd: The daemon source code and dependencies have moved to the
333 "src/daemon/" directory. Thanks to Florian Forster.
334 * collectd: The new "MaxReadInterval" option allows to cap the
335 exponential retry interval of plugins read errors. Thanks to Alexey
336 Remizov and Florian Forster. #713
337 * collectd: The "-P" command-line option now has precedence over the
338 "PIDFile" option. Thanks to Thomas D. #553
339 * collection.cgi: Various data-source related adjustments have been
340 made. Thanks to Fabiano Pires and Sebastian Harl.
341 * libcollectdclient: Now propagates errors when signing / encrypting
342 network packets. Thanks to Florian Forster.
343 * Configuration: Support for unquoted IPv6 addresses has been added.
344 Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #489
345 * Documentation: Various improvements have been done. Thanks to Florian
346 Forster and Marc Fournier.
347 * Examples: the sample C plugin has been updated to the current plugin
348 API. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
349 * Licensing: The following components have been relicensed to the MIT
350 license: the Apple Sensors, Ascent, DBI, E-Mail, Entropy, GenericJMX,
351 gmond, LogFile, nginx, Notify Desktop, NTPd, NUT, olsrd, Perl, Ping,
352 PostgreSQL, Protocols, RouterOS, RRDCacheD, SNMP, StatsD, SysLog,
353 Table, Tail, UnixSock, vmem, VServer, Wireless, Write Riemann and XMMS
354 plugins, the core collectd daemon, the collectdmon, collectd-nagios
355 and collectd-tg utilities, all the Targets and Matches, liboconfig,
356 most of the "utils_*" files and the plugin API.
357 * Tests: A test suite has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
358 * Threshold: The hysteresis calculation has been made more reliable.
359 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #581
360 * Threshold: Various fixes and improvements have been made. Thanks to
361 Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #649, #644
362 * AMQP plugin: The "ConnectionRetryDelay" option has been added,
363 allowing to delay reconnection. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam and Marc
365 * AMQP plugin: The "QueueDurable" and "QueueAutoDelete" options have
366 been added, giving control over queue creation and deletion. Thanks to
367 David Blundell and Marc Fournier. #623
368 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx and Write HTTP
369 plugins: Customizing the "User-Agent" field is now possible at
370 compile-time. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #440
371 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx plugins: The
372 connection will be reset if it hasn't completed within the configured
373 "Interval". The new "Timeout" option gives control over this behavior.
374 Thanks to Jan Kundrát and Marc Fournier. #982, #983, #993
375 * Apache, Ascent, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP plugins:
376 Allow usernames and passwords to contain colons if built against
377 libcurl ≧ 7.19.1. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #695, #947
378 * Apache plugin: The "SSLCiphers" option gives control over the
379 encryption algorithms to use with TLS connections. Thanks to Toni
381 * Barometer plugin: This new plugin reads sensor data from various
382 Freescale and Bosch digital barometers. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #69,
384 * Battery plugin: Reporting values as percentages and reporting degraded
385 batteries has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
386 * Battery plugin: Support for reading values from sysfs on Linux has
387 been added. Thanks to Andy Parkins, Nicholas Humfrey, Peter Wu and
388 Florian Forster. #725, #810, #998
389 * Battery plugin: The value for current is no longer supplied unless the
390 battery provides this information. Thanks to Florian Forster.
391 * BIND plugin: Bind's XML v3 API is now supported; Thanks to Victor
392 Berger, Bruno Prémont and Michal Humpula. #742, #847
393 * Ceph plugin: This new plugin collects statistics from the Ceph
394 distributed storage system. Thanks to Dan Ryder, Dennis Zou, Colin
395 McCabe, Sage Weil. #522, #598
396 * ConnTrack plugin: Support for reporting values as percentages as well
397 as legacy conntrack files in "/proc" has been added. Thanks to
398 Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #497, #680
399 * CPU plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages and
400 aggregate values per-state and per-CPU. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
401 Ritschard, Florian Forster, Fabien Wernli, Nicholas Humfrey and
402 Wilfried Goesgens. #499, #516, #639 #734, #812, #802
403 * cURL-JSON plugin: Extracting values from complex JSON structures has
404 been enhanced. Thanks to Jim Radford. #408, #411
405 * cURL-JSON plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-URL basis.
406 Thanks to Stan Sawa. #685
407 * cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, Write HTTP plugins: These plugins now also follow
408 HTTP redirects. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
409 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: HTTP Digest authentication has been
410 implemented. Thanks to Frank Cornelis. #482
411 * DBI, Oracle, PostgreSQL plugins: A "MetadataFrom" parameter has been
412 added which allows to set metadata from database columns. Thanks to
413 Mark Wong. #317, #321
414 * DBI plugin: Querying several databases in parallel is now possible.
415 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #453
416 * Disk plugin: On the Linux platform, disk names can now get looked up
417 in udev with the "UdevNameAttr" option. Thanks to Patrick Mooney. #537
418 * Disk plugin: This plugin now collects several additional I/O-related
419 metrics on the Linux platform. Thanks to Florian Forster and Michael
421 * DRBD plugin: This new plugin reads Linux's Distributed Replicated
422 Block Device (DRBD) statistics. Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #566, #700
423 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: The "PUTNOTIF" command now allows to set
424 metadata on notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #416
425 * fhcount plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used file
426 handles. Thanks to Jiri Tyr. #1009
427 * GenericJMX plugin: A Class Loader for "JMXConnectorFactory" has been
428 added, allowing the plugin to work with JBOSS > 7. Thanks to Alexandre
430 * IPC plugin: This new plugin collects information related to shared
431 memory. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz. #925
432 * Java plugin: Now uses the hostname defined in the configuration file.
433 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #530, #681
434 * Load plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
435 Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #344, #498
436 * Log Logstash plugin: This new plugin writes collectd logs and events
437 as Logstash JSON formatted events. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
439 * LVM plugin: The plugin collects thin pool data volumes size, and no
440 longer reports virtual volumes. Thanks to Benjamin Gilbert. #603
441 * memcached plugin: "listen_disabled_num" are now also reported. Thanks
442 to Matt Cottingham. #622
443 * Memory plugin: Slab memory reporting on the Linux platform has been
444 added. Thanks to Manuel CISSÉ and Marc Fournier. #560, #697
445 * Memory plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
446 Thanks to Jeremy Katz, Florian Forster and Manuel CISSÉ. #501, #511,
448 * Modbus plugin: Selecting between holding and input registers is now
449 possible. Thanks to Jan Vitek. #338
450 * Modbus plugin: Support for accessing devices through an RS-485 serial
451 port has been added. Thanks to Eric Sandeen.
452 * Multimeter plugin: This plugin isn't built by default on the AIX
453 platform anymore. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada. #549, #684
454 * MySQL and PostgreSQL plugins: Passing "127.0.0.1" as a host will now
455 result in the global Hostname being used in metric names. Thanks to
457 * MySQL plugin: InnoDB, Select and Sort statistics collection has been
458 added. Thanks to Wilson Felipe, Marek Becka and Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
459 #248, #621, #699, #824
460 * MySQL plugin: The "Alias" and "ConnectTimeout" options have been
461 added. Thanks to William Tisäter.
462 * Netlink plugin: Support for 64bit netlink counters has been added.
