1 2017-10-06, Version 5.6.3
2 * collectd: support for boolean string config values has been
3 reintroduced. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #2083, #2098
4 * collectd: The capability checking has been changed to use
5 "cap_get_proc()". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #2151
6 * Documentation: A section documenting ignore lists has been added to
7 collectd.conf(5). Thanks to Florian Forster.
8 * AMQP plugin: The "ExchangeType" option is now also valid for
9 publishers. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2286
10 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP
11 plugins: Handling of URLs that redirect elsewhere has been fixed.
12 Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2328
13 * BIND plugin: Fix parsing of the sample time provided by BIND.
14 Previously, the time was assumed to be in the local time zone when in
15 fact it was in UTC. Thanks to Ed Ravin. #1268
16 * BIND plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
18 * Chrony plugin: Build flags have been fixed. Thanks to Thomas Jost and
20 * cURL-JSON plugin: The timeout value has been changed to default to the
21 collection interval. This fixes a regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
22 * cURL-JSON plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
24 * DBI plugin: Memory leaks at shutdown have been fixes. Thanks to Pavel
25 Rochnyack and Florian Forster.
26 * E-Mail, Exec, UnixSock plugins: Group ID lookup on systems with many
27 groups has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof and Florian Forster.
29 * IPC plugin: A compilation error on AIX has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel
31 * LogFile plugin: If writing to the file fails, print log messages on
32 "STDERR" instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
33 * Log Logstash plugin: If writing the log entry fails, print it to
34 "STDERR" instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
35 * memcachec, Tail plugins: A resource leak in the matching
36 infrastructure has been fixed. Thanks to Krzysztof Matczak. #2192
37 * MQTT plugin: Invalid symbols in topic names are now replaced and a
38 resource leak has been fixed. Thanks to Denys Fedoryshchenko. #2123
39 * Network plugin: A potential endless-loop has been fixed. This can be
40 triggered remotely by sending a signed network packet to a server
41 which is not set up to check signatures. Thanks to Marcin Kozlowski
42 and Pavel Rochnyack. #2174, #2233, CVE-2017-7401
43 * Network plugin: A use-after-free has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel
45 * Notify Email plugin: The plugin is no longer explicitly linked against
46 libssl and libcrypto, relies on libesmtp being linked correctly.
47 Thanks to Marc Fournier. Debian#852924
48 * NTPd plugin: Calculation of loop offset and error has been fixed.
49 Thanks to Neil Wilson. #2188
50 * OpenLDAP plugin: An incorrect use of the ldap library, leading to a
51 crash, has been fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #2331
52 * Perl plugin: A potential double-free has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
54 * Perl plugin: Print an error when an incorrect configuration is
55 encountered. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #927
56 * RRDtool plugin: Incorrect handling of the flushes timeout option has
57 been fixed. Handling of the "RandomTimeout" has been fixed. Thanks to
58 Pavel Rochnyack. #2363
59 * SMART plugin: Some warning messages have been removed and the code has
60 been cleaned up. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2062
61 * SMART plugin: A check for the "CAP_SYS_RAWIO" capability has been
62 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
63 * SNMP plugin: A double free has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack.
65 * Write Graphite plugin: Error handling in the case that calculating a
66 metric's rate fails has been improved. Previously, the raw counter
67 values were sent to Graphite. Thanks to Iain Buclaw. #2209
68 * Write Kafka plugin: A 32 bit random number is now used when formatting
69 a random key. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2074
71 2016-11-30, Version 5.6.2
72 * collectd: A compile error on AIX has been fixed: "MSG_DONTWAIT" is not
73 available on AIX. Thanks to Chao Yang.
74 * collectd: The capability checking has been rewritten to be more
75 portable. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2009
76 * collectd.conf(5): Various typos have been fixed. Thanks to Marc
78 * collectd-tg: Incorrect usage of "nanosleep()" has been fixed which
79 caused the tool to sleep (almost) indefinitely. Thanks to Florian
81 * Build system: Detection of the Java environment has been made
82 deterministic to allow for reproducible builds. Thanks to Marc
84 * Build system: Detection of the Lua headers has been improved. Thanks
86 * APC UPS plugin: Unavailable metrics are now skipped instead of
87 reported as 0 (zero). Thanks to Florian Forster. #2025
88 * Modbus plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
90 * OpenVPN plugin: Gracefully handle empty configurations. Thanks to
91 Pavel Rochnyack. #1932
92 * PowerDNS plugin: The "recursor command" has been fixed so PowerDNS can
93 correctly parse all requested fields. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
94 * Write Graphite and AMQP plugins: A bug that could lead to a missing
95 null-termination has been fixed. Thanks to Markus Linnala.
96 * Write HTTP plugin: A logic error when checking the correctness of the
97 data set has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1996
98 * Write Kafka plugin: The "Key Random" config option has been fixed.
99 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1977
100 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for librdkafka 0.9.0 has been added.
101 Thanks to Florian Forster.
102 * Write Riemann plugin: Build issues on Solaris have been fixed. Thanks
104 * ZFS ARC plugin: A duplicate metric has been removed. Thanks to Ruben
107 2016-10-07, Version 5.6.1
108 * Build system: Unnecessary linking of the Write Graphite plugin with
109 libyajl has been removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
111 * collectd: A bug in the "FlushInterval" option that caused a
112 segmentation fault in the Write HTTP plugin has been fixed. Thanks to
113 Florian Forster. #1954
114 * Apache plugin: A syntax error has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
116 * cURL-JSON plugin: A segmentation fault that occurred when handling
117 JSON with unexpected structure has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
119 * PostgreSQL plugin: Handling of "NULL" values in the "query_plans" and
120 "query_plans_by_table" queries has been fixed. Thanks to Bernd
122 * RRDCacheD plugin: Reconnection behavior has been added. Thanks to
123 Sebastian Harl. Debian#657877
124 * VServer plugin: Use of a deprecated API ("readdir_r()") has been
125 fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
126 * Write Graphite plugin: Make default values configurable at compile
127 time again. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1953
128 * Write HTTP plugin: A bug has been fixed that lead to flush callbacks
129 being registered twice. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1955
131 2016-09-11, Version 5.6.0
132 * Build system: An option to to avoid building the DF plugin against XFS
133 has been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1878
134 * Build system: Autoconf ≥ 2.60, a C99-capable compiler and pkg-config
135 are now required. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
136 * Build system: Building with "-Werror" is now optional. Thanks to Ruben
138 * Build system: Many compilation issues on non-Linux platforms have been
139 fixed, leading to wider plugin support. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
140 Dagobert Michelsen, Havard Eidnes and Robert Viduya.
141 * Build system: The configuration summary now also ends up in
142 config.log. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
143 * collectd: All command-line options now override global options from
144 the config file. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #366
145 * collectd: A number of unit tests for commonly used functions have been
146 added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
147 * collectd: Plugins start up and read timeouts are now logged. Thanks to
148 Marc Fournier. #1293, #1254
149 * collectd: Support for a timeout has been added to "FLUSH" callbacks.
150 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
151 * collectd: The "-T" command line switch now reports more errors. Thanks
152 to Corey Kosak. #1642
153 * collectd: The max size of value list elements ("DATA_MAX_NAME_LEN")
154 has been doubled and is now configurable at build time. Thanks to Amy
155 Lin, Florian Forster and Radu Brumariu. #1120
156 * Set target: The "MetaData" option has been added. Thanks to Yves
157 Mettier and Kevin Bowling. #1106, #1656, #1913
158 * AMQP, Write_HTTP, Write_Kafka plugins: Support for libyajl < 2 has
159 been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
160 * APC UPS plugin: Parsing of end markers has been fixed. Thanks to
162 * APC UPS plugin: The "PersistentConnection" option has been added.
163 Thanks to Florian Forster #617
164 * ceph, DNS, Exec, IPTables, Ping, turbostat plugins: When running
165 unprivileged, these plugins will now warn about insuffiscient
166 permissions or capabilities(7). Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1530
167 * Chrony plugin: This new plugin collects NTP data from the chrony NTP
168 server. Thanks to Claudius Zingerli. #1548
169 * cpusleep plugin: This new plugin measures time spent by CPU in deep
170 sleep mode. Thanks to Rinigus. #1826
171 * CPU plugin: The "ReportNumCpu" option has been added. Thanks to Fabien
173 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: The new "Statistics" reports
174 various per-HTTP connection timers. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1004
175 * DBI plugin: The "Interval" option has been added to "Database" blocks.
176 Thanks to Michal Bebjak.
177 * Disk plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li,
178 Brad Davis, Ruben Kerfhof and Kevin Bowling.
179 * Empty Counter match: Support for derives has been implemented. Thanks
180 to Florian Forster. #1813
181 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for TabularData and the "PluginName" option
182 have been added. Thanks to David Crane. #1290, #1291
183 * GPS plugin: This new plugin reports the number of sattelites seen by
184 and precision of a GPS receiver. Thanks to Nicolas Jourden. #1346
185 * gRPC plugin: This new client and server plugin allows sending and
186 receiving metrics using the gRPC protocol. Comparable to the UnixSock
187 plugin, but using TCP and TLS. Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Florian
189 * Interface plugin: Reporting dropped packets has been added. Thanks to
191 * Interface plugin: The "ReportInactive" has been added, letting users
192 skip inactive network interfaces. Thanks to Rinigus. #1791
193 * Interface plugin: The new, Solaris-only "UniqueName" option has been
194 added. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam. #1416
195 * Lua plugin: This new language binding allows writing plugins using the
196 Lua programming language. Thanks to Julien Ammous, Florian Forster and
198 * Memory plugin: Reporting of ARC memory on Solaris has been added.
199 Thanks to Brian ONeill.
200 * MQTT plugin: This new plugin sends metrics to and/or receives metrics
201 from an MQTT broker. Thanks to Marc Falzon, Jan-Piet Mens, Nicholas
202 Humfrey and Florian Forster. #805, #1124
203 * MySQL plugin: Connection to the database server can now be done over
204 SSL. Thanks to Brian Lalor. #1256
205 * MySQL plugin: Monitoring slow queries has been added. Thanks to skob.
