1 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
2 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
3 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
4 libtool 2.2 has been added.
5 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
6 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
7 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
8 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
9 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
11 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
12 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
13 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
14 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
15 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
17 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
18 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
20 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
21 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
22 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
23 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
24 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
25 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
26 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
27 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
28 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
29 Konetzko for the patch.
30 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
31 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
32 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
33 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
34 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
35 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
36 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
37 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
38 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
39 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
40 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
41 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
42 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
43 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
44 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
45 Quiédeville for the patch.
46 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
48 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
49 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
50 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
51 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
52 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
53 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
54 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
55 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
57 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
58 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
59 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
60 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
61 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
62 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
64 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
65 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
66 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
67 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
68 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
69 providing an OpenBSD system.
70 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
71 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
72 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
73 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
74 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
76 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
78 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
79 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
80 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
81 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
82 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
84 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
85 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
86 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
88 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
89 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
90 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
91 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
93 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
94 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
95 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
96 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
97 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
98 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
99 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
100 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
101 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
102 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
103 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
104 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
105 initialized, the daemon may crash.
107 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
108 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
109 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
110 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
111 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
112 for finding and fixing most of them.
113 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
114 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
116 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
117 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
118 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
119 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
120 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
121 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
122 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
123 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
124 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
125 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
126 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
128 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
129 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
130 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
131 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
133 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
134 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
135 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
136 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
137 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
138 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
139 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
140 Kuhnle for the patch.
141 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
142 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
143 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
144 MacEachern for the patch.
145 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
146 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
147 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
148 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
149 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
150 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
151 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
152 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
153 select interfaces, too.
154 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
155 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
156 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
158 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
159 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
160 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
161 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
162 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
163 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
164 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
165 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
166 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
167 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
169 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
170 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
171 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
172 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
173 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
174 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
175 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
176 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
178 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
179 been added. Portability fixes.
180 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
181 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
182 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
184 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
187 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
188 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
189 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
190 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
191 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
192 providing an OpenBSD system.
193 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
194 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
196 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
197 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
198 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
199 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
200 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
201 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
203 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
204 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
205 initialized, the daemon may crash.
206 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
208 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
209 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
211 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
212 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
213 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
215 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
216 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
217 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
218 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
220 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
221 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
222 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
223 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
225 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
226 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
227 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
228 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
229 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
230 provide these necessary functions.
231 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
232 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
234 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
235 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
236 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
237 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
239 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
240 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
241 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
242 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
243 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
244 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
246 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
247 invalid configuration options.
248 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
249 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
250 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
252 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
253 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
254 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
255 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
257 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
258 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
259 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
260 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
261 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
262 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
263 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
264 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
266 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
267 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
268 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
269 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
270 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
271 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
272 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
273 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
274 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
275 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
276 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
277 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
279 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
280 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
283 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
284 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
285 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
287 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
288 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
289 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
290 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
291 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
292 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
294 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
295 email, using the `esmtp' library.
296 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
297 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
299 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
300 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
301 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
302 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
304 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
305 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
306 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
307 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
308 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
310 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
311 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
312 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
314 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
315 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
316 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
317 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
319 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
320 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
321 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
322 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
323 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
324 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
325 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
326 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
327 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
328 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
329 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
330 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
332 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
333 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
334 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
336 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
337 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
338 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
339 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
341 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
342 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
343 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
344 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
345 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
346 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
347 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
348 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
350 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
351 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
352 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
353 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
354 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
355 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
356 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
359 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
360 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
361 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
363 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
364 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
366 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
367 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
368 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianess of the
369 architecture collectd is being built on.
370 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
372 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
374 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
375 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
376 values under Solaris.
377 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
378 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
380 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
381 returned by some broken drivers.
383 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
384 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
385 to kyrone for reporting this.
386 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
388 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
390 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
391 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
392 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
393 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
395 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
396 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
397 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
398 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
399 flush its values to disk.
