1 2017-06-06, Version 5.7.2
2 * Build system: The Notify Email plugin is no longer linked with
3 indirect dependencies. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
4 * collectd: A race condition when calculating a metric's rate has been
5 fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1193
6 * AMQP, Exec, UnixSock, Write Kafka plugins: Parsing of the PUTVAL
7 command with multiple values has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
9 * AMQP plugin: The "ExchangeType" option is now also valid for
10 publishers. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2286
11 * BIND plugin: Fix parsing of the sample time provided by BIND.
12 Previously, the time was assumed to be in the local timezone when in
13 fact it was in UTC. Thanks to Ed Ravin. #1268
14 * BIND plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
16 * cURL-JSON plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
18 * DPDKStat plugin: Error handling during initialization has been
19 improved. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
20 * DPDKStat plugin: Handling of a number of metrics has been improved,
21 for example "rx_q0bytes". Thanks to Przemyslaw Szczerbik. #2167
22 * Intel RDT plugin: Configuration handling has been changed to be more
23 graceful. Thanks to Maryam Tahhan. #2165
24 * Log Logstash plugin: If writing the log entry fails, print it to
25 "STDERR" instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
26 * LogFile plugin: If writing to the file fails, print log messages on
27 "STDERR" instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
28 * memcachec, Tail plugins: A resource leak in the matching
29 infrastructure has been fixed. Thanks to Krzysztof Matczak. #2192
30 * MQTT plugin: Invalid symbols in topic names are now replaced and a
31 resource leak has been fixed. Thanks to Denys Fedoryshchenko. #2123
32 * Network plugin: A potential endless-loop has been fixed. This can be
33 triggered remotely by sending a signed network packet to a server
34 which is not set up to check signatures. Thanks to Marcin Kozlowski
35 and Pavel Rochnyack. #2174, #2233, CVE-2017-7401
36 * Perl plugin: A potential double-free has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
38 * Processes plugin: A compilation error on AIX has been fixed. Thanks to
39 Pavel Rochnyack. #2210
40 * SMART plugin: A check for the "CAP_SYS_RAWIO" capability has been
41 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
42 * Write Graphite plugin: Error handling in the case that calculating a
43 metric's rate fails has been improved. Previously, the raw counter
44 values were sent to Graphite. Thanks to Iain Buclaw. #2209
45 * Write Prometheus plugin: An incorrect use of "realloc(3)" has been
46 fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2275
48 2017-01-23, Version 5.7.1
49 * collectd: Handling of boolean configuration options has been unified.
50 Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #2083, #2098
51 * collectd: Reporting of internal statistics has been fixed. Thanks to
52 Florian Forster. #2108
53 * collectd, various plugins: Bugs and issues reported by scan-build and
54 coverity-scan have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof and Florian
56 * Build system: Parallel build have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
58 * DPDKStat plugin: Portability issues and a double-close bug have been
59 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof and Marc Fournier.
60 * Intel RDT plugin: A check for the libpqos library version has been
61 added. Thanks to Serhiy Pshyk.
62 * NetApp plugin: Compilation problems have been corrected. Thanks to
63 Florian Forster. #2120
64 * Write Prometheus plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben
67 2016-12-12, Version 5.7.0
68 * Documentation: The Turbostat plugin section has been improved. Thanks
70 * Documentation: The semantics of the "TypesDB" option have been
71 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster.
72 * collectd: A generic interface for parsing the text protocol has been
73 added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1749
74 * collectd: Threads now get named, making them easier to track using
75 tools such as top, ps, etc. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada
76 and Marc Fournier. #547
77 * AMQP plugin, Write Graphite plugin, Write Kafka plugin: The new
78 "[Graphite]PreserveSeparator" option allows retaining the default dot
79 separator rather than escaping it. Thanks to Florian Forster. #419
80 * Battery plugin: A StateFS backend for gathering statistics has been
81 added. Thanks to Rinigus. #1795
82 * CPU plugin: CPU aggregation on AIX was fixed. Thanks to Chao Yang.
84 * Collectd::Unixsock: Fractional seconds support has been made more
85 robust. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #2052
86 * DPDKStat plugin: This new plugin collects DPDK interface statistics.
87 Thanks to Maryam Tahhan, Harry van Haaren, Taras Chornyi and Kim
89 * gRPC plugin: The "DispatchValues" option has been renamed to
90 "PutValues". Thanks to Florian Forster.
91 * HDDTemp plugin: The 32 devices limit has been removed. Thanks to
92 Benjamin Gilbert. #631
93 * Hugepages plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used and free
94 hugepages on Linux. Thanks to Jaroslav Safka, Maryam Tahhan, Kim Jones
95 and Florian Forster. #1799
96 * Intel RDT plugin: This new plugin collects statistics exposed by
97 Intel's Resource Director Technology . Thanks to SerhiyX. #1970
98 * memcached plugin: The new "Address" option allows connecting to a
99 different server than specified by the "Host" option. Thanks to Pavel
101 * nginx plugin: Support for reporting failed connections has been added.
102 Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1609
103 * Perl plugin: Significant internal reworking has been made. The new
104 "RegisterLegacyFlush" option has been added. Thanks to Pavel
106 * PostgreSQL plugin: Timestamps are now RFC 3339-formatted local time.
107 Thanks to Igor Peshansky and Dave Cunningham. #1918
108 * Processes plugin: Internal performance improvements have been made.
109 Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1980, #1981
110 * RRDCacheD plugin: The plugin now tries to reconnect upon failed
111 operations. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1959
112 * SpamAssassin: The plugin can now run in Perl's "tainted mode" ("-T").
113 Thanks to Akos Vandra. #1962
114 * Tail plugin: Support for calculating latency distribution of matching
115 values has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack and Florian Forster.
117 * Tail plugin: The new "GaugePersist" option has been added. Thanks to
118 Florian Forster. #2015
119 * Target:Set, Target:Replace, Match:RegEx: MetaData support has been
120 added . Thanks to Igor Peshansky. #1922, #1923, #1930
121 * turbostat plugin: The new "LogicalCoreNames" option allows switching
122 to per-core naming rather than per-CPU. Thanks to Brock Johnson. #2056
123 * virt plugin: The new "BlockDeviceFormat" and
124 "BlockDeviceFormatBasename" options help controlling the names
125 reported for block-device metrics. Thanks to Deyan Chepishev. #2004
126 * Write Graphite plugin: A new "DropDuplicateFields" option has been
127 added. Thanks to Michael Leinartas. #1915
128 * Write Kafka plugin: The "Key Random" setting has been reintroduced.
129 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1977
130 * Write Log plugin: Support for formatting output in JSON has been
131 added, using the new "Format" configuration option. Thanks to Igor
133 * Write Prometheus plugin: This new plugin publishes values using an
134 embedded HTTP server, in a format compatible with Prometheus'
135 collectd_exporter. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1967
137 2016-11-30, Version 5.6.2
138 * collectd: A compile error on AIX has been fixed: "MSG_DONTWAIT" is not
139 available on AIX. Thanks to Chao Yang.
140 * collectd: The capability checking has been rewritten to be more
141 portable. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2009
142 * collectd.conf(5): Various typos have been fixed. Thanks to Marc
144 * collectd-tg: Incorrect usage of "nanosleep()" has been fixed which
145 caused the tool to sleep (almost) indefinitely. Thanks to Florian
147 * Build system: Detection of the Java environment has been made
148 deterministic to allow for reproducible builds. Thanks to Marc
150 * Build system: Detection of the Lua headers has been improved. Thanks
152 * APC UPS plugin: Unavailable metrics are now skipped instead of
153 reported as 0 (zero). Thanks to Florian Forster. #2025
154 * Modbus plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
156 * OpenVPN plugin: Gracefully handle empty configurations. Thanks to
157 Pavel Rochnyack. #1932
158 * PowerDNS plugin: The "recursor command" has been fixed so PowerDNS can
159 correctly parse all requested fields. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
160 * Write Graphite and AMQP plugins: A bug that could lead to a missing
161 null-termination has been fixed. Thanks to Markus Linnala.
162 * Write HTTP plugin: A logic error when checking the correctness of the
163 data set has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1996
164 * Write Kafka plugin: The "Key Random" config option has been fixed.
165 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1977
166 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for librdkafka 0.9.0 has been added.
167 Thanks to Florian Forster.
168 * Write Riemann plugin: Build issues on Solaris have been fixed. Thanks
170 * ZFS ARC plugin: A duplicate metric has been removed. Thanks to Ruben
173 2016-10-07, Version 5.6.1
174 * Build system: Unnecessary linking of the Write Graphite plugin with
175 libyajl has been removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
177 * collectd: A bug in the "FlushInterval" option that caused a
178 segmentation fault in the Write HTTP plugin has been fixed. Thanks to
179 Florian Forster. #1954
180 * Apache plugin: A syntax error has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
182 * cURL-JSON plugin: A segmentation fault that occurred when handling
183 JSON with unexpected structure has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
185 * PostgreSQL plugin: Handling of "NULL" values in the "query_plans" and
186 "query_plans_by_table" queries has been fixed. Thanks to Bernd
188 * RRDCacheD plugin: Reconnection behavior has been added. Thanks to
189 Sebastian Harl. Debian#657877
190 * VServer plugin: Use of a deprecated API ("readdir_r()") has been
191 fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
192 * Write Graphite plugin: Make default values configurable at compile
193 time again. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1953
194 * Write HTTP plugin: A bug has been fixed that lead to flush callbacks
195 being registered twice. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1955
197 2016-09-11, Version 5.6.0
198 * Build system: An option to to avoid building the DF plugin against XFS
199 has been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1878
200 * Build system: Autoconf ≥ 2.60, a C99-capable compiler and pkg-config
201 are now required. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
202 * Build system: Building with "-Werror" is now optional. Thanks to Ruben
204 * Build system: Many compilation issues on non-Linux platforms have been
205 fixed, leading to wider plugin support. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
206 Dagobert Michelsen, Havard Eidnes and Robert Viduya.
207 * Build system: The configuration summary now also ends up in
208 config.log. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
209 * collectd: All command-line options now override global options from
210 the config file. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #366
211 * collectd: A number of unit tests for commonly used functions have been
212 added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
213 * collectd: Plugins start up and read timeouts are now logged. Thanks to
214 Marc Fournier. #1293, #1254
215 * collectd: Support for a timeout has been added to "FLUSH" callbacks.
