1 2016-11-28, Version 5.5.3
2 * collectd: Write threads are stopped before shutdown callbacks are
3 called. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1110
4 * collectd: A compile error on AIX has been fixed: "MSG_DONTWAIT" is not
5 available on AIX. Thanks to Chao Yang.
6 * libcollectdclient: Lines printed to "STDERR" are now guarded by the
7 environment variable "COLLECTD_TRACE". Thanks to Florian Forster. #105
8 * collectd.conf(5): Various typos have been fixed. Thanks to Marc
10 * Build system: Detection of the Java environment has been made
11 deterministic to allow for reproducible builds. Thanks to Marc
13 * APC UPS plugin: Unavailable metrics are now skipped instead of
14 reported as 0 (zero). Thanks to Florian Forster. #2025
15 * Battery plugin: The minimum value has been removed from the power type
16 to allow the plugin to report discharging batteries as negative power.
17 Thanks to Florian Forster.
18 * DBI, Oracle and PostgreSQL plugins: An error message when the type
19 instance is truncated has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #4
20 * cURL-JSON plugin: A possible segmentation fault when parsing
21 unexpected JSON has been fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1896
22 * DF plugin: Compilation with xfsprogs ≥ 4.7.0 has been fixed. Thanks
23 to Thomas Deutschmann. #1877
24 * Modbus plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
26 * Network plugin: An error message has been corrected. Thanks to Florian
28 * Network plugin: Handling of errors form secure memory initialization
29 has been improved: the plugin fails gracefully now instead of calling
30 "abort()". Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
31 * Network plugin: The gcrypt library is only initialized when it is
32 actually required due to the network plugin's configuration. Thanks to
33 Florian Forster. #1902
34 * Ping plugin: The init callback has been changed to be idempotent,
35 fixing errors being reported on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster.
37 * PostgreSQL plugin: The query_plans and query_plans_by_table queries
38 have been improved to return 0 (zero) instead of "NULL" when not
39 available. Thanks to Bernd Zeimetz. #1905
40 * PowerDNS plugin: The "recursor command" has been fixed so PowerDNS can
41 correctly parse all requested fields. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
42 * Python plugin: Handling of data sets with multiple data sources of
43 different type has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
44 * RRDCacheD plugin: Reconnection behavior after failed operations has
45 been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. Debian#657877
46 * Write Graphite and AMQP plugins: A bug that could lead to a missing
47 null-termination has been fixed. Thanks to Markus Linnala.
48 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for librdkafka 0.9.0 has been added.
49 Thanks to Florian Forster.
50 * Write Riemann plugin: Build issues on Solaris have been fixed. Thanks
53 2016-07-25, Version 5.5.2
54 * collectd: A division by zero has been fixed in the
55 "plugin_dispatch_multivalue()" function. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
56 * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
57 in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
58 * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
59 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkof.
60 * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
61 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
62 * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
63 more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
64 * DF plugin: A build issue on DragonFlyBSD has been fixed. Thanks to
66 * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
67 This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
69 * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
70 has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
71 * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
72 now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
73 Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
74 * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has
75 been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was
76 ignored. Thanks to @yujokang. #1665
77 * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
78 This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
79 Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
80 * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
81 single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
82 create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
83 * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
84 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
85 * Redis plugin: A memory leak in an error handling code path has been
86 fixed. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz.
87 * Redis plugin: The data source type of the expired_keys metric has been
88 corrected to "DERIVE". Thanks to Marc Falzon and Marc Fournier. #1483.
89 * SMART plugin: A build dependency on libudev has been added. Thanks to
90 Pavel Rochnyack. #1724
91 * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
93 * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
94 shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
95 * Write Sensu plugin: A segfault when the Tag was unset has been fixed.
96 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
97 * ZFS ARC plugin: The cache_operation-stolen metric has been removed for
98 FreeBSD 10.2 and later. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1580
100 2016-01-22, Version 5.5.1
101 * Build system: Compilation errors have been avoided by correctly
102 defining package name and version used by autoconf. Thanks to Nathan
104 * Build system: Dependency ordering was fixed to ensure parallel builds
105 work reliably. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias. #1125
106 * Build system: Error messages have been improved and building the unit
107 tests has been fixed on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster and
108 Dagobert Michelsen. #1077
109 * Build system: The move of the "utils_ignorelist" functions has been
110 reverted. This fixes build issues of numerous plugins. Thanks to
111 Benjamin Drung;. #1323
112 * Build system: The fhcount plugin has been restricted to Linux. Thanks
113 to Ruben Kerkhof. #1195
114 * Build system: Detection of header files for the turbostat plugin has
115 been fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1075
116 * collectd: The "LC_NUMERIC" locale is now forced, to prevent issues
117 with some plugins on environments using a comma as decimal separator.
118 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1237
119 * Documentation: Some precisions related to the virt plugin have beed
120 added. Thanks to Wojtek Bocer and Ruben Kerkhof.
121 * Documentation: The CollectdInternalStats documentation has been
122 improved. Thanks to Yves Mettier and Florian Forster.
123 * Battery plugin: A missing Type has been added. Thanks to Marc
125 * Bind plugin: An off-by-one error has been fixed: an index was checked
126 against a wrong variable, which may lead to an out-of-bounds read.
127 Thanks to Michal Humpula. #1123
128 * Ceph plugin: JSON parsing has been refactored to support ceph 10.0.0
129 and fixes several buffer overflows. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1350
130 * CPU plugin: A Mac OS X specific bug has been fixed: the plugin
131 expected an incorrect number of CPU states, resulting in failing read
132 callbacks. This regression was introduced in 5.5.0. Thanks to Robert
134 * Disk plugin: Support for Mac OS X 10.10 has been added. Thanks to
136 * IPC plugin: Support for building with musl-libc has been added. Thanks
137 to Natanael Copa. #1147
138 * Log Logstash plugin: A segfault when using libyajl, version 1 was
139 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #1190
140 * Log Logstash plugin: The timestamp is now ISO 8601 compliant. Thanks
141 to Marc Fournier. #1132
142 * memcached plugin: The Type of the listen-disabled metric was fixed.
143 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1356
144 * MySQL plugin: The Type used by Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_flushed was
145 fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1085
146 * OpenLDAP plugin: A crash when using LDAPI (LDAP-over-IPC) got fixed.
147 Thanks to Marek Becka. #1080
148 * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for Mac OS X has been added. Thanks to Ruben
150 * SMART plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
151 Schüller and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1076
152 * Swap plugin: A regression that would lead to swap usage being reported
153 in kilobytes (instead of bytes) has been fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka.
155 * Varnish plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Ruben
157 * Varnish plugin: Support for versions 3 and 4 has been made more
158 tolerant to minor changes in Varnish point releases. Thanks to Marc
160 * virt plugin: A copy-and-paste mistake in an error message has been
161 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1101
162 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
164 * Write Redis plugin: Dead code has been removed. Thanks to Brian Kelly.
166 * 27 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
167 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
168 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan and clang: Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
169 Florian Forster and Marek Becka.
170 * Collectd::Unixsock: A Perl error got corrected. Thanks to Ciaran Mac
173 2015-05-27, Version 5.5.0
174 * Build system: Ability to make out-of-tree builds has been fixed.
175 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #792
176 * Build system, Disk and Users plugins: Detection and use of libstatgrab
177 ≧ 0.90 has been added. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #445, #795, #806,
179 * Build system, Memory, CPU, TCPConns and Processes plugins: Numerous
180 fixes related to OpenBSD support have been added. Thanks to Landry
181 Breuil. #777, #778, #779, #808
182 * Build system: Plugins now only export "module_register()". Thanks to
184 * Build system: Various cleanups and improvements have been done. Thanks
186 * collectd: Numerous internal changes and improvements to the daemon and
187 the plugin API have been make. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves
188 Ritschard and Alex Petrov. #512, #727
189 * collectd: Numerous spelling mistakes have been corrected in comments
190 and documentation and several error messages have been improved.
191 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Abhinav Upadhyay, Olivier Bazoud, Pierre-Yves
192 Ritschard, Tim Smith, Moshe Zada, Katelyn Perry and Marc Fournier.
193 * collectd: Rules/Targets can now be appended to existing Filter Chains.