400 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
401 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
402 for each data source.
403 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
405 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
406 page of an Ascent server.
407 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
408 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
409 specific disks has been added.
410 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
411 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
412 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
414 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
415 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
416 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
417 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
418 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
419 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
420 configuration has been decreased.
421 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
422 continuously reading from log files.
423 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
424 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
425 and number of channels.
426 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
427 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
428 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
430 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
431 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
433 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianess more
435 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
436 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
437 again has been applied.
438 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
440 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
441 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
443 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
444 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
445 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
448 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
449 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
450 they are in non-standard paths.
451 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
452 if the libc expects it.
453 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
454 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
456 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
457 using a buffer of static size.
458 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
460 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
461 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
463 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
464 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
465 `Persist' threshold options.
466 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
467 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
468 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
469 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
470 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
472 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
473 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
475 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
476 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
477 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
478 cross-platform compatibility.
479 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
480 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
481 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
483 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
484 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
485 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
486 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
487 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
488 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
490 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
491 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
492 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
493 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
494 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
495 wants to add custom type definitions.
496 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
497 entire directories and shell wildcards.
498 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
499 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
500 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
501 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
502 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
503 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
504 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
505 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
506 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
507 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
508 domain name lookups in this plugin.
509 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
510 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
511 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
512 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
513 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
514 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
515 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
516 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
517 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
518 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
519 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
520 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
521 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
522 Technology group for this plugin.
524 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
525 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
526 they are in non-standard paths.
527 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
528 if the libc expects it.
529 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
530 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
532 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
533 using a buffer of static size.
534 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
536 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
537 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
539 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
540 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
541 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
542 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
543 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
545 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
546 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
547 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
549 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
550 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
551 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
552 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
553 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
554 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
555 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
556 cross-platform compatibility.
557 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
558 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
559 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
560 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
562 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
563 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
564 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
565 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
566 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
568 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
569 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
570 of the libsensors library.
572 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
573 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
574 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
576 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
577 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
580 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
581 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
583 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
585 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
586 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
587 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
588 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
589 definitions separate from the host definitions.
590 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
591 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
592 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
593 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
594 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
595 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
596 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
597 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
598 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
599 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
600 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
601 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
602 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
603 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
604 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
605 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
606 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
607 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
608 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
609 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
610 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
612 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
613 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
614 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
615 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
616 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
618 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
619 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
621 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
622 of the libsensors library.
624 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
625 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
626 it's in a non-standard location.
627 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
628 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
629 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
630 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
631 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
632 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
634 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
635 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
637 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
638 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
640 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
641 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
642 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
643 noise quality as percentage.
644 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
645 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
646 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
647 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
648 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
649 support for the `timeticks' type.
651 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
652 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
653 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
654 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
656 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
657 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
658 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
660 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
661 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
662 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
663 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
665 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
666 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
667 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
668 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
670 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
671 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
672 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
673 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
674 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
675 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
676 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
677 to not block data collection.
678 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
679 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
680 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
682 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
683 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
684 of music played with xmms.
686 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
687 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
688 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
689 noise quality as percentage.
690 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
692 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
693 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
694 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
695 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
697 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
698 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
699 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
700 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
702 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
703 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
705 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
706 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
707 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
708 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
709 (i. e. without quotes).
710 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
711 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
712 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
714 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
715 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
716 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
717 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
719 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
720 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
721 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
724 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
725 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
727 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
728 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
729 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
730 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
731 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
732 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
733 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
735 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
736 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
737 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
738 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
739 initialized correctly.
740 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
742 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
743 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
744 they're given in numerically form.
746 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
747 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
748 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
751 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
752 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
753 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
754 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
755 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
756 thread-safe functions from now on.
757 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
758 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
759 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
761 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
762 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
763 write to increase IO-performance.
764 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
765 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
766 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
767 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
768 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
770 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
771 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
772 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
774 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
775 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
776 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
778 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
779 system's syslog daemon.