207 * MySQL plugin: mysql_bpool_pages-flushed has been renamed to
208 mysql_bpool_counters-pages_flushed because the value is cumulative.
209 Thanks to Marek Becka.
210 * MySQL plugin: Support for Galera statistics has been added. Thanks to
211 Rachid Zarouali. #1849
212 * MySQL plugin: Support for InnoDB metrics was improved. Thanks to Aman
214 * MySQL plugin: The "mysql_sort" type has been split into 3 different
215 types. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1592
216 * Network plugin: Decryption error logging has been improved. Thanks to
217 Pavel Rochnyack. #1735
218 * Notify Nagios plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to Nagios as
219 a passive check result. Thanks to Florian Forster.
220 * NTPd plugin: The plugin now detects if the ntp daemon reports
221 nanoseconds instead of microseconds. Thanks to Matwey V. Kornilov.
223 * OpenLDAP plugin: Several connection-related improvements have been
224 made. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1308
225 * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for "simple authentication" has been added.
226 Thanks to Marek Becka. #1087
227 * Ping plugin: The "Size" option has been added, allowing the ICMP data
228 payload size to be configured. Thanks to Witold Baryluk. #1395
229 * PostgreSQL, DBI, Oracle plugins: The new "PluginInstanceFrom" option
230 has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1707
231 * PowerDNS plugin: The recursor metrics have been updated to 3.7.3 and
232 missing rr types have been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
233 * Processes plugin: Counting of context switches was added for Linux.
234 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1036
235 * Processes plugin: Improve reliability of thread counts on Linux.
236 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
237 * Python plugin: Minimal Python version requirement has been bumped to
238 2.6. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1864
239 * Redis plugin: Several additional metrics are now collected. Thanks to
240 Marc Falzon and Matteo Contrini. #1807, #1483
241 * Sensors plugin: The "UseLabels" option has been added. Thanks to
243 * SMART plugin: The new "IgnoreSleepMode" option has been added. Thanks
244 to Scott Talbert. #1770
245 * SMART plugin: The new "UseSerial" option allows identifying devices in
246 a stable way. Thanks to Scott Talbert. #1794
247 * SNMP plugin: The "IpAddress" can now be used for instances. Thanks to
248 Vincent Bernat. #1397
249 * StatsD plugin: Latency calculation histogram is now able to shrink
250 automatically to optimal size. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1622
251 * StatsD plugin: The "CounterSum" option has been added. Thanks to
252 Florian Forster. #929, #1282, #1311
253 * UUID plugin: The plugin now also looks in in smbios system table and
254 "/sys/class/dmi". Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1490
255 * virt plugin: The "PluginInstanceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
256 to Ruben Kerkhof. #1100
257 * Write Graphite plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" option has been added.
258 Thanks to Toni Moreno and Florian Forster.
259 * Write HTTP plugin: A KairosDB formatter has been added. Thanks to
260 Aurélien Rougemont. #1809
261 * Write HTTP plugin: Notifications are now handled by this plugin.
262 Thanks to Florian Forster.
263 * Write HTTP plugin: The "LogHttpError" option has been added. Thanks to
265 * Write HTTP plugin: The new "Headers" option allows setting custom HTTP
266 headers in outgoing requests. Thanks to Brandon Arp. #1634
267 * Write Kafka plugin: Key handling has been made more comprehensive and
268 reliable. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Vincent
269 Bernat. #1765, #1695, #1393
270 * Write Redis plugin: The "Database", "MaxSetSize", "Prefix" and
271 "StoreRates" options have been added. Thanks to Brian Kelly and
273 * Write Riemann plugin: The new "BatchFlushTimeout" and "Timeout" option
274 have been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Gergely Nagy.
275 * Write Riemann plugin: This plugin now requires the riemann-c-client
276 library, version 1.6.0+. This adds support for submitting values to
277 Riemann over TLS. Thanks to Gergely Nagy. #986
278 * Write TSDB, Write Sensu, Write Riemann, Write Graphite, Write TSDB
279 plugin: TCP keepalive is now enabled, helping graceful recovery from
280 unclean network disconnections. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1549
281 * XenCPU plugin: This new plugin collects XEN Hypervisor CPU stats.
282 Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1608
283 * ZFS ARC plugin: Several new statistics have been added and a couple of
284 obsolete ones removed. Thanks to Brad Davis, Brian ONeill and Ruben
286 * Zone plugin: This new plugin reads per-zone CPU usage on Solaris.
287 Thanks to Mathijs Mohlmann and Dagobert Michelsen.
289 2016-11-28, Version 5.5.3
290 * collectd: Write threads are stopped before shutdown callbacks are
291 called. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1110
292 * collectd: A compile error on AIX has been fixed: "MSG_DONTWAIT" is not
293 available on AIX. Thanks to Chao Yang.
294 * libcollectdclient: Lines printed to "STDERR" are now guarded by the
295 environment variable "COLLECTD_TRACE". Thanks to Florian Forster. #105
296 * collectd.conf(5): Various typos have been fixed. Thanks to Marc
298 * Build system: Detection of the Java environment has been made
299 deterministic to allow for reproducible builds. Thanks to Marc
301 * APC UPS plugin: Unavailable metrics are now skipped instead of
302 reported as 0 (zero). Thanks to Florian Forster. #2025
303 * Battery plugin: The minimum value has been removed from the power type
304 to allow the plugin to report discharging batteries as negative power.
305 Thanks to Florian Forster.
306 * DBI, Oracle and PostgreSQL plugins: An error message when the type
307 instance is truncated has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #4
308 * cURL-JSON plugin: A possible segmentation fault when parsing
309 unexpected JSON has been fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1896
310 * DF plugin: Compilation with xfsprogs ≥ 4.7.0 has been fixed. Thanks
311 to Thomas Deutschmann. #1877
312 * Modbus plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
314 * Network plugin: An error message has been corrected. Thanks to Florian
316 * Network plugin: Handling of errors form secure memory initialization
317 has been improved: the plugin fails gracefully now instead of calling
318 "abort()". Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
319 * Network plugin: The gcrypt library is only initialized when it is
320 actually required due to the network plugin's configuration. Thanks to
321 Florian Forster. #1902
322 * Ping plugin: The init callback has been changed to be idempotent,
323 fixing errors being reported on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster.
325 * PostgreSQL plugin: The query_plans and query_plans_by_table queries
326 have been improved to return 0 (zero) instead of "NULL" when not
327 available. Thanks to Bernd Zeimetz. #1905
328 * PowerDNS plugin: The "recursor command" has been fixed so PowerDNS can
329 correctly parse all requested fields. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
330 * Python plugin: Handling of data sets with multiple data sources of
331 different type has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
332 * RRDCacheD plugin: Reconnection behavior after failed operations has
333 been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. Debian#657877
334 * Write Graphite and AMQP plugins: A bug that could lead to a missing
335 null-termination has been fixed. Thanks to Markus Linnala.
336 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for librdkafka 0.9.0 has been added.
337 Thanks to Florian Forster.
338 * Write Riemann plugin: Build issues on Solaris have been fixed. Thanks
341 2016-07-25, Version 5.5.2
342 * collectd: A division by zero has been fixed in the
343 "plugin_dispatch_multivalue()" function. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
344 * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
345 in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
346 * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
347 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkof.
348 * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
349 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
350 * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
351 more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
352 * DF plugin: A build issue on DragonFlyBSD has been fixed. Thanks to
354 * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
355 This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
357 * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
358 has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
359 * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
360 now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
361 Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
362 * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has
363 been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was
364 ignored. Thanks to @yujokang. #1665
365 * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
366 This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
367 Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
368 * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
369 single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
370 create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
371 * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
372 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
373 * Redis plugin: A memory leak in an error handling code path has been
374 fixed. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz.
375 * Redis plugin: The data source type of the expired_keys metric has been
376 corrected to "DERIVE". Thanks to Marc Falzon and Marc Fournier. #1483.
377 * SMART plugin: A build dependency on libudev has been added. Thanks to
378 Pavel Rochnyack. #1724
379 * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
380 Pavel Rochnyack #1703
381 * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
382 shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
383 * Write Sensu plugin: A segfault when the Tag was unset has been fixed.
384 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
385 * ZFS ARC plugin: The cache_operation-stolen metric has been removed for
386 FreeBSD 10.2 and later. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1580
388 2016-01-22, Version 5.5.1
389 * Build system: Compilation errors have been avoided by correctly
390 defining package name and version used by autoconf. Thanks to Nathan
392 * Build system: Dependency ordering was fixed to ensure parallel builds
393 work reliably. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias. #1125
394 * Build system: Error messages have been improved and building the unit
395 tests has been fixed on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster and
396 Dagobert Michelsen. #1077
397 * Build system: The move of the "utils_ignorelist" functions has been
398 reverted. This fixes build issues of numerous plugins. Thanks to
399 Benjamin Drung;. #1323
400 * Build system: The fhcount plugin has been restricted to Linux. Thanks
401 to Ruben Kerkhof. #1195
402 * Build system: Detection of header files for the turbostat plugin has
403 been fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1075
404 * collectd: The "LC_NUMERIC" locale is now forced, to prevent issues
405 with some plugins on environments using a comma as decimal separator.
406 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1237
407 * Documentation: Some precisions related to the virt plugin have beed
408 added. Thanks to Wojtek Bocer and Ruben Kerkhof.
409 * Documentation: The CollectdInternalStats documentation has been
410 improved. Thanks to Yves Mettier and Florian Forster.
411 * Battery plugin: A missing Type has been added. Thanks to Marc
413 * Bind plugin: An off-by-one error has been fixed: an index was checked
414 against a wrong variable, which may lead to an out-of-bounds read.
415 Thanks to Michal Humpula. #1123
416 * Ceph plugin: JSON parsing has been refactored to support ceph 10.0.0
417 and fixes several buffer overflows. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1350
418 * CPU plugin: A Mac OS X specific bug has been fixed: the plugin
419 expected an incorrect number of CPU states, resulting in failing read
420 callbacks. This regression was introduced in 5.5.0. Thanks to Robert
422 * Disk plugin: Support for Mac OS X 10.10 has been added. Thanks to
424 * IPC plugin: Support for building with musl-libc has been added. Thanks
425 to Natanael Copa. #1147
426 * Log Logstash plugin: A segfault when using libyajl, version 1 was
427 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #1190
428 * Log Logstash plugin: The timestamp is now ISO 8601 compliant. Thanks
429 to Marc Fournier. #1132
430 * memcached plugin: The Type of the listen-disabled metric was fixed.