194 Thanks to Marc Falzon. #444
195 * collectd: Failing Filter Chains destinations will now log the list of
196 available write targets. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #650, #1043
197 * collectd: Support for process signaling and management by upstart and
198 systemd has been implemented for the Linux platform. Thanks to
199 Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. #798, #811, #814
200 * collectd: The "CollectInternalStats" option has been added. Thanks to
202 * collectd: The daemon source code and dependencies have moved to the
203 "src/daemon/" directory. Thanks to Florian Forster.
204 * collectd: The new "MaxReadInterval" option allows to cap the
205 exponential retry interval of plugins read errors. Thanks to Alexey
206 Remizov and Florian Forster. #713
207 * collectd: The "-P" command-line option now has precedence over the
208 "PIDFile" option. Thanks to Thomas D. #553
209 * collection.cgi: Various data-source related adjustments have been
210 made. Thanks to Fabiano Pires and Sebastian Harl.
211 * libcollectdclient: Now propagates errors when signing / encrypting
212 network packets. Thanks to Florian Forster.
213 * Configuration: Support for unquoted IPv6 addresses has been added.
214 Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #489
215 * Documentation: Various improvements have been done. Thanks to Florian
216 Forster and Marc Fournier.
217 * Examples: the sample C plugin has been updated to the current plugin
218 API. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
219 * Licensing: The following components have been relicensed to the MIT
220 license: the Apple Sensors, Ascent, DBI, E-Mail, Entropy, GenericJMX,
221 gmond, LogFile, nginx, Notify Desktop, NTPd, NUT, olsrd, Perl, Ping,
222 PostgreSQL, Protocols, RouterOS, RRDCacheD, SNMP, StatsD, SysLog,
223 Table, Tail, UnixSock, vmem, VServer, Wireless, Write Riemann and XMMS
224 plugins, the core collectd daemon, the collectdmon, collectd-nagios
225 and collectd-tg utilities, all the Targets and Matches, liboconfig,
226 most of the "utils_*" files and the plugin API.
227 * Tests: A test suite has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
228 * Threshold: The hysteresis calculation has been made more reliable.
229 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #581
230 * Threshold: Various fixes and improvements have been made. Thanks to
231 Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #649, #644
232 * AMQP plugin: The "ConnectionRetryDelay" option has been added,
233 allowing to delay reconnection. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam and Marc
235 * AMQP plugin: The "QueueDurable" and "QueueAutoDelete" options have
236 been added, giving control over queue creation and deletion. Thanks to
237 David Blundell and Marc Fournier. #623
238 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx and Write HTTP
239 plugins: Customizing the "User-Agent" field is now possible at
240 compile-time. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #440
241 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx plugins: The
242 connection will be reset if it hasn't completed within the configured
243 "Interval". The new "Timeout" option gives control over this behavior.
244 Thanks to Jan Kundrát and Marc Fournier. #982, #983, #993
245 * Apache, Ascent, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP plugins:
246 Allow usernames and passwords to contain colons if built against
247 libcurl ≧ 7.19.1. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #695, #947
248 * Apache plugin: The "SSLCiphers" option gives control over the
249 encryption algorithms to use with TLS connections. Thanks to Toni
251 * Barometer plugin: This new plugin reads sensor data from various
252 Freescale and Bosch digital barometers. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #69,
254 * Battery plugin: Reporting values as percentages and reporting degraded
255 batteries has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
256 * Battery plugin: Support for reading values from sysfs on Linux has
257 been added. Thanks to Andy Parkins, Nicholas Humfrey, Peter Wu and
258 Florian Forster. #725, #810, #998
259 * Battery plugin: The value for current is no longer supplied unless the
260 battery provides this information. Thanks to Florian Forster.
261 * BIND plugin: Bind's XML v3 API is now supported; Thanks to Victor
262 Berger, Bruno Prémont and Michal Humpula. #742, #847
263 * Ceph plugin: This new plugin collects statistics from the Ceph
264 distributed storage system. Thanks to Dan Ryder, Dennis Zou, Colin
265 McCabe, Sage Weil. #522, #598
266 * ConnTrack plugin: Support for reporting values as percentages as well
267 as legacy conntrack files in "/proc" has been added. Thanks to
268 Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #497, #680
269 * CPU plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages and
270 aggregate values per-state and per-CPU. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
271 Ritschard, Florian Forster, Fabien Wernli, Nicholas Humfrey and
272 Wilfried Goesgens. #499, #516, #639 #734, #812, #802
273 * cURL-JSON plugin: Extracting values from complex JSON structures has
274 been enhanced. Thanks to Jim Radford. #408, #411
275 * cURL-JSON plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-URL basis.
276 Thanks to Stan Sawa. #685
277 * cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, Write HTTP plugins: These plugins now also follow
278 HTTP redirects. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
279 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: HTTP Digest authentication has been
280 implemented. Thanks to Frank Cornelis. #482
281 * DBI, Oracle, PostgreSQL plugins: A "MetadataFrom" parameter has been
282 added which allows to set metadata from database columns. Thanks to
283 Mark Wong. #317, #321
284 * DBI plugin: Querying several databases in parallel is now possible.
285 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #453
286 * Disk plugin: On the Linux platform, disk names can now get looked up
287 in udev with the "UdevNameAttr" option. Thanks to Patrick Mooney. #537
288 * Disk plugin: This plugin now collects several additional I/O-related
289 metrics on the Linux platform. Thanks to Florian Forster and Michael
291 * DRBD plugin: This new plugin reads Linux's Distributed Replicated
292 Block Device (DRBD) statistics. Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #566, #700
293 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: The "PUTNOTIF" command now allows to set
294 metadata on notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #416
295 * fhcount plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used file
296 handles. Thanks to Jiri Tyr. #1009
297 * GenericJMX plugin: A Class Loader for "JMXConnectorFactory" has been
298 added, allowing the plugin to work with JBOSS > 7. Thanks to Alexandre
300 * IPC plugin: This new plugin collects information related to shared
301 memory. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz. #925
302 * Java plugin: Now uses the hostname defined in the configuration file.
303 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #530, #681
304 * Load plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
305 Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #344, #498
306 * Log Logstash plugin: This new plugin writes collectd logs and events
307 as Logstash JSON formatted events. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
309 * LVM plugin: The plugin collects thin pool data volumes size, and no
310 longer reports virtual volumes. Thanks to Benjamin Gilbert. #603
311 * memcached plugin: "listen_disabled_num" are now also reported. Thanks
312 to Matt Cottingham. #622
313 * Memory plugin: Slab memory reporting on the Linux platform has been
314 added. Thanks to Manuel CISSÉ and Marc Fournier. #560, #697
315 * Memory plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
316 Thanks to Jeremy Katz, Florian Forster and Manuel CISSÉ. #501, #511,
318 * Modbus plugin: Selecting between holding and input registers is now
319 possible. Thanks to Jan Vitek. #338
320 * Modbus plugin: Support for accessing devices through an RS-485 serial
321 port has been added. Thanks to Eric Sandeen.
322 * Multimeter plugin: This plugin isn't built by default on the AIX
323 platform anymore. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada. #549, #684
324 * MySQL and PostgreSQL plugins: Passing "127.0.0.1" as a host will now
325 result in the global Hostname being used in metric names. Thanks to
327 * MySQL plugin: InnoDB, Select and Sort statistics collection has been
328 added. Thanks to Wilson Felipe, Marek Becka and Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
329 #248, #621, #699, #824
330 * MySQL plugin: The "Alias" and "ConnectTimeout" options have been
331 added. Thanks to William Tisäter.
332 * Netlink plugin: Support for 64bit netlink counters has been added.
333 Thanks to Marek Becka. #435
334 * Network plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" configuration option has been
335 added. Thanks to John Ferlito. #732
336 * NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4.0 has been implemented. Thanks to Marek
338 * OneWire plugin: Support for more temperature-providing sensor families
339 has been added. Thanks to Tomasz Torcz. #672
340 * OneWire plugin: Support for full OWFS path and more device families
341 has been implemented. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #68
342 * OpenLDAP plugin: This new plugin reads monitoring information from
343 OpenLDAP's "cn=Monitor" subtree. Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum, Marc
344 Fournier and Nicholas Humfrey. #719
345 * OpenVPN plugin: Support for OpenVPN 2.3.0 has been implemented. Thanks
347 * OpenVZ plugin: Various improvements have been made, making the plugin
348 report values like the other collectd plugins do. Thanks to Chris
350 * Perl plugin: A new "listval_filter" method has been added, various
351 internal cleanups and improvements have been made and a test suite has
352 been added. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #728
353 * PostgreSQL plugin: The new "ExpireDelay" option allows skipping older
354 values pending write when the database slows down. Thanks to Stephen
356 * PowerDNS plugin: The plugin was updated for stats from pdns 3.4.3.
