1 2017-11-17, Version 5.8.0
2 * collectd: The core daemon is now completely licensed under the MIT
4 * collectd: Added daemon option to avoid making BaseDir. Thanks to
5 Nathaniel Wesley Filardo and Florian Forster. #2422
6 * collectd: Global variables have been moved to their own module to make
7 porting collectd easier. Thanks to Sean Campbell. #2467
8 * collectd as well as Apache, memcached, OpenLDAP, Perl, RouterOS, SNMP,
9 Tail-CSV plugins: Free userdata for "plugin_register_complex_read()".
10 Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2349
11 * Collectd client library: Added parsing and server code. Thanks to
12 Florian Forster. #2258
13 * Build system: Dependency on libltdl has been removed, support for
14 libtool 1 has been dropped. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1898
15 * Build system: The build system has been switched to non-recursive
16 make. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #2085
17 * APC UPS plugin: The plugin's configuration is now optional. Without a
18 "<Plugin />" block reasonable defaults will be used. Thanks to Pavel
20 * Chrony plugin: Several issues found when working with a stratum-1
21 server have been fixed. Thanks to Miroslav Lichvar. #2190
22 * Ceph plugin: Support for the Ceph version "Luminous" has been added.
23 Thanks to Aleksei Zakharov. #2464
24 * CPU plugin : Linux-specific "guest" states have been added. Thanks to
26 * cURL plugin, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, DBI, FileCount, memcachec, Oracle,
27 PostgreSQL, Table, Tail, Tail CSV plugins: The ability to configure
28 the "plugin" field of generated metrics has been added. Thanks to
29 Pavel Rochnyack. #1944, #1681, #1558
30 * cURL-JSON plugin: Parsing of arrays has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
32 * DPDKEvents plugin: This new plugin reports link status and keep alive
33 events. Thanks to Maryam Tahhan, Harry van Haaren, Serhiy Pshyk,
34 Kim-Marie Jones, Krzysztof Matczak, Przemyslaw Szczerbik, Christian
35 Ehrhardt and Luca Boccassi. #2157, #2348, #2400, #2405, #2417
36 * DPDKStat plugin: The plugin has been refactored to make DPDK related
37 utility functions reusable. Thanks to Krzysztof Matczak, Przemyslaw
38 Szczerbik, Christian Ehrhardt and Luca Boccassi. #2130, #2348, #2400,
40 * DPDKStat plugin: The "LogLevel" and "RteDriverLibPath" config options
41 have been added. Thanks to Jiri Prokes. #2505
42 * Email plugin as well as Exec and Unixsock plugins: Use
43 "_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX". Thanks to Florian Forster. #2451
44 * FileCount plugin: Custom values for reported plugin, type and type
45 instance. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1979
46 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for "AtomicInteger" and "AtomicLong" has
47 been added. Thanks to Pierre Mauduit. #2158
48 * gRPC plugin: Support for meta data has been added. Thanks to Taylor
50 * IPC plugin: Fixed failed compilation on AIX. Thanks to Pavel
52 * Intel PMU plugin: This new plugin collects CPU performance metrics
53 using Intel's Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU). Scaling information
54 added to metadata. Thanks to Serhiy Pshyk and Roman Korynkevych.
56 * Intel RDT plugin: Support for collectd's logging infrastructure has
57 been added. PQoS monitoring groups are being reset on start-up to fix
58 potential previous unclean shutdowns. Thanks to Roman Korynkevych.
60 * IPMI plugin: Support for System Event Log (SEL) has been added. Thanks
61 to Roman Korynkevych. #2091
62 * IPMI plugin: Support for remote IPMI controllers has been added.
63 Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2024
64 * LVM plugin: A check for the "CAP_SYS_ADMIN" capability has been added.
65 This will give users an informative warning when the process is not
66 running with the required privileges for this plugin. Thanks to
67 Florian Forster. #2426, #2499
68 * mcelog plugin: This new plugin subscribes to Machine Check Exceptions
69 (MCE) and dispatches notifications. Metadata reset. Thanks to Maryam
70 Tahhan, Volodymyr Mytnyk, Taras Chornyi, Krzysztof Matczak and Roman
71 Korynkevych. #2003, #2246, #2380
72 * MQTT plugin: Add support for TLS in "Subscriber" blocks. Thanks to
73 Florian Forster. #2434
74 * memcached plugin: Persistent connections have been implemented. Fix
75 hit ratio reporting, add connections rate report. Thanks to Pavel
76 Rochnyack. #2388, #2385
77 * memcached plugin: The type of the "listen_disabled" metric has been
78 changed to "total_events". Thanks to Florian Forster. #2386, #2468
79 * Netlink plugin: The dropped packets metric has been added. Thanks to
80 Denys Fedoryshchenko. #2053
81 * NFS plugin: Support for NFS 4.2 metrics has been added. Thanks to
83 * NFS plugin: Config options to ignore specified NFS versions have been
84 added. Thanks to Christian Bartolomäus. #2430
85 * NUT plugin: The "ConnectTimeout", "ForceSSL", "VerifyPeer" and
86 "CAPath" options have been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack and Steven
88 * OpenLDAP plugin: A segfault after a connection failure has been fixed.
89 Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2377
90 * Openvpn plugin: Added support for status files from latest OpenVPN-2.4
91 and possible from future versions. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2352
92 * OVS Events plugin: This new plugin reports link state changes from
93 Open vSwitch (OVS). Thanks to Volodymyr Mytnyk. #1971
94 * OVS Stats plugin: This new plugin reports bridge / interface
95 statistics from Open vSwitch (OVS). Thanks to Volodymyr Mytnyk and
97 * Perl plugin: Bugfix, added check of proper interpreter initialization.
98 Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2391
99 * PostgreSQL plugin: The plugin now sets the "application_name"
100 parameter when connecting to the database. Thanks to daniacs. #2497
101 * Processes plugin: The I/O operations reported for selected processes
102 has been fixed. The metric "ps_disk_octets" has been renamed to
103 "io_octets" because it actually contains the number of I/O operation
104 by the process, not just disk related I/O. Same for "io_ops"
105 (previously "ps_disk_ops"). The new metric "disk_octets" has been
106 added and is reporting disk I/O only. Add option to collect the count
107 of active memory maps for Linux processes. The "CollectFileDescriptor"
108 and "CollectContextSwitch" options have been added. Thanks to Pavel
109 Rochnyack and to Wilfried Goesgens. #2232, #2454, #1989
110 * Processes and TCPConns plugins: The OpenBSD implementation has been
111 changed to use "kvm_openfiles" with "KVM_NO_FILES". Thanks to Jeremie
112 Courreges-Anglas. #2061
113 * Python plugin: Extend Notification class to include metadata. Thanks
114 to Volodymyr Mytnyk. #2135
115 * Python plugin: The "CollectdException" class has been added. This
116 allows to throw an exception without a stack trace being logged.
117 Thanks to Sven Trenkel. #2330, #2346
118 * Sensors plugin: Support for (electrical) current has been added.
119 Thanks to Clemens Gruber. #2255
120 * SNMP plugin: Error handling has been improved: a potential double-free
121 is now avoided (potentially leaking memory) and handling of
122 non-failing subtrees has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2449
123 * SNMP plugin: The "Timeout" and "Retries" config options have been
124 added. Thanks to Carlos Vicente. #1472, #2488
125 * SNMP Agent plugin: This new plugin implements an SNMP AgentX subagent
126 that receives and handles queries from SNMP master agent and returns
127 configured metrics. Thanks to Roman Korynkevych, Serhiy Pshyk and
128 Pavel Rochnyack. #2105, #2362
129 * Synproxy plugin: This new plugin provides statistics for Linux
130 SYNPROXY. Thanks to Marek Bečka. #2381
131 * Tail plugin: Allow the calculation of several distributions in one
132 "tail" instance through a "bucket" type. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack.
134 * Turbostat plugin: Import "msr-index.h" header from Linux and better
135 support for mutliple packages. Thanks to Vincent Brillault. #2445,
137 * Uptime plugin: Changed implementation to read from "/proc/uptime"
138 instead of "/proc/stat". Update for Linux and AIX, uptime is read
139 directly using a system call. Update for BSD and Solaris, uptime is
140 calculated by subtracting boot time from current time. Thanks to Ivan
141 Kurnosov and Marcin Jurkowski. #2431, #2034
142 * UUID plugin: Support for libhal has been removed. Thanks to Ruben
144 * Varnish plugin: Extended the varnish plugin with varnish-plus
145 counters. Fixed invalid data source type. Thanks to Denes Matetelki.
147 * virt plugin: The plugin has been updated to use
148 "virConnectListAllDomains()". Thanks to Denis Silakov. #2051
149 * virt plugin: Support for domain tags has been added. Thanks to
150 Francesco Romani. #2048
151 * virt plugin: Connection handling has been improved. Thanks to
152 Francesco Romani. #2100, #2101
153 * virt plugin: Many metrics have been added, including disk, hypervisor
154 CPU usage, performance monitoring events, domain state, CPU pinning
155 (affinity), file system, and job statistics. Thanks to Francesco
156 Romani and Przemyslaw Szczerbik. #2103, #2175, #2168
157 * Write Graphite plugin: Additional tests have been added. Thanks to
159 * Write HTTP plugin: The "Attribute" and "TTL" options for the KairosDB
160 format have been added. Implementation of "Prefix" option. Thanks to
161 jaroug, Denis Pompilio and Pavel Rochnyack. #2199, #2252, #2482
162 * Write MongoDB plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to
163 Saikrishna Arcot. #2307
164 * Write Prometheus plugin: Label values are now properly escaped. Thanks
165 to Florian Forster. #2035
166 * Write Redis plugin: Add "max_set_duration" to set duration for value.
167 Thanks to Tomofumi Hayashi. #2440
168 * Write Riemann plugin: Export times with microsecond resolution. Thanks
170 * Write TSDB plugin: The options "ResolveInterval" and "ResolveJitter"
171 have been added to control DNS lookup behavior. This prevents DNS
172 flooding in case TSDB is not available. Thanks to Yves Mettier and
173 Florian Forster. #2059
174 * ZFS ARC plugin: Header lines are now ignored in the Linux
175 implementation. Thanks to YmrDtnJu. #2097
177 2017-06-06, Version 5.7.2
178 * Build system: The Notify Email plugin is no longer linked with
179 indirect dependencies. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
180 * collectd: A race condition when calculating a metric's rate has been
181 fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1193
182 * AMQP, Exec, UnixSock, Write Kafka plugins: Parsing of the PUTVAL
183 command with multiple values has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
185 * AMQP plugin: The "ExchangeType" option is now also valid for
186 publishers. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2286
187 * BIND plugin: Fix parsing of the sample time provided by BIND.
188 Previously, the time was assumed to be in the local timezone when in
189 fact it was in UTC. Thanks to Ed Ravin. #1268
190 * BIND plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
192 * cURL-JSON plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
194 * DPDKStat plugin: Error handling during initialization has been
195 improved. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
196 * DPDKStat plugin: Handling of a number of metrics has been improved,
197 for example "rx_q0bytes". Thanks to Przemyslaw Szczerbik. #2167
198 * Intel RDT plugin: Configuration handling has been changed to be more
199 graceful. Thanks to Maryam Tahhan. #2165
200 * Log Logstash plugin: If writing the log entry fails, print it to
201 "STDERR" instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
202 * LogFile plugin: If writing to the file fails, print log messages on
203 "STDERR" instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
204 * memcachec, Tail plugins: A resource leak in the matching
205 infrastructure has been fixed. Thanks to Krzysztof Matczak. #2192
206 * MQTT plugin: Invalid symbols in topic names are now replaced and a
207 resource leak has been fixed. Thanks to Denys Fedoryshchenko. #2123
208 * Network plugin: A potential endless-loop has been fixed. This can be
209 triggered remotely by sending a signed network packet to a server
210 which is not set up to check signatures. Thanks to Marcin Kozlowski
211 and Pavel Rochnyack. #2174, #2233, CVE-2017-7401
212 * Perl plugin: A potential double-free has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
214 * Processes plugin: A compilation error on AIX has been fixed. Thanks to
215 Pavel Rochnyack. #2210
216 * SMART plugin: A check for the "CAP_SYS_RAWIO" capability has been
217 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
218 * Write Graphite plugin: Error handling in the case that calculating a
219 metric's rate fails has been improved. Previously, the raw counter
220 values were sent to Graphite. Thanks to Iain Buclaw. #2209
221 * Write Prometheus plugin: An incorrect use of "realloc(3)" has been
222 fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2275
224 2017-01-23, Version 5.7.1
225 * collectd: Handling of boolean configuration options has been unified.