780 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
781 entropy currently being available to the system.
782 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
783 back values provided by the forked processes.
784 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
785 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
787 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
788 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
789 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
790 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
791 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
792 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
793 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
794 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
795 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
797 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
798 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
799 noise quality as percentage.
801 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
802 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
804 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
805 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
806 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
807 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
808 were accounted as `zombies'.
810 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
811 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
814 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
815 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
816 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
818 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
819 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
820 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
821 segfault with some libcs.
823 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
824 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
826 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
828 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
829 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
831 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
832 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
833 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
834 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
835 write init.d-scripts for it.
836 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
837 caused problems every now and then.
838 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
839 filesystem types or devices.
840 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
841 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
843 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
844 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
845 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
846 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
847 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
848 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
849 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
850 segment size and pagefaults.
851 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
853 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
854 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
855 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
857 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
858 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
859 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
860 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
862 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
863 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
864 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
865 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
868 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
869 * The sample config file has been improved.
870 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
871 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
872 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
873 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
875 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
876 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
877 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
879 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
880 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
882 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
883 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
884 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
885 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
887 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
888 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
889 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
890 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
891 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
892 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
893 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
894 with a test environment :)
895 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
898 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
899 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
900 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
902 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
903 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
904 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
906 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
907 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
908 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
910 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
911 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
913 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
914 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
915 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
916 approximately 7.6 days.
918 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
919 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
920 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
921 approximately 7.6 days.
923 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
924 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
926 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
928 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
930 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
931 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
932 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
933 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
934 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
936 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
937 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
938 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
939 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
940 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
941 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
942 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
943 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
945 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
946 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
947 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
948 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
950 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
951 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
952 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
954 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
955 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
956 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
958 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
959 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
960 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
963 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
964 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
965 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
967 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
968 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
969 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
970 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
972 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
973 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
974 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
976 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
977 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
979 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
980 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
982 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
983 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
985 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
986 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
988 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
989 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
990 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
991 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
992 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
993 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
994 address and/or port than localhost.
995 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
996 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
997 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
998 be set in the configfile.
1000 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
1001 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
1002 client mode. This released fixes this.
1004 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
1005 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
1006 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
1009 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
1010 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
1012 * A `df' plugin has been added.
1013 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
1014 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
1015 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
1017 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
1018 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
1019 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
1022 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
1023 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
1024 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
1026 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
1027 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
1028 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
1029 currently logged in users.
1030 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
1031 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
1032 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
1033 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
1035 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
1036 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
1037 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
1038 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
1039 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
1040 with the `-c' argument.
1041 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
1042 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
1043 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
1044 Barcellos for this patch.
1046 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
1047 * New modules have been added:
1048 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
1049 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
1050 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
1051 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
1053 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
1054 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
1056 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
1057 between polls up to one day.
1058 * The init.d files have been improved.
1059 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
1061 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
1062 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
1063 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
1065 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
1066 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
1067 multicast) has been added.
1068 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
1069 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
1070 to be linked against an external library.
1071 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
1072 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
1074 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
1075 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
1077 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
1078 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
1079 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
1080 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
1081 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
1082 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
1083 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
1084 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
1085 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
1088 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
1089 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
1091 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
1093 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
1094 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
1096 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
1097 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
1098 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
1099 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
1101 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
1102 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
1103 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
1105 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
1106 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
1107 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
1108 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
1109 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
1110 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
1111 statistics will not work.
1113 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
1114 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
1115 weird strings as disk-names..
1117 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
1118 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
1119 about the disks and partitions.
1121 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
1122 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
1123 and/or kernel versions.
1125 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
1126 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
1127 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
1129 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
1130 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
1131 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
1133 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
1134 * Collecting CPU statistics now
1136 2004-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
1137 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
1139 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
1141 2004-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
1142 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
1144 2004-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
1145 * The following modules are provided:
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