431 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1356
432 * MySQL plugin: The Type used by Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_flushed was
433 fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1085
434 * OpenLDAP plugin: A crash when using LDAPI (LDAP-over-IPC) got fixed.
435 Thanks to Marek Becka. #1080
436 * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for Mac OS X has been added. Thanks to Ruben
438 * SMART plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
439 Schüller and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1076
440 * Swap plugin: A regression that would lead to swap usage being reported
441 in kilobytes (instead of bytes) has been fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka.
443 * Varnish plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Ruben
445 * Varnish plugin: Support for versions 3 and 4 has been made more
446 tolerant to minor changes in Varnish point releases. Thanks to Marc
448 * virt plugin: A copy-and-paste mistake in an error message has been
449 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1101
450 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
452 * Write Redis plugin: Dead code has been removed. Thanks to Brian Kelly.
454 * 27 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
455 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
456 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan and clang: Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
457 Florian Forster and Marek Becka.
458 * Collectd::Unixsock: A Perl error got corrected. Thanks to Ciaran Mac
461 2015-05-27, Version 5.5.0
462 * Build system: Ability to make out-of-tree builds has been fixed.
463 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #792
464 * Build system, Disk and Users plugins: Detection and use of libstatgrab
465 ≧ 0.90 has been added. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #445, #795, #806,
467 * Build system, Memory, CPU, TCPConns and Processes plugins: Numerous
468 fixes related to OpenBSD support have been added. Thanks to Landry
469 Breuil. #777, #778, #779, #808
470 * Build system: Plugins now only export "module_register()". Thanks to
472 * Build system: Various cleanups and improvements have been done. Thanks
474 * collectd: Numerous internal changes and improvements to the daemon and
475 the plugin API have been make. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves
476 Ritschard and Alex Petrov. #512, #727
477 * collectd: Numerous spelling mistakes have been corrected in comments
478 and documentation and several error messages have been improved.
479 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Abhinav Upadhyay, Olivier Bazoud, Pierre-Yves
480 Ritschard, Tim Smith, Moshe Zada, Katelyn Perry and Marc Fournier.
481 * collectd: Rules/Targets can now be appended to existing Filter Chains.
482 Thanks to Marc Falzon. #444
483 * collectd: Failing Filter Chains destinations will now log the list of
484 available write targets. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #650, #1043
485 * collectd: Support for process signaling and management by upstart and
486 systemd has been implemented for the Linux platform. Thanks to
487 Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. #798, #811, #814
488 * collectd: The "CollectInternalStats" option has been added. Thanks to
490 * collectd: The daemon source code and dependencies have moved to the
491 "src/daemon/" directory. Thanks to Florian Forster.
492 * collectd: The new "MaxReadInterval" option allows to cap the
493 exponential retry interval of plugins read errors. Thanks to Alexey
494 Remizov and Florian Forster. #713
495 * collectd: The "-P" command-line option now has precedence over the
496 "PIDFile" option. Thanks to Thomas D. #553
497 * collection.cgi: Various data-source related adjustments have been
498 made. Thanks to Fabiano Pires and Sebastian Harl.
499 * libcollectdclient: Now propagates errors when signing / encrypting
500 network packets. Thanks to Florian Forster.
501 * Configuration: Support for unquoted IPv6 addresses has been added.
502 Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #489
503 * Documentation: Various improvements have been done. Thanks to Florian
504 Forster and Marc Fournier.
505 * Examples: the sample C plugin has been updated to the current plugin
506 API. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
507 * Licensing: The following components have been relicensed to the MIT
508 license: the Apple Sensors, Ascent, DBI, E-Mail, Entropy, GenericJMX,
509 gmond, LogFile, nginx, Notify Desktop, NTPd, NUT, olsrd, Perl, Ping,
510 PostgreSQL, Protocols, RouterOS, RRDCacheD, SNMP, StatsD, SysLog,
511 Table, Tail, UnixSock, vmem, VServer, Wireless, Write Riemann and XMMS
512 plugins, the core collectd daemon, the collectdmon, collectd-nagios
513 and collectd-tg utilities, all the Targets and Matches, liboconfig,
514 most of the "utils_*" files and the plugin API.
515 * Tests: A test suite has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
516 * Threshold: The hysteresis calculation has been made more reliable.
517 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #581
518 * Threshold: Various fixes and improvements have been made. Thanks to
519 Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #649, #644
520 * AMQP plugin: The "ConnectionRetryDelay" option has been added,
521 allowing to delay reconnection. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam and Marc
523 * AMQP plugin: The "QueueDurable" and "QueueAutoDelete" options have
524 been added, giving control over queue creation and deletion. Thanks to
525 David Blundell and Marc Fournier. #623
526 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx and Write HTTP
527 plugins: Customizing the "User-Agent" field is now possible at
528 compile-time. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #440
529 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx plugins: The
530 connection will be reset if it hasn't completed within the configured
531 "Interval". The new "Timeout" option gives control over this behavior.
532 Thanks to Jan Kundrát and Marc Fournier. #982, #983, #993
533 * Apache, Ascent, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP plugins:
534 Allow usernames and passwords to contain colons if built against
535 libcurl ≧ 7.19.1. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #695, #947
536 * Apache plugin: The "SSLCiphers" option gives control over the
537 encryption algorithms to use with TLS connections. Thanks to Toni
539 * Barometer plugin: This new plugin reads sensor data from various
540 Freescale and Bosch digital barometers. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #69,
542 * Battery plugin: Reporting values as percentages and reporting degraded
543 batteries has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
544 * Battery plugin: Support for reading values from sysfs on Linux has
545 been added. Thanks to Andy Parkins, Nicholas Humfrey, Peter Wu and
546 Florian Forster. #725, #810, #998
547 * Battery plugin: The value for current is no longer supplied unless the
548 battery provides this information. Thanks to Florian Forster.
549 * BIND plugin: Bind's XML v3 API is now supported; Thanks to Victor
550 Berger, Bruno Prémont and Michal Humpula. #742, #847
551 * Ceph plugin: This new plugin collects statistics from the Ceph
552 distributed storage system. Thanks to Dan Ryder, Dennis Zou, Colin
553 McCabe, Sage Weil. #522, #598
554 * ConnTrack plugin: Support for reporting values as percentages as well
555 as legacy conntrack files in "/proc" has been added. Thanks to
556 Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #497, #680
557 * CPU plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages and
558 aggregate values per-state and per-CPU. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
559 Ritschard, Florian Forster, Fabien Wernli, Nicholas Humfrey and
560 Wilfried Goesgens. #499, #516, #639 #734, #812, #802
561 * cURL-JSON plugin: Extracting values from complex JSON structures has
562 been enhanced. Thanks to Jim Radford. #408, #411
563 * cURL-JSON plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-URL basis.
564 Thanks to Stan Sawa. #685
565 * cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, Write HTTP plugins: These plugins now also follow
566 HTTP redirects. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
567 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: HTTP Digest authentication has been
568 implemented. Thanks to Frank Cornelis. #482
569 * DBI, Oracle, PostgreSQL plugins: A "MetadataFrom" parameter has been
570 added which allows to set metadata from database columns. Thanks to
571 Mark Wong. #317, #321
572 * DBI plugin: Querying several databases in parallel is now possible.
573 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #453
574 * Disk plugin: On the Linux platform, disk names can now get looked up
575 in udev with the "UdevNameAttr" option. Thanks to Patrick Mooney. #537
576 * Disk plugin: This plugin now collects several additional I/O-related
577 metrics on the Linux platform. Thanks to Florian Forster and Michael
579 * DRBD plugin: This new plugin reads Linux's Distributed Replicated
580 Block Device (DRBD) statistics. Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #566, #700
581 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: The "PUTNOTIF" command now allows to set
582 metadata on notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #416
583 * fhcount plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used file
584 handles. Thanks to Jiri Tyr. #1009
585 * GenericJMX plugin: A Class Loader for "JMXConnectorFactory" has been
586 added, allowing the plugin to work with JBOSS > 7. Thanks to Alexandre
588 * IPC plugin: This new plugin collects information related to shared
589 memory. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz. #925
590 * Java plugin: Now uses the hostname defined in the configuration file.
591 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #530, #681
592 * Load plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
593 Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #344, #498
594 * Log Logstash plugin: This new plugin writes collectd logs and events
595 as Logstash JSON formatted events. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
597 * LVM plugin: The plugin collects thin pool data volumes size, and no
598 longer reports virtual volumes. Thanks to Benjamin Gilbert. #603
599 * memcached plugin: "listen_disabled_num" are now also reported. Thanks
600 to Matt Cottingham. #622
601 * Memory plugin: Slab memory reporting on the Linux platform has been
602 added. Thanks to Manuel CISSÉ and Marc Fournier. #560, #697
603 * Memory plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
604 Thanks to Jeremy Katz, Florian Forster and Manuel CISSÉ. #501, #511,
606 * Modbus plugin: Selecting between holding and input registers is now
607 possible. Thanks to Jan Vitek. #338
608 * Modbus plugin: Support for accessing devices through an RS-485 serial
609 port has been added. Thanks to Eric Sandeen.
610 * Multimeter plugin: This plugin isn't built by default on the AIX
611 platform anymore. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada. #549, #684
612 * MySQL and PostgreSQL plugins: Passing "127.0.0.1" as a host will now
613 result in the global Hostname being used in metric names. Thanks to
615 * MySQL plugin: InnoDB, Select and Sort statistics collection has been
616 added. Thanks to Wilson Felipe, Marek Becka and Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
617 #248, #621, #699, #824
618 * MySQL plugin: The "Alias" and "ConnectTimeout" options have been
619 added. Thanks to William Tisäter.
620 * Netlink plugin: Support for 64bit netlink counters has been added.