226 Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #2083, #2098
227 * collectd: Reporting of internal statistics has been fixed. Thanks to
228 Florian Forster. #2108
229 * collectd, various plugins: Bugs and issues reported by scan-build and
230 coverity-scan have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof and Florian
232 * Build system: Parallel build have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
234 * DPDKStat plugin: Portability issues and a double-close bug have been
235 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof and Marc Fournier.
236 * Intel RDT plugin: A check for the libpqos library version has been
237 added. Thanks to Serhiy Pshyk.
238 * NetApp plugin: Compilation problems have been corrected. Thanks to
239 Florian Forster. #2120
240 * Write Prometheus plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben
243 2016-12-12, Version 5.7.0
244 * Documentation: The Turbostat plugin section has been improved. Thanks
246 * Documentation: The semantics of the "TypesDB" option have been
247 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster.
248 * collectd: A generic interface for parsing the text protocol has been
249 added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1749
250 * collectd: Threads now get named, making them easier to track using
251 tools such as top, ps, etc. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada
252 and Marc Fournier. #547
253 * AMQP plugin, Write Graphite plugin, Write Kafka plugin: The new
254 "[Graphite]PreserveSeparator" option allows retaining the default dot
255 separator rather than escaping it. Thanks to Florian Forster. #419
256 * Battery plugin: A StateFS backend for gathering statistics has been
257 added. Thanks to Rinigus. #1795
258 * CPU plugin: CPU aggregation on AIX was fixed. Thanks to Chao Yang.
260 * Collectd::Unixsock: Fractional seconds support has been made more
261 robust. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #2052
262 * DPDKStat plugin: This new plugin collects DPDK interface statistics.
263 Thanks to Maryam Tahhan, Harry van Haaren, Taras Chornyi and Kim
265 * gRPC plugin: The "DispatchValues" option has been renamed to
266 "PutValues". Thanks to Florian Forster.
267 * HDDTemp plugin: The 32 devices limit has been removed. Thanks to
268 Benjamin Gilbert. #631
269 * Hugepages plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used and free
270 hugepages on Linux. Thanks to Jaroslav Safka, Maryam Tahhan, Kim Jones
271 and Florian Forster. #1799
272 * Intel RDT plugin: This new plugin collects statistics exposed by
273 Intel's Resource Director Technology . Thanks to SerhiyX. #1970
274 * memcached plugin: The new "Address" option allows connecting to a
275 different server than specified by the "Host" option. Thanks to Pavel
277 * nginx plugin: Support for reporting failed connections has been added.
278 Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1609
279 * Perl plugin: Significant internal reworking has been made. The new
280 "RegisterLegacyFlush" option has been added. Thanks to Pavel
282 * PostgreSQL plugin: Timestamps are now RFC 3339-formatted local time.
283 Thanks to Igor Peshansky and Dave Cunningham. #1918
284 * Processes plugin: Internal performance improvements have been made.
285 Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1980, #1981
286 * RRDCacheD plugin: The plugin now tries to reconnect upon failed
287 operations. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1959
288 * SpamAssassin: The plugin can now run in Perl's "tainted mode" ("-T").
289 Thanks to Akos Vandra. #1962
290 * Tail plugin: Support for calculating latency distribution of matching
291 values has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack and Florian Forster.
293 * Tail plugin: The new "GaugePersist" option has been added. Thanks to
294 Florian Forster. #2015
295 * Target:Set, Target:Replace, Match:RegEx: MetaData support has been
296 added . Thanks to Igor Peshansky. #1922, #1923, #1930
297 * turbostat plugin: The new "LogicalCoreNames" option allows switching
298 to per-core naming rather than per-CPU. Thanks to Brock Johnson. #2056
299 * virt plugin: The new "BlockDeviceFormat" and
300 "BlockDeviceFormatBasename" options help controlling the names
301 reported for block-device metrics. Thanks to Deyan Chepishev. #2004
302 * Write Graphite plugin: A new "DropDuplicateFields" option has been
303 added. Thanks to Michael Leinartas. #1915
304 * Write Kafka plugin: The "Key Random" setting has been reintroduced.
305 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1977
306 * Write Log plugin: Support for formatting output in JSON has been
307 added, using the new "Format" configuration option. Thanks to Igor
309 * Write Prometheus plugin: This new plugin publishes values using an
310 embedded HTTP server, in a format compatible with Prometheus'
311 collectd_exporter. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1967
313 2017-10-06, Version 5.6.3
314 * collectd: support for boolean string config values has been
315 reintroduced. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #2083, #2098
316 * collectd: The capability checking has been changed to use
317 "cap_get_proc()". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #2151
318 * Documentation: A section documenting ignore lists has been added to
319 collectd.conf(5). Thanks to Florian Forster.
320 * AMQP plugin: The "ExchangeType" option is now also valid for
321 publishers. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2286
322 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP
323 plugins: Handling of URLs that redirect elsewhere has been fixed.
324 Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2328
325 * BIND plugin: Fix parsing of the sample time provided by BIND.
326 Previously, the time was assumed to be in the local time zone when in
327 fact it was in UTC. Thanks to Ed Ravin. #1268
328 * BIND plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
330 * Chrony plugin: Build flags have been fixed. Thanks to Thomas Jost and
332 * cURL-JSON plugin: The timeout value has been changed to default to the
333 collection interval. This fixes a regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
334 * cURL-JSON plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
336 * DBI plugin: Memory leaks at shutdown have been fixes. Thanks to Pavel
337 Rochnyack and Florian Forster.
338 * E-Mail, Exec, UnixSock plugins: Group ID lookup on systems with many
339 groups has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof and Florian Forster.
341 * IPC plugin: A compilation error on AIX has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel
343 * LogFile plugin: If writing to the file fails, print log messages on
344 "STDERR" instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
345 * Log Logstash plugin: If writing the log entry fails, print it to
346 "STDERR" instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
347 * memcachec, Tail plugins: A resource leak in the matching
348 infrastructure has been fixed. Thanks to Krzysztof Matczak. #2192
349 * MQTT plugin: Invalid symbols in topic names are now replaced and a
350 resource leak has been fixed. Thanks to Denys Fedoryshchenko. #2123
351 * Network plugin: A potential endless-loop has been fixed. This can be
352 triggered remotely by sending a signed network packet to a server
353 which is not set up to check signatures. Thanks to Marcin Kozlowski
354 and Pavel Rochnyack. #2174, #2233, CVE-2017-7401
355 * Network plugin: A use-after-free has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel
357 * Notify Email plugin: The plugin is no longer explicitly linked against
358 libssl and libcrypto, relies on libesmtp being linked correctly.
359 Thanks to Marc Fournier. Debian#852924
360 * NTPd plugin: Calculation of loop offset and error has been fixed.
361 Thanks to Neil Wilson. #2188
362 * OpenLDAP plugin: An incorrect use of the ldap library, leading to a
363 crash, has been fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #2331
364 * Perl plugin: A potential double-free has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
366 * Perl plugin: Print an error when an incorrect configuration is
367 encountered. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #927
368 * RRDtool plugin: Incorrect handling of the flushes timeout option has
369 been fixed. Handling of the "RandomTimeout" has been fixed. Thanks to
370 Pavel Rochnyack. #2363
371 * SMART plugin: Some warning messages have been removed and the code has
372 been cleaned up. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2062
373 * SMART plugin: A check for the "CAP_SYS_RAWIO" capability has been
374 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
375 * SNMP plugin: A double free has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack.
377 * Write Graphite plugin: Error handling in the case that calculating a
378 metric's rate fails has been improved. Previously, the raw counter
379 values were sent to Graphite. Thanks to Iain Buclaw. #2209
380 * Write Kafka plugin: A 32 bit random number is now used when formatting
381 a random key. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2074
384 2016-11-30, Version 5.6.2
385 * collectd: A compile error on AIX has been fixed: "MSG_DONTWAIT" is not
386 available on AIX. Thanks to Chao Yang.
387 * collectd: The capability checking has been rewritten to be more
388 portable. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2009
389 * collectd.conf(5): Various typos have been fixed. Thanks to Marc
391 * collectd-tg: Incorrect usage of "nanosleep()" has been fixed which
392 caused the tool to sleep (almost) indefinitely. Thanks to Florian
394 * Build system: Detection of the Java environment has been made
395 deterministic to allow for reproducible builds. Thanks to Marc
397 * Build system: Detection of the Lua headers has been improved. Thanks
399 * APC UPS plugin: Unavailable metrics are now skipped instead of
400 reported as 0 (zero). Thanks to Florian Forster. #2025
401 * Modbus plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
403 * OpenVPN plugin: Gracefully handle empty configurations. Thanks to
404 Pavel Rochnyack. #1932
405 * PowerDNS plugin: The "recursor command" has been fixed so PowerDNS can
406 correctly parse all requested fields. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
407 * Write Graphite and AMQP plugins: A bug that could lead to a missing
408 null-termination has been fixed. Thanks to Markus Linnala.
409 * Write HTTP plugin: A logic error when checking the correctness of the
410 data set has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1996
411 * Write Kafka plugin: The "Key Random" config option has been fixed.
412 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1977
413 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for librdkafka 0.9.0 has been added.
414 Thanks to Florian Forster.
415 * Write Riemann plugin: Build issues on Solaris have been fixed. Thanks
417 * ZFS ARC plugin: A duplicate metric has been removed. Thanks to Ruben
420 2016-10-07, Version 5.6.1
421 * Build system: Unnecessary linking of the Write Graphite plugin with
422 libyajl has been removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
424 * collectd: A bug in the "FlushInterval" option that caused a
425 segmentation fault in the Write HTTP plugin has been fixed. Thanks to
426 Florian Forster. #1954
427 * Apache plugin: A syntax error has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
429 * cURL-JSON plugin: A segmentation fault that occurred when handling
430 JSON with unexpected structure has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
432 * PostgreSQL plugin: Handling of "NULL" values in the "query_plans" and
433 "query_plans_by_table" queries has been fixed. Thanks to Bernd
435 * RRDCacheD plugin: Reconnection behavior has been added. Thanks to
436 Sebastian Harl. Debian#657877
437 * VServer plugin: Use of a deprecated API ("readdir_r()") has been
438 fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
439 * Write Graphite plugin: Make default values configurable at compile
440 time again. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1953
441 * Write HTTP plugin: A bug has been fixed that lead to flush callbacks
442 being registered twice. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1955
444 2016-09-11, Version 5.6.0
445 * Build system: An option to to avoid building the DF plugin against XFS
446 has been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1878
447 * Build system: Autoconf ≥ 2.60, a C99-capable compiler and pkg-config
448 are now required. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
449 * Build system: Building with "-Werror" is now optional. Thanks to Ruben
451 * Build system: Many compilation issues on non-Linux platforms have been
452 fixed, leading to wider plugin support. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
453 Dagobert Michelsen, Havard Eidnes and Robert Viduya.
454 * Build system: The configuration summary now also ends up in
455 config.log. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
456 * collectd: All command-line options now override global options from
457 the config file. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #366
458 * collectd: A number of unit tests for commonly used functions have been
459 added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
460 * collectd: Plugins start up and read timeouts are now logged. Thanks to
461 Marc Fournier. #1293, #1254
462 * collectd: Support for a timeout has been added to "FLUSH" callbacks.
463 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
464 * collectd: The "-T" command line switch now reports more errors. Thanks
465 to Corey Kosak. #1642
466 * collectd: The max size of value list elements ("DATA_MAX_NAME_LEN")
467 has been doubled and is now configurable at build time. Thanks to Amy
468 Lin, Florian Forster and Radu Brumariu. #1120
469 * Set target: The "MetaData" option has been added. Thanks to Yves
470 Mettier and Kevin Bowling. #1106, #1656, #1913
471 * AMQP, Write_HTTP, Write_Kafka plugins: Support for libyajl < 2 has
472 been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
473 * APC UPS plugin: Parsing of end markers has been fixed. Thanks to
475 * APC UPS plugin: The "PersistentConnection" option has been added.