216 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
217 * collectd: The "-T" command line switch now reports more errors. Thanks
218 to Corey Kosak. #1642
219 * collectd: The max size of value list elements ("DATA_MAX_NAME_LEN")
220 has been doubled and is now configurable at build time. Thanks to Amy
221 Lin, Florian Forster and Radu Brumariu. #1120
222 * Set target: The "MetaData" option has been added. Thanks to Yves
223 Mettier and Kevin Bowling. #1106, #1656, #1913
224 * AMQP, Write_HTTP, Write_Kafka plugins: Support for libyajl < 2 has
225 been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
226 * APC UPS plugin: Parsing of end markers has been fixed. Thanks to
228 * APC UPS plugin: The "PersistentConnection" option has been added.
229 Thanks to Florian Forster #617
230 * ceph, DNS, Exec, IPTables, Ping, turbostat plugins: When running
231 unprivileged, these plugins will now warn about insuffiscient
232 permissions or capabilities(7). Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1530
233 * Chrony plugin: This new plugin collects NTP data from the chrony NTP
234 server. Thanks to Claudius Zingerli. #1548
235 * cpusleep plugin: This new plugin measures time spent by CPU in deep
236 sleep mode. Thanks to Rinigus. #1826
237 * CPU plugin: The "ReportNumCpu" option has been added. Thanks to Fabien
239 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: The new "Statistics" reports
240 various per-HTTP connection timers. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1004
241 * DBI plugin: The "Interval" option has been added to "Database" blocks.
242 Thanks to Michal Bebjak.
243 * Disk plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li,
244 Brad Davis, Ruben Kerfhof and Kevin Bowling.
245 * Empty Counter match: Support for derives has been implemented. Thanks
246 to Florian Forster. #1813
247 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for TabularData and the "PluginName" option
248 have been added. Thanks to David Crane. #1290, #1291
249 * GPS plugin: This new plugin reports the number of sattelites seen by
250 and precision of a GPS receiver. Thanks to Nicolas Jourden. #1346
251 * gRPC plugin: This new client and server plugin allows sending and
252 receiving metrics using the gRPC protocol. Comparable to the UnixSock
253 plugin, but using TCP and TLS. Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Florian
255 * Interface plugin: Reporting dropped packets has been added. Thanks to
257 * Interface plugin: The "ReportInactive" has been added, letting users
258 skip inactive network interfaces. Thanks to Rinigus. #1791
259 * Interface plugin: The new, Solaris-only "UniqueName" option has been
260 added. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam. #1416
261 * Lua plugin: This new language binding allows writing plugins using the
262 Lua programming language. Thanks to Julien Ammous, Florian Forster and
264 * Memory plugin: Reporting of ARC memory on Solaris has been added.
265 Thanks to Brian ONeill.
266 * MQTT plugin: This new plugin sends metrics to and/or receives metrics
267 from an MQTT broker. Thanks to Marc Falzon, Jan-Piet Mens, Nicholas
268 Humfrey and Florian Forster. #805, #1124
269 * MySQL plugin: Connection to the database server can now be done over
270 SSL. Thanks to Brian Lalor. #1256
271 * MySQL plugin: Monitoring slow queries has been added. Thanks to skob.
273 * MySQL plugin: mysql_bpool_pages-flushed has been renamed to
274 mysql_bpool_counters-pages_flushed because the value is cumulative.
275 Thanks to Marek Becka.
276 * MySQL plugin: Support for Galera statistics has been added. Thanks to
277 Rachid Zarouali. #1849
278 * MySQL plugin: Support for InnoDB metrics was improved. Thanks to Aman
280 * MySQL plugin: The "mysql_sort" type has been split into 3 different
281 types. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1592
282 * Network plugin: Decryption error logging has been improved. Thanks to
283 Pavel Rochnyack. #1735
284 * Notify Nagios plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to Nagios as
285 a passive check result. Thanks to Florian Forster.
286 * NTPd plugin: The plugin now detects if the ntp daemon reports
287 nanoseconds instead of microseconds. Thanks to Matwey V. Kornilov.
289 * OpenLDAP plugin: Several connection-related improvements have been
290 made. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1308
291 * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for "simple authentication" has been added.
292 Thanks to Marek Becka. #1087
293 * Ping plugin: The "Size" option has been added, allowing the ICMP data
294 payload size to be configured. Thanks to Witold Baryluk. #1395
295 * PostgreSQL, DBI, Oracle plugins: The new "PluginInstanceFrom" option
296 has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1707
297 * PowerDNS plugin: The recursor metrics have been updated to 3.7.3 and
298 missing rr types have been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
299 * Processes plugin: Counting of context switches was added for Linux.
300 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1036
301 * Processes plugin: Improve reliability of thread counts on Linux.
302 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
303 * Python plugin: Minimal Python version requirement has been bumped to
304 2.6. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1864
305 * Redis plugin: Several additional metrics are now collected. Thanks to
306 Marc Falzon and Matteo Contrini. #1807, #1483
307 * Sensors plugin: The "UseLabels" option has been added. Thanks to
309 * SMART plugin: The new "IgnoreSleepMode" option has been added. Thanks
310 to Scott Talbert. #1770
311 * SMART plugin: The new "UseSerial" option allows identifying devices in
312 a stable way. Thanks to Scott Talbert. #1794
313 * SNMP plugin: The "IpAddress" can now be used for instances. Thanks to
314 Vincent Bernat. #1397
315 * StatsD plugin: Latency calculation histogram is now able to shrink
316 automatically to optimal size. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1622
317 * StatsD plugin: The "CounterSum" option has been added. Thanks to
318 Florian Forster. #929, #1282, #1311
319 * UUID plugin: The plugin now also looks in in smbios system table and
320 "/sys/class/dmi". Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1490
321 * virt plugin: The "PluginInstanceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
322 to Ruben Kerkhof. #1100
323 * Write Graphite plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" option has been added.
324 Thanks to Toni Moreno and Florian Forster.
325 * Write HTTP plugin: A KairosDB formatter has been added. Thanks to
326 Aurélien Rougemont. #1809
327 * Write HTTP plugin: Notifications are now handled by this plugin.
328 Thanks to Florian Forster.
329 * Write HTTP plugin: The "LogHttpError" option has been added. Thanks to
331 * Write HTTP plugin: The new "Headers" option allows setting custom HTTP
332 headers in outgoing requests. Thanks to Brandon Arp. #1634
333 * Write Kafka plugin: Key handling has been made more comprehensive and
334 reliable. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Vincent
335 Bernat. #1765, #1695, #1393
336 * Write Redis plugin: The "Database", "MaxSetSize", "Prefix" and
337 "StoreRates" options have been added. Thanks to Brian Kelly and
339 * Write Riemann plugin: The new "BatchFlushTimeout" and "Timeout" option
340 have been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Gergely Nagy.
341 * Write Riemann plugin: This plugin now requires the riemann-c-client
342 library, version 1.6.0+. This adds support for submitting values to
343 Riemann over TLS. Thanks to Gergely Nagy. #986
344 * Write TSDB, Write Sensu, Write Riemann, Write Graphite, Write TSDB
345 plugin: TCP keepalive is now enabled, helping graceful recovery from
346 unclean network disconnections. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1549
347 * XenCPU plugin: This new plugin collects XEN Hypervisor CPU stats.
348 Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1608
349 * ZFS ARC plugin: Several new statistics have been added and a couple of
350 obsolete ones removed. Thanks to Brad Davis, Brian ONeill and Ruben
352 * Zone plugin: This new plugin reads per-zone CPU usage on Solaris.
353 Thanks to Mathijs Mohlmann and Dagobert Michelsen.
355 2016-11-28, Version 5.5.3
356 * collectd: Write threads are stopped before shutdown callbacks are
357 called. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1110
358 * collectd: A compile error on AIX has been fixed: "MSG_DONTWAIT" is not
359 available on AIX. Thanks to Chao Yang.
360 * libcollectdclient: Lines printed to "STDERR" are now guarded by the
361 environment variable "COLLECTD_TRACE". Thanks to Florian Forster. #105
362 * collectd.conf(5): Various typos have been fixed. Thanks to Marc
364 * Build system: Detection of the Java environment has been made
365 deterministic to allow for reproducible builds. Thanks to Marc
367 * APC UPS plugin: Unavailable metrics are now skipped instead of
368 reported as 0 (zero). Thanks to Florian Forster. #2025
369 * Battery plugin: The minimum value has been removed from the power type
370 to allow the plugin to report discharging batteries as negative power.
371 Thanks to Florian Forster.
372 * DBI, Oracle and PostgreSQL plugins: An error message when the type
373 instance is truncated has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #4
374 * cURL-JSON plugin: A possible segmentation fault when parsing
375 unexpected JSON has been fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1896
376 * DF plugin: Compilation with xfsprogs ≥ 4.7.0 has been fixed. Thanks
377 to Thomas Deutschmann. #1877
378 * Modbus plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
380 * Network plugin: An error message has been corrected. Thanks to Florian
382 * Network plugin: Handling of errors form secure memory initialization
383 has been improved: the plugin fails gracefully now instead of calling
384 "abort()". Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
385 * Network plugin: The gcrypt library is only initialized when it is
386 actually required due to the network plugin's configuration. Thanks to
387 Florian Forster. #1902
388 * Ping plugin: The init callback has been changed to be idempotent,
389 fixing errors being reported on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster.
391 * PostgreSQL plugin: The query_plans and query_plans_by_table queries
392 have been improved to return 0 (zero) instead of "NULL" when not
393 available. Thanks to Bernd Zeimetz. #1905
394 * PowerDNS plugin: The "recursor command" has been fixed so PowerDNS can
395 correctly parse all requested fields. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
396 * Python plugin: Handling of data sets with multiple data sources of
397 different type has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
398 * RRDCacheD plugin: Reconnection behavior after failed operations has
399 been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. Debian#657877
400 * Write Graphite and AMQP plugins: A bug that could lead to a missing
401 null-termination has been fixed. Thanks to Markus Linnala.
402 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for librdkafka 0.9.0 has been added.
403 Thanks to Florian Forster.
404 * Write Riemann plugin: Build issues on Solaris have been fixed. Thanks
407 2016-07-25, Version 5.5.2
408 * collectd: A division by zero has been fixed in the
409 "plugin_dispatch_multivalue()" function. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
410 * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
411 in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
412 * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
413 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkof.
414 * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
415 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
416 * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
417 more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
418 * DF plugin: A build issue on DragonFlyBSD has been fixed. Thanks to
420 * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
421 This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
423 * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
424 has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
425 * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
426 now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
427 Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
428 * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has
429 been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was
430 ignored. Thanks to @yujokang. #1665
431 * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
432 This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
433 Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
434 * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
435 single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
436 create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
437 * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
438 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
439 * Redis plugin: A memory leak in an error handling code path has been
440 fixed. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz.