621 Thanks to Marek Becka. #435
622 * Network plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" configuration option has been
623 added. Thanks to John Ferlito. #732
624 * NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4.0 has been implemented. Thanks to Marek
626 * OneWire plugin: Support for more temperature-providing sensor families
627 has been added. Thanks to Tomasz Torcz. #672
628 * OneWire plugin: Support for full OWFS path and more device families
629 has been implemented. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #68
630 * OpenLDAP plugin: This new plugin reads monitoring information from
631 OpenLDAP's "cn=Monitor" subtree. Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum, Marc
632 Fournier and Nicholas Humfrey. #719
633 * OpenVPN plugin: Support for OpenVPN 2.3.0 has been implemented. Thanks
635 * OpenVZ plugin: Various improvements have been made, making the plugin
636 report values like the other collectd plugins do. Thanks to Chris
638 * Perl plugin: A new "listval_filter" method has been added, various
639 internal cleanups and improvements have been made and a test suite has
640 been added. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #728
641 * PostgreSQL plugin: The new "ExpireDelay" option allows skipping older
642 values pending write when the database slows down. Thanks to Stephen
644 * PowerDNS plugin: The plugin was updated for stats from pdns 3.4.3.
645 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #965
646 * Processes plugin: A memory-usage related optimization for low-profile
647 systems has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #652
648 * Python plugin: Support for Python3 has been improved, "ModulePath" is
649 now prepended to "sys.path", and the "get_dataset()" function has been
650 added to the Python API. Thanks to Sven Trenkel and Patrick Browne.
652 * Redis and Write_Redis plugins: The support library has been switched
653 from credis to hiredis. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz, Victor Seva, Marc
654 Fournier, Johan Bergström, Michael Spiegle and brianpkelly. #296,
655 #464, #475, #799, #1030
656 * Redis plugin: Custom commands can now be used to fetch values stored
657 in Redis. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #816
658 * Redis plugin: Support for passwords up to 512 characters long has been
659 added. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #532
660 * Sensors plugin: Support for lm_sensors' power sensors has been added.
661 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #571
662 * SMART plugin: This new plugin collects SMART statistics from disk
663 drives. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #797
664 * SNMP plugin: A blacklist/whitelist feature can now be used to filter
665 which OIDs to collect. Thanks to Christophe Courtaut. #414
666 * SNMP plugin: SNMPv3 authentication and encryption support has been
667 implemented. Thanks to Michael Pilat. #362
668 * SNMP plugin: Two error messages have been disambiguated. Thanks to
670 * Swap plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
671 Thanks to Jeremy Katz and Florian Forster. #500, #510
672 * Swap plugin: The plugin no longer fails on Linux systems where
673 "SwapCached" isn't exposed by the kernel. Thanks to Florian Forster.
675 * Tail plugin: "GaugeInc" and "GaugeAdd" options have been implemented.
676 Thanks to Andre Ferraz. #673
677 * Tail plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-File basis.
678 Thanks to Tom Leaman. #446
679 * TCPConns plugin: The "AllPortsSummary" option, allowing to summarize
680 all connections, has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #488
681 * TCPConns plugin: Three metrics were renamed on the AIX platform, for
682 the sake of consistency. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #546
683 * Turbostat plugin: This new plugin reads CPU frequency and C-state
684 residency on modern Intel turbo-capable processors. Thanks to Vincent
685 Brillault, Jean Delvare and Nicolas Iooss. #651
686 * UnixSock plugin: The "GETTHRESHOLD" command has been re-added. Thanks
687 to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #674
688 * Varnish plugin: Varnish 4 support has been added, as well as as
689 monitoring metrics only available in Varnish 4. Thanks to Marc
691 * virt plugin: Guests memory usage is now also collected. Thanks to
692 Tiago Carvalho, jazzmes and Zollner Robert.
693 * virt plugin: It is now possible to chose between using guests' name or
694 UUID as plugin_instance. Thanks to Remi Ferrand. #385
695 * virt plugin: The libvirt plugin has been renamed to virt. Thanks to
697 * Write Graphite plugin: When the connection to graphite fails,
698 reconnection attempts are now limited to once per second. Thanks to
699 Florian Forster. #625
700 * Write HTTP plugin: Multi-instance support of this plugin has been
701 improved. The "<URL "url">" block has been deprecated in favor of
702 "<Node "identifier">". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #902
703 * Write HTTP plugin: Several TLS-related configuration options have been
704 added. Thanks to Ingmar Runge. #666
705 * Write HTTP plugin: The "LowSpeedLimit" and "Timeout" options allow to
706 reset slow/stalled network connections. Thanks to loginator17 and Marc
708 * Write HTTP plugin: The size of the payload posted to the HTTP server
709 can now be controlled with the "BufferSize" option. Thanks to Florian
711 * Write Kafka plugin: This new plugin sends data to Apache Kafka, a
712 distributed messaging queue. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard,
713 ciomaire, Vincent Bernat, Marc Fournier. #670, #694, #794, #853, #014
714 * Write Log plugin: This new plugin dispatches collected values to the
715 configured log destination(s). Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #886
716 * Write Riemann plugin: Extra meta strings are now added as attributes
717 in notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #417
718 * Write Riemann plugin: Notification message are now sent to the Riemann
719 server via the description field. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #575
720 * Write Riemann plugin: Support for custom attributes has been added.
721 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #459
722 * Write Riemann plugin: Support had been implemented for sending events
723 to Riemann in batches (when using TCP), and is enabled by default.
724 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #800
725 * Write Riemann plugin: The "EventServicePrefix" option has been added,
726 which adds a prefix to event service names. Thanks to Moshe Zada. #706
727 * Write Riemann plugin: Threshold checks can now be passed down to the
728 Riemann server. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #518
729 * Write Sensu plugin: This new plugin submits values to Sensu, a stream
730 processing and monitoring system. Thanks to Fabrice A. Marie and Marc
731 Fournier. #912, #1001, #1016
732 * Write TSDB plugin: This new plugin sends data to OpenTSDB, a scalable
733 time series database. Thanks to Kevin Bowling, Florian Forster, Dallin
734 Young, Michael Schenck and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #703, #772, #945
735 * ZFS ARC plugin: Support for ZFS-on-Linux has been added. Thanks to
736 Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. #552
737 * Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache Zookeeper
738 "MNTR" command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826
740 2016-07-26, Version 5.4.3
741 * Build system: A deprecation warning has been removed. Thanks to
743 * Build system: An ordering issue when build the AMQP plugin was
744 corrected. Thanks to Shahul Hameed.
745 * Build system: Building the gmond plugin against recent libganglia
746 versions has been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1129
747 * Build system: "collectd-tg" now builds on AIX. Thanks to Manuel Luis
748 Sanmartín Rozada. #542
749 * Build system: "version-gen.sh" portablility was improved. Thanks to
750 Marc Fournier and Ruben Kerkhof.
751 * Build system: Compiling utils_dns.c on Solaris has beed fixed. Thanks
752 to Yves Mettier, Dagobert Michelsen and Florian Forster. #348
753 * Build system: Default JDK detection got improved. Thanks to Ruben
754 Kerkhof and Marc Fournier.
755 * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
756 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
757 * Build system: notify_email build options got corrected to make it
758 build on non-GNU libc systems. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
759 * Build system: Protobuf building and logging has been improved. Thanks
761 * Build system: The "make distcheck" target was fixed to properly handle
762 java build artifacts. Thanks to Florian Forster.
763 * Build system: The configure script got fixed to work properly when
764 called with "CC="gcc -Wall -Werror"" . Thanks to Marc Fournier.
765 * Build system: The configure script will now fail if pkg-config isn't
766 available. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
767 * Build system: The users plugin now builds properly on Solaris when
768 libstatgrab is available. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #1061
769 * Build system: Various fixes have been done to improve library
770 detection on FreeBSD. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
771 * collectd2html: Several perl errors have been corrected. Thanks to Ruud
773 * collectd: A global gauge format-string is now used to avoid loss of
774 precision. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1039
775 * collectd: A race condition at plugin initialization time was fixed.
776 Thanks to Jan Andres. #1316
777 * collectd: Autoloading now properly sets plugin context, allowing
778 plugins to determine the interval. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1069
779 * collectd: Empty "Plugin" blocks are now supported by the configuration
780 file parser. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1035
781 * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
782 in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
783 * collectd: Writing to a closed TCP socket is now properly handled.
784 Thanks to Tamás Földesi. #1104
785 * Documentation: iptables plugin: IPv6 configuration option has been
786 added to the collectd.conf(5) manpage. Thanks to 'Marc Fournier''.
788 * AMQP plugin: The plugin was fixed to build against librabbitmq 0.6.0.
789 Thanks to Remi Collet. #1008
790 * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
791 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
792 * Apache plugin: The plugin was extended to parse the whole response,
793 required to support Apache versions greater than 2.4.17. Thanks to
794 Marc Fournier and Florian Forster. #1170, #1343
795 * APC UPS plugin: Log messages are now prefixed with the plugin name.
796 Thanks to Sergey. #1329
797 * Bind plugin: The type_instance now gets properly sanitized. Thanks to
799 * CPU plugin: Error messages on MacOSX have been improved. Thanks to
801 * cURL plugin: A typo in an error message got corrected. Thanks to Marc
803 * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
804 more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
805 * DF plugin: An bug preventing filesystems which don't report inodes
806 such as btrfs has been corrected. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1096
807 * DF plugin: Duplicate entries are no longer reported twice. Thanks to
808 Stefan Brüns and Florian Forster. #1402
809 * DF plugin: Legacy code for skipping "rootfs" mount points has been
810 removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1402
811 * DF plugin: Legacy references to the "ReportReserved" option have been
812 removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
813 * DF plugin: Reading the mtab now uses a reentrant function when
814 possible. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1163
815 * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
816 This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
818 * Exec plugin: A file descriptor leak when the plugin is configured to
819 run as a non-existing user was corrected. Thanks to Gautam BT and Marc
821 * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
822 has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
823 * Interface plugin: Documentation about regular expressions in the
824 ignore list has been added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski.
825 * IRQ plugin: The "FIQ" line is now skipped as it doesn't contain any
826 counter. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #971
827 * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
828 now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
829 Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
830 * MongoDB plugin: A memory leak has been fixed and some adaptations to
831 the current API of the mongo-c-driver have been made. Thanks to
832 Florian Forster. #956
833 * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has
834 been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was ignored.