476 Thanks to Florian Forster #617
477 * ceph, DNS, Exec, IPTables, Ping, turbostat plugins: When running
478 unprivileged, these plugins will now warn about insuffiscient
479 permissions or capabilities(7). Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1530
480 * Chrony plugin: This new plugin collects NTP data from the chrony NTP
481 server. Thanks to Claudius Zingerli. #1548
482 * cpusleep plugin: This new plugin measures time spent by CPU in deep
483 sleep mode. Thanks to Rinigus. #1826
484 * CPU plugin: The "ReportNumCpu" option has been added. Thanks to Fabien
486 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: The new "Statistics" reports
487 various per-HTTP connection timers. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1004
488 * DBI plugin: The "Interval" option has been added to "Database" blocks.
489 Thanks to Michal Bebjak.
490 * Disk plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li,
491 Brad Davis, Ruben Kerfhof and Kevin Bowling.
492 * Empty Counter match: Support for derives has been implemented. Thanks
493 to Florian Forster. #1813
494 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for TabularData and the "PluginName" option
495 have been added. Thanks to David Crane. #1290, #1291
496 * GPS plugin: This new plugin reports the number of sattelites seen by
497 and precision of a GPS receiver. Thanks to Nicolas Jourden. #1346
498 * gRPC plugin: This new client and server plugin allows sending and
499 receiving metrics using the gRPC protocol. Comparable to the UnixSock
500 plugin, but using TCP and TLS. Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Florian
502 * Interface plugin: Reporting dropped packets has been added. Thanks to
504 * Interface plugin: The "ReportInactive" has been added, letting users
505 skip inactive network interfaces. Thanks to Rinigus. #1791
506 * Interface plugin: The new, Solaris-only "UniqueName" option has been
507 added. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam. #1416
508 * Lua plugin: This new language binding allows writing plugins using the
509 Lua programming language. Thanks to Julien Ammous, Florian Forster and
511 * Memory plugin: Reporting of ARC memory on Solaris has been added.
512 Thanks to Brian ONeill.
513 * MQTT plugin: This new plugin sends metrics to and/or receives metrics
514 from an MQTT broker. Thanks to Marc Falzon, Jan-Piet Mens, Nicholas
515 Humfrey and Florian Forster. #805, #1124
516 * MySQL plugin: Connection to the database server can now be done over
517 SSL. Thanks to Brian Lalor. #1256
518 * MySQL plugin: Monitoring slow queries has been added. Thanks to skob.
520 * MySQL plugin: mysql_bpool_pages-flushed has been renamed to
521 mysql_bpool_counters-pages_flushed because the value is cumulative.
522 Thanks to Marek Becka.
523 * MySQL plugin: Support for Galera statistics has been added. Thanks to
524 Rachid Zarouali. #1849
525 * MySQL plugin: Support for InnoDB metrics was improved. Thanks to Aman
527 * MySQL plugin: The "mysql_sort" type has been split into 3 different
528 types. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1592
529 * Network plugin: Decryption error logging has been improved. Thanks to
530 Pavel Rochnyack. #1735
531 * Notify Nagios plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to Nagios as
532 a passive check result. Thanks to Florian Forster.
533 * NTPd plugin: The plugin now detects if the ntp daemon reports
534 nanoseconds instead of microseconds. Thanks to Matwey V. Kornilov.
536 * OpenLDAP plugin: Several connection-related improvements have been
537 made. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1308
538 * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for "simple authentication" has been added.
539 Thanks to Marek Becka. #1087
540 * Ping plugin: The "Size" option has been added, allowing the ICMP data
541 payload size to be configured. Thanks to Witold Baryluk. #1395
542 * PostgreSQL, DBI, Oracle plugins: The new "PluginInstanceFrom" option
543 has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1707
544 * PowerDNS plugin: The recursor metrics have been updated to 3.7.3 and
545 missing rr types have been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
546 * Processes plugin: Counting of context switches was added for Linux.
547 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1036
548 * Processes plugin: Improve reliability of thread counts on Linux.
549 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
550 * Python plugin: Minimal Python version requirement has been bumped to
551 2.6. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1864
552 * Redis plugin: Several additional metrics are now collected. Thanks to
553 Marc Falzon and Matteo Contrini. #1807, #1483
554 * Sensors plugin: The "UseLabels" option has been added. Thanks to
556 * SMART plugin: The new "IgnoreSleepMode" option has been added. Thanks
557 to Scott Talbert. #1770
558 * SMART plugin: The new "UseSerial" option allows identifying devices in
559 a stable way. Thanks to Scott Talbert. #1794
560 * SNMP plugin: The "IpAddress" can now be used for instances. Thanks to
561 Vincent Bernat. #1397
562 * StatsD plugin: Latency calculation histogram is now able to shrink
563 automatically to optimal size. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1622
564 * StatsD plugin: The "CounterSum" option has been added. Thanks to
565 Florian Forster. #929, #1282, #1311
566 * UUID plugin: The plugin now also looks in in smbios system table and
567 "/sys/class/dmi". Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1490
568 * virt plugin: The "PluginInstanceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
569 to Ruben Kerkhof. #1100
570 * Write Graphite plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" option has been added.
571 Thanks to Toni Moreno and Florian Forster.
572 * Write HTTP plugin: A KairosDB formatter has been added. Thanks to
573 Aurélien Rougemont. #1809
574 * Write HTTP plugin: Notifications are now handled by this plugin.
575 Thanks to Florian Forster.
576 * Write HTTP plugin: The "LogHttpError" option has been added. Thanks to
578 * Write HTTP plugin: The new "Headers" option allows setting custom HTTP
579 headers in outgoing requests. Thanks to Brandon Arp. #1634
580 * Write Kafka plugin: Key handling has been made more comprehensive and
581 reliable. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Vincent
582 Bernat. #1765, #1695, #1393
583 * Write Redis plugin: The "Database", "MaxSetSize", "Prefix" and
584 "StoreRates" options have been added. Thanks to Brian Kelly and
586 * Write Riemann plugin: The new "BatchFlushTimeout" and "Timeout" option
587 have been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Gergely Nagy.
588 * Write Riemann plugin: This plugin now requires the riemann-c-client
589 library, version 1.6.0+. This adds support for submitting values to
590 Riemann over TLS. Thanks to Gergely Nagy. #986
591 * Write TSDB, Write Sensu, Write Riemann, Write Graphite, Write TSDB
592 plugin: TCP keepalive is now enabled, helping graceful recovery from
593 unclean network disconnections. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1549
594 * XenCPU plugin: This new plugin collects XEN Hypervisor CPU stats.
595 Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1608
596 * ZFS ARC plugin: Several new statistics have been added and a couple of
597 obsolete ones removed. Thanks to Brad Davis, Brian ONeill and Ruben
599 * Zone plugin: This new plugin reads per-zone CPU usage on Solaris.
600 Thanks to Mathijs Mohlmann and Dagobert Michelsen.
602 2016-11-28, Version 5.5.3
603 * collectd: Write threads are stopped before shutdown callbacks are
604 called. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1110
605 * collectd: A compile error on AIX has been fixed: "MSG_DONTWAIT" is not
606 available on AIX. Thanks to Chao Yang.
607 * libcollectdclient: Lines printed to "STDERR" are now guarded by the
608 environment variable "COLLECTD_TRACE". Thanks to Florian Forster. #105
609 * collectd.conf(5): Various typos have been fixed. Thanks to Marc
611 * Build system: Detection of the Java environment has been made
612 deterministic to allow for reproducible builds. Thanks to Marc
614 * APC UPS plugin: Unavailable metrics are now skipped instead of
615 reported as 0 (zero). Thanks to Florian Forster. #2025
616 * Battery plugin: The minimum value has been removed from the power type
617 to allow the plugin to report discharging batteries as negative power.
618 Thanks to Florian Forster.
619 * DBI, Oracle and PostgreSQL plugins: An error message when the type
620 instance is truncated has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #4
621 * cURL-JSON plugin: A possible segmentation fault when parsing
622 unexpected JSON has been fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1896
623 * DF plugin: Compilation with xfsprogs ≥ 4.7.0 has been fixed. Thanks
624 to Thomas Deutschmann. #1877
625 * Modbus plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
627 * Network plugin: An error message has been corrected. Thanks to Florian
629 * Network plugin: Handling of errors form secure memory initialization
630 has been improved: the plugin fails gracefully now instead of calling
631 "abort()". Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
632 * Network plugin: The gcrypt library is only initialized when it is
633 actually required due to the network plugin's configuration. Thanks to
634 Florian Forster. #1902
635 * Ping plugin: The init callback has been changed to be idempotent,
636 fixing errors being reported on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster.
638 * PostgreSQL plugin: The query_plans and query_plans_by_table queries
639 have been improved to return 0 (zero) instead of "NULL" when not
640 available. Thanks to Bernd Zeimetz. #1905
641 * PowerDNS plugin: The "recursor command" has been fixed so PowerDNS can
642 correctly parse all requested fields. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
643 * Python plugin: Handling of data sets with multiple data sources of
644 different type has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
645 * RRDCacheD plugin: Reconnection behavior after failed operations has
646 been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. Debian#657877
647 * Write Graphite and AMQP plugins: A bug that could lead to a missing
648 null-termination has been fixed. Thanks to Markus Linnala.
649 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for librdkafka 0.9.0 has been added.
650 Thanks to Florian Forster.
651 * Write Riemann plugin: Build issues on Solaris have been fixed. Thanks
654 2016-07-25, Version 5.5.2
655 * collectd: A division by zero has been fixed in the
656 "plugin_dispatch_multivalue()" function. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
657 * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
658 in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
659 * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
660 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkof.
661 * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
662 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
663 * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
664 more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
665 * DF plugin: A build issue on DragonFlyBSD has been fixed. Thanks to
667 * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
668 This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
670 * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
671 has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
672 * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
673 now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
674 Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
675 * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has
676 been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was
677 ignored. Thanks to @yujokang. #1665
678 * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
679 This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
680 Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
681 * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
682 single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
683 create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
684 * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
685 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
686 * Redis plugin: A memory leak in an error handling code path has been
687 fixed. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz.
688 * Redis plugin: The data source type of the expired_keys metric has been
689 corrected to "DERIVE". Thanks to Marc Falzon and Marc Fournier. #1483.
690 * SMART plugin: A build dependency on libudev has been added. Thanks to
691 Pavel Rochnyack. #1724
692 * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
693 Pavel Rochnyack #1703
694 * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
695 shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
696 * Write Sensu plugin: A segfault when the Tag was unset has been fixed.
697 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
698 * ZFS ARC plugin: The cache_operation-stolen metric has been removed for
699 FreeBSD 10.2 and later. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1580
701 2016-01-22, Version 5.5.1
702 * Build system: Compilation errors have been avoided by correctly
703 defining package name and version used by autoconf. Thanks to Nathan
705 * Build system: Dependency ordering was fixed to ensure parallel builds
706 work reliably. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias. #1125
707 * Build system: Error messages have been improved and building the unit
708 tests has been fixed on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster and
709 Dagobert Michelsen. #1077
710 * Build system: The move of the "utils_ignorelist" functions has been
711 reverted. This fixes build issues of numerous plugins. Thanks to
712 Benjamin Drung;. #1323
713 * Build system: The fhcount plugin has been restricted to Linux. Thanks
714 to Ruben Kerkhof. #1195
715 * Build system: Detection of header files for the turbostat plugin has
716 been fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1075
717 * collectd: The "LC_NUMERIC" locale is now forced, to prevent issues
718 with some plugins on environments using a comma as decimal separator.
719 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1237
720 * Documentation: Some precisions related to the virt plugin have beed
721 added. Thanks to Wojtek Bocer and Ruben Kerkhof.
722 * Documentation: The CollectdInternalStats documentation has been
723 improved. Thanks to Yves Mettier and Florian Forster.
724 * Battery plugin: A missing Type has been added. Thanks to Marc
726 * Bind plugin: An off-by-one error has been fixed: an index was checked
727 against a wrong variable, which may lead to an out-of-bounds read.
728 Thanks to Michal Humpula. #1123
729 * Ceph plugin: JSON parsing has been refactored to support ceph 10.0.0
730 and fixes several buffer overflows. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1350
731 * CPU plugin: A Mac OS X specific bug has been fixed: the plugin
732 expected an incorrect number of CPU states, resulting in failing read
733 callbacks. This regression was introduced in 5.5.0. Thanks to Robert
735 * Disk plugin: Support for Mac OS X 10.10 has been added. Thanks to
737 * IPC plugin: Support for building with musl-libc has been added. Thanks
738 to Natanael Copa. #1147
739 * Log Logstash plugin: A segfault when using libyajl, version 1 was
740 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #1190
741 * Log Logstash plugin: The timestamp is now ISO 8601 compliant. Thanks
742 to Marc Fournier. #1132
743 * memcached plugin: The Type of the listen-disabled metric was fixed.