441 * Redis plugin: The data source type of the expired_keys metric has been
442 corrected to "DERIVE". Thanks to Marc Falzon and Marc Fournier. #1483.
443 * SMART plugin: A build dependency on libudev has been added. Thanks to
444 Pavel Rochnyack. #1724
445 * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
446 Pavel Rochnyack #1703
447 * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
448 shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
449 * Write Sensu plugin: A segfault when the Tag was unset has been fixed.
450 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
451 * ZFS ARC plugin: The cache_operation-stolen metric has been removed for
452 FreeBSD 10.2 and later. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1580
454 2016-01-22, Version 5.5.1
455 * Build system: Compilation errors have been avoided by correctly
456 defining package name and version used by autoconf. Thanks to Nathan
458 * Build system: Dependency ordering was fixed to ensure parallel builds
459 work reliably. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias. #1125
460 * Build system: Error messages have been improved and building the unit
461 tests has been fixed on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster and
462 Dagobert Michelsen. #1077
463 * Build system: The move of the "utils_ignorelist" functions has been
464 reverted. This fixes build issues of numerous plugins. Thanks to
465 Benjamin Drung;. #1323
466 * Build system: The fhcount plugin has been restricted to Linux. Thanks
467 to Ruben Kerkhof. #1195
468 * Build system: Detection of header files for the turbostat plugin has
469 been fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1075
470 * collectd: The "LC_NUMERIC" locale is now forced, to prevent issues
471 with some plugins on environments using a comma as decimal separator.
472 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1237
473 * Documentation: Some precisions related to the virt plugin have beed
474 added. Thanks to Wojtek Bocer and Ruben Kerkhof.
475 * Documentation: The CollectdInternalStats documentation has been
476 improved. Thanks to Yves Mettier and Florian Forster.
477 * Battery plugin: A missing Type has been added. Thanks to Marc
479 * Bind plugin: An off-by-one error has been fixed: an index was checked
480 against a wrong variable, which may lead to an out-of-bounds read.
481 Thanks to Michal Humpula. #1123
482 * Ceph plugin: JSON parsing has been refactored to support ceph 10.0.0
483 and fixes several buffer overflows. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1350
484 * CPU plugin: A Mac OS X specific bug has been fixed: the plugin
485 expected an incorrect number of CPU states, resulting in failing read
486 callbacks. This regression was introduced in 5.5.0. Thanks to Robert
488 * Disk plugin: Support for Mac OS X 10.10 has been added. Thanks to
490 * IPC plugin: Support for building with musl-libc has been added. Thanks
491 to Natanael Copa. #1147
492 * Log Logstash plugin: A segfault when using libyajl, version 1 was
493 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #1190
494 * Log Logstash plugin: The timestamp is now ISO 8601 compliant. Thanks
495 to Marc Fournier. #1132
496 * memcached plugin: The Type of the listen-disabled metric was fixed.
497 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1356
498 * MySQL plugin: The Type used by Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_flushed was
499 fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1085
500 * OpenLDAP plugin: A crash when using LDAPI (LDAP-over-IPC) got fixed.
501 Thanks to Marek Becka. #1080
502 * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for Mac OS X has been added. Thanks to Ruben
504 * SMART plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
505 Schüller and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1076
506 * Swap plugin: A regression that would lead to swap usage being reported
507 in kilobytes (instead of bytes) has been fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka.
509 * Varnish plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Ruben
511 * Varnish plugin: Support for versions 3 and 4 has been made more
512 tolerant to minor changes in Varnish point releases. Thanks to Marc
514 * virt plugin: A copy-and-paste mistake in an error message has been
515 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1101
516 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
518 * Write Redis plugin: Dead code has been removed. Thanks to Brian Kelly.
520 * 27 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
521 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
522 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan and clang: Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
523 Florian Forster and Marek Becka.
524 * Collectd::Unixsock: A Perl error got corrected. Thanks to Ciaran Mac
527 2015-05-27, Version 5.5.0
528 * Build system: Ability to make out-of-tree builds has been fixed.
529 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #792
530 * Build system, Disk and Users plugins: Detection and use of libstatgrab
531 ≧ 0.90 has been added. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #445, #795, #806,
533 * Build system, Memory, CPU, TCPConns and Processes plugins: Numerous
534 fixes related to OpenBSD support have been added. Thanks to Landry
535 Breuil. #777, #778, #779, #808
536 * Build system: Plugins now only export "module_register()". Thanks to
538 * Build system: Various cleanups and improvements have been done. Thanks
540 * collectd: Numerous internal changes and improvements to the daemon and
541 the plugin API have been make. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves
542 Ritschard and Alex Petrov. #512, #727
543 * collectd: Numerous spelling mistakes have been corrected in comments
544 and documentation and several error messages have been improved.
545 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Abhinav Upadhyay, Olivier Bazoud, Pierre-Yves
546 Ritschard, Tim Smith, Moshe Zada, Katelyn Perry and Marc Fournier.
547 * collectd: Rules/Targets can now be appended to existing Filter Chains.
548 Thanks to Marc Falzon. #444
549 * collectd: Failing Filter Chains destinations will now log the list of
550 available write targets. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #650, #1043
551 * collectd: Support for process signaling and management by upstart and
552 systemd has been implemented for the Linux platform. Thanks to
553 Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. #798, #811, #814
554 * collectd: The "CollectInternalStats" option has been added. Thanks to
556 * collectd: The daemon source code and dependencies have moved to the
557 "src/daemon/" directory. Thanks to Florian Forster.
558 * collectd: The new "MaxReadInterval" option allows to cap the
559 exponential retry interval of plugins read errors. Thanks to Alexey
560 Remizov and Florian Forster. #713
561 * collectd: The "-P" command-line option now has precedence over the
562 "PIDFile" option. Thanks to Thomas D. #553
563 * collection.cgi: Various data-source related adjustments have been
564 made. Thanks to Fabiano Pires and Sebastian Harl.
565 * libcollectdclient: Now propagates errors when signing / encrypting
566 network packets. Thanks to Florian Forster.
567 * Configuration: Support for unquoted IPv6 addresses has been added.
568 Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #489
569 * Documentation: Various improvements have been done. Thanks to Florian
570 Forster and Marc Fournier.
571 * Examples: the sample C plugin has been updated to the current plugin
572 API. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
573 * Licensing: The following components have been relicensed to the MIT
574 license: the Apple Sensors, Ascent, DBI, E-Mail, Entropy, GenericJMX,
575 gmond, LogFile, nginx, Notify Desktop, NTPd, NUT, olsrd, Perl, Ping,
576 PostgreSQL, Protocols, RouterOS, RRDCacheD, SNMP, StatsD, SysLog,
577 Table, Tail, UnixSock, vmem, VServer, Wireless, Write Riemann and XMMS
578 plugins, the core collectd daemon, the collectdmon, collectd-nagios
579 and collectd-tg utilities, all the Targets and Matches, liboconfig,
580 most of the "utils_*" files and the plugin API.
581 * Tests: A test suite has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
582 * Threshold: The hysteresis calculation has been made more reliable.
583 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #581
584 * Threshold: Various fixes and improvements have been made. Thanks to
585 Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #649, #644
586 * AMQP plugin: The "ConnectionRetryDelay" option has been added,
587 allowing to delay reconnection. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam and Marc
589 * AMQP plugin: The "QueueDurable" and "QueueAutoDelete" options have
590 been added, giving control over queue creation and deletion. Thanks to
591 David Blundell and Marc Fournier. #623
592 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx and Write HTTP
593 plugins: Customizing the "User-Agent" field is now possible at
594 compile-time. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #440
595 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx plugins: The
596 connection will be reset if it hasn't completed within the configured
597 "Interval". The new "Timeout" option gives control over this behavior.
598 Thanks to Jan Kundrát and Marc Fournier. #982, #983, #993
599 * Apache, Ascent, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP plugins:
600 Allow usernames and passwords to contain colons if built against
601 libcurl ≧ 7.19.1. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #695, #947
602 * Apache plugin: The "SSLCiphers" option gives control over the
603 encryption algorithms to use with TLS connections. Thanks to Toni
605 * Barometer plugin: This new plugin reads sensor data from various
606 Freescale and Bosch digital barometers. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #69,
608 * Battery plugin: Reporting values as percentages and reporting degraded
609 batteries has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
610 * Battery plugin: Support for reading values from sysfs on Linux has
611 been added. Thanks to Andy Parkins, Nicholas Humfrey, Peter Wu and
612 Florian Forster. #725, #810, #998
613 * Battery plugin: The value for current is no longer supplied unless the
614 battery provides this information. Thanks to Florian Forster.
615 * BIND plugin: Bind's XML v3 API is now supported; Thanks to Victor
616 Berger, Bruno Prémont and Michal Humpula. #742, #847
617 * Ceph plugin: This new plugin collects statistics from the Ceph
618 distributed storage system. Thanks to Dan Ryder, Dennis Zou, Colin
619 McCabe, Sage Weil. #522, #598
620 * ConnTrack plugin: Support for reporting values as percentages as well
621 as legacy conntrack files in "/proc" has been added. Thanks to
622 Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #497, #680
623 * CPU plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages and
624 aggregate values per-state and per-CPU. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
625 Ritschard, Florian Forster, Fabien Wernli, Nicholas Humfrey and
626 Wilfried Goesgens. #499, #516, #639 #734, #812, #802
627 * cURL-JSON plugin: Extracting values from complex JSON structures has
628 been enhanced. Thanks to Jim Radford. #408, #411
629 * cURL-JSON plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-URL basis.
630 Thanks to Stan Sawa. #685
631 * cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, Write HTTP plugins: These plugins now also follow
632 HTTP redirects. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
633 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: HTTP Digest authentication has been
634 implemented. Thanks to Frank Cornelis. #482
635 * DBI, Oracle, PostgreSQL plugins: A "MetadataFrom" parameter has been
636 added which allows to set metadata from database columns. Thanks to
637 Mark Wong. #317, #321
638 * DBI plugin: Querying several databases in parallel is now possible.
639 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #453
640 * Disk plugin: On the Linux platform, disk names can now get looked up
641 in udev with the "UdevNameAttr" option. Thanks to Patrick Mooney. #537
642 * Disk plugin: This plugin now collects several additional I/O-related
643 metrics on the Linux platform. Thanks to Florian Forster and Michael
645 * DRBD plugin: This new plugin reads Linux's Distributed Replicated
646 Block Device (DRBD) statistics. Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #566, #700
647 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: The "PUTNOTIF" command now allows to set
648 metadata on notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #416
649 * fhcount plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used file
650 handles. Thanks to Jiri Tyr. #1009
651 * GenericJMX plugin: A Class Loader for "JMXConnectorFactory" has been
652 added, allowing the plugin to work with JBOSS > 7. Thanks to Alexandre
654 * IPC plugin: This new plugin collects information related to shared
655 memory. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz. #925
656 * Java plugin: Now uses the hostname defined in the configuration file.