357 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #965
358 * Processes plugin: A memory-usage related optimization for low-profile
359 systems has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #652
360 * Python plugin: Support for Python3 has been improved, "ModulePath" is
361 now prepended to "sys.path", and the "get_dataset()" function has been
362 added to the Python API. Thanks to Sven Trenkel and Patrick Browne.
364 * Redis and Write_Redis plugins: The support library has been switched
365 from credis to hiredis. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz, Victor Seva, Marc
366 Fournier, Johan Bergström, Michael Spiegle and brianpkelly. #296,
367 #464, #475, #799, #1030
368 * Redis plugin: Custom commands can now be used to fetch values stored
369 in Redis. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #816
370 * Redis plugin: Support for passwords up to 512 characters long has been
371 added. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #532
372 * Sensors plugin: Support for lm_sensors' power sensors has been added.
373 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #571
374 * SMART plugin: This new plugin collects SMART statistics from disk
375 drives. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #797
376 * SNMP plugin: A blacklist/whitelist feature can now be used to filter
377 which OIDs to collect. Thanks to Christophe Courtaut. #414
378 * SNMP plugin: SNMPv3 authentication and encryption support has been
379 implemented. Thanks to Michael Pilat. #362
380 * SNMP plugin: Two error messages have been disambiguated. Thanks to
382 * Swap plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
383 Thanks to Jeremy Katz and Florian Forster. #500, #510
384 * Swap plugin: The plugin no longer fails on Linux systems where
385 "SwapCached" isn't exposed by the kernel. Thanks to Florian Forster.
387 * Tail plugin: "GaugeInc" and "GaugeAdd" options have been implemented.
388 Thanks to Andre Ferraz. #673
389 * Tail plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-File basis.
390 Thanks to Tom Leaman. #446
391 * TCPConns plugin: The "AllPortsSummary" option, allowing to summarize
392 all connections, has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #488
393 * TCPConns plugin: Three metrics were renamed on the AIX platform, for
394 the sake of consistency. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #546
395 * Turbostat plugin: This new plugin reads CPU frequency and C-state
396 residency on modern Intel turbo-capable processors. Thanks to Vincent
397 Brillault, Jean Delvare and Nicolas Iooss. #651
398 * UnixSock plugin: The "GETTHRESHOLD" command has been re-added. Thanks
399 to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #674
400 * Varnish plugin: Varnish 4 support has been added, as well as as
401 monitoring metrics only available in Varnish 4. Thanks to Marc
403 * virt plugin: Guests memory usage is now also collected. Thanks to
404 Tiago Carvalho, jazzmes and Zollner Robert.
405 * virt plugin: It is now possible to chose between using guests' name or
406 UUID as plugin_instance. Thanks to Remi Ferrand. #385
407 * virt plugin: The libvirt plugin has been renamed to virt. Thanks to
409 * Write Graphite plugin: When the connection to graphite fails,
410 reconnection attempts are now limited to once per second. Thanks to
411 Florian Forster. #625
412 * Write HTTP plugin: Multi-instance support of this plugin has been
413 improved. The "<URL "url">" block has been deprecated in favor of
414 "<Node "identifier">". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #902
415 * Write HTTP plugin: Several TLS-related configuration options have been
416 added. Thanks to Ingmar Runge. #666
417 * Write HTTP plugin: The "LowSpeedLimit" and "Timeout" options allow to
418 reset slow/stalled network connections. Thanks to loginator17 and Marc
420 * Write HTTP plugin: The size of the payload posted to the HTTP server
421 can now be controlled with the "BufferSize" option. Thanks to Florian
423 * Write Kafka plugin: This new plugin sends data to Apache Kafka, a
424 distributed messaging queue. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard,
425 ciomaire, Vincent Bernat, Marc Fournier. #670, #694, #794, #853, #014
426 * Write Log plugin: This new plugin dispatches collected values to the
427 configured log destination(s). Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #886
428 * Write Riemann plugin: Extra meta strings are now added as attributes
429 in notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #417
430 * Write Riemann plugin: Notification message are now sent to the Riemann
431 server via the description field. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #575
432 * Write Riemann plugin: Support for custom attributes has been added.
433 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #459
434 * Write Riemann plugin: Support had been implemented for sending events
435 to Riemann in batches (when using TCP), and is enabled by default.
436 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #800
437 * Write Riemann plugin: The "EventServicePrefix" option has been added,
438 which adds a prefix to event service names. Thanks to Moshe Zada. #706
439 * Write Riemann plugin: Threshold checks can now be passed down to the
440 Riemann server. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #518
441 * Write Sensu plugin: This new plugin submits values to Sensu, a stream
442 processing and monitoring system. Thanks to Fabrice A. Marie and Marc
443 Fournier. #912, #1001, #1016
444 * Write TSDB plugin: This new plugin sends data to OpenTSDB, a scalable
445 time series database. Thanks to Kevin Bowling, Florian Forster, Dallin
446 Young, Michael Schenck and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #703, #772, #945
447 * ZFS ARC plugin: Support for ZFS-on-Linux has been added. Thanks to
448 Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. #552
449 * Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache Zookeeper
450 "MNTR" command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826
452 2016-07-26, Version 5.4.3
453 * Build system: A deprecation warning has been removed. Thanks to
455 * Build system: An ordering issue when build the AMQP plugin was
456 corrected. Thanks to Shahul Hameed.
457 * Build system: Building the gmond plugin against recent libganglia
458 versions has been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1129
459 * Build system: "collectd-tg" now builds on AIX. Thanks to Manuel Luis
460 Sanmartín Rozada. #542
461 * Build system: "version-gen.sh" portablility was improved. Thanks to
462 Marc Fournier and Ruben Kerkhof.
463 * Build system: Compiling utils_dns.c on Solaris has beed fixed. Thanks
464 to Yves Mettier, Dagobert Michelsen and Florian Forster. #348
465 * Build system: Default JDK detection got improved. Thanks to Ruben
466 Kerkhof and Marc Fournier.
467 * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
468 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
469 * Build system: notify_email build options got corrected to make it
470 build on non-GNU libc systems. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
471 * Build system: Protobuf building and logging has been improved. Thanks
473 * Build system: The "make distcheck" target was fixed to properly handle
474 java build artifacts. Thanks to Florian Forster.
475 * Build system: The configure script got fixed to work properly when
476 called with "CC="gcc -Wall -Werror"" . Thanks to Marc Fournier.
477 * Build system: The configure script will now fail if pkg-config isn't
478 available. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
479 * Build system: The users plugin now builds properly on Solaris when
480 libstatgrab is available. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #1061
481 * Build system: Various fixes have been done to improve library
482 detection on FreeBSD. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
483 * collectd2html: Several perl errors have been corrected. Thanks to Ruud
485 * collectd: A global gauge format-string is now used to avoid loss of
486 precision. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1039
487 * collectd: A race condition at plugin initialization time was fixed.
488 Thanks to Jan Andres. #1316
489 * collectd: Autoloading now properly sets plugin context, allowing
490 plugins to determine the interval. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1069
491 * collectd: Empty "Plugin" blocks are now supported by the configuration
492 file parser. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1035
493 * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
494 in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
495 * collectd: Writing to a closed TCP socket is now properly handled.
496 Thanks to Tamás Földesi. #1104
497 * Documentation: iptables plugin: IPv6 configuration option has been
498 added to the collectd.conf(5) manpage. Thanks to 'Marc Fournier''.
500 * AMQP plugin: The plugin was fixed to build against librabbitmq 0.6.0.
501 Thanks to Remi Collet. #1008
502 * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
503 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
504 * Apache plugin: The plugin was extended to parse the whole response,
505 required to support Apache versions greater than 2.4.17. Thanks to
506 Marc Fournier and Florian Forster. #1170, #1343
507 * APC UPS plugin: Log messages are now prefixed with the plugin name.