744 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1356
745 * MySQL plugin: The Type used by Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_flushed was
746 fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1085
747 * OpenLDAP plugin: A crash when using LDAPI (LDAP-over-IPC) got fixed.
748 Thanks to Marek Becka. #1080
749 * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for Mac OS X has been added. Thanks to Ruben
751 * SMART plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
752 Schüller and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1076
753 * Swap plugin: A regression that would lead to swap usage being reported
754 in kilobytes (instead of bytes) has been fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka.
756 * Varnish plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Ruben
758 * Varnish plugin: Support for versions 3 and 4 has been made more
759 tolerant to minor changes in Varnish point releases. Thanks to Marc
761 * virt plugin: A copy-and-paste mistake in an error message has been
762 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1101
763 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
765 * Write Redis plugin: Dead code has been removed. Thanks to Brian Kelly.
767 * 27 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
768 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
769 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan and clang: Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
770 Florian Forster and Marek Becka.
771 * Collectd::Unixsock: A Perl error got corrected. Thanks to Ciaran Mac
774 2015-05-27, Version 5.5.0
775 * Build system: Ability to make out-of-tree builds has been fixed.
776 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #792
777 * Build system, Disk and Users plugins: Detection and use of libstatgrab
778 ≧ 0.90 has been added. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #445, #795, #806,
780 * Build system, Memory, CPU, TCPConns and Processes plugins: Numerous
781 fixes related to OpenBSD support have been added. Thanks to Landry
782 Breuil. #777, #778, #779, #808
783 * Build system: Plugins now only export "module_register()". Thanks to
785 * Build system: Various cleanups and improvements have been done. Thanks
787 * collectd: Numerous internal changes and improvements to the daemon and
788 the plugin API have been make. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves
789 Ritschard and Alex Petrov. #512, #727
790 * collectd: Numerous spelling mistakes have been corrected in comments
791 and documentation and several error messages have been improved.
792 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Abhinav Upadhyay, Olivier Bazoud, Pierre-Yves
793 Ritschard, Tim Smith, Moshe Zada, Katelyn Perry and Marc Fournier.
794 * collectd: Rules/Targets can now be appended to existing Filter Chains.
795 Thanks to Marc Falzon. #444
796 * collectd: Failing Filter Chains destinations will now log the list of
797 available write targets. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #650, #1043
798 * collectd: Support for process signaling and management by upstart and
799 systemd has been implemented for the Linux platform. Thanks to
800 Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. #798, #811, #814
801 * collectd: The "CollectInternalStats" option has been added. Thanks to
803 * collectd: The daemon source code and dependencies have moved to the
804 "src/daemon/" directory. Thanks to Florian Forster.
805 * collectd: The new "MaxReadInterval" option allows to cap the
806 exponential retry interval of plugins read errors. Thanks to Alexey
807 Remizov and Florian Forster. #713
808 * collectd: The "-P" command-line option now has precedence over the
809 "PIDFile" option. Thanks to Thomas D. #553
810 * collection.cgi: Various data-source related adjustments have been
811 made. Thanks to Fabiano Pires and Sebastian Harl.
812 * libcollectdclient: Now propagates errors when signing / encrypting
813 network packets. Thanks to Florian Forster.
814 * Configuration: Support for unquoted IPv6 addresses has been added.
815 Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #489
816 * Documentation: Various improvements have been done. Thanks to Florian
817 Forster and Marc Fournier.
818 * Examples: the sample C plugin has been updated to the current plugin
819 API. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
820 * Licensing: The following components have been relicensed to the MIT
821 license: the Apple Sensors, Ascent, DBI, E-Mail, Entropy, GenericJMX,
822 gmond, LogFile, nginx, Notify Desktop, NTPd, NUT, olsrd, Perl, Ping,
823 PostgreSQL, Protocols, RouterOS, RRDCacheD, SNMP, StatsD, SysLog,
824 Table, Tail, UnixSock, vmem, VServer, Wireless, Write Riemann and XMMS
825 plugins, the core collectd daemon, the collectdmon, collectd-nagios
826 and collectd-tg utilities, all the Targets and Matches, liboconfig,
827 most of the "utils_*" files and the plugin API.
828 * Tests: A test suite has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
829 * Threshold: The hysteresis calculation has been made more reliable.
830 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #581
831 * Threshold: Various fixes and improvements have been made. Thanks to
832 Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #649, #644
833 * AMQP plugin: The "ConnectionRetryDelay" option has been added,
834 allowing to delay reconnection. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam and Marc
836 * AMQP plugin: The "QueueDurable" and "QueueAutoDelete" options have
837 been added, giving control over queue creation and deletion. Thanks to
838 David Blundell and Marc Fournier. #623
839 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx and Write HTTP
840 plugins: Customizing the "User-Agent" field is now possible at
841 compile-time. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #440
842 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx plugins: The
843 connection will be reset if it hasn't completed within the configured
844 "Interval". The new "Timeout" option gives control over this behavior.
845 Thanks to Jan Kundrát and Marc Fournier. #982, #983, #993
846 * Apache, Ascent, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP plugins:
847 Allow usernames and passwords to contain colons if built against
848 libcurl ≧ 7.19.1. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #695, #947
849 * Apache plugin: The "SSLCiphers" option gives control over the
850 encryption algorithms to use with TLS connections. Thanks to Toni
852 * Barometer plugin: This new plugin reads sensor data from various
853 Freescale and Bosch digital barometers. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #69,
855 * Battery plugin: Reporting values as percentages and reporting degraded
856 batteries has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
857 * Battery plugin: Support for reading values from sysfs on Linux has
858 been added. Thanks to Andy Parkins, Nicholas Humfrey, Peter Wu and
859 Florian Forster. #725, #810, #998
860 * Battery plugin: The value for current is no longer supplied unless the
861 battery provides this information. Thanks to Florian Forster.
862 * BIND plugin: Bind's XML v3 API is now supported; Thanks to Victor
863 Berger, Bruno Prémont and Michal Humpula. #742, #847
864 * Ceph plugin: This new plugin collects statistics from the Ceph
865 distributed storage system. Thanks to Dan Ryder, Dennis Zou, Colin
866 McCabe, Sage Weil. #522, #598
867 * ConnTrack plugin: Support for reporting values as percentages as well
868 as legacy conntrack files in "/proc" has been added. Thanks to
869 Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #497, #680
870 * CPU plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages and
871 aggregate values per-state and per-CPU. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
872 Ritschard, Florian Forster, Fabien Wernli, Nicholas Humfrey and
873 Wilfried Goesgens. #499, #516, #639 #734, #812, #802
874 * cURL-JSON plugin: Extracting values from complex JSON structures has
875 been enhanced. Thanks to Jim Radford. #408, #411
876 * cURL-JSON plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-URL basis.
877 Thanks to Stan Sawa. #685
878 * cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, Write HTTP plugins: These plugins now also follow
879 HTTP redirects. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
880 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: HTTP Digest authentication has been
881 implemented. Thanks to Frank Cornelis. #482
882 * DBI, Oracle, PostgreSQL plugins: A "MetadataFrom" parameter has been
883 added which allows to set metadata from database columns. Thanks to
884 Mark Wong. #317, #321
885 * DBI plugin: Querying several databases in parallel is now possible.
886 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #453
887 * Disk plugin: On the Linux platform, disk names can now get looked up
888 in udev with the "UdevNameAttr" option. Thanks to Patrick Mooney. #537
889 * Disk plugin: This plugin now collects several additional I/O-related
890 metrics on the Linux platform. Thanks to Florian Forster and Michael
892 * DRBD plugin: This new plugin reads Linux's Distributed Replicated
893 Block Device (DRBD) statistics. Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #566, #700
894 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: The "PUTNOTIF" command now allows to set
895 metadata on notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #416
896 * fhcount plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used file
897 handles. Thanks to Jiri Tyr. #1009
898 * GenericJMX plugin: A Class Loader for "JMXConnectorFactory" has been
899 added, allowing the plugin to work with JBOSS > 7. Thanks to Alexandre
901 * IPC plugin: This new plugin collects information related to shared
902 memory. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz. #925
903 * Java plugin: Now uses the hostname defined in the configuration file.
904 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #530, #681
905 * Load plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
906 Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #344, #498
907 * Log Logstash plugin: This new plugin writes collectd logs and events
908 as Logstash JSON formatted events. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
910 * LVM plugin: The plugin collects thin pool data volumes size, and no
911 longer reports virtual volumes. Thanks to Benjamin Gilbert. #603
912 * memcached plugin: "listen_disabled_num" are now also reported. Thanks
913 to Matt Cottingham. #622
914 * Memory plugin: Slab memory reporting on the Linux platform has been
915 added. Thanks to Manuel CISSÉ and Marc Fournier. #560, #697
916 * Memory plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
917 Thanks to Jeremy Katz, Florian Forster and Manuel CISSÉ. #501, #511,
919 * Modbus plugin: Selecting between holding and input registers is now
920 possible. Thanks to Jan Vitek. #338
921 * Modbus plugin: Support for accessing devices through an RS-485 serial
922 port has been added. Thanks to Eric Sandeen.
923 * Multimeter plugin: This plugin isn't built by default on the AIX
924 platform anymore. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada. #549, #684
925 * MySQL and PostgreSQL plugins: Passing "127.0.0.1" as a host will now
926 result in the global Hostname being used in metric names. Thanks to
928 * MySQL plugin: InnoDB, Select and Sort statistics collection has been
929 added. Thanks to Wilson Felipe, Marek Becka and Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
930 #248, #621, #699, #824
931 * MySQL plugin: The "Alias" and "ConnectTimeout" options have been
932 added. Thanks to William Tisäter.
933 * Netlink plugin: Support for 64bit netlink counters has been added.
934 Thanks to Marek Becka. #435
935 * Network plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" configuration option has been
936 added. Thanks to John Ferlito. #732
937 * NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4.0 has been implemented. Thanks to Marek
939 * OneWire plugin: Support for more temperature-providing sensor families
940 has been added. Thanks to Tomasz Torcz. #672
941 * OneWire plugin: Support for full OWFS path and more device families
942 has been implemented. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #68
943 * OpenLDAP plugin: This new plugin reads monitoring information from
944 OpenLDAP's "cn=Monitor" subtree. Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum, Marc
945 Fournier and Nicholas Humfrey. #719
946 * OpenVPN plugin: Support for OpenVPN 2.3.0 has been implemented. Thanks
948 * OpenVZ plugin: Various improvements have been made, making the plugin
949 report values like the other collectd plugins do. Thanks to Chris
951 * Perl plugin: A new "listval_filter" method has been added, various
952 internal cleanups and improvements have been made and a test suite has
953 been added. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #728
954 * PostgreSQL plugin: The new "ExpireDelay" option allows skipping older
955 values pending write when the database slows down. Thanks to Stephen
957 * PowerDNS plugin: The plugin was updated for stats from pdns 3.4.3.
958 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #965
959 * Processes plugin: A memory-usage related optimization for low-profile
960 systems has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #652
961 * Python plugin: Support for Python3 has been improved, "ModulePath" is
962 now prepended to "sys.path", and the "get_dataset()" function has been
963 added to the Python API. Thanks to Sven Trenkel and Patrick Browne.
965 * Redis and Write_Redis plugins: The support library has been switched
966 from credis to hiredis. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz, Victor Seva, Marc
967 Fournier, Johan Bergström, Michael Spiegle and brianpkelly. #296,
968 #464, #475, #799, #1030
969 * Redis plugin: Custom commands can now be used to fetch values stored
970 in Redis. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #816
971 * Redis plugin: Support for passwords up to 512 characters long has been
972 added. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #532
973 * Sensors plugin: Support for lm_sensors' power sensors has been added.
974 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #571
975 * SMART plugin: This new plugin collects SMART statistics from disk
976 drives. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #797
977 * SNMP plugin: A blacklist/whitelist feature can now be used to filter
978 which OIDs to collect. Thanks to Christophe Courtaut. #414
979 * SNMP plugin: SNMPv3 authentication and encryption support has been
980 implemented. Thanks to Michael Pilat. #362
981 * SNMP plugin: Two error messages have been disambiguated. Thanks to
983 * Swap plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
984 Thanks to Jeremy Katz and Florian Forster. #500, #510
985 * Swap plugin: The plugin no longer fails on Linux systems where
986 "SwapCached" isn't exposed by the kernel. Thanks to Florian Forster.