657 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #530, #681
658 * Load plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
659 Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #344, #498
660 * Log Logstash plugin: This new plugin writes collectd logs and events
661 as Logstash JSON formatted events. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
663 * LVM plugin: The plugin collects thin pool data volumes size, and no
664 longer reports virtual volumes. Thanks to Benjamin Gilbert. #603
665 * memcached plugin: "listen_disabled_num" are now also reported. Thanks
666 to Matt Cottingham. #622
667 * Memory plugin: Slab memory reporting on the Linux platform has been
668 added. Thanks to Manuel CISSÉ and Marc Fournier. #560, #697
669 * Memory plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
670 Thanks to Jeremy Katz, Florian Forster and Manuel CISSÉ. #501, #511,
672 * Modbus plugin: Selecting between holding and input registers is now
673 possible. Thanks to Jan Vitek. #338
674 * Modbus plugin: Support for accessing devices through an RS-485 serial
675 port has been added. Thanks to Eric Sandeen.
676 * Multimeter plugin: This plugin isn't built by default on the AIX
677 platform anymore. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada. #549, #684
678 * MySQL and PostgreSQL plugins: Passing "127.0.0.1" as a host will now
679 result in the global Hostname being used in metric names. Thanks to
681 * MySQL plugin: InnoDB, Select and Sort statistics collection has been
682 added. Thanks to Wilson Felipe, Marek Becka and Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
683 #248, #621, #699, #824
684 * MySQL plugin: The "Alias" and "ConnectTimeout" options have been
685 added. Thanks to William Tisäter.
686 * Netlink plugin: Support for 64bit netlink counters has been added.
687 Thanks to Marek Becka. #435
688 * Network plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" configuration option has been
689 added. Thanks to John Ferlito. #732
690 * NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4.0 has been implemented. Thanks to Marek
692 * OneWire plugin: Support for more temperature-providing sensor families
693 has been added. Thanks to Tomasz Torcz. #672
694 * OneWire plugin: Support for full OWFS path and more device families
695 has been implemented. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #68
696 * OpenLDAP plugin: This new plugin reads monitoring information from
697 OpenLDAP's "cn=Monitor" subtree. Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum, Marc
698 Fournier and Nicholas Humfrey. #719
699 * OpenVPN plugin: Support for OpenVPN 2.3.0 has been implemented. Thanks
701 * OpenVZ plugin: Various improvements have been made, making the plugin
702 report values like the other collectd plugins do. Thanks to Chris
704 * Perl plugin: A new "listval_filter" method has been added, various
705 internal cleanups and improvements have been made and a test suite has
706 been added. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #728
707 * PostgreSQL plugin: The new "ExpireDelay" option allows skipping older
708 values pending write when the database slows down. Thanks to Stephen
710 * PowerDNS plugin: The plugin was updated for stats from pdns 3.4.3.
711 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #965
712 * Processes plugin: A memory-usage related optimization for low-profile
713 systems has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #652
714 * Python plugin: Support for Python3 has been improved, "ModulePath" is
715 now prepended to "sys.path", and the "get_dataset()" function has been
716 added to the Python API. Thanks to Sven Trenkel and Patrick Browne.
718 * Redis and Write_Redis plugins: The support library has been switched
719 from credis to hiredis. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz, Victor Seva, Marc
720 Fournier, Johan Bergström, Michael Spiegle and brianpkelly. #296,
721 #464, #475, #799, #1030
722 * Redis plugin: Custom commands can now be used to fetch values stored
723 in Redis. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #816
724 * Redis plugin: Support for passwords up to 512 characters long has been
725 added. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #532
726 * Sensors plugin: Support for lm_sensors' power sensors has been added.
727 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #571
728 * SMART plugin: This new plugin collects SMART statistics from disk
729 drives. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #797
730 * SNMP plugin: A blacklist/whitelist feature can now be used to filter
731 which OIDs to collect. Thanks to Christophe Courtaut. #414
732 * SNMP plugin: SNMPv3 authentication and encryption support has been
733 implemented. Thanks to Michael Pilat. #362
734 * SNMP plugin: Two error messages have been disambiguated. Thanks to
736 * Swap plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
737 Thanks to Jeremy Katz and Florian Forster. #500, #510
738 * Swap plugin: The plugin no longer fails on Linux systems where
739 "SwapCached" isn't exposed by the kernel. Thanks to Florian Forster.
741 * Tail plugin: "GaugeInc" and "GaugeAdd" options have been implemented.
742 Thanks to Andre Ferraz. #673
743 * Tail plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-File basis.
744 Thanks to Tom Leaman. #446
745 * TCPConns plugin: The "AllPortsSummary" option, allowing to summarize
746 all connections, has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #488
747 * TCPConns plugin: Three metrics were renamed on the AIX platform, for
748 the sake of consistency. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #546
749 * Turbostat plugin: This new plugin reads CPU frequency and C-state
750 residency on modern Intel turbo-capable processors. Thanks to Vincent
751 Brillault, Jean Delvare and Nicolas Iooss. #651
752 * UnixSock plugin: The "GETTHRESHOLD" command has been re-added. Thanks
753 to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #674
754 * Varnish plugin: Varnish 4 support has been added, as well as as
755 monitoring metrics only available in Varnish 4. Thanks to Marc
757 * virt plugin: Guests memory usage is now also collected. Thanks to
758 Tiago Carvalho, jazzmes and Zollner Robert.
759 * virt plugin: It is now possible to chose between using guests' name or
760 UUID as plugin_instance. Thanks to Remi Ferrand. #385
761 * virt plugin: The libvirt plugin has been renamed to virt. Thanks to
763 * Write Graphite plugin: When the connection to graphite fails,
764 reconnection attempts are now limited to once per second. Thanks to
765 Florian Forster. #625
766 * Write HTTP plugin: Multi-instance support of this plugin has been
767 improved. The "<URL "url">" block has been deprecated in favor of
768 "<Node "identifier">". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #902
769 * Write HTTP plugin: Several TLS-related configuration options have been
770 added. Thanks to Ingmar Runge. #666
771 * Write HTTP plugin: The "LowSpeedLimit" and "Timeout" options allow to
772 reset slow/stalled network connections. Thanks to loginator17 and Marc
774 * Write HTTP plugin: The size of the payload posted to the HTTP server
775 can now be controlled with the "BufferSize" option. Thanks to Florian
777 * Write Kafka plugin: This new plugin sends data to Apache Kafka, a
778 distributed messaging queue. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard,
779 ciomaire, Vincent Bernat, Marc Fournier. #670, #694, #794, #853, #014
780 * Write Log plugin: This new plugin dispatches collected values to the
781 configured log destination(s). Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #886
782 * Write Riemann plugin: Extra meta strings are now added as attributes
783 in notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #417
784 * Write Riemann plugin: Notification message are now sent to the Riemann
785 server via the description field. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #575
786 * Write Riemann plugin: Support for custom attributes has been added.
787 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #459
788 * Write Riemann plugin: Support had been implemented for sending events
789 to Riemann in batches (when using TCP), and is enabled by default.
790 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #800
791 * Write Riemann plugin: The "EventServicePrefix" option has been added,
792 which adds a prefix to event service names. Thanks to Moshe Zada. #706
793 * Write Riemann plugin: Threshold checks can now be passed down to the
794 Riemann server. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #518
795 * Write Sensu plugin: This new plugin submits values to Sensu, a stream
796 processing and monitoring system. Thanks to Fabrice A. Marie and Marc
797 Fournier. #912, #1001, #1016
798 * Write TSDB plugin: This new plugin sends data to OpenTSDB, a scalable
799 time series database. Thanks to Kevin Bowling, Florian Forster, Dallin
800 Young, Michael Schenck and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #703, #772, #945
801 * ZFS ARC plugin: Support for ZFS-on-Linux has been added. Thanks to
802 Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. #552
803 * Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache Zookeeper
804 "MNTR" command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826
806 2016-07-26, Version 5.4.3
807 * Build system: A deprecation warning has been removed. Thanks to
809 * Build system: An ordering issue when build the AMQP plugin was
810 corrected. Thanks to Shahul Hameed.
811 * Build system: Building the gmond plugin against recent libganglia
812 versions has been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1129
813 * Build system: "collectd-tg" now builds on AIX. Thanks to Manuel Luis
814 Sanmartín Rozada. #542
815 * Build system: "version-gen.sh" portablility was improved. Thanks to
816 Marc Fournier and Ruben Kerkhof.
817 * Build system: Compiling utils_dns.c on Solaris has beed fixed. Thanks
818 to Yves Mettier, Dagobert Michelsen and Florian Forster. #348
819 * Build system: Default JDK detection got improved. Thanks to Ruben
820 Kerkhof and Marc Fournier.
821 * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
822 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
823 * Build system: notify_email build options got corrected to make it
824 build on non-GNU libc systems. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
825 * Build system: Protobuf building and logging has been improved. Thanks
827 * Build system: The "make distcheck" target was fixed to properly handle
828 java build artifacts. Thanks to Florian Forster.
829 * Build system: The configure script got fixed to work properly when
830 called with "CC="gcc -Wall -Werror"" . Thanks to Marc Fournier.
831 * Build system: The configure script will now fail if pkg-config isn't
832 available. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
833 * Build system: The users plugin now builds properly on Solaris when
834 libstatgrab is available. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #1061
835 * Build system: Various fixes have been done to improve library
836 detection on FreeBSD. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
837 * collectd2html: Several perl errors have been corrected. Thanks to Ruud
839 * collectd: A global gauge format-string is now used to avoid loss of
840 precision. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1039
841 * collectd: A race condition at plugin initialization time was fixed.
842 Thanks to Jan Andres. #1316
843 * collectd: Autoloading now properly sets plugin context, allowing
844 plugins to determine the interval. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1069
845 * collectd: Empty "Plugin" blocks are now supported by the configuration
846 file parser. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1035
847 * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
848 in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
849 * collectd: Writing to a closed TCP socket is now properly handled.
850 Thanks to Tamás Földesi. #1104
851 * Documentation: iptables plugin: IPv6 configuration option has been
852 added to the collectd.conf(5) manpage. Thanks to 'Marc Fournier''.
854 * AMQP plugin: The plugin was fixed to build against librabbitmq 0.6.0.