463 Thanks to Marek Becka. #435
464 * Network plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" configuration option has been
465 added. Thanks to John Ferlito. #732
466 * NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4.0 has been implemented. Thanks to Marek
468 * OneWire plugin: Support for more temperature-providing sensor families
469 has been added. Thanks to Tomasz Torcz. #672
470 * OneWire plugin: Support for full OWFS path and more device families
471 has been implemented. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #68
472 * OpenLDAP plugin: This new plugin reads monitoring information from
473 OpenLDAP's "cn=Monitor" subtree. Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum, Marc
474 Fournier and Nicholas Humfrey. #719
475 * OpenVPN plugin: Support for OpenVPN 2.3.0 has been implemented. Thanks
477 * OpenVZ plugin: Various improvements have been made, making the plugin
478 report values like the other collectd plugins do. Thanks to Chris
480 * Perl plugin: A new "listval_filter" method has been added, various
481 internal cleanups and improvements have been made and a test suite has
482 been added. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #728
483 * PostgreSQL plugin: The new "ExpireDelay" option allows skipping older
484 values pending write when the database slows down. Thanks to Stephen
486 * PowerDNS plugin: The plugin was updated for stats from pdns 3.4.3.
487 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #965
488 * Processes plugin: A memory-usage related optimization for low-profile
489 systems has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #652
490 * Python plugin: Support for Python3 has been improved, "ModulePath" is
491 now prepended to "sys.path", and the "get_dataset()" function has been
492 added to the Python API. Thanks to Sven Trenkel and Patrick Browne.
494 * Redis and Write_Redis plugins: The support library has been switched
495 from credis to hiredis. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz, Victor Seva, Marc
496 Fournier, Johan Bergström, Michael Spiegle and brianpkelly. #296,
497 #464, #475, #799, #1030
498 * Redis plugin: Custom commands can now be used to fetch values stored
499 in Redis. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #816
500 * Redis plugin: Support for passwords up to 512 characters long has been
501 added. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #532
502 * Sensors plugin: Support for lm_sensors' power sensors has been added.
503 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #571
504 * SMART plugin: This new plugin collects SMART statistics from disk
505 drives. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #797
506 * SNMP plugin: A blacklist/whitelist feature can now be used to filter
507 which OIDs to collect. Thanks to Christophe Courtaut. #414
508 * SNMP plugin: SNMPv3 authentication and encryption support has been
509 implemented. Thanks to Michael Pilat. #362
510 * SNMP plugin: Two error messages have been disambiguated. Thanks to
512 * Swap plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
513 Thanks to Jeremy Katz and Florian Forster. #500, #510
514 * Swap plugin: The plugin no longer fails on Linux systems where
515 "SwapCached" isn't exposed by the kernel. Thanks to Florian Forster.
517 * Tail plugin: "GaugeInc" and "GaugeAdd" options have been implemented.
518 Thanks to Andre Ferraz. #673
519 * Tail plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-File basis.
520 Thanks to Tom Leaman. #446
521 * TCPConns plugin: The "AllPortsSummary" option, allowing to summarize
522 all connections, has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #488
523 * TCPConns plugin: Three metrics were renamed on the AIX platform, for
524 the sake of consistency. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #546
525 * Turbostat plugin: This new plugin reads CPU frequency and C-state
526 residency on modern Intel turbo-capable processors. Thanks to Vincent
527 Brillault, Jean Delvare and Nicolas Iooss. #651
528 * UnixSock plugin: The "GETTHRESHOLD" command has been re-added. Thanks
529 to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #674
530 * Varnish plugin: Varnish 4 support has been added, as well as as
531 monitoring metrics only available in Varnish 4. Thanks to Marc
533 * virt plugin: Guests memory usage is now also collected. Thanks to
534 Tiago Carvalho, jazzmes and Zollner Robert.
535 * virt plugin: It is now possible to chose between using guests' name or
536 UUID as plugin_instance. Thanks to Remi Ferrand. #385
537 * virt plugin: The libvirt plugin has been renamed to virt. Thanks to
539 * Write Graphite plugin: When the connection to graphite fails,
540 reconnection attempts are now limited to once per second. Thanks to
541 Florian Forster. #625
542 * Write HTTP plugin: Multi-instance support of this plugin has been
543 improved. The "<URL "url">" block has been deprecated in favor of
544 "<Node "identifier">". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #902
545 * Write HTTP plugin: Several TLS-related configuration options have been
546 added. Thanks to Ingmar Runge. #666
547 * Write HTTP plugin: The "LowSpeedLimit" and "Timeout" options allow to
548 reset slow/stalled network connections. Thanks to loginator17 and Marc
550 * Write HTTP plugin: The size of the payload posted to the HTTP server
551 can now be controlled with the "BufferSize" option. Thanks to Florian
553 * Write Kafka plugin: This new plugin sends data to Apache Kafka, a
554 distributed messaging queue. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard,
555 ciomaire, Vincent Bernat, Marc Fournier. #670, #694, #794, #853, #014
556 * Write Log plugin: This new plugin dispatches collected values to the
557 configured log destination(s). Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #886
558 * Write Riemann plugin: Extra meta strings are now added as attributes
559 in notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #417
560 * Write Riemann plugin: Notification message are now sent to the Riemann
561 server via the description field. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #575
562 * Write Riemann plugin: Support for custom attributes has been added.
563 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #459
564 * Write Riemann plugin: Support had been implemented for sending events
565 to Riemann in batches (when using TCP), and is enabled by default.
566 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #800
567 * Write Riemann plugin: The "EventServicePrefix" option has been added,
568 which adds a prefix to event service names. Thanks to Moshe Zada. #706
569 * Write Riemann plugin: Threshold checks can now be passed down to the
570 Riemann server. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #518
571 * Write Sensu plugin: This new plugin submits values to Sensu, a stream
572 processing and monitoring system. Thanks to Fabrice A. Marie and Marc
573 Fournier. #912, #1001, #1016
574 * Write TSDB plugin: This new plugin sends data to OpenTSDB, a scalable
575 time series database. Thanks to Kevin Bowling, Florian Forster, Dallin
576 Young, Michael Schenck and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #703, #772, #945
577 * ZFS ARC plugin: Support for ZFS-on-Linux has been added. Thanks to
578 Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. #552
579 * Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache Zookeeper
580 "MNTR" command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826
582 2016-07-26, Version 5.4.3
583 * Build system: A deprecation warning has been removed. Thanks to
585 * Build system: An ordering issue when build the AMQP plugin was
586 corrected. Thanks to Shahul Hameed.
587 * Build system: Building the gmond plugin against recent libganglia
588 versions has been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1129
589 * Build system: "collectd-tg" now builds on AIX. Thanks to Manuel Luis
590 Sanmartín Rozada. #542
591 * Build system: "version-gen.sh" portablility was improved. Thanks to
592 Marc Fournier and Ruben Kerkhof.
593 * Build system: Compiling utils_dns.c on Solaris has beed fixed. Thanks
594 to Yves Mettier, Dagobert Michelsen and Florian Forster. #348
595 * Build system: Default JDK detection got improved. Thanks to Ruben
596 Kerkhof and Marc Fournier.
597 * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
598 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
599 * Build system: notify_email build options got corrected to make it
600 build on non-GNU libc systems. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
601 * Build system: Protobuf building and logging has been improved. Thanks
603 * Build system: The "make distcheck" target was fixed to properly handle
604 java build artifacts. Thanks to Florian Forster.