988 * Tail plugin: "GaugeInc" and "GaugeAdd" options have been implemented.
989 Thanks to Andre Ferraz. #673
990 * Tail plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-File basis.
991 Thanks to Tom Leaman. #446
992 * TCPConns plugin: The "AllPortsSummary" option, allowing to summarize
993 all connections, has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #488
994 * TCPConns plugin: Three metrics were renamed on the AIX platform, for
995 the sake of consistency. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #546
996 * Turbostat plugin: This new plugin reads CPU frequency and C-state
997 residency on modern Intel turbo-capable processors. Thanks to Vincent
998 Brillault, Jean Delvare and Nicolas Iooss. #651
999 * UnixSock plugin: The "GETTHRESHOLD" command has been re-added. Thanks
1000 to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #674
1001 * Varnish plugin: Varnish 4 support has been added, as well as as
1002 monitoring metrics only available in Varnish 4. Thanks to Marc
1003 Fournier. #618, #783
1004 * virt plugin: Guests memory usage is now also collected. Thanks to
1005 Tiago Carvalho, jazzmes and Zollner Robert.
1006 * virt plugin: It is now possible to chose between using guests' name or
1007 UUID as plugin_instance. Thanks to Remi Ferrand. #385
1008 * virt plugin: The libvirt plugin has been renamed to virt. Thanks to
1010 * Write Graphite plugin: When the connection to graphite fails,
1011 reconnection attempts are now limited to once per second. Thanks to
1012 Florian Forster. #625
1013 * Write HTTP plugin: Multi-instance support of this plugin has been
1014 improved. The "<URL "url">" block has been deprecated in favor of
1015 "<Node "identifier">". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #902
1016 * Write HTTP plugin: Several TLS-related configuration options have been
1017 added. Thanks to Ingmar Runge. #666
1018 * Write HTTP plugin: The "LowSpeedLimit" and "Timeout" options allow to
1019 reset slow/stalled network connections. Thanks to loginator17 and Marc
1020 Fournier. #752, #985
1021 * Write HTTP plugin: The size of the payload posted to the HTTP server
1022 can now be controlled with the "BufferSize" option. Thanks to Florian
1024 * Write Kafka plugin: This new plugin sends data to Apache Kafka, a
1025 distributed messaging queue. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard,
1026 ciomaire, Vincent Bernat, Marc Fournier. #670, #694, #794, #853, #014
1027 * Write Log plugin: This new plugin dispatches collected values to the
1028 configured log destination(s). Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #886
1029 * Write Riemann plugin: Extra meta strings are now added as attributes
1030 in notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #417
1031 * Write Riemann plugin: Notification message are now sent to the Riemann
1032 server via the description field. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #575
1033 * Write Riemann plugin: Support for custom attributes has been added.
1034 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #459
1035 * Write Riemann plugin: Support had been implemented for sending events
1036 to Riemann in batches (when using TCP), and is enabled by default.
1037 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #800
1038 * Write Riemann plugin: The "EventServicePrefix" option has been added,
1039 which adds a prefix to event service names. Thanks to Moshe Zada. #706
1040 * Write Riemann plugin: Threshold checks can now be passed down to the
1041 Riemann server. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #518
1042 * Write Sensu plugin: This new plugin submits values to Sensu, a stream
1043 processing and monitoring system. Thanks to Fabrice A. Marie and Marc
1044 Fournier. #912, #1001, #1016
1045 * Write TSDB plugin: This new plugin sends data to OpenTSDB, a scalable
1046 time series database. Thanks to Kevin Bowling, Florian Forster, Dallin
1047 Young, Michael Schenck and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #703, #772, #945
1048 * ZFS ARC plugin: Support for ZFS-on-Linux has been added. Thanks to
1049 Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. #552
1050 * Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache Zookeeper
1051 "MNTR" command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826
1053 2016-07-26, Version 5.4.3
1054 * Build system: A deprecation warning has been removed. Thanks to
1056 * Build system: An ordering issue when build the AMQP plugin was
1057 corrected. Thanks to Shahul Hameed.
1058 * Build system: Building the gmond plugin against recent libganglia
1059 versions has been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1129
1060 * Build system: "collectd-tg" now builds on AIX. Thanks to Manuel Luis
1061 Sanmartín Rozada. #542
1062 * Build system: "version-gen.sh" portablility was improved. Thanks to
1063 Marc Fournier and Ruben Kerkhof.
1064 * Build system: Compiling utils_dns.c on Solaris has beed fixed. Thanks
1065 to Yves Mettier, Dagobert Michelsen and Florian Forster. #348
1066 * Build system: Default JDK detection got improved. Thanks to Ruben
1067 Kerkhof and Marc Fournier.
1068 * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
1069 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
1070 * Build system: notify_email build options got corrected to make it
1071 build on non-GNU libc systems. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1072 * Build system: Protobuf building and logging has been improved. Thanks
1074 * Build system: The "make distcheck" target was fixed to properly handle
1075 java build artifacts. Thanks to Florian Forster.
1076 * Build system: The configure script got fixed to work properly when
1077 called with "CC="gcc -Wall -Werror"" . Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1078 * Build system: The configure script will now fail if pkg-config isn't
1079 available. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
1080 * Build system: The users plugin now builds properly on Solaris when
1081 libstatgrab is available. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #1061
1082 * Build system: Various fixes have been done to improve library
1083 detection on FreeBSD. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
1084 * collectd2html: Several perl errors have been corrected. Thanks to Ruud
1086 * collectd: A global gauge format-string is now used to avoid loss of
1087 precision. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1039
1088 * collectd: A race condition at plugin initialization time was fixed.
1089 Thanks to Jan Andres. #1316
1090 * collectd: Autoloading now properly sets plugin context, allowing
1091 plugins to determine the interval. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1069
1092 * collectd: Empty "Plugin" blocks are now supported by the configuration
1093 file parser. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1035
1094 * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
1095 in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
1096 * collectd: Writing to a closed TCP socket is now properly handled.
1097 Thanks to Tamás Földesi. #1104
1098 * Documentation: iptables plugin: IPv6 configuration option has been
1099 added to the collectd.conf(5) manpage. Thanks to 'Marc Fournier''.
1101 * AMQP plugin: The plugin was fixed to build against librabbitmq 0.6.0.
1102 Thanks to Remi Collet. #1008
1103 * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
1104 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1105 * Apache plugin: The plugin was extended to parse the whole response,
1106 required to support Apache versions greater than 2.4.17. Thanks to
1107 Marc Fournier and Florian Forster. #1170, #1343
1108 * APC UPS plugin: Log messages are now prefixed with the plugin name.
1109 Thanks to Sergey. #1329
1110 * Bind plugin: The type_instance now gets properly sanitized. Thanks to
1112 * CPU plugin: Error messages on MacOSX have been improved. Thanks to
1113 Florian Forster. #22
1114 * cURL plugin: A typo in an error message got corrected. Thanks to Marc
1116 * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
1117 more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
1118 * DF plugin: An bug preventing filesystems which don't report inodes
1119 such as btrfs has been corrected. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1096
1120 * DF plugin: Duplicate entries are no longer reported twice. Thanks to
1121 Stefan Brüns and Florian Forster. #1402
1122 * DF plugin: Legacy code for skipping "rootfs" mount points has been
1123 removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1402
1124 * DF plugin: Legacy references to the "ReportReserved" option have been
1125 removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1126 * DF plugin: Reading the mtab now uses a reentrant function when
1127 possible. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1163
1128 * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
1129 This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
1131 * Exec plugin: A file descriptor leak when the plugin is configured to
1132 run as a non-existing user was corrected. Thanks to Gautam BT and Marc
1134 * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
1135 has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
1136 * Interface plugin: Documentation about regular expressions in the
1137 ignore list has been added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski.
1138 * IRQ plugin: The "FIQ" line is now skipped as it doesn't contain any
1139 counter. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #971
1140 * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
1141 now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
1142 Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
1143 * MongoDB plugin: A memory leak has been fixed and some adaptations to
1144 the current API of the mongo-c-driver have been made. Thanks to
1145 Florian Forster. #956
1146 * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has
1147 been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was ignored.
1148 Thanks to @yujokang. #1665
1149 * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
1150 This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
1151 Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
1152 * Network plugin: The TimeToLive option handling was made more robust.
1153 Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #654
1154 * NTPd plugin: Documentation about the required "mode 7" has been added.
1155 Thanks to Jakub Jankowski.
1156 * NTPd plugin: Reporting of "time_offset-loop" was corrected to match
1157 the values from ntpq/ntpdc. Thanks to Pierre Fersing and Florian
1159 * OpenVPN plugin: The plugin was fixe to avoid signaling an error when
1160 no clients were connected. Thanks to Florian Forster. #731
1161 * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
1162 single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
1163 create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
1164 * PF plugin and DNS plugin: These plugins have been fixed to build
1165 properly on OpenBSD again. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
1166 * Processes plugin: A compilation error on systems without "regex.h" has
1167 been fixed. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
1168 * Processes plugin: A memory leak on Solaris has been fixed. Thanks to
1170 * Processes plugin and Swap plugin: These plugins have been corrected to
1171 also work inside FreeBSD jails. Thanks to biancalana. #1019
1172 * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
1173 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
1174 * Processes plugin: Process counting on the FreeBSD and OpenBSD
1175 platforms has been fixed. Thanks to Herve COMMOWICK. #1298
1176 * Processes plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly on Solaris.
1177 Thanks to Jan Andres. #919
1178 * Python plugin: A double-free bug got fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel.
1180 * RRDtool plugin: A race condition leading to corrupt RRD file creation
1181 has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1031
1182 * SNMP plugin: The "Gauge32" signedness was corrected to match RFC1902.
1183 Thanks to Nathan Ward. #1325
1184 * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
1185 Pavel Rochnyack #1703
1186 * StatsD plugin: A memory leak was corrected. Thanks to Florian Forster.
1188 * StatsD plugin: A symbol lookup error was fixed by properly linking the
1189 plugin against libm. Thanks to Florian Forster.
1190 * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Support for including values above
1191 1000 in percentile calculation has been added. Thanks to Yoga
1193 * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Two division by zero error conditions
1194 have been corrected. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #655
1195 * StatsD plugin: Counters absolute counts are now also reported. Thanks
1196 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1311
1197 * StatsD plugin: The plugin now emits NaN values when no timer event is
1198 recorded. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1038, #1039
1199 * StatsD plugin: The plugin was corrected to avoid crashing when
1200 negative timer values are submitted. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1131
1201 * Tail CSV plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly with multiple
1202 "Collect" options and a bug got fixed when no "TimeFrom" is specified.
1203 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada and Florian Forster. #1032
1204 * TCPConns plugin: A memory leak was fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster.
1206 * TCPConns plugin: An bug causing collectd to enter an inifinite loop on
1207 OpenBSD was fixed. Thanks to Landry Breuil. #1094
1208 * Threshold plugin: Threshold configuration blocks can now be defined in
1209 different files. Thanks to Michael Salmon. #551
1210 * vmem plugin: Support for pgsteal in recent Linux kernels has been
1211 added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski. #1307
1212 * vmem plugin: The DSType for nr_dirtied and nr_written was corrected to
1213 report a derive. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1072
1214 * Write Graphite plugin: Error handling when submitting metrics to the
1215 server is now more robust. Thanks to Sam Pointer. #1364
1216 * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
1217 shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
1218 * Write Redis plugin: Multi-Valued key was made easier to parse by
1219 adding a "|" character as a delimiter. Thanks to brianpkelly and
1220 Florian Forster. #1070
1221 * Write Redis plugin: The timestamp format was corrected. Thanks to
1223 * ZFS ARC plugin: The plugin was will not emit warning about missing
1224 "l2_size" stats anymore. Thanks to Jan Andres. #919
1225 * 152 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
1226 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
1227 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan, clang and gcc-6: Thanks to Ruben
1228 Kerkhof, Florian Forster, Marc Fournier, Corey Kosak, Laurent,
1229 Claudius Zingerli and Fabien Wernli.
1231 2015-02-26, Version 5.4.2
1232 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
1233 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
1234 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
1236 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
1237 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
1238 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
1239 Fournier and @NsLib.
1240 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c. Thanks to
1242 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
1243 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
1244 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
1245 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1246 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
1247 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
1248 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
1249 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
1250 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
1251 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1252 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
1253 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
1254 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
1256 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
1257 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
1258 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1259 * Documentation: Documentation of the "AutoLoadPlugin" option has been
1260 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #715
1261 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
1262 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
1263 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
1264 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
1265 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML and Write HTTP plugins: Call
1266 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
1268 * cURL and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
1269 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
1270 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
1271 Florian Forster. #663
1272 * curl-json: A bug, which triggered when two URLs with a long common
1273 prefix were configured, was fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #582
1274 * dbi: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been restored.