855 Thanks to Remi Collet. #1008
856 * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
857 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
858 * Apache plugin: The plugin was extended to parse the whole response,
859 required to support Apache versions greater than 2.4.17. Thanks to
860 Marc Fournier and Florian Forster. #1170, #1343
861 * APC UPS plugin: Log messages are now prefixed with the plugin name.
862 Thanks to Sergey. #1329
863 * Bind plugin: The type_instance now gets properly sanitized. Thanks to
865 * CPU plugin: Error messages on MacOSX have been improved. Thanks to
867 * cURL plugin: A typo in an error message got corrected. Thanks to Marc
869 * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
870 more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
871 * DF plugin: An bug preventing filesystems which don't report inodes
872 such as btrfs has been corrected. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1096
873 * DF plugin: Duplicate entries are no longer reported twice. Thanks to
874 Stefan Brüns and Florian Forster. #1402
875 * DF plugin: Legacy code for skipping "rootfs" mount points has been
876 removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1402
877 * DF plugin: Legacy references to the "ReportReserved" option have been
878 removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
879 * DF plugin: Reading the mtab now uses a reentrant function when
880 possible. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1163
881 * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
882 This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
884 * Exec plugin: A file descriptor leak when the plugin is configured to
885 run as a non-existing user was corrected. Thanks to Gautam BT and Marc
887 * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
888 has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
889 * Interface plugin: Documentation about regular expressions in the
890 ignore list has been added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski.
891 * IRQ plugin: The "FIQ" line is now skipped as it doesn't contain any
892 counter. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #971
893 * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
894 now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
895 Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
896 * MongoDB plugin: A memory leak has been fixed and some adaptations to
897 the current API of the mongo-c-driver have been made. Thanks to
898 Florian Forster. #956
899 * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has
900 been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was ignored.
901 Thanks to @yujokang. #1665
902 * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
903 This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
904 Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
905 * Network plugin: The TimeToLive option handling was made more robust.
906 Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #654
907 * NTPd plugin: Documentation about the required "mode 7" has been added.
908 Thanks to Jakub Jankowski.
909 * NTPd plugin: Reporting of "time_offset-loop" was corrected to match
910 the values from ntpq/ntpdc. Thanks to Pierre Fersing and Florian
912 * OpenVPN plugin: The plugin was fixe to avoid signaling an error when
913 no clients were connected. Thanks to Florian Forster. #731
914 * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
915 single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
916 create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
917 * PF plugin and DNS plugin: These plugins have been fixed to build
918 properly on OpenBSD again. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
919 * Processes plugin: A compilation error on systems without "regex.h" has
920 been fixed. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
921 * Processes plugin: A memory leak on Solaris has been fixed. Thanks to
923 * Processes plugin and Swap plugin: These plugins have been corrected to
924 also work inside FreeBSD jails. Thanks to biancalana. #1019
925 * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
926 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
927 * Processes plugin: Process counting on the FreeBSD and OpenBSD
928 platforms has been fixed. Thanks to Herve COMMOWICK. #1298
929 * Processes plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly on Solaris.
930 Thanks to Jan Andres. #919
931 * Python plugin: A double-free bug got fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel.
933 * RRDtool plugin: A race condition leading to corrupt RRD file creation
934 has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1031
935 * SNMP plugin: The "Gauge32" signedness was corrected to match RFC1902.
936 Thanks to Nathan Ward. #1325
937 * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
938 Pavel Rochnyack #1703
939 * StatsD plugin: A memory leak was corrected. Thanks to Florian Forster.
941 * StatsD plugin: A symbol lookup error was fixed by properly linking the
942 plugin against libm. Thanks to Florian Forster.
943 * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Support for including values above
944 1000 in percentile calculation has been added. Thanks to Yoga
946 * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Two division by zero error conditions
947 have been corrected. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #655
948 * StatsD plugin: Counters absolute counts are now also reported. Thanks
949 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1311
950 * StatsD plugin: The plugin now emits NaN values when no timer event is
951 recorded. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1038, #1039
952 * StatsD plugin: The plugin was corrected to avoid crashing when
953 negative timer values are submitted. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1131
954 * Tail CSV plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly with multiple
955 "Collect" options and a bug got fixed when no "TimeFrom" is specified.
956 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada and Florian Forster. #1032
957 * TCPConns plugin: A memory leak was fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster.
959 * TCPConns plugin: An bug causing collectd to enter an inifinite loop on
960 OpenBSD was fixed. Thanks to Landry Breuil. #1094
961 * Threshold plugin: Threshold configuration blocks can now be defined in
962 different files. Thanks to Michael Salmon. #551
963 * vmem plugin: Support for pgsteal in recent Linux kernels has been
964 added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski. #1307
965 * vmem plugin: The DSType for nr_dirtied and nr_written was corrected to
966 report a derive. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1072
967 * Write Graphite plugin: Error handling when submitting metrics to the
968 server is now more robust. Thanks to Sam Pointer. #1364
969 * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
970 shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
971 * Write Redis plugin: Multi-Valued key was made easier to parse by
972 adding a "|" character as a delimiter. Thanks to brianpkelly and
973 Florian Forster. #1070
974 * Write Redis plugin: The timestamp format was corrected. Thanks to
976 * ZFS ARC plugin: The plugin was will not emit warning about missing
977 "l2_size" stats anymore. Thanks to Jan Andres. #919
978 * 152 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
979 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
980 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan, clang and gcc-6: Thanks to Ruben
981 Kerkhof, Florian Forster, Marc Fournier, Corey Kosak, Laurent,
982 Claudius Zingerli and Fabien Wernli.
984 2015-02-26, Version 5.4.2
985 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
986 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
987 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
989 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
990 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
991 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
993 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c. Thanks to
995 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
996 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
997 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
998 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
999 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
1000 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
1001 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
1002 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
1003 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
1004 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1005 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
1006 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
1007 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
1009 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
1010 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
1011 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1012 * Documentation: Documentation of the "AutoLoadPlugin" option has been
1013 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #715
1014 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
1015 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
1016 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
1017 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
1018 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML and Write HTTP plugins: Call
1019 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
1021 * cURL and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
1022 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
1023 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
1024 Florian Forster. #663
1025 * curl-json: A bug, which triggered when two URLs with a long common
1026 prefix were configured, was fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #582
1027 * dbi: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been restored.
1028 Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
1029 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
1030 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
1031 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
1032 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
1033 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
1034 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
1036 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
1037 Thanks to Florian Forster.
1038 * LogFile and SysLog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
1039 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
1040 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
1041 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
1042 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
1043 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
1044 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
1046 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
1048 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
1049 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
1050 * RRDtool and RRDCacheD plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
1051 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
1052 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
1053 Ritschard. #610, #804
1054 * statsd: Support for samplerates in timer metrics was added. Thanks
1056 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
1057 to Florian Forster. #733
1058 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
1059 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
1060 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
1062 * lvm: An issue with Volume Groups (VGs) without Logical Volumes (LVs)
1063 has been fixed. Thanks to Jan Kundrát.
1064 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
1065 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
1066 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
1068 * write_redis: A formatting bug, which resulted in totally unusable
1069 numbers being transmitted to Redis, was fixed. Thanks to Marc
1071 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
1074 2014-01-26, Version 5.4.1
1075 * amqp plugin: Add support for RabbitMQ 0.4.x to avoid compiler
1076 warnings. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for implementing this.
1077 * apache / network plugins: Improved initialization order hopefully
1078 resolved gcrypt initialization problems.
1079 * aquaero plugin: The type used to submit fan utilization was fixed.
1080 Thanks to Alex Deymo for the patch.
1081 * cgroups plugin: A small memory leak was fixed. Checking the existence
1082 of a mount option without a value was fixed. More permissive parsing
1083 of the cpuacct.stats file fixes support for some versions of Linux.
1084 Thanks to Marc Fournier for bug reports and patches.
1085 * curl plugin: Fix <Match> blocks without an instance. Thanks to
1086 Alexander Golovko for reporting and Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1087 * curl_json plugin: Potentially invalid memory access has been
1088 sanitized. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
1089 * interface plugin: Fix behavior under FreeBSD 10: Reporting of
1090 per-address statistics caused duplicate updates to the same metric.
1091 Thanks to demon / @trtrmitya for the patch.
1092 * write_graphite plugin: Use TCP to connect to Graphite by default. The
1093 default changed from TCP to UDP between 5.3.1 and 5.4.0, which is a
1094 regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier for fixing this. Reconnect
1095 behavior was improved. Thanks to Michael Hart for his patch.
1096 * zfs_arc plugin: Collect "allocated" and "stolen" on FreeBSD only.
1098 2013-08-18, Version 5.4.0
1099 * collectd: The "LoadPlugin" config option no longer attempts to load
1100 plugins twice. If more than one "LoadPlugin" statement or block is
1101 encountered, only the first will have any effect.
1102 * collectd: The "AutoLoadPlugin" option allows to automatically load
1103 plugins for which a configuration is found.
1104 * collectd: The "WriteQueueLimitHigh" and "WriteQueueLimitLow" options
1105 allow collectd to drop values when under stress, to avoid running out
1106 of memory. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patch.
1107 * amqp plugin: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
1108 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options have been added. Thanks to Laurent
1110 * aquaero plugin: This new plugin reads various metrics, e.g. fan
1111 speeds and temperatures, from Aquaero 5, a fan and water cooling
1112 control panel. Thanks to Alex Deymo for his patch.
1113 * curl plugin: The "MeasureResponseCode" option has been added. Thanks
1114 to Jan Matějka for his patch.
1115 * curl_json plugin: Support for UNIX domain sockets and array wildcards
1116 has been added. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
1117 * curl_xml plugin: Support for long URLs has been improved.
1118 * cgroups plugin: This new plugin collects CPU accounting information
1119 for processes in a cgroup. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for his patch.
1120 * df plugin: The "ValuesAbsolute" and "ValuesPercentage" options have
1121 been added. Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek for the patch.
1122 * exec plugin: Do UID / GID lookups before forking. This should prevent
1123 a race condition in the NSS library. Thanks to Ceri Storey for the
1125 * lvm plugin: This new plugin collects size information from Linux'
1126 Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Thanks to Chad Malfait for his work.
1127 * memcached plugin: Support for increment and decrement counts has been
1128 added. Thanks to Blake Matheny for the patch.
1129 * mic plugin: This new plugin collects CPU and memory usage, power
1130 consumption and temperatures of Intel's Many-Integrated-Core (MIC)
1131 architecture, such as Xeon Phi cards. Thanks to Evan Felix for his
1133 * netlink plugin: This plugin has been converted to use the supported
1134 "libmnl" library. Thanks to Andreas Henriksson for his patch.