605 * Build system: The configure script got fixed to work properly when
606 called with "CC="gcc -Wall -Werror"" . Thanks to Marc Fournier.
607 * Build system: The configure script will now fail if pkg-config isn't
608 available. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
609 * Build system: The users plugin now builds properly on Solaris when
610 libstatgrab is available. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #1061
611 * Build system: Various fixes have been done to improve library
612 detection on FreeBSD. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
613 * collectd2html: Several perl errors have been corrected. Thanks to Ruud
615 * collectd: A global gauge format-string is now used to avoid loss of
616 precision. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1039
617 * collectd: A race condition at plugin initialization time was fixed.
618 Thanks to Jan Andres. #1316
619 * collectd: Autoloading now properly sets plugin context, allowing
620 plugins to determine the interval. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1069
621 * collectd: Empty "Plugin" blocks are now supported by the configuration
622 file parser. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1035
623 * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
624 in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
625 * collectd: Writing to a closed TCP socket is now properly handled.
626 Thanks to Tamás Földesi. #1104
627 * Documentation: iptables plugin: IPv6 configuration option has been
628 added to the collectd.conf(5) manpage. Thanks to 'Marc Fournier''.
630 * AMQP plugin: The plugin was fixed to build against librabbitmq 0.6.0.
631 Thanks to Remi Collet. #1008
632 * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
633 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
634 * Apache plugin: The plugin was extended to parse the whole response,
635 required to support Apache versions greater than 2.4.17. Thanks to
636 Marc Fournier and Florian Forster. #1170, #1343
637 * APC UPS plugin: Log messages are now prefixed with the plugin name.
638 Thanks to Sergey. #1329
639 * Bind plugin: The type_instance now gets properly sanitized. Thanks to
641 * CPU plugin: Error messages on MacOSX have been improved. Thanks to
643 * cURL plugin: A typo in an error message got corrected. Thanks to Marc
645 * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
646 more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
647 * DF plugin: An bug preventing filesystems which don't report inodes
648 such as btrfs has been corrected. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1096
649 * DF plugin: Duplicate entries are no longer reported twice. Thanks to
650 Stefan Brüns and Florian Forster. #1402
651 * DF plugin: Legacy code for skipping "rootfs" mount points has been
652 removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1402
653 * DF plugin: Legacy references to the "ReportReserved" option have been
654 removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
655 * DF plugin: Reading the mtab now uses a reentrant function when
656 possible. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1163
657 * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
658 This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
660 * Exec plugin: A file descriptor leak when the plugin is configured to
661 run as a non-existing user was corrected. Thanks to Gautam BT and Marc
663 * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
664 has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
665 * Interface plugin: Documentation about regular expressions in the
666 ignore list has been added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski.
667 * IRQ plugin: The "FIQ" line is now skipped as it doesn't contain any
668 counter. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #971
669 * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
670 now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
671 Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
672 * MongoDB plugin: A memory leak has been fixed and some adaptations to
673 the current API of the mongo-c-driver have been made. Thanks to
674 Florian Forster. #956
675 * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has
676 been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was ignored.
677 Thanks to @yujokang. #1665
678 * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
679 This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
680 Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
681 * Network plugin: The TimeToLive option handling was made more robust.
682 Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #654
683 * NTPd plugin: Documentation about the required "mode 7" has been added.
684 Thanks to Jakub Jankowski.
685 * NTPd plugin: Reporting of "time_offset-loop" was corrected to match
686 the values from ntpq/ntpdc. Thanks to Pierre Fersing and Florian
688 * OpenVPN plugin: The plugin was fixe to avoid signaling an error when
689 no clients were connected. Thanks to Florian Forster. #731
690 * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
691 single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
692 create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
693 * PF plugin and DNS plugin: These plugins have been fixed to build
694 properly on OpenBSD again. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
695 * Processes plugin: A compilation error on systems without "regex.h" has
696 been fixed. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
697 * Processes plugin: A memory leak on Solaris has been fixed. Thanks to
699 * Processes plugin and Swap plugin: These plugins have been corrected to
700 also work inside FreeBSD jails. Thanks to biancalana. #1019
701 * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
702 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
703 * Processes plugin: Process counting on the FreeBSD and OpenBSD
704 platforms has been fixed. Thanks to Herve COMMOWICK. #1298
705 * Processes plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly on Solaris.
706 Thanks to Jan Andres. #919
707 * Python plugin: A double-free bug got fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel.
709 * RRDtool plugin: A race condition leading to corrupt RRD file creation
710 has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1031
711 * SNMP plugin: The "Gauge32" signedness was corrected to match RFC1902.
712 Thanks to Nathan Ward. #1325
713 * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
714 Pavel Rochnyack #1703
715 * StatsD plugin: A memory leak was corrected. Thanks to Florian Forster.
717 * StatsD plugin: A symbol lookup error was fixed by properly linking the
718 plugin against libm. Thanks to Florian Forster.
719 * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Support for including values above
720 1000 in percentile calculation has been added. Thanks to Yoga
722 * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Two division by zero error conditions
723 have been corrected. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #655
724 * StatsD plugin: Counters absolute counts are now also reported. Thanks
725 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1311
726 * StatsD plugin: The plugin now emits NaN values when no timer event is
727 recorded. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1038, #1039
728 * StatsD plugin: The plugin was corrected to avoid crashing when
729 negative timer values are submitted. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1131
730 * Tail CSV plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly with multiple
731 "Collect" options and a bug got fixed when no "TimeFrom" is specified.
732 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada and Florian Forster. #1032
733 * TCPConns plugin: A memory leak was fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster.
735 * TCPConns plugin: An bug causing collectd to enter an inifinite loop on
736 OpenBSD was fixed. Thanks to Landry Breuil. #1094
737 * Threshold plugin: Threshold configuration blocks can now be defined in
738 different files. Thanks to Michael Salmon. #551
739 * vmem plugin: Support for pgsteal in recent Linux kernels has been
740 added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski. #1307
741 * vmem plugin: The DSType for nr_dirtied and nr_written was corrected to
742 report a derive. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1072
743 * Write Graphite plugin: Error handling when submitting metrics to the
744 server is now more robust. Thanks to Sam Pointer. #1364
745 * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
746 shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
747 * Write Redis plugin: Multi-Valued key was made easier to parse by
748 adding a "|" character as a delimiter. Thanks to brianpkelly and
749 Florian Forster. #1070
750 * Write Redis plugin: The timestamp format was corrected. Thanks to
752 * ZFS ARC plugin: The plugin was will not emit warning about missing
753 "l2_size" stats anymore. Thanks to Jan Andres. #919
754 * 152 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
755 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
756 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan, clang and gcc-6: Thanks to Ruben
757 Kerkhof, Florian Forster, Marc Fournier, Corey Kosak, Laurent,
758 Claudius Zingerli and Fabien Wernli.
760 2015-02-26, Version 5.4.2
761 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
762 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
763 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
765 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
766 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
767 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
769 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c. Thanks to
771 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
772 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
773 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
774 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
775 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
776 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
777 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
778 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
779 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
780 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
781 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
782 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
783 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
785 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
786 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
787 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
788 * Documentation: Documentation of the "AutoLoadPlugin" option has been
789 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #715
790 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
791 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
792 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
793 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
794 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML and Write HTTP plugins: Call
795 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
797 * cURL and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
798 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
799 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
800 Florian Forster. #663
801 * curl-json: A bug, which triggered when two URLs with a long common
802 prefix were configured, was fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #582
803 * dbi: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been restored.