1275 Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
1276 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
1277 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
1278 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
1279 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
1280 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
1281 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
1283 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
1284 Thanks to Florian Forster.
1285 * LogFile and SysLog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
1286 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
1287 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
1288 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
1289 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
1290 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
1291 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
1293 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
1295 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
1296 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
1297 * RRDtool and RRDCacheD plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
1298 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
1299 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
1300 Ritschard. #610, #804
1301 * statsd: Support for samplerates in timer metrics was added. Thanks
1303 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
1304 to Florian Forster. #733
1305 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
1306 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
1307 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
1309 * lvm: An issue with Volume Groups (VGs) without Logical Volumes (LVs)
1310 has been fixed. Thanks to Jan Kundrát.
1311 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
1312 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
1313 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
1315 * write_redis: A formatting bug, which resulted in totally unusable
1316 numbers being transmitted to Redis, was fixed. Thanks to Marc
1318 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
1321 2014-01-26, Version 5.4.1
1322 * amqp plugin: Add support for RabbitMQ 0.4.x to avoid compiler
1323 warnings. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for implementing this.
1324 * apache / network plugins: Improved initialization order hopefully
1325 resolved gcrypt initialization problems.
1326 * aquaero plugin: The type used to submit fan utilization was fixed.
1327 Thanks to Alex Deymo for the patch.
1328 * cgroups plugin: A small memory leak was fixed. Checking the existence
1329 of a mount option without a value was fixed. More permissive parsing
1330 of the cpuacct.stats file fixes support for some versions of Linux.
1331 Thanks to Marc Fournier for bug reports and patches.
1332 * curl plugin: Fix <Match> blocks without an instance. Thanks to
1333 Alexander Golovko for reporting and Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1334 * curl_json plugin: Potentially invalid memory access has been
1335 sanitized. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
1336 * interface plugin: Fix behavior under FreeBSD 10: Reporting of
1337 per-address statistics caused duplicate updates to the same metric.
1338 Thanks to demon / @trtrmitya for the patch.
1339 * write_graphite plugin: Use TCP to connect to Graphite by default. The
1340 default changed from TCP to UDP between 5.3.1 and 5.4.0, which is a
1341 regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier for fixing this. Reconnect
1342 behavior was improved. Thanks to Michael Hart for his patch.
1343 * zfs_arc plugin: Collect "allocated" and "stolen" on FreeBSD only.
1345 2013-08-18, Version 5.4.0
1346 * collectd: The "LoadPlugin" config option no longer attempts to load
1347 plugins twice. If more than one "LoadPlugin" statement or block is
1348 encountered, only the first will have any effect.
1349 * collectd: The "AutoLoadPlugin" option allows to automatically load
1350 plugins for which a configuration is found.
1351 * collectd: The "WriteQueueLimitHigh" and "WriteQueueLimitLow" options
1352 allow collectd to drop values when under stress, to avoid running out
1353 of memory. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patch.
1354 * amqp plugin: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
1355 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options have been added. Thanks to Laurent
1357 * aquaero plugin: This new plugin reads various metrics, e.g. fan
1358 speeds and temperatures, from Aquaero 5, a fan and water cooling
1359 control panel. Thanks to Alex Deymo for his patch.
1360 * curl plugin: The "MeasureResponseCode" option has been added. Thanks
1361 to Jan Matějka for his patch.
1362 * curl_json plugin: Support for UNIX domain sockets and array wildcards
1363 has been added. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
1364 * curl_xml plugin: Support for long URLs has been improved.
1365 * cgroups plugin: This new plugin collects CPU accounting information
1366 for processes in a cgroup. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for his patch.
1367 * df plugin: The "ValuesAbsolute" and "ValuesPercentage" options have
1368 been added. Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek for the patch.
1369 * exec plugin: Do UID / GID lookups before forking. This should prevent
1370 a race condition in the NSS library. Thanks to Ceri Storey for the
1372 * lvm plugin: This new plugin collects size information from Linux'
1373 Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Thanks to Chad Malfait for his work.
1374 * memcached plugin: Support for increment and decrement counts has been
1375 added. Thanks to Blake Matheny for the patch.
1376 * mic plugin: This new plugin collects CPU and memory usage, power
1377 consumption and temperatures of Intel's Many-Integrated-Core (MIC)
1378 architecture, such as Xeon Phi cards. Thanks to Evan Felix for his
1380 * netlink plugin: This plugin has been converted to use the supported
1381 "libmnl" library. Thanks to Andreas Henriksson for his patch.
1382 * nginx plugin: Collection of accepted and handled connections has been
1383 added. Thanks to Patrick Shan for his patch.
1384 * sigrok plugin: This new plugin collects metrics from sigrok, a signal
1385 processing framework reading various hardware devices, from light
1386 meters to spectrum analyzers. Thanks to Bert Vermeulen for his patch.
1387 * statsd plugin: This new plugin listens to a UDP socket and reads
1388 metrics in the StatsD format.
1389 * varnish plugin: Many additional metrics have been added. Thanks to
1390 Nick Stenning for his patch.
1391 * write_graphite plugin: Support for "UDP" has been added. Thanks to
1392 Javier Maestro for his patch.
1393 * write_riemann plugin: The "TTLFactor" option has been added.
1394 * zfs_arc plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li
1397 2015-02-26, Version 5.3.2
1398 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
1399 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
1400 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
1402 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
1403 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
1404 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
1405 Fournier and @NsLib.
1406 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c Thanks to
1408 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
1409 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
1410 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
1411 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1412 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
1413 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
1414 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
1415 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
1416 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
1417 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1418 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
1419 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
1420 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
1422 * Documentation: The synopsis of the threshold has been fixed. Thanks
1424 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
1425 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
1426 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1427 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
1428 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
1429 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
1430 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
1431 * csv: A regression which would lead to the "DataDir" option to be
1432 ignored has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada.
1433 * curl, curl-json, curl-xml and write_http plugins: Call
1434 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
1436 * curl and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
1437 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
1438 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
1439 Florian Forster. #663
1440 * dbi plugin: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been
1441 restored. Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
1442 * exec, unixsock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
1443 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
1444 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
1445 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
1447 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
1448 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
1449 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
1450 Thanks to Florian Forster.
1451 * logfile and syslog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
1452 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
1453 * memcached: Connecting to a UNIX socket has been fixed. Thanks to Jim
1455 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
1456 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
1457 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
1458 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
1459 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
1461 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
1463 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
1464 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
1465 * replace and set targets: Fix error message. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1467 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: Honor the "DataDir" config option;
1468 this fixes a regression. Thanks to Florian Forster. #380
1469 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
1470 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
1471 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
1472 Ritschard. #610, #804
1473 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
1474 to Florian Forster. #733
1475 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
1476 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
1477 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
1479 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
1480 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
1481 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
1483 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
1486 2013-07-13, Version 5.3.1
1487 * Documentation: Various fixes.
1488 * Configuration: Fix error handling: Errors in included files were
1489 ignored, causing configuration mistakes to go unnoticed.
1490 * dns plugin: Don't abort when PCAP returns an error.
1491 * modbus plugin: The reconnection strategy was improved, fixing a
1492 segfault in the libmodbud library. Thanks to Stefan Nickl and
1493 Fabien Wernli for their patches.
1494 * mysql plugin: The notification about a newly running MySQL slave
1495 thread has been fixed. Thanks to Joaquín Cuenca Abela for the patch.
1496 * snmp plugin: A build issue has been fixed (C99 mixed declaration).
1497 The end-of-tree check has been improved by Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
1498 * threshold plugin: Handling of the "Interesting" configuration option
1499 has been fixed. Thanks to Björn for the patch.
1500 * write_riemann plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Dave
1501 Cottlehuber for reporting it.
1503 2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0
1504 * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include
1505 only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
1507 * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This
1508 improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act
1509 as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for
1510 reviewing this change and fixing bugs.
1511 * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using
1512 regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric
1513 can now be set via the configuration file.
1514 * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented.
1515 * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers
1516 has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
1517 * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks
1518 to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
1519 * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The
1520 "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch.
1521 * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to
1522 Greg Mason for his patch.
1523 * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks
1524 to Johan Wirén for his patch.
1525 * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication /
1526 compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
1527 patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work.
1528 * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks
1529 to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
1530 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been
1531 implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created
1532 asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances.
1533 Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code.
1534 * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV
1535 files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for
1537 * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added.
1538 * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to
1539 Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to
1540 Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work.
1542 2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2
1543 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1544 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1545 Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks
1546 to Sebastian Harl for his patch.
1547 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
1548 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1549 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1550 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1551 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1552 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1553 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1554 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1555 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1556 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1557 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1558 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
1559 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1560 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1561 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
1562 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
1563 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
1564 * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
1565 * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
1566 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
1567 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
1568 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
1569 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1570 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1571 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1572 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1575 2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1
1576 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris
1577 and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches.
1578 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
1579 more frequently than intended.
1580 * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added.
1581 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1582 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1583 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
1584 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
1585 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1586 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1587 * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed.
1588 A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was
1589 configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these
1591 * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
1592 Ritschard for his patch.
1593 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
1594 * write_graphite plugin: A regression which rendered the
1595 "SeparateInstances" and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been
1596 fixed. A failed assertion when using types with many data sources
1597 has been fixed. Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
1598 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
1599 the logging problem.
1600 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
1601 Mettier for reporting this bug.
1603 2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0
1604 * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved.
1605 Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch.
1606 * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a
1607 per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for
1609 * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real
1610 looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new
1611 plugin, for example.
1612 * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets
1613 in the binary format has been added.
1614 * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple
1615 value lists into one.
1616 * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON
1617 output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch.
1618 * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to
1619 Thomas Meson for the patch.
1620 * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to
1621 Manuel Rozada for his patch.
1622 * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the
1624 * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't
1626 * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks
1627 to "Davide Guerri" for the patch.
1628 * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added.
1629 Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch.
1630 * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The
1631 behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to
1632 Johan Kiviniemi for the patches.
1633 * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added.
1634 * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's
1635 packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes
1637 * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added.
1638 Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added.
1639 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches.
1640 * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
1641 Cosmin Ioiart for the patch.
1642 * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added.
1643 Thanks to biancalana for the patch.
1644 * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan",
1645 "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added.
1646 * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX
1647 version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out
1648 "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch.
1649 * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc
1650 for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch.
1652 2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3
1653 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1654 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1655 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
1656 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1657 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1658 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1659 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1660 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1661 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1662 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1663 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1664 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1665 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1666 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
1667 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1668 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1669 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
1670 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
1671 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
1672 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
1673 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
1674 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
1675 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1676 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1677 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1678 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1681 2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2
1682 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves
1683 Mettier for his patches.
1684 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
1685 more frequently than intended.
1686 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1687 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1688 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
1689 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
1690 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1691 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1692 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
1693 * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
1694 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
1696 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
1697 Mettier for reporting this bug.
1699 2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1
1700 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1701 unwanted permission bits.
1702 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1703 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1704 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1705 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1706 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1707 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1708 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
1709 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
1710 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
1712 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1713 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
1714 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
1715 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1716 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1717 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1718 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1719 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1720 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1721 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1722 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1723 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1725 * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of
1726 uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for
1727 reporting these problems.
1728 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1729 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1730 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
1731 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1732 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1734 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1735 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1736 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1737 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1738 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1739 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1740 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1741 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1743 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1744 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1745 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
1746 "biancalana" for the fix.
1747 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1748 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1749 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1750 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1751 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1753 * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been
1754 fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch.
1755 * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and
1756 later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch.
1758 2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0
1759 * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has
1761 * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using
1762 "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
1763 * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use
1764 the system time rather than the time reported by BIND.
1765 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been
1766 added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch.