835 Thanks to @yujokang. #1665
836 * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
837 This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
838 Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
839 * Network plugin: The TimeToLive option handling was made more robust.
840 Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #654
841 * NTPd plugin: Documentation about the required "mode 7" has been added.
842 Thanks to Jakub Jankowski.
843 * NTPd plugin: Reporting of "time_offset-loop" was corrected to match
844 the values from ntpq/ntpdc. Thanks to Pierre Fersing and Florian
846 * OpenVPN plugin: The plugin was fixe to avoid signaling an error when
847 no clients were connected. Thanks to Florian Forster. #731
848 * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
849 single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
850 create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
851 * PF plugin and DNS plugin: These plugins have been fixed to build
852 properly on OpenBSD again. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
853 * Processes plugin: A compilation error on systems without "regex.h" has
854 been fixed. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
855 * Processes plugin: A memory leak on Solaris has been fixed. Thanks to
857 * Processes plugin and Swap plugin: These plugins have been corrected to
858 also work inside FreeBSD jails. Thanks to biancalana. #1019
859 * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
860 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
861 * Processes plugin: Process counting on the FreeBSD and OpenBSD
862 platforms has been fixed. Thanks to Herve COMMOWICK. #1298
863 * Processes plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly on Solaris.
864 Thanks to Jan Andres. #919
865 * Python plugin: A double-free bug got fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel.
867 * RRDtool plugin: A race condition leading to corrupt RRD file creation
868 has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1031
869 * SNMP plugin: The "Gauge32" signedness was corrected to match RFC1902.
870 Thanks to Nathan Ward. #1325
871 * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
872 Pavel Rochnyack #1703
873 * StatsD plugin: A memory leak was corrected. Thanks to Florian Forster.
875 * StatsD plugin: A symbol lookup error was fixed by properly linking the
876 plugin against libm. Thanks to Florian Forster.
877 * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Support for including values above
878 1000 in percentile calculation has been added. Thanks to Yoga
880 * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Two division by zero error conditions
881 have been corrected. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #655
882 * StatsD plugin: Counters absolute counts are now also reported. Thanks
883 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1311
884 * StatsD plugin: The plugin now emits NaN values when no timer event is
885 recorded. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1038, #1039
886 * StatsD plugin: The plugin was corrected to avoid crashing when
887 negative timer values are submitted. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1131
888 * Tail CSV plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly with multiple
889 "Collect" options and a bug got fixed when no "TimeFrom" is specified.
890 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada and Florian Forster. #1032
891 * TCPConns plugin: A memory leak was fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster.
893 * TCPConns plugin: An bug causing collectd to enter an inifinite loop on
894 OpenBSD was fixed. Thanks to Landry Breuil. #1094
895 * Threshold plugin: Threshold configuration blocks can now be defined in
896 different files. Thanks to Michael Salmon. #551
897 * vmem plugin: Support for pgsteal in recent Linux kernels has been
898 added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski. #1307
899 * vmem plugin: The DSType for nr_dirtied and nr_written was corrected to
900 report a derive. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1072
901 * Write Graphite plugin: Error handling when submitting metrics to the
902 server is now more robust. Thanks to Sam Pointer. #1364
903 * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
904 shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
905 * Write Redis plugin: Multi-Valued key was made easier to parse by
906 adding a "|" character as a delimiter. Thanks to brianpkelly and
907 Florian Forster. #1070
908 * Write Redis plugin: The timestamp format was corrected. Thanks to
910 * ZFS ARC plugin: The plugin was will not emit warning about missing
911 "l2_size" stats anymore. Thanks to Jan Andres. #919
912 * 152 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
913 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
914 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan, clang and gcc-6: Thanks to Ruben
915 Kerkhof, Florian Forster, Marc Fournier, Corey Kosak, Laurent,
916 Claudius Zingerli and Fabien Wernli.
918 2015-02-26, Version 5.4.2
919 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
920 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
921 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
923 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
924 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
925 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
927 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c. Thanks to
929 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
930 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
931 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
932 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
933 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
934 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
935 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
936 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
937 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
938 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
939 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
940 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
941 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
943 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
944 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
945 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
946 * Documentation: Documentation of the "AutoLoadPlugin" option has been
947 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #715
948 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
949 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
950 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
951 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
952 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML and Write HTTP plugins: Call
953 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
955 * cURL and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
956 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
957 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
958 Florian Forster. #663
959 * curl-json: A bug, which triggered when two URLs with a long common
960 prefix were configured, was fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #582
961 * dbi: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been restored.
962 Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
963 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
964 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
965 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
966 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
967 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
968 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
970 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
971 Thanks to Florian Forster.
972 * LogFile and SysLog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
973 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
974 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
975 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
976 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
977 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
978 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
980 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
982 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
983 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
984 * RRDtool and RRDCacheD plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
985 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
986 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
987 Ritschard. #610, #804
988 * statsd: Support for samplerates in timer metrics was added. Thanks
990 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
991 to Florian Forster. #733
992 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
993 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
994 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
996 * lvm: An issue with Volume Groups (VGs) without Logical Volumes (LVs)
997 has been fixed. Thanks to Jan Kundrát.
998 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
999 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
1000 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
1002 * write_redis: A formatting bug, which resulted in totally unusable
1003 numbers being transmitted to Redis, was fixed. Thanks to Marc
1005 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
1008 2014-01-26, Version 5.4.1
1009 * amqp plugin: Add support for RabbitMQ 0.4.x to avoid compiler
1010 warnings. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for implementing this.
1011 * apache / network plugins: Improved initialization order hopefully
1012 resolved gcrypt initialization problems.
1013 * aquaero plugin: The type used to submit fan utilization was fixed.
1014 Thanks to Alex Deymo for the patch.
1015 * cgroups plugin: A small memory leak was fixed. Checking the existence
1016 of a mount option without a value was fixed. More permissive parsing
1017 of the cpuacct.stats file fixes support for some versions of Linux.
1018 Thanks to Marc Fournier for bug reports and patches.
1019 * curl plugin: Fix <Match> blocks without an instance. Thanks to
1020 Alexander Golovko for reporting and Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1021 * curl_json plugin: Potentially invalid memory access has been
1022 sanitized. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
1023 * interface plugin: Fix behavior under FreeBSD 10: Reporting of
1024 per-address statistics caused duplicate updates to the same metric.
1025 Thanks to demon / @trtrmitya for the patch.
1026 * write_graphite plugin: Use TCP to connect to Graphite by default. The
1027 default changed from TCP to UDP between 5.3.1 and 5.4.0, which is a
1028 regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier for fixing this. Reconnect
1029 behavior was improved. Thanks to Michael Hart for his patch.
1030 * zfs_arc plugin: Collect "allocated" and "stolen" on FreeBSD only.
1032 2013-08-18, Version 5.4.0
1033 * collectd: The "LoadPlugin" config option no longer attempts to load
1034 plugins twice. If more than one "LoadPlugin" statement or block is
1035 encountered, only the first will have any effect.
1036 * collectd: The "AutoLoadPlugin" option allows to automatically load
1037 plugins for which a configuration is found.
1038 * collectd: The "WriteQueueLimitHigh" and "WriteQueueLimitLow" options
1039 allow collectd to drop values when under stress, to avoid running out
1040 of memory. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patch.
1041 * amqp plugin: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
1042 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options have been added. Thanks to Laurent
1044 * aquaero plugin: This new plugin reads various metrics, e.g. fan
1045 speeds and temperatures, from Aquaero 5, a fan and water cooling
1046 control panel. Thanks to Alex Deymo for his patch.
1047 * curl plugin: The "MeasureResponseCode" option has been added. Thanks
1048 to Jan Matějka for his patch.
1049 * curl_json plugin: Support for UNIX domain sockets and array wildcards
1050 has been added. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
1051 * curl_xml plugin: Support for long URLs has been improved.
1052 * cgroups plugin: This new plugin collects CPU accounting information
1053 for processes in a cgroup. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for his patch.
1054 * df plugin: The "ValuesAbsolute" and "ValuesPercentage" options have
1055 been added. Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek for the patch.
1056 * exec plugin: Do UID / GID lookups before forking. This should prevent
1057 a race condition in the NSS library. Thanks to Ceri Storey for the
1059 * lvm plugin: This new plugin collects size information from Linux'
1060 Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Thanks to Chad Malfait for his work.
1061 * memcached plugin: Support for increment and decrement counts has been
1062 added. Thanks to Blake Matheny for the patch.
1063 * mic plugin: This new plugin collects CPU and memory usage, power
1064 consumption and temperatures of Intel's Many-Integrated-Core (MIC)
1065 architecture, such as Xeon Phi cards. Thanks to Evan Felix for his
1067 * netlink plugin: This plugin has been converted to use the supported
1068 "libmnl" library. Thanks to Andreas Henriksson for his patch.
1069 * nginx plugin: Collection of accepted and handled connections has been
1070 added. Thanks to Patrick Shan for his patch.
1071 * sigrok plugin: This new plugin collects metrics from sigrok, a signal
1072 processing framework reading various hardware devices, from light
1073 meters to spectrum analyzers. Thanks to Bert Vermeulen for his patch.
1074 * statsd plugin: This new plugin listens to a UDP socket and reads
1075 metrics in the StatsD format.
1076 * varnish plugin: Many additional metrics have been added. Thanks to
1077 Nick Stenning for his patch.
1078 * write_graphite plugin: Support for "UDP" has been added. Thanks to
1079 Javier Maestro for his patch.
1080 * write_riemann plugin: The "TTLFactor" option has been added.
1081 * zfs_arc plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li
1084 2015-02-26, Version 5.3.2
1085 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
1086 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
1087 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
1089 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
1090 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
1091 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
1092 Fournier and @NsLib.
1093 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c Thanks to
1095 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
1096 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
1097 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
1098 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1099 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
1100 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
1101 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
1102 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
1103 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
1104 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1105 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
1106 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
1107 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
1109 * Documentation: The synopsis of the threshold has been fixed. Thanks
1111 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
1112 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
1113 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1114 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
1115 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
1116 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
1117 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
1118 * csv: A regression which would lead to the "DataDir" option to be
1119 ignored has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada.