508 Thanks to Sergey. #1329
509 * Bind plugin: The type_instance now gets properly sanitized. Thanks to
511 * CPU plugin: Error messages on MacOSX have been improved. Thanks to
513 * cURL plugin: A typo in an error message got corrected. Thanks to Marc
515 * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
516 more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
517 * DF plugin: An bug preventing filesystems which don't report inodes
518 such as btrfs has been corrected. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1096
519 * DF plugin: Duplicate entries are no longer reported twice. Thanks to
520 Stefan Brüns and Florian Forster. #1402
521 * DF plugin: Legacy code for skipping "rootfs" mount points has been
522 removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1402
523 * DF plugin: Legacy references to the "ReportReserved" option have been
524 removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
525 * DF plugin: Reading the mtab now uses a reentrant function when
526 possible. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1163
527 * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
528 This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
530 * Exec plugin: A file descriptor leak when the plugin is configured to
531 run as a non-existing user was corrected. Thanks to Gautam BT and Marc
533 * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
534 has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
535 * Interface plugin: Documentation about regular expressions in the
536 ignore list has been added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski.
537 * IRQ plugin: The "FIQ" line is now skipped as it doesn't contain any
538 counter. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #971
539 * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
540 now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
541 Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
542 * MongoDB plugin: A memory leak has been fixed and some adaptations to
543 the current API of the mongo-c-driver have been made. Thanks to
544 Florian Forster. #956
545 * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has
546 been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was ignored.
547 Thanks to @yujokang. #1665
548 * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
549 This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
550 Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
551 * Network plugin: The TimeToLive option handling was made more robust.
552 Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #654
553 * NTPd plugin: Documentation about the required "mode 7" has been added.
554 Thanks to Jakub Jankowski.
555 * NTPd plugin: Reporting of "time_offset-loop" was corrected to match
556 the values from ntpq/ntpdc. Thanks to Pierre Fersing and Florian
558 * OpenVPN plugin: The plugin was fixe to avoid signaling an error when
559 no clients were connected. Thanks to Florian Forster. #731
560 * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
561 single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
562 create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
563 * PF plugin and DNS plugin: These plugins have been fixed to build
564 properly on OpenBSD again. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
565 * Processes plugin: A compilation error on systems without "regex.h" has
566 been fixed. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
567 * Processes plugin: A memory leak on Solaris has been fixed. Thanks to
569 * Processes plugin and Swap plugin: These plugins have been corrected to
570 also work inside FreeBSD jails. Thanks to biancalana. #1019
571 * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
572 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
573 * Processes plugin: Process counting on the FreeBSD and OpenBSD
574 platforms has been fixed. Thanks to Herve COMMOWICK. #1298
575 * Processes plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly on Solaris.
576 Thanks to Jan Andres. #919
577 * Python plugin: A double-free bug got fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel.
579 * RRDtool plugin: A race condition leading to corrupt RRD file creation
580 has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1031
581 * SNMP plugin: The "Gauge32" signedness was corrected to match RFC1902.
582 Thanks to Nathan Ward. #1325
583 * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
584 Pavel Rochnyack #1703
585 * StatsD plugin: A memory leak was corrected. Thanks to Florian Forster.
587 * StatsD plugin: A symbol lookup error was fixed by properly linking the
588 plugin against libm. Thanks to Florian Forster.
589 * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Support for including values above
590 1000 in percentile calculation has been added. Thanks to Yoga
592 * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Two division by zero error conditions
593 have been corrected. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #655
594 * StatsD plugin: Counters absolute counts are now also reported. Thanks
595 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1311
596 * StatsD plugin: The plugin now emits NaN values when no timer event is
597 recorded. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1038, #1039
598 * StatsD plugin: The plugin was corrected to avoid crashing when
599 negative timer values are submitted. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1131
600 * Tail CSV plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly with multiple
601 "Collect" options and a bug got fixed when no "TimeFrom" is specified.
602 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada and Florian Forster. #1032
603 * TCPConns plugin: A memory leak was fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster.
605 * TCPConns plugin: An bug causing collectd to enter an inifinite loop on
606 OpenBSD was fixed. Thanks to Landry Breuil. #1094
607 * Threshold plugin: Threshold configuration blocks can now be defined in
608 different files. Thanks to Michael Salmon. #551
609 * vmem plugin: Support for pgsteal in recent Linux kernels has been
610 added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski. #1307
611 * vmem plugin: The DSType for nr_dirtied and nr_written was corrected to
612 report a derive. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1072
613 * Write Graphite plugin: Error handling when submitting metrics to the
614 server is now more robust. Thanks to Sam Pointer. #1364
615 * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
616 shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
617 * Write Redis plugin: Multi-Valued key was made easier to parse by
618 adding a "|" character as a delimiter. Thanks to brianpkelly and
619 Florian Forster. #1070
620 * Write Redis plugin: The timestamp format was corrected. Thanks to
622 * ZFS ARC plugin: The plugin was will not emit warning about missing
623 "l2_size" stats anymore. Thanks to Jan Andres. #919
624 * 152 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
625 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
626 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan, clang and gcc-6: Thanks to Ruben
627 Kerkhof, Florian Forster, Marc Fournier, Corey Kosak, Laurent,
628 Claudius Zingerli and Fabien Wernli.
630 2015-02-26, Version 5.4.2
631 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
632 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
633 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
635 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
636 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
637 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
639 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c. Thanks to
641 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
642 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
643 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
644 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
645 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
646 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
647 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
648 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
649 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
650 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
651 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
652 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
653 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
655 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
656 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
657 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
658 * Documentation: Documentation of the "AutoLoadPlugin" option has been
659 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #715
660 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
661 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
662 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
663 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
664 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML and Write HTTP plugins: Call
665 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
667 * cURL and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
668 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
669 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
670 Florian Forster. #663
671 * curl-json: A bug, which triggered when two URLs with a long common
672 prefix were configured, was fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #582
673 * dbi: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been restored.
674 Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
675 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
676 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
677 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
678 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
679 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
680 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
682 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
683 Thanks to Florian Forster.
684 * LogFile and SysLog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
685 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
686 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
687 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
688 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
689 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
690 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
692 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
694 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
695 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
696 * RRDtool and RRDCacheD plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
697 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
698 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
699 Ritschard. #610, #804
700 * statsd: Support for samplerates in timer metrics was added. Thanks
702 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
703 to Florian Forster. #733
704 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
705 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
706 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
708 * lvm: An issue with Volume Groups (VGs) without Logical Volumes (LVs)
709 has been fixed. Thanks to Jan Kundrát.
710 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
711 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
712 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
714 * write_redis: A formatting bug, which resulted in totally unusable
715 numbers being transmitted to Redis, was fixed. Thanks to Marc
717 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
720 2014-01-26, Version 5.4.1
721 * amqp plugin: Add support for RabbitMQ 0.4.x to avoid compiler
722 warnings. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for implementing this.
723 * apache / network plugins: Improved initialization order hopefully
724 resolved gcrypt initialization problems.
725 * aquaero plugin: The type used to submit fan utilization was fixed.
726 Thanks to Alex Deymo for the patch.
727 * cgroups plugin: A small memory leak was fixed. Checking the existence
728 of a mount option without a value was fixed. More permissive parsing
729 of the cpuacct.stats file fixes support for some versions of Linux.
730 Thanks to Marc Fournier for bug reports and patches.
731 * curl plugin: Fix <Match> blocks without an instance. Thanks to
732 Alexander Golovko for reporting and Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
733 * curl_json plugin: Potentially invalid memory access has been
734 sanitized. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
735 * interface plugin: Fix behavior under FreeBSD 10: Reporting of
736 per-address statistics caused duplicate updates to the same metric.
737 Thanks to demon / @trtrmitya for the patch.
738 * write_graphite plugin: Use TCP to connect to Graphite by default. The
739 default changed from TCP to UDP between 5.3.1 and 5.4.0, which is a
740 regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier for fixing this. Reconnect
741 behavior was improved. Thanks to Michael Hart for his patch.
742 * zfs_arc plugin: Collect "allocated" and "stolen" on FreeBSD only.
744 2013-08-18, Version 5.4.0
745 * collectd: The "LoadPlugin" config option no longer attempts to load
746 plugins twice. If more than one "LoadPlugin" statement or block is
747 encountered, only the first will have any effect.