1767 * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics
1768 directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch.
1769 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in
1770 addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
1771 Ritschard for his patch.
1772 * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default
1773 ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g.
1775 * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various
1776 states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
1778 * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been
1780 * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin
1781 Ioiart for his patch.
1782 * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the
1783 Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux.
1784 * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation.
1785 Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch.
1786 * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been
1788 * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to
1789 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch.
1790 * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added.
1791 * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added.
1792 Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1793 * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1794 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1795 * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to
1796 Aaron Brady for his patch.
1797 * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to
1798 Jérôme Renard for his patches.
1799 * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value
1800 lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch
1801 and Chris Lundquist for their work.
1802 * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value
1803 lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series
1804 database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their
1806 * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to
1807 Aurelien Rougemont for his patches.
1808 * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been
1809 added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1811 2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5
1812 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1813 unwanted permission bits.
1814 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1815 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1816 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1817 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1818 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1819 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1820 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
1821 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
1822 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
1824 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1825 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
1826 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
1827 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1828 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1829 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1830 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1831 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1832 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1833 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1834 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1835 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1837 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1838 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1839 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
1840 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1841 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1843 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1844 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1845 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1846 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1847 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1848 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1849 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1850 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1852 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1853 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1854 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
1855 "biancalana" for the fix.
1856 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1857 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1858 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1859 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1860 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1863 2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4
1864 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1865 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1866 plugin under Gentoo.
1867 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1868 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1870 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1871 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1872 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1873 Opter for his patch.
1874 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1875 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1877 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1878 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1880 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1881 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1883 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1884 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1886 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1887 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1888 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1889 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1890 runtime has been fixed.
1892 2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3
1893 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1894 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1895 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1897 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1898 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1899 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1900 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1901 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1902 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1903 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1905 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1907 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1908 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1909 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1910 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1911 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1913 2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2
1914 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1915 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1916 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1917 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1919 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1920 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1921 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1922 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1924 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1925 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1926 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1927 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1928 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1929 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1930 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1931 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1932 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1933 for fixing this bug!
1935 2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1
1936 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1937 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1938 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1939 to Peter Green for his patch.
1940 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1941 McCabe for the patch.
1942 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1943 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1944 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1945 code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module.
1946 * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts.
1947 Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this.
1948 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1949 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1950 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1951 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1952 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1953 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1954 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1955 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1956 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1957 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1958 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1959 * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values
1960 were submitted as gauge even though they were derives.
1961 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1962 Flisher for the fix.
1964 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
1965 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
1966 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
1967 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
1968 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
1969 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
1970 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
1971 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
1973 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
1974 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
1975 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
1976 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
1977 added to the collectd client library.
1978 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
1979 one data source has been changed to "value".
1980 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
1981 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
1982 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
1983 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
1984 maximum value is unspecified.
1985 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
1986 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
1987 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1988 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1989 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1990 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
1991 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
1992 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
1993 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
1994 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
1996 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1997 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
1998 "Connection" blocks.
1999 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
2001 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
2003 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
2004 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
2005 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
2006 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
2008 * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
2009 license has been changed to LGPLv2.1.
2010 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
2011 data sets used have been improved.
2012 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
2014 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
2015 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
2016 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
2017 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
2018 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
2019 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
2020 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
2021 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
2022 this separate plugin.
2023 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
2024 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
2025 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
2026 Fournier for their contributions.
2027 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
2029 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
2031 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
2034 2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9
2035 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
2036 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
2037 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
2038 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
2039 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
2040 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
2041 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
2042 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
2043 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
2044 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
2045 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
2046 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
2047 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
2048 Tomas Doran for his patch.
2049 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
2050 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
2051 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
2052 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
2055 2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8
2056 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
2057 unwanted permission bits.
2058 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
2059 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
2060 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
2061 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
2062 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
2063 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
2064 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
2065 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
2066 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
2067 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
2068 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
2069 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
2070 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
2071 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
2072 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
2073 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
2075 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
2076 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
2077 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
2079 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
2080 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
2081 "KIvosak" for the patch.
2082 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
2083 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
2084 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
2085 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
2086 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
2088 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
2089 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
2090 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
2091 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
2092 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
2093 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
2094 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
2097 2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7
2098 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
2099 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
2100 plugin under Gentoo.
2101 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
2102 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
2104 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
2105 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
2106 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
2107 Opter for his patch.
2108 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
2109 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
2111 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
2112 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
2114 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
2115 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
2117 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
2118 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
2120 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
2121 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
2122 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
2123 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
2124 runtime has been fixed.
2126 2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6
2127 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
2128 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
2129 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
2131 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
2132 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
2133 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
2134 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
2135 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
2136 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
2137 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
2139 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
2141 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
2142 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
2143 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
2144 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
2145 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
2147 2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5
2148 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
2149 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
2150 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
2151 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
2153 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
2154 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
2155 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
2156 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
2158 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
2159 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
2160 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
2161 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
2162 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
2163 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
2164 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
2165 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
2166 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
2167 for fixing this bug!
2169 2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4
2170 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
2171 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
2172 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
2173 to Peter Green for his patch.
2174 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
2175 McCabe for the patch.
2176 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
2177 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
2178 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
2180 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
2181 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
2182 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
2183 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
2184 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
2185 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
2186 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
2187 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
2188 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
2189 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
2190 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
2191 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
2192 Flisher for the fix.
2194 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
2195 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
2196 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
2198 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
2199 percentage calculation has been fixed.
2200 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
2202 * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
2203 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
2204 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
2205 * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
2206 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
2207 error handling case.
2208 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
2209 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
2212 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
2213 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
2214 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
2215 the rest of the configuration if possible.
2216 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
2217 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
2218 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
2219 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
2220 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
2221 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
2222 configurable timeout value.
2223 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
2224 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
2225 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
2226 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
2227 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
2228 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
2229 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
2231 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
2232 to prevent spamming the logs.
2233 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
2234 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
2235 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
2236 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
2238 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
2240 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
2241 Trenkel for the patch.
2243 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
2244 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
2245 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
2246 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
2247 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
2249 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
2250 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
2251 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
2253 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
2254 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
2255 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
2256 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
2257 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
2258 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
2259 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
2260 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
2261 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
2262 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
2264 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
2265 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
2266 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
2267 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
2268 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
2269 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
2270 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
2272 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
2274 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
2275 lines from the match.
2276 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
2277 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
2279 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
2280 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
2281 Malek for the patch.
2282 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
2283 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
2285 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
2286 certain lines from the match.
2287 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
2288 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
2289 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
2290 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
2291 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
2292 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
2293 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
2294 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
2295 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
2296 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
2297 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
2298 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
2299 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
2300 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
2301 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
2302 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
2303 Sebastian Harl for his work.
2304 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
2305 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
2306 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
2307 Sven Trenkel for his work.
2308 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
2309 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
2310 MikroTik devices has been added.
2311 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
2312 Scraba for his patch.
2313 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
2314 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
2315 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
2316 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
2317 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
2318 Ammous for his patch.
2320 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
2321 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
2322 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
2324 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
2325 percentage calculation has been fixed.
2326 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
2328 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
2329 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
2330 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
2331 error handling case.
2332 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
2333 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
2336 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
2337 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
2338 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
2339 the rest of the configuration if possible.
2340 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
2341 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
2342 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
2343 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
2344 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
2345 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
2346 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
2347 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
2348 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
2349 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
2350 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
2351 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
2353 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
2354 to prevent spamming the logs.
2355 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
2356 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
2357 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
2358 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
2360 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
2361 Trenkel for the patch.
2363 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
2364 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
2365 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
2366 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
2367 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
2369 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
2370 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
2371 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
2372 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
2374 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
2375 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
2376 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
2377 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
2378 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
2379 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
2380 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
2381 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
2382 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
2383 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
2384 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
2385 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
2387 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
2388 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
2389 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
2390 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
2391 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
2392 figuring out a way to make this work.
2393 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
2394 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
2395 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
2396 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
2397 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
2399 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
2401 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
2402 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
2403 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
2404 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
2405 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
2406 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
2407 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
2408 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
2410 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
2411 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
2412 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
2413 an unknown data source type.
2414 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
2415 packets has been fixed.
2416 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
2418 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
2419 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
2420 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
2421 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
2422 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
2423 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2425 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
2426 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
2427 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
2428 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
2429 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
2430 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
2431 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
2432 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
2433 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
2435 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
2436 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
2437 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
2440 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
2441 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
2442 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
2443 Weiskircher for the patch.
2444 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
2445 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2446 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
2447 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
2448 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
2449 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
2450 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
2451 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
2452 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
2453 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
2454 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
2455 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
2456 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
2458 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
2459 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
2460 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
2461 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
2462 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
2463 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
2464 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
2465 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2466 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
2467 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
2468 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
2469 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
2470 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
2471 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
2472 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
2473 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
2474 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
2475 storage has been added.
2476 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
2477 value has been added.
2479 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
2480 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
2481 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
2482 an unknown data source type.
2484 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
2485 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
2486 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
2487 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
2488 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
2489 figuring out a way to make this work.
2490 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
2491 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
2492 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
2493 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
2495 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
2497 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
2498 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
2499 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
2500 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
2501 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
2502 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
2504 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
2505 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
2506 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
2507 packets has been fixed.
2508 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
2509 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
2510 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
2511 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
2512 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
2513 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2515 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
2516 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
2517 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
2518 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
2519 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
2522 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
2523 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
2524 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
2525 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
2526 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
2527 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
2529 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
2530 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
2531 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
2532 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
2533 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
2534 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
2536 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
2537 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
2538 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
2539 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
2541 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
2542 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
2544 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
2545 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
2546 issues on some platforms.
2547 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
2548 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2549 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
2550 descriptor handling.
2552 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
2553 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
2554 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
2555 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
2556 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
2557 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
2559 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
2560 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
2561 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
2562 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2563 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
2564 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
2565 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2566 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
2567 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
2568 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
2569 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
2571 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
2572 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
2573 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
2574 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
2575 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
2576 Aman Gupta for the patch.
2577 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
2578 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
2579 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
2580 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
2581 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
2583 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
2584 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
2586 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
2587 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
2588 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2589 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
2590 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
2591 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
2592 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
2593 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2594 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
2595 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
2596 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
2597 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
2598 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
2599 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
2601 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
2602 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
2603 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
2604 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
2605 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
2606 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
2608 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
2609 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
2610 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
2611 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
2613 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
2614 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
2615 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
2616 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
2618 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
2619 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
2621 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
2622 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
2623 issues on some platforms.
2624 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
2625 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2626 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
2627 descriptor handling.
2629 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
2630 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
2631 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
2632 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
2633 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
2634 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
2636 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
2637 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
2638 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
2639 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
2640 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
2641 Hess for reporting this bug.
2642 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
2643 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
2644 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
2645 is linked with the shipped library, too.
2646 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
2647 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
2648 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
2649 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
2650 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
2651 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
2652 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
2653 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
2654 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
2655 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
2656 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
2657 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
2658 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2661 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
2662 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
2664 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
2665 Díaz for fixing this bug.
2666 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
2667 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
2668 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
2669 for reporting the bug.
2670 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
2672 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
2673 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
2674 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
2675 libtool 2.2 has been added.
2676 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
2677 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
2678 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
2679 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
2680 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
2682 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
2683 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
2684 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
2685 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
2686 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
2688 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
2689 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2691 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
2692 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
2693 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
2694 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
2695 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
2696 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
2697 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2698 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
2699 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
2700 Konetzko for the patch.
2701 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
2702 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
2703 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
2704 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
2705 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
2706 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
2707 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
2708 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
2709 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
2710 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
2711 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
2712 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
2713 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2714 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
2715 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
2716 Quiédeville for the patch.
2717 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
2719 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
2720 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
2721 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
2722 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
2723 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
2724 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
2725 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
2726 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
2728 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
2729 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
2730 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
2731 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
2732 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
2733 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
2735 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
2736 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
2737 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
2738 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
2740 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
2741 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
2742 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
2743 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
2744 Hess for reporting this bug.
2745 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
2746 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
2747 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
2748 is linked with the shipped library, too.
2749 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
2750 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
2751 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
2752 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
2753 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2756 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
2757 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
2758 Díaz for fixing this bug.
2759 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
2760 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
2761 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
2762 for reporting the bug.
2764 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
2765 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2766 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2767 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2768 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2769 providing an OpenBSD system.