804 Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
805 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
806 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
807 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
808 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
809 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
810 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
812 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
813 Thanks to Florian Forster.
814 * LogFile and SysLog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
815 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
816 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
817 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
818 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
819 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
820 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
822 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
824 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
825 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
826 * RRDtool and RRDCacheD plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
827 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
828 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
829 Ritschard. #610, #804
830 * statsd: Support for samplerates in timer metrics was added. Thanks
832 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
833 to Florian Forster. #733
834 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
835 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
836 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
838 * lvm: An issue with Volume Groups (VGs) without Logical Volumes (LVs)
839 has been fixed. Thanks to Jan Kundrát.
840 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
841 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
842 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
844 * write_redis: A formatting bug, which resulted in totally unusable
845 numbers being transmitted to Redis, was fixed. Thanks to Marc
847 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
850 2014-01-26, Version 5.4.1
851 * amqp plugin: Add support for RabbitMQ 0.4.x to avoid compiler
852 warnings. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for implementing this.
853 * apache / network plugins: Improved initialization order hopefully
854 resolved gcrypt initialization problems.
855 * aquaero plugin: The type used to submit fan utilization was fixed.
856 Thanks to Alex Deymo for the patch.
857 * cgroups plugin: A small memory leak was fixed. Checking the existence
858 of a mount option without a value was fixed. More permissive parsing
859 of the cpuacct.stats file fixes support for some versions of Linux.
860 Thanks to Marc Fournier for bug reports and patches.
861 * curl plugin: Fix <Match> blocks without an instance. Thanks to
862 Alexander Golovko for reporting and Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
863 * curl_json plugin: Potentially invalid memory access has been
864 sanitized. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
865 * interface plugin: Fix behavior under FreeBSD 10: Reporting of
866 per-address statistics caused duplicate updates to the same metric.
867 Thanks to demon / @trtrmitya for the patch.
868 * write_graphite plugin: Use TCP to connect to Graphite by default. The
869 default changed from TCP to UDP between 5.3.1 and 5.4.0, which is a
870 regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier for fixing this. Reconnect
871 behavior was improved. Thanks to Michael Hart for his patch.
872 * zfs_arc plugin: Collect "allocated" and "stolen" on FreeBSD only.
874 2013-08-18, Version 5.4.0
875 * collectd: The "LoadPlugin" config option no longer attempts to load
876 plugins twice. If more than one "LoadPlugin" statement or block is
877 encountered, only the first will have any effect.
878 * collectd: The "AutoLoadPlugin" option allows to automatically load
879 plugins for which a configuration is found.
880 * collectd: The "WriteQueueLimitHigh" and "WriteQueueLimitLow" options
881 allow collectd to drop values when under stress, to avoid running out
882 of memory. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patch.
883 * amqp plugin: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
884 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options have been added. Thanks to Laurent
886 * aquaero plugin: This new plugin reads various metrics, e.g. fan
887 speeds and temperatures, from Aquaero 5, a fan and water cooling
888 control panel. Thanks to Alex Deymo for his patch.
889 * curl plugin: The "MeasureResponseCode" option has been added. Thanks
890 to Jan Matějka for his patch.
891 * curl_json plugin: Support for UNIX domain sockets and array wildcards
892 has been added. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
893 * curl_xml plugin: Support for long URLs has been improved.
894 * cgroups plugin: This new plugin collects CPU accounting information
895 for processes in a cgroup. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for his patch.
896 * df plugin: The "ValuesAbsolute" and "ValuesPercentage" options have
897 been added. Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek for the patch.
898 * exec plugin: Do UID / GID lookups before forking. This should prevent
899 a race condition in the NSS library. Thanks to Ceri Storey for the
901 * lvm plugin: This new plugin collects size information from Linux'
902 Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Thanks to Chad Malfait for his work.
903 * memcached plugin: Support for increment and decrement counts has been
904 added. Thanks to Blake Matheny for the patch.
905 * mic plugin: This new plugin collects CPU and memory usage, power
906 consumption and temperatures of Intel's Many-Integrated-Core (MIC)
907 architecture, such as Xeon Phi cards. Thanks to Evan Felix for his
909 * netlink plugin: This plugin has been converted to use the supported
910 "libmnl" library. Thanks to Andreas Henriksson for his patch.
911 * nginx plugin: Collection of accepted and handled connections has been
912 added. Thanks to Patrick Shan for his patch.
913 * sigrok plugin: This new plugin collects metrics from sigrok, a signal
914 processing framework reading various hardware devices, from light
915 meters to spectrum analyzers. Thanks to Bert Vermeulen for his patch.
916 * statsd plugin: This new plugin listens to a UDP socket and reads
917 metrics in the StatsD format.
918 * varnish plugin: Many additional metrics have been added. Thanks to
919 Nick Stenning for his patch.
920 * write_graphite plugin: Support for "UDP" has been added. Thanks to
921 Javier Maestro for his patch.
922 * write_riemann plugin: The "TTLFactor" option has been added.
923 * zfs_arc plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li
926 2015-02-26, Version 5.3.2
927 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
928 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
929 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
931 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
932 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
933 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
935 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c Thanks to
937 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
938 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
939 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
940 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
941 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
942 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
943 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
944 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
945 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
946 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
947 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
948 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
949 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
951 * Documentation: The synopsis of the threshold has been fixed. Thanks
953 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
954 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
955 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
956 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
957 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
958 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
959 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
960 * csv: A regression which would lead to the "DataDir" option to be
961 ignored has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada.
962 * curl, curl-json, curl-xml and write_http plugins: Call
963 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
965 * curl and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
966 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
967 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
968 Florian Forster. #663
969 * dbi plugin: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been
970 restored. Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
971 * exec, unixsock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
972 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
973 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
974 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
976 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
977 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
978 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
979 Thanks to Florian Forster.
980 * logfile and syslog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
981 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
982 * memcached: Connecting to a UNIX socket has been fixed. Thanks to Jim
984 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
985 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
986 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
987 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
988 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
990 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
992 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
993 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
994 * replace and set targets: Fix error message. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
996 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: Honor the "DataDir" config option;
997 this fixes a regression. Thanks to Florian Forster. #380
998 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
999 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
1000 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
1001 Ritschard. #610, #804
1002 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
1003 to Florian Forster. #733
1004 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
1005 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
1006 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
1008 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
1009 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
1010 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
1012 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
1015 2013-07-13, Version 5.3.1
1016 * Documentation: Various fixes.
1017 * Configuration: Fix error handling: Errors in included files were
1018 ignored, causing configuration mistakes to go unnoticed.
1019 * dns plugin: Don't abort when PCAP returns an error.
1020 * modbus plugin: The reconnection strategy was improved, fixing a
1021 segfault in the libmodbud library. Thanks to Stefan Nickl and
1022 Fabien Wernli for their patches.
1023 * mysql plugin: The notification about a newly running MySQL slave
1024 thread has been fixed. Thanks to Joaquín Cuenca Abela for the patch.