748 * collectd: The "AutoLoadPlugin" option allows to automatically load
749 plugins for which a configuration is found.
750 * collectd: The "WriteQueueLimitHigh" and "WriteQueueLimitLow" options
751 allow collectd to drop values when under stress, to avoid running out
752 of memory. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patch.
753 * amqp plugin: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
754 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options have been added. Thanks to Laurent
756 * aquaero plugin: This new plugin reads various metrics, e.g. fan
757 speeds and temperatures, from Aquaero 5, a fan and water cooling
758 control panel. Thanks to Alex Deymo for his patch.
759 * curl plugin: The "MeasureResponseCode" option has been added. Thanks
760 to Jan Matějka for his patch.
761 * curl_json plugin: Support for UNIX domain sockets and array wildcards
762 has been added. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
763 * curl_xml plugin: Support for long URLs has been improved.
764 * cgroups plugin: This new plugin collects CPU accounting information
765 for processes in a cgroup. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for his patch.
766 * df plugin: The "ValuesAbsolute" and "ValuesPercentage" options have
767 been added. Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek for the patch.
768 * exec plugin: Do UID / GID lookups before forking. This should prevent
769 a race condition in the NSS library. Thanks to Ceri Storey for the
771 * lvm plugin: This new plugin collects size information from Linux'
772 Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Thanks to Chad Malfait for his work.
773 * memcached plugin: Support for increment and decrement counts has been
774 added. Thanks to Blake Matheny for the patch.
775 * mic plugin: This new plugin collects CPU and memory usage, power
776 consumption and temperatures of Intel's Many-Integrated-Core (MIC)
777 architecture, such as Xeon Phi cards. Thanks to Evan Felix for his
779 * netlink plugin: This plugin has been converted to use the supported
780 "libmnl" library. Thanks to Andreas Henriksson for his patch.
781 * nginx plugin: Collection of accepted and handled connections has been
782 added. Thanks to Patrick Shan for his patch.
783 * sigrok plugin: This new plugin collects metrics from sigrok, a signal
784 processing framework reading various hardware devices, from light
785 meters to spectrum analyzers. Thanks to Bert Vermeulen for his patch.
786 * statsd plugin: This new plugin listens to a UDP socket and reads
787 metrics in the StatsD format.
788 * varnish plugin: Many additional metrics have been added. Thanks to
789 Nick Stenning for his patch.
790 * write_graphite plugin: Support for "UDP" has been added. Thanks to
791 Javier Maestro for his patch.
792 * write_riemann plugin: The "TTLFactor" option has been added.
793 * zfs_arc plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li
796 2015-02-26, Version 5.3.2
797 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
798 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
799 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
801 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
802 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
803 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
805 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c Thanks to
807 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
808 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
809 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
810 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
811 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
812 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
813 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
814 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
815 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
816 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
817 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
818 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
819 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
821 * Documentation: The synopsis of the threshold has been fixed. Thanks
823 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
824 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
825 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
826 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
827 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
828 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
829 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
830 * csv: A regression which would lead to the "DataDir" option to be
831 ignored has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada.
832 * curl, curl-json, curl-xml and write_http plugins: Call
833 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
835 * curl and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
836 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
837 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
838 Florian Forster. #663
839 * dbi plugin: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been
840 restored. Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
841 * exec, unixsock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
842 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
843 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
844 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
846 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
847 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
848 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
849 Thanks to Florian Forster.
850 * logfile and syslog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
851 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
852 * memcached: Connecting to a UNIX socket has been fixed. Thanks to Jim
854 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
855 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
856 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
857 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
858 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
860 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
862 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
863 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
864 * replace and set targets: Fix error message. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
866 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: Honor the "DataDir" config option;
867 this fixes a regression. Thanks to Florian Forster. #380
868 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
869 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
870 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
871 Ritschard. #610, #804
872 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
873 to Florian Forster. #733
874 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
875 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
876 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
878 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
879 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
880 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
882 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
885 2013-07-13, Version 5.3.1
886 * Documentation: Various fixes.
887 * Configuration: Fix error handling: Errors in included files were
888 ignored, causing configuration mistakes to go unnoticed.
889 * dns plugin: Don't abort when PCAP returns an error.
890 * modbus plugin: The reconnection strategy was improved, fixing a
891 segfault in the libmodbud library. Thanks to Stefan Nickl and
892 Fabien Wernli for their patches.
893 * mysql plugin: The notification about a newly running MySQL slave
894 thread has been fixed. Thanks to Joaquín Cuenca Abela for the patch.
895 * snmp plugin: A build issue has been fixed (C99 mixed declaration).
896 The end-of-tree check has been improved by Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
897 * threshold plugin: Handling of the "Interesting" configuration option
898 has been fixed. Thanks to Björn for the patch.
899 * write_riemann plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Dave
900 Cottlehuber for reporting it.
902 2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0
903 * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include
904 only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
906 * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This
907 improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act
908 as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for
909 reviewing this change and fixing bugs.
910 * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using
911 regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric
912 can now be set via the configuration file.
913 * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented.
914 * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers
915 has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
916 * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks
917 to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
918 * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The
919 "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch.
920 * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to
921 Greg Mason for his patch.
922 * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks
923 to Johan Wirén for his patch.
924 * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication /
925 compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
926 patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work.
927 * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks
928 to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
929 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been
930 implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created
931 asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances.
932 Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code.
933 * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV
934 files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for
936 * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added.
937 * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to
938 Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to
939 Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work.
941 2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2
942 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
943 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
944 Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks
945 to Sebastian Harl for his patch.
946 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
947 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
948 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
949 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
950 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
951 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
952 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
953 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
954 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
955 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
956 Tomas Doran for his patch.
957 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
958 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
959 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
960 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
961 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
962 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
963 * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
964 * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
965 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
966 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
967 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
968 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
969 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
970 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
971 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
974 2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1
975 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris
976 and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches.
977 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
978 more frequently than intended.
979 * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added.
980 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
981 Ed Schouten for his patch.
982 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
983 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
984 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
985 Ed Schouten for his patch.
986 * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed.
987 A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was
988 configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these
990 * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
991 Ritschard for his patch.
992 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
993 * write_graphite plugin: A regression which rendered the
994 "SeparateInstances" and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been
995 fixed. A failed assertion when using types with many data sources
996 has been fixed. Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
997 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
999 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
1000 Mettier for reporting this bug.
1002 2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0
1003 * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved.
1004 Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch.
1005 * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a
1006 per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for
1008 * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real
1009 looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new
1010 plugin, for example.
1011 * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets
1012 in the binary format has been added.
1013 * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple
1014 value lists into one.
1015 * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON
1016 output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch.
1017 * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to
1018 Thomas Meson for the patch.
1019 * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to
1020 Manuel Rozada for his patch.
1021 * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the
1023 * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't
1025 * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks
1026 to "Davide Guerri" for the patch.
1027 * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added.
1028 Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch.
1029 * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The
1030 behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to
1031 Johan Kiviniemi for the patches.
1032 * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added.
1033 * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's
1034 packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes
1036 * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added.
1037 Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added.
1038 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches.
1039 * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
1040 Cosmin Ioiart for the patch.
1041 * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added.
1042 Thanks to biancalana for the patch.
1043 * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan",
1044 "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added.
1045 * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX
1046 version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out
1047 "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch.
1048 * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc
1049 for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch.
1051 2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3
1052 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1053 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1054 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
1055 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1056 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1057 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1058 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1059 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1060 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1061 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1062 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1063 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1064 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1065 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
1066 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1067 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1068 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
1069 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
1070 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
1071 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
1072 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
1073 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
1074 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1075 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1076 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1077 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1080 2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2
1081 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves
1082 Mettier for his patches.
1083 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
1084 more frequently than intended.
1085 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1086 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1087 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
1088 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
1089 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1090 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1091 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
1092 * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
1093 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
1095 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
1096 Mettier for reporting this bug.
1098 2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1
1099 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1100 unwanted permission bits.
1101 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1102 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1103 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1104 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1105 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1106 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1107 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
1108 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
1109 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
1111 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1112 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
1113 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
1114 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1115 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1116 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1117 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1118 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1119 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1120 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1121 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1122 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1124 * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of
1125 uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for
1126 reporting these problems.