1120 * curl, curl-json, curl-xml and write_http plugins: Call
1121 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
1123 * curl and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
1124 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
1125 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
1126 Florian Forster. #663
1127 * dbi plugin: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been
1128 restored. Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
1129 * exec, unixsock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
1130 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
1131 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
1132 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
1134 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
1135 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
1136 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
1137 Thanks to Florian Forster.
1138 * logfile and syslog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
1139 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
1140 * memcached: Connecting to a UNIX socket has been fixed. Thanks to Jim
1142 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
1143 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
1144 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
1145 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
1146 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
1148 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
1150 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
1151 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
1152 * replace and set targets: Fix error message. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1154 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: Honor the "DataDir" config option;
1155 this fixes a regression. Thanks to Florian Forster. #380
1156 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
1157 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
1158 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
1159 Ritschard. #610, #804
1160 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
1161 to Florian Forster. #733
1162 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
1163 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
1164 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
1166 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
1167 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
1168 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
1170 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
1173 2013-07-13, Version 5.3.1
1174 * Documentation: Various fixes.
1175 * Configuration: Fix error handling: Errors in included files were
1176 ignored, causing configuration mistakes to go unnoticed.
1177 * dns plugin: Don't abort when PCAP returns an error.
1178 * modbus plugin: The reconnection strategy was improved, fixing a
1179 segfault in the libmodbud library. Thanks to Stefan Nickl and
1180 Fabien Wernli for their patches.
1181 * mysql plugin: The notification about a newly running MySQL slave
1182 thread has been fixed. Thanks to Joaquín Cuenca Abela for the patch.
1183 * snmp plugin: A build issue has been fixed (C99 mixed declaration).
1184 The end-of-tree check has been improved by Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
1185 * threshold plugin: Handling of the "Interesting" configuration option
1186 has been fixed. Thanks to Björn for the patch.
1187 * write_riemann plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Dave
1188 Cottlehuber for reporting it.
1190 2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0
1191 * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include
1192 only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
1194 * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This
1195 improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act
1196 as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for
1197 reviewing this change and fixing bugs.
1198 * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using
1199 regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric
1200 can now be set via the configuration file.
1201 * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented.
1202 * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers
1203 has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
1204 * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks
1205 to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
1206 * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The
1207 "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch.
1208 * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to
1209 Greg Mason for his patch.
1210 * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks
1211 to Johan Wirén for his patch.
1212 * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication /
1213 compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
1214 patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work.
1215 * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks
1216 to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
1217 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been
1218 implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created
1219 asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances.
1220 Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code.
1221 * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV
1222 files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for
1224 * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added.
1225 * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to
1226 Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to
1227 Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work.
1229 2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2
1230 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1231 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1232 Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks
1233 to Sebastian Harl for his patch.
1234 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
1235 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1236 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1237 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1238 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1239 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1240 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1241 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1242 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1243 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1244 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1245 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
1246 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1247 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1248 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
1249 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
1250 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
1251 * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
1252 * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
1253 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
1254 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
1255 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
1256 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1257 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1258 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1259 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1262 2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1
1263 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris
1264 and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches.
1265 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
1266 more frequently than intended.
1267 * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added.
1268 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1269 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1270 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
1271 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
1272 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1273 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1274 * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed.
1275 A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was
1276 configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these
1278 * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
1279 Ritschard for his patch.
1280 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
1281 * write_graphite plugin: A regression which rendered the
1282 "SeparateInstances" and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been
1283 fixed. A failed assertion when using types with many data sources
1284 has been fixed. Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
1285 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
1286 the logging problem.
1287 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
1288 Mettier for reporting this bug.
1290 2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0
1291 * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved.
1292 Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch.
1293 * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a
1294 per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for
1296 * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real
1297 looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new
1298 plugin, for example.
1299 * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets
1300 in the binary format has been added.
1301 * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple
1302 value lists into one.
1303 * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON
1304 output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch.
1305 * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to
1306 Thomas Meson for the patch.
1307 * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to
1308 Manuel Rozada for his patch.
1309 * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the
1311 * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't
1313 * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks
1314 to "Davide Guerri" for the patch.
1315 * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added.
1316 Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch.
1317 * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The
1318 behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to
1319 Johan Kiviniemi for the patches.
1320 * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added.
1321 * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's
1322 packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes
1324 * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added.
1325 Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added.
1326 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches.
1327 * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
1328 Cosmin Ioiart for the patch.
1329 * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added.
1330 Thanks to biancalana for the patch.
1331 * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan",
1332 "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added.
1333 * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX
1334 version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out
1335 "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch.
1336 * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc
1337 for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch.
1339 2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3
1340 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1341 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1342 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
1343 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1344 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1345 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1346 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1347 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1348 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1349 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1350 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1351 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1352 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1353 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
1354 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1355 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1356 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
1357 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
1358 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
1359 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
1360 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
1361 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
1362 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1363 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1364 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1365 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1368 2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2
1369 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves
1370 Mettier for his patches.
1371 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
1372 more frequently than intended.
1373 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1374 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1375 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
1376 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
1377 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1378 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1379 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
1380 * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
1381 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
1383 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
1384 Mettier for reporting this bug.
1386 2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1
1387 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1388 unwanted permission bits.
1389 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1390 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1391 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1392 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1393 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1394 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1395 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
1396 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
1397 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
1399 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1400 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
1401 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
1402 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1403 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1404 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1405 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1406 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1407 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1408 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1409 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1410 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1412 * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of
1413 uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for
1414 reporting these problems.
1415 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1416 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1417 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
1418 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1419 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1421 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1422 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1423 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1424 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1425 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1426 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1427 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1428 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1430 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1431 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1432 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
1433 "biancalana" for the fix.
1434 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1435 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1436 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1437 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1438 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1440 * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been
1441 fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch.
1442 * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and
1443 later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch.
1445 2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0
1446 * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has
1448 * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using
1449 "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
1450 * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use
1451 the system time rather than the time reported by BIND.
1452 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been
1453 added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch.
1454 * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics
1455 directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch.
1456 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in
1457 addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
1458 Ritschard for his patch.
1459 * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default
1460 ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g.
1462 * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various
1463 states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
1465 * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been
1467 * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin
1468 Ioiart for his patch.
1469 * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the
1470 Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux.
1471 * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation.
1472 Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch.
1473 * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been
1475 * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to
1476 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch.
1477 * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added.
1478 * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added.
1479 Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1480 * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1481 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1482 * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to
1483 Aaron Brady for his patch.
1484 * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to
1485 Jérôme Renard for his patches.
1486 * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value
1487 lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch
1488 and Chris Lundquist for their work.
1489 * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value
1490 lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series
1491 database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their
1493 * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to
1494 Aurelien Rougemont for his patches.
1495 * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been
1496 added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1498 2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5
1499 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1500 unwanted permission bits.
1501 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1502 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1503 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1504 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1505 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1506 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1507 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
1508 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
1509 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
1511 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1512 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
1513 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
1514 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1515 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1516 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1517 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1518 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1519 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1520 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1521 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1522 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1524 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1525 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1526 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
1527 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1528 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1530 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1531 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1532 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1533 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1534 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1535 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1536 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1537 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1539 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1540 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1541 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
1542 "biancalana" for the fix.
1543 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1544 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1545 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1546 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1547 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1550 2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4
1551 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1552 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1553 plugin under Gentoo.
1554 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1555 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1557 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1558 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1559 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1560 Opter for his patch.
1561 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1562 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1564 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1565 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1567 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1568 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1570 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1571 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1573 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1574 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1575 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1576 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1577 runtime has been fixed.
1579 2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3
1580 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1581 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1582 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1584 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1585 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1586 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1587 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1588 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1589 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1590 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1592 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1594 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1595 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1596 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1597 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1598 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1600 2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2
1601 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1602 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1603 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1604 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1606 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1607 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1608 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1609 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1611 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1612 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1613 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1614 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1615 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1616 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1617 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1618 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1619 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1620 for fixing this bug!
1622 2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1
1623 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1624 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1625 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1626 to Peter Green for his patch.
1627 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1628 McCabe for the patch.
1629 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1630 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1631 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1632 code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module.
1633 * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts.
1634 Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this.
1635 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1636 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1637 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1638 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1639 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1640 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1641 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1642 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1643 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1644 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1645 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1646 * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values
1647 were submitted as gauge even though they were derives.
1648 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1649 Flisher for the fix.
1651 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
1652 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
1653 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
1654 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
1655 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
1656 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
1657 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
1658 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
1660 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
1661 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
1662 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
1663 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
1664 added to the collectd client library.
1665 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
1666 one data source has been changed to "value".
1667 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
1668 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
1669 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
1670 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
1671 maximum value is unspecified.
1672 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
1673 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
1674 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1675 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1676 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1677 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
1678 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
1679 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
1680 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
1681 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
1683 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1684 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
1685 "Connection" blocks.
1686 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
1688 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
1690 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
1691 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
1692 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
1693 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
1695 * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
1696 license has been changed to LGPLv2.1.
1697 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
1698 data sets used have been improved.
1699 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
1701 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1702 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1703 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
1704 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
1705 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
1706 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
1707 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
1708 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
1709 this separate plugin.
1710 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
1711 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
1712 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
1713 Fournier for their contributions.
1714 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
1716 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
1718 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
1721 2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9
1722 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1723 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1724 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1725 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1726 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1727 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1728 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1729 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1730 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1731 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1732 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1733 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1734 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1735 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1736 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1737 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1738 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1739 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1742 2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8
1743 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1744 unwanted permission bits.
1745 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1746 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1747 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1748 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1749 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1750 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1751 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1752 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1753 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1754 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1755 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1756 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1757 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1758 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1759 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1760 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1762 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1763 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1764 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1766 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1767 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1768 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1769 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1770 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1771 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1772 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1773 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1775 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1776 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1777 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1778 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1779 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1780 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1781 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1784 2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7
1785 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1786 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1787 plugin under Gentoo.