1025 * snmp plugin: A build issue has been fixed (C99 mixed declaration).
1026 The end-of-tree check has been improved by Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
1027 * threshold plugin: Handling of the "Interesting" configuration option
1028 has been fixed. Thanks to Björn for the patch.
1029 * write_riemann plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Dave
1030 Cottlehuber for reporting it.
1032 2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0
1033 * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include
1034 only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
1036 * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This
1037 improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act
1038 as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for
1039 reviewing this change and fixing bugs.
1040 * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using
1041 regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric
1042 can now be set via the configuration file.
1043 * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented.
1044 * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers
1045 has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
1046 * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks
1047 to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
1048 * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The
1049 "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch.
1050 * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to
1051 Greg Mason for his patch.
1052 * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks
1053 to Johan Wirén for his patch.
1054 * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication /
1055 compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
1056 patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work.
1057 * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks
1058 to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
1059 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been
1060 implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created
1061 asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances.
1062 Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code.
1063 * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV
1064 files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for
1066 * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added.
1067 * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to
1068 Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to
1069 Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work.
1071 2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2
1072 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1073 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1074 Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks
1075 to Sebastian Harl for his patch.
1076 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
1077 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1078 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1079 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1080 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1081 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1082 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1083 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1084 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1085 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1086 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1087 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
1088 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1089 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1090 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
1091 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
1092 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
1093 * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
1094 * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
1095 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
1096 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
1097 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
1098 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1099 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1100 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1101 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1104 2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1
1105 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris
1106 and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches.
1107 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
1108 more frequently than intended.
1109 * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added.
1110 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1111 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1112 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
1113 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
1114 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1115 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1116 * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed.
1117 A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was
1118 configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these
1120 * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
1121 Ritschard for his patch.
1122 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
1123 * write_graphite plugin: A regression which rendered the
1124 "SeparateInstances" and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been
1125 fixed. A failed assertion when using types with many data sources
1126 has been fixed. Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
1127 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
1128 the logging problem.
1129 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
1130 Mettier for reporting this bug.
1132 2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0
1133 * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved.
1134 Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch.
1135 * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a
1136 per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for
1138 * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real
1139 looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new
1140 plugin, for example.
1141 * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets
1142 in the binary format has been added.
1143 * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple
1144 value lists into one.
1145 * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON
1146 output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch.
1147 * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to
1148 Thomas Meson for the patch.
1149 * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to
1150 Manuel Rozada for his patch.
1151 * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the
1153 * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't
1155 * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks
1156 to "Davide Guerri" for the patch.
1157 * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added.
1158 Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch.
1159 * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The
1160 behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to
1161 Johan Kiviniemi for the patches.
1162 * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added.
1163 * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's
1164 packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes
1166 * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added.
1167 Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added.
1168 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches.
1169 * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
1170 Cosmin Ioiart for the patch.
1171 * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added.
1172 Thanks to biancalana for the patch.
1173 * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan",
1174 "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added.
1175 * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX
1176 version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out
1177 "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch.
1178 * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc
1179 for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch.
1181 2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3
1182 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1183 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1184 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
1185 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1186 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1187 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1188 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1189 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1190 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1191 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1192 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1193 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1194 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1195 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
1196 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1197 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1198 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
1199 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
1200 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
1201 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
1202 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
1203 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
1204 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1205 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1206 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1207 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1210 2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2
1211 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves
1212 Mettier for his patches.
1213 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
1214 more frequently than intended.
1215 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1216 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1217 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
1218 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
1219 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1220 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1221 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
1222 * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
1223 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
1225 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
1226 Mettier for reporting this bug.
1228 2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1
1229 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1230 unwanted permission bits.
1231 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1232 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1233 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1234 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1235 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1236 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1237 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
1238 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
1239 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
1241 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1242 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
1243 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
1244 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1245 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1246 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1247 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1248 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1249 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1250 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1251 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1252 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1254 * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of
1255 uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for
1256 reporting these problems.
1257 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1258 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1259 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
1260 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1261 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1263 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1264 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1265 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1266 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1267 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1268 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1269 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1270 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1272 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1273 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1274 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
1275 "biancalana" for the fix.
1276 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1277 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1278 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1279 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1280 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1282 * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been
1283 fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch.
1284 * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and
1285 later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch.
1287 2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0
1288 * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has
1290 * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using
1291 "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
1292 * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use
1293 the system time rather than the time reported by BIND.
1294 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been
1295 added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch.
1296 * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics
1297 directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch.
1298 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in
1299 addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
1300 Ritschard for his patch.
1301 * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default
1302 ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g.
1304 * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various
1305 states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
1307 * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been
1309 * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin
1310 Ioiart for his patch.
1311 * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the
1312 Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux.
1313 * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation.
1314 Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch.
1315 * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been
1317 * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to
1318 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch.
1319 * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added.
1320 * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added.
1321 Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1322 * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1323 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1324 * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to
1325 Aaron Brady for his patch.
1326 * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to
1327 Jérôme Renard for his patches.
1328 * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value
1329 lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch
1330 and Chris Lundquist for their work.
1331 * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value
1332 lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series
1333 database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their
1335 * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to
1336 Aurelien Rougemont for his patches.
1337 * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been
1338 added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1340 2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5
1341 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1342 unwanted permission bits.
1343 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1344 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1345 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1346 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1347 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1348 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1349 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
1350 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
1351 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
1353 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1354 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
1355 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
1356 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1357 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1358 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1359 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1360 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1361 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1362 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1363 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1364 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1366 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1367 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1368 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
1369 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1370 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1372 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1373 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1374 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1375 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1376 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1377 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1378 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1379 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1381 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1382 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1383 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
1384 "biancalana" for the fix.
1385 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1386 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1387 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1388 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1389 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1392 2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4
1393 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1394 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1395 plugin under Gentoo.
1396 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1397 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1399 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1400 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1401 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1402 Opter for his patch.
1403 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1404 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1406 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1407 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1409 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1410 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1412 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1413 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1415 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1416 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1417 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1418 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1419 runtime has been fixed.
1421 2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3
1422 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1423 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1424 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1426 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1427 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1428 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1429 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1430 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1431 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1432 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1434 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1436 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1437 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1438 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1439 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1440 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1442 2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2
1443 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1444 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1445 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1446 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1448 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1449 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1450 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1451 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1453 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1454 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1455 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1456 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1457 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1458 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1459 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1460 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1461 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1462 for fixing this bug!
1464 2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1
1465 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1466 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1467 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1468 to Peter Green for his patch.
1469 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1470 McCabe for the patch.
1471 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1472 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1473 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1474 code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module.
1475 * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts.
1476 Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this.
1477 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1478 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1479 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1480 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1481 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1482 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1483 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1484 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1485 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1486 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1487 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1488 * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values
1489 were submitted as gauge even though they were derives.
1490 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1491 Flisher for the fix.
1493 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
1494 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
1495 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
1496 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
1497 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
1498 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
1499 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
1500 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
1502 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
1503 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
1504 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
1505 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
1506 added to the collectd client library.