1127 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1128 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1129 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
1130 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1131 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1133 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1134 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1135 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1136 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1137 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1138 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1139 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1140 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1142 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1143 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1144 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
1145 "biancalana" for the fix.
1146 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1147 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1148 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1149 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1150 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1152 * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been
1153 fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch.
1154 * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and
1155 later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch.
1157 2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0
1158 * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has
1160 * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using
1161 "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
1162 * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use
1163 the system time rather than the time reported by BIND.
1164 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been
1165 added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch.
1166 * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics
1167 directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch.
1168 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in
1169 addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
1170 Ritschard for his patch.
1171 * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default
1172 ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g.
1174 * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various
1175 states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
1177 * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been
1179 * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin
1180 Ioiart for his patch.
1181 * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the
1182 Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux.
1183 * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation.
1184 Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch.
1185 * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been
1187 * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to
1188 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch.
1189 * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added.
1190 * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added.
1191 Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1192 * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1193 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1194 * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to
1195 Aaron Brady for his patch.
1196 * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to
1197 Jérôme Renard for his patches.
1198 * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value
1199 lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch
1200 and Chris Lundquist for their work.
1201 * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value
1202 lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series
1203 database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their
1205 * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to
1206 Aurelien Rougemont for his patches.
1207 * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been
1208 added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1210 2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5
1211 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1212 unwanted permission bits.
1213 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1214 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1215 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1216 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1217 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1218 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1219 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
1220 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
1221 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
1223 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1224 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
1225 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
1226 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1227 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1228 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1229 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1230 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1231 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1232 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1233 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1234 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1236 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1237 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1238 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
1239 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1240 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1242 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1243 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1244 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1245 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1246 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1247 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1248 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1249 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1251 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1252 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1253 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
1254 "biancalana" for the fix.
1255 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1256 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1257 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1258 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1259 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1262 2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4
1263 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1264 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1265 plugin under Gentoo.
1266 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1267 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1269 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1270 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1271 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1272 Opter for his patch.
1273 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1274 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1276 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1277 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1279 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1280 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1282 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1283 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1285 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1286 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1287 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1288 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1289 runtime has been fixed.
1291 2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3
1292 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1293 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1294 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1296 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1297 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1298 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1299 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1300 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1301 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1302 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1304 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1306 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1307 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1308 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1309 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1310 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1312 2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2
1313 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1314 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1315 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1316 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1318 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1319 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1320 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1321 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1323 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1324 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1325 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1326 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1327 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1328 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1329 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1330 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1331 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1332 for fixing this bug!
1334 2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1
1335 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1336 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1337 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1338 to Peter Green for his patch.
1339 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1340 McCabe for the patch.
1341 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1342 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1343 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1344 code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module.
1345 * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts.
1346 Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this.
1347 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1348 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1349 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1350 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1351 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1352 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1353 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1354 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1355 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1356 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1357 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1358 * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values
1359 were submitted as gauge even though they were derives.
1360 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1361 Flisher for the fix.
1363 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
1364 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
1365 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
1366 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
1367 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
1368 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
1369 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
1370 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
1372 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
1373 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
1374 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
1375 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
1376 added to the collectd client library.
1377 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
1378 one data source has been changed to "value".
1379 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
1380 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
1381 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
1382 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
1383 maximum value is unspecified.
1384 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
1385 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
1386 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1387 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1388 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1389 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
1390 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
1391 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
1392 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
1393 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
1395 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1396 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
1397 "Connection" blocks.
1398 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
1400 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
1402 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
1403 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
1404 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
1405 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
1407 * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
1408 license has been changed to LGPLv2.1.
1409 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
1410 data sets used have been improved.
1411 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
1413 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1414 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1415 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
1416 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
1417 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
1418 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
1419 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
1420 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
1421 this separate plugin.
1422 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
1423 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
1424 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
1425 Fournier for their contributions.
1426 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
1428 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
1430 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
1433 2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9
1434 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1435 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1436 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1437 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1438 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1439 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1440 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1441 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1442 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1443 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1444 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1445 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1446 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1447 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1448 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1449 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1450 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1451 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1454 2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8
1455 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1456 unwanted permission bits.
1457 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1458 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1459 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1460 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1461 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1462 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1463 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1464 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1465 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1466 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1467 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1468 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1469 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1470 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1471 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1472 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1474 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1475 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1476 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1478 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1479 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1480 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1481 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1482 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1483 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1484 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1485 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1487 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1488 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1489 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1490 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1491 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1492 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1493 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1496 2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7
1497 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1498 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1499 plugin under Gentoo.
1500 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1501 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1503 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1504 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1505 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1506 Opter for his patch.
1507 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1508 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1510 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1511 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1513 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1514 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1516 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1517 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1519 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1520 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1521 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1522 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1523 runtime has been fixed.
1525 2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6
1526 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1527 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1528 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1530 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1531 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1532 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1533 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1534 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1535 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1536 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1538 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1540 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1541 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1542 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1543 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1544 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1546 2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5
1547 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1548 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1549 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1550 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1552 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1553 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1554 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1555 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1557 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1558 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1559 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1560 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1561 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1562 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1563 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1564 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1565 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1566 for fixing this bug!
1568 2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4
1569 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1570 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1571 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1572 to Peter Green for his patch.
1573 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1574 McCabe for the patch.
1575 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1576 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1577 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1579 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1580 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1581 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1582 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1583 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1584 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1585 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1586 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1587 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1588 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1589 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1590 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1591 Flisher for the fix.
1593 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
1594 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1595 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
1597 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
1598 percentage calculation has been fixed.
1599 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
1601 * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
1602 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
1603 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
1604 * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
1605 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
1606 error handling case.
1607 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
1608 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
1611 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
1612 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
1613 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
1614 the rest of the configuration if possible.
1615 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
1616 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
1617 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
1618 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
1619 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
1620 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
1621 configurable timeout value.
1622 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
1623 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
1624 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1625 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
1626 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
1627 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
1628 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1630 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1631 to prevent spamming the logs.
1632 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1633 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1634 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1635 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1637 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
1639 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1640 Trenkel for the patch.
1642 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
1643 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1644 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1645 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
1646 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
1648 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
1649 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
1650 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
1652 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
1653 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
1654 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
1655 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
1656 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
1657 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
1658 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
1659 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
1660 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
1661 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
1663 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
1664 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
1665 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
1666 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
1667 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
1668 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
1669 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
1671 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
1673 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
1674 lines from the match.
1675 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
1676 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
1678 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
1679 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
1680 Malek for the patch.
1681 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
1682 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
1684 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
1685 certain lines from the match.
1686 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
1687 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
1688 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
1689 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
1690 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
1691 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
1692 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
1693 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
1694 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
1695 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
1696 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
1697 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
1698 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
1699 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
1700 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
1701 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
1702 Sebastian Harl for his work.
1703 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
1704 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
1705 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
1706 Sven Trenkel for his work.
1707 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
1708 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
1709 MikroTik devices has been added.
1710 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
1711 Scraba for his patch.
1712 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
1713 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
1714 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
1715 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
1716 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
1717 Ammous for his patch.
1719 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
1720 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1721 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
1723 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
1724 percentage calculation has been fixed.
1725 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
1727 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
1728 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
1729 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
1730 error handling case.
1731 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
1732 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
1735 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
1736 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
1737 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
1738 the rest of the configuration if possible.
1739 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
1740 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
1741 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
1742 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
1743 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
1744 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
1745 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
1746 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1747 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
1748 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
1749 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
1750 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1752 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1753 to prevent spamming the logs.
1754 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1755 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1756 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1757 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1759 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1760 Trenkel for the patch.
1762 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
1763 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1764 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1765 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
1766 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
1768 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
1769 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
1770 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
1771 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
1773 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
1774 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
1775 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
1776 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
1777 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
1778 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
1779 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
1780 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
1781 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
1782 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
1783 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
1784 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
1786 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
1787 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
1788 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1789 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
1790 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
1791 figuring out a way to make this work.
1792 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
1793 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
1794 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
1795 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
1796 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
1798 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
1800 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
1801 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
1802 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
1803 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
1804 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
1805 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
1806 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
1807 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1809 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1810 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1811 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1812 an unknown data source type.
1813 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1814 packets has been fixed.