1788 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1789 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1791 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1792 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1793 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1794 Opter for his patch.
1795 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1796 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1798 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1799 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1801 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1802 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1804 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1805 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1807 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1808 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1809 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1810 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1811 runtime has been fixed.
1813 2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6
1814 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1815 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1816 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1818 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1819 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1820 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1821 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1822 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1823 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1824 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1826 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1828 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1829 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1830 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1831 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1832 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1834 2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5
1835 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1836 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1837 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1838 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1840 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1841 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1842 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1843 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1845 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1846 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1847 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1848 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1849 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1850 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1851 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1852 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1853 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1854 for fixing this bug!
1856 2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4
1857 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1858 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1859 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1860 to Peter Green for his patch.
1861 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1862 McCabe for the patch.
1863 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1864 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1865 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1867 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1868 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1869 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1870 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1871 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1872 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1873 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1874 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1875 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1876 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1877 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1878 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1879 Flisher for the fix.
1881 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
1882 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1883 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
1885 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
1886 percentage calculation has been fixed.
1887 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
1889 * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
1890 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
1891 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
1892 * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
1893 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
1894 error handling case.
1895 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
1896 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
1899 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
1900 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
1901 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
1902 the rest of the configuration if possible.
1903 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
1904 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
1905 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
1906 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
1907 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
1908 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
1909 configurable timeout value.
1910 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
1911 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
1912 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1913 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
1914 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
1915 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
1916 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1918 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1919 to prevent spamming the logs.
1920 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1921 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1922 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1923 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1925 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
1927 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1928 Trenkel for the patch.
1930 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
1931 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1932 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1933 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
1934 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
1936 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
1937 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
1938 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
1940 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
1941 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
1942 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
1943 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
1944 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
1945 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
1946 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
1947 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
1948 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
1949 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
1951 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
1952 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
1953 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
1954 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
1955 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
1956 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
1957 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
1959 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
1961 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
1962 lines from the match.
1963 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
1964 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
1966 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
1967 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
1968 Malek for the patch.
1969 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
1970 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
1972 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
1973 certain lines from the match.
1974 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
1975 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
1976 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
1977 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
1978 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
1979 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
1980 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
1981 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
1982 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
1983 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
1984 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
1985 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
1986 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
1987 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
1988 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
1989 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
1990 Sebastian Harl for his work.
1991 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
1992 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
1993 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
1994 Sven Trenkel for his work.
1995 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
1996 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
1997 MikroTik devices has been added.
1998 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
1999 Scraba for his patch.
2000 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
2001 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
2002 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
2003 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
2004 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
2005 Ammous for his patch.
2007 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
2008 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
2009 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
2011 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
2012 percentage calculation has been fixed.
2013 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
2015 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
2016 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
2017 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
2018 error handling case.
2019 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
2020 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
2023 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
2024 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
2025 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
2026 the rest of the configuration if possible.
2027 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
2028 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
2029 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
2030 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
2031 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
2032 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
2033 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
2034 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
2035 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
2036 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
2037 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
2038 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
2040 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
2041 to prevent spamming the logs.
2042 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
2043 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
2044 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
2045 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
2047 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
2048 Trenkel for the patch.
2050 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
2051 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
2052 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
2053 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
2054 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
2056 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
2057 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
2058 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
2059 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
2061 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
2062 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
2063 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
2064 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
2065 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
2066 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
2067 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
2068 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
2069 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
2070 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
2071 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
2072 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
2074 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
2075 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
2076 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
2077 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
2078 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
2079 figuring out a way to make this work.
2080 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
2081 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
2082 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
2083 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
2084 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
2086 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
2088 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
2089 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
2090 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
2091 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
2092 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
2093 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
2094 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
2095 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
2097 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
2098 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
2099 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
2100 an unknown data source type.
2101 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
2102 packets has been fixed.
2103 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
2105 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
2106 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
2107 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
2108 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
2109 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
2110 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2112 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
2113 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
2114 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
2115 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
2116 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
2117 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
2118 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
2119 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
2120 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
2122 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
2123 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
2124 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
2127 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
2128 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
2129 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
2130 Weiskircher for the patch.
2131 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
2132 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2133 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
2134 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
2135 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
2136 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
2137 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
2138 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
2139 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
2140 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
2141 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
2142 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
2143 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
2145 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
2146 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
2147 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
2148 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
2149 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
2150 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
2151 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
2152 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2153 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
2154 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
2155 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
2156 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
2157 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
2158 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
2159 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
2160 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
2161 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
2162 storage has been added.
2163 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
2164 value has been added.
2166 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
2167 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
2168 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
2169 an unknown data source type.
2171 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
2172 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
2173 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
2174 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
2175 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
2176 figuring out a way to make this work.
2177 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
2178 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
2179 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
2180 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
2182 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
2184 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
2185 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
2186 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
2187 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
2188 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
2189 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
2191 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
2192 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
2193 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
2194 packets has been fixed.
2195 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
2196 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
2197 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
2198 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
2199 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
2200 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2202 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
2203 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
2204 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
2205 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
2206 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
2209 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
2210 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
2211 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
2212 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
2213 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
2214 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
2216 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
2217 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
2218 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
2219 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
2220 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
2221 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
2223 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
2224 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
2225 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
2226 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
2228 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
2229 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
2231 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
2232 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
2233 issues on some platforms.
2234 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
2235 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2236 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
2237 descriptor handling.
2239 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
2240 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
2241 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
2242 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
2243 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
2244 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
2246 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
2247 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
2248 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
2249 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2250 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
2251 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
2252 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2253 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
2254 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
2255 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
2256 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
2258 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
2259 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
2260 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
2261 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
2262 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
2263 Aman Gupta for the patch.
2264 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
2265 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
2266 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
2267 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
2268 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
2270 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
2271 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
2273 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
2274 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
2275 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2276 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
2277 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
2278 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
2279 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
2280 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2281 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
2282 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
2283 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
2284 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
2285 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
2286 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
2288 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
2289 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
2290 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
2291 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
2292 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
2293 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
2295 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
2296 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
2297 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
2298 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
2300 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
2301 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
2302 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
2303 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
2305 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
2306 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
2308 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
2309 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
2310 issues on some platforms.
2311 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
2312 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2313 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
2314 descriptor handling.
2316 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
2317 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
2318 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
2319 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
2320 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
2321 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
2323 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
2324 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
2325 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
2326 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
2327 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
2328 Hess for reporting this bug.
2329 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
2330 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
2331 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
2332 is linked with the shipped library, too.
2333 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
2334 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
2335 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
2336 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
2337 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
2338 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
2339 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
2340 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
2341 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
2342 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
2343 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
2344 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
2345 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2348 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
2349 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
2351 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
2352 Díaz for fixing this bug.
2353 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
2354 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
2355 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
2356 for reporting the bug.
2357 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
2359 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
2360 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
2361 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
2362 libtool 2.2 has been added.
2363 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
2364 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
2365 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
2366 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
2367 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
2369 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
2370 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
2371 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
2372 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
2373 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
2375 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
2376 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2378 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
2379 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
2380 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
2381 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
2382 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
2383 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
2384 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2385 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
2386 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
2387 Konetzko for the patch.
2388 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
2389 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
2390 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
2391 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
2392 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
2393 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
2394 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
2395 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
2396 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
2397 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
2398 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
2399 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
2400 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2401 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
2402 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
2403 Quiédeville for the patch.
2404 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
2406 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
2407 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
2408 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
2409 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
2410 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
2411 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
2412 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
2413 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
2415 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
2416 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
2417 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
2418 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
2419 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
2420 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
2422 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
2423 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
2424 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
2425 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
2427 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
2428 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
2429 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
2430 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
2431 Hess for reporting this bug.
2432 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
2433 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
2434 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
2435 is linked with the shipped library, too.
2436 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
2437 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
2438 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
2439 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
2440 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2443 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
2444 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
2445 Díaz for fixing this bug.
2446 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
2447 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
2448 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
2449 for reporting the bug.
2451 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
2452 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2453 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2454 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2455 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2456 providing an OpenBSD system.
2457 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
2458 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
2459 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
2460 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
2461 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
2463 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2465 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2466 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2467 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2468 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2469 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2471 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2472 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
2473 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2475 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
2476 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
2477 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
2478 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
2480 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
2481 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
2482 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
2483 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
2484 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
2485 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
2486 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
2487 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
2488 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
2489 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
2490 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2491 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2492 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2494 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
2495 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
2496 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2497 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
2498 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
2499 for finding and fixing most of them.
2500 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2501 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2503 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
2504 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
2505 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
2506 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
2507 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2508 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
2509 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
2510 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
2511 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
2512 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
2513 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
2515 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
2516 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
2517 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
2518 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
2520 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
2521 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
2522 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
2523 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
2524 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
2525 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
2526 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
2527 Kuhnle for the patch.
2528 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
2529 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
2530 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
2531 MacEachern for the patch.
2532 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
2533 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
2534 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
2535 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
2536 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
2537 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
2538 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
2539 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
2540 select interfaces, too.
2541 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
2542 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
2543 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
2545 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
2546 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
2547 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
2548 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
2549 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
2550 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2551 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
2552 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
2553 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
2554 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
2556 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
2557 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
2558 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
2559 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
2560 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
2561 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
2562 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
2563 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
2565 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
2566 been added. Portability fixes.
2567 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
2568 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
2569 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
2571 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
2574 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
2575 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2576 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2577 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2578 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2579 providing an OpenBSD system.
2580 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
2581 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2583 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
2584 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2585 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2586 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2587 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2588 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2590 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2591 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2592 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2593 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2595 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
2596 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
2598 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
2599 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2600 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
2602 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2603 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2604 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
2605 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
2607 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
2608 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2609 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2610 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2612 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2613 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2614 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
2615 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
2616 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
2617 provide these necessary functions.
2618 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2619 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
2621 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
2622 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2623 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2624 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
2626 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2627 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2628 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2629 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2630 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2631 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2633 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
2634 invalid configuration options.