1507 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
1508 one data source has been changed to "value".
1509 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
1510 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
1511 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
1512 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
1513 maximum value is unspecified.
1514 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
1515 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
1516 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1517 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1518 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1519 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
1520 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
1521 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
1522 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
1523 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
1525 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1526 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
1527 "Connection" blocks.
1528 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
1530 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
1532 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
1533 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
1534 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
1535 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
1537 * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
1538 license has been changed to LGPLv2.1.
1539 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
1540 data sets used have been improved.
1541 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
1543 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1544 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1545 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
1546 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
1547 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
1548 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
1549 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
1550 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
1551 this separate plugin.
1552 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
1553 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
1554 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
1555 Fournier for their contributions.
1556 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
1558 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
1560 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
1563 2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9
1564 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1565 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1566 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1567 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1568 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1569 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1570 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1571 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1572 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1573 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1574 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1575 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1576 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1577 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1578 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1579 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1580 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1581 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1584 2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8
1585 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1586 unwanted permission bits.
1587 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1588 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1589 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1590 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1591 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1592 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1593 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1594 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1595 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1596 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1597 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1598 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1599 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1600 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1601 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1602 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1604 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1605 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1606 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1608 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1609 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1610 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1611 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1612 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1613 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1614 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1615 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1617 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1618 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1619 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1620 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1621 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1622 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1623 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1626 2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7
1627 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1628 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1629 plugin under Gentoo.
1630 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1631 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1633 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1634 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1635 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1636 Opter for his patch.
1637 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1638 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1640 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1641 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1643 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1644 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1646 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1647 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1649 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1650 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1651 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1652 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1653 runtime has been fixed.
1655 2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6
1656 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1657 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1658 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1660 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1661 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1662 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1663 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1664 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1665 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1666 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1668 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1670 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1671 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1672 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1673 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1674 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1676 2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5
1677 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1678 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1679 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1680 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1682 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1683 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1684 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1685 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1687 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1688 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1689 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1690 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1691 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1692 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1693 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1694 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1695 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1696 for fixing this bug!
1698 2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4
1699 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1700 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1701 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1702 to Peter Green for his patch.
1703 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1704 McCabe for the patch.
1705 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1706 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1707 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1709 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1710 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1711 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1712 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1713 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1714 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1715 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1716 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1717 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1718 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1719 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1720 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1721 Flisher for the fix.
1723 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
1724 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1725 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
1727 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
1728 percentage calculation has been fixed.
1729 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
1731 * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
1732 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
1733 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
1734 * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
1735 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
1736 error handling case.
1737 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
1738 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
1741 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
1742 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
1743 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
1744 the rest of the configuration if possible.
1745 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
1746 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
1747 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
1748 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
1749 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
1750 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
1751 configurable timeout value.
1752 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
1753 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
1754 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1755 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
1756 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
1757 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
1758 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1760 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1761 to prevent spamming the logs.
1762 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1763 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1764 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1765 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1767 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
1769 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1770 Trenkel for the patch.
1772 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
1773 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1774 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1775 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
1776 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
1778 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
1779 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
1780 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
1782 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
1783 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
1784 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
1785 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
1786 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
1787 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
1788 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
1789 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
1790 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
1791 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
1793 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
1794 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
1795 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
1796 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
1797 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
1798 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
1799 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
1801 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
1803 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
1804 lines from the match.
1805 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
1806 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
1808 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
1809 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
1810 Malek for the patch.
1811 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
1812 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
1814 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
1815 certain lines from the match.
1816 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
1817 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
1818 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
1819 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
1820 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
1821 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
1822 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
1823 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
1824 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
1825 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
1826 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
1827 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
1828 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
1829 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
1830 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
1831 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
1832 Sebastian Harl for his work.
1833 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
1834 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
1835 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
1836 Sven Trenkel for his work.
1837 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
1838 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
1839 MikroTik devices has been added.
1840 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
1841 Scraba for his patch.
1842 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
1843 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
1844 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
1845 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
1846 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
1847 Ammous for his patch.
1849 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
1850 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1851 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
1853 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
1854 percentage calculation has been fixed.
1855 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
1857 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
1858 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
1859 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
1860 error handling case.
1861 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
1862 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
1865 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
1866 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
1867 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
1868 the rest of the configuration if possible.
1869 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
1870 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
1871 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
1872 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
1873 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
1874 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
1875 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
1876 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1877 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
1878 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
1879 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
1880 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1882 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1883 to prevent spamming the logs.
1884 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1885 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1886 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1887 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1889 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1890 Trenkel for the patch.
1892 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
1893 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1894 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1895 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
1896 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
1898 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
1899 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
1900 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
1901 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
1903 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
1904 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
1905 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
1906 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
1907 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
1908 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
1909 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
1910 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
1911 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
1912 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
1913 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
1914 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
1916 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
1917 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
1918 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1919 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
1920 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
1921 figuring out a way to make this work.
1922 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
1923 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
1924 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
1925 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
1926 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
1928 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
1930 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
1931 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
1932 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
1933 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
1934 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
1935 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
1936 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
1937 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1939 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1940 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1941 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1942 an unknown data source type.
1943 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1944 packets has been fixed.
1945 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
1947 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
1948 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
1949 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
1950 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
1951 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
1952 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1954 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
1955 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
1956 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
1957 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
1958 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
1959 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
1960 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
1961 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1962 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1964 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
1965 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
1966 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
1969 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
1970 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
1971 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
1972 Weiskircher for the patch.
1973 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
1974 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1975 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
1976 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
1977 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
1978 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
1979 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
1980 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
1981 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
1982 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
1983 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
1984 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
1985 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
1987 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
1988 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
1989 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
1990 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
1991 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
1992 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1993 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
1994 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1995 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
1996 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
1997 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
1998 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
1999 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
2000 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
2001 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
2002 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
2003 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
2004 storage has been added.
2005 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
2006 value has been added.
2008 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
2009 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
2010 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
2011 an unknown data source type.
2013 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
2014 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
2015 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
2016 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
2017 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
2018 figuring out a way to make this work.
2019 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
2020 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
2021 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
2022 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
2024 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
2026 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
2027 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
2028 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
2029 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
2030 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
2031 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
2033 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
2034 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
2035 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
2036 packets has been fixed.
2037 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
2038 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
2039 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
2040 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
2041 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
2042 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2044 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
2045 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
2046 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
2047 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
2048 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
2051 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
2052 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
2053 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
2054 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
2055 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
2056 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
2058 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
2059 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
2060 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
2061 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
2062 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
2063 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
2065 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
2066 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
2067 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
2068 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
2070 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
2071 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
2073 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
2074 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
2075 issues on some platforms.
2076 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
2077 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2078 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
2079 descriptor handling.
2081 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
2082 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
2083 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
2084 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
2085 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
2086 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
2088 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
2089 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
2090 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
2091 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2092 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
2093 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
2094 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2095 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
2096 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
2097 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
2098 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
2100 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
2101 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
2102 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
2103 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
2104 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
2105 Aman Gupta for the patch.
2106 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
2107 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
2108 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
2109 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
2110 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
2112 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
2113 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
2115 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
2116 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
2117 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2118 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
2119 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
2120 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
2121 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
2122 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2123 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
2124 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
2125 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
2126 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
2127 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
2128 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
2130 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
2131 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
2132 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
2133 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
2134 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
2135 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
2137 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
2138 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
2139 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
2140 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
2142 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
2143 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
2144 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
2145 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
2147 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
2148 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
2150 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
2151 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
2152 issues on some platforms.