1135 * nginx plugin: Collection of accepted and handled connections has been
1136 added. Thanks to Patrick Shan for his patch.
1137 * sigrok plugin: This new plugin collects metrics from sigrok, a signal
1138 processing framework reading various hardware devices, from light
1139 meters to spectrum analyzers. Thanks to Bert Vermeulen for his patch.
1140 * statsd plugin: This new plugin listens to a UDP socket and reads
1141 metrics in the StatsD format.
1142 * varnish plugin: Many additional metrics have been added. Thanks to
1143 Nick Stenning for his patch.
1144 * write_graphite plugin: Support for "UDP" has been added. Thanks to
1145 Javier Maestro for his patch.
1146 * write_riemann plugin: The "TTLFactor" option has been added.
1147 * zfs_arc plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li
1150 2015-02-26, Version 5.3.2
1151 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
1152 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
1153 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
1155 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
1156 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
1157 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
1158 Fournier and @NsLib.
1159 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c Thanks to
1161 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
1162 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
1163 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
1164 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1165 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
1166 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
1167 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
1168 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
1169 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
1170 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1171 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
1172 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
1173 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
1175 * Documentation: The synopsis of the threshold has been fixed. Thanks
1177 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
1178 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
1179 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1180 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
1181 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
1182 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
1183 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
1184 * csv: A regression which would lead to the "DataDir" option to be
1185 ignored has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada.
1186 * curl, curl-json, curl-xml and write_http plugins: Call
1187 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
1189 * curl and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
1190 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
1191 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
1192 Florian Forster. #663
1193 * dbi plugin: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been
1194 restored. Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
1195 * exec, unixsock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
1196 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
1197 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
1198 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
1200 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
1201 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
1202 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
1203 Thanks to Florian Forster.
1204 * logfile and syslog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
1205 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
1206 * memcached: Connecting to a UNIX socket has been fixed. Thanks to Jim
1208 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
1209 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
1210 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
1211 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
1212 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
1214 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
1216 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
1217 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
1218 * replace and set targets: Fix error message. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1220 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: Honor the "DataDir" config option;
1221 this fixes a regression. Thanks to Florian Forster. #380
1222 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
1223 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
1224 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
1225 Ritschard. #610, #804
1226 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
1227 to Florian Forster. #733
1228 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
1229 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
1230 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
1232 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
1233 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
1234 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
1236 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
1239 2013-07-13, Version 5.3.1
1240 * Documentation: Various fixes.
1241 * Configuration: Fix error handling: Errors in included files were
1242 ignored, causing configuration mistakes to go unnoticed.
1243 * dns plugin: Don't abort when PCAP returns an error.
1244 * modbus plugin: The reconnection strategy was improved, fixing a
1245 segfault in the libmodbud library. Thanks to Stefan Nickl and
1246 Fabien Wernli for their patches.
1247 * mysql plugin: The notification about a newly running MySQL slave
1248 thread has been fixed. Thanks to Joaquín Cuenca Abela for the patch.
1249 * snmp plugin: A build issue has been fixed (C99 mixed declaration).
1250 The end-of-tree check has been improved by Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
1251 * threshold plugin: Handling of the "Interesting" configuration option
1252 has been fixed. Thanks to Björn for the patch.
1253 * write_riemann plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Dave
1254 Cottlehuber for reporting it.
1256 2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0
1257 * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include
1258 only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
1260 * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This
1261 improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act
1262 as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for
1263 reviewing this change and fixing bugs.
1264 * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using
1265 regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric
1266 can now be set via the configuration file.
1267 * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented.
1268 * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers
1269 has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
1270 * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks
1271 to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
1272 * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The
1273 "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch.
1274 * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to
1275 Greg Mason for his patch.
1276 * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks
1277 to Johan Wirén for his patch.
1278 * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication /
1279 compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
1280 patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work.
1281 * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks
1282 to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
1283 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been
1284 implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created
1285 asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances.
1286 Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code.
1287 * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV
1288 files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for
1290 * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added.
1291 * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to
1292 Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to
1293 Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work.
1295 2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2
1296 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1297 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1298 Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks
1299 to Sebastian Harl for his patch.
1300 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
1301 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1302 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1303 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1304 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1305 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1306 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1307 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1308 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1309 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1310 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1311 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
1312 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1313 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1314 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
1315 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
1316 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
1317 * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
1318 * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
1319 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
1320 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
1321 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
1322 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1323 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1324 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1325 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1328 2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1
1329 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris
1330 and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches.
1331 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
1332 more frequently than intended.
1333 * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added.
1334 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1335 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1336 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
1337 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
1338 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1339 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1340 * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed.
1341 A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was
1342 configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these
1344 * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
1345 Ritschard for his patch.
1346 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
1347 * write_graphite plugin: A regression which rendered the
1348 "SeparateInstances" and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been
1349 fixed. A failed assertion when using types with many data sources
1350 has been fixed. Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
1351 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
1352 the logging problem.
1353 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
1354 Mettier for reporting this bug.
1356 2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0
1357 * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved.
1358 Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch.
1359 * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a
1360 per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for
1362 * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real
1363 looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new
1364 plugin, for example.
1365 * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets
1366 in the binary format has been added.
1367 * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple
1368 value lists into one.
1369 * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON
1370 output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch.
1371 * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to
1372 Thomas Meson for the patch.
1373 * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to
1374 Manuel Rozada for his patch.
1375 * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the
1377 * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't
1379 * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks
1380 to "Davide Guerri" for the patch.
1381 * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added.
1382 Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch.
1383 * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The
1384 behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to
1385 Johan Kiviniemi for the patches.
1386 * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added.
1387 * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's
1388 packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes
1390 * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added.
1391 Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added.
1392 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches.
1393 * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
1394 Cosmin Ioiart for the patch.
1395 * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added.
1396 Thanks to biancalana for the patch.
1397 * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan",
1398 "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added.
1399 * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX
1400 version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out
1401 "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch.
1402 * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc
1403 for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch.
1405 2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3
1406 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1407 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1408 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
1409 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1410 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1411 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1412 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1413 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1414 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1415 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1416 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1417 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1418 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1419 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
1420 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1421 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1422 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
1423 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
1424 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
1425 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
1426 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
1427 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
1428 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1429 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1430 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1431 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1434 2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2
1435 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves
1436 Mettier for his patches.
1437 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
1438 more frequently than intended.
1439 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1440 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1441 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
1442 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
1443 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1444 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1445 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
1446 * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
1447 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
1449 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
1450 Mettier for reporting this bug.
1452 2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1
1453 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1454 unwanted permission bits.
1455 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1456 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1457 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1458 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1459 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1460 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1461 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
1462 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
1463 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
1465 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1466 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
1467 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
1468 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1469 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1470 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1471 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1472 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1473 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1474 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1475 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1476 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1478 * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of
1479 uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for
1480 reporting these problems.
1481 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1482 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1483 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
1484 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1485 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1487 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1488 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1489 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1490 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1491 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1492 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1493 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1494 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1496 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1497 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1498 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
1499 "biancalana" for the fix.
1500 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1501 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1502 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1503 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1504 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1506 * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been
1507 fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch.
1508 * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and
1509 later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch.
1511 2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0
1512 * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has
1514 * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using
1515 "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
1516 * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use
1517 the system time rather than the time reported by BIND.
1518 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been
1519 added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch.
1520 * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics
1521 directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch.
1522 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in
1523 addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
1524 Ritschard for his patch.
1525 * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default
1526 ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g.
1528 * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various
1529 states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
1531 * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been
1533 * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin
1534 Ioiart for his patch.
1535 * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the
1536 Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux.
1537 * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation.
1538 Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch.
1539 * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been
1541 * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to
1542 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch.
1543 * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added.
1544 * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added.
1545 Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1546 * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1547 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1548 * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to
1549 Aaron Brady for his patch.
1550 * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to
1551 Jérôme Renard for his patches.
1552 * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value
1553 lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch
1554 and Chris Lundquist for their work.
1555 * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value
1556 lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series
1557 database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their
1559 * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to
1560 Aurelien Rougemont for his patches.
1561 * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been
1562 added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1564 2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5
1565 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1566 unwanted permission bits.
1567 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1568 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1569 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1570 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1571 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1572 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1573 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
1574 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
1575 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
1577 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1578 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
1579 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
1580 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1581 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1582 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1583 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1584 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1585 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1586 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1587 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1588 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1590 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1591 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1592 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
1593 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1594 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1596 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1597 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1598 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1599 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1600 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1601 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1602 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1603 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1605 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1606 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1607 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
1608 "biancalana" for the fix.
1609 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1610 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1611 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1612 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1613 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1616 2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4
1617 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1618 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1619 plugin under Gentoo.
1620 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1621 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1623 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1624 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1625 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1626 Opter for his patch.
1627 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1628 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1630 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1631 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1633 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1634 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1636 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1637 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1639 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1640 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1641 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1642 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1643 runtime has been fixed.
1645 2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3
1646 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1647 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1648 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1650 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1651 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1652 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1653 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1654 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1655 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1656 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1658 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1660 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1661 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1662 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1663 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1664 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1666 2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2
1667 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1668 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1669 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1670 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1672 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1673 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1674 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1675 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1677 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1678 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1679 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1680 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1681 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1682 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1683 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1684 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1685 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1686 for fixing this bug!
1688 2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1
1689 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1690 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1691 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1692 to Peter Green for his patch.
1693 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1694 McCabe for the patch.
1695 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1696 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1697 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1698 code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module.
1699 * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts.
1700 Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this.
1701 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1702 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1703 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1704 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1705 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1706 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1707 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1708 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1709 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1710 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1711 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1712 * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values
1713 were submitted as gauge even though they were derives.
1714 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1715 Flisher for the fix.
1717 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
1718 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
1719 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
1720 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
1721 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
1722 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
1723 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
1724 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
1726 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
1727 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
1728 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
1729 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
1730 added to the collectd client library.
1731 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
1732 one data source has been changed to "value".
1733 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
1734 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
1735 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
1736 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
1737 maximum value is unspecified.
1738 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
1739 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
1740 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1741 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1742 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1743 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
1744 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
1745 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
1746 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
1747 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
1749 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1750 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
1751 "Connection" blocks.
1752 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
1754 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
1756 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
1757 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
1758 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
1759 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
1761 * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
1762 license has been changed to LGPLv2.1.
1763 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
1764 data sets used have been improved.