2635 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2636 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2637 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2639 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
2640 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2641 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2642 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2644 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2645 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2646 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2647 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2648 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2649 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2650 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2651 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2653 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2654 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2655 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
2656 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
2657 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2658 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2659 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2660 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
2661 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
2662 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
2663 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
2664 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
2666 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2667 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2670 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
2671 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
2672 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
2674 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
2675 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
2676 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
2677 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
2678 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
2679 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
2681 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
2682 email, using the `esmtp' library.
2683 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
2684 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
2686 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
2687 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
2688 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
2689 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
2691 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
2692 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
2693 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
2694 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
2695 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
2697 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
2698 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
2699 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
2701 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
2702 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2703 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2704 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2706 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2707 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2708 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2709 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
2710 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2711 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2712 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2713 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2714 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2715 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2716 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2717 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2719 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2720 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2721 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2723 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
2724 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2725 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2726 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2728 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2729 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2730 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2731 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2732 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2733 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2734 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2735 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2737 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2738 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2739 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2740 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2741 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2742 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2743 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2746 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
2747 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
2748 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2750 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2751 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
2753 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
2754 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
2755 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianness of the
2756 architecture collectd is being built on.
2757 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
2759 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
2761 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
2762 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
2763 values under Solaris.
2764 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
2765 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
2767 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
2768 returned by some broken drivers.
2770 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
2771 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
2772 to kyrone for reporting this.
2773 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
2775 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
2777 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
2778 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
2779 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
2780 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
2782 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
2783 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
2784 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
2785 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
2786 flush its values to disk.
2787 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
2788 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
2789 for each data source.
2790 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
2792 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
2793 page of an Ascent server.
2794 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2795 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
2796 specific disks has been added.
2797 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2798 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
2799 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
2801 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
2802 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
2803 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
2804 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
2805 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
2806 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
2807 configuration has been decreased.
2808 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
2809 continuously reading from log files.
2810 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
2811 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
2812 and number of channels.
2813 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2814 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
2815 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
2817 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
2818 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
2820 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianness more
2822 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
2823 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
2824 again has been applied.
2825 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2827 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2828 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
2830 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2831 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2832 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
2835 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
2836 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2837 they are in non-standard paths.
2838 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2839 if the libc expects it.
2840 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2841 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2843 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2844 using a buffer of static size.
2845 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2847 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2848 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2850 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
2851 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
2852 `Persist' threshold options.
2853 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
2854 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2855 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2856 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2857 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2859 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
2860 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2862 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2863 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2864 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2865 cross-platform compatibility.
2866 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2867 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2868 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2870 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
2871 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
2872 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
2873 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
2874 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
2875 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
2877 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
2878 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
2879 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
2880 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
2881 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
2882 wants to add custom type definitions.
2883 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
2884 entire directories and shell wildcards.
2885 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
2886 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
2887 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
2888 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
2889 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
2890 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
2891 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
2892 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
2893 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
2894 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
2895 domain name lookups in this plugin.
2896 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
2897 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
2898 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
2899 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
2900 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
2901 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
2902 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
2903 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
2904 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
2905 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
2906 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
2907 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
2908 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
2909 Technology group for this plugin.
2911 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
2912 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2913 they are in non-standard paths.
2914 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2915 if the libc expects it.
2916 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2917 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2919 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2920 using a buffer of static size.
2921 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2923 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2924 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2926 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
2927 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2928 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2929 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2930 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2932 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
2933 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
2934 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2936 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
2937 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
2938 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
2939 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
2940 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2941 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2942 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2943 cross-platform compatibility.
2944 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2945 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
2946 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2947 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2949 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
2950 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
2951 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
2952 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
2953 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2955 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
2956 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
2957 of the libsensors library.
2959 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
2960 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
2961 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
2963 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
2964 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2967 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
2968 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
2969 enabled on the host.
2970 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2972 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
2973 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
2974 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
2975 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
2976 definitions separate from the host definitions.
2977 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
2978 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
2979 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
2980 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
2981 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
2982 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
2983 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
2984 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
2985 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
2986 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
2987 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
2988 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
2989 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
2990 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
2991 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
2992 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
2993 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
2994 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
2995 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
2996 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
2997 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
2999 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
3000 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
3001 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
3002 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
3003 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
3005 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
3006 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
3008 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
3009 of the libsensors library.
3011 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
3012 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
3013 it's in a non-standard location.
3014 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
3015 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
3016 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
3017 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
3018 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
3019 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
3021 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
3022 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
3024 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
3025 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
3027 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
3028 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
3029 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
3030 noise quality as percentage.
3031 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
3032 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
3033 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
3034 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
3035 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
3036 support for the `timeticks' type.
3038 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
3039 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
3040 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
3041 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
3043 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
3044 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
3045 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
3047 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
3048 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
3049 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
3050 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
3052 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
3053 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
3054 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
3055 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
3057 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
3058 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
3059 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
3060 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
3061 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
3062 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
3063 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
3064 to not block data collection.
3065 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
3066 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
3067 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
3069 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
3070 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
3071 of music played with xmms.
3073 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
3074 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
3075 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
3076 noise quality as percentage.
3077 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
3079 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
3080 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
3081 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
3082 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
3084 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
3085 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
3086 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
3087 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
3089 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
3090 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
3092 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
3093 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
3094 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
3095 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
3096 (i. e. without quotes).
3097 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
3098 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
3099 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
3101 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
3102 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
3103 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
3104 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
3106 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
3107 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
3108 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
3111 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
3112 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
3114 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
3115 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
3116 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
3117 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
3118 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
3119 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
3120 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
3122 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
3123 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
3124 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
3125 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
3126 initialized correctly.
3127 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
3129 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
3130 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
3131 they're given in numerically form.
3133 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
3134 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
3135 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
3138 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
3139 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
3140 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
3141 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
3142 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
3143 thread-safe functions from now on.
3144 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
3145 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
3146 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
3148 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
3149 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
3150 write to increase IO-performance.
3151 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
3152 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
3153 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
3154 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
3155 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
3157 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
3158 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
3159 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
3161 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
3162 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
3163 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
3164 or STDOUT or STDERR.
3165 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
3166 system's syslog daemon.
3167 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
3168 entropy currently being available to the system.
3169 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
3170 back values provided by the forked processes.
3171 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
3172 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
3174 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
3175 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
3176 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
3177 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
3178 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
3179 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
3180 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
3181 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
3182 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
3184 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
3185 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
3186 noise quality as percentage.
3188 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
3189 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
3191 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
3192 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
3193 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
3194 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
3195 were accounted as `zombies'.
3197 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
3198 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
3201 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
3202 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
3203 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
3205 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
3206 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
3207 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
3208 segfault with some libcs.
3210 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
3211 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
3212 under Solaris again.
3213 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
3215 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
3216 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
3218 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
3219 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
3220 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
3221 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
3222 write init.d-scripts for it.
3223 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
3224 caused problems every now and then.
3225 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
3226 filesystem types or devices.
3227 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
3228 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
3230 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
3231 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
3232 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
3233 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
3234 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
3235 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
3236 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
3237 segment size and pagefaults.
3238 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
3239 queries multimeters.
3240 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
3241 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
3242 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
3244 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
3245 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
3246 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
3247 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
3249 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
3250 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
3251 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
3252 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
3255 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
3256 * The sample config file has been improved.
3257 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
3258 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
3259 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
3260 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
3262 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
3263 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
3264 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
3266 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
3267 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
3269 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
3270 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
3271 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
3272 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
3274 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
3275 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
3276 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
3277 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
3278 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
3279 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
3280 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
3281 with a test environment :)
3282 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
3285 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
3286 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
3287 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
3289 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
3290 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
3291 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
3293 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
3294 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
3295 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
3297 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
3298 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
3300 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
3301 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
3302 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
3303 approximately 7.6 days.
3305 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
3306 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
3307 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
3308 approximately 7.6 days.
3310 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
3311 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
3313 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
3315 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
3317 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
3318 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
3319 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
3320 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
3321 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
3323 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
3324 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
3325 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
3326 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
3327 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
3328 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
3329 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
3330 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
3332 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
3333 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
3334 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
3335 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
3337 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
3338 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
3339 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
3341 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
3342 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
3343 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
3345 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
3346 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
3347 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
3350 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
3351 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
3352 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
3354 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
3355 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
3356 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
3357 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
3359 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
3360 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
3361 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
3363 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
3364 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
3366 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
3367 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
3369 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
3370 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
3372 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
3373 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
3375 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
3376 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
3377 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
3378 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
3379 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
3380 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
3381 address and/or port than localhost.
3382 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
3383 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
3384 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
3385 be set in the configfile.
3387 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
3388 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
3389 client mode. This released fixes this.
3391 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
3392 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
3393 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
3396 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
3397 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
3399 * A `df' plugin has been added.
3400 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
3401 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
3402 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
3404 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
3405 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
3406 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
3409 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
3410 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
3411 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
3413 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
3414 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
3415 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
3416 currently logged in users.
3417 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
3418 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
3419 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
3420 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
3422 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
3423 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
3424 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
3425 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
3426 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
3427 with the `-c' argument.
3428 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
3429 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
3430 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
3431 Barcellos for this patch.
3433 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
3434 * New modules have been added:
3435 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
3436 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
3437 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
3438 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
3440 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
3441 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
3443 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
3444 between polls up to one day.
3445 * The init.d files have been improved.
3446 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
3448 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
3449 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
3450 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
3452 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
3453 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
3454 multicast) has been added.
3455 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
3456 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
3457 to be linked against an external library.
3458 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
3459 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
3461 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
3462 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
3464 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
3465 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
3466 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
3467 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
3468 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
3469 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
3470 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
3471 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
3472 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
3475 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
3476 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
3478 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
3480 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
3481 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
3483 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
3484 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
3485 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
3486 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
3488 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
3489 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
3490 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3492 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
3493 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
3494 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
3495 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
3496 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
3497 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
3498 statistics will not work.
3500 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
3501 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
3502 weird strings as disk-names..
3504 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
3505 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
3506 about the disks and partitions.
3508 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
3509 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
3510 and/or kernel versions.
3512 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
3513 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
3514 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
3516 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
3517 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
3518 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
3520 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
3521 * Collecting CPU statistics now
3523 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
3524 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
3526 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
3528 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
3529 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
3531 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
3532 * The following modules are provided:
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