2153 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
2154 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2155 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
2156 descriptor handling.
2158 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
2159 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
2160 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
2161 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
2162 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
2163 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
2165 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
2166 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
2167 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
2168 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
2169 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
2170 Hess for reporting this bug.
2171 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
2172 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
2173 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
2174 is linked with the shipped library, too.
2175 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
2176 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
2177 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
2178 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
2179 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
2180 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
2181 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
2182 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
2183 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
2184 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
2185 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
2186 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
2187 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2190 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
2191 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
2193 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
2194 Díaz for fixing this bug.
2195 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
2196 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
2197 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
2198 for reporting the bug.
2199 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
2201 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
2202 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
2203 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
2204 libtool 2.2 has been added.
2205 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
2206 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
2207 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
2208 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
2209 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
2211 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
2212 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
2213 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
2214 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
2215 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
2217 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
2218 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2220 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
2221 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
2222 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
2223 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
2224 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
2225 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
2226 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2227 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
2228 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
2229 Konetzko for the patch.
2230 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
2231 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
2232 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
2233 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
2234 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
2235 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
2236 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
2237 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
2238 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
2239 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
2240 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
2241 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
2242 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2243 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
2244 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
2245 Quiédeville for the patch.
2246 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
2248 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
2249 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
2250 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
2251 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
2252 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
2253 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
2254 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
2255 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
2257 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
2258 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
2259 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
2260 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
2261 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
2262 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
2264 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
2265 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
2266 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
2267 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
2269 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
2270 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
2271 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
2272 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
2273 Hess for reporting this bug.
2274 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
2275 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
2276 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
2277 is linked with the shipped library, too.
2278 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
2279 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
2280 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
2281 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
2282 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2285 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
2286 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
2287 Díaz for fixing this bug.
2288 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
2289 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
2290 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
2291 for reporting the bug.
2293 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
2294 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2295 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2296 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2297 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2298 providing an OpenBSD system.
2299 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
2300 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
2301 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
2302 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
2303 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
2305 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2307 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2308 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2309 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2310 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2311 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2313 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2314 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
2315 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2317 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
2318 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
2319 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
2320 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
2322 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
2323 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
2324 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
2325 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
2326 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
2327 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
2328 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
2329 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
2330 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
2331 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
2332 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2333 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2334 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2336 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
2337 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
2338 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2339 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
2340 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
2341 for finding and fixing most of them.
2342 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2343 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2345 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
2346 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
2347 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
2348 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
2349 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2350 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
2351 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
2352 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
2353 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
2354 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
2355 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
2357 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
2358 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
2359 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
2360 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
2362 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
2363 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
2364 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
2365 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
2366 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
2367 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
2368 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
2369 Kuhnle for the patch.
2370 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
2371 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
2372 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
2373 MacEachern for the patch.
2374 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
2375 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
2376 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
2377 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
2378 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
2379 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
2380 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
2381 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
2382 select interfaces, too.
2383 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
2384 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
2385 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
2387 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
2388 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
2389 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
2390 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
2391 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
2392 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2393 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
2394 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
2395 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
2396 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
2398 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
2399 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
2400 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
2401 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
2402 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
2403 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
2404 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
2405 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
2407 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
2408 been added. Portability fixes.
2409 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
2410 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
2411 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
2413 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
2416 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
2417 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2418 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2419 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2420 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2421 providing an OpenBSD system.
2422 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
2423 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2425 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
2426 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2427 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2428 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2429 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2430 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2432 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2433 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2434 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2435 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2437 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
2438 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
2440 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
2441 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2442 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
2444 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2445 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2446 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
2447 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
2449 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
2450 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2451 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2452 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2454 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2455 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2456 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
2457 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
2458 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
2459 provide these necessary functions.
2460 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2461 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
2463 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
2464 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2465 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2466 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
2468 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2469 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2470 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2471 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2472 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2473 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2475 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
2476 invalid configuration options.
2477 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2478 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2479 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2481 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
2482 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2483 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2484 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2486 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2487 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2488 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2489 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2490 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2491 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2492 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2493 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2495 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2496 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2497 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
2498 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
2499 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2500 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2501 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2502 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
2503 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
2504 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
2505 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
2506 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
2508 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2509 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2512 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
2513 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
2514 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
2516 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
2517 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
2518 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
2519 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
2520 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
2521 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
2523 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
2524 email, using the `esmtp' library.
2525 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
2526 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
2528 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
2529 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
2530 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
2531 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
2533 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
2534 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
2535 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
2536 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
2537 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
2539 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
2540 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
2541 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
2543 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
2544 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2545 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2546 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2548 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2549 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2550 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2551 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
2552 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2553 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2554 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2555 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2556 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2557 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2558 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2559 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2561 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2562 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2563 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2565 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
2566 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2567 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2568 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2570 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2571 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2572 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2573 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2574 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2575 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2576 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2577 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2579 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2580 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2581 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2582 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2583 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2584 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2585 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2588 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
2589 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
2590 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2592 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2593 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
2595 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
2596 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
2597 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianness of the
2598 architecture collectd is being built on.
2599 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
2601 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
2603 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
2604 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
2605 values under Solaris.
2606 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
2607 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
2609 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
2610 returned by some broken drivers.
2612 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
2613 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
2614 to kyrone for reporting this.
2615 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
2617 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
2619 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
2620 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
2621 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
2622 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
2624 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
2625 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
2626 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
2627 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
2628 flush its values to disk.
2629 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
2630 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
2631 for each data source.
2632 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
2634 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
2635 page of an Ascent server.
2636 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2637 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
2638 specific disks has been added.
2639 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2640 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
2641 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
2643 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
2644 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
2645 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
2646 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
2647 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
2648 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
2649 configuration has been decreased.
2650 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
2651 continuously reading from log files.
2652 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
2653 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
2654 and number of channels.
2655 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2656 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
2657 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
2659 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
2660 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
2662 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianness more
2664 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
2665 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
2666 again has been applied.
2667 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2669 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2670 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
2672 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2673 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2674 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
2677 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
2678 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2679 they are in non-standard paths.
2680 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2681 if the libc expects it.
2682 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2683 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2685 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2686 using a buffer of static size.
2687 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2689 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2690 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2692 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
2693 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
2694 `Persist' threshold options.
2695 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
2696 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2697 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2698 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2699 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2701 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
2702 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2704 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2705 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2706 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2707 cross-platform compatibility.
2708 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2709 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2710 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2712 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
2713 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
2714 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
2715 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
2716 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
2717 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
2719 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
2720 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
2721 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
2722 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
2723 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
2724 wants to add custom type definitions.
2725 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
2726 entire directories and shell wildcards.
2727 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
2728 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
2729 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
2730 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
2731 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
2732 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
2733 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
2734 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
2735 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
2736 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
2737 domain name lookups in this plugin.
2738 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
2739 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
2740 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
2741 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
2742 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
2743 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
2744 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
2745 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
2746 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
2747 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
2748 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
2749 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
2750 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
2751 Technology group for this plugin.
2753 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
2754 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2755 they are in non-standard paths.