1765 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
1767 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1768 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1769 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
1770 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
1771 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
1772 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
1773 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
1774 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
1775 this separate plugin.
1776 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
1777 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
1778 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
1779 Fournier for their contributions.
1780 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
1782 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
1784 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
1787 2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9
1788 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1789 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1790 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1791 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1792 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1793 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1794 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1795 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1796 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1797 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1798 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1799 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1800 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1801 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1802 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1803 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1804 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1805 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1808 2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8
1809 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1810 unwanted permission bits.
1811 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1812 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1813 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1814 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1815 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1816 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1817 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1818 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1819 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1820 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1821 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1822 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1823 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1824 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1825 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1826 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1828 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1829 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1830 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1832 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1833 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1834 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1835 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1836 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1837 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1838 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1839 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1841 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1842 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1843 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1844 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1845 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1846 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1847 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1850 2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7
1851 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1852 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1853 plugin under Gentoo.
1854 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1855 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1857 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1858 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1859 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1860 Opter for his patch.
1861 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1862 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1864 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1865 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1867 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1868 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1870 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1871 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1873 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1874 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1875 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1876 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1877 runtime has been fixed.
1879 2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6
1880 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1881 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1882 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1884 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1885 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1886 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1887 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1888 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1889 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1890 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1892 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1894 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1895 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1896 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1897 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1898 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1900 2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5
1901 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1902 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1903 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1904 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1906 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1907 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1908 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1909 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1911 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1912 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1913 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1914 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1915 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1916 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1917 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1918 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1919 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1920 for fixing this bug!
1922 2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4
1923 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1924 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1925 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1926 to Peter Green for his patch.
1927 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1928 McCabe for the patch.
1929 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1930 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1931 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1933 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1934 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1935 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1936 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1937 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1938 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1939 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1940 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1941 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1942 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1943 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1944 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1945 Flisher for the fix.
1947 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
1948 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1949 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
1951 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
1952 percentage calculation has been fixed.
1953 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
1955 * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
1956 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
1957 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
1958 * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
1959 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
1960 error handling case.
1961 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
1962 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
1965 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
1966 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
1967 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
1968 the rest of the configuration if possible.
1969 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
1970 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
1971 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
1972 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
1973 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
1974 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
1975 configurable timeout value.
1976 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
1977 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
1978 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1979 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
1980 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
1981 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
1982 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1984 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1985 to prevent spamming the logs.
1986 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1987 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1988 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1989 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1991 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
1993 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1994 Trenkel for the patch.
1996 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
1997 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1998 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1999 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
2000 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
2002 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
2003 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
2004 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
2006 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
2007 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
2008 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
2009 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
2010 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
2011 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
2012 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
2013 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
2014 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
2015 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
2017 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
2018 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
2019 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
2020 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
2021 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
2022 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
2023 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
2025 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
2027 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
2028 lines from the match.
2029 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
2030 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
2032 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
2033 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
2034 Malek for the patch.
2035 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
2036 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
2038 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
2039 certain lines from the match.
2040 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
2041 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
2042 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
2043 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
2044 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
2045 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
2046 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
2047 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
2048 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
2049 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
2050 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
2051 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
2052 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
2053 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
2054 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
2055 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
2056 Sebastian Harl for his work.
2057 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
2058 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
2059 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
2060 Sven Trenkel for his work.
2061 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
2062 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
2063 MikroTik devices has been added.
2064 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
2065 Scraba for his patch.
2066 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
2067 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
2068 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
2069 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
2070 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
2071 Ammous for his patch.
2073 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
2074 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
2075 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
2077 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
2078 percentage calculation has been fixed.
2079 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
2081 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
2082 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
2083 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
2084 error handling case.
2085 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
2086 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
2089 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
2090 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
2091 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
2092 the rest of the configuration if possible.
2093 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
2094 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
2095 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
2096 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
2097 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
2098 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
2099 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
2100 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
2101 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
2102 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
2103 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
2104 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
2106 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
2107 to prevent spamming the logs.
2108 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
2109 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
2110 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
2111 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
2113 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
2114 Trenkel for the patch.
2116 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
2117 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
2118 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
2119 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
2120 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
2122 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
2123 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
2124 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
2125 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
2127 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
2128 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
2129 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
2130 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
2131 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
2132 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
2133 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
2134 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
2135 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
2136 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
2137 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
2138 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
2140 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
2141 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
2142 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
2143 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
2144 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
2145 figuring out a way to make this work.
2146 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
2147 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
2148 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
2149 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
2150 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
2152 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
2154 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
2155 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
2156 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
2157 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
2158 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
2159 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
2160 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
2161 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
2163 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
2164 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
2165 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
2166 an unknown data source type.
2167 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
2168 packets has been fixed.
2169 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
2171 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
2172 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
2173 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
2174 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
2175 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
2176 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2178 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
2179 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
2180 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
2181 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
2182 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
2183 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
2184 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
2185 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
2186 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
2188 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
2189 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
2190 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
2193 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
2194 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
2195 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
2196 Weiskircher for the patch.
2197 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
2198 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2199 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
2200 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
2201 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
2202 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
2203 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
2204 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
2205 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
2206 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
2207 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
2208 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
2209 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
2211 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
2212 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
2213 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
2214 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
2215 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
2216 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
2217 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
2218 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2219 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
2220 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
2221 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
2222 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
2223 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
2224 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
2225 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
2226 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
2227 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
2228 storage has been added.
2229 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
2230 value has been added.
2232 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
2233 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
2234 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
2235 an unknown data source type.
2237 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
2238 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
2239 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
2240 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
2241 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
2242 figuring out a way to make this work.
2243 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
2244 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
2245 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
2246 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
2248 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
2250 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
2251 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
2252 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
2253 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
2254 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
2255 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
2257 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
2258 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
2259 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
2260 packets has been fixed.
2261 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
2262 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
2263 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
2264 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
2265 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
2266 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2268 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
2269 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
2270 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
2271 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
2272 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
2275 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
2276 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
2277 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
2278 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
2279 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
2280 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
2282 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
2283 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
2284 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
2285 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
2286 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
2287 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
2289 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
2290 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
2291 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
2292 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
2294 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
2295 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
2297 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
2298 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
2299 issues on some platforms.
2300 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
2301 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2302 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
2303 descriptor handling.
2305 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
2306 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
2307 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
2308 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
2309 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
2310 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
2312 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
2313 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
2314 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
2315 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2316 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
2317 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
2318 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2319 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
2320 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
2321 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
2322 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
2324 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
2325 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
2326 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
2327 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
2328 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
2329 Aman Gupta for the patch.
2330 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
2331 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
2332 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
2333 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
2334 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
2336 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
2337 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
2339 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
2340 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
2341 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2342 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
2343 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
2344 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
2345 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
2346 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2347 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
2348 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
2349 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
2350 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
2351 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
2352 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
2354 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
2355 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
2356 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
2357 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
2358 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
2359 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
2361 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
2362 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
2363 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
2364 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
2366 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
2367 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
2368 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
2369 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
2371 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
2372 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
2374 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
2375 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
2376 issues on some platforms.
2377 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
2378 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2379 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
2380 descriptor handling.
2382 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
2383 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
2384 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
2385 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
2386 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
2387 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
2389 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
2390 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
2391 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
2392 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
2393 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
2394 Hess for reporting this bug.
2395 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
2396 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
2397 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
2398 is linked with the shipped library, too.
2399 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
2400 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
2401 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
2402 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
2403 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
2404 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
2405 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
2406 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
2407 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
2408 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
2409 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
2410 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
2411 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2414 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
2415 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
2417 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
2418 Díaz for fixing this bug.
2419 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
2420 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
2421 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
2422 for reporting the bug.
2423 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
2425 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
2426 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
2427 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
2428 libtool 2.2 has been added.
2429 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
2430 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
2431 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
2432 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
2433 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
2435 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
2436 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
2437 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
2438 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
2439 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
2441 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
2442 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2444 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
2445 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
2446 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
2447 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
2448 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
2449 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
2450 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2451 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
2452 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
2453 Konetzko for the patch.
2454 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
2455 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
2456 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
2457 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
2458 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
2459 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
2460 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
2461 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
2462 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
2463 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
2464 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
2465 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
2466 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2467 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
2468 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
2469 Quiédeville for the patch.
2470 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
2472 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
2473 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
2474 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
2475 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
2476 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
2477 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
2478 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
2479 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
2481 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
2482 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
2483 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
2484 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
2485 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
2486 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
2488 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
2489 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
2490 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
2491 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
2493 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
2494 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
2495 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
2496 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
2497 Hess for reporting this bug.
2498 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
2499 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
2500 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
2501 is linked with the shipped library, too.
2502 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
2503 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
2504 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
2505 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
2506 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2509 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
2510 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
2511 Díaz for fixing this bug.
2512 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
2513 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
2514 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
2515 for reporting the bug.
2517 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
2518 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2519 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2520 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2521 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2522 providing an OpenBSD system.
2523 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
2524 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
2525 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
2526 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
2527 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
2529 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2531 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2532 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2533 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2534 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2535 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2537 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2538 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
2539 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2541 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
2542 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
2543 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
2544 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
2546 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
2547 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
2548 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
2549 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
2550 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
2551 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
2552 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
2553 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
2554 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
2555 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
2556 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2557 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2558 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2560 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
2561 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
2562 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2563 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
2564 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
2565 for finding and fixing most of them.
2566 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2567 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2569 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
2570 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
2571 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
2572 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
2573 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2574 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
2575 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
2576 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
2577 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
2578 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
2579 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
2581 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
2582 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
2583 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
2584 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
2586 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
2587 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
2588 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
2589 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
2590 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
2591 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
2592 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
2593 Kuhnle for the patch.
2594 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
2595 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
2596 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
2597 MacEachern for the patch.
2598 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
2599 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
2600 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
2601 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
2602 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
2603 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
2604 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
2605 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
2606 select interfaces, too.
2607 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
2608 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
2609 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
2611 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
2612 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
2613 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
2614 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
2615 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
2616 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2617 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
2618 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
2619 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
2620 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
2622 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
2623 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
2624 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
2625 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
2626 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
2627 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
2628 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
2629 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
2631 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
2632 been added. Portability fixes.
2633 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
2634 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
2635 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
2637 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
2640 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
2641 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2642 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2643 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2644 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2645 providing an OpenBSD system.
2646 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
2647 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2649 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
2650 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2651 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2652 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2653 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2654 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2656 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2657 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2658 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2659 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2661 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
2662 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
2664 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
2665 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2666 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
2668 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2669 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2670 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
2671 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
2673 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
2674 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2675 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2676 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2678 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2679 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2680 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
2681 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
2682 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
2683 provide these necessary functions.