2770 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
2771 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
2772 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
2773 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
2774 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
2776 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2778 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2779 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2780 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2781 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2782 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2784 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2785 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
2786 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2788 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
2789 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
2790 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
2791 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
2793 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
2794 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
2795 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
2796 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
2797 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
2798 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
2799 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
2800 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
2801 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
2802 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
2803 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2804 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2805 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2807 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
2808 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
2809 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2810 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
2811 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
2812 for finding and fixing most of them.
2813 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2814 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2816 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
2817 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
2818 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
2819 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
2820 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2821 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
2822 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
2823 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
2824 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
2825 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
2826 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
2828 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
2829 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
2830 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
2831 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
2833 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
2834 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
2835 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
2836 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
2837 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
2838 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
2839 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
2840 Kuhnle for the patch.
2841 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
2842 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
2843 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
2844 MacEachern for the patch.
2845 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
2846 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
2847 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
2848 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
2849 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
2850 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
2851 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
2852 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
2853 select interfaces, too.
2854 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
2855 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
2856 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
2858 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
2859 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
2860 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
2861 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
2862 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
2863 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2864 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
2865 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
2866 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
2867 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
2869 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
2870 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
2871 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
2872 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
2873 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
2874 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
2875 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
2876 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
2878 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
2879 been added. Portability fixes.
2880 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
2881 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
2882 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
2884 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
2887 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
2888 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2889 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2890 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2891 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2892 providing an OpenBSD system.
2893 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
2894 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2896 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
2897 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2898 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2899 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2900 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2901 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2903 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2904 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2905 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2906 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2908 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
2909 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
2911 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
2912 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2913 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
2915 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2916 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2917 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
2918 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
2920 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
2921 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2922 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2923 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2925 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2926 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2927 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
2928 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
2929 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
2930 provide these necessary functions.
2931 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2932 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
2934 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
2935 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2936 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2937 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
2939 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2940 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2941 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2942 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2943 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2944 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2946 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
2947 invalid configuration options.
2948 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2949 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2950 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2952 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
2953 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2954 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2955 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2957 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2958 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2959 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2960 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2961 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2962 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2963 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2964 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2966 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2967 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2968 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
2969 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
2970 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2971 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2972 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2973 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
2974 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
2975 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
2976 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
2977 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
2979 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2980 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2983 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
2984 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
2985 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
2987 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
2988 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
2989 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
2990 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
2991 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
2992 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
2994 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
2995 email, using the `esmtp' library.
2996 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
2997 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
2999 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
3000 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
3001 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
3002 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
3004 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
3005 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
3006 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
3007 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
3008 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
3010 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
3011 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
3012 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
3014 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
3015 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
3016 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
3017 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
3019 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
3020 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
3021 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
3022 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
3023 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
3024 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
3025 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
3026 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
3027 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
3028 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
3029 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
3030 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
3032 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
3033 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
3034 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
3036 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
3037 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
3038 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
3039 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
3041 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
3042 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
3043 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
3044 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
3045 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
3046 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
3047 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
3048 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
3050 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
3051 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
3052 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
3053 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
3054 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
3055 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
3056 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
3059 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
3060 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
3061 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
3063 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
3064 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
3066 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
3067 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
3068 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianness of the
3069 architecture collectd is being built on.
3070 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
3072 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
3074 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
3075 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
3076 values under Solaris.
3077 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
3078 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
3080 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
3081 returned by some broken drivers.
3083 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
3084 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
3085 to kyrone for reporting this.
3086 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
3088 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
3090 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
3091 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
3092 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
3093 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
3095 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
3096 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
3097 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
3098 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
3099 flush its values to disk.
3100 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
3101 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
3102 for each data source.
3103 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
3105 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
3106 page of an Ascent server.
3107 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
3108 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
3109 specific disks has been added.
3110 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
3111 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
3112 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
3114 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
3115 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
3116 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
3117 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
3118 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
3119 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
3120 configuration has been decreased.
3121 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
3122 continuously reading from log files.
3123 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
3124 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
3125 and number of channels.
3126 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
3127 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
3128 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
3130 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
3131 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
3133 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianness more
3135 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
3136 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
3137 again has been applied.
3138 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
3140 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
3141 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
3143 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
3144 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
3145 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
3148 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
3149 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
3150 they are in non-standard paths.
3151 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
3152 if the libc expects it.
3153 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
3154 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
3156 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
3157 using a buffer of static size.
3158 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
3160 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
3161 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
3163 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
3164 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
3165 `Persist' threshold options.
3166 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
3167 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
3168 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
3169 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
3170 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
3172 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
3173 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
3175 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
3176 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
3177 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
3178 cross-platform compatibility.
3179 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
3180 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
3181 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
3183 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
3184 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
3185 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
3186 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
3187 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
3188 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
3190 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
3191 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
3192 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
3193 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
3194 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
3195 wants to add custom type definitions.
3196 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
3197 entire directories and shell wildcards.
3198 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
3199 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
3200 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
3201 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
3202 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
3203 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
3204 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
3205 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
3206 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
3207 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
3208 domain name lookups in this plugin.
3209 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
3210 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
3211 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
3212 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
3213 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
3214 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
3215 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
3216 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
3217 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
3218 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
3219 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
3220 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
3221 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
3222 Technology group for this plugin.
3224 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
3225 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
3226 they are in non-standard paths.
3227 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
3228 if the libc expects it.
3229 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
3230 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
3232 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
3233 using a buffer of static size.
3234 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
3236 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
3237 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
3239 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
3240 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
3241 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
3242 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
3243 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
3245 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
3246 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
3247 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
3249 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
3250 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
3251 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
3252 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
3253 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
3254 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
3255 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
3256 cross-platform compatibility.
3257 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
3258 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
3259 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
3260 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
3262 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
3263 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
3264 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
3265 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
3266 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
3268 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
3269 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
3270 of the libsensors library.
3272 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
3273 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
3274 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
3276 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
3277 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
3280 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
3281 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
3282 enabled on the host.
3283 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
3285 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
3286 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
3287 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
3288 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
3289 definitions separate from the host definitions.
3290 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
3291 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
3292 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
3293 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
3294 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
3295 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
3296 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
3297 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
3298 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
3299 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
3300 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
3301 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
3302 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
3303 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
3304 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
3305 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
3306 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
3307 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
3308 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
3309 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
3310 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
3312 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
3313 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
3314 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
3315 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
3316 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
3318 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
3319 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
3321 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
3322 of the libsensors library.
3324 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
3325 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
3326 it's in a non-standard location.
3327 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
3328 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
3329 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
3330 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
3331 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
3332 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
3334 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
3335 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
3337 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
3338 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
3340 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
3341 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
3342 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
3343 noise quality as percentage.
3344 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
3345 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
3346 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
3347 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
3348 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
3349 support for the `timeticks' type.
3351 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
3352 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
3353 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
3354 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
3356 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
3357 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
3358 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
3360 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
3361 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
3362 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
3363 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
3365 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
3366 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
3367 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
3368 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
3370 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
3371 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
3372 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
3373 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
3374 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
3375 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
3376 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
3377 to not block data collection.
3378 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
3379 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
3380 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
3382 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
3383 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
3384 of music played with xmms.
3386 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
3387 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
3388 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
3389 noise quality as percentage.
3390 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
3392 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
3393 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
3394 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
3395 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
3397 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
3398 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
3399 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
3400 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
3402 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
3403 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
3405 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
3406 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
3407 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
3408 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
3409 (i. e. without quotes).
3410 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
3411 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
3412 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
3414 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
3415 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
3416 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
3417 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
3419 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
3420 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
3421 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
3424 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
3425 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
3427 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
3428 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
3429 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
3430 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
3431 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
3432 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
3433 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
3435 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
3436 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
3437 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
3438 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
3439 initialized correctly.
3440 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
3442 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
3443 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
3444 they're given in numerically form.
3446 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
3447 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
3448 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
3451 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
3452 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
3453 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
3454 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
3455 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
3456 thread-safe functions from now on.
3457 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
3458 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
3459 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
3461 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
3462 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
3463 write to increase IO-performance.
3464 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
3465 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
3466 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
3467 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
3468 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
3470 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
3471 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
3472 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
3474 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
3475 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
3476 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
3477 or STDOUT or STDERR.
3478 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
3479 system's syslog daemon.
3480 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
3481 entropy currently being available to the system.
3482 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
3483 back values provided by the forked processes.
3484 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
3485 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
3487 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
3488 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
3489 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
3490 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
3491 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
3492 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
3493 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
3494 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
3495 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
3497 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
3498 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
3499 noise quality as percentage.
3501 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
3502 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
3504 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
3505 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
3506 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
3507 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
3508 were accounted as `zombies'.
3510 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
3511 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
3514 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
3515 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
3516 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
3518 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
3519 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
3520 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
3521 segfault with some libcs.
3523 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
3524 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
3525 under Solaris again.
3526 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
3528 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
3529 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
3531 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
3532 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
3533 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
3534 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
3535 write init.d-scripts for it.
3536 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
3537 caused problems every now and then.
3538 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
3539 filesystem types or devices.
3540 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
3541 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
3543 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
3544 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
3545 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
3546 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
3547 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
3548 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
3549 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
3550 segment size and pagefaults.
3551 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
3552 queries multimeters.
3553 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
3554 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
3555 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
3557 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
3558 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
3559 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
3560 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
3562 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
3563 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
3564 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
3565 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
3568 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
3569 * The sample config file has been improved.
3570 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
3571 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
3572 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
3573 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
3575 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
3576 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
3577 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
3579 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
3580 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
3582 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
3583 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
3584 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
3585 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
3587 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
3588 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
3589 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
3590 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
3591 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
3592 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
3593 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
3594 with a test environment :)
3595 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
3598 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
3599 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
3600 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
3602 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
3603 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
3604 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
3606 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
3607 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
3608 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
3610 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
3611 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
3613 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
3614 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
3615 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
3616 approximately 7.6 days.
3618 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
3619 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
3620 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
3621 approximately 7.6 days.
3623 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
3624 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
3626 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
3628 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
3630 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
3631 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
3632 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
3633 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
3634 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
3636 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
3637 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
3638 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
3639 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
3640 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
3641 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
3642 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
3643 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
3645 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
3646 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
3647 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
3648 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
3650 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
3651 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
3652 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
3654 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
3655 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
3656 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
3658 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
3659 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
3660 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
3663 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
3664 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
3665 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
3667 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
3668 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
3669 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
3670 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
3672 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
3673 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
3674 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
3676 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
3677 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
3679 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
3680 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
3682 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
3683 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
3685 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
3686 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
3688 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
3689 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
3690 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
3691 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
3692 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
3693 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
3694 address and/or port than localhost.
3695 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
3696 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
3697 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
3698 be set in the configfile.
3700 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
3701 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
3702 client mode. This released fixes this.
3704 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
3705 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
3706 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
3709 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
3710 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
3712 * A `df' plugin has been added.
3713 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
3714 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
3715 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
3717 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
3718 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
3719 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
3722 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
3723 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
3724 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
3726 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
3727 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
3728 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
3729 currently logged in users.
3730 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
3731 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
3732 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
3733 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
3735 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
3736 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
3737 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
3738 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
3739 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
3740 with the `-c' argument.
3741 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
3742 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
3743 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
3744 Barcellos for this patch.
3746 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
3747 * New modules have been added:
3748 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
3749 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
3750 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
3751 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
3753 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
3754 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
3756 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
3757 between polls up to one day.
3758 * The init.d files have been improved.
3759 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
3761 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
3762 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
3763 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
3765 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
3766 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
3767 multicast) has been added.
3768 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
3769 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
3770 to be linked against an external library.
3771 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
3772 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
3774 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
3775 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
3777 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
3778 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
3779 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
3780 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
3781 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
3782 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
3783 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
3784 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
3785 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
3788 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
3789 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
3791 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
3793 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
3794 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
3796 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
3797 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
3798 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
3799 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
3801 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
3802 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
3803 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3805 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
3806 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
3807 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
3808 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
3809 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
3810 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
3811 statistics will not work.
3813 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
3814 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
3815 weird strings as disk-names..
3817 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
3818 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
3819 about the disks and partitions.
3821 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
3822 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
3823 and/or kernel versions.
3825 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
3826 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
3827 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
3829 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
3830 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
3831 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
3833 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
3834 * Collecting CPU statistics now
3836 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
3837 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
3839 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
3841 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
3842 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
3844 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
3845 * The following modules are provided:
projects / collectd.git / blob