1815 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
1817 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
1818 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
1819 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
1820 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
1821 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
1822 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1824 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
1825 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
1826 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
1827 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
1828 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
1829 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
1830 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
1831 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1832 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1834 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
1835 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
1836 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
1839 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
1840 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
1841 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
1842 Weiskircher for the patch.
1843 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
1844 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1845 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
1846 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
1847 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
1848 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
1849 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
1850 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
1851 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
1852 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
1853 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
1854 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
1855 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
1857 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
1858 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
1859 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
1860 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
1861 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
1862 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1863 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
1864 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1865 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
1866 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
1867 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
1868 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
1869 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
1870 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
1871 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
1872 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1873 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
1874 storage has been added.
1875 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
1876 value has been added.
1878 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
1879 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
1880 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1881 an unknown data source type.
1883 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
1884 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
1885 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1886 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
1887 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
1888 figuring out a way to make this work.
1889 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
1890 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
1891 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
1892 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
1894 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
1896 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
1897 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
1898 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
1899 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
1900 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
1901 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1903 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1904 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1905 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1906 packets has been fixed.
1907 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
1908 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
1909 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
1910 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
1911 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
1912 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1914 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
1915 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
1916 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
1917 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1918 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1921 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
1922 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
1923 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
1924 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
1925 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
1926 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
1928 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
1929 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
1930 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
1931 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
1932 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
1933 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
1935 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
1936 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
1937 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
1938 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
1940 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
1941 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
1943 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
1944 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
1945 issues on some platforms.
1946 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
1947 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1948 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
1949 descriptor handling.
1951 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
1952 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
1953 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
1954 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
1955 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
1956 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
1958 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
1959 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
1960 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
1961 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1962 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
1963 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
1964 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1965 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
1966 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
1967 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
1968 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
1970 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
1971 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
1972 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
1973 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
1974 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
1975 Aman Gupta for the patch.
1976 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
1977 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
1978 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
1979 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
1980 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
1982 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
1983 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
1985 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
1986 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
1987 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1988 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
1989 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
1990 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
1991 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
1992 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1993 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
1994 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
1995 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
1996 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
1997 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
1998 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
2000 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
2001 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
2002 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
2003 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
2004 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
2005 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
2007 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
2008 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
2009 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
2010 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
2012 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
2013 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
2014 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
2015 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
2017 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
2018 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
2020 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
2021 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
2022 issues on some platforms.
2023 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
2024 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2025 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
2026 descriptor handling.
2028 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
2029 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
2030 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
2031 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
2032 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
2033 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
2035 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
2036 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
2037 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
2038 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
2039 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
2040 Hess for reporting this bug.
2041 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
2042 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
2043 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
2044 is linked with the shipped library, too.
2045 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
2046 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
2047 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
2048 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
2049 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
2050 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
2051 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
2052 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
2053 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
2054 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
2055 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
2056 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
2057 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2060 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
2061 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
2063 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
2064 Díaz for fixing this bug.
2065 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
2066 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
2067 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
2068 for reporting the bug.
2069 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
2071 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
2072 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
2073 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
2074 libtool 2.2 has been added.
2075 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
2076 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
2077 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
2078 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
2079 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
2081 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
2082 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
2083 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
2084 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
2085 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
2087 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
2088 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2090 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
2091 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
2092 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
2093 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
2094 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
2095 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
2096 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2097 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
2098 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
2099 Konetzko for the patch.
2100 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
2101 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
2102 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
2103 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
2104 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
2105 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
2106 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
2107 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
2108 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
2109 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
2110 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
2111 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
2112 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2113 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
2114 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
2115 Quiédeville for the patch.
2116 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
2118 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
2119 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
2120 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
2121 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
2122 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
2123 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
2124 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
2125 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
2127 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
2128 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
2129 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
2130 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
2131 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
2132 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
2134 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
2135 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
2136 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
2137 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
2139 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
2140 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
2141 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
2142 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
2143 Hess for reporting this bug.
2144 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
2145 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
2146 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
2147 is linked with the shipped library, too.
2148 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
2149 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
2150 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
2151 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
2152 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2155 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
2156 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
2157 Díaz for fixing this bug.
2158 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
2159 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
2160 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
2161 for reporting the bug.
2163 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
2164 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2165 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2166 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2167 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2168 providing an OpenBSD system.
2169 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
2170 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
2171 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
2172 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
2173 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
2175 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2177 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2178 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2179 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2180 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2181 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2183 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2184 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
2185 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2187 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
2188 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
2189 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
2190 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
2192 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
2193 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
2194 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
2195 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
2196 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
2197 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
2198 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
2199 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
2200 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
2201 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
2202 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2203 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2204 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2206 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
2207 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
2208 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2209 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
2210 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
2211 for finding and fixing most of them.
2212 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2213 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2215 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
2216 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
2217 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
2218 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
2219 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2220 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
2221 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
2222 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
2223 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
2224 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
2225 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
2227 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
2228 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
2229 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
2230 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
2232 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
2233 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
2234 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
2235 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
2236 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
2237 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
2238 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
2239 Kuhnle for the patch.
2240 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
2241 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
2242 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
2243 MacEachern for the patch.
2244 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
2245 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
2246 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
2247 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
2248 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
2249 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
2250 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
2251 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
2252 select interfaces, too.
2253 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
2254 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
2255 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
2257 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
2258 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
2259 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
2260 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
2261 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
2262 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2263 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
2264 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
2265 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
2266 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
2268 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
2269 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
2270 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
2271 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
2272 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
2273 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
2274 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
2275 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
2277 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
2278 been added. Portability fixes.
2279 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
2280 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
2281 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
2283 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
2286 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
2287 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2288 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2289 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2290 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2291 providing an OpenBSD system.
2292 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
2293 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2295 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
2296 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2297 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2298 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2299 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2300 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2302 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2303 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2304 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2305 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2307 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
2308 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
2310 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
2311 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2312 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
2314 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2315 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2316 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
2317 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
2319 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
2320 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2321 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2322 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2324 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2325 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2326 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
2327 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
2328 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
2329 provide these necessary functions.
2330 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2331 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
2333 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
2334 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2335 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2336 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
2338 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2339 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2340 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2341 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2342 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2343 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2345 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
2346 invalid configuration options.
2347 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2348 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2349 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2351 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
2352 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2353 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2354 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2356 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2357 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2358 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2359 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2360 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2361 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2362 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2363 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2365 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2366 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2367 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
2368 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
2369 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2370 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2371 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2372 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
2373 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
2374 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
2375 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
2376 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
2378 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2379 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2382 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
2383 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
2384 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
2386 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
2387 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
2388 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
2389 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
2390 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
2391 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
2393 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
2394 email, using the `esmtp' library.
2395 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
2396 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
2398 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
2399 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
2400 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
2401 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
2403 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
2404 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
2405 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
2406 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
2407 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
2409 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
2410 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
2411 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
2413 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
2414 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2415 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2416 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2418 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2419 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2420 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2421 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
2422 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2423 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2424 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2425 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2426 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2427 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2428 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2429 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2431 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2432 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2433 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2435 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
2436 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2437 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2438 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2440 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2441 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2442 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2443 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2444 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2445 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2446 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2447 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2449 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2450 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2451 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2452 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2453 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2454 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2455 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2458 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
2459 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
2460 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2462 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2463 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
2465 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
2466 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
2467 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianness of the
2468 architecture collectd is being built on.
2469 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
2471 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
2473 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
2474 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
2475 values under Solaris.
2476 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
2477 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
2479 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
2480 returned by some broken drivers.
2482 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
2483 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
2484 to kyrone for reporting this.
2485 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
2487 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
2489 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
2490 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
2491 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
2492 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
2494 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
2495 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
2496 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
2497 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
2498 flush its values to disk.
2499 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
2500 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
2501 for each data source.
2502 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
2504 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
2505 page of an Ascent server.
2506 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2507 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
2508 specific disks has been added.
2509 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2510 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
2511 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
2513 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
2514 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
2515 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
2516 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
2517 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
2518 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
2519 configuration has been decreased.
2520 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
2521 continuously reading from log files.
2522 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
2523 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
2524 and number of channels.
2525 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2526 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
2527 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
2529 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
2530 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
2532 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianness more
2534 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
2535 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
2536 again has been applied.