2684 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2685 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
2687 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
2688 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2689 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2690 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
2692 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2693 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2694 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2695 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2696 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2697 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2699 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
2700 invalid configuration options.
2701 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2702 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2703 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2705 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
2706 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2707 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2708 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2710 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2711 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2712 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2713 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2714 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2715 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2716 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2717 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2719 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2720 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2721 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
2722 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
2723 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2724 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2725 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2726 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
2727 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
2728 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
2729 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
2730 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
2732 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2733 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2736 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
2737 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
2738 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
2740 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
2741 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
2742 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
2743 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
2744 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
2745 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
2747 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
2748 email, using the `esmtp' library.
2749 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
2750 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
2752 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
2753 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
2754 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
2755 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
2757 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
2758 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
2759 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
2760 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
2761 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
2763 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
2764 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
2765 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
2767 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
2768 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2769 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2770 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2772 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2773 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2774 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2775 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
2776 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2777 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2778 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2779 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2780 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2781 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2782 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2783 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2785 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2786 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2787 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2789 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
2790 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2791 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2792 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2794 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2795 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2796 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2797 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2798 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2799 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2800 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2801 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2803 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2804 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2805 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2806 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2807 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2808 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2809 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2812 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
2813 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
2814 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2816 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2817 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
2819 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
2820 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
2821 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianness of the
2822 architecture collectd is being built on.
2823 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
2825 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
2827 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
2828 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
2829 values under Solaris.
2830 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
2831 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
2833 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
2834 returned by some broken drivers.
2836 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
2837 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
2838 to kyrone for reporting this.
2839 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
2841 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
2843 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
2844 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
2845 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
2846 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
2848 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
2849 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
2850 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
2851 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
2852 flush its values to disk.
2853 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
2854 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
2855 for each data source.
2856 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
2858 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
2859 page of an Ascent server.
2860 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2861 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
2862 specific disks has been added.
2863 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2864 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
2865 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
2867 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
2868 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
2869 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
2870 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
2871 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
2872 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
2873 configuration has been decreased.
2874 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
2875 continuously reading from log files.
2876 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
2877 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
2878 and number of channels.
2879 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2880 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
2881 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
2883 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
2884 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
2886 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianness more
2888 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
2889 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
2890 again has been applied.
2891 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2893 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2894 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
2896 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2897 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2898 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
2901 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
2902 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2903 they are in non-standard paths.
2904 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2905 if the libc expects it.
2906 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2907 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2909 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2910 using a buffer of static size.
2911 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2913 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2914 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2916 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
2917 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
2918 `Persist' threshold options.
2919 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
2920 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2921 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2922 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2923 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2925 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
2926 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2928 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2929 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2930 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2931 cross-platform compatibility.
2932 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2933 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2934 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2936 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
2937 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
2938 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
2939 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
2940 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
2941 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
2943 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
2944 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
2945 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
2946 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
2947 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
2948 wants to add custom type definitions.
2949 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
2950 entire directories and shell wildcards.
2951 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
2952 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
2953 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
2954 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
2955 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
2956 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
2957 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
2958 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
2959 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
2960 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
2961 domain name lookups in this plugin.
2962 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
2963 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
2964 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
2965 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
2966 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
2967 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
2968 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
2969 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
2970 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
2971 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
2972 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
2973 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
2974 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
2975 Technology group for this plugin.
2977 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
2978 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2979 they are in non-standard paths.
2980 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2981 if the libc expects it.
2982 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2983 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2985 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2986 using a buffer of static size.
2987 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2989 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2990 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2992 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
2993 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2994 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2995 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2996 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2998 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
2999 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
3000 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
3002 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
3003 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
3004 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
3005 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
3006 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
3007 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
3008 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
3009 cross-platform compatibility.
3010 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
3011 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
3012 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
3013 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
3015 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
3016 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
3017 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
3018 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
3019 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
3021 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
3022 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
3023 of the libsensors library.
3025 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
3026 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
3027 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
3029 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
3030 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
3033 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
3034 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
3035 enabled on the host.
3036 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
3038 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
3039 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
3040 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
3041 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
3042 definitions separate from the host definitions.
3043 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
3044 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
3045 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
3046 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
3047 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
3048 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
3049 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
3050 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
3051 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
3052 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
3053 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
3054 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
3055 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
3056 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
3057 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
3058 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
3059 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
3060 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
3061 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
3062 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
3063 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
3065 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
3066 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
3067 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
3068 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
3069 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
3071 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
3072 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
3074 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
3075 of the libsensors library.
3077 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
3078 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
3079 it's in a non-standard location.
3080 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
3081 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
3082 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
3083 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
3084 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
3085 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
3087 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
3088 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
3090 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
3091 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
3093 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
3094 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
3095 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
3096 noise quality as percentage.
3097 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
3098 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
3099 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
3100 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
3101 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
3102 support for the `timeticks' type.
3104 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
3105 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
3106 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
3107 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
3109 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
3110 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
3111 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
3113 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
3114 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
3115 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
3116 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
3118 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
3119 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
3120 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
3121 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
3123 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
3124 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
3125 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
3126 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
3127 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
3128 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
3129 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
3130 to not block data collection.
3131 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
3132 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
3133 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
3135 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
3136 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
3137 of music played with xmms.
3139 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
3140 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
3141 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
3142 noise quality as percentage.
3143 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
3145 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
3146 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
3147 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
3148 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
3150 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
3151 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
3152 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
3153 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
3155 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
3156 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
3158 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
3159 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
3160 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
3161 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
3162 (i. e. without quotes).
3163 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
3164 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
3165 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
3167 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
3168 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
3169 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
3170 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
3172 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
3173 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
3174 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
3177 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
3178 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
3180 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
3181 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
3182 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
3183 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
3184 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
3185 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
3186 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
3188 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
3189 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
3190 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
3191 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
3192 initialized correctly.
3193 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
3195 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
3196 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
3197 they're given in numerically form.
3199 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
3200 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
3201 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
3204 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
3205 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
3206 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
3207 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
3208 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
3209 thread-safe functions from now on.
3210 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
3211 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
3212 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
3214 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
3215 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
3216 write to increase IO-performance.
3217 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
3218 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
3219 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
3220 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
3221 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
3223 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
3224 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
3225 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
3227 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
3228 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
3229 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
3230 or STDOUT or STDERR.
3231 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
3232 system's syslog daemon.
3233 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
3234 entropy currently being available to the system.
3235 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
3236 back values provided by the forked processes.
3237 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
3238 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
3240 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
3241 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
3242 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
3243 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
3244 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
3245 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
3246 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
3247 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
3248 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
3250 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
3251 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
3252 noise quality as percentage.
3254 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
3255 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
3257 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
3258 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
3259 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
3260 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
3261 were accounted as `zombies'.
3263 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
3264 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
3267 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
3268 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
3269 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
3271 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
3272 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
3273 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
3274 segfault with some libcs.
3276 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
3277 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
3278 under Solaris again.
3279 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
3281 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
3282 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
3284 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
3285 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
3286 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
3287 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
3288 write init.d-scripts for it.
3289 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
3290 caused problems every now and then.
3291 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
3292 filesystem types or devices.
3293 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
3294 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
3296 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
3297 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
3298 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
3299 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
3300 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
3301 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
3302 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
3303 segment size and pagefaults.
3304 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
3305 queries multimeters.
3306 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
3307 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
3308 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
3310 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
3311 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
3312 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
3313 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
3315 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
3316 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
3317 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
3318 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
3321 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
3322 * The sample config file has been improved.
3323 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
3324 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
3325 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
3326 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
3328 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
3329 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
3330 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
3332 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
3333 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
3335 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
3336 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
3337 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
3338 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
3340 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
3341 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
3342 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
3343 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
3344 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
3345 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
3346 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
3347 with a test environment :)
3348 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
3351 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
3352 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
3353 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
3355 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
3356 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
3357 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
3359 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
3360 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
3361 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
3363 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
3364 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
3366 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
3367 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
3368 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
3369 approximately 7.6 days.
3371 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
3372 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
3373 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
3374 approximately 7.6 days.
3376 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
3377 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
3379 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
3381 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
3383 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
3384 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
3385 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
3386 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
3387 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
3389 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
3390 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
3391 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
3392 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
3393 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
3394 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
3395 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
3396 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
3398 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
3399 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
3400 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
3401 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
3403 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
3404 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
3405 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
3407 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
3408 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
3409 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
3411 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
3412 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
3413 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
3416 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
3417 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
3418 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
3420 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
3421 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
3422 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
3423 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
3425 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
3426 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
3427 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
3429 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
3430 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
3432 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
3433 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
3435 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
3436 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
3438 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
3439 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
3441 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
3442 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
3443 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
3444 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
3445 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
3446 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
3447 address and/or port than localhost.
3448 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
3449 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
3450 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
3451 be set in the configfile.
3453 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
3454 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
3455 client mode. This released fixes this.
3457 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
3458 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
3459 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
3462 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
3463 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
3465 * A `df' plugin has been added.
3466 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
3467 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
3468 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
3470 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
3471 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
3472 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
3475 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
3476 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
3477 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
3479 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
3480 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
3481 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
3482 currently logged in users.
3483 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
3484 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
3485 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
3486 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
3488 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
3489 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
3490 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
3491 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
3492 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
3493 with the `-c' argument.
3494 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
3495 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
3496 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
3497 Barcellos for this patch.
3499 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
3500 * New modules have been added:
3501 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
3502 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
3503 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
3504 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
3506 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
3507 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
3509 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
3510 between polls up to one day.
3511 * The init.d files have been improved.
3512 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
3514 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
3515 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
3516 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
3518 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
3519 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
3520 multicast) has been added.
3521 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
3522 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
3523 to be linked against an external library.
3524 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
3525 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
3527 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
3528 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
3530 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
3531 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
3532 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
3533 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
3534 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
3535 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
3536 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
3537 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
3538 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
3541 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
3542 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
3544 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
3546 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
3547 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
3549 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
3550 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
3551 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
3552 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
3554 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
3555 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
3556 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3558 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
3559 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
3560 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
3561 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
3562 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
3563 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
3564 statistics will not work.
3566 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
3567 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
3568 weird strings as disk-names..
3570 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
3571 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
3572 about the disks and partitions.
3574 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
3575 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
3576 and/or kernel versions.
3578 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
3579 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
3580 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
3582 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
3583 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
3584 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
3586 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
3587 * Collecting CPU statistics now
3589 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
3590 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
3592 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
3594 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
3595 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
3597 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
3598 * The following modules are provided:
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