2756 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2757 if the libc expects it.
2758 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2759 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2761 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2762 using a buffer of static size.
2763 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2765 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2766 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2768 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
2769 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2770 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2771 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2772 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2774 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
2775 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
2776 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2778 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
2779 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
2780 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
2781 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
2782 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2783 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2784 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2785 cross-platform compatibility.
2786 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2787 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
2788 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2789 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2791 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
2792 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
2793 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
2794 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
2795 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2797 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
2798 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
2799 of the libsensors library.
2801 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
2802 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
2803 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
2805 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
2806 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2809 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
2810 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
2811 enabled on the host.
2812 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2814 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
2815 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
2816 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
2817 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
2818 definitions separate from the host definitions.
2819 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
2820 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
2821 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
2822 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
2823 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
2824 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
2825 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
2826 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
2827 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
2828 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
2829 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
2830 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
2831 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
2832 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
2833 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
2834 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
2835 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
2836 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
2837 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
2838 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
2839 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
2841 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
2842 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
2843 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
2844 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
2845 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2847 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
2848 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
2850 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
2851 of the libsensors library.
2853 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
2854 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
2855 it's in a non-standard location.
2856 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
2857 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
2858 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
2859 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
2860 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
2861 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2863 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
2864 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
2866 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
2867 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
2869 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
2870 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
2871 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2872 noise quality as percentage.
2873 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
2874 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
2875 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
2876 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
2877 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
2878 support for the `timeticks' type.
2880 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
2881 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
2882 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
2883 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
2885 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
2886 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
2887 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
2889 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
2890 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
2891 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
2892 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
2894 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
2895 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
2896 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
2897 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
2899 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
2900 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
2901 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
2902 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
2903 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
2904 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
2905 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
2906 to not block data collection.
2907 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
2908 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
2909 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
2911 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
2912 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
2913 of music played with xmms.
2915 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
2916 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
2917 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2918 noise quality as percentage.
2919 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
2921 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
2922 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
2923 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
2924 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
2926 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
2927 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
2928 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
2929 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
2931 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
2932 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
2934 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
2935 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
2936 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
2937 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
2938 (i. e. without quotes).
2939 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
2940 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
2941 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2943 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
2944 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
2945 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
2946 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
2948 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
2949 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
2950 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
2953 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
2954 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
2956 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
2957 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2958 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
2959 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2960 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
2961 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2962 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
2964 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
2965 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
2966 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
2967 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
2968 initialized correctly.
2969 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
2971 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
2972 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
2973 they're given in numerically form.
2975 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
2976 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
2977 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
2980 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
2981 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
2982 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
2983 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
2984 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
2985 thread-safe functions from now on.
2986 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
2987 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
2988 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
2990 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
2991 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
2992 write to increase IO-performance.
2993 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
2994 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
2995 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
2996 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
2997 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
2999 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
3000 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
3001 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
3003 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
3004 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
3005 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
3006 or STDOUT or STDERR.
3007 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
3008 system's syslog daemon.
3009 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
3010 entropy currently being available to the system.
3011 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
3012 back values provided by the forked processes.
3013 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
3014 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
3016 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
3017 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
3018 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
3019 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
3020 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
3021 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
3022 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
3023 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
3024 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
3026 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
3027 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
3028 noise quality as percentage.
3030 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
3031 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
3033 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
3034 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
3035 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
3036 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
3037 were accounted as `zombies'.
3039 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
3040 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
3043 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
3044 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
3045 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
3047 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
3048 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
3049 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
3050 segfault with some libcs.
3052 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
3053 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
3054 under Solaris again.
3055 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
3057 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
3058 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
3060 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
3061 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
3062 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
3063 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
3064 write init.d-scripts for it.
3065 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
3066 caused problems every now and then.
3067 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
3068 filesystem types or devices.
3069 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
3070 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
3072 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
3073 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
3074 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
3075 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
3076 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
3077 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
3078 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
3079 segment size and pagefaults.
3080 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
3081 queries multimeters.
3082 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
3083 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
3084 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
3086 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
3087 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
3088 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
3089 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
3091 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
3092 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
3093 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
3094 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
3097 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
3098 * The sample config file has been improved.
3099 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
3100 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
3101 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
3102 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
3104 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
3105 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
3106 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
3108 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
3109 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
3111 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
3112 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
3113 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
3114 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
3116 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
3117 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
3118 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
3119 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
3120 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
3121 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
3122 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
3123 with a test environment :)
3124 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
3127 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
3128 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
3129 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
3131 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
3132 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
3133 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
3135 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
3136 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
3137 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
3139 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
3140 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
3142 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
3143 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
3144 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
3145 approximately 7.6 days.
3147 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
3148 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
3149 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
3150 approximately 7.6 days.
3152 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
3153 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
3155 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
3157 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
3159 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
3160 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
3161 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
3162 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
3163 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
3165 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
3166 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
3167 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
3168 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
3169 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
3170 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
3171 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
3172 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
3174 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
3175 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
3176 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
3177 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
3179 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
3180 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
3181 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
3183 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
3184 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
3185 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
3187 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
3188 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
3189 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
3192 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
3193 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
3194 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
3196 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
3197 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
3198 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
3199 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
3201 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
3202 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
3203 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
3205 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
3206 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
3208 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
3209 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
3211 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
3212 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
3214 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
3215 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
3217 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
3218 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
3219 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
3220 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
3221 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
3222 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
3223 address and/or port than localhost.
3224 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
3225 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
3226 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
3227 be set in the configfile.
3229 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
3230 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
3231 client mode. This released fixes this.
3233 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
3234 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
3235 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
3238 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
3239 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
3241 * A `df' plugin has been added.
3242 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
3243 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
3244 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
3246 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
3247 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
3248 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
3251 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
3252 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
3253 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
3255 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
3256 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
3257 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
3258 currently logged in users.
3259 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
3260 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
3261 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
3262 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
3264 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
3265 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
3266 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
3267 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
3268 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
3269 with the `-c' argument.
3270 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
3271 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
3272 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
3273 Barcellos for this patch.
3275 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
3276 * New modules have been added:
3277 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
3278 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
3279 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
3280 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
3282 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
3283 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
3285 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
3286 between polls up to one day.
3287 * The init.d files have been improved.
3288 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
3290 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
3291 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
3292 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
3294 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
3295 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
3296 multicast) has been added.
3297 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
3298 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
3299 to be linked against an external library.
3300 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
3301 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
3303 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
3304 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
3306 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
3307 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
3308 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
3309 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
3310 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
3311 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
3312 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
3313 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
3314 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
3317 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
3318 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
3320 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
3322 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
3323 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
3325 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
3326 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
3327 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
3328 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
3330 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
3331 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
3332 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3334 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
3335 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
3336 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
3337 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
3338 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
3339 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
3340 statistics will not work.
3342 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
3343 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
3344 weird strings as disk-names..
3346 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
3347 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
3348 about the disks and partitions.
3350 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
3351 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
3352 and/or kernel versions.
3354 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
3355 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
3356 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
3358 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
3359 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
3360 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
3362 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
3363 * Collecting CPU statistics now
3365 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
3366 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
3368 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
3370 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
3371 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
3373 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
3374 * The following modules are provided:
projects / collectd.git / blob