2537 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2539 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2540 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
2542 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2543 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2544 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
2547 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
2548 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2549 they are in non-standard paths.
2550 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2551 if the libc expects it.
2552 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2553 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2555 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2556 using a buffer of static size.
2557 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2559 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2560 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2562 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
2563 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
2564 `Persist' threshold options.
2565 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
2566 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2567 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2568 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2569 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2571 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
2572 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2574 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2575 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2576 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2577 cross-platform compatibility.
2578 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2579 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2580 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2582 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
2583 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
2584 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
2585 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
2586 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
2587 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
2589 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
2590 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
2591 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
2592 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
2593 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
2594 wants to add custom type definitions.
2595 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
2596 entire directories and shell wildcards.
2597 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
2598 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
2599 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
2600 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
2601 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
2602 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
2603 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
2604 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
2605 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
2606 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
2607 domain name lookups in this plugin.
2608 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
2609 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
2610 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
2611 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
2612 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
2613 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
2614 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
2615 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
2616 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
2617 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
2618 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
2619 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
2620 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
2621 Technology group for this plugin.
2623 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
2624 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2625 they are in non-standard paths.
2626 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2627 if the libc expects it.
2628 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2629 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2631 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2632 using a buffer of static size.
2633 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2635 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2636 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2638 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
2639 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2640 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2641 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2642 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2644 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
2645 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
2646 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2648 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
2649 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
2650 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
2651 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
2652 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2653 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2654 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2655 cross-platform compatibility.
2656 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2657 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
2658 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2659 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2661 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
2662 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
2663 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
2664 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
2665 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2667 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
2668 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
2669 of the libsensors library.
2671 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
2672 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
2673 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
2675 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
2676 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2679 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
2680 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
2681 enabled on the host.
2682 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2684 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
2685 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
2686 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
2687 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
2688 definitions separate from the host definitions.
2689 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
2690 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
2691 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
2692 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
2693 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
2694 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
2695 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
2696 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
2697 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
2698 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
2699 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
2700 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
2701 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
2702 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
2703 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
2704 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
2705 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
2706 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
2707 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
2708 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
2709 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
2711 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
2712 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
2713 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
2714 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
2715 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2717 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
2718 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
2720 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
2721 of the libsensors library.
2723 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
2724 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
2725 it's in a non-standard location.
2726 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
2727 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
2728 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
2729 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
2730 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
2731 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2733 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
2734 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
2736 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
2737 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
2739 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
2740 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
2741 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2742 noise quality as percentage.
2743 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
2744 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
2745 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
2746 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
2747 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
2748 support for the `timeticks' type.
2750 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
2751 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
2752 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
2753 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
2755 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
2756 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
2757 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
2759 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
2760 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
2761 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
2762 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
2764 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
2765 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
2766 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
2767 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
2769 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
2770 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
2771 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
2772 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
2773 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
2774 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
2775 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
2776 to not block data collection.
2777 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
2778 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
2779 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
2781 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
2782 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
2783 of music played with xmms.
2785 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
2786 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
2787 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2788 noise quality as percentage.
2789 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
2791 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
2792 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
2793 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
2794 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
2796 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
2797 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
2798 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
2799 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
2801 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
2802 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
2804 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
2805 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
2806 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
2807 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
2808 (i. e. without quotes).
2809 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
2810 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
2811 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2813 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
2814 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
2815 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
2816 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
2818 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
2819 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
2820 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
2823 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
2824 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
2826 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
2827 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2828 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
2829 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2830 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
2831 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2832 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
2834 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
2835 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
2836 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
2837 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
2838 initialized correctly.
2839 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
2841 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
2842 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
2843 they're given in numerically form.
2845 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
2846 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
2847 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
2850 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
2851 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
2852 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
2853 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
2854 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
2855 thread-safe functions from now on.
2856 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
2857 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
2858 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
2860 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
2861 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
2862 write to increase IO-performance.
2863 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
2864 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
2865 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
2866 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
2867 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
2869 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
2870 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
2871 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
2873 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
2874 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
2875 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
2876 or STDOUT or STDERR.
2877 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
2878 system's syslog daemon.
2879 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
2880 entropy currently being available to the system.
2881 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
2882 back values provided by the forked processes.
2883 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
2884 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
2886 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
2887 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
2888 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
2889 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
2890 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
2891 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
2892 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
2893 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
2894 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
2896 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
2897 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2898 noise quality as percentage.
2900 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
2901 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2903 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
2904 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
2905 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
2906 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
2907 were accounted as `zombies'.
2909 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
2910 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
2913 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
2914 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
2915 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
2917 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
2918 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
2919 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
2920 segfault with some libcs.
2922 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
2923 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
2924 under Solaris again.
2925 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
2927 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
2928 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
2930 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
2931 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
2932 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
2933 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
2934 write init.d-scripts for it.
2935 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
2936 caused problems every now and then.
2937 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
2938 filesystem types or devices.
2939 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
2940 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
2942 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
2943 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
2944 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
2945 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
2946 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
2947 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
2948 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
2949 segment size and pagefaults.
2950 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
2951 queries multimeters.
2952 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
2953 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
2954 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
2956 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
2957 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
2958 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
2959 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
2961 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
2962 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
2963 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
2964 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
2967 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
2968 * The sample config file has been improved.
2969 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
2970 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
2971 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
2972 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
2974 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
2975 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
2976 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
2978 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
2979 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
2981 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
2982 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
2983 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
2984 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
2986 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
2987 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
2988 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
2989 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
2990 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
2991 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
2992 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
2993 with a test environment :)
2994 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
2997 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
2998 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
2999 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
3001 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
3002 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
3003 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
3005 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
3006 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
3007 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
3009 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
3010 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
3012 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
3013 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
3014 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
3015 approximately 7.6 days.
3017 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
3018 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
3019 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
3020 approximately 7.6 days.
3022 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
3023 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
3025 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
3027 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
3029 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
3030 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
3031 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
3032 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
3033 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
3035 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
3036 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
3037 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
3038 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
3039 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
3040 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
3041 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
3042 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
3044 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
3045 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
3046 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
3047 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
3049 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
3050 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
3051 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
3053 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
3054 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
3055 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
3057 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
3058 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
3059 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
3062 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
3063 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
3064 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
3066 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
3067 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
3068 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
3069 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
3071 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
3072 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
3073 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
3075 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
3076 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
3078 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
3079 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
3081 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
3082 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
3084 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
3085 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
3087 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
3088 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
3089 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
3090 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
3091 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
3092 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
3093 address and/or port than localhost.
3094 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
3095 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
3096 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
3097 be set in the configfile.
3099 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
3100 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
3101 client mode. This released fixes this.
3103 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
3104 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
3105 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
3108 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
3109 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
3111 * A `df' plugin has been added.
3112 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
3113 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
3114 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
3116 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
3117 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
3118 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
3121 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
3122 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
3123 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
3125 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
3126 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
3127 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
3128 currently logged in users.
3129 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
3130 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
3131 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
3132 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
3134 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
3135 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
3136 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
3137 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
3138 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
3139 with the `-c' argument.
3140 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
3141 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
3142 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
3143 Barcellos for this patch.
3145 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
3146 * New modules have been added:
3147 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
3148 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
3149 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
3150 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
3152 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
3153 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
3155 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
3156 between polls up to one day.
3157 * The init.d files have been improved.
3158 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
3160 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
3161 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
3162 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
3164 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
3165 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
3166 multicast) has been added.
3167 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
3168 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
3169 to be linked against an external library.
3170 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
3171 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
3173 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
3174 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
3176 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
3177 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
3178 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
3179 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
3180 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
3181 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
3182 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
3183 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
3184 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
3187 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
3188 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
3190 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
3192 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
3193 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
3195 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
3196 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
3197 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
3198 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
3200 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
3201 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
3202 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3204 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
3205 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
3206 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
3207 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
3208 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
3209 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
3210 statistics will not work.
3212 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
3213 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
3214 weird strings as disk-names..
3216 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
3217 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
3218 about the disks and partitions.
3220 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
3221 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
3222 and/or kernel versions.
3224 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
3225 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
3226 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
3228 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
3229 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
3230 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
3232 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
3233 * Collecting CPU statistics now
3235 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
3236 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
3238 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
3240 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
3241 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
3243 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
3244 * The following modules are provided:
projects / collectd.git / blob